Faculty Accomplishments

Throughout the pandemic, our faculty have shown they are innovative and resilient while forging ahead as thought leaders in their fields. Congratulations to our faculty on their recent achievements:

Michelle Moravec, PhD

Associate Professor, History

Delivered keynote address “Why Gender History Needs Digital Humanities and Vice Versa” at Digital Humanities and Gender History Conference, held via Zoom, by Friedrich-Schiller-University, Jena, Germany in February 2021.

Published “Digital Historical Practices,” Journal of Women’s History 33,163-67.

Lead author “Feminist Bestsellers: A Digital History of 1970s Feminism” Journal of Cultural Analytics, April 20, 2021.

Author on “Roundtable on Ian Milligan, History in the Age of Abundance: How the Web is Transforming Historical Research,” American Historical Review, 125 (2020): 1337–1346.

Francis Klose, DLitt

Assistant Professor, Discipline Coordinator, Theology and Religious Studies

Presented “Liberation Theology, Latin America, and Cheating in Major League Baseball: When the Reward Outweighs the Risk” at the American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting on November 21, 2021. This paper is in response to,“Is there a disincentive to cheat?”

At the Annual Meeting of the National Association of Pastoral Musicians, Klose’s musical setting of the mass, “Mass of St. Katherine of Siena” was featured as part of the showcase of the publisher, Simply Liturgical Music. Brittney Nix-Crawford

Assistant Professor and Discipline Coordinator, New Media Communications

PhD Candidate and Research Assistant at University of Delaware with research focus in cultural communication, political communication, and social media activism and race. Accepted speaker on a panel presentation at the BEA conference 2022 on the topic of inclusiveness in journalism. Thomas Wines

Adjunct Professor

Professor Wines and colleague Dr. Glenn Sterner were awarded a research grant by Penn State Criminal Justice Research Center to study the experiences of LGBTQIA+ law enforcement professionals. The study is expected to be published in the spring of 2022. Christine Hagedorn, DM

Assistant Professor and Discipline Coordinator, Business Department

Quoted in Ed Tech Digest’s “Easy Ways Educators Can Increase Student Engagement in Virtual Settings.”

Featured in Commercial Integrator: Rosemont College Proves Hybrid Learning Model is Long-Term Play for Integrators.

Published both online and print on the Sunday print edition front page of Staten Island Live: A Staten Islander looks back: Thirty years after the USSR coup, a geopolitical drama in three acts. Kenneth Romanowski

Adjunct Faculty, Business Department Presented “Before America was an Emerging Market” to the Financial Planning Association, Philadelphia Tri-State Area.

Authored seven commentaries on the topics of auto insurance, credit cards, investing for beginners, real estate investing, and mortgage payoffs vs. S&P 500 investing for the online financial magazine, MoneyGeek.

Authored four commentaries on the topics of credit cards and financial literacy among military personnel for the online financial magazine, WalletHub. Jeannette Dumas, PhD

Associate Professor, Biology

Working toward a Certificate of Merit in Sustainable Landscape Design and Horticulture at Longwood Gardens. Dumas is in the Master Gardener Trainee program for Philadelphia County, Penn State Extension. She received Sustainable Landcare Certification (Northeast Organic Farmers Association - NOFA) from the Phipps Conservatory in Pittsburg and is serving on the executive board of the Philadelphia Botanical Club. Kathy Richardson, PhD

Program Director and Assistant Professor, Counseling

Recently co-presented two educational sessions at the 2021 Pennsylvania Counseling Association Conference. The first presentation, “The Rose of Childhood Sexual Trauma in the Development of Distorted Body Image and/or Disordered Eating” was with Marisa Palencar, a secondyear graduate student in Rosemont's Counseling Department. The second presentation, “Exploring Social Class in Counseling” was with Diane Walsh, Program Director at Neumann University.

Richardson was also a co-author of two journal articles in 2021: “The stress process among young adults: Roles of spirituality, mindfulness, resilience, and self-compassion” in The Journal of Adult Development and “The death of an academic department: Sense-losing and sacred loss” in The Journal of Catholic Education.

Matthew Antonio Bosch, EdD

Interim Academic Dean for the School of Graduate and Professional Studies and Program Director, MEd in Higher Education and Student Affairs Administration

Authored “We’re Here, We’re Queer, We Persevere in this Career: Experiences of LGBTQ+ Housing Professionals” in Journal of College and University Student Housing. Article explores campus experiences of LGBTQ+ college professionals and how colleges can better support educators by focusing on their LGBTQ+ identities as strengths brought into institutions rather than as deficits.

George Wilson, PhD

Adjunct Instructor, Counseling

Completed Doctorate in Counselor Education and Supervision (CACREP) in Summer 2020 from Old Dominion University in Norfolk, VA.

Dissertation: “The Lived Experience of School Counselor Educators’ Using ASCA’s Mindsets and Behaviors to Achieve College and Career Readiness.”