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August 20, 2007
GROVE CITY, Pa. – Several new faculty members joined the Grove City College family this fall, with areas of expertise ranging from accounting to zebrafish.
Dr. Kristin Allen Barbour, assistant professor of theater and English, was born in Boulder, Colo., and grew up in Iowa. She earned her bachelor’s degree from Iowa’s Northwestern College, a college of the Reformed Church, her master’s degree in theater from Kansas University and her Ph.D. in theater from Kent State University. After studying in Paris during her junior year, she returned to research her dissertation.
Barbour spent a year as a missionary with the Presbyterian Church in Taiwan to teach English and theater. She has taught at Northwestern, Edinboro University and Kent State and worked in costume shops around the country.
Barbour lives in Edinboro with her husband, Gary, and fourth-grade daughter Melissa.
Dr. Kelleen Bonomo, associate professor of mathematics, is originally from northwest Pennsylvania. She earned her bachelor’s degree in mathematics and computer science from Westminster College, where she played volleyball for the Titans.
After graduation, she moved to the University of Notre Dame, where she earned her Ph.D. in mathematics. She then accepted a teaching position at Denison University in Granville, Ohio. She has also taught at Winona State University in Minnesota, Westminster, Youngstown State and Slippery Rock University.
Bonomo and her husband, John, also a computer science professor, have three children: Anna, 12, Tessa, 10, and Danny, 7. They reside in Hermitage, Pa.
Dr. Zhen Chen, assistant professor of Chinese, was born in Xiamen, Fujian province of People’s Republic of China. She earned her bachelor’s degree in English at Beijing Language and Culture University. Upon graduation, she worked at Beijing Science and Technology University as a research and teaching assistant. She pursued a master’s degree in Chinese linguistics and teaching methodology at the University of Hawaii at Mānoa.
Chen presented research at national and international conferences and completed her Ph.D. coursework in 2002, after which she began lecturing at Indiana University at Bloomington while working on her dissertation on Chinese historical linguistics. She earned her Ph.D. from UHM in 2006, and began searching for a small Christian college that offered Chinese to students.
Dr. Jeremy DalleTezze, assistant professor of business, was raised east of Pittsburgh and earned bachelor’s degrees in mathematics and economics at Saint Vincent College in Latrobe. While there, he participated in several research projects that examined environmental issues, economics and the visions of the country’s forefathers.
He then earned his master’s and Ph.D. in international economics and finance at Brandeis University in Boston, where his research focused on innovation within information technology industries. DalleTezze also worked for a software/consulting company as a senior analyst.
DalleTezze and his wife, Heather, both have family in southwestern Pennsylvania.
Dr. Suzanna (Lesko ’00) Gribble, assistant professor of biology, was born and raised in Pittsburgh. She earned her bachelor’s degree in molecular biology from Grove City College in 2000, where she was involved with the Chapel Choir, Association of Women Students and the Sigma Theta Chi sorority.
She earned her master’s degree in anatomy from Case Western Reserve University in 2002. While there, she performed research utilizing zebrafish to study the effects of microgravity on inner ear development. She continued her work with zebrafish by joining the neuroscience program at the University of Utah, completing her Ph.D. in neuroscience in 2007.
Her husband, Christiaan, also a 2000 Grove City College graduate, is an assistant professor of computer science at Grove City.
Dr. Andrew Harvey, a native of Virginia, earned a bachelor’s degree from James Madison University in English, history and classics. At the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, he earned a master’s and Ph.D. in renaissance and medieval literature.
He then became an assistant professor of English at the University of Virginia’s College at Wise and then associate professor of English at Eastern Mennonite University. He was selected by the National Humanities Center and Wissenschaftkolleg zu Berlin to participate in the European-American Young Scholars’ Summer Institute.
Harvey and his wife, Daphne, have two daughters: Genevieve, 6, and Lillian, 2.
Dr. Michael Jackson was born in New Brighton, Pa., and grew up in Cortland, Ohio. He graduated with honors from Penn State with a bachelor’s degree in mathematics.
After graduation, Jackson worked for the Naval Research Laboratory. He later earned his Ph.D. in mathematics from Purdue University and has taught math at Purdue, Ohio State, the University of Rochester and King College in Bristol, Tenn. He has been able to continue his research, focusing on algebraic topology and group theory.
Jackson and his wife, Tracy, have three children: Susannah, 5, Aaron, 3, and Amelia, born this summer in Grove City.
Michelle McFeaters ’88, ’02, assistant professor of accounting, was born in Ephrata, Pa. She earned her bachelor’s degree in economics from Grove City College in 1988 and her master’s in accounting from Grove City in 2002. She is currently pursuing a Doctor of Business Administration at Anderson University.
She began her career as a consultant for a commercial litigation consulting firm based in Pittsburgh and also worked at Ivex Corporation, now Alcoa. In 1995, McFeaters returned to her alma mater to serve as assistant bursar, then as director of financial services in 2001.
She and her husband, Ed, have two sons: Andrew, 16, and Mason, 14. They reside in Harrisville, Pa.
Three part-time faculty members will also begin at Grove City College this fall: Rob Mueller in computer science/electrical engineering and Paula Gruber and Sally Sherman, both in physical education.
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