The ARC directors, advisers and staff include:

Mark B. Couch, Ph.D., Liberal Studies Adviser
Philip M. Kayal, Ph.D., Social and Behavioral Science Adviser
James J. Kimble, PhD., Scholarship Advisor
Roberta L. Moldow, Ph.D., Chair, Health Professions Advisory Committee
Michelle Cunder, Health Professions Secretary
Robert M. Pallitto, Ph.D., J.D., Pre-law Adviser
Dr. Gerald Ruscingno, Ph.D., Dual Degree Advisor (PA, AT, PT)
Wendiann Sethi, M.A., Director of Developmental Mathematics & Coordinator of Math Tutoring
Kelly Shea, Ph.D., Director of the Writing Center
Patrice Thoms-Cappello, Ph.D., Pre-Arts Advisor
Michael Yurko, Ph.D., Pre-Science Advisor
Peter Hynes, M.B.A., Director of the Ruth Sharkey Academic Resource Center
Fauzi Ra'oof, ARC secretary
Kelli Pennington, ARC Graduate Assistant

Mark B. Couch, Ph.D., Liberal Studies Adviser  

Mark B. Couch is Assistant Professor of Philosophy. His research focuses primarily on issues about theories of human nature in philosophy and the relation between science and the humanities. The regular courses he teaches in the Department of Philosophy include Introduction to Philosophy and an historical course Philosophy and the Modern Mind. Prior to coming to Seton Hall University, he was a Fellow at Columbia University, where he taught for three years in the Core Curriculum program on Western Civilization. Professor Couch received his Ph.D. from Columbia University in New York.

Philip M. Kayal, Ph.D., Social and Behavioral Science Adviser

Philip M. Kayal is a Professor of Sociology with a Ph.D. from Fordham
University.  Dr. Kayal has taught in the areas of Comparative Culture, the Sociology of Education, Social Problems and the Sociology of AIDS. He presently concentrates on introductory sociology and advanced courses in the Sociology of Religion, Majority-Minority Relations, the Sociology of Aging, and the Sociology of Knowledge.

Professor Kayal has done extensive research on the Sociology of AIDS Volunteerism and Activism. His book, Bearing Witness: Gay Men's Health Crisis and the Politics of AIDS Boulder: Westview Press, 1993) examined the voluntary formation of the largest most successful organization in the world. His other major research and publication area is on Arab-Americans. He recently co-curated the exhibit "Arab-New York" at the Museum of the City of New York and co-edited A Community of Many Worlds: Arab Americans in New York City. (New York: Museum of the City of New York, 2002. In a related, but different vein, he recently published, with his cousin, Virginia Gerbino, A Taste of Syria (New York: Hippocrene Press, 2002). He recently became program director for the Social and Behavioral Science major at Seton Hall.

James J. Kimble, PhD., Scholarship Adviser

James Kimble is an Assistant Professor of Communication at Seton Hall University.   He researches domestic propaganda, war rhetoric, and visual imagery.   His book Mobilizing the Home Front: War Bonds and Domestic Propaganda was published by Texas A&M University Press in 2006.  Other research has appeared in Women & Language, Rhetoric & Public Affairs, Southern Communication Journal, Great Plains Quarterly, and the Quarterly Journal of Speech.  Kimble is a Distinguished Honor Graduate of the U.S. Army's Chaplain Center and School, and has been recognized by the National Communication Association with the Gerald R. Miller dissertation award and the Karl R. Wallace award for outstanding scholarship in rhetoric and public discourse.  In addition, he serves as Seton Hall's Fellowships Advisor; he has advised numerous scholarship candidates, including a Rhodes Scholar, a Pickering Scholar, and two Truman Scholarship Finalists.  In 2004, the students of the Communication Department at George Mason University named him Professor of the Year.

Kimble was raised in Norfolk, NE, and attended the University of Nebraska as an undergraduate.  Besides Seton Hall, he has taught at George Mason University, the University of Maryland, Kansas State University, Concordia (KS) high school, and Raymond Central (NE) high school.

Roberta L. Moldow, Ph.D., Chair, Health Professions Advisory Committee

Roberta L. Moldow is a Professor of Biological Sciences. She received her Ph.D. in Biomedical Sciences from Mount Sinai and did her post-doctoral research under the mentorship of nobel laureate, Dr. Rosalyn Yalow. Dr. Moldow's research includes factors influencing the regulation of the circadian rhythmicity and stress response of the hypothalamic pituitary adrenal axis. Recently, she has done research using an animal model to study the etiology of post traumatic stress disorder and salivary biomarkers for the stress response in humans.

Michelle Cunder, Health Professions Secretary

Robert M. Pallitto, Ph.D., J.D., Pre-law Adviser

Robert M. Pallitto received his law degree from the University of Michigan in 1989, and practiced public interest law in New Jersey for a decade as a legal aid lawyer, grassroots housing attorney and appellate public defender. During that time, he acted as counsel or co-counsel in several precedent-setting housing and welfare rights cases. After completing Ph.D. studies at the New School for Social Research in 2002, he began teaching at the University of Texas, El Paso. He is co-author of Presidential Secrecy and the Law (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007), which traces the growth of institutionalized secrecy in the executive branch and warns that unchecked secrecy threatens democratic and constitutional values. Pallitto's recent media appearances include "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" and WILL Radio (The University of Illinois public radio). Currently, he is an assistant professor of political science at Seton Hall University.

Dr. Gerald Ruscingno, Ph.D., Dual Degree Advisor (PA, AT, PT)

Wendiann Sethi, M.A., Director of Developmental Mathematics & Coordinator of Math Tutoring

Wendiann Sethi is the Director of the Developmental Mathematics Program at Seton Hall University. She has over fifteen years of experience in teaching lower-level Mathematics classes ranging from Basic Mathematics to Business Calculus and teaching Statistics. She has taught at Seton Hall University and SUNY at Buffalo. Wendiann has a Masters of Science in Mathematics from Seton Hall University and a Masters of Arts in Statistics from SUNY at Buffalo. She is a professional and personal coach and a Master Practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming.

Kelly Shea, Ph.D., Director of the Writing Center

Kelly Shea is assistant professor of writing and director of the Seton Hall University Writing Center. She is also a co-leader of the SHU core curriculum development committee on reading- and writing-intensive courses and a Senior Faculty Fellow working with the university's Teaching, Learning, and Technology Center on electronic portfolios, course management systems, and other pedagogy-improvement initiatives. She teaches undergraduate and graduate composition and literature courses and studies writing, teaching, and technology issues – and their intersections. She is currently compiling the results of a research study on the uses of SHU's on-line writing lab as well as working on projects relating to faculty development and writing-across-the-curriculum programs and the care and feeding of faculty writing groups. Dr. Shea received her Ph.D. in reading/writing/literacy from the University of Pennsylvania.

Patrice Thoms-Cappello, Ph.D., Pre-Arts Advisor

Michael Yurko, Ph.D., Pre-Science Advisor

Peter Hynes, M.B.A., Director of the Ruth Sharkey Academic Resource Center

Prior to coming to Seton Hall University, Peter worked as an administrator and a teacher for The Princeton Review since 2005.  He has worked extensively with teacher and tutors preparing high school students for college, as well as college students pursuing post graduate degrees. Before that, Peter worked in the publishing industry in New York since 1992.   Peter received an MBA from Duke University, and a BA from Fairleigh Dickinson University.
 
Fauzi Ra'oof, ARC secretary  

Fauzi Ra'oof has worked with Faculty, Administration and Students as an essential point person with the Academic Resource Center for 5 years now.  He takes classes whenever his schedule permits and is currently working on his undergraduate degree.

Kelli Pennington, ARC Graduate Assistant

Kelli Pennington is a second-year graduate student at the John C. Whitehead School of Diplomacy & International Relations and the Stillman School of Business, where she is pursuing a MADIR/MBA dual degree. She is also currently serving as Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the Whitehead Journal of Diplomacy and International Relations.  She received her Bachelor's degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in Spanish and Middle Eastern History.