People

CGS Leadership

Derek Fischer
Senior Director, Undergraduate Studies and the College of General Studies
Adriana Helbig
Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies, Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences and the College of General Studies
Adam Leibovich
Bettye J. and Ralph E. Bailey Dean of the Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences and the College of General Studies
Klaus Libertus, PhD
Assistant Dean of Online Education & Director for the College of General Studies

Academic Advising

Charles Thomas Banks
Academic Advisor
Shannon DeMateo
Academic Advisor
412-624-7012
Ed Giles
Director, Advising Center
412-383-7039
Heather Mattson
Academic Advisor
412-648-5911
Krista Stokes
Assistant Director, Advising Center
412-624-7314
Heidi Thomas
Academic Advisor
412-624-6376

Academic Support and Career Services

Carol Balk
Career Center, Student Affairs
Sandy (Cassandra) Kennedy-Carter
Office Administrator, McCarl Center
Ben James Kubacki, MA
Academic Coach | Dietrich & CGS
Mary Napoli, EdD
Director of Academic Success
412-648-1203

Admissions, Enrollment, and Student Records

Angie Byrne
Academic Administrator
412-624-0932
Susan Crain
Director of Student Records & Academic Administration
412-624-6201
Lena Zellers
Academic Administrator and Nontraditional Student Specialist
412-624-6201

Online Learning

Boryana Dobreva, PhD
Director of Online Learning
412-624-6173
Leslie Hilliard
Academic Program Assistant
412-624-6617
Christopher Longo
Instructional Designer
412-624-2111
Ana Martinez
Administrative Coordinator
412-648-8888
Lilly Nesbitt
Student Worker
Jeff Reamer
Supervisor Of Online Instructional Design
412-383-9525
James Reed
Senior Instructional Designer
412-624-2654
Kimberly M. Rehak, DEd
Instructional Designer
412-624-2202
Sabina Shah
Student Worker

Dental Hygiene

Victoria G. Green, RDH, MEd, MPH
Assistant Professor/Interim Program Director
Kelly R Wagner, EdD, RDH, MS
Assistant Professor/Assistant Dean for Clinical Administration & Quality Care

Law, Criminal Justice, & Society

Max Cotton, Esq
Law, Criminal Justice, and Society | CGS
David DeFazio, JD
Law, Criminal Justice & Society | CGS
Shawn Ellies, EdD / Commander
Law, Criminal Justice & Society | CGS | Pitt Police Department
412-624-4040
Joel Fishman, MLS, PhD
Law, Criminal Justice & Society | CGS
John Fitzgerald, JD
Law, Criminal Justice & Society | CGS
JoAnne Green, MS
Law, Criminal Justice & Society | CGS
Mart Harris, JD
Law, Criminal Justice & Society | CGS
Wes Hiers, PhD
Director, Law, Criminal Justice & Society, | Dietrich School & CGS
Malikeya Khantrece
Law, Criminal Justice & Society | CGS
Andrew McClusky, MPIA
Law, Criminal Justice & Society | CGS
Salvatore Poier, PhD
Law, Criminal Justice & Society | Dietrich & CGS
Poppi Ritacco, JD, LLM
Coordinator, Law, Criminal Justice & Society, | Dietrich School & CGS
Melissa R. Ruggiero, JD, LLM
Law, Criminal Justice & Society | CGS
Hyunjung Shim, PhD
Law, Criminal Justice & Society | Dietrich School & CGS
Ed Strimlan, MD
Law, Criminal Justice & Society | CGS
Vinod Kumar TK, PhD
Law, Criminal Justice, and Society Program
Jonathan Vallano, PhD
Law, Criminal Justice & Society | CGS | Pitt Greensburg
Eric Woltshock, JD
Law, Criminal Justice & Society | CGS

National Preparedness and Homeland Security

Carey D. Balaban, PhD
Ken Sochats

Public Service & Nonprofit Management

LaWana Butler, PhD
Public Service | SPIA
Dave Coplan, MS
Public Service | SPIA
Dennis DeSantis, MS
Public Service | SPIA
Marita Garrett, MS
Public Service | SPIA
James Hassinger
Public Service | SPIA
Nicholas Laudato, PhD
Public Service | SPIA
Jonathan Livingston, PhD
Public Service | SPIA
Carey Treado, PhD
Director, Public Service | Dietrich School

Joint Faculty Appointments

John Boonstra, PhD
History | Dietrich School & CGS
Cordelia Brazile, PhD
History | Dietrich School & CGS
Courtney Colligan, PhD
GSWS | Dietrich School & CGS
Rachel Davenport, PhD
Biological Sciences | Dietrich School & CGS
Margarita Delgado Creamer, PhD
Religious Studies | Dietrich School & CGS
Ruth Hofrichter, PhD
Psychology | Dietrich School & CGS
Barbara Klein
English | Dietrich School & CGS
Paula Kupfer, PhD
History of Art & Architecture | Dietrich School & CGS
Alina Kuvelkar, PhD
Statistics | Dietrich School & CGS
Marcy Ladson, PhD
History | Dietrich School & CGS
Klaus Libertus, PhD
Psychology | Director of CGS & Assistant Dean for Online Education
Oliver Padilla
Film & Media Studies | Dietrich School & CGS
Heather Reel, PhD
GSWS | Dietrich School & CGS
Elizabeth Richey, PhD
Psychology | Dietrich School & CGS
Chihuangji (Herbert) Wang, PhD
Urban Studies | Dietrich School & CGS
Sara Watson, PhD, MFA
English Composition | Dietrich School & CGS
Jonathan Zisook, PhD
Religious Studies | Dietrich School & CGS

Affiliated Faculty

Erin Alpert Holmes, PhD
Slavic Languages & Literatures | Dietrich School
Rika Asai, PhD
Music | Dietrich School
Nina Atanasova , PhD
History and Philosophy of Science | Dietrich School
Brock Bahler, PhD
Religious Studies | Dietrich School
Eric Beeko, PhD
Africana Studies | Dietrich School
Isaiah Bertagnolli, PhD
History of Art & Architecture | Dietrich School
Joel Brady, PhD
Religious Studies | Dietrich School
Tina Cafasso, EdD
English | Dietrich School
Alonna Carter-Donaldson, MA
GSWS | Dietrich School
Ellen Cohn, PhD, CCC-SLP, ASHA Fellow
Communication & Rhetoric | Dietrich School
412-760-1403
April Dukes, PhD
Neuroscience | Swanson School of Engineering
Brendan Erik Ezvan, PhD
French | Dietrich School
Liberty Ferda, MFA
English | Dietrich School
Nancy Fultz, PhD
Sociology | Dietrich School
Shailendra Gajanan, PhD
Economics | Pitt Bradford
814-362-7628
John Gareis, PhD
Communication & Rhetoric | Dietrich School
Karen Goldman, PhD
Spanish & Portuguese | Dietrich School
Bryan Harmon, MA
Statistics | Dietrich School
Annemarie Hartbauer, DNP
Community & Health Systems | School of Nursing
William Hawthorne, PsyD
Psychology | Dietrich School
Isaac King, PhD
History of Art & Architecture | Dietrich School
Roger Klein, PhD
Psychology | Dietrich School
Kent Kosack, MFA
English Composition & Creative Writing | Dietrich School
Danielle Maggio, PhD
Music | Dietrich School
Dana Matthiessen
History and Philosophy of Science | Dietrich School
Cynthia McCarthy, DHCE, MA, NREMT
Public Health | School of Public Health
Aaron L. Myers-Brooks, PhD
Robert O'Mara, MEd
Mathematics | Dietrich School
Na-Jin Park, PhD, MSN, BSN
Health & Community Systems | School of Nursing
412-648-5687
Kathy Parker, PhD
History | Dietrich School
Alison Patterson, PhD
English, Film & Media Studies | Dietrich School
Nick Payton, DSW, MSW ,MEd
College of General Studies/Public and International Affairs
Jamie Pierson, PhD
Neuroscience/Psychiatry | School of Medicine
Sam Pittman, MFA
English Composition & Disability Studies | Dietrich School
Sarah Quesen, PhD
Statistics | Dietrich School
Billy D. Scott, PhD
Music | Dietrich School
Amanda Sevilla, PhD
English | Dietrich School
Caroline Elizabeth Sawyer Sowards, PhD
Psychology | Dietrich School
Uwe Stender, PhD
German | Dietrich School
James Talerico, MA
Communication & Rhetoric | Dietrich School
Marc Wisnosky, PhD
Slavic Languages & Literatures | Dietrich School

Graduate Student Instructors

Natalia Duarte-Mayorga
Sociology | Dietrich School
Ashlea Hope Fishburn-Moore
History | Dietrich School
Dejana Kostic
Anthropology | Dietrich School
Gabriel Vasquez Peterson
Philosophy | Dietrich School