Professor Slavica Jakelić has just completed her first year as the Richard P. Baepler Distinguished Professor in the Humanities, a four-year appointment honoring exceptional teachers focused on advancing interdisciplinary and integrative study of the humanities in accord with Valparaiso University’s mission. During the next academic year, she will be teaching a CC seminar in “Christianty & Nationalism,” cross-listed with History and Political Science, as part of her Baepler work.
Before taking over as Interim Dean in July, Professor Jennifer Prough is currently finishing up the copy editing on her new book, Kyoto Revisited: Heritage Tourism in Contemporary Kyoto, forthcoming from the University of Hawai’i Press, a leading publisher in Asian Studies. She was also the Christ College nominee for Teaching Excellent award this year.
Professor Matt Puffer heroically served as the First-Year Program Director during this unprecedented year of hybrid teaching, limited classroom spaces, and changing calendars and modalities. A few less texts were read this year, and some “stop and breathe” breaks were built into the schedule to ease pandemic student stress.
