Greg Slawson
A jazz and classically trained pianist and composer, Slawson teaches courses on music technology and jazz improvisation.
Shitong Sigler
A Wooster alumna, Sigler is a versatile pianist whose styles range from Baroque to Contemporary. She has performed internationally and is also a researcher of piano pedagogy and entrepreneurship.
Yuka Nakayama-Lewicki
Nakayama-Lewicki is an internationally recognized pianist and chamber musician, performing recitals from her native Japan to Europe and the United States.
James Marron
Marron is a guitarist who has performed throughout the United States and around the world, including in Italy, France, and Germany, and a composer of dance music featured at several festivals.
Jeffrey Lindberg
Known primarily as the co-founder and artistic director of the Chicago Jazz Orchestra and for his work transcribing jazz orchestrations, Lindberg now directs The College’s Orchestra and Jazz Band.
Gunnar Owen Hirthe
A clarinet performer who regularly premiers new works by local and internationally acclaimed composers, Hirthe is also a researcher of the world of music inspired by non-Western music traditions.
Timothy Freeze
Freeze has published work on composers Gershwin, Copeland, and Mahler. He works with students on interdisciplinary topics in music, such as music and politics and music in 1920s film.
Niklas Manz
A researcher of pattern formation and nonlinear phenomena, Manz works with students who research the Belousov-Zhabotinsky Reaction and contributes to algebra and calculus physics.
Manon Grugel-Watson
Grugel-Watson serves as a visiting instructor and laboratory coordinator in the physics department, teaching the foundations of physics labs.
Cody Leary
A widely published author in the field of quantum optics and its intersection with quantum mechanics and general relativity, Leary works with students on topics such as thermal and particle physics.
Ronda Kirsch
An instructor of mathematics, Kirsch teaches statistics and calculus. She is also the Math Center coordinator.
Robert Kelvey
With research interests in combinatorial and geometric group theory, Kelvey works with students in calculus, analytical geometry, and the transition to advanced mathematics.
Jennifer R. Bowen
Working with students in various math subjects, including statistics, calculus, and algebra, Bowen has also published work on intersectionality and teaching mathematics.
Michele Leiby
A widely published scholar on comparative politics and Latin America, Leiby’s work focuses on human rights, political violence, and the intersection of gender and conflict.
Madonna Hettinger
Hettinger teaches courses in Medieval and Renaissance Europe and studies cultural responses to disease epidemics in those eras. She also works with students during a one-month abroad program in Tuscany.
Kent J. Kille
With widely published work in the area of international organization leadership, Kille uses this expertise when working with students as faculty advisor for Model United Nations.
Matthew Krain
Krain is a published scholar in the area of repression and large-scale political violence while also studying the best teaching practices regarding international relations.
Bryan T. Karazsia
Karazsia studies topics in clinical and pediatric psychology and works to better the health and well-being of children, adolescents, and young adults by contributing to the scientific understanding of their behavior.
Nathan Foster
Interested in cognitive psychology, Foster studies human memory, metacognition, concept learning, and intentional forgetting to answer important questions about the ways that students learn.
Michael Casey
Interested in prenatal, child, and adolescent development, Casey studies topics within developmental psychology including attachment, development of laterality, and temperament.