Oscar Mcknght Assistant Dean for Student Affairs
As a graduate of both the University of Akron and Youngstown State University, Dr. McKnight is committed to life-long learning and research. In his doctorate program, Dr. McKnight’s concentration area was statistics and analysis. He also has a graduate degree specifically in Research and Evaluation. As such, Dr. McKnight is engaged deeply in independent study. Most of his research is proprietary and ranges from non-profit analysis to corporate forecasting. (Read more)
As a graduate of both the University of Akron and Youngstown State University, Dr. McKnight is committed to life-long learning and research. In his doctorate program, Dr. McKnight’s concentration area was statistics and analysis. He also has a graduate degree specifically in Research and Evaluation. As such, Dr. McKnight is engaged deeply in independent study. Most of his research is proprietary and ranges from non-profit analysis to corporate forecasting. (Read more)
John Fraas College of Business and Economics (Retired)
Dr. Fraas taught statistics at Ashland University in the Schools of Business, Economics, and Education for nearly four decades. While at Ashland University, he was awarded numerous teaching awards including the first Teaching Excellence Award given by the Association of Collegiate Business Schools and Programs. In 2009 Fraas was designated the Board of Trustees’ distinguished professor emeritus by the Ashland University. (Read more)
Dr. Fraas taught statistics at Ashland University in the Schools of Business, Economics, and Education for nearly four decades. While at Ashland University, he was awarded numerous teaching awards including the first Teaching Excellence Award given by the Association of Collegiate Business Schools and Programs. In 2009 Fraas was designated the Board of Trustees’ distinguished professor emeritus by the Ashland University. (Read more)
Mitchell Metzer College of Arts and Sciences (Psychology)
Dr. Mitchell Metzger is a Professor of Psychology at Ashland University, where he was hired in 2003 and has served as the department chair since 2007. He earned a B.S. (1992) in Psychology from Bowling Green State University, and an M.A. (1994) and Ph.D. (1997) in Experimental Psychology from Kent State University. Prior to coming to Ashland University, Dr. Metzger worked as an Assistant Professor at Penn State, Shenango in Sharon, Pennsylvania for six years. (Read more)
Dr. Mitchell Metzger is a Professor of Psychology at Ashland University, where he was hired in 2003 and has served as the department chair since 2007. He earned a B.S. (1992) in Psychology from Bowling Green State University, and an M.A. (1994) and Ph.D. (1997) in Experimental Psychology from Kent State University. Prior to coming to Ashland University, Dr. Metzger worked as an Assistant Professor at Penn State, Shenango in Sharon, Pennsylvania for six years. (Read more)
Deborah Fleming College of Arts and Sciences (English)
Deborah Fleming’s research interests include Anglo-Irish literature, environmental studies, and modern poetry, especially the work of William Butler Yeats, Robinson Jeffers, and Eamon Grennan. After earning her PhD in English at Ohio State University in 1985, she published “A man who does not exist”: The Irish Peasant in the Work of W. B. Yeats and J. M. Synge with the University of Michigan Press and articles on Yeats, Jeffers, Grennan, Orwell, and Aldo Leopold. She has edited two collections of essays published by Locust Hill Press, Learning the Trade: W. B. Yeats and Contemporary Poetry and W. B. Yeats and Post colonialism. (Read more)
Deborah Fleming’s research interests include Anglo-Irish literature, environmental studies, and modern poetry, especially the work of William Butler Yeats, Robinson Jeffers, and Eamon Grennan. After earning her PhD in English at Ohio State University in 1985, she published “A man who does not exist”: The Irish Peasant in the Work of W. B. Yeats and J. M. Synge with the University of Michigan Press and articles on Yeats, Jeffers, Grennan, Orwell, and Aldo Leopold. She has edited two collections of essays published by Locust Hill Press, Learning the Trade: W. B. Yeats and Contemporary Poetry and W. B. Yeats and Post colonialism. (Read more)
Jane Piirto College of Education (retired)
A faculty member at Ashland University since 1988, Jane Piirto directs AU's Talent Development Education (TDE) program. Piirto teaches graduate courses in the M.Ed., teaches qualitative research in the Ed.D., and teaches undergraduates in educational psychology and creativity. She is a consultant, teacher, and speaker throughout the United States and abroad, and has been a teacher and school administrator in Michigan, South Dakota, Ohio, and in New York City, where she was the principal of the Hunter College Campus Schools. (Read more)
A faculty member at Ashland University since 1988, Jane Piirto directs AU's Talent Development Education (TDE) program. Piirto teaches graduate courses in the M.Ed., teaches qualitative research in the Ed.D., and teaches undergraduates in educational psychology and creativity. She is a consultant, teacher, and speaker throughout the United States and abroad, and has been a teacher and school administrator in Michigan, South Dakota, Ohio, and in New York City, where she was the principal of the Hunter College Campus Schools. (Read more)
Jeffrey Weidenhamer College of Arts and Sciences (Chemistry)
Chemical Ecology is the study of the role of chemical substances in mediating relationships between organisms. My particular interest is in the phenomenon of allelopathy, or chemical interference among higher plants. (Read more)
Chemical Ecology is the study of the role of chemical substances in mediating relationships between organisms. My particular interest is in the phenomenon of allelopathy, or chemical interference among higher plants. (Read more)
Craig Hovey College of Arts and Sciences (Religion)
Craig Hovey teaches courses in Christian theology and ethics. He is a Southern California native and a sub-four hour marathoner. Dr. Hovey received his Ph.D. in theology from the University of Cambridge in 2006 where, under the supervision of Dr. Janet Soskice, he wrote a dissertation on knowledge, witness, and truth-telling that looks to thinkers like Michel Foucault and Karl Barth to show how Christian witness and the role of testimony might be rescued from some of the bad habits of modern thought. (Read more)
Craig Hovey teaches courses in Christian theology and ethics. He is a Southern California native and a sub-four hour marathoner. Dr. Hovey received his Ph.D. in theology from the University of Cambridge in 2006 where, under the supervision of Dr. Janet Soskice, he wrote a dissertation on knowledge, witness, and truth-telling that looks to thinkers like Michel Foucault and Karl Barth to show how Christian witness and the role of testimony might be rescued from some of the bad habits of modern thought. (Read more)
Daniel Lehman College of Arts and Sciences (English)
A member of the English Department faculty at Ashland University since 1987, Lehman
is an authority in the area of literary nonfiction. He serves as co-editor of River
Teeth: A Journal of Nonfiction Narrative and in 1997 published a book “Matters of Fact:
Reading Nonfiction Over the Edge.” (Read more)
A member of the English Department faculty at Ashland University since 1987, Lehman
is an authority in the area of literary nonfiction. He serves as co-editor of River
Teeth: A Journal of Nonfiction Narrative and in 1997 published a book “Matters of Fact:
Reading Nonfiction Over the Edge.” (Read more)
Stephen Haven College of Arts and Sciences (English) (now at Lesley University)
Stephen Haven has published three books of poems, Last Sacred Place in North
American (New American Press, 2012),Dust and Bread (Turning Point, 2008) and The Long
Silence of the Mohawk Carpet Smokestacks (West End Press, 2004), and one memoir, The
River Lock: One Boy’s Life along the Mohawk (Syracuse University Press, 2008). Last
Sacred Place in North America was selected by T.R. Hummer as winner of the 2010 New
American Press Poetry Prize. For Dust and Bread, he was named 2009 Co-Ohio Poet of the
Year by the Ohio Poetry Day Association. (Read more)
Stephen Haven has published three books of poems, Last Sacred Place in North
American (New American Press, 2012),Dust and Bread (Turning Point, 2008) and The Long
Silence of the Mohawk Carpet Smokestacks (West End Press, 2004), and one memoir, The
River Lock: One Boy’s Life along the Mohawk (Syracuse University Press, 2008). Last
Sacred Place in North America was selected by T.R. Hummer as winner of the 2010 New
American Press Poetry Prize. For Dust and Bread, he was named 2009 Co-Ohio Poet of the
Year by the Ohio Poetry Day Association. (Read more)
Joe Mackall College of Arts and Sciences (English) (retired)
Joe Mackall, creative nonfiction, is the author of Plain Secrets: An Outsider among the Amish (Beacon Press, 2007) and The Last Street Before Cleveland: An Accidental Pilgrimage (University of Nebraska Press, 2006). He is the co-founder and co-editor of River Teeth: A Journal of Nonfiction Narrative and co-editor of the River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Book Prize Series (in partnership with the University of Nebraska Press). (Read more)
Joe Mackall, creative nonfiction, is the author of Plain Secrets: An Outsider among the Amish (Beacon Press, 2007) and The Last Street Before Cleveland: An Accidental Pilgrimage (University of Nebraska Press, 2006). He is the co-founder and co-editor of River Teeth: A Journal of Nonfiction Narrative and co-editor of the River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Book Prize Series (in partnership with the University of Nebraska Press). (Read more)
David deSilva (Ashland Theological Seminary)
A member of the faculty of Biblical Studies at Ashland Theological Seminary since 1995, deSilva has specialized in the fields of Second Temple Judaism, the social and cultural environment of the first-century Greco-Roman world, the Epistle to the Hebrews, and the Revelation of John. (Read more)
Bill Weiss (Ashland University Library) (retired)
Bill retired as the library director at Ashland University in 2009. Since then he has been encouraging his academic colleagues to participate in web based scholarly communication activities. At this site you will find resources that highlight his effort. |