Hereford Residential College

John Alexander is currently the Associate Director of SHANTI (Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts Network of Technological Initiatives) at the University of Virginia. This faculty led center is helping faculty members to integrate uses of technology into their teaching and research in scalable and sustainable ways. John's educational background in the humanities, his experience teaching at four institutions of higher education, and his administrative experiences at UVa for almost 30 years have almost prepared him for his current responsibilities. In spring 2009, John taught a course on Underground Hip-Hop here at Hereford. http://faculty.virginia.edu/jalexander/

Anderson is clinical psychologist in UVA's Center for Counseling and Psychological Services. Bill has been a member of the University and Charlottesville communities for more than 28 years. He is chair of the Charlottesville Center for Peace and Justice, and is also active in several other national and international peace and justice organizations. He is a tenor in two Charlottesville choral ensembles: The Virginia Consort, and Zephyrus .

Alexis graduated from UVa in 2001 with a degree in foreign affairs. As an undergraduate, she was an active volunteer in the Admission Office and for Madison House, in addition to being a member of Residence Staff. After earning her Master's at the University of Vermont, Alexis returned to U.Va. where she earned her Ph.D. in higher education administration from the Curry School. Currently, an assistant dean in the College of Arts and Sciences, Alexis loves running, horseback riding, reading, and traveling!  

Craig Barton joined the UVa faculty in 1995, is Chair of the Department of Architecture and Landscape Architecture at UVa and an associate professor and urban design. He teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in architectural and urban design. Through his practice, research, and teaching Mr. Barton investigates issues of cultural and historical preservation and their interpretation through architectural and urban design. Much of his practice focuses on assisting African-American communities to preserve and interpret their significant cultural resources and to utilize them to stimulate community development. He is the author of the editor of the anthology, Sites of Memory: Perspectives on Architecture and Race.

Mr. Barton was a member and former chair of the Charlottesville City Planning Commission. He is currently a member of the Jefferson School General Partnership, which is charged with rehabitliating the Jefferson School, a historic African American school in Charlottesville. He is an avid rower, fly-fisherman and bee-keeper who would llike to engage the Hereford community in any of these pursuits.

Kimberley Bassett is a recent graduate of the University of Virginia and is now serving as an Assistant Dean in the Office of African-American Affairs. Kimberley is very involved in her local church and its campus ministry. She is very passionate about people, and loves traveling and observing people in different cultures. Kimberley also loves music, singing and dancing...look out on karaoke night! Unfortunately, Kimberley is not a fan of the outdoors so, don't expect to see her on the hiking trips!

Louis A. Bloomfield is Professor of Physics at the University of Virginia. Bloomfield has also been widely recognized for his teaching of physics and science to thousands of non-science students at the University of Virginia and is the recipient of a 1998 State of Virginia Outstanding Faculty Award and the 2001 Pegram Medal of the Southeastern Section of the American Physical Society. He is the author of almost 100 publications in the fields of atomic clusters, autoionizing states, high-resolution laser spectroscopy, nonlinear optics, computer science, and general science literacy, and of a recent introductory textbook entitled How Things Work: The Physics of Everyday Life, 2nd Edition (Wiley, New York, 2001). Bloomfield also works extensively with professional societies and the media to explain physics to the general public. He frequently serves as a physics consultant and as an expert witness on legal matters that require a broad understanding of physics and scientific issues. Professor Bloomfield and his wife Karen are previous Co-Principals of Hereford College.

Karen Bloomfield is the former co-principal of Hereford College. She and her husband, Lou Bloomfield, professor of physics, lived in Vaughn House from 2001-2006 enjoying those years of friendships and relationships with Hereford students and fellows. She is a clinical nurse specialist who splits her time between a private counseling practice working with women who have cancer and doing clinical research with a public health professor at UVA Medical Center. Her hobbies include a passion for cooking as well as quilting, reading, hiking, swimming, weight training and spinning classes. In addition Lou, she is mom to Elana currently applying to medical school, Aaron a junior at UPenn and Sadie a 9 1/2 year old black and tan dachshund.

Nisha Botchwey is an assistant professor in the Department of Urban and Environmental Planning at UVA. Nisha received her B.A. degree from Harvard University in Environmental Science and Public Policy and her Ph.D. at the University of Pennsylvania Department of City and Regional Planning. Her research and teaching interests are in community economic development and religion in the public square. Specifically, her research examines the role of local religious and secular institutions in neighborhood revitalization and the promotion of public health. She is also a non-resident fellow in the Center for Research on Religion and Urban Civil Society at the University of Pennsylvania. Nisha and her husband Edward are former senior fellows in the W.E.B. DuBois College House at the University of Pennsylvania and former resident faculty fellows of Hereford.

Edward Botchwey is an assistant professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering and Orthopedic Surgery at UVA. Edward received his B.S. degree from the University of Maryland in Mathematics and his Ph.D. in Bioengineering from the University of Pennsylvania. His research and teaching interests are in the areas of orthopedic tissue engineering and biomaterials. Specifically, he seeks to develop novel bioreactor technologies for tissue engineering of bone. He is also a local volunteer at Charlottesville Abundant Life Ministries teaching science and engineering literacy to underrepresented minorities. Edward and his wife Nisha are former senior fellows in the W.E.B. DuBois College House at the University of Pennsylvania and former resident faculty fellows in Hereford.

Kate Collier is the daughter of two food entrepreneurs and grew up on a mountain top farm in Fauquier County, Virginia. At an early age she helped out in her father's seasonally inspired restaurant and represented her mother's shortbread and chocolate business, Hunt Country Foods, at Fancy Food Shows in NY, Atlanta and San Francisco. Following graduation from UVA, she moved to San Francisco to work in the specialty food distribution industry as a buyer and sales person to upscale restaurants and stores in the Bay Area. In 2002, with her husband Eric Gertner, she opened the food lovers haven Feast! in Charlottesville, Virginia which was selected as a Top 20 Cheese Shop in America by Saveur magazine. In 2009, she founded the service organization, Local Food Hub, whose goal is to increase the amount of fresh, locally grown food available to our community by providing small farmers with concrete services that they need to increase production and bring their products to market. Kate is committed to sourcing and promoting the finest foods grown and made in Virginia.

Nancy Coble Damon is the Program Director of the Virginia Festival of the Book, produced by the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities. The Book Festival is a five-day Festival held each March in Charlottesville at the University of Virginia and around the community, and features readings and panel discussions on many topics: fiction, poetry, contemporary affairs, mystery, history, science, science fiction, environmental concerns, gardening, cooking, sports....
During the 2009 Festival, Hereford Residential College sponsored "An Evening with John Grisham and Stephen L. Carter" at Culbreth Theatre and a program with Nigerian writer Helon Habila.
Nancy has lived in Charlottesville since l976 when she moved here with her husband Fred Damon, a Professor of Anthropology at UVa. In addition to reading, she loves working on local politics, pulling weeds from the family garden, and talking to anyone about just about anything. She dreamed of a career as a professional soccer player, but did not start playing until she was 39--making this a poor career choice.

A native of New York and New Jersey, Charles attended public high school in New Jersey before coming to UVa. He graduated from UVa with degrees in English (B.A.), Epidemiology (M.S.), and Medicine (M.D.). As a UVa undergraduate he was a Madison House volunteer as well as an R.A. in the first-year dorms. After training and working as a resident physician in the UVa Dept. of Neurosurgery, Charles practiced clinical medicine as a staff neurosurgeon in Oslo, Norway at the University of Oslo affiliated hospitals. While in Oslo, he held additional clinical positions in Internal Medicine and Emergency Medicine. Charles returned to UVa in 2006 to study the molecular biology of brain tumors in the lab full time. 2009-2010 will be his first school year as a Hereford Fellow.

John Evans is a native of Wisconsin. He came to the University of Virginia in 1998 and serves as the Director of Accommodations for the Housing Division. Prior to working at UVa he has also served as an administrator at South Dakota State University, Rowan University, Michigan State University, Eastern Illinois University and the University of Wisonson-Whitewater. He enjoys pottery, swimming, running and outdoor activities. As a previous fellow, Mr. Evans has taught an introductory pottery course which focused on throwing techniques.

Tom Fitch is the Assistant Dean for Career Services at the McIntire School of Commerce. A native of the Charlottesville area, Tom graduated from UVA in 1984 with a BA is Psychology and in 1994 with a Masters in Education. He has worked in career services for eighteen years.

Michael Fowler is a native of England. A theorectical physicist, he studied mathematics and physics at the University of Cambridge. Before coming to the University of Virginia, he taught at Princeton, Maryland, and Toronto. Recently, he has developed an introductory physics course for non-science majors entitled, Galileo and Einstein, with an accompanying website: http://galileoandeinstein.physics.virginia.edu/

Paul Freedman is Associate Professor in the Department of Politics where he has taught since 1997. Freedman teaches courses in public opinion, media and politics, voting behavior, and research methods, and has written extensively about campaign advertising. Since 2000, Freedman has been an election analyst for ABC News in New York.

Erin Garvey is the Director of Development for Charlottesville Youth and Family Services (CYFS). CYFS has been serving our community's children for 88 years. Their programs reach children in low-income or at-risk families, working to meet their immediate needs and helping those around them to create healthy environments at home.

Eric Gertner is co-owner of Feast (http://feastvirginia.com/), a food store and cafe in Charlottesville specializing in cheese, local foods and lunch. This growing enterprise will be eight years old in February. He is also treasurer of the Local Food Hub (http://localfoodhub.org/), a service organization committed to strengthening and securing the local food system.

Eric is graduate of Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT where he studied music and ethnomusicology. He is formerly a musician with Homowo (http://homowo.org/p-groups.html), has traveled and studied extensively in Ghana and Brazil, and is active with local music.

Passionate about food and music, Eric also dabbles in woodworking, car restoration, motorcycling, boating, outdoor sports, taking stuff apart, and keeping his four old son Oscar fully engaged. Eric is married to Hereford Fellow Kate Collier.

Rich Gregory is a systems analyst/programmer in the engineering school. He has worked in this field since 1980. He has a BS in Biology from Ga. Tech and a MS in Organic Chemistry from UVa. He has a wife and two grown children, who both are UVa students. He describes his day job as "herding bits". He enjoys reading on a wide range of subjects. His interests, that come immediately to mind, are astronomy and astrophysics, the anthropology of religion, ecology, the future of our civilization on this planet, Democratic politics, and how to be a good father and husband.

He is an Eagle Scout, a Presbyterian, a bird watcher, a stargazer and a frequent visitor to the AFC. He has several short courses on line at http://people.virginia.edu/~rtg2t

These courses are related to his interests at his day job.

Vicki Hawes is a graduate of Mary Baldwin College. She has worked in manufacturing management and is an entrepeneur. She is now Off Grounds Housing Manager at the University of Virginia. She enjoys reading and convertibles and holds season tickets for UVa football, men's and women's basketball. She also loves the Hoos hot nights at U-Hall during the cold winter months.

Yvonne Hubbard is Director of Student Financial Services at the University of Virginia

Janette Hudson is on the faculty in the German Department, and when she was a Hereford fellow in the past, she ran the popular weekly German table.

Jack Hudson is from Chicago and is a passionate Cubs fan. He participates in sports himself, particularly handball, and outdoor activities. He also enjoys reading a variety of subjects, from mystery novels (Sayers, Paretsky,) to somewhat more serious German and French literature. He is on the faculty of the Chemical Engineering Department and his professional interests are in the area of chemical reactors and nonlinear behavior such as chaotic oscillations and pattern formation.

Chris Husser is the Director of Technology Services for the Office of the Dean of Students. He came to the University in 1999 as an undergraduate student and majored in Cognitive Psychology and Technology Management and Policy. During his time as an undergraduate he was heavily involved in student organizations, worked for the Department of Information Technology and Communications (ITC), and served as the Chief Technology Officer for Student Council. Chris joined the staff of Newcomb Hall in 2003, working in the Student Activities Center. In 2006 he received a Masters in the Management of Information Technology from the McIntire School of Commerce and then joined the faculty as a lecturer for introductory leadership courses in the Curry School of Education. In addition to his work related to technology management he continues to advise student organizations, lecture on leadership topics, and mentor student leaders. Chris frequently visits Runk Dining Hall to meet with students and teaches Hereford short courses on Japanese animation and cinema.

Wes King is working toward his Ph.D. in English at UVA. He is currently teaching a couple of classes and writing a dissertation on 19th century American literature. Wes recently taught a short course at Hereford where he and a handful of interested students read, explored and discussed the great American novel Moby Dick.

Aaron Laushway is an associate dean of students and the director of the Office of Fraternity & Sorority Life. He joined the Office of the Dean of Students in 1996. Mr. Laushway took his master of education and doctor of philosophy degrees in counseling from the University in 1984 and 1987, respectively. He also holds the S.T.B. and S.T.L. from the Dominican House of Studies in Washington. He was a 1999 David A Harrison III Award recipient for undergraduate advising. Immediately before returning to the University and becoming the assistant dean who worked most closely with fraternities and sororities, he was a Charles E. Merrill Fellow at The Divinity School, Harvard University. Dean Laushway is a brother of the Eta Chapter of Zeta Psi Fraternity at Yale. He also advises the Third-Year Class and the University's chapter of Golden Key International Honour Society.

Terry Lockard is the Director of Computing Support Services in the Department of Information Technology and Communication. She is a graduate of U.Va. with a BA in Government and Foreign Affairs and a Masters in Public Administration. Terry served as the Director of the Budget before joining ITC in 1997. Her areas of responsibility include research support, electronically-equipped classrooms, the help desk, student services, departmental computing support, and customer communications and publications. She is a volunteer with The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. She enjoys (watching) sports, traveling and loves working around students.

Tim Lovelace received his B.A. with Distinction in American Politics
from UVA in 2003 and received his Juris Doctorate from UVA Law in
2006. Currently, Tim is a doctoral student in History at the
University. His research examines how civil rights activism in the
American South informed the development of international human rights
law. Tim also presently serves as the Assistant Director of the
Center for the Study of Race and Law at UVA Law.

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Karlin Luedtke is an Assistant Dean and Assistant Professor in the College of Arts and Sciences. Currently, she serves as the Association Dean for students in the College who lived in Hereford Residential College during their first year at UVA. A graduate of Mount Holyoke College, Karlin earned her doctorate at UVA in the Department of Sociology in 2002. Since 1996, Karlin has taught courses in the Women's Studies/Studies in Women and Gender Program. She teaches Introduction to Gender Studies and Feminist Theory as well as courses on gender and sexuality in popular media. Karlin has been a faculty fellow for two years and enjoys attending events along with her family.

Stephen A. Macko is a Professor of Isotope and Organic Geochemistry in the Department of Environmental Sciences at the University of Virginia. He received his PhD from the University of Texas in Chemistry. His areas of interest include marine organic geochemistry, deep ocean communities, meteorites and the Origins of Life as well as K-12 education and outreach. He has authored over 250 refereed research papers and books; he was elected a Fellow of the Geochemical Society and of the European Association of Geochemistry in 2003 and is the Corresponding Education Editor for EOS. He received the All University Teaching Award at UVA and was a finalist for the State of Virginia Faculty of the Year award in 2007. He recently held the position of Program Officer for Geobiology and Low Temperature Geochemistry at the US National Science Foundation.

Recent projects of his include studies on chemosynthesis at cold seep sites and hot vents using the Johnson Sea Link and Alvin submersibles for sample acquisition; interpretation of ancient human diet; tracking fires and aerosols from sub-Saharan Africa; establishing the geochemical conditions of the Earth prior to the origins of life and pioneering the broadcast of live interactive classes between Africa and the USA.

At the University of Virginia, he teaches Introduction to Oceanography, Introduction to Geochemistry, Isotope Geochemistry, Organic Geochemistry and the Environmental Sciences Undergraduate Seminar.

He has been a scientist or chief scientist on numerous oceanographic expeditions, including dives to depths of over 500m in the submersible Johnson Sea Link. He was a research scientist on the high Arctic Canadian Ice Island during five different years. He has been featured on Discovery and National Geographic television channel programs (The Ultimate Guide to Mummies, The Moche Murder Mystery, The Mummy Road Show) as well as a number of public and commercial radio and television interviews, including National Public Radio, about his research. His laboratory is featured in King Corn, a documentary on the influence of corn on the lives of North Americans, which opened at Independent theaters in New York and Washington in October, 2007 and appeared on PBS in April, 2008.

Paxton Marshall received the B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Carnegie-Mellon University in 1966, an M.A. in History from the University of Maryland in 1972, the Ph.D. in Education from the University of Chicago in 1979, and the M.E. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Virginia in 1990. Dr. Marshall has served on the faculty since 1987. He teaches courses in electric circuit analysis, electromechanical energy conversion, and electric power, and is responsible for the administration of the undergraduate instructional programs. Paxton Marshall's interests include electric power, energy conversion and conservation, engineering influences on the environment, technology management and policy, and engineering education.

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Ed Murphy is both an associate professor in the Department of Astronomy and a graduate of the University of Virginia, having earned an M.A. in astronomy in 1993 and a Ph.D. in 1996. After graduating, he worked on NASA's Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer (FUSE) mission at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore before returning to UVa as a faculty member in the fall of 2000. He conducts research on the interstellar medium, the gas between the stars, using FUSE and ground based radio and optical telescopes. He teaches introductory astronomy classes for non-science majors and members of the community, and runs astronomy workshops for teachers. In addition to teaching and research, Mr. Murphy is director of the education and public outreach program in the Department of Astronomy. He can be found at McCormick Observatory during most of the Friday night public nights. A native of Chicago, he is a die-hard Cubs fan and, as always, is hoping next year is The Year. He and his wife Susan have two boys, Max and Michael.

Dr. Petri is the Wade Hampton Frost Professor of Medicine, with joint appointments in the Departments of Microbiology and Pathology at the University of Virginia Medical School. He is Chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases and International Health at UVa and a past president of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. Dr. Petri's research interests are tropical medicine and biodefense. His current lab work is aimed at finding new means to prevent amebiasis.

Abdulaziz Sachedina, Ph.D., is Frances Myers Ball Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Virgina, Charlottesville. Dr. Sachedina, who has studied in India, Iraq, Iran, and Canada, obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Toronto. He has been conducting research and writing in the field of Islamic Law, Ethics, and Theology (Sunni and Shiite) for more than two decades. In the last ten years he has concentrated on social and political ethics, including Interfaith and Intrafaith Relations, Islamic Biomedical Ethics and Islam and Human Rights. Dr. Sachedina's publications include: Islamic Messianism (State University of New York, 1980); Human Rights and the Conflicts of Culture, co-authored (University of South Carlolina, 1988) The Just Ruler in Shiite Islam (Oxford University Press, 1988); The Prolegomena to the Qur'an (Oxford University Press, 1998), The Islamic Roots of Democratic Pluralism (Oxford University Press, 2002), Islamic Biomedical Ethics: Theory and Application (Oxford University Press, February 2009), Islam and the Challenge of Human Rights (Oxford University Press, September 2009), in addition to numerous articles in academic journals. He is an American citizen born in Tanzania.

Elizabeth Schoyer has taught painting and drawing in the McIntire Department of Art since 1984. She earned her B.F.A in painting at the Philadelphia College of Art, her M.F.A. at Indiana University, and also studied painting at the Banff School of Fine Arts. Elizabeth Schoyer's work has been shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions throughout the East coast and is held in several public collections. Professor Schoyer has worked with Principal Nancy Takahashi and students to present a number of very successful student art shows here at Hereford.

Matthew is the owner of local Charllotesville web design firm Category4. Matthew is not just an alumus of the University of Virginia, he is a Hereford College alum as well!  

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Jeanne Nicholson Siler has worked in print journalism and editorial positions since graduating from the College of William and Mary in 1977. A master's degree in anthropology from UVA in 2003 led to work as a project historian on a grant partnership between the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities -- an affiliate of UVA -- and the Fayette Area Historical Initiative. The project resulted in multiple exhibits, oral histories, and a book, Fayette Street: A Hundred-Year History of African American Life in Martinsville, Virginia. She currently writes and edits as a freelancer in addition to her staff position with the Grants Program at the VFH, with in-between activities that have included fostering SPCA kittens, summer swims at Fry's Spring Beach Club (yes...there's a beach club in Charlottesville) and photography.

Tyler Jo Smith is a native of Oklahoma. She received her undergraduate degree in Classics from Davidson College, and her graduate degrees in Classical Archaeology from Oxford University. She has taught at Oxford, Virginia Tech, University of Oklahoma, and rejoins the Art History faculty at UVa in 2002. As a faculty member she has represented Orthodox Christian student organizations on several campuses, and has also participated in international student outreach. Her summers are spent abroad in England and in Greece, teaching, researching, and participating in excavations. She loves sports, especially football and field hockey, and music of all types.

A faculty member in the Department of Physics, Keith is also one of Hereford's resident faculty fellows (albeit residing in Malone), an accomplished photographer, and the founding genius behind Hereford's extremely successful minifarm. He invites you to visit his residence, which is next to the Hereford minifarm at the west end of Malone House. Take a look at some of his beautiful photography at: keithwilliamsphoto.net