Faculty Features
John Matter
Associate Professor of Biology
When your childhood backyard is 125 acres of Missouri woods intersected by streams, meadows, and bordered by a river, it might be pre-ordained that you would grow up to be a biologist. After all, wandering through wildlife habitat can become habit-forming.
Jim Borgardt
Associate Professor of Physics
For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. Even those of us not well versed in physics know that this is Newton’s Third Law of Motion. But for Jim Borgardt, associate professor of physics, it’s sort of a mantra for his life.
Pat Weaver
Charles A. Dana Professor of Accounting Business and Economics
If a workforce researcher were to trace the steps on the career path of accounting professor Pat Weaver, there would be gentle rises, then a gradual downhill slope, followed by several abrupt turns and ending with a straight and steady rise.
Jack Barlow
Professor of Politics
No one really can miss Jack Barlow when walking around the Juniata campus. He's the one that looks like a college professor-blazer, bow tie, professorial glasses and comfortable shoes.
Andy Belser
Professor of Theatre
"I'm very intense with students and I'm not there only to give them a fun, nifty experience," Belser says. "My students are human beings doing theatre and if they are trained well, they are capable of extraordinary things."
Jim Donaldson
Professor of Economics and Business Administration
It's probably no coincidence that Jim Donaldson played trumpet in his high school marching band. Like college faculty, trumpets are distinctive, yet part of a cohesive ensemble.
Doug Glazier
Professor of Biology
Doug views research as a culmination of his teaching. "If I wasn't an active researcher, I wouldn't be as creative as a teacher,"
Klaus Jaeger
Professor of German
Those who know Klaus Jaeger well know he is a baker of fine breads, using four simple ingredients-flour, water, salt, and yeast-to create tasty, aromatic loaves.
Dennis Johnson
Associate Professor of Environmental Sciences Chair
Talk to Dennis Johnson, assistant professor of environmental science at Juniata, about any aspect of college life and he can tell you about it.
Judy Katz
Associate Professor of English
Judy Katz's activism on behalf of women goes way back. To the cradle in fact. New York City born and bred, she grew up in a politically active in household that valued speaking out."
Debra Kirchhof-Glazier
Professor of Biology
A single conversation with Deb Kirchhof-Glazier is an education in itself. In the course of an interview, she can address topics from pottery to politics -- all while communicating her overwhelming love for family and her fierce commitment to helping Juniata remain a place where diversity is celebrated.
Cynthia Merriwether-DeVries
Assistant Professor of Sociology
Merriwether-DeVries, called "Cy" by all who know her, points out that her family history and path to a career closely parallels the typical Juniata student.
Ruth Reed
Jacob H & Rachel Brumbaugh Professor of Chemistry
Take a rather shy young woman from Clemson, S.C. and send her to Germany for a year of study at a German university and what do you get? Well, you get Ruth Reed, whose experience as a Fulbright scholar so energized her career that she has become a tireless advocate for study abroad almost from her first days on camps.
Randy Rosenberger
Swigart Support Associate Professor of Business & Economics
Ask Randy Rosenberger any question on any subject and be prepared to receive a response that encompasses all sides of the question. After all, this is a man who admits that he loves to analyze everything from the microbrewery industry to Allen Iverson's jump shot.
Nancy Siegel
Assistant Professor of Art History
When Nancy Siegel found out that she was coming to Juniata College, she was anticipating the experience of exploring the woods and wilderness just outside the city limits.
Belle Tuten
Associate Professor of History
It's safe to say that Juniata historian Belle Tuten isn't a big fan of "the great man" theory of history. For her, that methodology, with an emphasis on dates and focus on leaders of nations, is as boring as this sentence. For Tuten, history is all about stories—the more unlikely and humorous the better.
Donna Weimer
Col. Sedgley & Elizabeth Bailey Thornbury Professor of Communication Chair
If Donna Weimer's current life were set to its own soundtrack, one of the songs that might aptly encapsulate her career is from "Oklahoma," where an oft-engaged character called Ado Annie sang, albeit in a much different context, about not being able to say no.
Chuck Yohn
Director of the Raystown Field Station
Looking back on his career, Chuck Yohn has exhibited an uncanny ability to predict what he is going to be doing decades down the road. After all, this is a guy who wrote in an elementary school writing assignment that he "wanted to be a forest ranger and live in the woods.