Living and Learning Community Faculty and Staff

Mario Rapetti-Assistant Director for Educational Initiatives



Joey Allen - Founders and Royer Hall Area Coordinator 
I serve as the Residence Director for Founders and Royer Residence Halls and I coordinate the Living and Learning experience within those residential areas.  I received my degree from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro in History and Anthropology (concentration in African history and culture).  I have been working in the field of Residence Life since the fall of 2002 and have been with Elizabethtown College since fall 2006.  While at Etown I have the opportunity to work with many great faculty and professional staff members.  I have a passion for working with college aged students and helping enhance their residential experience. In the coming year I am also helping to coordinate the interdepartmental service-learning trip to Washington DC.  I am excited about our new class of students and look forward to working with everyone in the fall!


Honors Residential Community (HRC) Staff

This community was founded in the fall of 2007. The HRC has a number of faculty and staff working directly with the students on the floor to aid in their successful transition to College life and to have a more significant educational experience. This hall will be housed on the 2nd Floor of Founders C-Wing.

Dr. John Rohrkemper-Professor of Shakespeare Through Performance First-Year Seminar

I am an associate professor of English and I teach and write about American literature and dramatic literature. I am an actor who has appeared in over forty productions in professional, community, and college theater (including seven Shakespearean plays). I am a playwright and have written fourteen works for the theater including, most recently, the text of the opera "Las Madres de la Plaza," which premiered last winter at Elizabethtown.

Shakespeare Through Performance is a first-year seminar that will look closely at five Shakespearean plays--Richard III, Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, As You Like It, and The Tempest--examining them both as literary texts and as blueprints for performance. We will see filmed versions of each play and will explore the complexities of collaborative art, considering the ways actors, directors, scenic designers, and many other artists contribute to the making of a Shakespearean production. We'll have fun and I am confident we'll all learn a lot.

Dr. Russel Ayres-Professor of What's Wrong with the World First-Year Seminar
Professor Ayres is the Director of the Center for Global Citizenship, as well as an Associate Professor of International Relations in the Department of Political Science. Before coming to Elizabethtown, he taught on the faculties of the University of Indianapolis, the University of Mississippi, and St. Mary's College of Maryland. He earned his BA from Williams College, and his MA and PhD from The Ohio State University. Most of his research to date has been on ethnic conflict, conflict resolution, and US foreign policy; his most recent book is For Kin or Country: Nationalism, Xenophobia, and War, published in summer 2008. Googling "R. William Ayres" will pick up a lot of his publications and newspaper articles.

Professor Ayres is looking forward this fall to good conversations about a very broad range of topics - from the course, from the news, and from life. His interests are broad and eclectic, and include jazz and classical music, theater, martial arts, science, mainline protestant denominational politics & theology, and the challenges of living in the modern world.

Andrea Guzzo - Learning Community Assistant
Andrea is a senior Communications major and Spanish minor. She is very excited to be with the incoming Honors students to impart her wisdom of the program and the college!

Melissa Cangialosi-Community Fellow/Peer Mentor

Melissa who is also a Peer Mentor will be serving as the HRCs Community Fellow for the 2008-2009 academic year. She will assist with social programming, academic success initiatives, and will assist the LCA with community development. 

Kristen Ebersole-Peer Mentor (Rohrkemper)

Jessica Matthews-Peer Mentor (Rohrkemper)

Brandon Bear-Peer Mentor (Ayres)

Simple Living Hall Staff

This community was founded in the fall of 2007. The Simple Living Hall is a community in conjunction with the Simple Living Seminar taught by Michele Kozimor-King.  This is an award winning program with a number of students and Dr. Kozimor-King winning awards during the annual Campus Life Awards Ceremony.  The program has been recognized in many local papers.  We are excited to be working with Dr. Kozmor-King and this hall again this coming year! This hall will be housed on the 3rd Floor of Founders C-Wing.

Dr. Michele Kozimor-King-Professor of Simple Living First-Year Seminar

Dr. Michele Lee Kozimor-King is an Assistant Professor of Sociology.  She enjoys spending time with her family including her husband, daughter, German shepherd dog, cats, and horse.  Dr. Kozimor-King loves to be outdoors in nature including hiking, gardening, and riding her horse.  Healthy living is an important part of her life and includes juicing, meditation, exercise, and an organic lifestyle.  Dr. Kozimor-King's research interests include work and family issues, environmental problems, and the scholarship of teaching and learning.  Interestingly, Dr. Kozimor-King graduated from Elizabethtown College in 1993.  She received her MA and Ph.D. from the Pennsylvania State University.  Words of wisdom: There is a reason for everything.

My website for the course (still under construction) is www.freewebs.com/kozimorking

Matthew Myers-Learning Community Assistant

Samantha Schneider-Peer Mentor

Nick Wetzel-Peer Mentor

Partners in Engineering (PiE) Hall Staff

The Partners in Engineering (PiE) Hall is our newest Living and Learning Community designed for first-year engineering majors.  This is a Hall that is designed for student success and to build a stronger community of students within the engineering department.  This hall will be housed in Royer Residence Hall.

Dr. William Stuckey-PiE Faculty Advisor
I began teaching physics as an undergrad lab instructor (Wright State University), then as a graduate teaching assistant (University of Cincinnati). I spent a year as a sabbatical replacement at the University of Dayton before finishing my PhD in physics and starting at E-town College. Altogether, I’ve been teaching college physics for 28 years. My research interests are in general relativity, cosmology and the foundations of quantum mechanics (http://users.etown.edu/s/stuckeym/). I’m looking forward to teaching the first semester of calc-based intro physics again – it’s one of my favorite experiences because the students are challenged for the first time in their academic lives and thereby realize what they are really capable of doing.

Jean Fullerton-PiE Faculty Member
I have only been teaching at Etown for the last four years. Before that, I spent 20+ years working as an engineer. I progressed from being a part of a project team to the project manger of a completely new production facility. My team designed the building (architects & structural engineers), permitting, roads and ground changes (civil engineers), underground and facility utilities (mechanical & electrical engineers) and designed the production processes (chemical, computer & mechanical engineers). My team supported construction, equipment installation and production start-up. This gave me an excellent background in what most disciplines do and how to manage and work in a multidiscipline engineering team.

To aid in my career progression, I received my PE (professional engineering liscense) and obtained Masters degrees in Business and Environmental engineering. I really love engineering and being able to share my experience with the next generation of engineers is a dream come true for me.

Engineering students have to understand that they will need to work hard in school to be a successful engineer. College is much more work than high school and many students fall into the trap of thinking they can "get by" with minimal work like they did in high school. I recommend they consider joining the PIE (Partners in Engineering ) learning community to ensure success during the important freshman engineering foundation courses.

I look forward to meeting them all and starting another year of school.

Justin Hypnarowski-Learning Community Assistant


Global Awareness Community

This community was formed by many of the original members of this past year's Simple Living Hall.  They wanted to make a differene not only in their own communities but in the world. This community will explore issues of global hunger and genocide through service-learning opportunities and community education. This hall will be housed on the 1st floor of Founders A-Wing.

Dr. Michele Kozimor-King-Faculty Advisor

Stephen Juliano-Learning Community Assistant