Professional experience: Public and Investor Relations professional with over 18 years of agency and company experience.  Expertise includes: crisis management, media relations, financial communications, merger communications and investment analyst relations. Extensive experience across a variety of sectors including: business to business, consumer, environmental, financial, healthcare, technology and telecommunications. 
C/J at Fisher

Faculty

  • Jack RosenberryDr. Jack Rosenberry
  • Department Chair and Associate Professor//Ph.D. SUNY-Buffalo/M.B.A. & B.A. Syracuse University
  • Research interests: Civic and citizen journalism, especially how participatory journalism is incorporated into mainstream news sites through commentary forums and submission of hyper-local news items.
  • Fay 204
  • (585)385-8206
  • jrosenberry@sjfc.edu
  • Blog/Website
  • Dougie BicketDr. Dougie Bicket


  • Associate Professor//Ph.D. & M.A. University of Washington/B.A.(Hons.) Glasgow Caledonian University
  • Research interests: The nature and impact of transnational media flows between Britain and the United States, and the broader impact of these countries on the wider world; the interaction of U.S. public history bodies and media institutions in mediating and constructing American culture and identity through historic interpretation of cultural resources.

  • Fay 208
  • (585) 889-3822
  • dbicket@sjfc.edu

  • Mary LopocaroProfessor Mary Loporcaro
  • Associate Professor//M.S. New York University/B.A. Nazareth College
  • Research interests: Media influence on the perception of women and the effects of
  • emerging media on the magazine industry.
  • Fay 109
  • (585) 385-8234
  • mloporcaro@sjfc.edu
  • Miri PardoDr. Miri Pardo
  • Assistant Professor//Ph.D. Wayne State University/M.A. and B.A. Eastern Michigan University
  • Research Interests: The collective, historical stories of individuals within cultural and religious groups. Communication and spirituality of rap music.
  • Fay 209
  • (585) 385-7293
  • mpardo@sjfc.edu
  • Tom ProiettiTom Proietti
  • Visiting Scholar in New Media
    M.A. Syracuse University; B.A. St. John Fisher
    Courses: Introduction to Advertising, Documentary Film; Media Issues in Comtemporary Culture
  • Professional Experience: Professor and former chair of Communication at Monroe Community College, and a former newspaper, radio and TV journalist, and an advertising and Cable TV executive.
    Founder of the C/J program, previously teaching at Fisher from 1968-1980.
    A founding member of the Little Theatre Film Society and past president of its Board of Directors.
  • tproietti@sjfc.edu
  • Kyle ReinsonProfessor Kyle F. Reinson
  • Assistant Professor//M.A. Florida Atlantic University (completing Ph.D. at SUNY-Buffalo)/
    B.A. University of Nevada
  • Research interests: The emerging use of technology in public relations work; how urban spaces facilitate or impede human communication; the critical study of public relations and its historical connections to political and economic relations in democratic societies.
  • Fay 210
  • (585) 899-3836
  • kreinson@sjfc.edu
  • Jeremy SarachanProfessor Jeremy Sarachan
  • Assistant Professor//M.S. Rochester Institute of Technology/B.A. University of Rochester
    Research interests: The usability of children's virtual worlds; the psychology of casual gaming; the influence of social media on the rhetoric of fatherhood and autism; fan-created videos and public discourse; educational technology applications with social media and mobile technologies.
  • Fay 211
  • (585) 385-7277
  • jsarachan@sjfc.edu
  • LinkedIn
  • Website
  • Todd SodanoDr. Todd Sodano
  • Assistant Professor//Ph.D. (Maxwell) & M.S. (Newhouse) Syracuse University/B.S. Cornell University
  • Research interests: Post-network primetime television (cable and broadcast) in relation to niche market programming. Fragmentation of the TV-viewing audience and the influence on programming industrially, artistically, and culturally. The influences of TV critics on television discourse.
  • Fay 212
  • (585) 899-3724
  • tsodano@sjfc.edu
    @toddsodano
  • Lauren VickerDr. Lauren Vicker
  • Internship Director and Professor//Ph.D. and M.S. University of Pittsburgh/B.A. Penn State
  • Research interests:   Engaging transfer students in internships and co-curricular activities; effective interviewing and hiring strategies, particularly for more diverse searches;  issues in the capstone course.
  • Fay 203
  • (585) 385-8205
  • lvicker@sjfc.edu
  • Website

 

Staff

  • Cecil FeltonCecil Felton
  • Advisor to Cardinal Television and Coordinator of the Communication/Journalism Media Arts Center//
    M.S. St. John Fisher College/B.A. Adelphi University
  • Basil 202, Media Center
  • Research Interests: Internet Television and Christian Media
  • (585) 385-7226
  • cfelton@sjfc.edu
  • Website

Part-time Faculty

  • Mike BaronMike Baron
  • Adjunct Instructor
  • B.A. St. John Fisher College
    Course: Creative Ad Writing: Electronic
  • Professional Experience: Creative Director/Copywriter at partners + napier; Associate Creative Director at Crowley Web & Associates; Senior Copywriter at Eric Mower and Associates; Copywriter at Saatchi and Saatchi Advertising
  • mbaron@sjfc.edu
  • Enid Arbelo Bryant
  • Adjunct Instructor
  • M.A. University of London; B.A. University of Florida
  • Course: Magazine Writing
  • Professional Experience: Editor-in-chief: Next Step Magazine and Next Step U.; Democrat and Chronicle staff writer and various editor roles including Young Audiences editor and Young Professionals Editor.
  • ebryant@sjfc.edu
  • Dan Hall
  • Adjunct Instructor
  • B.A. Wayne State University
  • Course: Journalism I
  • dhall@sjfc.edu
  • Ginni Jurkowski
  • Adjunct Instructor
  • M.A. SUNY-Brockport; B.A. St. John Fisher
  • Course: Business Communication
  • Research interests: Impact of electronic devises on interpersonal, generational, journalistic and business communication.
  • Also, lecturer at SUNY-Geneseo and trainer at Ginnijay Group
  • gjurkowski@sjfc.edu or ginnijay@aol.com
  • Kathy Marchaesi-CiarldiKathy Marchaesi-Ciaraldi
  • Adjunct Instructor
    M.S. Rochester Institute of Technology; B.A. St. John Fisher
    Course: Introduction to Advertising
  • Professional Experience: Marketing Communications Freelancer
  • 25 years of Corporate Marketing and Advertising Agency Experience working on notable brands including Bausch & Lomb, Ray-Ban, Liz Claiborne, Pitney Bowes, Sentry Safe and Frontier
  • kmarchaesi-ciaraldi@sjfc.edu
  • Jan Miller
  • Adjunct Instructor
  • M.A. Nazareth College; B.A. University of Rochester
  • Course: The Nonprofit Organization
  • Professional experience: Senior Philanthropy Office, the Central and Western New York chapter of The Nature Conservancy. Jan served as the Division President of National Kidney Foundation since 1994.  Her thirty years of fundraising experience also includes positions with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra and the American Heart Association.
  • jmiller@sjfc.edu or jan_miller@tnc.org
  • Julie Gelfand and Steve PiperSteve Piper and Julie Gelfand
  • Adjunct Instructors
  • Steve: M.F.A. Rochester Institute of Technology
  • Julie: M.F.A. Rochester Institute of Technology; B.A. Bard College
    Courses: Photography for the Media; (also, The Photographer's Eye and Documentary Photography for the Arts Program)
  • Professional Experience: 20+ years as freelance photographers

  • spiper@sjfc.edu
  • Kathryn Sachs
  • Adjunct Instructor
    M.A. Columbia Unversity; B.S. Cornell University
  • Course: Business Communication
  • ksachs@sjfc.edu
    Professional experience: Public and Investor Relations professional with over 18 years of agency and company experience.
    Expertise includes: crisis management, media relations, financial communications, merger communications and investment analyst relations. Extensive experience across a variety of sectors including: business to business, consumer, environmental, financial, healthcare, technology and telecommunications. 
  • Dan Webb
  • Adjunct Instructor
  • B.A. Princeton University
    Course: Business Communication
  • Professional Experience: Former director/ vice-president of marketing/sales/sales operations at Bausch+Lomb.

  • dwebb@sjfc.edu
For information about the major or journalism minor, contact Dr. Jack Rosenberry. For more information about the internship program, contact Dr. Lauren Vicker. For information about the video production minor, contact Dr. Todd Sodano. For information about the strategic communication minor, contact Professor Kyle Reinson.
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