Faculty & Staff Directory

	Name & Contact	Bio & Website
	Dr. Christopher Swanson Professor 209, Patterson Instructional Technology Center 419.289.5264 cswanson@ashland.edu	Dr. Christopher N. Swanson, professor of mathematics and director of the Honors Program, joined the Ashland University faculty in 1999. He is the developer of Ashland University's actuarial science major, advisor to Ashland University's Ohio Rho chapter of the national mathematics honorary Pi Mu Epsilon, advisor to Ashland University's team for the national William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition and... Read More http://personal.ashland.edu/cswanson/
	Rachel Swartz Biology Lab Technician Rm. 215, Kettering Science Building 419.207.6311 rswartz3@ashland.edu	Rachel Swartz joined the department spring of 2017 as a laboratory technician. She graduated from Ashland University in 2016 with a bachelors of science in biology and environmental science.
	Merrill Tawse Professional Instructor 323, Kettering Science Building 419.207.6310 mtawse@ashland.edu	Merrill Tawse joined the Biology/Toxicology Department in 2010. His work with students in field research focuses on polyploidy in Ambystomid salamanders and projects via radio-telemetry in territoriality and site affinity of the secretive marsh birds, the Virginia Rails. Other student projects have included foraging and roosting behaviors of insectivorous bats in the Mohican Forest. He has conducted numerous Indiana... Read More
	Jeff Taylor , Kettering Science Building jtaylo36@ashland.edu	Jeff Taylor is joining the Department of Biology and Toxicology as an Adjunct Instructor. He will be teaching courses in human anatomy and physiology. In addition to his adjunct teaching at Ashland University, he is also a full-time faculty member and the biology department program coordinator at North Central State College in Mansfield, Ohio and has taught anatomy and physiology previously at Columbus State... Read More
	Dr. Andrew Trimble Associate Professor 326, Kettering Science Building 419.289.5267 atrimble@ashland.edu	Dr. Andrew Trimble is an assistant professor of biology and toxicology. He joined the Ashland University faculty in 2009. His research interests include the effects of pesticide contaminant mixtures to freshwater aquatic organisms in the environment, as well as the effects of physical and chemical stress to the toxicity of organic sediment-based contaminants. Dr. Trimble has previously been the recipient of a U.S.... Read More
	Tricia Trimble Laboratory Supervisor 313, Kettering Science Building 419.289.5612 ttrimbl1@ashland.edu	Tricia Trimble moved to the Ashland area in 2009. Prior to this, she attended Southern Illinois University at Carbondale (SIUC) and earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Zoology in 2004 and a Master of Science degree in Zoology with an emphasis in Environmental and Aquatic Toxicology in 2007. After receiving her degrees, Tricia worked as a toxicology researcher at the Fisheries and Illinois Aquaculture Center and... Read More
	Professor Nancy Udolph Associate Professor, Field Director 248, Dwight Schar College of Education 419.289.5372 nudolph@ashland.edu	Professor Udolph has been a faculty member since 1988. She received her MSSW from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and her undergraduate degree in psychology from the University of Illinois. Prior to teaching, she was a clinical social worker and still maintains a small counseling practice. She specializes in micro-practice courses and international social work. She has spoken at state, national and international... Read More http://personal.ashland.edu/nudolph/
	Dr. William Vaughan Professor 208, Center for the Humanities of Bixler Hall 419.289.5654 wvaughan@ashland.edu	William Vaughan received his B.A. and M.A. in English at Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, and his M.A. and Ph.D. in philosophy at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is professor of philosophy, and chaired the department at Ashland University from 2001-2014. He has also served as university core director since 2009. His main area of research is in post-Kantian Continental philosophy. Dr... Read More
	Dr. Michael Vimont Program Director, Associate Professor 249, Dwight Schar College of Education 419.207.6364 mvimont@ashland.edu	Dr. Vimont is Director of the social work department. He has been a practicing social worker since 1981. His diverse practice has taken him to Texas, California and Ohio working in the areas of child welfare, school social work, community development, home health care, domestic violence and substance use. Beginning in 1993, Dr. Vimont augmented his practice with teaching social work and sociology courses as an... Read More
	Dr. Jayne Waterman Associate Professor 114 , Center for the Humanities of Bixler Hall 419.289.5284 jwaterma@ashland.edu	Jayne E. Waterman specializes in nineteenth-century, twentieth-century and contemporary American literature and culture with an emphasis on modernism. She has taught American Literature III: Realism to Modernism, American Literature IV: 1945 to the Present, The American Literary Experience, The Modern Novel and The Modern Drama. Waterman has also taught the Contemporary American Studies Seminar. Additional teaching... Read More
	Dr. Russell Weaver Professor 310 , Center for the Humanities of Bixler Hall 419.289.5117 rweaver3@ashland.edu	Dr. Russell Weaver, professor of English, joined the faculty in 1986. He teaches courses in Romantic and Victorian British literature; Greek literature; 19th century Russian Novel (War and Peace and The Brothers Karamazov); and he offers a rotating set of major writers seminars on Dostoevsky, Shakespeare, Melville/Conrad, Austen and Hemingway. Dr. Weaver has published Questioning Keats: An Introduction to Applied... Read More
	Dr. Jeffrey Weidenhamer Professor 419 , Kettering Science Building 419.289.5281 jweiden@ashland.edu	Jeff Weidenhamer has been a member of the chemistry faculty since 1989. He teaches General Chemistry, courses in analytical chemistry and core science courses including Science as a Cultural Force and Lead and Civilization. He previously served as core curriculum director. Weidenhamer’s research interests include the development of methods for analysis of plant root exudates in soil, and the contamination of... Read More http://personal.ashland.edu/jweiden/
	Dr. Darren Wick Professor 216, Patterson Instructional Technology Center 419.289.5795 dwick@ashland.edu	Dr. Darren D. Wick received a bachelor of science degree in aerospace engineering from Purdue University; a master of science degree in mathematics from Utah State University; and a doctor of philosophy degree in mathematics from the University of Oregon. Dr. Wick came to Ashland University in 2000 following five years as a member of the department of mathematics at Millsaps College. He has taught a wide variety of... Read More http://personal.ashland.edu/dwick/
	Naomi J. Williams	Naomi J. Williams is the author of Landfalls (FSG 2015), long-listed for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and the National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Award. Her short fiction has appeared in numerous literary journals, including Zoetrope: All-Story, A Public Space, One Story, The Southern Review, and The Gettysburg Review. A five-time Pushcart Prize nominee and one-time winner, Naomi has an MA in... Read More
	Dr. Brianne Wolf Director, Political Economy Program, Assistant Professor of Political Science 120, Andrews Hall 419.289.5171 bwolf3@ashland.edu	Brianne Wolf is assistant professor of political science and director of the political economy program at Ashland University, where she teaches courses on political economy and political thought. She did her undergraduate work at Michigan State University, and has an M.A. from the University of Chicago and a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison for her dissertation work on the... Read More