Faculty

Aileen Donnersberger, M.A.
M.A., Regis University
B.A., Saint Xavier University
Department Chair, Social Sciences
Social Science/Education
Office Location: L287
E-mail: donnersbergera@morainevalley.edu
Telephone: (708) 974-5595
Suggested Link: http://www.isbe.state.il.us

Katarzyna Blahusiak
Instructor, Sociology
Office Location: L287
Telephone: (708) 974-5266
E-mail: blahusiakk@morainevalley.edu
Personal Statement: My goal is to help students understand the world around them by introducing a variety of social issues and providing different ways of thinking about them with the use of class discussions and group activities.

Evan Brown
Instructor, Sociology
Office Location: L283
Telephone: (708) 608-4211
E-mail: browne98@morainevalley.edu

Gail Ditchman, M.A.
M.A., Northern Illinois University
B.A., Western Illinois University
Coordinator of Education
Instructor, Education
Office Location: L285
E-mail: ditchmang@morainevalley.edu
Telephone: (708) 974-5564
Personal Statement: I believe that my role is to facilitate students in developing the skills and the knowledge to become lifelong learners. It is my hope that after students complete their education classes, they will be inspired to continue on into what I believe is the best profession—teaching.

Anette D'Silva, M.A.
M.A., University of Mysore, India
B.A., St. Agnes College
B.Ed., St. Ann's College of Education
Instructor, Economics
Office Location: A228
E-mail: dsilvaa@morainevalley.edu
Telephone: (708) 608-4023
Personal Statement: Help students to acquire long-term knowledge of the economic way of thinking that will help them in their future careers.
Favorite Quote: Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies. Mother Teresa

Merri Fefles, M.A.
M.A., Arcadia University
B.A., Elmhurst College
Assistant Professor, History and Political Science
Office Location: D115
E-mail: fefles@morainevalley.edu
Telephone: (708) 974-5393
Personal Statement: Is is my goal to offer students a wide perspective of history, which in turn, helps them gain insight into history in the making. It is my worst fervent wish that students leaving my class will have a better understanding of the world around them and a thirst to further explore waiting cosmos.

Joshua Fulton, M.A.
Instructor, History
Office Location: L283
E-mail: fultonj4@morainevalley.edu
Telephone: (708) 608-4183
Personal Statement: It is my goal to create a learning environment that helps students understand history, and develop skills they can carry with them outside the history classroom.

Jim R. McIntyre, M.A.
M.A., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
B.A., Temple University
Instructor, History
Office Location: L285
E-mail: mcintyrej@morainevalley.edu
Telephone: (708) 608-4059
Personal Statement: I try to teach history not as memorization of names and dates but as a guide to critical thinking about our present and hopefully a means to gain understanding.

Kevin McWoodson, M.A.
M.A., Virginia State University
B.S., Northern Illinois University
Instructor, Economics
Office Location: A258
E-mail: mcwoodson@morainevalley.edu
Telephone: (708) 608-4048
Personal Statement: Economics is the study of three things: 1. choices we make 2. awareness of the economy 3. money (save, spend, make).

Kevin Navratil, M.A.
M.A., University of Illinois at Chicago
B.S., Eastern Kentucky University
Instructor, Political Science
Office Location: D112
E-mail: navratilk2@morainevalley.edu
Telephone: (708) 974-5596
Personal Statement: Government and politics influence nearly every aspects of peoples' lives. Helping students understand the basic structure and functions of American government, as well as, assisting them in becoming knowledgeable and effective citizens, in an important obligation.
Favorite Quote: This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence towards the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men; go freely with the powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and mothers, of families: read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life: re-examine all you have been told at school or church, or in any books, and dismiss whatever insults your soul.

Deron R. Schreck, M.A.
M.A., Appalachian State University
B.A., The College of New Jersey
Associate Professor, Political Science
Office Location: D109
E-mail: schreck@morainevalley.edu
Telephone: (708) 974-5613
Personal Statement: My goal is to get my students active in politics. Too often, political scientists offer their opinions or ideological perspectives to their students and subsequently those opinions as facts. My job is not to offer students my opinions on politics, but to teach them how government and politics work in the United States.

Kristine Van Baren, M.A.
M.A.; University of Chicago
B.A., Concordia University
Instructor, History
Office Location: L185
E-mail: vanbaren@morainevalley.edu
Telephone: (708) 974-5588
Personal Statement: History is not merely a collection of names and date, but rather an opportunity for intense personal discovery as one learns about and is inspired by the people who have come before.

Cara Williams
Instructor, Psychology
Office Location: A228
E-mail: Williamsc652@morainevalley.edu
Telephone: (708) 974-5489