Faculty & Staff

The Communication, Journalism, & Media faculty and staff are here to help the Suffolk University community as a whole—students should contact their professors and administrators to address all questions and concerns.

The department is located on the 4th floor of the Samia building. The office is open Mondays - Fridays 8:45 a.m. - 4:45 p.m.

Contact us at the following number: 617-573-8236

Full-Time Faculty  

Shoshana Madmoni-Gerber
Associate Professor & Chair 

Deborah M. Geisler
Associate Professor

Jonas Kaiser
Assistant Professor 

Micky Lee
Professor & Associate Dean

Jeremy Levine
Director of Production & Assistant Professor

Monika Raesch
Associate Professor

Charles St. Amand
Practitioner in Residence

Bobbi Van Gilder
Assistant Professor 

Emeritus Professors

Gerald Peary
Professor Emeritus

Richard Preiss
Associate Professor Emeritus

Part-time Faculty

Part-time faculty may be reached at 617-573-8341 unless otherwise noted.

The part-time faculty office is located in the Somerset Building, Office 417F, and all office hours are posted on the door.  

Leeza Arakelian
Lecturer
MA, Emerson College
BA, UCLA

Bruce Butterfield
Senior Lecturer
BS, Suffolk University
Harvard Nieman Fellow, 1983-1984

Jerry Glendye
TV Studio Manager
BA, Fitchburg State College 

Mocha Herrup
Senior Lecturer
PhD, University of Texas at Austin
MA, New School For Social Research
BA, University of Michigan

Kenneth Martin
Senior Lecturer
Diploma, The New England School of Photography
BA, College of the Holy Cross

Sean Murphy
Lecturer

Dylan Shue
Lecturer
BA, Qunnipiac University

Daniel Weidknecht
Media Lab Services Coordinator
Office: 417N Academic Center
BS, Suffolk University

Department Staff

Jerry Glendye
TV Studio Manager
617-994-6807
Office: 73 Tremont, 1st Floor TV Studio

Patrick Lys
Assistant TV Studio Manager
617-994-6807
Office: 73 Tremont, 1st Floor TV Studio

Nate Stewart
Administrative Coordinator
617-223-4432
Office: Samia Academic Center, 4th Floor