Faculty and Staff

Robbins Jeffrey W. Robbins, Associate Professor of Religion.  Director of Colloquium.  Director of the American Studies Program.
B.A., Baylor University, 1994; M.Div., Texas Christian University, 1997; M.Phil., Syracuse University, 1999; Ph.D., 2001.

His area of specialization is in continental philosophy of religion. His teaching interests include contemporary religious thought, world religions, Christianity, Islam, and religion and politics. In addition to teaching courses in religion, he also is the director of the American Studies program and the college colloquium. He was awarded the Thomas Rhys Vickroy Award for Outstanding Teaching at LVC in 2005. He is the author of three books, including the forthcoming Radical Democracy and Political Theology (Columbia University Press, 2011), and editor of two others, including most recently, The Sleeping Giant Has Awoken: The New Politics of Religion in the United States (2008). He is also the Associate Editor of the Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory and co-editor of the Columbia University Press book series “Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture.”

Telephone: 717-867-6720
Address: Humanities 307-D
Email: robbins@lvc.edu
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Grieve-Carlson Gary Grieve-Carlson, Professor of English.  Director of General Education Program.
B.A., Bates College, 1977; M.A., State University of New York at Binghamton, 1980; Ph.D., Boston University, 1988.

Dr. Grieve-Carlson teaches courses in world and American literature, American studies, Greek myth, and grammar. He has been a Fulbright Junior Lecturer in Germany and has published on American cultural criticism and 20th-century poetry. In his capacity as director of general education, he supervises the College's first-year seminars.

Telephone: 717-867-6244
Address: Humanities 208-B
Email: grieveca@lvc.edu


Hinshaw John Hinshaw, Chair and Associate Professor of History.
B.A., Macalester College, 1985; M.A., Carnegie Mellon University, 1988; Ph.D., 1995.

Dr. Hinshaw teaches courses on modern American history, African-American history, urban history, African history, world history, labor history, and specialized courses in race and ethnicity. He has written and edited books on the industrial revolution in world history, the steel industry and steel workers in Western Pennsylvania, and the labor movement in the United States.

Telephone: 717-867-6359
Address: Humanities 307-C
Email: hinshaw@lvc.edu
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Norris Renee Lapp Norris, Associate Professor of Music.
B.A., West Chester University, 1991; M.M., University of Maryland, 1994; Ph.D., 2001.

Renee Lapp Norris, an associate professor at Lebanon Valley College, teaches courses in European, North American, and non-Western music. She has presented papers for the American Musicological Society and the Society for American Music, and her article "Opera and the Mainstreaming of Blackface Minstrelsy" was published by the Journal of the Society of American Music. Her secondary interest is music history pedagogy.

Telephone: 717-867-6283
Address: Blair 111
Email: norris@lvc.edu


Pittari Michael Pittari, Chair and Associate Professor of Art.
B.F.A., University of Florida, 1989; M.F.A., University of Tennessee, 1995.

Pittari is an artist who works in painting and digital imaging. His emotive abstract paintings have been exhibited throughout the Eastern United States and are in several corporate collections. His recent series of landscape prints, based on American wilderness paintings of the 1800s, address issues of history and iconography within the broader field of landscape studies. Pittari is a former editor-in-chief of the journal Art Papers and has published exhibition reviews and interviews. He teaches studio courses in drawing, painting, and advanced art making, in addition to historical courses on color and culture and the interrelationship of painting and cinema.

Telephone: 717-867-6393
Address: Lynch 159
Email: pittari@lvc.edu
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Romagnolo Catherine Romagnolo, Associate Professor of English.
B.S., University of Florida, 1991; M.A., University of Maryland, 1997; Ph.D., 2003.

Telephone: 717-867-6247
Address: Humanities 207-D
Email: romagnol@lvc.edu


Taylor Grant D. Taylor, Associate Professor of Art History.
B.F.A., Honors, University of Western Australia, 2000; Ph.D., 2005.

Taylor is an art historian who specializes in the history of early digital arts. His forthcoming essay, “The Soulless Usurper”, published in Mainframe Experimentalism, charts the uneasy relationship between 1960’s computer arts and the mainstream art world. Beyond his art historical research, Taylor has completed various art projects, including a documentary film and installations in the United States and Australia. Taylor teaches a global survey in art and architecture as well as specialty courses in modern and contemporary art. Taylor was awarded the Thomas Rhys Vickroy Award for Outstanding Teaching at LVC in 2010.

Telephone: 717-867-6716
Address: Lynch 166
Email: taylor@lvc.edu
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Alanna Berger, Adjunct Instructor of American Studies.

Telephone: 717-867-6355
Address: Humanities 307
Email: berger@lvc.edu


Robert T. Boyer, Adjunct Instructor of History.

Telephone: 717-867-6355
Address: Humanities 307
Email: rboyer@lvc.edu


Byrne Donald E. Byrne, Professor Emeritus of Religion.
B.A., St. Paul Seminary, 1963; M.A., Marquette University, 1966; Ph.D., Duke University, 1972.

Telephone: 717-867-6356
Email: byrne@lvc.edu