Hannah Nelson, Temporary Academic Success Coach, Arts & Sciences for GCLC
Hannah Nelson received their Bachelor of Arts in English Literature and Anthropology with a minor in Game Studies from The Ohio State University and is in the process of completing their Master of Philosophy in Screen Cultures from the University of Oslo. As a student, they were involved in Ohio State’s Honors program, the University of Oslo’s Environmental Humanities and Sciences program, and both their bachelor’s and master’s theses focus on the intersections of video games, genre, and culture. Hannah currently serves as the temporary Academic Success Coach and Learning Community Coordinator for the Office of Retention and Student Success Initiatives at Ohio State Newark, and they are passionate about helping students achieve their goals and make the most of their college experience. In their free time, Hannah enjoys reading (primarily science fiction, fantasy, and historical or scientific nonfiction), gaming, and (newly) triathlon training. You can reach Hannah at:
Email: nelson.1375@osu.edu
Office: Hodges Hall 1120
Phone: 740-755-7089
Ashley Moore, Academic Success Coach, Arts & Sciences for GCLC
Ashley Moore received her Bachelor of Arts in Psychology with a minor in Sociology from The Ohio State University and is an alumnus of the Newark campus. During her undergraduate career as a first-generation college student, Ashley served as an Academic Peer Coach and Lead Coach for the Buckeye Generation Learning Community and the Engineering Learning Community for three years until she graduated in 2020. As a student, Ashley was involved as a research assistant for the psychology department and served as one of the 150 sesquicentennial scholars for the university where she focused on developing leadership and engaging in service work. Ashley currently serves as Academic Success Coach for the Office of Retention and Student Success Initiatives and oversees the Engineering Learning Community, Buckeye Generation Learning Community, academic probation programs, and more. She is passionate and excited about working with students from diverse backgrounds and using her experience as a Newark campus alumnus to encourage students to be the best versions of themselves. In Ashley’s free time, she enjoys hiking, being outdoors, and adding to her plant collection- which is now over 100 different plants! You can reach Ashley at:
Email: moore.3541@osu.edu
Office: Hodges Hall 1120
Phone: 740-755-7380
James Weeks, Ph.D., Senior Lecturer, History
James Weeks, Ph.D., was born and raised in Northwest Ohio (His family is from Fostoria and Fremont) and he mostly grew up in Oregon, OH (a suburb of Toledo). He earned his BA at Toledo, and after 8 years in the workforce, he went back to BGSU for his Masters, focusing on beer in Colonial Maryland. He then went to OSU for his Ph.D., and he studied American Colonial History, focusing on seventeenth century Maryland for his dissertation, but also studying Latin American history (emphasizing sexuality history, working with Dr. Donna Guy) and United States history (He is absolutely fascinated by the antebellum period, especially in canal history.) He teaches US History (both surveys pretty much all the time!), Colonial US, the Gilded Age (another deep love of his!), The History of Modern Sexuality, Revolutionary Era (1750-1815) US, World History of Food, and the World History Survey to 1750. He has also taught Latin American History (both surveys) and even Latin American History in Film. He has diverse interests, but he is always amazed at that what he learns for one of his courses proves so useful in so many of the other courses that he teaches. He likes a holistic approach to history, incorporating as much information as he can from other disciplines like Archaeology, but also Food Science, Art History, Political Science, Economics, the hard sciences… Humans ‘contain multitudes’ as Whitman said, he likes to engage all the multitudinousness of the human experience. He encourages his students to reach out across disciplines in their own research, and he is proud that in 12 years at OSU-Newark he has sent 5 students to grad school, all of whom continued work they began in his classes. He loves his job, and he loves working with students. He has always loved history and archaeology; He volunteers at the Newark Earthworks when the Earthworks Center and Ohio History Connection hold open houses (He can show you how to use an atl-atl, and guide you through a tour of the site–a sophisticated lunar observatory that marks the 18.6 lunar cycle; it’s an incredible thing, and one too few Ohioan’s know of.).
On a personal level–his wife (also from NW Ohio!) and him live in the Clintonville Neighborhood in Columbus, with their three Chihuahuas (it’s a long story, but it ends with them being Chihuahua herders!). They bark at anything that moves! He also likes to build Arts and Crafts furniture, and he loves to cook and bake (See, Whitman was right!).
Cheryl Cash (Senior Lecturer in Comparative Studies and Religious Studies) is a first gen college graduate who grew up in the Midwest and earned undergraduate degrees from Indiana University at the Northwest regional campus in Gary, Indiana (Graphic Design/Photography and Sociology), then went on to post-graduate studies at Valparaiso University (Human Behavior and Society) and was a Presidential Scholar at Bowling Green State (Cultural Studies: Gender, Ethnicity, and Identity). She has held a number of leadership and committee positions throughout her university career, has received a number of scholarships, fellowships and grants, and was selected to be a scholar-in-residence at the Newberry Library in Chicago for a year while completing a six-month fellowship there. Cheryl has designed and taught classes at IVY Tech Community Colleges, Indiana University Northwest, the University of Chicago, Bowling Green State University, COTC, and has been teaching at Ohio State University – Newark for the last 8 years.
The focus of her work is on the intersections of the arts & humanities, culture, and society, particularly in the realm of literature, film, and other visual media. She has a keen interest on the impact of these on science and technology, which stems from a lifelong love of the science fiction and fantasy genres. Her classes are interdisciplinary and incorporate many forms of popular media and literature alongside theoretical constructs and other scholarly works and critiques. She lives in Newark and is a “professional” cat-herder who tries to catch up on current sci-fi/fantasy books, film, and shows and plays genre-specific adventure games/MMO’s in her “spare time”.