Main Interests
Social Theory; Sociology of Law; Deviance and Social Control; Criminology.
Main Interests
Late antique and medieval political and cultural history, especially gender, sexuality, and the conception of scandal at the Carolingian court.
Other Interests
In my professional life, I am committed to supporting faculty at Wheaton and other institutions of higher education in their research and professional development.
In my personal life, I enjoy traveling the world, running and hiking, cooking, practicing mindfulness and meditation, and, of course, reading. I have a particular affection for the Himalayan, Buddhist kingdom of Bhutan where I have lived for nearly three years, including with Wheaton students on study-abroad semesters in Fall 2017, 2019, and 2023.
I am a complete bibliophile. I am always excited to talk to students, colleagues, friends, and (honestly) strangers about books, particularly classic and contemporary novels–and I recently started a book club with Wheaton History alumni!
Originally from Scranton, Pennsylvania, I consider NEPA (northeastern Pennsylvania) my home.
Main Interests
Music and cognition, the effects of musical listening and musical training on cognition, neuropsychological testing, and contemplative practices in the classroom.
Other Interests
Billiards, making sourdough bread, contemplative practices, and coffee.
Scott Gelber is a historian whose work focuses on the development of American education during the nineteenth- and twentieth-centuries. He is the author of Grading the College: A History of Evaluating Teaching and Learning (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020), Courtrooms and Classrooms: A Legal History of American College Access, 1860-1960 (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015), and The University and the People: Envisioning American Higher Education in an Era of Populist Protest (University of Wisconsin Press, 2011), which won the Linda Eisenmann Prize of the History of Education Society. Gelber has published articles and essays in the American Journal of Education, American Journal of Legal History, Journal of Social History, and History of Education Quarterly, among others. His research has been supported by the National Academy of Education, the Spencer Foundation, and the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History. He is working on two research projects: a history of learning disabilities and a study of federal financial aid during the New Deal. Before arriving at Wheaton, Gelber taught high school in New York City and supervised student teachers at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
Main Interests
Physics, especially the interaction of radiation with matter; the role of science in society, politics, sports (basketball, bicycling, golf), and family.
I enjoy teaching Physics at all levels. My most recent teaching interest is in transforming the Introductory Physics courses from a lecture-based course to a combined lab/lecture format. This new format provides students with the opportunity to gain immediate insights, through experimentation, of the material being presented in class. The format seeks to have students actively engaged in learning for the entire class, and is based on the TEAL teaching format developed in part at MIT.
As an experimental physicist, I am especially interested in providing students with meaningful laboratory experiences, from the introductory course to the senior thesis projects.
Courses taught include Introductory Physics I and II, Modern Physics I and II, Optics, Classical Mechanics, Electricity and Magnetism, Statistical Physics, Quantum Physics, Experimental Physics, The Physics of Music and Sound, and Electronic Circuits.
C.C. is a Professor of the Practice of Business and Management at Wheaton College. He has also developed and taught courses for LinkedIn Learning, Lynda.com, CreativeLive, and Treehouse. He is the co-author of the International bestseller Content Rules and the author of Amazing Things Will Happen.
At Wheaton, he serves as the Faculty Director for the Business and Technology Immersion Experience. He was previously the college’s liaison to MassChallenge, leading our student cohort working there over the summer and identifying opportunities for collaboration and mutual benefit.
C.C. Chapman describes himself as a New England raised storyteller, explorer, and humanitarian. Others have described him as a thought leader in the online marketing space, a grounded futurist, and one of the nicest guys on the Internet. Over the decades of his career, he has worked with a variety of clients, including Nike, HBO, American Eagle Outfitters, ONE, Verizon FiOS, and The Coca-Cola Company.
C.C. is an advocate who speaks about building passionate communities and the strategic values of content-based marketing. He travels the world speaking in front of audiences to do more in the world and how to understand content marketing better. He was a Samsung Imagelogger, the original ONE Dad, and a UN Foundation Social Good Fellow. As a storyteller for hire, his work has appeared on the pages of Rolling Stone and The Wall Street Journal.
C.C. is the past Chairman of the Board at Wediko and currently serves on the board of The Hockey Foundation. He happily lives in the woods outside of Boston with his loving family.
Main Interests
My main areas of specialization are twentieth-century Latin American narrative, Latin American women’s writing, literature and culture under dictatorship, and verbal and visual collaborations.
I am a planetary scientist, using the tools of geology, geophysics, and remote sensing to explore other worlds in our solar system. The amazing diversity of places to explore gives us great perspective on how our own planet works, and in what ways the Earth is unique. I am specifically interested in how geology works on the ice-covered ocean worlds of the outer solar system, and what geology can tell us about the possibly habitable environments within those alien oceans.
When I am not in front of a computer working with data from distant spacecraft, I love to be working outdoors with students. Whether it is leading geology field trips, taking data in the Wheaton Woods, working with the outdoors club, or leading student field research classes in Death Valley or Iceland, I have seen so many students have their “eureka!” moments when they are completely immersed in the Earth’s environment.
An anthropologist by training, I teach courses in museum studies and visual culture at Wheaton, where I also serve as Curator of the Permanent Collection. My research focuses on contemporary expressive culture and cultural heritage in Africa, particularly in Ethiopia, where I have conducted fieldwork since 2000, and on the management and use of academic collections.