Faculty
History & Social Science
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, 2006 B.A. Yale University M.A. Wesleyan University History Carol Bendall earned a B.A. in philosophy and psychology and an M.A. in liberal studies. She comes to EW from Kimball Union Academy where she was history department chair and served as faculty advisor to the Model United Nations club. Committee work included serving on the Writing Across the Curriculum Committee and the Faculty Professional Issues Committee. |
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, 2000 Ruth Burday came to Emma Willard in 2000 as a history instructor. She received a B.A. from Williams College and an M.A. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Ms. Burday coaches varsity volleyball. |
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, 2009 Caitlin Jones ’04 received her B.A. from Colgate University. She was an admissions assistant at The Edmund Burke School, where she was also a substitute teacher. While attending Colgate, Caitlin was a research assistant who assisted in historical research for a book on women’s rights in the 19th century and was feature writer and layout specialist for the school newspaper. She has also interned at the FDA Biosciences Library and in the office of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton. |
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, 1997 Robert J. Naeher began teaching at Emma Willard in 1997 and is currently chair of the history and social sciences department. He earned a B.A. from The King's College, an M.A. from Trinity College, and a Ph.D. from the University of Connecticut. In the spring of 2005 he spent two weeks in Russia, where he visited several schools and taught on World War II and the Cold War. In the summer of 2006 he served as the Master Teacher for Crossroads of Empire: Cultural Exchange and Imperial Rivalry at Old Fort Niagara, a National Endowment Landmarks in American history and culture summer workshop for secondary school teachers. On sabbatical during the spring of 2007, he was a Jonathan Edwards Research Fellow at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University and a Kate B. and Hall J. Peterson Research Fellow at the American Antiquarian Society in Worcester, Mass. Coach of the cross-country team, Dr. Naeher has led students on Habitat for Humanity trips and is co-faculty adviser to the FOCUS (Fellowship of Christians in Universities and Schools) group on campus. Dr. Naeher has served as a grader for the Advanced Placement U.S. History exam, has prepared curricular materials for the College Board, and has made numerous presentations at professional conferences. His extra-historical interests include reading, biking, kayaking, playing the dulcimer and the drums (not at the same time), and listening to folk music and classic rock (occasionally, though rarely, at the same time). |
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, 2005 Emily M. Snyder graduated magna cum laude from Brown University with a B.A. in late antique cultures and religious studies and received an M.A. in religion and the arts from Yale University Divinity School. Before coming to Emma Willard, she taught high-school theology and was the assistant director of college counseling at Marianapolis Preparatory School. In the summer of 2006, Ms. Snyder spent a month studying the religions and cultures of the Himalayas at a National Endowment for the Humanities teacher institute, and spent a week last summer at Oxford University studying the impact of T.E. Lawrence on the formation of the modern Middle East. Ms. Snyder coaches JV field hockey, is an affiliate on the freshman hall, and teaches a PE class on Muay Thai, the national martial art of Thailand, which is one of her passions. |
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