Introducing Incoming Faculty for the 2025-2026 Academic Year

Cho’s research explores how cultural values shape diverse consumer behaviors, including product preferences, technology adoption (e.g., AI usage) and gifting practices. Previously, she taught in Hong Kong, South Korea and the United States.

Previously, Davis taught at St. John Fisher University, Linfield University and Ithaca College. He also worked in interscholastic athletics, intercollegiate athletics and the summer camp industry. His research is focused on creating environments that encourage autonomy, self-directedness and self-complexity in adolescents and young adults.

Foresi has over 20 years of experience in understanding, analyzing and leading public and private companies with a focus on creating stakeholder value. He recently utilized his expertise to drive shareholder value through the investor relations program at Accenture. Before joining the team, he built and led an M&A origination team responsible for driving acquisitions aligned with corporate strategy.

Nadeau has been promoted to Professor of Practice in Business Law after having previously served as an adjunct faculty member. In addition to teaching students, she also serves as Assistant General Counsel for Stonehill. Her career foundation includes prior work in disability rights advocacy, family law, employment law and intellectual property.

Arora’s research explores culture, inequality and suicide. Previously, she taught courses at City College of New York and Macalester College. She also served as a fellow at the Teaching and Learning Center at CUNY’s Graduate Center.

Burke is an expert on restorative justice, specifically the implementation of restorative justice in the context of campus sexual harm. His research interests also focus on formal and informal reactions to crime and deviance, including prosecutorial and judicial discretion as well as punitive attitudes.

Previously, Carroll served as a K-12 educator, academic support coordinator, adjunct professor and student teaching supervisor. She earned a Ph.D. in Educational Studies from Boston University, where her research explored the ways educator preparation can better equip teachers for the professional and personal demands of the classroom.

Dutta’s scholarship includes mining malware threat intelligence from unstructured texts using machine learning, designing ontologies and novel machine learning models for knowledge graphs, and curating realistic and temporally aware inductive knowledge graphs.

Elhamdadi’s research interests are at the crossroads of cognitive psychology and computer science. Specifically, he is interested in how human perception, cognition and other factors affect trust in data visualizations. He is also interested in exploring the use of topological data analysis for the purpose of efficiently training machine learning models for classification in applied contexts.

Recently promoted to Professor of Practice after several years as an adjunct faculty member, Jacoubs has over four decades of experience in juvenile justice, forensic mental health and community education. He retired from his role as Director of Grants and Sponsored Projects at the Plymouth County District Attorney’s Office, where he served for 23 years.

Martínez Alberga’s research interests include algebraic topology and homotopical combinatorics. Prior to joining the Stonehill community, she was a National Science Foundation graduate research fellow and teaching assistant at Purdue University.

As a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow, Ruttenberg recently completed their Ph.D. at Princeton University. Their dissertation is focused on understanding the collective behavior of bees, on both the individual-level and the colony-level.

Cavur’s academic work and teaching intersect data science, management information systems, geospatial technologies and applied artificial intelligence. He has taught at Kadir Has University and Colorado School of Mines. He is also the founder of MIneSoft Informatics, which develops data solutions for governmental and industrial clients.

Cawman has over 25 years of experience in the automotive and aerospace manufacturing industries. He served as an adjunct professor for several years, but in 2020, he transitioned to full-time academia and was most recently an Associate Professor and Department Chair at Azusa Pacific University.

Claiborne joined the Stonehill community in 2024 as an adjunct professor but will be promoted to assistant professor later this academic year. Her research and teaching center on mathematics teacher education as a space to nurture teacher agency and activism for social change. She draws upon her experience as a high school mathematics teacher, community activist and professional dance artist to enact the intersections of mathematics, justice and art.

Dobson is the founder of the DYME Institute, which provides world-class entrepreneurship education to marginalized communities. He has worked with over 40 universities and entrepreneurship centers around the world to help develop their entrepreneurship programming.

Llorca was originally hired by the College in 2024 but has been elevated to full-time faculty status this fall. Formerly, she served as the Bilingual Hub Liaison at University of Massachusetts Amherst and worked as a dual language teacher for five years.

From 2021 to 2025, Piazza served as an adjunct instructor at Stonehill. He will be promoted to the professor of practice during the spring 2026 semester. Previously, he co-led the Massachusetts Consortium for Innovative Educational Assessment, a coalition of public K-12 districts piloting a non-test-based form of school quality measurement. He has also been an adjunct instructor at Boston College and University of Massachusetts Lowell.