Name: Christiana Z. Peppard, Ph.D.
Title: Assistant Professor of Theology and Science, Department of Theology
Previous profession before entering Fordham: From 2009-2011, I was a Cathedral Scholar in Residence at St. John the Divine (NYC) while I wrote my dissertation. In addition to my profession/vocation as a professor, I am also a parent of an energetic, fantastic, almost four-year-old.
Hobbies: Well, my dream hobby is to play the saxophone, but that hasn’t quite been realized yet! Other hobbies include hiking (I’m originally from Colorado and California), listening to live music and reading intellectual biographies.
Observer: How do you feel about being a permanent faculty member at Fordham College at Lincoln Center?(FCLC)?
CP: I feel absolutely fantastic about being a tenure-track faculty member at FCLC. It’s a dream job for me, and I am grateful and delighted to be here!
Observer: Are you working on anything independently?
CP: I have several concurrent research projects to complement my teaching role.  One project explores the significance of fresh water in an era of economic globalization, particularly with regard to the vexatious question of fresh water’s value. I’m working on turning that research into a book.  Another project looks at how the concept of “nature” functions in scientific, environmental, and ethical discourse.

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Name:  Aimee Meredith Cox
Title: Assistant Professor of Performance and African and African American Studies
Previous profession before entering Fordham: Assistant Professor in the the African American and African Studies Department at Rutgers University, Newark.
Hobbies: Dancing
Observer:  How do you feel about being a permanent faculty member at FCLC?
Aimee Meredith Cox:  When I first read the job description for this position I knew it was written for me. I am already rejuvenated by teaching the vibrant and exquisitely curious students at Fordham and love working with such supportive and brilliant colleagues in such a creative environment.
Observer: Are you working on anything independently?
AMC: In addition to teaching the following courses: Black Feminism: Theory and Expression and In Living Color: African American Communities on Film and in Text – Reading Beyond Black and White, I am also working on completing my book, Shapeshifters: Black Girls and the Choreography of Citizenship as well as working to extend my arts activist program for young women called The BlackLight Project from Newark to New York City.

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Name: Steven Stoll
Title: Associate Professor of History
Previous profession before entering Fordham: I have taught at Fordham for three years as a visiting professor. Before that, I taught at Yale University.
Hobbies: I have a big family and a big job so I can’t say that I cultivate many hobbies. I like running, writing poetry, and flying different kinds of motorized airplanes with my sons. I love exploring New York City, as well.

Observer:  How do you feel about being a permanent faculty member at FCLC?
Steven Stoll: Fordham is deeply welcoming and committed to all the right things in higher education. I find the mission inspiring, the students energetic, and the faculty brilliant. I’m thrilled to be here.
Observer:  Are you working on anything independently?
SS: I’m writing a book about people we know as peasants, agrarians, plain folk, campesinos all words for country people who grow most of their own food and trade vigorously for what they do not make themselves. I want to know why and how the agrarian household has declined so rapidly in the last 300 years. The book is called “Outliers and Savages: The Ordeal of the Agrarian Household in the Atlantic World.”

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Name: Daniel Ott
Title: Assistant Professor of Music Theory and Composition, Department of Art History and Music
Previous profession before entering Fordham: Composer and teacher, most recently a faculty member of The Juilliard School.
Hobbies: Not much free time these days! But when I do have time I try to spend it with my wife and our two young children. This means I’ve logged a lot of hours at NYC’s parks and playgrounds over the past five years!

Observer: How do you feel about being a permanent faculty member at FCLC?
Daniel Ott: I am delighted to be joining Fordham full time. I have been teaching part time at Fordham since 2005, and in that time I have come to know and love the school and its students. I am very much looking forward to continuing to grow our music department in the years ahead!
Observer:  Are you working on anything independently?
DO: I usually have one or two composition projects planned for the upcoming season. In late September I will be traveling to Portland, Ore. where the Oregon Symphony (OS) is presenting an evening of some of my chamber music, performed by the Arnica String Quartet, along with the music of 20th Cent. English composer Benjamin Britten. Part of my work there will include speaking to some young composers, as well as conducting a pre-concert interview with the OS’s Music Director, Carlos Kalmar.