Professor Tom Lennon is the Department Chair of the Emergency Management and Homeland Security Department at Mass Maritime. He joined the faculty in 2010 after serving on active duty with the U. S. Navy and Coast Guard for 25 years. His areas of emphasis include international relief and maritime security. Professor Lennon has developed several international education programs and exchanges for Mass Maritime including programs in Haiti, Guatemala, and Denmark.
Professor Lennon’s military assignments included positions supporting Coast Guard and Department of Defense operations and missions worldwide including two deployments to the Middle East. Professor Lennon also held faculty positions and/or senior leadership positions at the United States Coast Guard Academy, at the Naval Justice School, and with the Defense Institute of International Legal Studies. He also served as adjunct faculty at the Naval War College, and has lectured at institutions and at conferences throughout the world including multiple locations in South America, Africa, Europe, and
Education:
Ph.D., University of Florida
M.A., Clark University
B.A., Assumption College
Courses Taught:
Composition
Writing About Literature
Poetry
Short Stories
Sensation Fiction
Literature of the Supernatural
Science and Literature
Monsters in Literature
Romantic Literature
Victorian Literature
World Literature
Fiction by Women Writers
Introduction to Women’s and Gender Studies
Gender, Race, and Sexuality in the Global Nineteenth Century
Biography:
Dr. Sarah Lennox is an Assistant Professor of Humanities at Massachusetts Maritime Academy where she teaches courses in nineteenth-century British literature, global Anglophone literature, and first-year composition. Her research focuses on representations of the human body in nineteenth-century science, pseudoscience, and literature. You can find her publications in Victorian Review, The Journal of Commonwealth Literature, Literature Compass, and The Wilkie Collins Journal.
- Courses Taught:
- EM-5150: Principles of Emergency Management
- EM-5200: Capstone Advisor
- Education:
- M.S. Maritime Business Management, Massachusetts Maritime Academy
- M.S. Emergency Management, Massachusetts Maritime Academy
- M.A. National Security Studies, Georgetown University
- B.A. International Relations, Suffolk University
- Norwegian Defense College, Oslo, Norway
- Intermediate Norwegian, University of Oslo
- Basic Norwegian, Defense Language Institute (East), Rosslyn, Va,
- US Army Russian Institute, Marshall Center, Germany
- Basic Russian, Defence Language Institute (West), Monterrey, Ca.
- Bachelor of Science in Marine Transportation from Massachusetts Maritime Academy, 2008
- Master of Science in Facilities Management from Massachusetts Maritime Academy, 2019
- USCG Unlimited Master license and Unlimited Dynamic Position Operator
Education:
B.S.,M.S.,Ph.D., University of New Hampshire.
Education
Ph.D. Composition and Rhetoric. Miami University. 2023.
M.A. Creative Writing. Miami University. 2016.
B.A. English Literature and Creative Writing. Capital University. 2012.
Christopher Maggio is an Assistant Professor of Humanities at the Massachusetts Maritime Academy. He has taught first-year writing and technical writing and has mentored first-time graduate assistants. His research interests include storytelling and antenarrative theory and their applications to community-based writing. He recently co-authored an article for a special issue of 'Communication Design Quarterly' on community-engaged research. When not teaching or writing, he enjoys exploring New England.