The institute has assembled a highly qualified group of tenured college faculty and working professionals with specific skills in experiential teaching. Students are informed in advance about which faculty will be at their site.

Cindy Bonfini-Hotlosz : Web Design / Video (M.A. Communications, West Virginia University, B.S. Computer Science, Ohio University) is the Chief Information Officer and Director of Production for JesuitNET, a consortium of the Jesuit Colleges and Universities in the United States. Cindy’s passion for production began in high school, writing and producing annual Christmas plays for the local elementary schools. She produced one of the first International Teleconferences Bridging the Gap: Education and Industry as part of a High Technology grant in 1989. In the late 1990s, she worked with NASA to produce several online courses and communication campaigns for their commercialization project, including a three-part teleconferencing series, Technology Transfer in Action. In her time with the Jesuit colleges, she has helped launch new online programs that span several disciplines. Her passion for story-telling has evolved as technology has evolved -- keeping her on the “bleeding” edge. Bonfini taught Web design in Cagli in 2006, as well as this last summer in Cagli and Armagh. You can find more information about Cindy at jesuit.net/cbonfini/.

Dr. John S. Caputo : Intercultural Communication (Gonzaga) earned his Ph.D. from the Claremont Graduate School and University Center. He has been teaching communication courses for more than 30 years. His areas of expertise include media and social values, communication theory, intercultural and interpersonal communication. He is the author of four books: Dimensions of Communication; Interpersonal Communication; Communicating Effectively: Linking Thought and Expression; and McDonaldization Revisited: Critical Essays on Consumer Culture. Dr. Caputo has been honored as a Visiting Scholar In-Residence at the University of Kent at Canterbury, England and the Masters Program in Media and Communication at the Universita de Firenze, Italy. He is veteran faculty member from past Cagli programs.

Giovanni Caputo : Journaling / On-Line Editor received his degree in communication and fine arts from Gonzaga University and did his graduate studies in education at The Evergreen State College. Aside from teaching in Italy, Giovanni has spent time teaching at various levels in the French public school system. Back in the U.S., he works as a French translator and graphic designer. Giovanni’s academic interests include journalism, short story writing and storytelling. In addition to teaching a course on journaling in last year’s Cagli program, he was also the editor of the Armagh Examiner and Around Armagh, online news and information blogs created for the program.

Andrew Ciofalo (MSJ, Columbia University) is Professor of Communication/ Journalism at Loyola College (Md.) where he arrived in 1983 to found what is now The Communication Department. He is the author and director of the college’s Cagli Program in International Reporting which every summer since 2002 has sent undergraduates to participate in The Cagli Media Project, an on-going multi-media web documentary on a small Italian town. In keeping with his interest in experiential learning, he is the founder of Apprentice House Press, a student-run book publishing company at Loyola College ApprenticeHouse.com. He teaches courses in Travel Writing, Book Publishing, Magazine Publishing, Magazine Writing, and Opinion Writing. Most recently he has founded The Institute for Education in International Media, an independent organization that sponsors Cagli-style media projects abroad.

Judy Dobler : Copy Editing / Writing Dr. Dobler (Ciofalo) has been on the Communication Department faculty at Loyola College (Md.) since its inception. Immediately after earning her doctorate ar the University of Iowa, she came to Loyola to play a significant role in the college’s ground-breaking Writing-Across-the-Curriculum, which was funded by a major national grant. In addition to specializing in the teaching of essay writing, she heads the department’s Empirical Rhetoric program, which gives qualified entering freshmen opportunities to do more advanced writing. Dr. Dobler also chairs the college’s Gender Studies Program. Her academic research agenda focuses on the development and use of metaphor in early scientific writing, an interest that is expressed in one of her courses, “Translating the Secrets of Science”.

Arielle Emmett : Reporting / Writing has been a professional journalist and teacher since beginning her career. After graduating with honors in pre-med and East Asian studies at the University of Michigan, she was selected as the New York Times intern for columnist William Safire. Emmett later studied at National Taiwan Normal University while serving as a Newsweek stringer. She became a columnist and contributor to Orientations, Asia Magazine, and East Asian News and Features. Later she went to New York as an editor for Science Digest. Emmett then became a reporter and full-time features staff writer for the Detroit Free Press. She has held senior positions at Computer Graphics World magazine, America’s Network, and Wireless Integration, and was a ten-year contributing editor at The Scientist.

Dan Garrity : Video (MA Communication Leadership, Gonzaga University) is an Assistant Professor of Communication Arts and Director of the Broadcast Studies Program at Gonzaga University. Dan has an extensive background in professional broadcasting. His first job was in 1980 as a DJ at a radio station in Flagstaff, Arizona. His television resume includes stints as an anchor/reporter at KLST in San Angelo, Texas, and at KREM in Spokane. He also was a reporter at KING in Seattle, then embarked on a career in television newsroom management in which he served as Managing Editor at the CBS and NBC affiliates in Spokane. Garrity also taught video for the 2006 Camerano Project, as well as the 2007 Cagli Project.

Susan Jacobson : Web Design / Podcasting (PhD, New York University) is a full-time faculty member in the Dept. of Journalism at Temple University. She teaches courses in audio-visual newsgathering, Web journalism, design for journliasts and student portfolio preparation. She has worked in new media for more than 20 years, working with companies like The New York Times, Scholastic, GTE (now Verizon) and Comedy Central. She has conducted several community webcasting projects in Phildelphia and New York City, working with organizations like Caroline’s Comedy Club on Broadway, ComedySportz Philadelphia, and the Fluid Nightclub in Philadelphia. Dr. Jacobson is a member of the Board of the Directors of the Philadelphia Area New Media Association.

Rachele Kanigel : Reporting / Writing (MSJ Columbia University) is an assistant professor of journalism at San Francisco State University, where she advises Golden Gate [X]press publications. Her students produce a weekly newspaper, a multimedia Web siteupdated daily and a magazine that comes out three times a semester. She also teaches Newswriting, Reporting, the Contemporary Magazine and Magazine Editing. She was a newspaper reporter for 15 years for daily newspapers, including The Oakland Tribune and The News & Observer of Raleigh, North Carolina, and was a freelance correspondent for TIME magazine. She has also written for Health, Organic Style, People, Reader’s Digest, Prevention and other national magazines. In 2006 she was named California Journalism Educator of the Year (Four-Year Division) by the California Journalism Education Coalition. Her book. The Student Newspaper Survival Guide, was published by Blackwell Publishing in 2006.

David Maialetti : Photography (C.C. of Philadelphia) is a staff photographer with the Philadelphia Daily News. Before joining the Daily News in 1997, he worked at the Press Enterprise newspaper in Bloomsburg, Pa. Maialetti is the director of Philadelphia Conference, a non-profit organization dedicated to the promotion and advancement of photojournalism. He is a former president of the Pennsylvania Press Photographers Association. Currently teaches the Introduction to Photojournalism course at Community College of Philadelphia. He is a 1989 graduate of Temple University’s School of Communications. Dave instructed photography for the 2006 Camerano Project as well as last summers 2007 Cagli Project.

Bob Marshall : Reporting is a staff writer and editor for The Times-Picayune of New Orleans whose work has earned two Pulitzer Prizes. A 1971 graduate of Loyola University in New Orleans, Marshall’s 35-year career includes extensive work as a reporter and columnist covering professional, college and Olympics sports, outdoors, feature writing, op-ed columns, and special projects series specializing in environmental issues, as well as television, radio and magazines. Marshall most recently put together a series entitled "Last Chance" which won the prestigious John B. Oakes Award for Distinguished Environmental Journalism.

George Miller : Photography / Reporting / Writing is a journalism professor at Temple University, and a freelance writer and photographer. A 1993 graduate of Loyola College, Miller previously worked as a photojournalist and reporter for the Philadelphia Daily News. He holds masters degrees from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and the University of Pennsylvania. He has been a member of the Cagli Project since 2003, teaching photography and storytelling. In 2006, he worked with students to create an unconventional travel book about the Le Marche region of Italy. For summer of 2007, Miller worked with students in Ireland for the Armagh Project.

Dustin Morrow : Video is a filmmaker, photographer, and writer. He teaches media production at Temple University. His short films have won numerous awards and been shown in venues around the world. He writes about film and pop culture for a host of publications, and his photographs have been featured in a number of art and culture magazines, as well as public exhibition spaces. Much of Morrow’s work seeks to explore Irish music, politics, and culture through essays, photographs, and short- and long-form narrative, documentary and avant-garde films. Morrow instructed video for the 2007 Armagh Project.

Tom Petner : Converged Media has worked in television news since the mid-1960s. He has more than 35 years' experience in editorial, production and media management. He is a full-time faculty member at Temple University's Department of Journalism, where he leads the Multimedia Urban Reporting Lab (MURL). Tom worked with students the summer of '07 on The Armagh Project.

Father Bruno Segatta : Provost / Dean of Students has practiced the study and mastery of art since earning his degree from Northridge University in 1982. In the autumn of that year, Father Bruno began his tenure at Gonzaga University in Florence, Italy as Assistant to the Dean of Student Affairs. Here he instructed painting, drawing, design and the licate techniques of fresco. Inspired by his surroundings, he specializes in portraying the Florence and Tuscany landscpaes utilizing an abstract style with emphasis on color and line. The revenue generated by his work is used for student life in Florence and also donated to the Niambani House for Kids orphanage in Nairobi, Kenya; a place of comfort for children stricken with AIDS.

Michael I. Williams : Photography/Web Design (MSJ – University of Kansas) is an associate professor in the Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland – College Park. He teaches courses in visual communication in the specialty area of interactive media.

Prior to his move to Maryland, he was the director of graduate studies for the School of Visual Communication at Ohio University. As an associate professor on that faculty, he had teaching responsibilities in the areas of multimedia and visual communication management.

Williams previously taught photojournalism and multimedia design in the visual communications sequence in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He began his 17-year academic career at the University of Kansas where he was a member of the faculty of the William Allen White School of Journalism and Mass Communications. He has also been a visiting professor in the School of Journalism at Marquette University in Milwaukee.

Williams returned to the professional world in 2000 as Director of Internet Development for Kalmbach Publishing Company, a magazine publisher in Milwaukee, Wisc. There he was founding editor of Trains.com, the most frequently visited site for railroad enthusiasts and rail industry professionals. He was also publisher for Astronomy.com and oversaw the development of web sites for other Kalmbach publications.

Williams began his professional career as staff photographer for the Salem (Ore.) Statesman-Journal where he was later promoted to Photo Director. He served as Graphics Director at the Albuquerque Tribune and Assistant Managing Editor at the Clarion-Ledger and Jackson Daily News in Mississippi.

In addition to his teaching responsibilities, Williams has done extensive visual communication consulting throughout the U.S. and Russia. He earned his Bachelor of Science in Journalism and Master of Science in Journalism degrees from the University of Kansas.

Williams continues to produce photographic documentary work for publication in print and online.