Meet Hillyer Faculty

Michele Troy

Pedagogy: it’s an old fashioned word with a simple meaning. Pedagogy is defined as the art of teaching, and Michele Troy, an assistant professor of English, takes the art of teaching to new levels of creativity and imagination.
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Renwick Griswold

On a rainy day last fall, Renwick Griswold, assistant professor of sociology, led his students through underbrush swarming with mosquitoes so they could stake out two six-acre plots on the University of Hartford campus.
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Stephan Bullard

Hillyer faculty members like to get their feet wet. In this case, literally. Stephan Bullard likes to get outside the classroom, immerse himself in research, and bring back new methods to reinvigorate the classroom experience for his students.
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Darryl McMiller

Darryl McMiller spends a lot of time thinking, researching, and teaching about the gap between what most people believe to be right and how those beliefs play out in the real world.
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Marissa Cloutier

Marissa Cloutier, instructor in biology and nutrition, grew up with an appreciation for health and well being.
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Mary Fister

Have You Ever Tasted a blackberry, strawberry, blueberry? That’s a question Mary Fister likes to ask her creative writing students, and when she talks about berries she means the kind you pull directly from a plant or bush on a warm summer day.
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