Healthcare and Medical Humanities Faculty

Meet the Faculty 

Program Coordinators/Point of Contacts

Melanie Gregg, Ph.D.
Professor of Humanities, Director of Healthcare & Medical Humanities (HMH)
Contact via email
(717)262-4842

Melanie E. Gregg, Ph.D., is a professor of humanities in the Division of Arts and Letters at Wilson College, where she directs the Healthcare and Medical Humanities program. Her early scholarship focused on sixteenth-century and early twentieth-century French poetry, Renaissance medical texts, and gender studies. Over time, her research interests have expanded to include clinical and illness narratives, health humanities, disability studies, and narrative medicine.  

Gregg is currently working on a long-term, multi-part project exploring the life and work of poet Renée Vivien. She is also engaged in several other research initiatives centered on disability studies, cognitive poetics, and communication equity. In addition, she is the co-founder of Intersecting Minds: A NeuroHumanities & Consciousness Collective, a group of scholars, students, and clinicians dedicated to promoting interdisciplinary research at the intersections of neuroscience, the humanities, and consciousness studies.

She earned her doctorate from Washington University in St. Louis.

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Hailey Haffey, Ph.D.
Lecturer in English
Contact via email
(717) 264-4387

Hailey Haffey, Ph.D., earned her doctorate in English literature at the University of Utah in 2018, with an emphasis on Irish, British, and American modernism through the lens of gender and religious studies. During her academic career, Haffey received numerous awards for research and teaching and was selected to study at the School of Criticism and Theory at Cornell University in 2012.  

In addition to her graduate work, Haffey earned a Strategic Healthcare Leadership certificate through Cornell in 2018 and a Narrative Medicine certificate through Columbia University in 2023. Her scholarship explores the intersection of identity construction, language, religious traditions, and health. Recognizing the centrality of language and storytelling to identity and health, she is professionally active in both literary studies and healthcare education.  

She is an affiliate of the Center for Health Ethics, Arts, and Humanities at the University of Utah’s Spencer Fox Eccles School of Medicine, and she holds leadership positions in the Health Humanities Consortium, including chair of the Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Belonging (JEDIB) Committee and co-chair of the Arts and Health Equity Committee.

Her recent research projects, currently being prepared for publication, include work on reproductive health in modernist Irish and American Literature, narrative medicine and mindfulness, use of narrative medicine as an intervention for clinicians treating patients with substance use disorder (SUD), and the use of narrative methods in designing a rural curriculum for internal medicine-pediatrics residency programs.  

At Wilson, Haffey teaches courses in English literature and healthcare and medical humanities. Her classes include Women Writers, American Literature, Global Health, Death and Dying, Narrative Medicine, and Empathy. 

Additional Faculty

Ela Rossmiller, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Political Science
Contact via email
(717)262-4846

Ela Rossmiller, Ph.D., assistant professor of political science and global studies at Wilson College, specializes in international relations and global education. Her scholarship has appeared in a range of academic journals, including Canadian Slavonic Papers, East European Politics and Societies: and Cultures, Review of European and Russian Affairs, Global Studies Literature Review, Journal of Studies in International Education, Political Science Educator, Stan Rzeczy (State of Affairs), and Pol-Int. A former Title XIII Research Fellow funded by the U.S. Department of State, she has also conducted research for various think tanks.

Prior to earning her doctorate in international relations from American University’s School of International Service, Rossmiller worked in the field of international higher education, managing programs in over 30 global cities. During that time, she also earned a master’s degree in education from Harvard University and briefly served in the Public Diplomacy section of the U.S. Embassy in Warsaw.

Trilingual, Rossmiller has published translations in international journals and continues to explore global issues through both teaching and research. 

Jonathan (JZ) Long, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Communications
Contact via email
(717) 262-4840

JZ Long, Ph.D., associate professor of communications, holds interdisciplinary degrees in political and cultural economy, popular culture, and a Ph.D. in cultural studies from George Mason University. While teaching at George Mason, he was honored with the Lambda Pi Eta Adjunct Professor of the Year award.

With over fifteen years of collegiate teaching experience, Long offers courses in interpersonal, group, and mass communications, media theory, and free speech and ethics. His research specializations include digital media and design, global media law and cultural policymaking, and the effects of media and information technologies on popular consciousness. His recent publications include analyses of the Hummer automobile, comic books, and popular cinema, while his current work explores topics related to the First Amendment, the Federal Communications Commission, and cyber power and governance.

In addition to his academic roles, Long has worked in both academic and government libraries and holds certifications in reference and technical services, special collections and archives, and information technology and security. He also serves as a media analyst for an international marketing firm.  

His interests include crossword puzzles, Eastern philosophy, and the art of highlighting. 

John Elia, Ph.D.
Professor of Philosophy
Contact via email
(717) 262-4855

John Elia, Ph.D., is the Thérèse Murray Goodwin ’49 Chair in Philosophy at Wilson College. His specialty is in ethics and applied ethics, with special interests in environmental philosophy, social and political philosophy, and comparative philosophy. His World Philosophy course uses an open-access textbook he wrote with the generous support of Wilson’s Drusilla Stevens Mazur Research Professorship. In addition, he regularly teaches courses in ethics, environmental ethics, bioethics, business ethics, and food ethics, and courses in the Humanities and Leadership master’s programs.

His scholarship explores moral and practical virtues in contemporary life and popular culture. Elia has published several articles and book chapters on topics including transparency, humiliation, integrity, reverence, and hope.  

He earned his doctorate in philosophy from the University of Texas at Austin in 2004. Before starting at Wilson, he held a postdoctoral Franklin Teaching Fellow position at the University of Georgia from 2004-2006.  

Julie Raulli, Ph.D.
Professor of Sociology
Contact via email
(717) 262-4839

Julie Raulli, Ph.D., is a professor of sociology with a teaching and research interest focusing on social inequalities and social justice in the United States. Her courses include Introduction to Sociology, Sociology of the Family, Social Problems and Inequalities, Qualitative Methods and Social Research, and Sociological Theory. In addition to courses in sociology, Raulli teaches classes in the criminal justice program, including Deviance and Criminal Justice, and Gender, Crime, and Justice.  

She regularly incorporates varied forms of media and engagement with community organizations in her classes. She is a firm believer in taking an interdisciplinary approach in her own work and encourages her students to consider using multiple disciplinary perspectives to help them best understand and remedy complex problems.  

Raulli received a Bachelor of Arts in English and peace studies from Hamline University, a Master of Arts in philosophy and a doctorate in sociology from Colorado State University.