Faculty

Joe Jezewski
Chair and Associate Professor of Theatre and Dance
Office: Heritage Center
Phone: (989) 463-7262

Carol Fike
Professor of Theatre and Dance
Office: Heritage Center
Phone: (989) 463-7242

Shonk, Victor E
Assistant Professor of Theatre
Office:
Phone: (989) 463-

Jenifer Sarver
Visiting Instructor of Dance
Office: 7141 Heritage Center
Phone: (989) 463-7141

Tina L. Vivian
Visiting Instructor & Costume Designer
Office: Heritage Center
Phone: (989) 463-7071

Kristen M. Bennett
Visiting Instructor
Office: Heritage Center
Phone: (989) 463-7141

Natividad . Salgado
Theatre Intern
Office:
Phone: (989) 463-

Kate DeGood
Highland Arts - Dance
Office:
Phone: (989) 463-

 

Frank Knox’s accomplishments are extraordinary: From fighting alongside Teddy Roosevelt and the Rough Riders and publishing the Chicago Daily News vice presidential candidate in 1936 to Secretary of the Navy under Franklin D. Roosevelt. Through it all, the 1912 graduate stayed true to his Alma College roots. His portrait adorns the conference room in the Reid-Knox Administration Building.

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Graduate Profile

Kristin Bender-Polizzi

Kristin Bender-Polizzi
Graduation: 1995
Major: Dance

Since graduating from Alma College, Kristin Bender-Polizzi ’95 has co-founded the Surfscape Contemporary Dance Theatre in Florida. The dance company, which she manages, features about a dozen professionally trained dancers, including Bender-Polizzi herself.

“As a shy young girl, dance was a means of expressing myself,” she says. “I was always more comfortable speaking through movement than with my voice. I love that dance is a universal language open to so many interpretations.”

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