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CSSJ Staff

Below is a listing of the staff in the Center for Spirituality and Social Justice, as well as our religious affiliates. None of our work, however, would be possible without the dedicated efforts and clever ideas of our incredible student staff.

Cody NielsenJ. Cody Nielsen Ph.D.

Director of the Center for Spirituality and Social Justice
Email: nielsenc@dickinson.edu
Phone: (717)-245-1931
Location: Landis House 

Cody holds a Ph.D. in Higher Education Administration from Iowa State University and masters degrees in mental health counseling and divinity. He is the founder and Executive Director of Convergence on Campus, a North American volunteer led social change organization which seeks to dismantle longstanding systems of marginalization of religious, secular, and spiritual identities in higher education. His 2013-2015 study Multifaith in Higher Education explored the campus climates through a policy and practice lens of over 150 institutions across the United States and Canada. The former Expert in Residence for Religious, Secular, and Spiritual identities for NASPA, Cody is an emerging voice in national calls for equity of religious minorities and non-religious identities on campus. A scholar by practice (not by nature), Cody's dissertation considered the institutional climate of Penn State University and its Pasquerilla Center, the largest multi faith center at an institution of higher education in North America. He is a father to Levi and an avid runner, writer, and board game enthusiast. On the weekends you can find Cody on a bike trail, in a hammock reading, or in the kitchen baking bread or trying recipes out of cookbook he probably found in a used bookstore.


Andrew BergAndrew Berg

Campus Staff Minister for Dickinson Christian Fellowship
Email: berga@dickinson.edu

Originally from Newburgh, NY, Andrew graduated from Franklin & Marshall College in 2012, finishing a double major in History and Government and studying abroad in Jerusalem. After graduating, Andrew taught middle school science in Baltimore through Teach For America while earning a M.S.Ed at Johns Hopkins University. Andrew has served on staff with Dickinson Christian Fellowship (a chapter of InterVarsity Christian Fellowship USA) since 2014. For fun, Andrew loves reading and discussing theology, politics, and Star Wars.


Liz BergLiz Albright Berg

Campus Staff Minister for Dickinson Christian Fellowship
Email: bergel@dickinson.edu 

Hailing from Allentown, PA, Liz graduated from Franklin & Marshall College in 2012. At F&M, Liz completed a double major in Spanish and Environmental Science, studied abroad in Ecuador and Spain, and earned honors for her senior thesis on bird feeding patterns. Liz has been on staff with Dickinson Christian Fellowship (a chapter of InterVarsity Christian Fellowship USA) since 2012, and works to see students' lives transformed, the campus renewed, and world changers developed. For enjoyment, Liz enjoys long-distance running, traveling, and cooking healthy food.


Father Chiedozie OnonujuFr. Chiedozie ("Dozy") Ononuju

Campus Chaplain for Dickinson Catholic Campus Ministry
Parochial Vicar, Saint Patrick Parish, Carlisle, PA
Email: frdozy@saintpatrickchurch.org

Fr. Dozy was ordained a Catholic priest for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Harrisburg on June 3, 2023—a day he will always remember with great joy! He grew up in Lagos, Nigeria, along with his two sisters and one brother. Fr. Dozy came to the United States for his university education. He studied electrical engineering at Bucknell University (Lewisburg, PA) and graduated with a B.S. in 2015 and M.S. in 2017. While at Bucknell, he felt the voice of Jesus Christ calling him to be a priest, but he resisted and even avoided this call for a time; he would later come to the realization that if God was indeed calling him to be a priest, it would be the happiest thing for his life! Fr. Dozy entered seminary in 2017 and graduated from Mount Saint Mary’s Seminary (Emmitsburg, MD) in May 2023 with degrees in theology (Bachelor of Sacred Theology—S.T.B. and Master of Divinity—M.Div.). Fr. Dozy enjoys reading and watching soccer, as well as playing it when he can. He is thrilled to be at Dickinson and feels very blessed to serve, and learn from, the students!


Theodore PulciniFr. Theodore (Ted) Pulcini

Emeritus Professor of Religion
Email: pulcini@dickinson.edu

Orthodox Priest of the Antiochian Archdiocese of North America, in which he has pastored for nearly four decades in parishes in Ohio, California, Massachusetts, and Pennsylvania. He is a Dickinson Emeritus Professor, having taught for twenty-four years in the College’s Department of Religion, offering courses in biblical studies, early and Eastern Christianity, and Christian-Muslim relations. After his retirement in 2019, he volunteered to serve as chaplain for Orthodox members of the Dickinson community. In this capacity he leads a weekly study group and celebrates a Divine Liturgy once a month on campus.


Mohammad Abu ShulehMohammad Abu Shuleh

Senior Lecturer in Middle East Studies
Email: abushulm@dickinson.edu
Phone: 717-254-8141
Office: Room 10B, Denny Hall

Senior lecturer in the Middle East Studies Department, Muslim Educational and Cultural Association (MECA) club advisor. His research and teaching interests focus on Arabic and Islamic Studies.


Mary SilvaMary Silva

Senate Bookkeeper/Administrative Assistant for the Dickinson College Farm
Email: silvama@dickinson.edu
Phone: 717-254-8990
Office: Lower Level, Holland Union Building

Serves as the Advisor to Dickinson Catholic Campus Ministry (DCCM). She is the liaison between Dickinson College and Saint Patrick Parish in Carlisle. Joining Dickinson College in 2009, she works as the Senate Bookkeeper in the Office of Campus Life, and as the Administrative Assistant for the Dickinson College Farm. Mary is a native of Carlisle who loves the outdoors, traveling, biking Rails to Trails, league tennis, and spending time with her family. Being “Mom” to her four grown children is a favorite past time.


Marley WeinerRabbi Marley Weiner

Social Media and Digital Advertising Manager
Director of Asbell Center of Jewish Life
Email: weinerma@dickinson.edu
Location: Asbell Center

Serves as the Director of the Asbell Center for Jewish Life and campus rabbi. Prior to her arrival at Dickinson, she worked at both Temple University and Binghamton University as Jewish Educator and Chaplain. A Philadelphia native, Rabbi Marley discovered a lifelong love of Hillel at Barnard College, where she was the vice president of Columbia Barnard Hillel’s Reform Jewish Group. After college, she moved back to Philadelphia to attend the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College. While there, she learned a lot of Talmud, taught students from one to ninety-nine, and developed a love of pluralistic Jewish community that endures to this day. When Rabbi Marley is not working, she enjoys museums, baking, Dungeons and Dragons, and bragging to everyone about how adorable her cat is. Her yearly goal is to have coffee with every Jewish student on campus.