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Uma Kelekar
Academic Credentials
B.A., University of Pune (India)
M.A., Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics (India)
Ph.D., George Mason University
Bio
Uma Kelekar is an Associate Professor of Healthcare Management at the School of Business of Marymount University. She teaches graduate-level courses in healthcare reimbursement, health economics, data analysis, and epidemiology.
Uma has extensive experience conducting healthcare research in the fields of public health dentistry, health economics and policy. In this research, she uses large survey data and employs innovative empirical methodologies to investigate emerging trends and patterns in healthcare services utilization across multiple vulnerable and underserved segments of the population, and the subsequent use of the EDs for preventive care across the United States. Over the years, her publications have shed light on oral health disparities evident in how people use dental services and its associated burden of care. Additionally, she has examined if dental services provided in the EDs are contributing to the ongoing opioid epidemic.
As of Fall 2021, Uma started working as a senior research fellow at Marymount University’s Center for Optimal Aging and engages in research on various topics specific to older adult mortality, falls and health promotion programs.
Uma has presented her work at various academic and practitioners’ conferences including meetings of the American Public Health Association, American Society of Health Economists, National Oral Health Conference, and Society for Benefit-Cost Analysis. She has published book chapters and articles in journals such as Health Policy and Planning, Preventive Medicine, Preventing Chronic Disease, Health Behavior and Policy Review, The Western Journal of Emergency Medicine, and Journal of American Dental Association (JADA).
She has a PhD in Public Policy from George Mason University. Her undergraduate and masters are in economics from India.
Teaching Areas
Health Care Management
Research Interests
My research pertains to the following themes: Health Economics and Policy Healthcare costs and access Local governments’ healthcare spending Health Services Research Older Adult Mortality Trends in older adult falls Association of falls with chronic conditions Public Health Dentistry Emergency Department Use and Costs Opioid Prescriptions in the ED
Publications
- Das Gupta D, Kelekar U, Turner SC, Sule AA, Jerman TG (2021) “Interpreting COVID-19 deaths among nursing home residents in the US: The changing role of facility quality over time.” PLoS ONE 16(9): e0256767.
- Kelekar U. D. Das gupta, J. Shepherd, A. Sule (2021) “Risk factors of fall-related emergency department visits by fall location of older adults in the US”, The Western Journal of Emergency Medicine – Integrating Emergency Care with Population Health, 22 (4).
- Naavaal S, Kelekar U, Shah S. (2021), “Opioid and Nonopioid Analgesic Prescriptions for Dental Visits in the Emergency Department, 2015–2017 National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey.” Preventing Chronic Disease 2021;18: 200571.
- Claiborne, D. M., Kelekar U, Shepherd, J. G., & Naavaal, S. (2021). Emergency department use for nontraumatic dental conditions among children and adolescents: NEDS 2014‐2015. Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology.
- Das Gupta D, Kelekar U, & Rice, D. (2020). “Associations between living alone, depression, and falls among community-dwelling older adults in the US”. Preventive Medicine Reports, 20, 101273.
- Naavaal S., & Kelekar U., (2020), “Opioid Prescriptions in Emergency Departments: Findings from the 2016 National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey”, Short Communication, Preventive Medicine.
- Kelekar, U. & Naavaal, S. (2019), “Dental Visits and associated emergency-department charges in the United States: Nationwide Emergency Department Sample, 2014.”, The Journal of American Dental Association, 150(4), pp.305-312.
- Naavaal, S & Kelekar U, (2018) “School hours lost due to acute/unplanned dental care”, Health Behavior and Policy Review, 5(2), pp. 66-73. Kelekar, U. & Naavaal, S. (2018), “Hours Lost to Planned and Unplanned Dental Visits Among US Adults”, Preventing Chronic Disease, 15.
- Kelekar, U. (2017) “Oral Health Matters in Bending the Cost Curve”, World Medical and Health Policy, 9(3), pp. 377-88.
- Kelekar, U, Llanto, G. (2014) “Evidence of horizontal and vertical fiscal interactions in health care spending in the Philippines”, Health Policy and Planning, 30(7), pp. 853-862. “
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Cassandra Good
Academic Credentials
B.A., M.A., The George Washington University
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
Biography
Dr. Cassandra Good joined the faculty at Marymount in Fall 2017. Prior to that, she served as associate editor of the Papers of James Monroe at the University of Mary Washington. There she did research, writing, and editing, as well as teaching a material culture-centered course titled The World of James Monroe.
Professor Good was trained in a multidisciplinary approach to history, integrating literature, art, material culture, gender studies, and anthropology. Her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in American Studies included courses ranging from religion to archaeology. She interned and later worked full time at the Smithsonian Institution in new media as part of a team that started one of the Smithsonian’s first blogs and its first podcast series at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. She later worked in research and scholarly programs at the Freer and Sackler Galleries.
A native of the DC area, Professor Good is passionate about connecting her teaching and research with the city’s cultural and historical resources.
Other Information
Teaching Area
Professor Good teaches the history of early America from contact to 1877. Her upper level courses include Colonial and Revolutionary America, The Early Republic and Jacksonian America, Race and Myth in Southern History, and The United States: Civil War and Reconstruction. She integrates material culture and public history into many of her courses.
Research Interests
Professor Good is a scholar of gender and culture in the early American founding era. She presents regularly at scholarly conferences and to public audiences. Her work has also appeared in academic journals and popular websites including Slate, Smithsonian.com, and the History News Network.
She wrote and narrated an audio course titled America’s Founding Women and she published another one titled Early American Sex Scandals for The Great Courses and Audible.com.
Professor Good’s first book, Founding Friendships: Friendships Between Men and Women in the Early American Republic, was published by Oxford University Press in 2015. It received the Mary Jurich Nickliss Prize for the year’s best gender or women’s history book from the Organization of American Historians in 2016.
In 2025, Professor Good chaired and commented on a panel titled “New Directions in the History of Women and Politics” at the annual conference of the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic.
Good’s current research focuses on George Washington’s family and the ways succeeding generations grappled with their political role in the new nation.
Publications
First Family: George Washington’s Heirs and the Making of America (Harper Collins, forthcoming 2023)
“Defining the Family of Washington: Meaning, Blood, and Power in the New American Nation,” Journal of Social History, Summer 2022
Papers of James Monroe, Volume 7: 1814-1817, edited with Daniel Preston & Robert Karachuck (ABC-Clio: 2020)
“Washington Family Fortune: Lineage and Capital in Nineteenth Century America,” Early American Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, Winter 2020
Papers of James Monroe, Volume 6: 1811-1814, edited with Daniel Preston (ABC-Clio: 2017)
Founding Friendships: Friendships between Men and Women in the Early American Republic (Oxford University Press, 2015; paper, 2017)
Mary Jurich Nickliss Prize for best gender history book, Organization of American Historians
“Friendly Relations: Situating Cross-Gender Friendships in the Early Republic,” Gender & History, April 2012
Papers of James Monroe, Volume 5: 1803-1811, edited with Daniel Preston (ABC-Clio: 2014)
“‘A Transcript of My Heart’: The Unpublished Diaries of Margaret Bayard Smith,” Washington History, Fall/Winter 2005 […]
Mattie Fitch
Academic Credentials
B.A., Wellesley College
M.A., Ph.D., Yale University
Biography
Dr. Fitch joined the faculty at Marymount in Fall 2018. She moved to Virginia from Stephenville, Texas, where she taught for several years at Tarleton State University. A native of Ohio, she has also taught at the University of Dayton and Wright State University.
Other Information
Teaching Area
Dr. Fitch teaches the history of modern Europe, especially the 19th and 20th centuries. In addition to West and the World II, her courses include Race and Modern Europe, Modern European History: 1815-1914, Modern European History: 1914 to the Present, and Modern French History: 1789 to the Present. Her courses focus on European cultures, societies, and politics as they change over time.
Research Interests
Dr. Fitch is a cultural historian of modern France. In particular, she explores ideas about art, citizenship, national identity, class, and religion in the 1920s and 1930s in France. Her current book project investigates the antifascist cultural movement in France that arose during the 1930s. She has also presented this material at academic conferences and in an academic journal. She has conducted research in archives in Paris, Marseille, Rouen, Nantes, and elsewhere in France.
Publications
Mattie Fitch. The People, the Workers, and the Citizens: Antifascist Cultures during the Popular Front in France, 1934-1939. Routledge (2026).
Listen to a podcast about Dr. Fitch’s book.
Mattie Fitch. “The Popular Front and France’s Twentieth Century.” Routledge Handbook of French History (2024).
Mattie Fitch. “The Ateliers d’art sacré, Catholic modernity, and sacred art in the interwar era in France.” Global Consortium for French Historical Studies, Paris, July 15-19, 2025.
Mattie Fitch. “The First World War in Fascist and Antifascist Memory.” World War One Illustrated 25 (Summer 2025).
Fitch, Mattie, Michael Ortiz, and Nick Underwood. “The Global Cultures of Antifascism, 1921–2020“, Fascism 9, 1-2 (2020): 1-7, doi: https://doi.org/10.1163/
Mattie Fitch. “The People and the Workers: Communist Cultural Politics during the Popular Front in France,” Twentieth Century Communism 9 (2015). […]
Margaret Tseng
Academic Credentials
B.A., University of California at Los Angeles
M.A., Ph.D., Georgetown University
Biography
Other Information
Teaching Area
- American Government
- The Presidency
- Voting Behavior
- Political Parties and Interest Groups
Research Interests
- Lame Duck Presidents
- Unilateral Powers
- Minority Politics
Dr. Margaret Tseng joined the Marymount faculty in 2004. She specializes in the presidency, voting behavior, elections, and minority politics. She has written about the abuse of power by lame duck presidents and is currently studying the issue of civic engagement. Dr. Tseng serves as faculty advisor for all interns majoring in Politics. She also advises the Politics honors society.
In her spare time, Dr. Tseng enjoys spending time with her family and watching a good sci-fi movie.
Publications
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Chad Rector
Academic Credentials
B.A., University of Michigan
M.A., Columbia University
Ph.D., University of California, San Diego
Biography
Other Information
Teaching Area
- International Politics
- Comparative Government
Research Interests
- International Organizations
- Regional Integration
Dr. Chad Rector joined the Marymount University faculty in 2011, having previously taught at the George Washington University and the University of California, San Diego, and has been a scholar-in-residence at the Australian National University. He has taught courses on a variety of topics in international and comparative politics, political economy, U.S.-European relations, terrorism, international organizations, and environmental politics. His research is about how countries bargain over the design of international organizations. He has written one book about regional integration through federal unions and is currently writing another book about international cooperation on energy and security.
Information about Dr. Rector’s courses.
Publications
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Jace Stuckey
Academic Credentials
B.S., Thomas University
M.A., University of Central Florida
Ph.D., University of Florida
Biography
Other Information
Teaching Area
- The Ancient World
- Medieval Europe
- The Renaissance
Research Interests
- Medieval Europe
- The Crusades
Dr. Jace Stuckey joined the Marymount University faculty in 2012, having previously taught at Louisiana Tech University and at Cardiff University in Wales (UK) as a Fulbright Fellow. He has taught courses on a variety of topics in European history including World Civilization to 1500, Western Civilization I & II, Ancient Greece and Rome, Medieval Europe, Renaissance and Reformation, The Medieval Church, as well as study-aboard courses in both Italy and Germany.
His research is centered on Medieval Europe and focuses on the Crusades, the interplay between history and memory, and the Legend of Charlemagne. In 2008, he co-edited and contributed an article to the book, The Legend of Charlemagne in the Middle Ages: Power, Faith, and Crusade. He is currently working on a monograph on the figure of Charlemagne.
Publications
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