Honors Program

Faculty & Staff


  • Dr. Rachel Wifall

    Director
    Office: James V. Bastek Honors House (Office hours held weekly), and Loyola Hall, Room 32
    Email: rwifall@saintpeters.edu
    Phone: (201) 761-6326

    Dr. Rachel Wifall graduated from New York University in 1999, with a doctorate in English Literature, specializing in Shakespearean Drama. She has been a member of the Saint Peter’s University English Department since the fall of 2004. Dr. Wifall is active with the Schola, Chorale and English Club on campus, and also teaches yoga at the Recreation Life Center.A writer of creative fiction and poetry, Dr. Wifall serves as faculty advisor to the Saint Peter’s University literary magazine, The Pavan. She also serves as the director of the university Honors Program.


  • Dr. Jeanette Wilmanski

    Dr. Jeanette Wilmanski

    Assistant Director, Academic Advisor
    Office: James V. Bastek Honors House (Office hours held weekly), and Gannon Hall, Room 108
    Email: jwilmanski@saintpeters.edu
    Phone: (201) 761-6436

    Dr. Wilmanski is an alumna of Saint Peter’s, class of 2000. She earned her Ph.D. at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey in Newark and spent two years as a Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University. She studied innate immunology – the immune system a person is born with versus the immune system a person acquires. Dr. Wilmanski is a professor of Biology and the assistant director of the university’s honors program.

  • Lauren Squillante

    Administrative Assistant to the Honors Program and Philosophy and History Departments
    Office: James V. Bastek Honors Center (Tuesday & Wednesday)
    Email: lsquillante@saintpeters.edu
    Phone: (201) 761-6225