General Education Committee People

Dr. Nazarenko joined Westmont College as Dean of Curriculum and Educational Effectiveness in 2010. She chairs the PRC and works with all academic and co-curriculum departments on issues pertaining to curriculum development, outcome-based learning, student-centered teaching, and assessment. She also serves on the Academic Senate, AS Review Committee, and the College's Strategic Planning Committee. She completed her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature and Culture at the University of Alberta, and her master's in Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at the University of Washington. Her current research interests include assessing and promoting student success in various educational contexts.

Dr. Jana Mayfield Mullen joined the Westmont faculty in 2001 as an adjunct professor in the history and religious studies departments. She taught Renaissance and Reformation history, cultural geography, North American religions, and HIS-010: World History, a Common Core GE course. Since 2013 she has served as a Westmont librarian, providing information literacy instruction, research guidance, and collection development for several academic departments. In 2020 she became Director of the Voskuyl Library.  She received a Master of Divinity from Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary and a PhD with a concentration in 19th-century American religious history from the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. Her master’s in library and information science was granted by the University of Kentucky in 2012.  She has served several terms on the GE Committee as library representative since 2015. 

Dr. Telford Work is a professor of theology at Westmont College. He has taught theology and related disciplines on five continents. He is the author of Jesus—The End of the Beginning: Tracing the Christ-Shaped Nature of Everything, the Brazos Theological Commentary on the Bible: Deuteronomy, Ain’t Too Proud to Beg: Living through the Lord’s Prayer, and Living and Active: Scripture in the Economy of Salvation. He is also a contributor and signatory of In One Body through the Cross: the Princeton Proposal for Christian Unity. His Ph.D. in religion (theology and ethics) is from Duke University. He also holds an M.A. in theological and biblical studies from Fuller Theological Seminary and a B.A. in political science from Stanford University. Dr. Work is elected to a term ending in Spring 2026.

Dr. Afman graduated from Calvin College, earned a master’s at Central Michigan University, and received a Doctor of Education at Brigham Young University. His certifications include Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist and ACSM Health Fitness Instructor. He joined the Westmont faculty in 1999 after teaching at Calvin College and Hope College in Michigan. His areas of expertise include human anatomy, exercise physiology, strength and conditioning, and exercise for older populations. He has co-led six kinesiology Europe Mayterm programs, and he initiated a month-long summer research program in exercise science at the University of Bath in England in 2014 and led another group of kinesiology majors in 2015. Dr. Afman is elected to a term ending in Spring 2026.

Born and raised in England, Dr. Alister Chapman did his undergraduate and doctoral work at the University of Cambridge. His publications include Godly Ambition: John Stott and the Evangelical Movement (Oxford) and "Civil Religions in Derby" (The Historical Journal, 2016).  He is also the author of The Rest of the Iceberg, a blog that explains the history behind the world we see today. Dr. Chapman is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He has taught Modern European History and World History at Westmont since 2004. Dr. Chapman is elected to a term ending in Spring 2027.