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Civil War era studies chair and history professor honored for outstanding scholarly contributions at Gettysburg College, highlighting the national impact of his research and teaching.

Reflecting Gettysburg’s longstanding commitment to academic excellence and career development, the College’s new communication studies program will ready students for a lifetime of personal and professional success.

Building upon its strong tradition of producing graduates who thrive in communications careers for top companies and organizations around the globe, Gettysburg College is proud to announce that it will add a communication studies major and minor starting in the 2025-26 academic year. Students may declare the major and minor as early as the fall semester.

Student-faculty collaboration empowers undergraduates to engage in meaningful, interdisciplinary research that fosters critical thinking, empathy, and real-world impact.

As the site of one of the most consequential events in our nation’s history, the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, invites students to discover things to do in the community only steps away from our campus.

Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, is a vibrant historic town, rich with history and heritage. We polled several students to learn about some of their favorite things to do around Gettysburg. Which of these are yours?

At a school board meeting in June, Readington Township School District Superintendent Jonathan Hart ’04 (middle) stands with fellow superintendents from the nomination and selection committee after receiving his award for being named Hunterdon County Superintendent of the Year.

English Prof. Sushmita Sircar received a bachelor’s degree in English and French from the University at Buffalo-SUNY and later earned her Ph.D. in English and American literature from New York University.

Sunderman Conservatory of Music Prof. Avner Dorman teaches music theory and composition. His music compositions have won various awards and have been performed by groups such as the Cleveland Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and Israel Philharmonic.

Health Sciences Prof. Megan Benka-Coker ’09 is a faculty member on the International and Global Studies Committee.

Benka-Coker received a dual Bachelor of Arts in health sciences and globalization studies (now International and Global Studies [IGS]) at Gettysburg College. She later earned her Master of Public Health in global health from Emory University and a Ph.D. from Colorado State University.

Since arriving at Gettysburg College in 2008, Religious Studies Chair Megan Adamson Sijapati has taught courses covering religion and modernity, violence and nonviolence, cultural politics, religious nationalism, cyber religion, society and ethics, Islam, South Asia, and Hinduism. Her two primary research areas are religious minority communities in South Asia and the intersections of embodiment and epistemology in contemporary Islam.

Ben Pontz ’20 (second from left) alongside then Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro and other Finnegan Fellows.

Our first-class faculty inspire our students to grow every day through hands-on experiences, like impactful internships.