Miriam Ascarelli
Senior University Lecturer, Humanities & Social Sciences
410 Cullimore Hall (CULM)
About Me
Miriam Ascarelli is a longtime journalist whose freelance work has appeared in publications such as FSB.com (the online arm of Fortune Small Business), New Jersey Monthly, and The New York Times. Prior to joining academia, she was a full-time reporter and editor at news organizations in the Midwest and the Northeast. She is a former president of the New Jersey chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists and the author of the book, Independent Vision: Dorothy Harrison Eustis and the Story of the Seeing Eye (Purdue U. Press, 2010). She is the recipient of a 2023 NJIT faculty seed grant that uses historic maps to explore the evolution of Newark from its beginnings as a Puritan farm village to a post-industrial city trying to reinvent itself. Miriam is the faculty advisor to The Vector, NJIT’s student newspaper, and has been teaching at NJIT since 2008.
Education
M.A.
; Rutgers University-Newark
; English
; 2006
Office Hours
Monday and Wednesday, 11:30-12:50
2025 Fall Courses
HSS 404 - LIT SEM: THE BRICK CITY, HOW NEWARK BECAME NEWARK - HONORS
COM 339 - PRACTICAL JOURNALISM
HSS 404 - LIT SEM: THE BRICK CITY, HOW NEWARK BECAME NEWARK
COM 339 - PRACTICAL JOURNALISM
HSS 404 - LIT SEM: THE BRICK CITY, HOW NEWARK BECAME NEWARK
Past Courses
COM 338: THE NEWSROOM
COM 339: PRACTICAL JOURNALISM
ENG 339: PRACTICAL JOURNALISM
ENG 350: THE NEWSROOM
ENG 351: ONLINE JOURNALISM
ENGL 101: ENGLISH COMPOSITION: INTRODUCTION TO ACADEMIC WRITING
ENGL 102: ENGLISH COMPOSITION: INTRODUCTION TO WRITING FOR RESEARCH
HSS 403: HUMANITIES SENIOR SEMINAR - LITERATURE
HSS 404: LIT SEM: THE BRICK CITY, HOW NEWARK BECAME NEWARK
HSS 404: LIT SEM: THE BRICK CITY, HOW NEWARK BECAME NEWARK - HONORS
HUM 101: ENGLISH COMPOSITION: WRITING, SPEAKING, THINKING I
HUM 101: WRITING,SPEAKING, THINKING I
HUM 102: ENGLISH COMPOSITION: WRITING, SPEAKING, THINKING II
HUM 102: WRITING, SPEAKING, THINKING II
COM 339: PRACTICAL JOURNALISM
ENG 339: PRACTICAL JOURNALISM
ENG 350: THE NEWSROOM
ENG 351: ONLINE JOURNALISM
ENGL 101: ENGLISH COMPOSITION: INTRODUCTION TO ACADEMIC WRITING
ENGL 102: ENGLISH COMPOSITION: INTRODUCTION TO WRITING FOR RESEARCH
HSS 403: HUMANITIES SENIOR SEMINAR - LITERATURE
HSS 404: LIT SEM: THE BRICK CITY, HOW NEWARK BECAME NEWARK
HSS 404: LIT SEM: THE BRICK CITY, HOW NEWARK BECAME NEWARK - HONORS
HUM 101: ENGLISH COMPOSITION: WRITING, SPEAKING, THINKING I
HUM 101: WRITING,SPEAKING, THINKING I
HUM 102: ENGLISH COMPOSITION: WRITING, SPEAKING, THINKING II
HUM 102: WRITING, SPEAKING, THINKING II
Journal Article
Miriam F. Ascarelli.
2025. "Everything has a history: The Morris Canal."
American Historical Association , vol. 63 , no. 3 , pp. 1.