Rebecca joined the Upper School faculty in 2019 and has been Chair of the History & Social Sciences Department since 2022. She teaches ninth grade Humanities History and select English courses, including Advanced Studies: Literature of the Modern Period, Literature of Revolutions, and English 11. In addition to teaching and chairship, Rebecca coaches field hockey, advises numerous clubs, chaperones international trips, and leads the Parent Association Fiction Book Club. 

Rebecca previously worked in international education, teaching university and high school students in Rome and London. Rebecca lived in Donegal, Ireland while completing her Master’s thesis, which examined Irish Modernists in the Mediterranean world. While earning a BA, Rebecca studied history, literature, and art in Aix-en-Provence, France and Crete, Greece. This global, interdisciplinary perspective infuses her work in every facet of school life. 

Raised in a family of New Jersey’s educators, Rebecca believes that education should be informed by the Classical Greek ideal of paideia. To this end, she works to develop well-roundedness, empathy, and critical-thinking in all of her students. Her personal teaching philosophy goes hand in hand with MBS’s mission, through which “students discover and develop their individual pathways to academic success and personal fulfillment while becoming enlightened, morally responsible citizens of the world.”