Meet Our Faculty: Jeff Zealley

Jeff Zealley

Assistant Professor

School of Health Sciences

Mortuary Science

What he teaches:

• Introduction to Mortuary Science

• Dynamics of Grief, Death, and Dying

• Funeral Service Psychology and Counseling

• Funeral Directing

• Funeral Directing Lab

• Cultural, Legal, and Ethical Issues in Health Care

Number of years teaching at SLCC:

Undergraduate degree:

Cincinnati College of Mortuary Science

Master’s:

University of Utah (MBA) and Ohio State University (Masters of Bioethics)

Why working at SLCC matters:

It allows me to contribute to the education and future of hundreds of students.

Greatest professional challenge:

Becoming knowledgeable enough about the field of bioethics in order to teach it at SLCC.

Greatest professional accomplishment:

Being able to work with my federal Disaster Mortuary Operational Response Team (DMORT) members for four months in Louisiana after Hurricane Katrina while assisting with the recovery and identification of storm victims and the collection of caskets displaced from cemeteries.

Advice for students or others:

Never stop learning!

Future plans:

Attain tenure in 2021! Develop new bioethics courses to teach at SLCC and hopefully become an adjunct bioethics professor at a university. Continue touring Europe so I can visit more fascinating cemeteries. Learn Italian and then maybe French or German…or both.

Family:

I’ve been married to my wife, Patti, for 30 years. We have four children, two grandsons and three grandchildren on the way.

Hobbies:

Studying World War II, cooking Cajun food, visiting cemeteries and photographing interesting and unique gravestones (I’m a tombstone tourist!) and traveling.

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