Communications and Marketing

Margaret Meserve was appointed Interim Edward H. Arnold Dean of Hesburgh Libraries and University of Notre Dame Press on August 1, 2024. A professor of history, she also serves as vice president and associate provost for academic space and support. Meserve previously served as senior director of academic space in the office of the provost. From 2015–21, she was associate dean for the humanities and faculty affairs in the College of Arts and Letters.

A historian of the Italian Renaissance, Meserve studies the history of book printing, humanist culture, and the papacy in the 15th and 16th centuries. She is the author of the award-winning Papal Bull: Print, Propaganda, and Politics in Renaissance Rome (Johns Hopkins, 2021), which surveys how the popes used the printing press to publish news, propaganda, and disinformation in the early decades after Gutenberg. Her previous book, Empires of Islam in Renaissance Historical Thought (Harvard, 2008), surveyed how Renaissance historians accounted for the rise and fall of Islamic empires, especially that of the Ottoman Turks. She is currently working on a multivolume translation of the Commentaries of Pope Pius II, the only pope ever to write his autobiography while sitting on the papal throne, based on manuscripts in the Vatican Library and Biblioteca Corsiniana in Rome. At Notre Dame, she teaches courses on the Italian Renaissance, the history of Rome, and the history of the book.

Meserve earned her B.A. in Classics at Harvard and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Renaissance history from the Warburg Institute of the University of London. She served for two years as a curator in the Incunabula Section of the British Library in London. She has won fellowships from the NEH, ACLS, and the Newberry Library in Chicago and is a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome.

Bryan Fields joined the Hesburgh Libraries communications team as communications and digital engagement specialist in January 2024.

In this role, he promotes library services and engages diverse audiences by finding the spark in each story to increase impact and drive traffic. Bryan communicates key initiatives, signature events, and valuable resources to students, faculty, staff, alumni, and the larger community through multiple channels, including social media, digital signage, and other digital media. Bryan works with the larger communications team to elevate the libraries’ brand and advance its mission and vision.

Before joining Notre Dame, Bryan worked in healthcare marketing at Beacon and Saint Joseph Health Systems, where he created and published content across all channels for external and internal audiences. Prior to that, he served as senior copywriter and creative concept developer for two advertising agencies, helping national organizations reach diverse customers in a wide variety of industries. Bryan earned a bachelor of arts degree in journalism from Michigan State University.

Becky Malewitz joined the Hesburgh Libraries Communications team as a Communications Specialist in September 2023.

As a communications specialist, Becky uses storytelling to highlight the Hesburgh Libraries’ expertise, services, resources, and spaces across Library and University content channels. In addition, she shares stories that feature the Libraries’ impact on student and faculty success and the integral partnerships throughout all stages of the teaching and research lifecycles.

Prior to working at Notre Dame, Becky worked in communications at the Community Foundation of St. Joseph County and as an arts and entertainment reporter and multimedia journalist for the South Bend Tribune. She has also worked at newspapers in Kansas, Iowa and Montana. She graduated from Valparaiso University in 2007 with a bachelor of arts degree in communications with a minor in new media journalism. She earned a master of arts degree in journalism with a concentration in photojournalism from the University of Montana in 2010.

Jenna Mrozinske joined the Hesburgh Libraries communications team as the communications and marketing specialist in July 2017.

In her role, Jenna implements integrated marketing and communications strategies to support the academic and research efforts of our students, faculty, and staff. She manages multi-channel communications for signature events and special projects and collaborates on internal and executive communications. In addition, she develops print materials, digital collateral, and onsite signage. Jenna’s efforts work in concert with the larger communications team to increase awareness of and engagement with the library’s expertise, resources, services, and spaces.

Prior to her role at the Hesburgh Libraries, Jenna worked at the Mike and Josie Harper Cancer Research Institute, a collaboration between the University of Notre Dame and the Indiana University School of Medicine - South Bend. Jenna graduated from Indiana University in 2013 with a bachelor of arts in English and a minor in sustainability studies.