Dr. Jeffrey Marlett begins his fifth year as the Faculty Athletics Representative at The College of Saint Rose. Marlett is an associate professor of religious studies and has taught at the College since 1998. He received tenure and promotion in the spring of 2004.

Marlett has lent his services to a variety of committees on campus including admissions, the College's budget and resources and the College's recent reaccredidation by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education. He has served on the faculty's representative committee, which manages the Saint Rose faculty meetings for the past two years.

From 2001 to 2006 Marlett co-chaired the Roman Catholic Studies group of the American Academy of Religion, the largest professional society for religion scholars in the world. He has worked as a historian for the Catholic Theological Society of America and as a book review editor on Catholic history. Furthermore, in 2002 he published his own book, Saving the Heartland: Catholic Missionaries in Rural America.

Before arriving in the Capital District, Marlett taught at Lyon College in Batesville, Arkansas. Marlett attended Wabash College in Crawfordsville, IN where he graduated summa cum laude with a bachelor's degree in philosophy in 1991. In addition, he is a member of Phi Beta Kappa.

Marlett received his master's of theological studies at Vanderbilt University Divinity School in Nashville, TN in 1993 and his doctorate in church history from Saint Louis University in St. Louis, MO in 1997.

Marlett and his wife, Roseann, reside in Albany with their three children.