School of Humanities & Social Sciences – Grants and Sponsored Research

Name	Faculty Level/ Title	Primary Dept	Highest Degree(s)	Research/Interests	Other Information
Zakiya Adair	Assist.	Women Gender Studies	Ph.D. in Women’s Studies, University of Washington in Seattle	Her areas of specialization are transnational women’s cultural history, African American history and black internationalism with specific focus on early trans-Atlantic expressive culture.	She is the recipient of many fellowships; most recently, Dr. Adair was a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Scholar in Residence at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture 2013. Currently she is working on completing her first book
Rachel Adler	Assoc.	Sociology Anthropology	Ph.D. – Anthropology, Arizona State U.	Latino Immigration to the US, Mexican Ethnography, Urban Anthropology, Medical Anthropology, Public Health Nursing, Cultural Competency in Nursing Practice, Psychiatric/Emergency Department Nursing	She holds a RN degree in addition to her Ph.D. in Anthropology.
Mekala Audain	Assist.	History	Ph.D., Rutgers University-New Brunswick	Her research interests center on slavery, fugitive slaves, black emigration, and free and enslaved African Americans on the U.S.-Mexico border.	She is working on articles about fugitive slaves in northwestern Louisiana and eastern Texas and is currently completely her book manuscript, Mexican Canaan: The Southern Underground Railroad to Spanish Texas and Northeastern Mexico, 1804-1867.
Jessica Barnack-Tavlaris	Assist.	Psychology	Ph.D. – U. of Wisconsin, Milwaukee; MPH – San Diego State U.	Reproductive and Sexual Health; Health Disparities; Cancer Prevention; Health-related Stigma and Coping	Directs the Reproductive and Sexual Health Lab.
Diane Bates	Assoc.	Sociology Anthropology	Ph.D. – Rutgers University	Environmental sociology with dual research projects centered on development in Latin America and in New Jersey	She has published multiple articles that document the social impacts of environmental change in the Ecuadorian Amazon, and on environmental controversies in New Jersey.
Bernard Bearer	Assist.	English	M.A., University of Cincinnati	Particular interest in Mark Twain, George Bernard Shaw, and William Faulkner.
Jared Beatrice	Assist.	Sociology Anthropology	PhD, Michigan State University	Research Interests: Paleopathology, Physiological stress and the skeleton, Social inequality and health, Undocumented migration and health, Nutrition, Mortuary practice. His research interests focus on reconstructing health status and living conditions	Dr. Beatrice is a biological anthropologist specializing in the assessment and interpretation of stress and disease from the human skeleton. He has conducted bioarchaeological fieldwork in Albania, Greece, and, most recently, Italy.
Matt Bender	Assoc.	History	Ph.D. – Johns Hopkins U.	Sub-Saharan Africa, Agrarian and Environmental History. Director, Program in International Studies	He serves as the Director of Program in International Studies and the International Studies Core Committee.
Juda Charles Bennett	Assoc.	English	Ph.D., Washington U. in St. Louis	Race and sexuality	He is the author of Toni Morrison and the Queer Pleasure of Ghosts (SUNY, 2014) and The Passing Figure: Racial Confusion in Modern American Literature (Peter Lang, 1998).
Aleksey (Alex) Berg	Assist. P-T	World Languages Culture		Russian
Tamra Bireta	Assoc.	Psychology	Ph. D. – Purdue University	Memorability of different types of information; Age-related differences in patterns of memory performance	Directs the Memory and Aging Lab.
David Blake	Prof.	English	Ph.D. -Washington U. in St. Louis	19th and 20th century U.S. literature, creative nonfiction	He is the author of Walt Whitman and the Culture of American Celebrity (Yale) and Liking Ike: Eisenhower, Advertising, and the Rise of Celebrity Politics (Oxford), the winner of the 2017 PROSE Award for the year’s best book in Media & Cultural Studies.
Ashley Borders	Assoc.	Psychology	Ph.D. – U. of Southern California	The causes and consequences of rumination; Anger, hostility, and aggressive behavior; Mindfulness and meditation	Directs the Clinical Outcomes and Processes (COP) Lab. This lab is dedicated to studying cognitive processes that are associated with clinical outcomes.
Elizabeth Borland	Assoc.	Sociology Anthropology	Ph.D. – Sociology, U. of Arizona	Gender, Organizations (particularly non-profit groups), Social Movements (particularly women’s movements in Latin America), Applied Sociology, Scholarship of Teaching and Learning; social movements, particularly the women’s movement in Argentina; etc.	She recently published an article written in collaboration with Barbara Sutton (SUNY-Albany) in Feminist Studies on trends in Argentina’s movement for reproductive rights (2013). She co-authored work on women’s mobilization in Gender & Society.
Dan Bowen	Assist.	Political Science	Ph.D. in Political Science, U. of Iowa	American politics and research methodology	Substantively, his work uses variation in citizen opinions and behavior to evaluate political institutions, institutional performance, and political processes, with a focus on U.S. legislative institutions.
Winnifred Brown-Glaude	Assoc.	African American Studies	Ph.D., Temple University	Primary fields of research include, Race and Ethnicity in the Anglophone-Caribbean; Race, Gender and Informal Economies; Gender and Globalization.	Her most recent book is Higgler’s in Kingston: Women’s Informal Work in Jamaica (Vanderbilt University Press, 2011). Her other publications include several articles and an edited collection, Doing Diversity in Higher Education: etc.
Jo Carney	Prof.	English	Ph.D. – University of Iowa	Shakespeare, Early Modern Literature and History, the Literary Fairy Tale
William Carter	Assist.	History	Ph.D., Princeton U	Early American History, History of the American West, and Native American History
Sarah Chartock	Assist.	Political Science	Ph.D. – Princeton University	Comparative Politics with a focus on Latin American politics, race and ethnic politics, political institutions and social movements	Her Ph.D. dissertation, entitled Ethnodevelopment in Latin America: Political Competition and the Making of Ethnically-Targeted Participatory Policy in Ecuador, Peru and Guatemala: 1985-2005 examines and explains the varying levels of ethnically targeted
Celia Chazelle	Prof.	History	Ph.D. – Yale University	Prison outreach	She is co-director of the Institute for Prison Teaching and Outreach.
He Len Chung	Assoc.	Psychology	Ph.D. – Temple University	Positive Youth Development; Resilience During the Transition to Adulthood; Community-Based Research	Directs the Research on Emerging Adulthood and Community Health (REACH) Lab.
Tim Clydesdale	Prof.	Sociology Anthropology	Ph.D., – Sociology, Princeton U.	Religious Life & American Higher Education, Young Adults & American Culture
Deborah Compte	Prof.	World Languages Culture	Ph.D., Princeton U	Spanish Golden Age Literature: Cervantes; Lope de Vega; Calder
Jarret Crawford	Assoc.	Psychology	Ph.D. – Rutgers University	Political attitudes; political judgment and decision-making	Directs the Political Psychology Lab.
Vincent Czyz	Assist. P-T	English
Jason Dahling	Assoc.	Psychology	Ph.D. – University of Akron	Emotional Labor in customer service settings; Feedback and performance appraisal; Deviance from organizational rules	Serves as Industrial/Organization (I/O) Coordinator, and Director of the Organizational Psychology Lab.
Holly Didi-Ogren	Assist.	Sociology Anthropology	Ph.D., U of Texas at Austin	Interactional sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, language and power, gender and language, Japan; pragmatics in foreign-language teaching	Coordinates the Japanese language program.
Tao Dumas	Assist.	Political Science	Ph.D. – Louisiana State University		Her research primarily focuses on the role of institutions and contextual factors in shaping litigation outcomes in U.S. state trial and appellate courts.
Alvin Joaquin Figueroa	Assoc.	World Languages Culture	Ph.D., CUNY Graduate Center	Spanish-American Contemporary Literature, Caribbean Studies, LGBTQ Studies, Masculinities, Quaker Studies, Religion and Christian Spirituality	He is the author of two books on contemporary Puerto Rican authors Luis Rafael Sanchez and Clemente Soto Velez.
Christopher Fisher	Assoc.	History	Ph.D., Rutgers U	20th-Century American diplomacy, the Cold War, and Race Politics in the United States
Leigh-Anne Francis	Assist.	Women Gender Studies	Ph.D. in United States and African American History		Her unpublished book manuscript, “Bad Girls: Race, Crime, and Punishment in New York State, 1893—1916,” analyzes the intersections of gender, race and class by exploring crime and punishment, labor and community, through the lens of black women’s experience
Ellen Friedman	Prof.	English	Ph.D., New York U	Modern American Literature, Gender and Literature, Literary Theory, Representations of the Holocaust	Her books include Joyce Carol Oates, Breaking the Sequence: Women’s Experimental Fiction, and Morality USA. She has published articles in such journals as Ms. Magazine, PMLA, Modern Fiction Studies and given talks nationally and internationally.
Luis Gabriel-Stheeman	Assoc.	World Languages Culture	Ph.D. – University of Cincinnati	Research interests: Research interests: Hispanic Language Ideologies, Politics of Language in the Hispanic World, Discourse Analysis.
Lynn Gazley	Assist.	Sociology Anthropology	Ph.D., MPH, Northwestern	Public Health, Medical Sociology; diversity, globalization, and the life sciences; how non-traditional scientists participate in contemporary life sciences and medical research, and how these processes shape medical knowledge-making	In her current project, she collaborates with the Scientific Careers Research and Development Group at Northwestern University on the National Longitudinal Study of Young Life Scientists which follows a diverse group of graduate students
Joseph Goebel	Assoc.	World Languages Culture	Ph.D. – Georgetown University	Applied Linguistics, Teacher Preparation, Teacher Professional Development; SLA theories and their implications for the classroom	He has been recognized with teaching awards from TCNJ and Temple University. He has published articles on language teaching in Japanese Language and Literature, The Foreign Language Annals and The Journal of Graduate Teaching Assistant Development.
Jean Graham	Prof.	English	Ph.D., Case Western Reserve U	Early Modern Literature and History, Milton, Metaphysical Poetry	She has published articles on seventeenth-century poetry, drama, and prose, and is currently translating Spenser’s The Faerie Queene into modern English.
James Graham	Prof.	Psychology	Ph.D. – University of Memphis	Empathy and prosocial behavior in peer relationships; School/Community-based research partnerships; etc.	Directs the Children’s Social Development Lab.
Janet Gray		Women Gender Studies	Ph.D., Princeton U	Feminist Theories, Global Women Writers, Global Feminisms, Politics of Sexuality, Feminism in the Workplace and Gender and Democracy
Lisa Grimm	Assoc.	Psychology	Ph.D. – The University of Texas at Austin	Motivation, stereotypes, and individual differences; Procedural learning, such as required in golf putting; Standardized testing; Explicit and implicit learning systems	Directs the Motivational, Individual Differences & Stereotypes in Cognition Lab
Jo-Ann Gross	Prof.	History	Ph.D. – New York University	Middle Eastern and Central Eurasian History, Sufism	She looks for funding also for Student costs for summer service internships in the Middle East, Central Asia, Afghanistan, Iran, or other Muslim countries, and Historical preservation of Tajikistan manuscripts, the purchase of equipment to do this work.
Frank Hannold	Assist.	English	M.A., University of Florida	Global Animated Film, Screenwriting Workshop, The Film, Mythology, Short Story and Contemporary Literature
Holly Haynes	Assoc.	Philosophy Religion
Joanna Herres	Assist.	Psychology	Ph.D., University of Delaware	Research interests include: child and adolescent depression and anxiety, coping, and emotional reactivity.
Arthur Hohmuth	Prof.	Psychology	Ph.D. – U. of Delaware, General Experimental Psychology	Counseling and clinical psychology	Serves as Psychology Club co-advisor.
Craig Hollander	Assist.	History	PhD, Johns Hopkins University	Early American studies	Professor Hollander was the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships during his time in graduate school, including the Alexander Butler Prize, the Hodson Fellowship in the Humanities, a Doris G. Quinn Fellowship, a Dean’s Teaching Fellowship, etc.
David Holleran	Assoc.	Criminology	Ph.D. in Criminology, U. of Nebraska/Omaha	Intersection of race and various criminal justice decision points and, more recently, policy analysis and the geospatial distribution of crime and police services
Mary Lynn Hopps		Women Gender Studies	M.A., English, TCNJ		Director of the Women in Learning and Leadership (W.I.L.L.) Program.
Marimar Huguet-Jerez	Assist.	World Languages Culture	Ph.D., University of Cincinnati	Spanish Civil War, its literature and films	She has published articles about Spanish Contemporary Theater (Itziar Pascual)
Harriet Hustis	Prof.	English	Ph.D., Brown University	Literary theory; British, American, and world literature
Mohamoud Ismail	Assist.	Sociology Anthropology	Ph.D., Wayne State U	Islam, Africa, Racism, the American justice system
Cassandra Jackson	Prof.	English	Ph.D., Emory U	African-American literature, critical race theory, and visual culture	She is the author of Barriers Between Us: Interracial Sex in Nineteenth-Century American Literature (Indiana University Press, 2004)
Marla Jaksch	Assist.	Women Gender Studies	Ph.D. in Women’s Studies & Art Education, Penn State U.	Transnational feminisms, gender and development, indigenous rights and grassroots organizing, art and microfinance schemes, visual culture, cultural tourism, heritage, and preservation, feminist pedagogues and methodologies, and global service-learning
Richard Kamber	Prof.	Philosophy Religion	Ph.D. – Claremont Graduate School	Experimental Philosophy, Aesthetics, Existentialism, Pragmatism, Film, Genocide, Education Policy
Chu Kim-Prieto	Assoc.	Psychology	Ph.D. – University of Illinois	Culture and Emotion; Subjective Well-Being; Cultural Psychology	Directs the Emotions Lab.
Jean Kirnan	Prof.	Psychology	Ph.D. – Fordham University	Using biodata to predict first year college success; Everyday ethical case studies; Development of department assessment tools; Assisting community partners with assessment	Directs the Testing and Assessment in Psychology Lab.
Lincoln Konkle	Prof.	English	Ph.D., U of Wisconsin – Madison	Thornton Wilder, American Drama, Classical to Contemporary Drama, Bruce Springsteen	He serves on the board of the Thornton Wilder Society. He also is an officer of the Edward Albee Society, which he co-founded with David Crespy in 2013.
Roman Kovalev	Assoc.	History	Ph.D., U of Minnesota	Russia, Eurasia, and Medieval Economic History	Co-authored Dirham Hoards from Medieval Western Eurasia, c. 700-c. 1100 [Commentationes De Nummis Saeculorum IX-XI in Suecia Repertis. Nova series 13] (Stockholm) (in preparation).
John Krimmel	Assoc.	Criminology	Ph.D. in criminal justice – City U. of NY	Fostering enhanced family bonding to married inmates maxing out of their prison sentences in New Jersey	Prior to academia, he was employed as an analyst and unit chief in the New Jersey Division of Criminal Justice. He also served as a police officer in Bristol Township, Pennsylvania.
John Landreau		Women Gender Studies	Ph.D., Princeton U	Men and masculinities; masculinity and war rhetoric since September 11	He has published on Latin American literature and intellectual history in a variety of journals and anthologies. He has just begun to write and publish in the field of gender studies.
Pierre Le Morvan	Assoc.	Philosophy Religion	Ph.D., Philosophy, Syracuse U.	Epistemology, Philosophy of Perception, Philosophy of Religion, Intentionality, Philosophy of Science, Truth, Animal Consciousness and Animal Ethics
Margaret Leigey	Assoc.	Criminology	Ph.D. in criminology – U. of Delaware	Special populations of inmates, including older life-sentenced inmates, female life-sentenced inmates, and juveniles incarcerated in adult facilities	Her dissertation at U. of Delaware was awarded the George Herbert Ryden Prize for Best Dissertation in the Social Sciences from the University of Delaware in 2008.
Andrew Leynes	Prof.	Psychology	Ph.D. – University of Georgia	Neuroscience; Memory	Directs the Event-Related Potentials (ERP) Lab.
Rebecca Li	Assoc.	Sociology Anthropology	Ph.D., Sociology, U. California	Territorial disintegration, alternate routes to state breakdown, theories of revolutions within historial sociology
Xinru Liu	Assoc.	History	Ph.D., U of Penn	Ancient India, Silk Road, and World History
Miriam Lowi	Prof.	Political Science	Ph.D. – Princeton University	Middle East Politics and the Comparative Political Economy of Development	She has written extensively on conflict over scarce water in the Middle East. Her more recent work focuses on the political economy of development in oil-exporting states of the Middle East and North Africa.
Michael Marino	Assoc.	History	Ph.D. – Columbia University	Social Studies, Education, and Modern European History
Margaret Martinetti	Assoc.	Psychology	Ph.D. – Temple University	Animal models of alcohol abuse; Quantitative analyses of choice behavior; Behavioral economics of drug abuse; Cross-cultural differences in alcohol consumption	Directs the Alcohol Lab.
David Mazeika	Assist.	Criminology	PhD in criminology & criminal justice – U. of Maryland	Cost-benefits of alternatives to secure detention, the intersection of crime and place, and advocates more generally for data-driven decision making among juvenile and criminal justice practitioners	Served as an advisor to the Cambridge University Police Executive Program at U. of Maryland, training police officers in Jaipur, India on geospatial crime analysis techniques.
Larry McCauley	Assist.	English	Ph.D., U of Iowa	19th-century British Literature and Ecocriticism – ecocritical re-readings of canonical texts with special attention to land ethics
Robert McGreevey	Assoc.	History	Ph.D. – Brandeis University	Modern United State and the World
Mindi McMann	Assist.	English	Ph.D., U of California at Davis	Intersections of literature, politics, ethics, and nationalism, using contemporary British and Anglophone literature as the center point of her work	Her work addresses the ways in which literature both shapes and represents shifting national identities in a globalized context based on a range of factors such as race, ethnicity, class, and religion. Her work has appeared in Modern Fiction Studies.
Emily Meixner	Assoc.	English	Ph.D. – U. of Wisconsin-Madison	Young Adult Literature, LGBTQ Young Adult Literature, Teacher Identity Development, Reading and Writing Pedagogy	She is the Coordinator of English Secondary Education Program. She works regularly in local school districts providing professional development on such topics as reading/writing workshop, reading strategies and close reading, reading in the content areas
Jia-Yan Mi	Assoc.	World Languages Culture	Ph. D. English Literature and Cultural Study, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1996 Ph. D. Comparative Literature, Film Studies and Visual Culture, University of California, Davis, 2002	Literature and Chinese Modernity, East-West Comparative Poetics, New Chinese/Asian, Cinema— Visual Culture, Contemporary Chinese Popular Culture, Globalization and Diaspora Culture, Asian American Literature, Critical Theory, 20th Century World Modernism	He has published articles in both Chinese and English on visual and cinematic culture, globalization and cultural consumption, and East-West literary, postcolonial and gender politics.
Regina Morin	Prof.	World Languages Culture	Ph.D., Georgetown U	Vocabulary acquisition, the teaching of Phonetics, Linguistic borrowing and Spanish/English language contact on the Internet
Annmarie Nicolosi	Assoc.	Women’s & Gender Studies	Ph.D., Rutgers U	American Women’s History
Holly Ogren	Assist.	World Languages Culture	Ph.D., U of Texas at Austin	Interactional sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, language and power, gender and language, Japan; pragmatics in foreign-language teaching	Coordinates the Japanese language program.
Lisa Ortiz-Vilarelle	Assoc.	English	Ph.D., Wayne State U	20th-century Multiethnic and Inter-American literature and autobiographical studies with specific interest in narratives of exile, immigration and dictatorship	She is currently completing a book about Latina and Latin American women’s life writing on dictatorship tentatively titled Overwriting the Dictator: Americanas, Autocracy and Autobiographical Innovation.
Agustin Otero	Assoc.	World Languages Culture	Ph.D., Temple U	XIXth and XXth Century Spanish Literature; Post-Civil War Spanish Literature and Film; Spanish Detective Novel
Cynthia Paces	Prof.	History	Ph.D. – Columbia University	Modern European History
Ariane Pfenninger-Schardine	Assist.	World Languages Culture			Assistant professor of French.
Brian Potter	Assoc.	Political Science	Ph.D., UCLA	Political economy and international relations, with a focus on Latin America; environmental and economic policy	His work on environmental and economic policy has appeared in Latin American Perspectives, the Canadian Journal of Political Science, Energy and Development, Environmental Politics and as chapters in edited volumes.
Consuelo Preti	Prof.	Philosophy Religion	Ph.D., SUNY	Early Analytic Philosophy; Philosophy of Language; Philosophy of Mind
Melinda Roberts	Prof.	Philosophy Religion	Ph.D. – Five College Ph.D. Program, Amherst, MA; J.D. U. of Texas	Structure of consequentialism, the nonidentity problem, expected value and risk, the repugnant conclusion, wrongful life and wrongful disability, abortion, the new reproductive technologies–including human reproductive cloning and supernumerary pregnancy	Serves on the Human Subjects Review Board, Pre-Law Advisory Committee, Executive Committee, and has advised Philosophical Society. Practiced corporate and securities law at Wall Street firm for six and a half years.
Michael Robertson	Prof.	English	Ph.D. – Princeton University	19th- and 20th-century trans-Atlantic literary and cultural studies; poetry, utopian studies, American and British cultural and literary history, 1865-1925	He is the recipient of two National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships and author of two award-winning books: Worshipping Walt: The Whitman Disciples (Princeton UP, 2008) and Stephen Crane, Journalism, and the Making of Modern American Literature
Nelson Rodriguez		Women Gender Studies	Ph.D., Penn State	Gender and sexuality studies; queer theory; lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer studies; critical masculinity studies; popular culture; critical theory and philosophy of education; critical pedagogy; and qualitative research methodology
Catie Rosemurgy	Prof.	English	M.F.A., University of Alabama	Creative writing, poetry, contemporary literature	She is the author of two poetry collections, My Favorite Apocalypse and The Stranger Manual, both published by Graywolf Press. Her work has appeared in places such as Boston Review, The American Poetry Review, and The Gettysburg Review.
Adriana Rosman-Askot	Assoc.	World Languages Culture	Ph.D., Princeton U	Latin American Women Writers; Spanish American Literature of Exile; National and Gender Identity in Literature
Jess Row	Assoc.	English	M.F.A., University of Michigan	Creative Writing (Fiction), Contemporary American and World Literature, Narrative and Novel Theory	He is the author of a novel, Your Face In Mine (Riverhead, 2014), and two collections of short stories, Nobody Ever Gets Lost (FiveChapters Books, 2011) and The Train to Lo Wu (Dial Press/Random House, 2005). His fiction has appeared in The Atlantic,
Margaret Ruddy	Assist.	Psychology	Ph.D. – Princeton University	Attention, Temperament, Imagination, and Play in Infancy and Early Childhood; Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder; Parenting; Psychopathology	Directs the Infant and Child Studies Lab.
John Ruscio	Prof.	Psychology	Ph.D. – Brandeis University	Behavioral economics; modern and robust statistical methods; citation-based indices of scholarly impact; taxometric analysis	Directs the Qualitative Psychology Lab.
Miriam Shakow	Assist.	Sociology Anthropology	Ph.D. – Harvard	How new middle classes in Bolivia interpret and respond to dramatic economic and political transformations; how conflicts over gender, class, and racial inequalities play out in everyday family life and in community and regional politics	Her book, Along the Bolivian Highway: Social Mobility and Political Culture in a New Middle Class, was published by the University of Pennsylvania Press in 2014.
Qin Shao	Prof.	History	Ph.D. – Michigan State University	Modern East Asia, China Through the Ages
Wilbur Sowder	Assist.	English	Ph.D.	Intersections of gender, race and class	Her unpublished book manuscript, “Bad Girls: Race, Crime, and Punishment in New York State, 1893—1916,” analyzes the intersections of gender, race and class by exploring crime and punishment, labor and community, through the lens of black women’s experience
Amiee Stahl	Assist.	Psychology	Ph.D., Psychological & Brain Sciences, Johns Hopkins University	Cognitive development, learning and memory in infants and children, and social cognition.	Professional affiliations: Society for Research in Child Development, Cognitive Development Society, International Society for Infant Studies
Felicia Steele	Assist.	English	Ph.D. – U. of Texas at Austin	History of the English Language, Old and Middle English Language and Literature, Medievalism; writing assessment, cognitive linguistics, medieval literature, and the literature of the Inklings, particularly J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis	She has published essays in historical phonology (“Grendel: Another Dip into the Etymological Mere,” English Language Notes, 2003) and the uses of linguistic analysis in discussions of literary influence (“Shakespeare’s Sonnet 130, Explicator 2004).
Glenn Steinberg	Prof.	English	Ph.D., Indiana U	Reception of classical and medieval texts in England during the late Middle Ages and Renaissance with a particular emphasis on the evolving reputations of Virgil, Dante, and Chaucer from the fourteenth to the sixteenth centuries	He has published essays in Medieval & Renaissance Drama in England, The Chaucer Review, Chung Wai Literary Monthly, English Literary Renaissance, the Modern Language Association’s Approaches to Teaching Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde and the Shorter Poems
Diane Steinberg	Assist.	English
Bruce Stout	Assoc.	Criminology	Ph.D. – Rutgers School of Criminal Justice	Data-based decision making; using data and research to develop sane, equitable and effective criminal justice policies	Served as Executive Director of the Violence Institute and the Behavioral Research and Training Institute at the UMDNJ, where he was a clinical assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School.
Michele Lise Tarter	Prof.	English	Ph.D., U of Colorado, Boulder	Transatlantic Quaker women’s prophesying and writing, the body and cultural studies in early American literature, and women’s prison literature	She has established a memoir-writing program in New Jersey’s only maximum-security prison for women, working with TCNJ students in co-teaching an inmates’ 10-week writing workshop each spring semester.
James Stacey Taylor	Assoc.	Philosophy Religion	Ph.D. – Bowling Green State U.	Applied ethics (especially medical ethics and the morality of markets), ethical theory, action theory, and metaphysical issues surrounding death	Currently serves as the Academic Integrity Officer of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences. Serves as Managing Editor (with exclusive responsibility for book reviews) of The Journal of Value Inquiry
Nicholas Toloudis	Assist.	Political Science	Ph.D., Columbia University	Political economy, welfare states, social policy, popular protest, and state formation in Europe and the United States; political consequences of the ongoing financial crisis in Europe	His first book Teaching Marianne and Uncle Sam (Temple University Press, 2012) examines the origins of public school teachers’ unions in France and the United States.
David Venturo	Prof.	English	Ph.D., Harvard U	British literature, 1600-1850, baseball and American culture, and the Beatles and popular culture	He is the author of Johnson the Poet: The Poetic Career of Samuel Johnson (University of Delaware) and editor of The School of the Eucharist . . . With a Preface Concerning the Testimony of Miracles (AMS Press), writes and teaches about British literature
Jeanine Vivona	Prof.	Psychology	Ph.D. – University of Massachusetts	Psychotherapy process; Language; Identity Development; Sibling Relationships	Clinical Psychology Lab
Ann Warner-Ault	Non-Tenure Track	World Languages Culture	Ph.D., Hispanic Studies, Columbia University	Hispanic and Brazilian art and literature, Latino literature, language-teaching pedagogy, and designing community-engaged learning projects for college students	She created a writing-intensive first-year seminar in English about the experience of Hispanic immigrants in the U.S. and is currently teaching an upper-level Spanish course about avant-garde art and literature in Spain and Latin America.
Shaun Wiley	Assoc.	Psychology	Ph.D. – City University of New York	How group members respond to disadvantage; Immigration and cultural diversity; Group identity and intergroup relations; Collective action	Directs the Social Change and Collective Identity Lab.
Piper Kendrix Williams	Assoc.	English	Ph.D. – Rutgers University	Race and Ethnicity
Morton Winston	Prof.	Philosophy Religion	Ph.D. – U. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign	Fields of specialization: Human rights theory and practice, social and political philosophy, biomedical ethics, environmental ethics, business ethics, philosophy of technology	His identified fields of competence include: history of modern philosophy, ethical theory, symbolic logic, philosophy of language, philosophy of science, cognitive science.
Jane L. Wong	Dean		Ph.D., Psychology		Dr. Wong has authored or co-authored about twenty-five articles in peer-reviewed journals and presented or co-presented a similar number of papers at professional conferences.
Simona Wright	Prof.	World Languages Culture	Ph.D., Rutgers U	Twentieth Century Italian Literature; Italian Women Writers; Poetics of Migration; Italian language (and Second Language Acquisition) and on 19th- and 20th-century Italian literature, Italian Studies, Post-colonial and Cultural studies; Italian studies,	She has published a volume on Italo Calvino (1998), and has published extensively on Italian women writers, Italian poetry, and the literature of migration. She is the Editor of NeMLA Italian Studies.
Karen Fenner	Instructor P-T	World Languages and Culture
Sung-Hak Kang	Assist.	Philosophy, Relig, & Classics
Matthew McAndrews	Assist.	Philosophy, Relig, & Classics
Sandra Sepulveda-Kozakowski	Assist.	Psychology	Ph.D., University of Delaware
Jessica Wilton	Assist.	English