Faculty and Staff
Stanton Green, Ph.D., Dean, sgreen@monmouth.edu
Golam Mathbor, Associate Dean, gmathbor@monmouth.edu
Michael Thomas, Assistant Dean, mthomas@monmouth.edu
Judith Ramos, Assistant to the Dean, jramos@monmouth.edu
Lynn Clay, Office Coordinator, lclay@monmouth.edu
Frederick L. McKitrick, Chair, Department of History and Anthropology
Richard F. Veit, Coordinator of Anthropology
Aaron Ansell, Assistant Professor and Co-Director of the Jewish Culture Program. B.A., University of California, San Diego; M.A., Ph.D., University of Chicago.
aansell@monmouth.edu
Edward Gonzalez-Tennant, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Director of GIS Program. Ph.D., University of Florida. Archaeology, Diaspora Studies, Geographic Information System, New Media and Heritage, Violence Studies. egonzale@monmouth.edu
Stanton W. Green, Professor of Anthropology; Dean of the McMurray School of Humanities and Social Sciences. Phd.D., University of Massachusetts, Amherst. American Culture, Archaeology, and Ireland.
sgreen@monmouth.edu
William P. Mitchell, Professor of Anthropology and Freed Foundation Endowed Chair in Social Science. Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh. Human migration, cultural evolution, South America and Peru. Author of Peasants on the Edge: Crop, Culture, and Crisis in the Andes and co-author of Irrigation in High Altitudes: the Social Organization of Water Control Systems in the Andes (1994).
mitchell@monmouth.edu
Richard Veit, Associate Professor of Anthropology and History, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania. Historic preservation, North American Indians, industrial archaeology and gravestones.
rveit@monmouth.edu
Andrew Cohen, Chair, Professor. Department of Art and Design. Ph.D., University of Chicago, History of Art. Research spans from Medieval India to contemporary South Asian art. Author of Temple Architecture and Sculpture of the Nolambas (9th-10th Centuries). acohen@monmouth.edu
Tom Baker, Associate Professor, M.F.A., University of Wisconsin, Madison. Book arts, papermaking, lithography, and intaglio.
tbaker@monmouth.edu
Karen T. Bright, Associate Professor. M.F.A., Cranbrook Academy of Art. Graphic design, computer graphics, corporate design, signage, interior, and related collateral design, painting, and printmaking.
kbright@monmouth.edu
Pat Hill Cresson, Professor. M.F.A., Pratt Institute. Computer graphics and graphic design, art direction, and design from concept through print in the areas of publishing, graphic design, and computer illustration.
pcresson@monmouth.edu
Vincent DiMattio, Professor. M.F.A., Southern Illinois University. Drawing, painting, and basic design.
vdimatti@monmouth.edu
Edward Johnston, Specialist Professor. M.F.A., University of Michigan; B.A., M.Ed., University of Notre Dame; Post-baccalaureate Certificate, MICA. Animation, 3D media, computer graphics, digital fabrication, and digital art.
ejohnsto@monmouth.edu
Anne Massoni, Specialist Professor. B.A., Connecticut College; M.F.A., Ohio University. Photography and digital art.
amassoni@monmouth.edu
Mike Richison, Specialist Professor. M.F.A., Painting, Cranbrook Academy of Art. Teaches Motion Graphics, History of Graphic Design and Typography. Mike is a multimedia artist who utilizes a variety of media and approaches including graphic design, video, sculpture, printmaking, drawing, and installation.
mrichiso@monmouth.edu
Jing Zhou, Associate Professor. B.F.A., Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, China; M.F.A., Georgia Southern University. Web design, graphic design, digital media art, flash animation, art direction, and fine arts.
jzhou@monmouth.edu
Chad Dell, Chair, Associate Professor. Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison. Broadcasting and cultural studies, television production and analysis, broadcast history, and media policy. Faculty advisor for student TV station, Hawk TV.
cdell@monmouth.edu
Andrew Demirjian, Specialist Professor. M.F.A., Hunter College. Introduction to Media Literacy, Introduction to TV Production, and Media special topics.
ademirji@monmouth.edu
Donna Montanaro Dolphin, Associate Professor. M.F.A., Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University. TV production, communication, and media theory. Independent producer of documentaries. Faculty advisor to the student-operated TV station, Hawk TV.
ddolphin@monmouth.edu
Aaron Furgason, Associate Professor. M.A., Emerson College. Introduction to Radio Production, Introduction to Screen Studies, Media Ethics, Radio in the Music Industry, Radio Programming and Promotions, Talk Radio, Radio in America, and Generation 'X' Film Directors. Faculty advisor to the 1000-watt FM University radio station, WMCX.
afurgaso@monmouth.edu
Mary Harris, Specialist Professor. MA, Monmouth University. BA, Rowan University. Areas of interest include public relations, social media campaigns, marketing and event planning.
Shannon Hokanson, Lecturer .M.A., Monmouth University. Interpersonal, intercultural, and organizational communication.
shokanso@monmouth.edu
Shiela McAllister-Spooner, Assistant Professor. Ph.D., Rutgers University, The State University of New Jersey. APR, Public Relations Society of America. Crisis and Issues Management, Introduction to Public Relations, Nonprofit Fundraising, Principles of Public Relations, Public Relations Practicum, Public Relations Writing, PR Fundraising, and Strategic Public Relations Planning. Serves as faculty advisor for the Monmouth University chapter of Public Relations Student Society of America (PRSSA).
smcallis@monmouth.edu
John Morano, Professor. M.A., Pennsylvania State University. Print journalism and media studies. Special interests include start-up publications, magazine journalism and freelance journalism, environmental journalism, film criticism, and journalism ethics. Advisor to the student-operated newspaper, The Outlook.
morano@monmouth.edu
Eleanor M. Novek, Associate Professor. Ph.D., Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania. Journalism, gender studies, research methods, and social justice research, racial discrimination, prison issues, high school journalism, and service learning. Serves as Director of the Master's Program in Corporate and Public Communication.
enovek@monmouth.edu
Michael Phillips-Anderson, Assistant Professor. Ph.D., University of Maryland. Political Communication, Critical Discourse, Senior Seminar, and Introduction to Communication.
mphillip@monmouth.edu
Rebecca Sanford, Associate Professor. Ph.D., Temple University. Interpersonal communication, intercultural communication, family communication, nonverbal communication, and communication theory. Serves as faculty advisor to Lambda Pi Eta, the National Communication Honor Society.
rsanford@monmouth.edu
Robert Scott, Specialist Professor. M.F.A., University of Miami. Television production and broadcast news, film and video production, screenwriting and media studies, media technology, Web publishing, film history, creative writing, corporate communication, and management. Serves as faculty advisor for the student-operated HawkTV News.
rescott@monmouth.edu
Jennifer Shamrock, Lecturer. Ph.D., Hugh Downs School of Communication, Arizona State University. Ethnographic, narrative, and textual forms of inquiry from a feminist critical perspective.
jshamroc@monmouth.edu
Deanna Shoemaker, Assistant Professor. Ph.D., The University of Texas at Austin. Performance and Theater Studies, Communication Studies, and Gender Studies, feminist performance practices, performance of literature, performance ethnography, critical race theory, cultural and aesthetic performances of femininity, and critical stagings of race/ethnicity and sexuality. Faculty advisor for CommWorks, Students Committed to Performance.
dshoemak@monmouth.edu
Kristine M. Simoes, Specialist Professor. M.A., Rowan University. Public Relations Writing/Layout and Design, Public Relations Campaigns, and Public Relations Trends and Analysis.
ksimoes@monmouth.edu
Don R. Swanson, Professor and Chair of the Department of Philosophy, Religion and Interdisciplinary Studies. Ed.D., University of Northern Colorado. Organizational, intercultural, and political communication, corporate communication consulting, training, dispute resolution, executive communication, diversity management, and critical discourse.
dswanson@monmouth.edu
Claude E. Taylor, Lecturer. M.A., West Chester University. Media Studies, Communication Theory, and Political Communication; explorations of the relationship between contemporary media in the United States and political participation across identity categories, such as race, class, and gender; the relationship between social class, the media, and democratic citizenship; the intersection of popular culture and contemporary U.S. Politics.
ctaylor@monmouth.edu
Marina Vujnovic, Assistant Professor. Ph.D., University of Iowa. International communication, journalism studies; explorations of the historical, political-economic and cultural impact on media; gender, ethnicity, and media participatory journalism and new media studies. Classes: Introduction to Journalism, Online Journalism, Global Journalism, and Research Methods.
mvujnovi@monmouth.edu
Sherry Wien, Associate Professor. Ph.D., Rutgers University. Organizational communication and communication theory, interpersonal relationships at work, socialization within organizations, mentoring, student learning outcomes assessment, and part-time workers socialization.
swien@monmouth.edu
Albert Gorman, Chair, Specialist Professor. B.A., Iona College; M.A., ABD, City University of New York. Police recruitment and training, police stress, organization, and administration of law enforcement, and ethics in criminal justice.
agorman@monmouth.edu
Greg Coram, Associate Chair and Professor. Psy.D., Indiana State University. Psychology, criminal pathology, and corrections.
coram@monmouth.edu
Michele Grillo, Assistant Professor. B.S., M.A., University of Massachusetts; M.A., Ph.D., Rutgers University, Criminology.
Peter Liu, Professor. Ph.D., Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Research methods, criminology, comparative criminal justice systems, and criminal justice organizations administration and management.
pliu@monmouth.edu
Brian Lockwood, Assistant Professor. B.A., College of New Jersey; M.A., ABD, Temple University.
Ronald Reisner, Associate Professor. Ph.D., Columbia University; J.D., Rutgers University School of Law. Victims' rights, juvenile law, and Fourth Amendment rights.
rreisner@monmouth.edu
Brion Sever, Associate Professor. Ph.D., Florida State University. Criminal justice public policy, crime and policing, and corrections.
bsever@monmouth.edu
Susan Goulding, Chair, Associate Professor. Ph.D., New York University. Eighteenth-century British literature, women's studies, and British history.
goulding@monmouth.edu
G. Oty Agbajoh-Laoye, Associate Professor and Director of the African-American Studies Program. Ph.D., University of Ibadan, Nigeria. African Diaspora (African-American and Afro-Caribbean literature in English) and African Postcolonial literature, Black women’s fiction and criticism, the Slave Narrative, and Oral tradition.
olaoye@monmouth.edu
Mary Kate Azcuy, Associate Professor. Ph.D., Drew University. Contemporary American literature; poetry.
mazcuy@monmouth.edu
Noel Belinski, Lecturer. M.A., Monmouth University. Specialties are composition pedagogy and General Education literature courses.
nbelinsk@monmouth.edu
Stanley Blair, Associate Professor. Ph.D., Duke University. American literature and culture, poetry, history of rhetoric, New Jersey literature and folklore, and popular culture.
Kristin Bluemel, Professor. Ph.D., Rutgers University. British modernism, English interwar and war literature, feminist criticism and theory, the novel in English, women's literature and feminist criticism.
kbluemel@monmouth.edu
Liora Brosh, Lecturer. Ph.D., New York University. Specialties include nineteenth-century British literature and film studies.
lbrosh@monmouth.edu
Heather Brown, Assistant Professor. Ph.D., University of Maryland. Specialty is rhetoric and composition with an emphasis on the rhetoric medicine.
Margaret Del Guercio, Associate Professor. Ph.D., New York University. The novel in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, poetry, prose fiction and Shakespeare.
delguerc@monmouth.edu
Josh Emmons, Assistant Professor. B.A., Oberlin College; M.F.A., The University of Iowa.
Heide R. Estes, Associate Professor, Graduate Program Director. Ph.D., New York University. Old English and Middle English literature.
hestes@monmouth.edu
Prescott Evarts, Professor. Ph.D., Columbia University. Contemporary English, American literature, and poetry.
evarts@monmouth.edu
Frank Fury, Lecturer. Ph.D., Drew University. Twentieth-century American literature
ffury@monmouth.edu
Elizabeth Gilmartin-Keating, Lecturer. Ph.D., New York University. Areas of interest include the Irish language and Victorian Ireland.
egilmart@monmouth.edu
Neil Graves, Lecturer. Ph.D., University of Oxford. Seventeenth-century British literature; Milton.
ngraves@monmouth.edu
Jeffrey Jackson, Assistant Professor. PhD, Rice University. Areas of specialty include nineteenth-century British Romantic and Victorian literature.
Linda Littman, Lecturer. Ed.D., Teachers College, Columbia University. Areas of interest include American Studies, Asian culture, and pedagogy of writing.
llittman@monmouth.edu
Mihaela Moscaliuc, Assistant Professor. PhD, University of Maryland. Areas of speciality include immigrant literature, postcolonial studies, translation studies, and poetry writing.
Abha Sood Patel, Lecturer. Ph.D., Indian Institute of Technology. Areas of interest include twentieth-century American fiction, popular literature, and Victorian literature.
apatel@monmouth.edu
Sue Starke, Associate Professor. Ph.D., Rutgers University. Renaissance literature and culture, medieval literature, Victorian literature, and genre theory.
sstarke@monmouth.edu
David Tietge, Associate Professor, Director of First Year Composition. Ph.D., Rhetoric and Composition, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale; M.A., English Renaissance Literature, Indiana State University. Rhetoric.
dtietge@monmouth.edu
Lisa Vetere, Associate Professor, Undergraduate Program Coordinator. Ph.D., Lehigh University. Early and antebellum American literature/culture, with emphasis on historiography and the historical romance, American studies, cultural studies, and feminist criticism.
lvetere@monmouth.edu
Michael Waters, Professor. Ph.D., Ohio University. Poetry and creative writing; American literature.
mgwaters@monmouth.edu
Mirta Barrea-Marlys, Chair, Associate Professor, Department of Foreign Language Studies. Ph.D., Romance Languages, University of Pennsylvania. Spanish and Italian Linguistics and Latin American women writers.
mbarrea@monmouth.edu
Priscilla Gac-Artigas, Professor of Foreign Languages. Ph.D., University of Franche-Comte, France. Latin American literature, culture and civilization, and contemporary Latin American women writers and Latino writers in the United States. New research area: how to develop writing proficiency in Spanish: mastering the mechanics of the writing process.
pgacarti@monmouth.edu
Alison Maginn, Associate Professor of Spanish. Proficiency-oriented language, contemporary Spanish literature and culture, the narrative, poetry, and film of twentieth century Spain.
amaginn@monmouth.edu
Julia Riordan-Goncalves, Assistant Professor. B.A., Dickinson College; M.A., ABD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2001). Twentieth century Spanish novel; sociological theory and the novel; Spanish Civil War literature; and the novel written under dictatorship. Currently completing Ph.D. dissertation.
jriordan@monmouth.edu
Maria Simonelli, Lecturer of Italian and Latin. Laurea di DOTTORE in Fiosofia, Universita' di Napoli, Italy; Maturia' Classica, Istituto Carducci, Nola, Italy. Italian Literature and culture, and the socio-cultural evolution of the woman in the Neapolitan Hinterland during the Twentieth Century.
msimonel@monmouth.edu
Frederick L. McKitrick, Chair/Associate Professor. Ph.D., Columbia University. German history, French history, modern European history, and German artisans of the Nazi and post-Nazi periods.
fmckitri@monmouth.edu
Julius O. Adekunle, Professor. Ph.D., Dalhousie University, Canada. African history, Africa and its diaspora, Caribbean history, Western Civilization, ethnic and religious violence in Africa.
jadekunl@monmouth.edu
Kenneth L. Campbell, Associate Professor. Ph.D., University of Delaware. English history, Medieval and Early Modern Europe, history of witchcraft, seventeenth-century English history and historiography.
campbell@monmouth.edu
Christopher DeRosa, Associate Professor, Ph.D., Temple University. US military history, US political history, World War II, the Cold War, and the history of politics and political indoctrination in the armed forces.
cderosa@monmouth.edu
Maureen Dorment, Lecturer, M.Phil., Drew University. History of the Book, Victorian Culture, Propaganda and Censorship, Western Civilization.
mdorment@monmouth.edu
Susan Douglass, Specialist Professor. M.A., Brooklyn College. The Vietnam Era, The Holocaust.
sdouglas@monmouth.edu
Brian Greenberg, Professor of History and Jules L. Plangere, Jr. Chair in American Social History. Ph.D., Princeton University. History of American workers, American social history, history of public policy in America, industrialization of the United States, and 1783 to the present.
bgreenbe@monmouth.edu
Jean Li, Lecturer. PhD, University of California, Berkeley. Specialization in the art and archaeology of Ancient Egypt. Teaching areas include Western Civilization, the Ancient World, and Archaeology. Research interests include the use of contemporary archaeological theory in the study of ancient world, gender, identity and memory studies. Other interests include museum studies and public educaiton and curriculum developement
Katherine Parkin , Associate Professor. Ph.D., Temple University. U.S. women's history, family history, U.S. social history, U.S. cultural history. food advertising and gender roles in the twentieth-century United States.
kparkin@monmouth.edu
Thomas Pearson, Vice President for Academic Affairs, Provost, and Professor. Ph.D., University of North Carolina. Russian history, Soviet and Russian foreign policy, comparative revolutions, nineteenth-century Europe, and modern Eastern Europe.
pearson@monmouth.edu
Maryanne Rhett, Assistant Professor and Co-Director of of the Jewish Culture Program. Ph.D., Washington State University. Middle Eastern, Arab-Israeli, and World History.
mrhett@monmouth.edu
Karen Schmelzkopf, Associate Professor of Geography. Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University. Geographic Information Systems, land use policy, community organizations, urban redevelopment, community activism, politics of public space, and urban redevelopment issues in Asbury Park.
kschmelz@monmouth.edu
Hettie Williams, Lecturer. B.A., Rowan University; M.A., Monmouth University
hwilliam@monmouth.edu
David Tripold, Chair/Associate Professor. Ph.D., Drew University. Field of interest in American sacred music. He is a composer, choral director, vocal teacher, and organist.
dtripold@monmouth.edu
Sheri Anderson, Specialist Professor. M.F.A., University of California, San Diego. Extensive Broadway experience as both a director and stage manager. To date, she has done thirteen Broadway productions, two national tours, and numerous regional and off-Broadway shows. Highlights include the Broadway production of Phantom of the Opera, Little Me, and the The Full Monty. She has been privileged to work with such theatrical legends as Neil Simon, Cy Coleman, Jerry Herman, Marvin Hamlisch, Terence McNally, John Guare, Chita Rivera, Rob Marshall, and Horton Foote, as well as Hollywood heavyweights Martin Short, John Lithgow, John Ritter, Henry Winkler, Kevin Spacey, and Madeline Kahn. She spent much of 2003 at Oxford University studying Shakespeare in performance. Fields of interest include theatre history and musical theatre. She is a member of The Actors' Equity Association and Mensa.
shanders@monmouth.edu
John J. Burke, Associate Professor. Ph.D., Michigan State University, Theatre; M.A.L.S., New School, Liberal Arts: Humanities, Philosophy and the Arts; M.A.T., New Jersey City College, English and Theatre Education; B.A., English, Seton Hall University. A theatre generalist whose specialties include directing, theatre management, theatre education, and incorporating theatre methods in all areas of teaching. Directs the student productions, Producer/Director of the Shadow Lawn Stage.
jburke@monmouth.edu
Ronald Frangipane, Associate Professor, M.F.A. Goddard College. Attended and assisted Master classes with Igor Stravinsky and Aaron Copland and studied with Paul Creston. Received over 30 gold and platinum albums as an arranger-producer in the record industry. Received an Emmy award for his musical score “This Was America” created for the NBC series with William Shatner. Arranged or produced recordings for notable artists, including John Lennon, Diana Ross, Kiss, The Monkeys, The Rolling Stones, Janis Ian, Neil Diamond, Dusty Springfield, and Grace Slick (Jefferson Starship). Specializes in music in American culture: Blues, Jazz, Rock & Roll, American Musical Theatre, and Performance.
rfrangip@monmouth.edu
Michael Gillette, Specialist Professor; M.M. Music, Yale University. For twenty-five years he has been professional violinist in New York City and currently a member of the Radio City Music Hall Orchestra, The American Ballet Theatre Orchestra, the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra at Lincoln Center, and is concertmaster of Lehigh Valley Chamber Orchestra. He has played for many Broadway productions including Les Miserables, Beauty and the Beast, Damn Yankees, Crazy for You, Guys and Dolls, and Into the Woods. He has toured in Japan, The United Kingdom, Italy, and Venezuela and has performed with such diverse talents as Wynton Marsalis, Danny Kaye, Tony Bennett, Sammy Davis Jr., Johnny Mathis, The Modern Jazz Quartet, Perry Como, and the rapper Puff Daddy.
mgillett@monmouth.edu
Nicole Ricciardi, Assistant Professor of Theatre. M.F.A., Carnegie Mellon University; B.F.A, Drew University. Specialization includes all areas of acting and directing with a particular interest in Shakespeare and Early Modern English Drama.
nricciar@monmouth.edu
Gloria Rotella, Specialist Professor. Ed.D., Education, Rutgers University; M.A., Music Education, Jersey City State College; M.S.Ed., Monmouth University. Nominated for Outstanding Music Education by Westminster Choir College (1986), received Teacher of the Year Recognition from Long Branch School District (1991), and recipient of the Outstanding Adjunct of the Year, Brookdale Community College (2005-2006). Motivational speaker for New Teacher Institute at Rider University and an educational consultant for the New Jersey Department of Education as a Collaborative Assessment and Planning for Achievement (CAPA) team member.
grotella@monmouth.edu
George Wurzbach, Specialist Professor. M.A., Hunter College. Award winning composer, performer, and producer.
gwurzbac@monmouth.edu
PHILOSOPHY, RELIGION, AND INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES
Don Swanson , Chair, Department of Philosophy, Religion, and Interdisciplinary Studies and Professor of Communication
Golam Mathbor, Professor and Associate Dean of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences. Ph.D., The University of Calgary. Development and analysis of social policies and services, community organizing and social action, social planning, community development and community participation, international social work, community development, multicultural social work, and community participation.
gmathbor@monmouth.edu
Alan Schwerin, Associate Professor. Ph.D., Rice University. History of modern philosophy, philosophy of science, ethics, and the philosophy of David Hume and the philosophy of Bertrand Russell.
aschweri@monmouth.edu
Pasquale Simonelli, Lecturer. Ph.D. Universita' “L’Orientale,” Napoli, Italy (Oriental Philosophies and Religions), Doctorate, Universita, “Federico II,” Napoli, Italy (Continental Philosophy). Philosopher.
simonell@monmouth.edu
George Gonzalez, Assistant Professor. B.A. Yale University (Comparative Literature); M.A.R. Yale Divinity School (Social Ethics); Th.D. Harvard Divinity School (Religion and Society). Religious Studies. Ethics. Philosophy. Critical Theory. Ethnography and Interdisciplinary Methodologies.
POLITICAL SCIENCE AND SOCIOLOGY
Joseph Patten, Chair/Associate Professor and Director of the Global Leadership Institute and the Washing Semester. Ph.D., West Virginia University; M.A., Public Policy, West Virginia University. Public Policy, Political Campaigns at National, State and Local levels, the United States Congress, the American Presidency, Media Law, U.S. Senate and the Impact of Domestic Politics on U.S. Foreign Policy.
jpatten@monmouth.edu
Kathryn Kloby, Public Policy Program Director/Assistant Professor. Ph.D., Rutgers University. Current areas of interest include feminist and gender theories, the intersections of structural inequalities, identity and social movements, gender and mass incarceration. Affiliate Fellow of the Center for Women and Work at Rutgers, and co-founder of two not-for-profit associations for women in prison, including the Women's Reentry Initiative for Training and Education (WRITE-NJ).
kkloby@monmouth.edu
Nancy Mezey, Sociology Program Director/Associate Professor of Sociology. Ph.D., Sociology, Michigan State University; M.A., Sociology, Michigan State University; B.A., Sociology, Vassar College. Coordinator, Sociology Program. Family sociology, race-class-gender studies, gender studies, and the sociology of sexualities.
nmezey@monmouth.edu
Gregory Bordelon, Lecturer. JD, Louisiana State University. Specializes in legal-based courses. Monmouth University's Pre-Law Advisor, Department Career Advising and Planning Representative. Primary research interests include public law and policy, federalism and judicial policy, comparative legal procedure. Principal Editor of bar exam preparation materials for Louisiana. Co-author of "Napoleonic Code" in Legal Systems of the World by ABC-CLIO (2002). Taken and passed the state bar examinations in Louisiana and Oklahoma.
Rekha Datta, Professor, Founding Director, Institute for Global Understanding. Ph.D., University of Connecticut, M.A. (First Class) B.A. (Hons), Political Science, Presidency College, Calcutta, India. Political theory; international relations; comparative politics of South Asia, East Asia, and developing areas; gender and development; traditional and human security issues; and child labor.
rdatta@monmouth.edu
Kevin Dooley, Associate Professor and Dean of the Honors School. Ph.D. Center for Global Change and Governance, Rutgers University; M.A., Political Science, Rutgers University; B.A., Political Science, Monmouth University.
kdooley@monmouth.edu
Thomas Lamatsch, Assistant Professor. PhD, University of Connecticut. Specializes in statistical and applied methods, research design, American government, and education policy. His most recent research includes a large scale project on municipal government participation in modern electronic media - e-Government. Faculty adviser to the award winning Model UN Team and an Honor's School advisor.
Kenneth E. Mitchell, Associate Professor. Ph.D., Political Science, University of Oxford, M.Sc., Development Studies, Faculty of Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science, and B.A., Economics, University of California, Santa Cruz. Specialization in comparative politics, international relations, and political economy of development in Latin America, the Caribbean, and the developing world. Research interests include public sector reform, social sector reform, urban politics, and bureaucratic politics in Mexico, the Dominican Republic, and Argentina.
kmitchel@monmouth.edu
Patrick Murray, Director of Polling Institute. M.A., Political Science, Rutgers University; B.A., Government & Law, Lafayette College. Specialties include research methodology, public policy, and New Jersey politics.
pdmurray@monmouth.edu
Enoch Nappen, Associate Professor. Ph.D., New York University. Introduction to Constitutional Law and Constitutional Law: Civil Rights. Monmouth University's pre-law advisor and Political Science Department's career advisor.
enappen@monmouth.edu
Saliba Sarsar, Associate Vice President for Global Initiatives Initiatives and Professor. Ph.D., Rutgers University. International relations, international organizations, comparative government (Middle East), and American foreign policy.
sarsar@monmouth.edu
Gary Lewandowski, Jr., Chair/Associate Professor. Ph.D., State University of New York at Stony Brook. Social psychology, romantic relationships, interpersonal attraction, love, relationship maintenance, and relationship dissolution.
glewando@monmouth.edu
Natalie Ciarocco, Associate Professor. B.A., M.A., Ph.D., Case Western Reserve University.
nciarocc@monmouth.edu
Jack Demarest, Professor. Ph.D., State University of New York at Stony Brook. Animal behavior; behavioral ecology; evolutionary psychology, especially mating strategies; and sexual strategies in animal and human populations.
demarest@monmouth.edu
Lisa M. Dinella, Assistant Professor. Ph.D., Arizona State University. Gender development impacts individuals' life decisions and development, particularly in terms of education and career trajectories.
ldinella@monmouth.edu
Christine Hatchard, Specialist Professor. B.A., Monmouth University; M.S., Psy.D., Chestnut Hill College.
chatchar@monmouth.edu
Doris Klein Hiatt, Associate Professor. Ph.D., City University of New York. Normal and abnormal personality in cultural developmental, and gender-specific perspectives.
dhiatt@monmouth.edu
Robyn M. Holmes, Professor. Ph.D., Rutgers University. Child development with a primary interest in children's play and ethnic beliefs and qualitative methods.
rholmes@monmouth.edu
Judith L. Nye, Associate Professor, Associate Vice President of Academic Foundations for General Education. Ph.D., Virginia Commonwealth University. Experimental social psychology with a primary interest in social cognition, sex role stereotypes.
nye@monmouth.edu
David E. Payne, Associate Professor. Ph.D., Columbia University. Cognitive processes involved in learning and memory in humans and animals.
payne@monmouth.edu
Janice Stapley, Associate Professor. Ph.D., Rutgers University. Developmental psychology and emotion, gender differences in normal and pathological emotion and emotional development during adolescence.
jstapley@monmouth.edu
David B. Strohmetz, Associate Professor, Associate Vice President of Academic and Institutional Assessment. Ph.D., Temple University. Specialization in social psychology and the social psychology of the experiment.
dstrohme@monmouth.edu
Michele Van Volkom, Lecturer. B.A., Seton Hall University; M.A., Ph.D., State University of New York at Albany.
mvanvolk@monmouth.edu
George Kapalka, Chair/Associate Professor. Ph.D., Fairleigh Dickinson University. Counseling, clinical and school psychology with emphasis on child and adolescent counseling and assessment, learning disabilities, school consultation, legal/forensic issues, counseling, and management of children with behavioral problems (including ADHD) in school and at home, and the after-effects of the World Trade Center attacks.
gkapalka@monmouth.edu
David Burkholder, Assistant Professor. Ph.D., Kent State University. Specialization in mental health counseling with children and adolescents. Areas of interest include career counseling, student retention, spirituality, legal and ethical issues in therapy, and multicultural issues. dburkhol@monmouth.edu
Alan A. Cavaiola, Professor. Ph.D., Hofstra University. Counseling issues related to mental health and psychology, with a primary interest in alcoholism, substance abuse and other addictive behaviors, and their impact on individuals, couples and families, adolescent development, sequelae of trauma, abnormal personality development, DUI offenders, and workplace dynamics.
acavaiol@monmouth.edu
Stephanie Hall, Assistant Professor. Ph.D., University of New Orleans. A licensed professional counselor in both New Jersey and Louisiana, Dr. Hall's research interests include multicultural counseling, women’s issues in counseling, professional identity of counselors, and doctoral level teaching training for counselor educators. Dr. Hall also serves as the secretary for the Association of Multicultural Counseling and Development.
shall@monmouth.edu
Gary J. Handler, Field Placement Coordinator. Ph.D., New York University. Mental health counseling, focusing on cognitive and behavioral approaches, art therapy, and alternative therapies as well as cognitive and behavioral techniques.
ghandler@monmouth.edu
Joanne Jodry, Specialist Professor. DMH, Drew University. Professional mental health counseling, with primary clinical interests in women's issues throughout the life span, life crisis, and existential issues. The interplay of psychology and religion, the impact of therapeutic relationships on the therapist, and feminist counseling.
jjodry@monmouth.edu
Alishea Rowley, Specialist Professor. PhD, North Carolina University. Specializations in mental health counseling and school counseling with an emphasis on adolescent assessment and counseling, childhood behavioral distrubances, consultation with schools on student retention, and counseling low income families. Research interests include African American single mothers social justice issues, diversity and multicultural populations.
Solomon Z. Schuck, Associate Professor. Ph.D., New York University. Crisis Intervention and Family Therapy with a bias towards prevention, utilization of culturally consonant approaches to primary prevention.
sschuck@monmouth.edu
Frances K. Trotman, Professor. Ph.D., Columbia University. Child development, racism and minority issues; stress management; divorce mediation; aging; academic resilience; women's issues; feminist counseling and counseling with African American women.
ftrotman@monmouth.edu
