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ADITYA ADARKAR
Classics and General Humanities Department
B.A. Princeton University
Ph.D. University of Chicago

DR. ADARKAR, who has just completed his graduate work for the Committee on Social Thought at Chicago, is a broadly trained humanist/comparatist with extensive teaching experience in such diverse fields as writing, information technology, world literature, comparative literature, and scientific thought. His special area of expertise is ancient Hindu epic and its ethical and mythical dimensions. He is the author of scholarly papers on Sanskrit epic, on editing Sanskrit texts, and on Hindu moral discourse. Dr. Adarkar will be teaching especially in the General Humanities programs of the department, appointed as the first Asian humanities specialist.

BETTINA BRANDT
French, German, and Russian Department
B.A. University of Utrecht, Netherlands
M.A. German, University of Utrecht, Netherlands
M.A. French, University of Utrecht, Netherlands
Ph.D. Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts

DR. BRANDT joins the Department of French, German, and Russian as Assistant Professor of German. She comes to Montclair State from Columbia University where she taught German and Women's Studies and was, for three years, Director of the Deutsches Haus. Prior to Columbia, Dr. Brandt was at M.I.T. where she was Visiting Assistant Professor of both French and German. She obtained her Ph.D. from Harvard University in Comparative Literature and two Masters Degrees, one in German and one in French, from the University of Utrecht in The Netherlands. Dr. Brandt's current research focuses on innovative moments in 20th century literature and art as they relate to the political climate which gave rise to them.

ANNE M. EDSTROM
Spanish/Italian Department
B.A. Northwestern College
M.A. University of Minnesota
Ph.D. University of Minnesota

DR. EDSTROM comes to us from the University of Minnesota with an extensive background in the teaching of Spanish-language courses, and is well informed in discourse analysis, sociolinguistics and pragmatics. The tenure-track position which Dr. Edstrom is filling entails the teaching of language courses from beginning to advanced. She will be especially helpful to the Department in the teaching of advanced courses at the undergraduate level, in addition to her expertise at the graduate level.

SARITA EISENBERG
Communication Sciences and Disorders Department
B.S. Emerson College
M.A. Temple University
Ph.D. C.U.N.Y Graduate School

DR. EISENBERG comes to us from William Paterson University where she held a tenure line appointment in the Department of Communication Disorders. Prior to her position at William Paterson University, she was on the faculty of the Department of Speech-Language Pathology, Teachers College, Columbia University; was a research fellow and adjunct faculty member in Hunter College's Department of Communication; an adjunct faculty member in speech and hearing sciences at Rutgers University, and a lecturer in Iona College's Department of Communication Studies. Her research publications, paper presentations, and grant-funded projects focus on child language development and language disorders.

CYNTHIA ELLER
Philosophy and Religion Department
B.A. University of LaVerne
M.A. University of Southern California
Ph.D. University of Southern California

DR. ELLER is filling a position in women and religion in the Department of Philosophy and Religion. She has previously taught at Yale Divinity School, Fairleigh Dickinson University, Princeton University, and Bethany Theological Seminary. Her most recent publication is The Myth of Matriarchal Prehistory: Why an Invented Past Won't Give Women a Future (Boston: Beacon Press, 2000).

ELIZABETH GIUFFRIDA
Communication Sciences and Disorders Department
B.A. Rutgers University
M.S. Boston University

MS. GIUFFRIDA joins the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders as its first full-time clinical supervisor. Her primary role in the Communication Disorders Center is the direct supervision of graduate students who provide services to children and adults with communication disorders. Ms. Giuffrida is a speech-language pathologist with many years of experience and she comes to us directly from Clara Maass Medical Center. She received both her B.A. and M.S. degrees in speech-language pathology. She has taken additional graduate work at the University of Connecticut.

JULIAN P. KEENAN
Psychology Department
B.A. SUNY, The College at New Paltz
M.A. SUNY, The College at New Paltz
Ph.D. SUNY, The University at Albany

DR. KEENAN joins the Psychology Department as an Assistant Professor from the Harvard Medical School. He comes to MSU with eight years of teaching experience at institutions including Harvard Medical School, The University of Albany, and The College at New Paltz. Dr. Keenan comes to us with an outstanding record of professional scholarship, including numerous peer reviewed publications, abstracts, paper presentations, book chapters and one book. In addition, Dr. Keenan has received grants from The National Institute of Mental Health, The James McDonnell Pew Foundation and the Cure Autism Now Foundation.

DANIELLE MARTINES
Psychology Department
B.A. Mercy College
M.S. Long Island University
Ph.D. Fordham University

DR. MARTINES joins the Psychology Department as an Assistant Professor. She comes to MSU from the Board of Education of the City of New York. Dr. Martines has taught at Lehman College, College of New Rochelle, and Fordham University at Lincoln Center. Dr. Martines has been professionally active as a Bilingual School Psychologist, Bilingual Psychotherapist and Foreign Language Assessment Examiner. Her current research interest is teacher's multicultural awareness, knowledge, and skills within the school based mental health consultation model.

MAUREEN CURRAN OUTLAW
Sociology Department
B.A. Drew University
M.A. Pennsylvania State University
Ph.D. Pennsylvania State University

DR. OUTLAW comes to MSU having recently completed her doctorate in the Crime, Law, and Justice Program of the Sociology Department at Penn State University. Her doctoral research focused on domestic violence, data from a large nationwide survey, to which she applied the "routine activities" model. Her previous research looked at victim restitution. As a graduate student, she wrote a first-prize winning paper, and published an article in Justice Quarterly.

HIRAM PEREZ
English Department
B.A. University of Miami
B.S. University of Miami
M.A. Columbia University
Ph.D. Columbia University

DR. PEREZ is completing his Ph.D. in English at Columbia University, joining us from St. Lawrence University where he was the Jeffrey Campbell Fellow. At St. Lawrence, he coordinated the Gender Studies Film and Video Series for two years. His dissertation research focuses on the representation of miscegenation in American literature and culture and on the history of anti-miscegenation statutes and racial codes in U.S. law. He specializes in African American Literature, Asian American Literature, Critical Race Theory, and Psychoanalytic Theory. He has also taught at Columbia and at the College of New Rochelle, Rosa Parks Campus. He coordinated Columbia University's First Annual Queers of Color Film Festival and chaired both the Asian American Studies Speaker Series and Queers of Color Speaker Series.

RABIA REDOUANE
French, German, and Russian Department
Baccalauréat Français, Rabat, Morocco
B.A. Université Laval, Québec, Canada
M.A. Université Laval, Québec, Canada
TESL Wordsworth College, University of Toronto, Canada
Ph.D. University of Toronto, Canada

DR. REDOUANE joins the Department of French, German, and Russian as an Assistant Professor of French. She comes to us from the University of Toronto where her research and major areas of interest are Second Language teaching and learning and applied and comparative linguistics (French, English, and Arabic). She has also been trained in TESL and has taught, in addition to all levels of French, English and Arabic. She has worked as a translator of French, Arabic, and English. Her current research concerns vocabulary acquisition and learning strategies used by Second-Language learners.

PAM WEISENBERG
English Department
B.A. State University of New York
M.Ed. Rutgers University
Ed.D. University of Massachusetts at Amherst

DR. WEISENBERG is coming to us from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst where she is completing her Ed.D. in the Language, Literacy and Culture Program. Her research has focused on the negotiation of "academic literacy" at all levels of education, with a specialization in secondary and post-secondary education. She has taught middle school and high school English as well as college composition. Ms. Weisenberg is originally from New Jersey and received her M.Ed. in English Education from Rutgers University.

DEBRA A. ZELLNER
Psychology Department
A.B. Muhlenberg College
M.A. The American University
Ph.D. The American University

DR. ZELLNER joins the Psychology Department as a Full Professor. She comes to MSU with ten years of teaching experience at Shippensburg University. Dr. Zellner comes to us with an outstanding record of scholarship, with numerous publications, papers, invited addresses and colloquia. Her most current research interests include: expectations and perceptions; effect of categorization and context on hedonic evaluation; flavor perception and hedonics; and food cravings.

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