The College of Humanities and Social Sciences at Montclair State University

YASEMIN BESEN
Sociology Department
Ph.D. State University of New York-Stony Brook
M.A. State University of New York-Stony Brook
B.A. Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey

DR. BESEN comes to Montclair State University with a Ph.D. from the State University of New York at Stony Brook, which she earned in 2005. Her dissertation entitled, Consumption of Production: Why do Teenagers work in the United States was supervised by noted scholar Dr. James B. Rule. An expert in sociology of work, youth and gender, Ms. Besen has several key publications including "It's not Like a Job", an article in Contexts. She has been the manager editor of Men and Masculinities, an interdisciplinary academic journal specialized on gender. Professor Besen will teach Statistics, Senior Research Project and Sociology of the Family

JOAN BESING
Communication Sciences and Disorders Department
B.S. University of Iowa
M.A. Illinois State University
Ph.D. Louisiana State University

DR. BESING received a B.S. in Speech and Hearing Sciences from the University of Iowa, an M.A. in Audiology from Illinois State University and a Ph.D. in Speech, Theatre and Communication Disorders from Louisiana State University. She then completed a three year NIH post-doctoral fellowship with the Sensory Communication group in the Research Laboratory of Electronics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She was awarded a National Research Council Senior Research Fellowship from the National Science Foundation in 1998 to conduct spatial hearing research at the US Army Research Laboratory in Aberdeen, MD.

Dr. Besing has served as an Associate Editor for The American Journal of Audiology for three years. She is also on the Scientific Review Committee for the Deafness Research Foundation. A number of Dr. Besing's projects have been supported by research grants Dr. Besing has obtained from the National Institutes of Health, the Deafness Research Foundation and the National Organization for Hearing Research. She has published the results of her work in professional journals.

BRIAN CLIFF
English Department
B.A. University of Michigan
MPhil Trinity College (Dublin)
Ph.D. Emory University

DR. CLIFF comes to Montclair State with an MPhil from Trinity College, Dublin (1999) and a Ph.D. from Emory University (2001). He has taught at both Emory and the Georgia Institute of Technology, where he held a Britain Post-doctoral Fellowship. His primary research is in Irish culture and literature, and his current book project is "Border Writing: Community and Contemporary Irish Literature." He has also co-edited a collection of essays, Representing the Troubles: Texts and Images, 1970-2000 (Dublin: Four Courts, 2004). His other publications include articles and chapters on Paul Muldoon, Frank McGuinness, W.B. Yeats, and Martin McDonagh (forthcoming). At Montclair, Professor Cliff will be teaching introductory and advanced courses in contemporary Irish and British literature, world literature, and writing.

ELAINE GERBER
Anthropology Department
B.A. University of Michigan
M.A. University of California, Los Angeles
Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles

DR. GERBER comes to the Department of Anthropology from the American Foundation for the Blind where she has been working in the general field of Medical Anthropology, specifically disability studies. Her research interests include the anthropology of food and the body, and the intersections of performance, theater and disability.

Dr. Gerber received her Ph.D. in 1999 from UCLA. She is steeped in applied anthropology, including program evaluation and policy research based on her current work at the American Foundation for the Blind in New York City.

Dr. Gerber's professional activities include involvement in a variety of community and professional organizations including the American Public Health Association, the Society for Medical Anthropology and the National Association of Practicing Anthropologists. Her research focuses on examining health and other disparities related to disability and the impact of culture and the environment on public health and social participation.

JESSICA S. HENRY
Legal Studies Department
B.A. Bucknell University
J.D. New York University School of Law

DR. HENRY comes to Montclair State University with a Juris Doctorate from New York University School of Law, which she earned in 1995. Her article "The Social Construction of a Hate Crime Epidemic," published in the Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology was co-authored with noted criminologist and law professor James B. Jacobs. With ten years experience as a state and federal trial and appellate public defender, her research agenda focuses on the criminal justice systems and the provision of legal services to the poor. Professor Henry will teach classes in both programs as well as develop curriculum for the existing and proposed programs.

SASKIA HINTZ
Modern Languages and Literature Department
Erste Staatsprüfung für die Laufbahn der Realschullehrer, Subjects: German, Danish, Pedagogy
Pädagogische Hochschule Flensberg, Germany
Ph.D. New York University

DR. HINTZ joined the department as a permanent half-time Assistant Professor of German in Fall 2004. On the literary level her research focuses on German texts written by authors with a mother-tongue other than German as well as contemporary poetry. Dr. Hintz explores innovative approaches to teaching literature, culture, and particularly creative writing in the foreign language classroom. Dr. Hintz has lectured and organized workshops at the ACTFL/AATG and NECTFL conferences and for "Literarischer Verein."

ELGIN KLUGH
Anthropology Department
B.A. Morehouse College
M.A. University of South Florida
Ph.D. University of South Florida

DR. KLUGH received his Ph.D. from the University of South Florida in 2004. His dissertation analyzes the place of schools in African American communities. It is an ethnohistorical comparison of two small black communities - Smithville, Maryland and Bealsville, Florida - where early 20th century school buildings are currently being revitalized to serve as community centers and museums. In collaboration with two non-profit community organizations, Dr. Klugh examines the historical interrelationships among land tenure, racial politics, and self help strategies. Dr. Klugh brings extensive teaching experience in both Anthropology and Africana Studies.

JANET KOEHNKE
Communication Sciences and Disorders Department
B.S. University of Massachusetts
M.A. The State University of New York
Ph.D. University of Connecticut

DR. KOEHNKE received her B.S. in Communication Disorders from the University of Massachusetts, her M.A. in Audiology from the State University of New York in Geneseo, and her Ph.D. in Communication Sciences from the University of Connecticut. She then completed a three year NIH post-doctoral fellowship with the Sensory Communication group in the Research Laboratory of Electronics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 1998 she was awarded a National Research Council Senior Research Fellowship from NSF to conduct spatial hearing research at the US Army Research Laboratory in Aberdeen, MD.

Dr. Koehnke has served on the editorial board of the Ear & Hearing Journal for more than 12 years. She is also a consultant to the Educational Testing Services in Princeton, NJ. She teaches courses in diagnostic audiology, scientific and professional writing, hearing science, and psychoacoustics.

A number of her projects have been supported by research grants Dr. Koehnke has obtained from the National Institutes of Health, the Deafness Research Foundation and the American Hearing Research Foundation. She has numerous publications in professional journals describing her research.

BRETT MARTIN
Communication Sciences and Disorders Department
B.S. Northwestern University
M.A. Northwestern University
Ph.D. City University of New York

DR. MARTIN will be a Professor in the new doctoral program in Audiology. Dr. Martin has a Ph.D. in Speech and Hearing Science from the City University of New York. Her dissertation "The effects of spectrally-shaped noise masking on auditory event-related potentials to speech sounds /ba/ and /da/" was supervised by noted scholar David R. Stapells, Ph.D. Post-doctoral study was completed with Arthur Boothroyd. Dr. Martin currently has funding from the National Institutes of Health-National Institute of Deafness and Other Communication Disorders to examine cortical auditory evoked potential indices of speech discrimination capacity in infants through adults with normal hearing and with hearing loss. Dr. Martin has made a significant contribution to the literature in her area of specialty in such publications as the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Ear and Hearing, and the Journal of Speech-Language-Hearing Research. Dr. Martin has won two Editor's awards for her publications and several citations of merit.

KIRK McDERMID
Philosophy and Religion Department
B.Sc. University of British Columbia
M.Sc. London School of Economics
Ph.D. University of Western Ontario

DR. McDERMID'S main interests involve foundational issues in contemporary science, including theories of scientific explanation, evidence, and theory choice. His dissertation, Systematic Dependencies and Contemporary Scientific Explanation, examines the explanatory power of models and the counterfactual relationships they instantiate. He is currently preparing several elements of the dissertation for publication; "Bell Inequality Violations by Partially Entangled Spin-1/2 Pairs" has appeared in Physics Letters A. In addition to teaching Philosophy of Science, Dr. McDermid has broad teaching expertise in a variety of philosophical fields including the philosophy of economics, biomedical ethics and critical thinking.

Gina Miele
Spanish/Italian Department
B.A. College of the Holy Cross
M.A. Harvard University
Ph.D. Harvard University

DR. MIELE, director of the Coccia Institute for the Italian Experience in America, joins the Spanish/Italian department as an Assistant Professor of Italian, with duties shared between the Coccia Institute and the Spanish/Italian department. Dr. Miele earned her Ph.D. in 2003 from Harvard University, where she wrote her dissertation on nineteenth and twentieth century Italian folktales by Luigi Capuana and Italo Calvino. The recipient of numerous grants and fellowships, her research interests include Italian literature of the 19th and 20th centuries, Italian American history and literature, Italian and Italian American women writers, and Italian and European oral and literary folk tales. She has extensive teaching experience at all levels of language instruction, as well as of Italian literature, Italian studies, and folklore studies. As Director of the Coccia Institute, Dr. Miele has created a vigorous cultural agenda that responds to the growing interest in Italian and Italian American studies among scholars and the public at large.

Jenny Mundell
CHSS Technology Services
B.A. Pennsylvania State University

Jenny Mundell received her B.A. in English from Pennsylvania State University in 2001 where she focused her studies on creative writing and Shakespeare. A former restaurant manager, paralegal, and Court Services Officer for Bergen County, Jenny is pleased and eager to start her career with the CHSS Technology Services Unit as a Program Assistant.

JESSICA RESTAINO
English Department
B.A. Franklin and Marshall College
Ph.D. Temple University

DR. RESTAINO comes to Montclair State University with a Ph.D. in English, specializing in Composition and Rhetoric, from Temple University. Her dissertation, First Semester: Comp, Grad Students, and Arendtian Beginnings, is a study of new graduate student composition instructors' first classroom experiences as they learn to teach writing. At present, she is working on an article, "Labor and Endlessness: Necessity and Consumption in the First Semester," for the journal Writing Program Administrator (WPA). Professor Restaino is a state certified public school teacher and has taught on various levels for the East Orange school district. Her teaching was honored by Temple University's College of Liberal Arts' Distinguished Teaching Award in 2003.

KELLY J. SHEA-MILLER
Communication Sciences and Disorders Department
B.S. University of Massachusetts, Amherst
B.A. University of Massachusetts, Amherst
M.A. California State University
Ph.D. University of Georgia, Athens
DR. SHEA-MILLER received her M.A. from California State University Fresno, and her Ph. D in Audiology from the University of Georgia, Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders. Her dissertation research was concerned with age-related changes in auditory selective attention. Dr. Shea-Miller earned a Certificate in Gerontology from the University of Georgia.

Dr. Shea-Miller was a faculty member in the Department of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology at Seton Hall University from 2001-2005. She currently holds an appointment as an adjunct faculty member of the Department of Neuroscience at John F. Kennedy Hospital, where she studies auditory event-related potentials with Dr. Ilse Wambacq. Her grant from the Deafness Research Foundation is examining behavioral and electrophysiologic measures of binaural hearing in normal hearing adults.

DAWN MARCUS STEPT
Center for Child Advocacy
B.S. Art Education, Pennsylvania State University
Certificate, Child Advocacy, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh
J.D. University of Pittsburgh School of Law

DR. STEPT, the Applied Learning Specialist for the Center for Child Advocacy's Post Baccalaureate Certificate and Master's Programs, joined the Center for Child Advocacy in January, 2005, as a program developer/grant writer/adjunct faculty and curriculum "enhancer." After earning her J.D., she practiced matrimonial/family law and child advocacy law with a large law firm in Pittsburgh and New Jersey. She developed and coordinated the first Child Welfare Mediation Programs in Essex and Morris Counties. She also developed and coordinated the first Family Drug Court in the State, currently being used as a model for further Family Drug Court development in Essex and other counties. Since Ms. Stept began in the Center for Child Advocacy in January 2005, she has been involved in developing two new concepts for post baccalaureate Certificate education: one in Educational Advocacy (including special education and the rights and responsibilities of parents/children in foster care); and, one in Substance Abuse and Families in Crisis.

JEFFREY STRICKLAND
History Department
B.A. University of Pittsburgh
M.S. Nova Southeastern University
M.A. Florida Atlantic University
Ph.D. Florida State University

DR. STRICKLAND earned his doctorate in U.S. history at Florida State University. He will coordinate the Social Studies Teacher Certification Program at Montclair State University. Dr. Strickland has taught U.S. history and coordinated social studies education programs at the University of Texas Pan American and Hunter College. He is interested in the history of nineteenth century cities, especially the U.S. South. Dr. Strickland's dissertation Race Relations in the Urban South: German Immigrants and African-Americans in Charleston, South Carolina During Reconstruction revealed the complex and exceptional relationships between both ethnic communities during the period. He has forthcoming articles in Citizenship Studies and Prospects and a few essays in the Journal of Urban History. His teaching interests include nineteenth century United States, African-American history, and Urban History.

PATRICIA SUTCLIFFE
Modern Languages and Literature Department
B.A. University of Redlands
M.A. University of Texas at Austin
Ph.D. University of Texas at Austin

DR. SUTCLIFFE holds a Ph.D. in Germanic Studies from the University of Texas at Austin. Her dissertation is entitled Friedrich Max Müller and William Dwight Whitney as Exporters of Nineteenth-Century German Philology: A Sociological Analysis of the Development of their Linguistic Theories. She comes to us from Colgate University where she was Visiting Assistant Professor of German. She has also taught at Julius-Maximilians-Universität in Würzburg, Germany; the University of Texas at Austin; and Albert-Ludwigs-Universität in Freiburg, Germany. Among Dr. Sutcliffe's many publications, two were awarded the Presidential Prize for the best paper by a junior scholar at the Linguistic Association of Canada and the United States. Dr. Sutcliffe will replace Dr. Bettina Brandt who is on leave (with an NEH Fellowship) for the year and will teach all levels of language and literature in German.

JULIA TRUBIKHINA
Modern Languages and Literature Department
B.A. Moscow (MGU) University
M.A. New York University
Ph.D. New York University

DR. TRUBIKHINA comes to Montclair State with a Ph.D. from New York University, granted with distinction. Her dissertation is entitled The Translator's Doubts: Vladimir Nabokov and the Ambiguity of Translation. Dr. Trubikhina was awarded several grants and fellowships while at NYU, including the Penfield and Anais Nin Fellowships. She has taught as an instructor in both NYU's Departments of Slavic and Russian Studies and Comparative Literature. She also has taught medical translation and interpretation at Hunter College and has served as instructor of Russian for the US Embassy staff in Moscow. Dr. Trubikhina's numerous publications include books, articles, translations, and reviews, but she has above all distinguished herself as a poet. Her work has appeared in her own volumes of poetry and in a great many anthologies, journals, and magazines. Dr. Trubikhina has acted as translator and interpreter for the American-Russian Youth Orchestra, the Moscow Art Theater Project at Yale University, The PILOT Animation Studio, and elsewhere.