Hugh Phillips Curnutt, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Media Studies and Criticism
973-655-4464
Curnutth@mail.montclair.edu
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Dr. Curnutt is an Assistant Professor of Communication Studies specializing in critical theory, Lacanian psychoanalysis, media history and criticism, and television studies. His work explores the media industry's growing reliance on user-generated content and the corresponding intersections between production and consumption that result from this institutional realignment. Dr. Curnutt's essays have appeared in Television and New Media and an anthology on contemporary forms of stardom from Cambridge Scholars Press. He has a forthcoming article on sexting in Communication Quarterly and is currently preparing a book on reality TV and its role in remodeling television talent.

Harry W. Haines, Ph.D.
Chair
Co-Chair, Task Force for School of Media and Communications;
Professor, Media Industries, Theoretical and Critical Analysis, Gender Studies, Broadcast Journalism
973-655-7471
Hainesh@mail.montclair.edu
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Professor Harry W. Haines serves as the Chair of Communication Studies and heads a Task Force responsible for organizing a new School of Media Arts and Communication at MSU. His research includes the critical analysis of Vietnam War literature, memorials, films, and television programs. His teaching assignments include the Department's introductory course, as well as courses on gender and a variety of theoretical issues. He has worked in news and public affairs programming at public and commercial broadcast stations.

Richard Hinchliffe, M.A.
Radio Station Manager
Telephone: 973-655-3135
hinchliffer@mail.montclair.edu
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Richard Hinchliffe joins Montclair State University in the new position of Radio Station Manager for WMSC 90.3 FM, broadcasting to the campus and local community and heard worldwide on the web at www.wmscradio.com. As a radio station manager, producer and reporter, he has worked with students and professional colleagues at Bloomberg Radio, WNYC Radio, NPR, The Associated Press, CBS Radio News and elsewhere. Mr. Hinchliffe brings expertise in news and music programming, staff development, strategic planning and multimedia, multi-platform program distribution. His industry articles include "The News from Poems: Radio and the Humanities" and "A Commitment to Excellence: Radio News for the 21st Century."

Todd Kelshaw, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Graduate Program Coordinator
Group and Organizational Communication
973-655-5162
Kelshawt@mail.montclair.edu
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Todd Kelshaw (Ph. D., University of Washington) is an Associate Professor of Communication Studies and coordinator of the Master of Arts program in Public and Organizational Relations. His scholarship addresses stakeholder participation in organizations and groups, with special concern for deliberative and dialogic dimensions of democratic civic engagement, community-based organizational partnerships, and service-learning pedagogies. His applications include research and curricular/co-curricular initiatives affiliated with the American Association of State Colleges and Universities' American Democracy Project and the Association of American Colleges and Universities' Bringing Theory to Practice. His writings have appeared in various edited books (such as Communication as…: Stances on theory and the Handbook of research on social interaction technologies and collaboration software: Concepts and trends) and scholarly journals (such as Communication Theory and the International Journal of Public Participation). As well, he is a co-editor of the book, Partnerships for service-learning: Impacts on communities and students. Dr. Kelshaw's honors include a Mandela Award for Outstanding Leadership in Diversity (from MSU's Office of Equity and Diversity) and an Outstanding Service-learning Faculty Award (from MSU's Center for Community-based Learning).

Christine A. Lemesianou, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Deputy Chair
Director, MSU Basic Communication Program
Social Influence, New Media, Globalization
973-655-5193
Lemesianoc@mail.montclair.edu
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Christine A. Lemesianou is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Studies. She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in public and organizational relations, persuasion and new media, public speaking, research methods and globalization and has a strong interest in creating innovative pedagogical practices. Her research agenda is interdisciplinary and some of her ongoing projects examine communication and identity, globalization and borders, critical pedagogy, digital rhetoric, and new media and interactive technologies. She is a frequent participant at regional and national conferences and is currently working on a manuscript that interrogates emerging global literacies. She also serves as the Director of the Basic Communication Program at MSU and offers workshops and training on presentation skills and communication coaching.

Yi Luo, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Organizational Communication, Public Relations
973-655-3400
Luoy@mail.montclair.edu
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Dr. Luo joined the Montclair State faculty as an assistant professor in the Department of Communication Studies focusing on organizational communications and public relations. She received her Ph.D. in Communication from the University of Maryland, College Park. Her dissertation examined how members of multinational organizations in China made sense of change and how these multinationals managed communication programs during these chaotic periods of time. Her primary research interests include: organizational communication, change management, public relations management, global public relations, and social cognition.

Steve McCarthy, B.A.
News Producer
Telephone: 973-655-7361
mccarthyst@mail.montclair.edu
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Steve McCarthy is an Emmy Award-winning network TV news producer. A former staff producer for 60 Minutes and Dateline, he formed McCarthy Productions, Inc in 2001 and produced, photographed and edited projects for 60 Minutes, Dateline, Charlie Rose, MSNBC, PBS, BBC America, Reuters and others. In 2006, he directed and wrote an independent film Finding Paddy and he is currently in production of a pilot for a series called Who Says I Can't, which will feature extreme athletes with disabilities. Steve McCarthy is a member of the Director's Guild of America.

Christopher McKinley, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Health Communication
973.655.3438
McKinleyc@mail.montclair.edu
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Dr. McKinley specializes in health communication and media effects. In particular, he examines the role that messages play in shaping individual’s health perceptions and behaviors. Dr. McKinley’s research addresses important public health issues, including, but not limited to, binge drinking, childhood obesity, disordered eating habits, and mental health concerns. His research has been published in Health Communication, Journal of Health Communication, and Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior. Dr. McKinley is currently investigating how public opinion toward health care reform is impacted by presidential rhetoric and mass media messages.

Joel Penney, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
New Media
Telephone: 973-655-4261
penneyj@mail.montclair.edu
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Dr. Joel Penney is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication Studies, specializing in new media, cultural studies, visual communication, critical race and sexuality studies, consumer culture, and political communication and theory. His research focuses on the uses of participatory and digital media forms for social and political advocacy as well as for the construction of collective identities. Dr. Penney has published essays in journals such as Communication, Culture, and Critique and Popular Music and Society, and has contributed chapters to the books Joystick Soldiers: The Politics of Play in Military Video Games and Queer Identities/Political Realities. He is currently working on a book project based on his dissertation that explores the uses of political T-shirts in the digital age.

Larry Weiner, APR
Coordinator for Public Relations CART/SMAC
Instructor
Public Relations
973-655-3472
Weinerl@mail.montclair.edu
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Larry M. Weiner, APR - Larry Weiner began his public relations/communication consulting career in 1982, and over the next 25 years performed both project and campaign work for Fortune 500 companies (Pepsi-Cola, Allied Signal Corporation, Schering Plough, Parke-Davis, Johnson & Johnson), government agencies (NJ Department of Environmental Protection), consumer agencies (AAA, Food Marketing Institute of America), industry associations (National Concrete Masonry Association), individuals (Lorena Ochoa), and many others (BMW, Sharp Electronics, Fujifilm, Sony). He began his teaching career as a William Paterson University adjunct in 1989, teaching business communication courses. He joined the Montclair State University Communication Studies faculty in 2003, first as an adjunct, then as a half-time instructor, finally joining full time as the Coordinator of Public Relations for the College of the Arts and in support of the task force forming the School of Media Arts and Communications. He received his Accreditation in Public Relations certification from the Public Relations Society of America in 2008.

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