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YI LUO
Assistant Professor, Communication Studies

E-mail: luoy@mail.montclair.edu
Work phone: ext. 7471
Office Location: Life Hall

Notes:

DR. LUO joins the Montclair State faculty as an assistant professor in the Department of Communication Studies.  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 their communication strategies during a time of chaos.  Her primary research interests include: organizational communication, change management, global public relations management, and social cognition and she focuses on interpersonal communication within organizational settings, sense-making, and the construction of organizational identity.


 
ELIZABETH McPHERSON
Assistant Professor, Theatre and Dance


E-mail: mcphersone@mail.montclair.edu
Work phone: ext. 7831
Office Location: Life Hall 127A
Notes:

DR. MCPHERSON has been a faculty member at Long Island University- Brooklyn campus, Fieldston Lower of The Ethical Culture Fieldston School, The City College of New York, and NYU.  Dr. McPherson has written The Contributions of Martha Hill to American Dance and Dance Education, 1900-1995 as well as articles and reviews for various publications: Dance Teacher Magazine, Ballet-Dance Magazine, Pointe Magazine, and The Journal of Dance Education.  She also enjoys staging historical dance works such as Helen Tamiris' "Negro Spirituals" and Yvonne Rainer's "Chair Pillow Dance" from "Continuous Project Altered Daily."  In the 1990s, Dr. McPherson performed across the country with Avodah Dance Ensemble, was also a member of Ernesta Corvino's Dance Circle Company, and appeared with The Louis Johnson Dance Theatre Ensemble.

 

 
MARISSA SILVERMAN
Assistant Professor, Cali School of Music


E-mail: silvermanm@mail.montclair.edu
Work phone: ext. 7212
Office Location:  

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DR. SILVERMAN joins Montclair after teaching at New York University, the Brooklyn College Conservatory of Music, Rutgers University, and Long Island City High School.  Dr. Silverman has published in theInternational Journal of Music Education, Music Education Research, the International Journal of Community Music, Visions of Research in Music Education, and The New York Times.  Her research interests include music education philosophy, general music, artistic interpretation, teacher education, and interdisciplinary curriculum development.  She is presently at work on two music education texts for Oxford University Press.  She has appeared as a soloist, chamber musician, and orchestral player in many New York venues (including Merkin Hall and Alice Tully Hall) and has performed at many music festivals.  Her special performance interests include the French Baroque, chamber works of the late Classical period, and contemporary Russian music.


 

 
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