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DR. ABUHAKEMA joins us from Middlebury College where he held an appointment as a Visiting Assistant Professor.  He received his Ph.D. in Foreign Language Education from University of Texas at Austin and specializes in the acquisition of Arabic as a Foreign Language.  Dr. Abuhakema will build and maintain an Arabic Program at MSU.

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DR. BEHLMAN joins us from Kansas State University.  His scholarship focuses on classicism and religion from the 1820s through the 1890s and how they intersect with concerns of gender and sexuality.  Dr. Behlman joins the English Department as an expert in Victorian Poetry.  His current book project is entitled The Postures of Victorian Stoicism.

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DR. FEDERMAN joins us from the Department of Political Science and Graduate Center for Social and Public Policy at Duquesne University.  He is the recipient of two prestigious Fulbright Scholarships and is the author of the forthcoming book, The Body and the State: Habeas Corpus and American Jurisprudence.  Dr. Federman will offer courses in the newly formed Justice Studies Department.

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DR. FELDMAN’S areas of specialty are computational linguistics and theoretical linguistics.  She will hold a joint appointment at MSU.  Her contributions will be to both the Department of Linguistics and Computer Science.  Dr. Feldman has won numerous awards including Presidential Fellowship from Ohio State University and a Marie Curie Fellowship at the Utrecht Institute of Linguistics in The Netherlands. 

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DR. GAY joins us from the University of Pittsburgh where he held the position of Visiting Assistant Professor.  He has earned his Ph.D. in English from Temple University.  His poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Harvard Review and Atlanta Review.  His invited readings include Lehigh University, the Studio Museum of Harlem and the Philadelphia Art Alliance.

DR. JOHNSON joins us from the University of Connecticut where she held the position of Assistant Professor.  Her research focuses on the areas of children’s language behavior with an emphasis on the effect of cultural diversity on children’s development.  Her area of specialty will add a new dimension to the department.

DR. PATRONE joins us from the University of Arkansas where she held the position of Visiting Assistant Professor.  Her areas of specialization are Kant, History of Modern Philosophy and Moral and Political Theory.  These areas of interest will allow the department to offer new courses and expand its breadth of offerings.

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DR. SIEGEL joins us from private industry where he worked as a Senior Archaeologist.  His research has centered on ethnoarcheaology, focusing specifically on village organization, demography, and architecture in the West Indies and South America.  Dr. Siegel has received numerous grants and is widely published in the area of ethnoarcheaology.

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DR. WAMBACQ joins the department as an Associate Professor.  Dr. Wambacq brings with her years of clinical experience working with children and young adults.  She specializes in the interplay between brain and behavior and language development.  Her areas of specialty will contribute greatly to the offerings of the department.

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DR. WOODARD joins us from University of Maryland where he held an appointment as a Visiting Assistant Professor.  His scholarship focuses on the political conflicts of Brazil.  Dr. Woodard joins the History Department as an expert in Modern Latin America, Colonial Latin America and U.S. Foreign Relations.