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DR. ESQUILIN is a licensed psychologist in New Jersey, with a diplomate in clinical psychology from the American Board of Professional Psychology. She has held faculty positions at Rutgers, and at the New Jersey Medical School of UMDNJ, where she was Director of Psychology Training and Clinical Administrator for Children’s Services at University Behavioral HealthCare in Newark. Dr. Esquilin’s area of expertise is child abuse; she is a past-president of the NJ Chapter of the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children and has been the primary investigator on several service grants related to child abuse.

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DR. MARGARYAN has recently earned her Ph.D. from Rutgers University-Newark. Additionally, she has an M.P.A. from John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York and a MA in Criminal Justice from Rutgers University-Newark. Her main research interests include the treatment of prisoners mandated by international human rights instruments; national penal reform processes and penal systems in countries in transition; the sociology of punishment; and research and evaluation in criminal justice. Her dissertation examined penal reform in the Republic of Armenia since the collapse of the Soviet Union.

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DR. NABAVI obtained her D.Phil in 1997 and since 1998, when she moved to the US, has taught at Princeton University, University of Maryland and NYU. Her field of research is the intellectual and cultural history of 19th and 20th century Iran. She has published a book entitled Intellectuals and the State in Iran: Politics, Discourse and the Dilemma of Authenticity (University of Florida Press, 2003), and is currently working on another on the emergence of the public sphere in early twentieth century Iran. Her other areas of interest include cinema and popular culture, as well as women’s movements in the Middle East. She has also taught many courses on aspects of the political history of the Middle East.

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DR. ROTHSTEIN was Professor of Anthropology at Towson University where she taught courses in anthropology, Latin American studies, and women’s studies. She is a cultural anthropologist whose current research focuses on globalization and migration from Mexico to the United States. She is the co-editor of New Directions in Political Economy: An Approach from Anthropology and Anthropology and the Global Factory: Studies of the New Industrialization in the Late 20th Century and the author of Three Different Worlds: Women, Men and Children in an Industrializing Community and most recently, Globalization in Rural Mexico: Three Decades of Change.  

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DR. VIETZE joins MSU as Chair of the Psychology Department. He has spent many years conducting research on infants and young children, as a research administrator and as a college professor. Dr. Vietze has also worked as a clinical and developmental psychologist evaluating children with suspected disabilities and conducting individual, group and couples therapy. Dr. Vietze has published over 100 chapters and journal articles and written or edited 8 books.