The Political Science and Law Department honored their recent graduates and candidates for graduation at a ceremony in Dickson Hall on April 11. The ceremony recognized students who will earn a B.A. degree in political science and a M.A. degree in legal studies.
Sal Anderton ’95, who majored in political science and philosophy, with a minor in classics, was honored at the event. Anderton is a registered government affairs agent in New Jersey and serves as legislative counsel to Nancy H. Becker Associates, a Trenton government affairs firm. He also works as counsel with the Montclair law firm of Tobia & Sorger.
Pictured above are (left to right): Marilyn Tayler, professor of political science and law, William Berlin, chair of the department of political science and law, and Sal Anderton.
Montclair State University hosted the "3rd annual NJ Women’s & Gender Studies Consortium Undergraduate Research Colloquium" on Friday, April 13, in University Hall. Nancy Naples, a professor of sociology and women’s studies at the University of Connecticut (Storrs), presented the keynote address on "Women’s Community Activism and the Politics of Globalization."
Participants took part in various panel topics including "Women’s Bodies: Exploited, Debated & Legislated," "Reading Women’s Lives: History and Literature," "Gender, Economy, and Immigration," "Representing Gender," "Exposing Truths: Confronting Patriarchal Discourse," and "Rights and Wrongs: Feminist Politics."
The event was sponsored by the New Jersey Women’s and Gender Studies Consortium. The Women’s Studies Program at Montclair State coordinated the event with financial support from the University Provost’s Office and the College of Humanities and Social Sciences Dean’s Office, with special support from the American Association of University Women-New Jersey.
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Montclair State’s Department of the English Visiting Writers Committee presented a "Holocaust Remembrance Talk," on April 19, in University Hall. Marianne Hirsch, professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia University, and Leo Spitzer, a Kathe Tappe Vernon professor of history at Dartmouth College and visiting professor of history at Columbia University, presented a lecture on "Street Photographs" – the photos depict the lives of Jewish people in Cernauti, Romania before, during and after the Holocaust. Some of the photos displayed are included in an archive at the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C.
