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DR. CONWAY joins the Montclair faculty as a specialist in rural, agricultural and poverty issues in colonial and post-colonial Mexican history.  Although he earned his doctorate just this year, he already has a promising scholarly record, with several encyclopedia entries and a book review in print.  While at Montclair he will teach general survey-level courses in Latin American history and culture and more advanced courses in his areas of scholarly pursuit, including courses, perhaps team taught with other members of the History Department, comparing agricultural and poverty issues across regional lines, especially in Asia and Africa as well as Latin America.

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DR. GISCHLAR joins Montclair State University as an Assistant Professor and School Psychology Program Director.  She has spent many years in the field of education as both a general education teacher and as a school psychologist.  Most recently, Dr. Gischlar worked as a Research Scientist in the Center for Promoting Research to Practice at Lehigh University while completing her Ph.D. in School Psychology.  Her primary areas of research interest are early intervention, response to intervention models, and child maltreatment and neglect.

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DR. LYKIDIS holds a Ph.D. in Critical Studies from the School of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California where he was a Provost Fellow.  Before that he worked as a management consultant in New York and Boston after receiving undergraduate degrees in business and engineering at the University of Pennsylvania.  His primary research interests revolve around representations of citizenship as mediated by race, ethnicity and immigration status in contemporary European cinema.  His teaching areas of focus are art, avant-garde and minority cinemas in non-U.S. film industries.

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DR.  McALLISTER is an assistant professor in the department of Communication Sciences and Disorders and is certified as a speech-language pathologist.  She is interested in using insights from linguistic theory to extend our capacity to diagnose and treat communication disorders, while also drawing on clinical data to deepen our understanding of both typical and disordered language.  In clinical practice, Dr. McAllister served as a founding member of the Neurolinguistics of Language Acquisition and Delay Clinic at Children’s Hospital, Boston, an interdisciplinary project to understand the neural bases of child language disorders while providing research-based diagnostic and treatment services for pediatric patients.    

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DR. NOONER joins the Montclair faculty as an Assistant Professor in the Psychology Department, having most recently been a post-doctoral fellow at New York University's Child Study Center and a research scientist at the Nathan S. Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research.  Dr. Nooner received her Ph.D. from the University of California, San Diego in Clinical Psychology with a specialization in child and adolescent psychopathology.  Her primary research explores the neurobiological and psychosocial corollaries of trauma during childhood and adolescence as well as factors related to risk and resilience.  Dr. Nooner is also interested in evidence based treatments for suicidal, self-injuring, and multi-problem adolescents.

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DR. ROHOLT comes to us with a Ph.D. from Columbia University (2007). He is a specialist in the philosophy of art, and will teach courses in the philosophy of art and music as well as in existentialism and phenomenology.  Dr. Roholt was Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Rowan University (2006-2007), and Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Indiana University of Pennsylvania (2007-2009).  He is a co-organizer of the American Society for Aesthetics Eastern Division Conference in 2010.  His publications include "Musical Experience," in The Oxford Companion to Consciousness (2009), and "Musical Musical Nuance," which is forthcoming in the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism. 

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DR. SMITH completed his doctorate in Government at Georgetown in July 2008, and his research and teaching interests focus on the history of political thought and international affairs. In 2008-09 he served as the Jack Miller Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Government at Georgetown University.  Dr. Smith’s 2006 Interpretation article on Adam Smith won the 2007 Templeton Enterprise Award for the best article published on the culture of enterprise by a scholar under the age of 40 in the previous year.  His B.A. in History is with honors from the University of California, Los Angeles and he holds an M.A. in Security Studies from the Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown.

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DR. SOMERS-WILLETT joins the English Department as specialist in creative writing. Previously, she has taught courses in contemporary poetry and poetics at Carnegie Mellon University, The University of Texas at Austin, and The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she was a Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow.  Her scholarship focuses on public poetry projects, African American literature, and verse in performance.  A national expert on slam poetry, Somers-Willett is the author of two books of poetry, Quiver and Roam, and a book of criticism, The Cultural Politics of Slam Poetry: Race, Identity, and the Performance of Popular Verse in America.  She is the first poet-reporter to be featured by IN VERSE, a groundbreaking collaboration between poets, photographers, and radio producers to create a new model of storytelling in journalism.