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DR. BRASH joins the Montclair faculty as an urban anthropologist with interests in community development, urban identity and culture.  He has taught in the City of New York system and at the University of Toledo where he was affiliated with the doctoral program in Spatially Integrated Social Science.  Dr. Brash is the author of the forthcoming Bloomberg’s New York: Class and Governance in the Luxury City (University of Georgia Press) and many articles and essays in well-regarded professional journals.

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DR. CLATTERBUCK explores religion through historical, cultural, sociological and theological perspectives.  His research has focused in the history of the contact between Native American religions and Christianity from colonial times to the present and includes exploration of the emergence of indigenous liberation theologies in the Americas.  His book, Demons, Saints and Patriots: Catholic Visions of Native America (1902-1962), will be published by Marquette University Press this fall.

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DR. DAVIDSON has held lecturer positions at Hunter College and the University of California at Santa Cruz.  Her research explores the aspirations of working-class Mexican-American, Anglo and Asian-American youth in the Silicon Valley during the onset of the current recession.  Dr. Davidson is the author of the forthcoming Specters of Success: Youth and Politics of Aspiration in Silicon Valley (New York University Press) and multiple peer-reviewed articles in professional journals.

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DR.  NADOLSKE comes to MSU with a significant teaching experience in American Sign Language having been an instructor at Purdue and Gallaudet Universities.  She has published extensively on linguistic dimensions of American Sign Language and has presented her work at many professional meetings and conferences.  Dr. Nadolske is versed as well in social linguistics, with particular interest in international Sign Language variations.

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DR.  PARDO’s research interest focuses on the production and perception of spoken language. Her most recent project, funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation, integrates psycholinguistics and social psychology to investigate the influence of social and situational factors on speech produced in purposeful interaction.  Dr. Pardo has served most recently as an assistant professor at Barnard College and Co-Director of the Human Communication Laboratory at Columbia University.

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DR.  RASHKOW is a specialist in South Asian history with research interests in British colonialism and its impact on the South Asian environment.  He is a Research Fellow at the Columbia University South Asia Institute, a Research Affiliate at the World Environmental History Centre at Sussex University in the United Kingdom, and has served as an Invited Scholar at the International School for Jain Studies in New Delhi.  Most recently, he taught as a Lecturer at the University of Virginia. He has a number of publications in his field of research, and he is currently seeking a publisher for his book in progress, The Nature of Endangerment: Hunting, Wildlife and Forest Communities in Western and Central India.