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MILTON FUENTES, Director, New Faculty Program
E-mail: fuentesm@mail.montclair.edu
Work phone: 7967
Office Location: Dickson Hall 256
Personal Link: http://coverpage.montclair.edu/home.php?username=fuentesm

Notes:

Milton A. Fuentes received his MA in Psychology with a concentration in Latino Mental Health from Montclair State University and his Psy.D. in Clinical Psychology from the Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology at Rutgers University. He completed his pre-doctoral fellowship in clinical and community psychology at Yale University and directed a one-year epidemiological study at Columbia University. He is currently an Associate Professor of Psychology, Co-Director of the Latin American and Latino Studies program and a licensed psychologist. He also oversees the Clinical and Community Studies laboratory in the Psychology department. His interests are in the areas of Latino and multicultural psychology, child psychology and family psychology. He serves as a consultant to several schools and community-based programs, including the Puerto Rican Family Institute.
 

 MARY ENGLISH, Classics and General Humanities Department
E-mail: englishm@mail.montclair.edu
Work phone: 5135
Office Location: Dickson Hall 148
Personal Link:  
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Mary C. English is an Associate Professor in the Department of Classics and General Humanities. Her research interests include modern and ancient performances of the Greek comic playwright Aristophanes and, more broadly, the role of the contemporary American playwright in social and political criticism. She is currently at work on a book that explores how American authors such as E.E. Cummings, John Dos Passos, and Elmer Rice used Aristophanic techniques to critique American life in the 1920s. In addition, Dr. English edits The Classical Outlook, one of the leading peer-reviewed journals in her field.
 NADEEM M. FIROZ, International Business Department
E-mail: firozn@mail.montclair.edu
Work phone: 7446
Office Location: Partridge Hall 407
Personal Link: http://www.firoznm.4mg.com
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Nadeem Firoz earned his Bachelors in Commerce (Hons) and Master of Commerce from University of Peshawar in Pakistan. He came to the US in 1973 and earned his MBA from University of Dallas in Irving, Texas, in 1976 and Ph.D. from University of North Texas in Denton, Texas, in 1982.

Currently, he is a professor of International Marketing at the Department of International Business. Initially he started at the Marketing Department in 1982, in 2005 he moved to the newly established International Business Department.

Nadeem is very active in research. His research focus is in Global Business, Service and the Non-Profit sector. His expertise is in converting service marketing (intangibility) to tangibility. Nadeem on average publishes three or more journal articles every year. He presents at conferences internationally and nationally each year. This is the very simple reason that he has traveled extensively in all five continents of the world to present, discuss, chair, speak, and hold workshops and special sessions at conferences. He has traveled to about 54 countries. He brings these experiences to the classrooms of both graduate and undergraduate courses. His classroom teaching evaluation, on the job performance, sense of humor and friendliness with his students can be witnessed at the free public website, "RateMyProfessor.Com".

 
HELENROSE FIVES, Educational Foundations Department
E-mail: fivesh@mail.montclair.edu
Work phone: 5170
Office Location: University Hall
Personal Link:  

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Helenrose Fives is an Associate Professor in the Department of Educational Foundations. She received her Ph. D. in Human Development with a Specialization in Educational Psychology from the University of Maryland, College Park. Prior to working at Montclair State University Dr. Fives held a joint appointment in Educational Psychology and Secondary Education at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, TX. Dr. Fives’ research interests lie at the intersection of learning and teaching, with a particular emphasis on learning how to teach. In particular she studies teachers’ and learners’ beliefs and the influence of these beliefs on practice. She has investigated the use of persuasive pedagogy to facilitate conceptual change in learners. Dr. Fives has received awards for her scholarship from AERA Division C and SERA. She currently serves on the editorial board the Journal of Experimental Education.

 
 SCOTT KIGHT, Biology and Molecular Biology Department
E-mail: kights@mail.montclair.edu
Work phone: 5426
Office Location: Science Hall 122
Personal Link: http://pages.csam.montclair.edu/biology/bioweb/scott_kight_phd_associate_p.html
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Scott Kight is an Associate Professor in the Department of Biology and Molecular Biology. His Ph.D. from Indiana University is in Biology, concentrating in Ecology, Evolution and Behavior. Scott teaches courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels and is a member of the doctoral faculty. He has been a member of the faculty at Montclair State University since 1997.

Scott's teaching interests include evolutionary biology, ecology and animal behavior. His research involves the ways that animals make decisions about reproduction, particularly decisions about the termination of parental care.
CHRISTINE LEMESIANOU, Communication Studies Department
E-mail: lemesianoc@mail.montclair.edu
Work phone: 5193
Office Location: Life Hall 055B
Personal Link:  

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Christine A. Lemesianou is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Studies. Since joining Montclair State University in 2000, she has also served as the Coordinator for the Fundamentals of Speech Program. She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in communication studies, persuasion, research methods and globalization and has a strong interest in creating innovative pedagogical practices. Her research interests include communication and identity, globalization and borders, critical pedagogy, and new media and interactive technologies. She is currently working on a manuscript that investigates global literacies.

 
 

   

LENORE MOLEE, Justice Studies Department

E-mail: moleel@mail.montclair.edu
Work phone: 7963
Office Location: Dickson Hall 327
Personal Link:

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Lenore M. Molee is an associate professor in the Justice Studies Department at Montclair State University.  She is the director of the Paralegal Studies Program.  She received her J.D. from Seton Hall University School of Law.  Her current research focuses on service-learning, civic engagement, critical reflection and assessment.  She has taught Service-Learning courses at Montclair State University since 2001.  She has lectured on the topic of Service-Learning pedagogy and research at numerous international, national and Montclair State University conferences.  She was selected as a Service-Learning Faculty Scholar with the Research Academy for University Learning’s Service-Learning Program for 2008-2010. 
 
SEDDIK MEZIANI, Economics and Finance Department
E-mail: mezianis@mail.montclair.edu
Work phone: 4135
Office Location: Partridge Hall 412
Personal Link:  

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Seddik Meziani teaches finance at Montclair State University, NJ. Previously, he worked for Standard & Poor’s and TIAA-CREF. He received a Ph.D. from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and an MBA from NYU.

His field of expertise encompasses exchange traded funds and other index-linked products. He is published in both academic and practitioners journals.He is the author of “Exchange-Traded Funds as an Investment Option” published by Palgrave/Macmillan (2006) and “Exchange-Traded Funds-Conceptual and Practical Investment Approaches” published by Risk Book & Journals (2009).

He delivered key note addresses at The Art of Indexing Summit (2008 and 2009), the Chairman’s Club of Capital One Bank and the Estate Planning Council of Northern New Jersey. He also served as conference chair for the IMN’s Inaugural World Series of Indexing & ETFs in Boston (2010). He is scheduled to chair a panel at the Annual Meeting of the Northeast Business and Economics Association (September 2010) and serve as conference chair at the Art of Indexing Summit in New York (October 2010). 

He has developed and presented a series of professional seminars to various U.S. and international corporate and government clients; the most recent was a comprehensive workshop on ETFs at the Chamber of Commerce in London.

 
Seddok Meziani

MONICA TAYLOR, Early Childhood, Elementary Education and Literacy Education Department

E-mail: taylorm@mail.montclair.edu
Work phone: 5407
Office Location: University Hall
Personal Link:

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Monica Taylor is an associate professor in the department of Curriculum and Teaching in the College of Education and Human Services. Before receiving her Ph.D. from the University of Arizona in Language, Reading, and Culture, she was an urban teacher who taught Spanish and French at an alternative middle school in New York City. Her teaching and scholarship focus on middle school education, inquiry, co/autoethnography, self-study, and action research, progressive schooling, and most recently teacher leadership. For the past eight years, she has served as the liaison to Grover Cleveland Middle School in Caldwell, NJ. Each semester, she offers teacher education courses on-site at there. She is the Graduate Program Coordinator of the new Masters in Teacher Leadership and she is the faculty adviser to school teams engaged in Dodge Action Research Projects.

 

PHILIP YECKO, Mathematical Sciences Department

E-mail: yeckop@mail.montclair.edu
Work phone: 5184
Office Location: Richardson Hall 239
Personal Link:

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Philip A. Yecko is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematical Sciences. His research in applied and physical mathematics explores fluid dynamics and its applications in astrophysics, biomedicine, engineering and geophysics and also includes computational and experimental approaches. Current focus is on magnetic liquids, multiphase flow simulations and transport in oceanographic flows. Yecko actively collaborates with researchers in Italy (Bologna, Naples), France (Paris VI) and several US institutions.

Yecko received his PhD from Columbia University in 1995. Prior to coming to Montclair State University in 2005, he was on the faculty of Trinity College Dublin (Ireland) and of Columbia University. Currently, he is the interim Director of the Science Honors Innovation Program (SHIP) within the College of Science and Mathematics.

 
 


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