Welcome new 2025 Faculty!<\/p>\n
LEAH GAINES JEANNIE HEADLEY JOSHINA JOHNSON FIGEN SUCHANEK JACQUELINE TIERNEY DOV ZAZKIS LEAH BATSTONE DEREK CRESCENTI<\/strong> SETH HOWARD<\/strong> BENTON GREENE<\/strong> MICAH KILLION<\/strong> KAITLIN SANTORO<\/strong> CAROLINE WOOLARD<\/strong> MITRA BRITTON FAN-YIN CHENG JOHN HARRICHAND JULIUS TORRES KELLINGHUSEN THERESA BROWN CHELSEA GRANT SUSANNE HARNETT JINXIA HE PRIYA VOLETI ELI BOSNICK BRYAN DeNOVELLIS JULIA KOTS KEVIN LERNER JASON MANDEL VICTOR MORALES JASON ABBOTT<\/strong> GISELLE BALFOUR<\/strong> MELODY BENEDICT<\/strong> ELIZABETH CHAN<\/strong> STEPHANIE DIEHL<\/strong> ANA DiGIOVANNI<\/strong> JENNIFER FLEEGER<\/strong> TAMARA JEAN-JACQUES<\/strong> DENISE MARQUES<\/strong> MARK ROSE<\/strong> ADAM NATOLI<\/strong> LAUREN SCHAIBLE<\/strong> STEPHEN TILLOTSON<\/strong> IOANNIS AGADAKOS MABEL AKINYEMI AISHWARYA SANTOSH DESHPANDE DEBAPRIYA HAZRA PRINCE WAQAS KHAN JENNIFER WOODRING JUNYI YE HONGBO ZHOU YANHUI ZHU ELIZABETH BENFANTI GLENN HERDLING KYUNGMYUNG JANG CHENG LU BRUCE MADIARAGA MARYAM NEZHADIAN SHASHI SHEKHAR RAPAKA CORY SIMPKINS LAUREN SULLIVAN BRIDGET JIVANELLI Resource Faculty from each College or School are assigned to the New Faculty and provide informal guidance and support. The Resource Faculty also help facilitate the weekly orientation sessions.<\/p>\n LAURA LAKUSTA LAURA LAKUSTA is a Professor in the Department of Psychology. After completing an NIH funded postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard University, Professor Lakusta joined the Montclair State University faculty in 2008. She teaches a wide range of courses, including Developmental Psychology both at the undergraduate and graduate level, Child Psychology, and Introduction to Statistical Methods in Psychology. Professor Lakusta is the recipient of a grant from the National Science Foundation that has supported her research exploring how infants conceptualize events and how such preverbal representations may support early language acquisition. She has numerous peer-reviewed publications including recent publications in the journals Infancy, Language Learning and Development<\/em> and Cognitive Science<\/em>.<\/p>\n CHRISTINE GIANCATARINO<\/strong> CHRISTINE GIANCATARINO is an Associate Teaching Professor in the Department of Writing Studies where she has taught composition courses in the First Year Writing Program since 2012. Her pedagogical interests explore the way embodied inquiry and somatic awareness serve as a platform for writing and meaning-making. She is a Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner (a form of somatic education), and has presented somatic workshops at the LMDA \u201cCrossing Borders\u201d conference and the KCACTF Festival, and presented as a panelist on writing pedagogy at the CCCC North, New Jersey Writing Alliance, and NJCEA regional conferences. In addition to her work as a theater practitioner, she taught English in southern Japan with the JET Program, and has worked at non-profits in NYC, including the Institute of International Education (IIE). She has an MFA in Theater (Dramaturgy) from Columbia University.<\/p>\n RESOURCE FACULTY<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n LIVIA ALEXANDER<\/strong> LIVIA ALEXANDER is a curator, writer, and Associate Professor of Global Visual Cultures at Montclair State University. Her work focuses on global perspectives on modern and contemporary visual art; cinema, expanded media, and aesthetics; creative placemaking and cultural economy; and modern and contemporary art, cinema and expanded media of South West Asia and North Africa. She has curated and directed numerous art and film programs, exhibitions and events at renown venues world-wide, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Tate Modern in London, the Brooklyn Museum, and many more. Most recently, Alexander served as Chief Curator of the Film Criticism Forum, an international platform set up by the Saudi Film Commission for an expended experience of film and a forum for critical exchange in the region and beyond.<\/p>\n Her award-winning scholarly writing has appeared in the Journal of Visual Anthropology, Framework, MERIP, and as book chapters and catalog essays. She has contributed to Hyeprallergic, Harpers Bazaar Art Arabia, ArtsEverywhere, and Art Africa. Alexander is co-producer of the research-based interactive documentary, “Jerusalem, We Are Here” (Canada\/Palestine\/Israel, 2016), directed by Dorit Naaman. Her work has been supported by grants and fellowships from the Ford Foundation, Open Society Foundations, Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Doris Duke Foundation, American Association of University Women, among others.<\/p>\n Alexander served as an advisor to a variety of art organizations and galleries, including Future City, Tirana Open, Residency Unlimited, Sapar Contemporary, Al Riwaq Art Space, New Rochelle BID, Asian Contemporary Art Week, and the Art & Patronage Summit. She is the co-founder of ArteEast, a non-profit organization established in 2003 to support and promote artists from the Middle East, North Africa and its diasporas, which she directed until 2013. Dr. Alexander holds a Ph.D. from New York University in Cinema and Middle East Studies.<\/p>\n RAM DUBEY<\/strong> RAM SEWAK DUBEY\u00a0is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics. He received his PhD degree in economics from Cornell University and has been a faculty member at MSU since Fall, 2012. His teaching interests include undergraduate core and elective economics courses as well as core courses in the MBA program. He is an active researcher in the field of social choice and welfare with broad interest in the theoretical and empirical analysis of inequality in society. He has published in several esteemed research journals in economics. He has been a part of the New Faculty Program as a mentor for several years and is eagerly looking forward to meeting the new faculty members in the Fall semester.<\/p>\n TAMMY CASTRO<\/strong> TAMMY CASTRO is a Professor of Biology at Bloomfield College of Montclair State University, where she has taught undergraduate biology courses to majors and non-majors since 2004. She holds a Ph.D. in Molecular Pathology and Immunology from the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, with research expertise in cancer metastasis. She has successfully mentored over 30 undergraduate students in independent research projects spanning genomics, synthetic biology, and cancer biology, with her mentees advancing to graduate programs and securing positions at leading research organizations. As Principal Investigator on an NSF grant, Dr. Castro leads innovative interventions to improve academic performance of freshman biology majors through evidence-based support programs. Her teaching portfolio encompasses genetics, molecular and cellular biology, immunology, and microbiology, with particular focus on making complex biological concepts accessible to diverse audiences. As a McNair Scholar Faculty Liaison and former Interim Dean, she champions educational equity for underrepresented students. Dr. Castro is fluent in both English and Spanish.<\/p>\n HENK ESHUIS<\/strong> HENK ESHUIS is an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry. He received his PhD degree in chemistry from Bristol University, UK. After a postdoctoral position at the University of California, Irvine, he joined the faculty at MSU in the Fall of 2012. His regular teaching ranges from General Chemistry at the freshman level to Physical Chemistry at the junior level. At the graduate level, he teaches a course in Computational Chemistry.\u00a0 He is deeply involved in curriculum development within the department. His research is the development of quantum chemical methods and their application to relevant chemical problems, such as the elucidation of the reaction mechanism of transition metal-catalyzed reactions and asphaltene aggregation. He works with undergraduate students in his research group and values his role as a research mentor. His work is published in peer-reviewed journals.<\/p>\n GAI GRANNON<\/strong> PRIYA LALVANI<\/strong> PRIYA LALVANI is a Full Professor in the department of Teaching and Learning. She received her Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology from The Graduate Center, CUNY and has been at MSU since Fall, 2010. She teaches courses in Disability Studies and is the coordinator for the graduate program in Inclusive Education.\u00a0 Her research is focused on examining disability as a sociopolitical construct. Through it, she seeks to disrupt ableism in society and to problematize the segregation of many students with disabilities in schools. She is the co-author of the book: Undoing Ableism: Teaching About Disability in K-12 Classrooms<\/em>\u00a0and the editor of:\u00a0\u00a0Constructing the (M)other:\u00a0 Narratives of Disability, Motherhood, and the Politics of Normal<\/em>. She is excited to be a part of the New Faculty Program.<\/p>\n ALFREDO TORO CARNEVALI<\/strong> ALFREDO TORO CARNEVALI is an Associate Teaching Professor in the Department of Political Science and Law. He teaches a wide range of courses, including\u00a0 International Security and Diplomacy, International Relations, American Foreign Policy, Government and Politics of Latin America, and Politics of Terrorism, both at the graduate and undergraduate levels. In addition, he coordinates the Graduate Program in Law and Governance, the Minor in Global Security and Diplomacy, and the Model United Nations Pre-College Summer program. Prior to academia, he worked for many years as a diplomat at the United Nations, where he negotiated key treaties like the Arms Trade Treaty (2014) and the Nuclear Weapons Ban Treaty (2017). He was elected vice-president of the General Assembly\u2019s First Committee on Disarmament and International Security. Toro Carnevali holds a B.A. in Government from Georgetown University and a Master\u2019s degree in Public Policy and Administration from the London School of Economics.<\/p>\n
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\nPsychology Department
\nlakustal@montclair.edu<\/a>
\n973-655-7951
\nOffice Location: Dickson Hall 247<\/p>\n
\nCo-Director, New Faculty Program
\nAssociate Teaching Professor
\nDepartment of Writing Studies
\ngiancatarinc@montclair.edu<\/a>
\nOffice Location: Schmitt Hall, 205Q<\/p>\n
\nAssociate Professor
\nArt and Design Department
\nalexanderli@montclair.edu<\/a>
\n973-655-4167
\nOffice Location: Life Hall 0434<\/p>\n
\nAssociate Professor
\nEconomics Department
\ndubeyr@montclair.edu<\/a>
\n973-655-2126
\nOffice Location: The Feliciano School of Business 538<\/p>\n
\nProfessor
\nComputational, Natural, and Applied Sciences (CNAS)
\ncastrot@montclair.edu<\/a>
\n973-655-2917
\nOffice Location: College Hall 111 – Bloomfield Campus<\/p>\n
\nAssociate Professor
\nChemistry and Biochemistry Department
\neshuish@montclair.edu<\/a>
\n973-655-7099
\nOffice Location: Richardson Hall 225J<\/p>\n
\nAssociate Teaching Professor
\nSchool of Communication and Media
\ngrannong@montclair.edu<\/a>
\n973-655-3687
\nOffice Location: School of Communication and Media<\/p>\n
\nShe teaches in the Fundamentals of Speech program, instructing several sections of
\nFundamentals of Speech each semester. She is also one of the Consultants for the Montclair
\nState Public Speaking Resource Center.\u00a0 She started at MSU as an Adjunct Professor, teaching both regular length and accelerated versions of the Fundamentals of Speech course.\u00a0She was promoted to full time in 2015, where her teaching and mentoring roles were expanded. She has also taught a public speaking course at Ramapo College, and several acting courses at the University of Michigan.<\/div>\n
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\nTeaching and Learning Department
\nlalvanip@montclair.edu<\/a>
\n973-655-5372
\nOffice Location: University Hall 3163<\/p>\n
\nAssociate Teaching Professor
\nPolitical Science and Law Department
\ntorocarnevaa@montclair.edu<\/a>
\nOffice Location: Dickson Hall 207<\/p>\n