COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SERVICES

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1 YOLANDA ALVAREZ Assistant Dean, College of Humanities and Social Sciences B.A. The State University of New York, Oneonta M.A. New York University M.A. Columbia University MS. ALVAREZ received her BA from SUNY, Oneonta (Political Science), her first M.A. (Counseling) from NYU and her second M.A. (Organizational Psychology) from Columbia. She has also has earned advanced professional certificates in Marketing, Digital Media Marketing, and Human Resources Management. Prior to coming to CHSS, Ms. Alvarez served as Assistant Dean and Director of Undergraduate Programs at Rutgers University-Newark s Business School. Ms. Alvarez is a seasoned assistant dean who has worked on student advising and support, enrollment management, recruitment, and programs for student professionalization. She has had much success in collaborating with faculty and staff to actively engage alumni and other professionals in supporting students achievement in transitioning from school to work. MICHAEL BOYLE Communication Sciences and Disorders Department B.A. University of Delaware M.S. The Pennsylvania State University Ph.D. The Pennsylvania State University DR. BOYLE received his Ph.D. in Communication Sciences and Disorders from The Pennsylvania State University in Prior to joining MSU he was an Assistant Professor at Oklahoma State University for three years. Dr. Boyle s research focuses on psychosocial issues experienced by people who stutter. The major goal of his work is to help increase quality of life and social participation of individuals with fluency disorders. Dr. Boyle has authored a variety of scientific articles in leading journals in his field and several book chapters. His research has been consistently funded over the past several years and he has presented his work internationally. Dr. Boyle also has a passion for teaching students and increasing critical thinking skills. COURTNEY CUNNINGHAM Advising & Student Engagement Coordinator, College of Humanities and Social Sciences B.A. Drew University M.A. Montclair State University MS. CUNNINGHAM serves as the advising and engagement coordinator for the College of Humanities and Social Sciences. In addition to providing supplemental advising services to all students within the college, she coordinates the advising session for Transfer Student Orientations, liaises with academic departments and support services, and serves as the primary planner for CHSS Convocation. Prior to joining the CHSS Dean's Office, Ms. Cunningham served as an Academic Advisor in the Center for Advising and Student Transitions where she managed a caseload of 200 freshman and transfer students. Ms. Cunningham began working at the University in 2008 as the Assistant Women's Basketball Coach and is currently in her 8th year working with the team. Additionally, she received her MAT from Montclair State in 2011.

2 GINA EIDE Communications and Web Content Manager, College of Humanities and Social Sciences B.A. Hamline University M. S. Quinnipiac University MS. EIDE has just joined us as the College's new Marketing and Communications Manager. Ms. Eide comes to CHSS as a seasoned communications manager who combines the technical expertise of digital, print, graphics, and video web production with marketing and journalism experience in social media, newspaper reporting, magazine content and production, and tv news. She has worked in a wide variety of communications venues, including previous work at Yale University which has prepared her for our higher education setting. Most recently she has served as the sole communications person for an historic Park Avenue church in Manhattan with a renowned day school program, successfully working with an extensive array of stakeholders and a comprehensive portfolio. Ms. Eide has a Master of Science degree in Journalism with a focus on Interactive Communications, and a B.A. degree with a major in French, a minor in Spanish, and a Certificate in International Journalism. Ms. Eide will advise on, develop, and coordinate a far-reaching range of public and internal marketing endeavors, helping CHSS realize the rich potential we enjoy. She will be working with College leadership, faculty, and staff as well as alumni and other supporters. She will serve as a consultant and resource for departments and programs in their use of the University web pages and will foster social media, all for the ultimate aim of enhancing the educational life of our students. SARAH RYAN LOWE A.B. Harvard University M.A. University of Massachusetts Boston Ph.D. University of Massachusetts Boston DR. LOWE is a clinical psychologist who was hired to teach in the graduate child clinical psychology program. Dr. Lowe completed her pre-doctoral internship at New York Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center and has done post-doctoral work at The Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University in the Department of Epidemiology where she was an Associate Research Scientist. Dr. Lowe s area of research is on the mental health consequences of traumatic events, with a particular focus on natural disasters. Her research seeks to extend the field by focusing on three areas: (a) the long-term mental health consequences of trauma; (b) mechanisms related to secondary stressors that contribute to long-term outcomes; and (c) the influence of social relationships and contexts on post-trauma resilience. Dr Lowe has published extensively in top tier journals in her field and has had great success in grants and grant related research. Dr. Lowe uses many advanced statistical techniques in her work and brings that strength the department.

3 NICOLE LYTLE Center for Child Advocacy and Policy B.A. University of Toledo Ph.D. University of Toledo DR. LYTLE received her Ph.D. in experimental psychology from the University of Toledo in Her research interests are in the area of forensic developmental psychology and include examining interview procedures used with children. In her dissertation, The referent can obscure performance: Requiring young children to use their own bodies impedes their use of 2D human line drawings as self-representations, she explored young children s ability to use dolls and drawings to show touch occurring on their own bodies. ELSPETH MARTINI History Department B.A. Bachelor of Laws L.L.B. Ph.D. University of Melbourne, Australia University of Melbourne, Australia University of Michigan, Ann Arbor DR. MARTINI is an Assistant Professor in the History Department. Prior to joining Montclair State, Dr. Martini was a Doctoral Fellow at the Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh where she taught and conducted research from Dr. Martini was awarded a Ph.D. in History by the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor where she started her research work on the fields of United States History during the nineteenth century, Native American History and comparative colonial histories. As a member of the History department, Dr. Martini will primarily teach courses on the early history of the United States. Her work emphasizes transnational approaches to the study of United States expansion which will offer a valuable addition to the Department s existing strengths in world and comparative history. She will also be partly responsible for coordinating the Social Studies Teaching Certification Program. LISA A. PERHACS Audiology Clinical Externship Coordinator, Communication Sciences and Disorders Department B.S.E. Seton Hall University M.A. The College of New Jersey Au.D. The School of Audiology, Pennsylvania College of Optometry DR. PERHACS received her Doctor of Audiology degree at the School of Audiology, Pennsylvania College of Optometry (now Salus University) in She joins MSU from Siemens Hearing Instruments, where her 11 year tenure included working as the Audiology and Training Manager for the Export Sales Division of Siemens Audiologische Technik GmbH, based out of Erlangen, Germany. She was also the Senior Educational Specialist, responsible for implementing and planning customer and employee Audiology meetings, based out of the US Headquarters in Piscataway, NJ. Dr. Perhacs expertise includes a strong foundation in hearing amplification and clinical skills, which she gladly shares with her students.

4 JOSHUA SANDRY B.S. East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania M.A. New Mexico State University Ph.D. New Mexico State University DR. SANDRY is a cognitive psychologist hired to teach in the graduate and undergraduate programs in general and experimental psychology. Dr. Sandry worked as a postdoctoral fellow in neuropsychology and neuroscience research at the Kessler Foundation and is affiliated with the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School. Dr. Sandry s fellowship at Kessler was sponsored by the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. There he studied human memory and is interested in understanding the role of attention and working memory in forming new long-term memories, and how findings in basic memory research in healthy populations can translate to understand and treat memory impairment associated with diverse neurological disorders, specifically, multiple sclerosis (MS) and traumatic brain injury (TBI). Dr Sandry has published extensively in top tier journals in his field and has had great successes in grants and grant related research. Dr. Sandry brings a unique perspective to the department after being an adjunct here for a year prior to being asked to join the faculty, and is an example of the talent we have here in our adjunct pool, which is considerable. Further, Dr. Sandry s work truly embraces a scientist practitioner perspective using basics of cognition to support interventions for those in the world who suffer with various impairments in movement and cognition. MAISA TAHA Anthropology Department B.A. Illinois Wesleyan University M.A. University of Iowa Ph.D. University of Arizona DR. TAHA received her Ph.D. in Linguistic Anthropology at The University of Arizona in Her dissertation, Cultivating Convivencia: Youth and Democratic Education in Southeast Spain, examined students and teachers everyday talk in and around democratic education classes to show that their interactions unwittingly reinforced the social, cultural, and ideological divisions that those classes aimed to challenge, using Moroccan immigrant youth, especially, as foils for lessons on social progressivism. Dr. Taha s work bridges linguistic, political, and educational anthropology, with special interest in developing students ethnographic skills through fieldwork and community based participatory research.

5 TINA ZOTTOLI B.E. Electrical Engineering, Stevens Institute of Technology M.A. John Jay College of Criminal Justice CUNY Graduate Center Ph.D. John Jay College of Criminal Justice CUNY Graduate Center DR. ZOTTOLI is a licensed clinical forensic psychologist hired to teach in the graduate program in clinical forensic psychology. Dr. Zottoli trained in a number of clinical areas including epilepsy, Alzheimer s, and clinical neuroscience in and around the city of New York including placements at Mt. Sinai, Bellevue, and NYS Psychiatric Institute at Columbia University. Dr. Zottoli taught brielfy at St Joseph s in Brooklyn before moving to Montclair State. Dr. Zottoli s expertise is in adolescent decision making and legal competencies where she maintains an active research program that broadly is applied to juvenile justice issues. One area of her work focuses on the neurocognitive bases of developmental deficits in adolescent decision-making; the other, focuses on plea-deal experiences of juveniles charged as adults. Dr. Zottoli has had success in grant writing and grant-funded research and has published in top tier journals in her field. Dr. Zottoli s previous teaching experience is an asset to the department as she has quite successfully taught across many areas in psychology.