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College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Montclair State University: Annual Report AY2017 Dean Rob Friedman CHSS Student Academic Achievements (selected) Anthropology graduating senior Christopher Snyder was honored on May 11, 2017 with an Extra Mile Award (http://patersonalliance.org/events/extra-mile-awards) from the Paterson Alliance for his outstanding contributions last summer at City Green (http://www.citygreenonline.org/). 2016 Anthropology major and alumna Ylenia Crocco presented her original research project, “Real Estate Agents & Go-Go Bars: Comparing Highway Billboard Advertisements through Communities of Variant Income Demographics” at Languaging Diversity 2017 (Language and Social Class) Conference at University of Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy in September. Anthropology alumnae, Alexis Alemy and Sophia Hudzik, co-authored an article with faculty member Chris Matthews on “Creating a User-friendly Interactive Interpretive Resource with ESRI’s ArcGIS Story Map Program that was published in Historical Archaeology. Classics and Jurisprudence, Law and Society double-major Christopher Clement was awarded one of the university’s 2017 Carpe Diem awards. Classics major William Weber was the 2017 winner of the Kibbe Scholarship, which is awarded to a high-achieving student majoring in Latin or Classics. Daniel Salazar was the 2017 winner of the Peins scholarship, which is awarded to a high- achieving student majoring in Classics with a minor in Latin. Students in the master’s program in speech-language pathology (SLP) and the doctor of audiology (AuD) programs participated in almost twenty scientific presentations at meetings during AY2016. o Ashley Helthall and Melanie Panglinian (AuD students) received Audiology Research Travel Awards from the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. o Lauren Duffy (SLP student) received the Arlene Linetzky Distinguished Student Clinician award. CHSS ANNUAL REPORT AY17 – 1 o Lauren Dioguardi (SLP student) received the Marni Reisberg Award, and Ashley. Helthall (AuD student) received the NJSHA/NJAA Outstanding Audiology Student Award. English major Justin Mathai was awarded the Diversity and Equality Award by the Distinguished Student Leader Awards 2017. Kristen Bryfogle (English BA 2016) was Montclair State’s first-ever finalist for a Rhodes Scholarship. English major Kelsea Rowan (B.A. May 2017) received the Outstanding Student Employee Award from the Office of Career Services; Kelsea Rowan also received the AFTNJ Nick Yovnello Social Justice Scholarship. The English department gave awards and scholarships as follows: o Tom Benediktsson Award for Poetry: Asma Alqudah o Libera Calabrese Award for Creative Nonfiction: Sarah Dimichino o Carter Ross Award for Flash Fiction: Julie Eisenlohr o Johnny Muller Memorial Scholarship in Fiction: Monica Archer o Shari Kandell Scholarship: Martina Ducret o Bessie Saslaw Solomon Memorial Scholarship: Rebecca Klein o W. Leonard Newman Film Award: Michael Shoykhet o Murray Prosky Prize in Irish Literature: Bushra Aboukwaik o W. Bernard Fleischmann Memorial Award: Rebecca Klein o Elizabeth Dean Eler Memorial Award: Colleen Calello o Anthony J. Lovasco Shakespeare Award: Erricka Reardon o English Department Teacher Education Award: Kristy Lim o Frank G. McGuire Scholarship: Lauren Haberstroh o Vivien L. Kwiatek Scholarship: Colleen Calello, Joseph Glinbizzi, Valerie Jaretsky, and Michael Shoykhet o Lawrence H. Conrad Memorial Scholarship: Liz Amato and Katie O’Keeffe Toledano o Mary Bondon Graduate Scholarship: Garrett Van Curen History major Daniel Alvarez was this year’s winner of the William McLean Scholarship. History major Dennis Chung was this year’s winner of the Julian Jaffe Memorial Award. History major Alena Walker-Browne was this year’s winner of the Robert Beckwith Scholarship. History major Lidza Cassamajor is this year’s winner of the Friends Scholarship. Linguistics MA student Manali Pradhan won best paper award (first author); best presentation award at CICLing Linguistics MA student Tracy Fey will deliver a paper at the International Conference on Onomastic Sciences Linguistics MA student Jeremy Fishman secured a Fulbright Grant to teach English as a Foreign Language in Taiwan Linguistics MA student Gregory Marcus secured Fulbright Grant to teach English as a Foreign Language in South Korea. CHSS ANNUAL REPORT AY17 – 2 Linguistics major Bianca Wright received best paper award (co-author) at CICLing. Students in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures received the following awards: o The Kermit Vogel Scholarship in French was awarded to Pierre Malbranche o The Endowed Graduate Scholarship in French was awarded to Aminata Traore o The recipients of the UG Conrad Schmitt Scholarship were Carla Maddalena (French) Katie Kreutz (German) o The GR Conrad Schmitt Scholarship Recipient was Daphney Vastey (French). o Carla Maddalena (French), received a Margaret B. Holz award for study abroad. o The International Essay Prize winners are Michelle Dester (Japanese), and Wyming Sun (Chinese), with Honorable Mention awarded to Carly Ortiz (Chinese) o The recipients of 2017 Japanese Language and Culture Study awards by the New Jersey Association of Teachers of Japanese (NJATJ) were Julius Colon, Nathan Hutcherson, Hyelim Jung, Samuel Rose, Bryan Szollosi, and Stephanie Vincitore Political Science and Law undergraduates received several scholarships totaling over ten thousand dollars originating from alumni: o The Portin Scholarship o The Rapoport Legal Scholarship o The Tayler-Benfield Scholarship o The Gary Richard Tamirian Memorial Scholarship o The Dr. Harry Balfe II Memorial Senior Award o The Louis Eckstein Memorial Scholarship o The J.S. Gang Scholarship o The Maurice Crescenzi Jr. Scholarship Political Science and Law graduate student Mishella Romo published an article with Dr. Tony Spanakos Political Science and Law graduate students Matthew Bosque and Mishella Romo earned their MAs with high honors. Psychology students received many academic honors, including: o Fadila Addaouki: Awarded the New Jersey Association of School Psychologists' (NJASP) Minority Student Scholarship Award o Ameen Attar and Camila Pena: won Student Research and Scholarship Awards at the Annual Psychology Institute ($1,100 total) o Alexandra Buchanan: Distinguished Student Award by the Psychology Department o Alexandra Buchanan: University-wide Distinguished Student Leader Award for Outstanding Mentorship o Sammantha Farese: Student Scholar Achievement Award o Carla Iroldi: Psychology Distinguished Student Award o Holly Kobezak Psychology Distinguished Student Award. o Bethany Trilone: Distinguished Student Award o Nathan Zlochevsky: Distinguished Student Award Through the 21 active research laboratories housed in the Department of Psychology, more than 100 undergraduates were involved in laboratory research projects associated in areas as diverse as CHSS ANNUAL REPORT AY17 – 3 neuroscience and neurological degenerative diseases, trauma, social attitudes and discrimination, leadership and behavior, forensic investigation and plea bargaining, internalizing psychological disorders (e.g., anxiety, depression), hedonics and food preferences, language and development, social justice, language and cognition, perceptual processing, virtual reality, and others. Undergraduate and graduate students have participated in the publication of 50 articles and presentations, most frequently with their faculty, as a result of their participation in faculty research. Sociology major LJ Metasker presented her work on activist burnout among gender activists at the Winter meeting of the Sociologists for Women and Society in Albuquerque, NM. Zaida Castaño (Spanish major) was awarded the Craig & Arlene Crescenzi Allen Scholarship in Spring 2017 from the College of Education and Human Services. This scholarship was created to support a teacher education student during her semester of student teaching. The Writing Studies department gave several exemplary student writing awards to the following students: o Curtis Watkins (ENWR100, Spring 2016), "Hire Me For Who I Am, Not For Who I Was" o Mariah Zenobia Pogue (ENWR105, Fall 2016), "Daily Double: The Effects of Being a Minority Diagnosed with a Mental Health Disorder" o Nicole Marquez (ENWR106/Studio, Spring 2016), "Zombieland: A Post-Apocalyptic Nightmare or Adulthood Reality?" CHSS ANNUAL REPORT AY17 – 4 CHSS Student Internships (selected) Anthropology major Rose Arroyo will serve as an intern with Habitat for Humanity-Newark for the months of May and June. Double Classics and German major Awije Bahrami will begin a paid summer internship (including living accommodations) with the United Parcel Service (UPS) in Germany as part of a program with the German American Chambers of Commerce. Graduating Senior and History major Terri Brouhard completed an internship at The Montclair History Center. Among other things, she curated a new exhibit on the life and work of the Montclair artist Vincent Tango. Nora Czarnomski (History major) participated as an intern doing research with the St. James Episcopal Church in Montclair. History major David Buhler completed a one-semester internship at the Thomas Edison Museum. Political Science and Law students interned for many political campaigns, including: o Hillary for America o Donald Trump for President o Josh Gottheimer for Congress o Scott Garrett for Congress o Bergen County Democratic candidate Fahim Abedrabbo (an MSU POLS alumni) o Clifton Board of Education