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New Faculty 2019 Engaging and Challenging Students 1 Dear Colleague, It is with great pleasure that I welcome you to St. John’s University. You have been invited to join our faculty in recognition of your outstanding scholarly achievements, commitment to the University’s mission, and dedication to your students. As faculty, you join a vibrant academic community built upon a strong foundation of Catholic and Vincentian values where student success is our main priority. You join collegial and innovative faculty dedicated to creating an engaging and inspiring learning environment, who work with students on research projects, engage in service to the University as well as the community, and so much more. St. John’s University offers many professional development programs, and I encourage you to take advantage of these as well as the numerous educational and social events on campus. It will not only enrich your life, but also the lives and engagement of our students. As you embark on your career at St. John’s University, I wish you great success. We, as faculty, have a great responsibility because what we do every day changes lives. Sincerely, Simon G. Møller, Ph.D. Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs 2 New Faculty 2019 Engaging and Challenging Students 3 “Nowadays, they predict that students will change careers five or six times in their lifetime. If you have a liberal arts education, you can easily move from one discipline to another because you learn how to learn.” Jeffrey W. Fagen, Ph.D., Dean St. John’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences 4 Zehra Cevher, Ph.D. Dr. Cevher comes to has focused on fabrication and St. John’s University as characterization of CuInxGa1-xSe2 and an Assistant Professor GaAs/AlGaAs-based photovoltaic in the Department of devices. Her future research will focus Physics. She received on synthesis and characterization of her M.Phil. and Ph.D. perovskite and amorphous silicon- in Physics from the City University based photovoltaic devices. of New York. Her graduate work Yual Chiek, Ph.D. Dr. Chiek comes to His research interests include Early- St. John’s University as an Modern Philosophy, Metaphysics Assistant Professor in the and Epistemology, History and Philosophy Department. Philosophy of Science, and Philosophy He received his Ph.D. from Queen’s of Religion. His work focuses on University, Kingston, ON, Canada, the modal metaphysics of Gottfried and completed his dissertation at Yale Wilhelm Leibniz. Dr. Chiek is the University, where he was a Visiting author of Leibniz on Compossibility of Assistant in Research for two and a and Possible Worlds. He is currently half years. After receiving his Ph.D., working on a monographic on Dr. Chiek was a postdoctoral fellow Leibniz’s metaphysics. at Fordham University. Julius A. Doyle, Ph.D. Dr. Doyle comes to resilience, depression, anxiety, stress, St. John’s University as an and DuBoisian double-consciousness Assistant Professor in the among African-Americans. His work Department of Sociology is particularly concerned with how and Anthropology. He the sociocultural conditions in the US received his Ph.D. in affect the health outcomes of African- Biocultural Anthropology from the Americans. His dissertation focused University of Washington. on the health effects of resilience among Black men who experience Before joining St. John’s University, discrimination and adversity, he was a postdoctoral fellow at observing these relationships through SUNY Binghamton, where he a physiological lens (hair cortisol), published research pioneering a new a psychosocial lens (mental and method of hair cortisol collection emotional well-being), and a physical and measurement in specimens health lens (self-reported health and coming from Afro-textured hair. Dr. resting blood pressure). Doyle’s research interests include biopsychosocial measurements of 5 Meghan Dunn, Ph.D. Dr. Dunn comes to or ‘novel’ media, especially by St. John’s University as an marginalized communities in times of Assistant Professor in the disaster, crisis, and political upheaval. Department of Rhetoric, Before coming to St. John’s, Dr. Communication, and Dunn served as an Adjunct Assistant Theatre. She received Professor at the New York City her Ph.D. in Communication Studies College of Technology. She also (Rhetoric) from the University of worked for the United Nations as Colorado at Boulder and M.A. in an Innovation Research Analyst Communication Studies (Rhetoric) in the Office of Information and from the University of Texas at Austin. Communications Technology and She specializes in rhetorical theory as an Information Management and investigates how information, Specialist in the Department of knowledge, or truth(s) are conducted Peacekeeping Operations and Field through emergent technologies Support. Max R. Freeman, Ph.D., CCC-SLP Dr. Freeman comes to influenced by their native language St. John’s University as while listening to second language an Assistant Professor sounds and words, demonstrating in the Department that the two languages within the of Communication Sciences and bilingual mind interact and are Disorders. He received his M.A. and inseparable. Ph.D. in Communication Sciences Throughout his research career, and Disorders from Northwestern Dr. Freeman has collaborated with University and completed his Clinical researchers in communication sciences Fellowship in Speech-Language and disorders, cognitive psychology, Pathology in the Chicago Public developmental psychology, linguistics, Schools system. and second language acquisition. Dr. Freeman’s research spans across He has several publications in peer- multiple disciplines, including reviewed journals, as well as book psycholinguistics, linguistics, chapters, and has presented his developmental psychology, and work at more than 30 conferences communication sciences and around the world. At St. John’s disorders. His research includes the University, Dr. Freeman plans to cognitive and linguistic implications continue his research on bilingual of bilingualism across the lifespan, language processing and examine the language development in young effectiveness of Claynguage™, a clay- children, and language intervention in based language program designed children with and without language to enhance communication skills in delays. His dissertation research young children and offer exposure to examined how bilingual adults are pottery. 6 Alana L. Glaser, Ph.D. Dr. Glaser joins implementation (i.e., the 2010 New St. John’s University as York Domestic Worker Bill of Rights) an Assistant Professor on the multicultural, immigrant-led in the Department organizations responsible for its of Sociology and passage, as well as its unexpected Anthropology. She sequelae in the daily lives of earned her Ph.D. in Anthropology individual West Indian Caribbean from Northwestern University. and West African women working as caregivers in New York City. Her Dr. Glaser is an applied/activist current research examines how medical anthropologist, with research diverse care workers marshal their foci in nursing and care sector work, professional capital to challenge migration, gender, race, aging, labor the retrenchment of welfare state process, and political economy. protections in the United States Supported by the Wenner-Gren, her and through international solidarity ethnographic research chronicles organizations. the impact of recent labor law Lakshmi Iswara Chandra Vidyasagar, Ph.D. Dr. Iswara Chandra was “Component Order Edge Vidyasagar is an Connectivity and Component Order Assistant Professor Edge Reliability.” in the Department Her current research interest is of Mathematics and on load balancing and optimized Computer Science. She resource allocation in a distributed received her B.S. in Mathematics cloud using graph theory, and she from Cauvery College for Women, is also working on creating and India; M.S. in Mathematics from simulating iris deformation. Dr. Madras Christian College, India; Iswara Chandra Vidyasagar has Master of Philosophy in Pure worked at the City University of New Mathematics from Madurai Kamaraj York as an Assistant Professor for the University, India; and Ph.D. in past four years and has published Applied Mathematics from Stevens eight papers and presented at several Institute of Technology, Hoboken, conferences. Her future research will NJ. The topic of her dissertation focus on data analysis. 7 Javier Fernández Juárez, Ph.D. Dr. Juárez comes to novel technologies addressing the St. John’s University as need for transcriptional regulators in an Assistant Professor synthetic biology. in the Department of Prior to joining St. John´s University, Biological Sciences. He he worked as a staff research received his Ph.D. in investigator at the Forsyth Institute Biology from Complutense University in Cambridge, MA, developing new in Madrid, Spain, working at the transcription factor-based biosensors Spanish National Research Council for salivary biomarkers. His future (CIB-CSIC) on anoxic biodegradation research will focus on developing of aromatic compounds. After novel health and environmental graduating, he was a postdoctoral biosensors, as well as biocontainment fellow at Harvard Medical School in mechanisms for engineered Boston, MA, where he developed microorganisms. Kazi Obaidullah, Ph.D. Dr. Obaidullah comes to His Ph.D. dissertation was titled, St. John’s University as “A Study on Genetic Algorithm an Assistant Professor Based MIMO Detection for in the Department of the Next Generation Wireless Mathematics