2018 - 2019 School of Communication and the Arts DooRi Chung joins Marist as a professional for emerging talent in womenswear and the lecturer of fashion design. She is an industry 2006 CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund Award. She veteran with significant experience in all aspects designed a gown worn by First Lady Michelle of design, leadership, and public relations, and Obama to a state dinner in 2011. The former head her work is admired for its technical mastery and designer for Mr. Geoffrey Beene, DooRi’s work modern vision. She launched her eponymous has been featured in numerous publications such line in 2001, and since then has been recognized as Vogue, Elle, The New York Times, and WWD. by the Council of Fashion Designers of America She graduated from the Parsons School of Design (CFDA) with the Swarovski Perry Ellis Award with the prestigious Designer of the Year Award. With more than 20 years of experience in the overseeing all aspects of brick and mortar retail retail industry, Stephanie Conover has worked boutiques, including visual merchandising, for Saks Fifth Avenue, Valentino, Giorgio Armani, operations, staffing, and customer service. Tory Burch, and Derek Lam. This background Stephanie has a B.S. in family and consumer has provided her with a vast knowledge of retail sciences with a concentration in fashion buying, planning, and merchandising from merchandising from Western Illinois University both the perspectives of a department store and and an M.B.A. with an emphasis in marketing vertical retailer. She has experience in launching from Fordham University. She joins Marist as and managing an e-commerce business, including professional lecturer of fashion merchandising. digital marketing and social media, and in Amanda Damiano holds a Ph.D. in focuses on the social and psychological effects communication from University at Buffalo, of emotional appeals in strategic messaging. the State University of New York, a master’s in Amanda has taught at colleges and universities in media studies from the S.I. Newhouse School of Central New York, Western New York, the Capital Public Communications at Syracuse University, Region, and on Long Island. Joining Marist as and a bachelor’s in public relations-journalism an assistant professor of communication, she from Utica College. Her background is in mass looks forward to collaborating with colleagues, communication with an emphasis in public undergraduate students, and master’s students. relations and advertising, and her research 3 School of Communication and the Arts continued Joyce Yu-Jean Lee joins Marist as an assistant in Norway. Joyce’s artwork has been shown professor of digital media. Her artwork utilizes internationally and has been written about in The video projection, technology, and interactive New York Times, The Washington Post, Huffington installation to critique how institutions of mass Post, Hyperallergic, and ArtCritical. The project media and visual culture shape notions of truth has been supported by the Lower Manhattan and understanding of the “other.” FIREWALL, Cultural Council, Franklin Furnace Fund, Asian her project about Internet censorship, garnered Women Giving Circle, Walters Art Museum, and backlash from Chinese state authorities in 2016 Joan Mitchell Foundation. She holds an M.F.A. and was recently exhibited at Lincoln Center in from Maryland Institute College of Art and a New York City and the Oslo Freedom Forum B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania. Frank Migliorelli is an award-winning He taught digital media design for educational interaction designer and educator specializing technology at the Steinhardt School of Education in media-rich software and exhibit development. at New York University as a visiting clinical With a portfolio that includes children’s games professor and worked for the New York Public and media, corporate websites, and media- Library as director of digital experience. Joining enhanced installations around the world, he Marist as a visiting lecturer of media arts, Frank has been a creative and innovative leader in holds an M.P.S from New York University and a interactive media design for a wide range of B.A. from Michigan State University. educational, institutional, and corporate clients. A native of Michigan, Molly Reddish joins Clothing, Vera Bradley, John Deere, Target, Nike, the School of Communication and the Arts as and Macys/Federated Product Development. assistant dean and lecturer of fashion. Molly From 2000 to 2002, she spent time in Jakarta, recently moved to Poughkeepsie from Indiana, Indonesia, in the garment division of P.T. where she spent time at Britton Marketing Texmaco. She has taught Retail Planning and Group as SVP of client strategy and brand Buying at Michigan State University and Fashion development. Previous work experience includes Innovation and Marketing at Indiana Tech. Molly positions in product development, production, holds a degree in merchandising management and sourcing for such companies as Matilda Jane from MSU and an M.B.A. from Grace College. 4 School of Communication and the Arts continued Richelle Valenzuela joins Marist as a but over the years he has designed menswear professional lecturer of fashion design. He as well. He graduated from the Academy of Art has worked with designers Asher Levine, Miri University with an M.F.A. in fashion design, and Couture, and Emerson by Jackie Frasier-Swann; his master’s thesis collection was shown at New various design companies such as Necessary York Fashion Week at Bryant Park, 2009. His Objects for Macy’s BarIII and Bloomingdales’ collections have also been shown at Charleston Aqua private labels; and many independent Fashion Week (2015) and South Walton Fashion designers. His educational and professional Week (2015 & 2016), where he won the 2016 background is tailored toward womenswear, award for Emerging Designer. School of Liberal Arts Catherine Chaterdon, assistant professor student fulfillment, and general cognitive of English, received her Ph.D. in rhetoric, ability. Recently, she has begun to delve into the composition, and the teaching of English from connections between developing a contemplative the University of Arizona in 2016. For the past writing practice and the development of two years, she has been a visiting assistant metacognitive skills, which allow students professor of writing at Loyola University to transfer writing knowledge across various Maryland. Kate’s research explores how to contexts. Kate is excited to continue her research incorporate mindfulness and contemplative at Marist while teaching a variety of writing practice in the writing class and the effects of this courses in the English Department, primarily implementation on student learning outcomes, technical and professional writing. Dana J. Gavin, visiting lecturer of English, “fandom” and fan communities, and hopes to earned her B.A. and M.A. in English at Southern create digital projects to enhance her research Methodist University. She is currently a Ph.D. in these areas. Dana has been teaching part time student at Old Dominion University. Her research at Marist since 2006. She is originally from New interests include the evolution of the print Orleans, LA, and is owned by one cat. industry, specifically during the Victorian era and with a focus on raw materials and editorship. She is also invested in feminist rhetoric, nostalgia, 5 School of Liberal Arts continued Marist welcomes Shantel A. George as an published in Atlantic Studies later this year. She assistant professor of history and director of the is currently revising her manuscript, entitled African Diaspora Studies program. Her Ph.D., “Liberated Africans and Orisha Worship in completed at SOAS, University of London, Grenada.” Shantel is also a visiting fellow at the investigates the experiences and impact of Gilder Lehrman Centre for the Study of Slavery, indentured Africans in Grenada. Shantel’s other Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University. In research interests include African diaspora her spare time, she enjoys dressmaking, exploring religions and the circulation of the kola nut. New York state, and spending time with family in Her most recent article, documenting the London, where she was born and raised. origins of enslaved Africans in Grenada, will be Jill S. Wienbrock joins the Marist faculty as Manhattan and an M.F.A. in fiction from Sarah visiting lecturer of English and interim director Lawrence College. She has published several of the Writing Center after two years of teaching fiction and nonfiction pieces and is working on writing and literature courses part time. She a writing textbook. In addition to writing, her will be teaching Writing for College as well as interests include adult literacy, multicultural courses in the college’s writing concentration. She literature, and horticulture. received a B.A. in fiction from The New School in School of Management Faezeh Amirkamali, assistant professor of Boundary Permeability Preference and Boundary management, earned her Ph.D. in management Permeability Behavior.” Her areas of research with specialization in organizational behavior include work-life boundary management, work- and human resource management from the life balance issues, and diversity and cross- University of Texas at Arlington. Her dissertation cultural differences. is entitled “Two Timing Work and Home, the Relationship of Individual Values with 6 School of Management continued Halimin Herjanto completed his Ph.D. in He now joins Marist as an assistant