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Abate, Professor. B.A., University of Rochester; M.S.E.L., J.D., science-sociology/political-science-education-ba-endorsement- Vermont Law School. Climate change law and justice, ocean and elementary-education/) coastal law and policy, animal law and policy, constitutional law. [email protected] • B.A. in History/Political Science Interdisciplinary and Education with an Endorsement in Elementary Education (http:// Melissa Alvare, Lecturer. B.A., Temple University; M.A., Ph.D., University of catalog.monmouth.edu/undergraduate-catalog/wayne-d-mcmurray- Delaware. humanities-social-sciences/history/history-political-science- [email protected] interdisciplinary-education-ba-endorsement-elementary-education/) 2 Political Science and Sociology Stephen J. Chapman, Associate Professor. B.A., M.A., East Stroudsburg, Jennifer McGovern, Assistant Professor. B.S., Sacred Heart University; University; M.A., Ph.D., S.U.N.Y. Binghamton. Specializes in American M.S., Central Connecticut State University; M.S., Ph.D., Temple politics. His research interests include representation strategies of University. Specializes in understanding how sport both reflects and elected officials, the impact of continued partisan control of state challenges social inequalities, such as social class, race, ethicity, governments, and public opinion. Dr. Chapman also possesses a nationality, gender, and sexuality. Her previous research focused on strong research methods background and regularly teaches the the ways that professional baseball's institutional structures have undergraduate- and graduate-level methods courses. grown and changed and how local baseball fans tell naratives about [email protected] baseball players as teh game has grown more global in scope. [email protected] Rekha Datta, Professor and Freed Endowed Chair in the Humanities (Graduate Faculty). Nancy J Mezey, Professor (Graduate Faculty). Interim Provost/Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs. B.A., Dean, Honors School. B.A., Vassar College; M.A., Ph.D., Michigan M.A., Presidency College, University of Calcutta, India; Ph.D., State University. Specializes in family sociology, race-class-gender University of Connecticut. Specialization in political theory, studies, gender studies, and the sociology of sexualities. Her research international relations, comparative politics of South Asia, East Asia, and publications focus on how and why diverse family forms develop the United Nations, and women and the world. Research interests out of particular social, cultural, historical, and political contexts. focus on issues of gender and development, traditional and human Outside of Monmouth University, Dr. Mezey serves as the 2014-2015 security issues, and child labor. In 2003 Dr. Datta received the Vice President of the Society for the Study of Social Problems Distinguished Teacher of the Year Award, the highest recognition for (SSSP). She also served as a volunteer in Mali, West Africa, for the teaching at Monmouth University. She served on the county board Peace Corps from 1988-1990. In 2010 , she received the Monmouth of the American Association for University Women as Vice President University Distinguished Teacher of the Year Award. for Public Policy until 2013. Since 2013, she has served on the Board [email protected] of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Monmouth and Middlesex Counties. Founder of Women and Girls’ Education (WAGE) International, a New Kenneth Mitchell, Professor and Chair (Graduate Faculty). B.A., University Jersey-based 501 (c) (3) not-for-profit organization. Member of the of California; M.S., London School of Economics; D.Phi., Oxford Committee on Status of Representation and Diversity, International University, United Kingdom. Specializes in Latin-American and Studies Association. Author of: Beyond Realism: Human Security Caribbean politics and policy (public sector reform, democratization, in India and Pakistan in the Twenty-First Century (2008, 2010); Why and state-society relations); and international political economy Alliances Endure: The United States-Pakistan Alliance, 1954-1971 (capacity building in public sector, community development, and (1994); co-editor, with Judith Kornberg, Women in Developing politics of market-based reform). Authored: State-Society Relations Countries: Assessing Strategies for Empowerment (2002). Advisor in Mexico (2001); “Don’t’ Cry for Argentina, They Will Survive of Pi Sigma Alpha National Political Honor Society. Founder of the This” (2014); “Models of Clientelism and Policy Change: the Case of Institute for Global Understanding. conditional Cash Transfer Programmes in Mexico and Brazil” (co- [email protected] authored with Aaron Ansell, 2011); “An Institutional Anomaly, Longevity and Competition in the Dominican Party System” (2009);