YOUTH VIOLENCE - Key Persons
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- Part - Time Lecturer / History / Faculty
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- Master 's Graduate Student
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- Assistant Dean for Transfer Services
Annie Anderson (she/her) is an American Studies PhD student at Rutgers-Newark. As a graduate assistant for the Humanities Action Lab, Annie has supported the Rikers Public Memory Project, managing social media, producing podcasts, and supporting its oral history efforts. Before starting her PhD program, Annie worked at Eastern State Penitentiary Historic Site in Philadelphia for 9 years doing research on the prison's history and contemporary justice issues, developing exhibits, audio stops, public programs, and social media projects. Annie has collaborated with academics, genealogists, front line interpreters, and museum visitors. Her research interests include race, gender, sexuality, cities, vice, crime, and morality. She loves telling the stories of those whom history has largely forgotten. Annie is the co-author of the exhibit Prisons Today: Questions in the Age of Mass Incarceration. She has also written for the Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia, The Public Historian, The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, and Monument Lab.
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- Artist
- Assistant Director for SHINE Portrait Studio at Express Newark
Anthony Alvarez is an artist, fine arts and commercial photographer and adjunct professor. He is currently leading the Free School initiative at Express Newark, working to connect Rutgers-Newark with the community at large through a shared, socially engaged curriculum centered through a contemporary art lens focused on collaboration, co-creation, and community building.
Anthony is the Assistant Director for SHINE Portrait Studio at Express Newark and a Newark native who still lives in Newark with his wife and daughter. A graduate of Arts High School in Newark, he earned a BFA in Photography from Pratt Institute and an Ed. M in Adult Education with a certificate in Higher Education Teaching from Rutgers Graduate School of Education. Anthony is also a Leadership Newark Public Policy Fellow and has a certificate in creative entrepreneurship from Rutgers Business School's Center for Urban Entrepreneurship and Economic Development.
Anthony is a nationally recognized photographer whose fine art work has been exhibited in venues such as the Armory Show in NYC, Art Basel in Miami, and the Center for Fine Art Photography in Colorado and the Newark Museum of Art. Commercially, Anthony has worked on various national political campaigns, with international leaders, and Fortune 500 companies. His work has been published in Vogue, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Huffington Post, Downbeat, and Jazz Times, among others. Anthony is also a master printer who has worked with industry leading photographers retouching national advertising campaigns, and printing large scale museum exhibits as well as all the books in the Shine Portrait Studio Press.
Thane, Patrick, Goldin, Michele, Hur, Esther, Jiménez, Abril, López Otero, Julio and Austin, Jennifer. (2022). Where we are and where we ought to be: The need for research-based assessments for dual-language immersion learners. NABE Journal of Research and Practice. https://doi.org/10.1080/26390043.2022.2087479
Foursha, Cassandra, Blacker, Katy, Austin, Jennifer, and Van de Walle, Gretchen. (2021). Who is kissing whom? Two-year-olds' comprehension of pronouns, case and word order. Psychology of Language and Communication 1(1), 4-28.
Babar Ahmed joined the Rutgers University - Newark Office of Academic Services (OAS) Advising Team in 2023 providing academic advising to undergraduate students while working with the pre-professional services unit. An advocate for legal education, Mr. Ahmed's primary focus is centered around pre-law advising. Prior to joining SASN, Babar worked as an AP Capstone (AP Seminar & AP Research) Teacher at North Star Academy in Newark, NJ. Babar holds a Bachelor of Arts from Florida State University and is currently working on his Juris Doctorate here at Rutgers Law School.
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B.A. English Literature, Florida State University
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- Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, Stratford - Upon - Avon, 2006
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- Research Project Coordinator
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- Associate Teaching Professor
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- Historian
- Undergraduate Director
Daniel Asen is a historian of modern China who teaches East Asian history at the Rutgers-Newark history department. Dr. Asen's research focuses on the history of forensic science in 20th-century China. He is currently researching the various ways that friction-ridge skin - fingerprints especially, but also palm patterning - has been used in criminal investigation, state surveillance, and scientific research (dermatoglyphics) in China during the Republican period and People's Republic of China. Dr. Asen is also writing a biography of Frank Yee (Yu Xiuhao 余秀豪), an American-trained police expert in Nationalist China whose life, career, and travels present a unique perspective on the rise of the modern security state in China and the United States.
Dr. Asen currently serves as Undergraduate Director of History. Feel free to contact him for advising in the History major or minor or for more information about these programs.
Education
PhD, Columbia University, 2012.
Dean Morales has over 20 years of experience specifically at Rutgers University-Newark. In her role as Assistant Dean in the Office of Academic Services, she helps to oversee the day-to-day operations in the office. She also leads the Transfer Student Services Unit, which encompasses all new transfer student-related services, including re-enrollment and school-to-school. In addition, Dean Morales oversees the graduation certification process for the Newark College of Arts & Sciences and University College-Newark, including the off-campus programs; and the programming of the audit program, Degree Navigator. Additionally, Dean Morales advises students enrolled in the Newark College of Arts & Sciences and University College-Newark. She also serves on many committees at Rutgers.
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B.S. in Criminal Justice, Rutgers University-Newark
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Academic Advisement
Education
Associate's degree - General Science, Raritan Valley Community College, 2016
B.S. - Geology, Stockton University, 2019
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- Assistant Professor
- Assistant Professor of Politics at Rutgers University
Dr. Nermin Allam is an Assistant Professor of Politics at Rutgers University-Newark. Before joining Rutgers, Allam held a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada postdoctoral fellowship at Princeton University. Allam holds a Doctorate of Philosophy in International Relations and Comparative Politics from the University of Alberta, Canada.
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- Associate Teaching Professor
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- Associate Professor Journalism Area Coordinator
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- Part - Time Lecturer / Political Science / Faculty
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- Artist and Writer
- Instructor of Professional Practice
Jamilah Malika Abu-Bakare is an artist and writer interested in exploring artistic practices that move us towards freedom. Her work has played or shown from Sweden to LA and across Canada including Contemporary Field Gallery (Vancouver, BC) Circuit Gallery (Toronto, ON) and Espace Pop! (Montreal.) her writing has appeared in Canadian Art magazine, CBC Arts Online and Active Cultures Digest.
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- Assistant Dean of Learning and Educational Programs and Director, Writing Program
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- Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Jennifer Austin is a Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies at Rutgers University, Newark. She received her Ph.D. in Linguistics from Cornell University with a minor in Cognitive Science, and before coming to Rutgers-Newark she taught at Williams College. Her research interests include first and second language acquisition, language contact, and the effects of bilingualism on language and cognition. She co-authored the book Bilingualism in the Spanish-Speaking World: Linguistic and Cognitive Perspectives (Cambridge University Press, 2015) and has written articles on syntactic and morphological development in children learning Basque, Spanish, and English. Austin is a member of the graduate faculty in Global Urban Studies and in Psychology at Rutgers-Newark and in Spanish and Portuguese at Rutgers-New Brunswick. In addition, she is a co-founder of HoLa, a dual-language charter school in Hoboken, NJ, and a co-founder and the faculty advisor of the Lives in Translation Project.
Jennifer, Blume, María, Parkinson, David, Proman, Reyna, Lust, Barbara and Núñez del Prado, Zelmira. (1997). The acquisition of Spanish null and overt pronouns: Pragmatic and syntactic factors. In Shamitha Somashekar, Kyoko Yamakoshi, María Blume and Claire Foley (eds.), Papers on language acquisition: Cornell Working Papers in Linguistics 15, 160-177.
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- Graduate Program Coordinator
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- Professor Emeritus
- Professor Emeritus / Staff
Juan Arredondo is a Colombian American documentary photographer who has chronicled human rights and conflict in Colombia, Venezuela, and Central America. He's a regular contributor to The New York Times and National Geographic. His photographs have also been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, ESPN Magazine, Vanity Fair and others. Since 2014, he has been reporting on the use of child soldiers by illegal armed groups in Colombia, the peace agreement between the Colombian government and FARC, and the demobilization and reintegration of formers fighters into the Colombian society, for which he was awarded a World Press Photo award in 2018. For his work as a journalist, he was also awarded a Nieman Fellowship at Harvard in 2018-2019, an Overseas Press Club Scholar Award, an ICRC Humanitarian Visa D'Or Award, a Getty Grant for Editorial Photography, a Getty Images Emerging Talent Award, and a Magenta Foundation Flash Forward Award. Juan has taught photojournalism, multimedia, sound and video at Columbia and the University of Arizona. He's a graduate of Rutgers-New Brunswick and the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism.
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- Associate Teaching Professor
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- Assistant Professor and Director of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies ( MEIS ) Minor
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- Part Time Lecturer / Mathematics and Computer Science
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- Stockroom Manager
- Supervisor Lab Instructor Support
- Supervisor Lab Instructor Support / Chemistry
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- Part Time Lecturer
- Part Time Lecturer / Mathematics and Computer Science
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- Administrative Assistant
- Undergraduate Administrative Assistant
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- Director, Materials Research Instrumentation
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- Associate Professor
- Director of the Folger Institute at the Folger Shakespeare Library
Patricia Akhimie is Director of the Folger Institute at the Folger Shakespeare Library, Director of the RaceB4Race Mentoring Network and Associate Professor of English at Rutgers University-Newark, where she teaches Shakespeare Renaissance drama, and early modern women's travel writing. She is the author of Shakespeare and the Cultivation of Race: Race and Conduct in the Early Modern World (Routledge 2018). She is editor of The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Race (2024), and co-editor, with Bernadette Andrea of Travel and Travail: Early Modern Women, English Drama, and the Wider World (University of Nebraska Press 2019). She is currently at work on a new edition of Othello for the Arden Shakespeare 4th series, and a monograph about race, gender, and editing early modern texts. In 2021 she received the Warren I. Susman Award for Excellence in Teaching from Rutgers University for outstanding and innovative performance in both the physical and virtual classroom. Her research has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Folger Shakespeare Library, the John Carter Brown Library, and the Ford Foundation.
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- Director NMR Spectroscopy
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- Assistant Professor, NJIT
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- Public Programming and Exhibitions Manager
Richard Anderson is the Public Programming and Exhibitions Manager and Mellon/ACLS Public Fellow for the Humanities Action Lab. In this role, he supports the local staging of States of Incarceration and Climates of Inequality, working with HAL's university and community partners to design collaborative, justice-centered public programs. Prior to joining HAL, Richard spent two years as a postdoctoral scholar in The Humanities Institute at Pennsylvania State University, coordinating community engagement efforts and developing and implementing the curricular and outreach components of the Institute's Mellon-supported Public Humanities Initiative. He also co-caught undergraduate public humanities courses rooted in community-based partnerships. Richard's article "Taking Labor History Public" appeared in the March 2020 issue of Labor: Studies in Working-Class History. He is currently working on a book manuscript, Windy City Spoils: Machine Politics and Liberalism in Richard J. Daley's Chicago. Since 2015 Richard has been an editor for the NCPH blog, History@Work and currently serves on the organization's Advocacy Committee and Digital Media Group. He received a Ph.D. in U.S. History from Princeton University.
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- Master 's Graduate Student
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- Assistant Teaching Professor / Biological Sciences
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- Director, Mass Spectrometry
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- Part Time Lecturer / Arts, Culture and Media / Faculty
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- Part Time Lecturer
- Part Time Lecturer / Mathematics and Computer Science
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- Teaching Instructor
- Teaching Instructor / Mathematics and Computer Science
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- Assistant Teaching Professor
- Assistant Teaching Professor / Physics
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- Administrative Assistant
- Graduate Administrative Assistant
- Graduate Administrative Assistant / Chemistry
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- Assistant Professor
- Assistant Professor at the Department of Social Work
Takashi Amano is an assistant professor at the Department of Social Work, School of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers University - Newark. From a biopsychosocial lens, his research is focused on understanding and supporting the lives of vulnerable older adults, especially those with cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD). He has three specific research agendas. First, his research aims to support the lives of people with cognitive impairment and ADRD by untangling the reciprocal relationship between social engagement and cognitive impairment and ADRD. Second, based on the social constructionist model, his research is geared toward identifying socially and culturally constructed barriers to activity, participation, and access to support for people with cognitive impairment and ADRD. Third, my research agenda focuses on inequality in implementation, accessibility, and availability of long-term supports and services for people with cognitive impairment and ADRD.
His personal experience with his grandmother and professional experience as a researcher and social worker shaped his passion for supporting people with ADRD and their family members. He pursued a Master's Degree in Social Work at the University of Southern Indiana and completed his two practicum opportunities at a nursing home and a community counseling center for older adults. After graduation, he went back to Japan and worked at the Dia Foundation for Research on Aging and Keio University School of Medicine, as an assistant researcher. He also worked as a social worker at a community center for home and community-based care for older adults. Before joining Rutgers, Dr. Amano earned his PhD from the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis.
Park, S., Kim B., Amano, T., & Chen, Q. (2021). Home modifications, living alone, and trajectories of cognitive function among older adults with functional limitations: The person-environment fit perspective. Environment and Behavior, 53(3), 252-276. https://doi.org/10.1177/0013916519879772.
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- Part Time Lecturer II
- Part Time Lecturer II / Mathematics and Computer Science
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- Assistant Teaching Professor
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- Assistant Dean for First - Years, Sophomores, and Academic Standing
Yaw Appiah, a Rutgers University-Newark alumnus, has worked in the Office of Academic Services (formerly Office of the Dean of Student Affairs) since 2011. He has served as a student assistant, Transfer Services Assistant, General Advisor, and Transcript Evaluator. Mr. Appiah currently serves as Academic Advisor with Pre-Professional Services and advises students with a pre-professional interest including pre-health, (Medicine, Dentistry, PA, PT, OT, etc.) as well as assists with advisement for pre-engineering and pre-pharmacy. He believes firmly in student success and empowering students to work hard in pursuit of their academic endeavors. Mr. Appiah is a graduate of RU-N with an undergraduate degree in Criminal Justice and Political Science as well as a graduate degree in Public Affairs and Administration with a concentration in Leadership.
Education
B.S. Criminal Justice & Political Science, Rutgers University-Newark 2015
M.P.A., Rutgers University-Newark 2020
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Pre-Health
Zahra Ali is a sociologist, her research explores the dynamics of women and gender, race and class, as well as social and political movements in relation to Islam(s), the Middle East, and contexts of war and conflict with a focus on contemporary Iraq. She is interested in (racial) capitalism, (post)coloniality, decolonial, and transnational feminisms as well as critical knowledge production and epistemologies, especially in relation to global and public sociology.
She currently leads Critical Studies of Iraq an initiative based at the International Institute for Peace aiming to foster, support, and develop the critical scholarship of social scientists and feminists based in Iraq. Ali works and writes in English, French and Arabic and is involved in feminist and critical knowledge production projects with activists and scholars from/in the Middle East and beyond.
Ali is currently working on a new book Uprisings and the Political Imagination, that shifts the dominant lens of social theory in analyzing mass protests away from a binary approach of power/resistance by looking at "the political" from the point of view of life, space, violence, and emancipation. The book relies on in-depth ethographic research considers the recent uprising in Iraq as a framework to understand how power works in the contemporary capitalist world.
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- Department Administrator Supervisor