Research Productivity
Research Productivity
Research Productivity
The 2024-2025 academic year marks the remarkable scholarly and creative achievements of faculty across the Ric Edelman College of Communication, Humanities & Social Sciences. This collection brings together more than 160 works—ranging from books and articles to funded research—that reflect the breadth, depth, and impact of our academic community. Organized by department, these accomplishments demonstrate our faculty’s commitment to advancing knowledge, amplifying diverse perspectives, and addressing the complex challenges shaping our world today. Together, they illustrate a vibrant culture of inquiry that defines our College and enriches the communities we serve.Researchers by Department
Communication Studies
Allison S. Williams / williamsal@rowan.edu
3/4-time Instructor, Department of Communication Studies
- "Fabricating citations: The policies of New Jersey public institutions of higher education" Journal of Academic Ethics
Andrew Hottle / hottle@rowan.edu
Professor, Department of Communication Studies
- "SOHO 20 Gallery: Half a Century of Professionalism and Advocacy" (New York, SOHO 20 Gallery) [essay in the exhibition catalog "Unrestricted Access: 50 Years of SOHO 20 Gallery"]
Angela Cirucci / cirucci@rowan.edu
Associate Professor, Department of Communication Studies
- Oversharing the super safe stuff: “Privacy-washing” in Apple iPhone and Google Pixel commercials AM Cirucci First Monday
- Communicatively enhancing belonging by meeting the motivations of first-generation college students in the classroom MC Coleman, BY Hoffman, AM Cirucci
Journal of Communication Pedagogy - Culturally responsive communication in generative AI: looking at ChatGPT’s advice for coming out AM Cirucci, M Coleman, D Strasser, E Garaizar AI & SOCIETY
Dan Strasser / strasser@rowan.edu
Professor and Chair, Communication Studies
- Strasser (2025). "I Learned That From You": An Autoethnographic Exploration of Masculinities, Identity, Passing, Fathers, and the Trouble with Returning Home. Journal of Autoethnography, 6(2), 175-188.
Garrett Broad / broad@rowan.edu
Associate Professor, Communication Studies
- Zhu, S. Tami-Barrera, L., Chiles, RM., & Broad, GM. (2024). The ethics of cellular agriculture. In Fraser, D.G., Kaplan, DL., Newman, L., & Yada, RY. (Eds). Cellular Agriculture: Technology, Society, Sustainability and Science. London, UK: Academic Press.
- Dutkiewicz, J. and Broad, GM. (2024). The political economy of cellular agriculture. In Fraser, D.G., Kaplan, DL., Newman, L., & Yada, RY. (Eds). Cellular Agriculture: Technology, Society, Sustainability and Science. London, UK: Academic Press.
- Carter, A., Broad, GM., & Reeves, V. (2024). Recapturing communicative erasure: Black womenfarmers’ political voice and cultural knowledge as critical health communication praxis. Health Communication.
- Broad, G.M. (2024). Processed Foods. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Food Studies.
Kate Harman / harman@rowan.edu
Associate Teaching Professor, Communication Studies
- Media, Communication and 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup. Routledge
- Chapter - “Unbelievable… the emotions football can give you”: The construction of loss through USWNT player Instagram posts in Media, Communication and 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup; Routledge.
Miles Coleman / colemanm@rowan.edu
Associate Professor, Communication Studies
- Science, Politics, and the Rhetoric of Public Controversy. Springer.
- Miles C. Coleman and Will Mari. "An early Web history of vaccine skeptical digital rhetorics." Internet Histories 9, no. 3 (2025): 229-251.
- Miles C. Coleman, Brooke Y. Hoffman, and Angela M. Cirucci, "Communicatively enhancing belonging by meeting the motivations of first-generation college students in the classroom," Journal of Communication Pedagogy 9 (2025): 43-51.
- Angela M. Cirucci, Miles C. Coleman, Dan Strasser, and Evan Garaizar, "Culturally responsive communication in generative AI: looking at ChatGPT’s advice for coming out," AI & SOCIETY 40, no. 4 (2025): 2249-2257.
- Miles C. Coleman, “Vigilante Pseudo-Science in a Science Denialist Data Dashboard,” in Science, Politics, and the Rhetoric of Public Controversy, edited by Pamela Pietrucci and Leah Ceccarelli (Springer, 2025).
Rui Shi / shi@rowan.edu
Associate professor, Communication Studies
- Liu, J., Shi, R., & Hornik, R. (2025). Formation mechanism of descriptive norm perceptions toward vaping: The role of behavior prevalence and group size in an online setting. Health Communication, 40 (2), 332-344. https://doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2024.2344883
- Shi, R., Feldman, R., Liu, J., & Clark, P. I. (2024) Correcting misperceptions about very low nicotine cigarettes for cigarette-only smokers, dual/poly smokers, other tobacco users, and non-tobacco users. Preventive Medicine Reports, 46, 102856. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pmedr.2024.102856
- Cruz, R., Shi, R., Parker, M., Kidanu, A. (2024) Differences in presenting health warning labels on hookah venue menus between immersive virtual reality and online surveys. Substance Use and Misuse, 59 (13), 1972-1980. https://doi.org/10.1080/10826084.2024.2392513
- Shi, R., Khayat, A., Lee, J., Garrison, K. A., Jebai, R., Wackowski, O. A., ... & Stanton, C. A. (2025). Electronic Nicotine Delivery System Advertisement Trends After US Federal Policy Changes. JAMA Network Open, 8(2), e2459188-e2459188. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2024.59188
Shirley Farrar - farrars@rowan.edu
Adjunct Professor, Communication Studies
- "Purposeful Career Planning: Transactional vs. Transformational Career Readiness.” National Association of Colleges and Employers, (NACE) Summer (2024): 30-34. Online Article | https://www.naceweb.org/career-readiness/best-practices/purposeful-career-planning-transactional-vs-transformational-career-readiness
- Purposeful Career Planning : Transactional vs. Transformational Career Readiness, (NACE), National Association of Colleges and Employers, | Co - Authored with Dr. Alicia Monroe.
Dean's Office
Nawal Ammar / ammar@rowan.edu
Dean, Ric Edelman College of Communication, Humanities & Social Sciences
- Ouellet, M., Ammar, N. H., Cesaroni, C., Akca, D., & Shoemaker, B. (2025). Chaplains' Perceptions Regarding the Imbalance and Tension Between Spiritual Care and Institutional Safety. Justice, Opportunities, and Rehabilitation, 1–22.
- Akca, D., Ammar, N., Shoemaker, B., Cesaroni, C., & Ouellet, M. (2024). Joy, Compassion and Job Satisfaction: Insights into the Canadian Prison
- Chaplaincy. International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology.
Cory Blake / blake@rowan.edu
Senior Associate Dean, Dean's office
Grants
- “Discover Cairo, Learn Arabic through STARTALK” (National Security Agency)
Patrick Massaro / massaro@rowan.edu
Assistant Director, Center for Professional Success
- Latimer, C.J., Massaro, P.D., & Monroe, A.S. (2025). The Employment Conundrum: An Analysis of Disparities in Hiring Practices and the Self-Identified Needs of Neurodivergent Students and Alumni. Neurodiversity, 3.
English
Bill Freind / freind@rowan.edu
Professor, English
- "Diving Events", Noon: A Journal of the Short Poems.
Joe Coulombe / coulombe@rowan.edu
Professor, English
- Coulombe, Joseph L.. Humor and Masculinity in U. S. Fiction : Intersections, Performances, and Functions, Taylor & Francis Group, 2024.
Kate Slater / slaterk@rowan.edu
Associate Professor, English
- “Daisy Ashford and the Child Writer’s Use of Scale.” Producing Children: Critical Studies in Childhood Creativity, eds. Victoria Ford Smith and Peter Kunze, Rutgers UP, 2025, pp. 23-35.
History
Emily Blanck / blancke@rowan.edu
Associate Professor, History
Grants
“Juneteenth Archive NJ Prototype” (New Jersey Council for the Humanities)
Bill Carrigan / carrigan@rowan.edu
Professor, History
Grants
- The Megan Giordano Fellow in Public History (Gloucester County)
Kelly Duke Bryant / duke-bryant@rowan.edu
Associate Professor, History
- “Digitizing Guardianship Registers in Senegal (1895-1910): Naming as Evidence and Ethical Concern,” Digital Humanities Quarterly, Special Issue: The Politics and Ethics of Naming the Names of Enslaved People in Digital Humanities Projects 19, no. 1 (2025): https://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/19/1/000772/000772.html
Mikkel Dack / dack@rowan.edu
Associate Professor, History
- “Combating Police Extremism: An International Perspective.” In Extremism in Policing: A Reference Handbook. Eds. Carla Lewandowski and Jeff Bumgarner. ABC-CLIO, 2024.
- Victor Gay, Jan Stuckatz, Selina Hofstetter, and Mikkel Dack. “Who Became a Nazi?: A Structured Database of the German Denazification Questionnaires from the US Occupation Zone in Germany, 1945–1949.” Toulouse School of Economics; Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse. 2024, 20 p. ffhal-04617544f
Grants
- Carlsberg Foundation international workshop grant and Danish Data Science Academy funding.
Jennifer Janofsky / janofsky@rowan.edu
Megan Giordano Fellow and Professor of Public History, History
Grants:
- Megan Giordano Fellow and Professor of Public History, continuing grant, “Red Bank Battlefield Interpretive Plan” (New Jersey Department of Community Affairs)
- Red Bank Battlefield Interpretive Plan, from NJ Department of Community Affairs (NJDCA)
Melissa Klapper / klapper@rowan.edu
Professor, History
- The Civil War Diary of Emma Mordecai, NYU Press
Grants
- Cashmere Subvention grant
Janet Lindman / lindman@rowan.edu
Emeritus Professor, History
- “’And well improve each moment as it flies’: Spiritual Utility and Quaker Art,” EAS Miscellany, online publication (December 2024).
- “Frequent Self-Examination is the Duty of All”: Practical Religion, Moral Improvement, and Transatlantic Protestantism,” Early American Studies Vol. 22, #4 (2024):647-680..
- “The Bible and Early American Quakers,” Bible Odyssey, an open access publication sponsored by the Society of Biblical Literature, 2024.
Grants
- The Megan Giordano Fellow in Public History (Gloucester County)
Chanelle Rose / rosec@rowan.edu
Associate Professor, History
- Camden, Neoliberalism, and Black Mayoral Leadership (1980s-present)
Grants
- “American Tapestry: Weaving Together” (National Endowment for the Humanities)
- African American History and Culture Fellowship; Atlanta University Center Research Travel Award
Christopher Saladin / saladin@rowan.edu
Assistant Professor, History
- “De receptie van de ondergang van Carthago in de middeleeuwse Maghreb en Al-Andalus,” in Carthago: ooit verwoest, nooit verdwenen, eds. Diederik Burgersdijk and Dirk Vervenne (Amsterdam University Press, 2024).
Debbie Sharnak / sharnak@rowan.edu
Assistant Professor, History
- Sharnak, D. (2025). THE CURIOUS CASE OF URUGUAY: THE ROLE OF STATE ACTORS AND VICTIMS’ VOICES AT THE UNITED NATIONS HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION, 1976–1980. In S. Kott , E. Muschik & E. Roehrlich (Ed.). International Organizations and the Cold War: Competition, Cooperation, and Convergence (pp. 179–194). London,: Bloomsbury Academic.
- Debbie Sharnak and Francesca Parente, “From Optimism to Backlash: Uruguay and the Gelman Decision After Ten Years,” Journal of Latin American Studies (May 2025).
Edward Wang / wangq@rowan.edu
Professor, History
- What is the History of Emotions? with Shanghai People's Publisher
- The Rise of Modern Historical Consciousness in China: From Reorganizing National Heritages to Recreating Civilization with Shanghai People’s Publisher
- “Truthful Is Moral: Practicing Ethical Responsibility in Chinese Historiography,” History and Theory, 63:4 (Dec. 2024), 85-105.
Journalism
Dianne Garyantes / garyantes@rowan.edu
Associate Professor, Journalism
- Journalistic practices and roles of Chinese and U.S. students: A comparative approach. China Media Research, an official publication of the American Chinese Media Research Association and the Communication Studies Institute of Zhejiang University
- Culturally competent health reporting: The influences of news sources and formats: News Research Journal, Sage Journals
Grants
- New Jersey Information Consortium - $51,000 grant to South Jersey Climate News
- New Jersey Civic Information Consortium
Emil Steiner / steiner@rowan.edu
Associate Professor, Coordinator Sports Communication & Media Program, Journalism
- Hot Take Origin Story: How Journalists Shaped the “Authentic” (and Lucrative) Identity of Sports Talk Radio, and How It Reshaped Media. Journalism History 51(2), 161–184. https://doi.org/10.1080/00947679.2025.2454420
- AI Demand-Shaping And The Frictionless Rub Of Solipsistic Efficiency. Forbes. https://www.forbes.com/sites/emilsteiner/2025/08/14/ai-demand-shaping-and-the-frictionless-rub-of-solipsistic-efficiency/
- What March Madness And The Super Bowl Tell Us About Live Media Events. Forbes. https://www.forbes.com/sites/emilsteiner/2025/04/10/what-march-madness-and-the-super-bowl-tell-us-about-live-media-events/
- Streaming Platforms Killed Peak TV? UX Strategies For Netflix, Amazon & Apple TV+. Forbes. https://www.forbes.com/sites/emilsteiner/2024/10/28/streaming-platforms-killed-peak-tv-ux-strategies-for-netflix-amazon--apple-tv/
- How Streaming Impacted The Way People Watch The NFL, MLB And More. Forbes. https://www.forbes.com/sites/emilsteiner/2024/10/07/the-future-of-streaming-sports--ux/
Grants
- National Science Foundation and National Endowment for the Humanities Grants
Law & Justice Studies
Kristina Block - blockkn@rowan.edu
Assistant Professor, Law & Justice Studies
- Block, K. & Connolly, E. J. (2024). Sports involvement, head injury, and delinquency: Results from a longitudinal sample of juvenile justice involved youth. Criminal Justice and Behavior, 51(8), 1219- 1236. https://doi.org/10.1177/00938548241238351
- Block, K. & Connolly, E. J. (2024). Head Injury, Sleep Disturbance, and Delinquent Offending: Evidence from a Longitudinal Sample of Juvenile Detainees. Journal of Criminal Justice, 95. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2024.102310
- Block, K., Narvey, C. S., Leal, W.E., & Formaro, H. (2024). It’s all in your head: Unpacking what’s known about head injuries in correctional settings. In N. Link, M. Novisky, & C. Fahmy (Eds.), Handbook on contemporary issues in health, crime, and punishment (pp. 274-288). Routledge.
Kimberly Houser - houser@rowan.edu
Associate Professor, Law & Justice Studies
- Houser, K., Hiller, M. & Saum, C. (2025). Exploring co-occurring disorders in mental health court: Predictors of graduation. Criminal Justice Review (in press)
- Saum, C., Houser, K., & Hiller, M. (2025). Opioid court for felony probationers: Participant characteristics, retention and graduation. Drug Court Review (in press)
Grants
- “Factors Associated with Perceived Readiness to Reunify with Minor Children: Insights from Incarcerated Parents, Parole Officers and Prison-Affiliated Professionals”
Allan Jiao - jiao@rowan.edu
Professor, Law & Justice Studies
- Jiao, Allan Y. (2024). The Landscape of Police Auditing in the United States: The State of the Art. Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice., Volume 18, paae113. https://doi.org/10.1093/police/paae113
Carla Lewandowski - lewandowskic@rowan.edu
Associate Professor, Law & Justice Studies
- Extremism in the Police: A Reference Handbook, Contemporary World Issues, with co-author Jeff Bumgarner, Bloomsbury Academic Press in September 2024.
- Extremism in the Police: A Reference Handbook, Contemporary World Issues, with co-author Jeff Bumgarner, Bloomsbury Academic Press
Christine Saum - saum@rowan.edu
Associate Professor, Law & Justice Studies
- Saum, C., Houser, K., & Hiller, M. (2025). Opioid court for felony probationers: Participant characteristics, retention and graduation. Drug Court Review (in press)
- Saum, C., Houser, K., & Hiller, M. (2025). Opioid court for felony probationers: Participant characteristics, retention and graduation. Drug Court Review (in press)
Grants
- “Process and Outcome Evaluation of the Police Athletic League (PAL) Program in El Salvador” (Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs)
John Shjarback - shjarback@rowan.edu
Associate Professor, Law & Justice Studies
- Shjarback, John A., & Ward, Julie A. (Online first). Moving targets: An examination of departmental firearms policies and police shootings at vehicles. Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice.
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The Conversation, Op-Ed, “Gun violence in Philadelphia plummeted in 2024 – researchers aren’t sure why, but here are 3 factors at play.” (9/23/24)
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Shjarback, John A. (2025). Expansion in automated license plate reader (ALPR) technology in the Atlantic City Police Department. Final report submitted to the Bureau of Justice Assistance/CNA.
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Shjarback, John A. (2024). An evaluation of the Millville (NJ) Police Department's “Effective Mental and Behavioral Health Emergency Diversion” (EMBHED) Project. Final report submitted to the South Jersey Institute for Population Health.
Jay Szkola - szkola@rowan.edu
Assistant Professor, Law & Justice Studies
- O’Toole, Megan J., Szkola, Jason, Burd-Sharps, Sarah, Kim, Byounjun, Spoer, Ben R., and Fingar, Kathryn R. (2025) The Association of City Firearm Dealers and Firearm Suicide Rates, 2015-2021. Journal of Injury Prevention, 1-7. https://doi.org/10.1136/ip-2024-045432
- Szkola, Jason and Blount-Hill, Kwan-Lamar. (2024). A framework for understanding credibility: What makes credible messengers “credible” in a New York City-based sample of gun violence intervention programs? Criminal Justice and Behavior.
Grants
- “Central Brooklyn Violence Interruption Collaborative” (U.S. Department of Justice)
Jeanna Mastrocinque - mastrocinque@rowan.edu
Associate Professor, Law & Justice Studies
Grants
- "Compassion Disparities in Primary Care: A Mixed Methods Pilot Study” (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality) (continuing grant)
- “Utilization of a Hospital-Linked Violence Intervention Program to Provide Resources to Victims of Crime at a Level 1 Trauma Center” (U.S. Department of Justice)
Philosophy & World Religions
Abe Witonsky - witonsky@rowan.edu
Assistant Teaching Professor, Philosophy & World Religions
- Consciousness: An Interdisciplinary Guide in 2025 with co-author David Svolba from Fitchburg State University
Eli Ben Israel - israele@rowan.edu
Adjunct Professor, Philosophy & World Religions
- A Kantian Review of Moral Trust, Kantian Review
Youru Wang - wang@rowan.edu
Professor, Philosophy & World Religions
- The Ethical Dimension of Forgetfulness: Engaging the Daoist Zhuangzi in Studies of Cultivated Forgetting with Routledge Press in September 2024.
- “Friendship and Forgetfulness in Derrida and the Zhuangzi,” Asian Philosophy, Vol. 34, No. 4, 2024, pp. 327-350.
- "Responsiveness and the Asymmetry of Calling-Responding in Relation to Forgetting Oneself in the Zhuangzi," Journal of Chinese Philosophy, Vol. 51, No. 3, 2024, pp. 256-266.
- “Empathy in the Zhuangzi,” Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy, Vol. 23, No. 3, 2024, pp. 423-448.
Political Science & Economics
Robin Bayes - bayes@rowan.edu
Assistant Professor, Political Science & Economics
- Robin Bayes. “A Matter of Right or Wrong: Divisive Attributes of Moralized Science and Technology Opinions.” Public Understanding of Science. Advance online publication available at https://doi.org/10.1177/09636625241304058
Andrew Gooch - gooch@rowan.edu
Assistant Professor, Political Science & Economics
- Gooch, Andrew. 2025. “Weak Connection between Policy Repositioning and Affective Polarization”. Open Journal of Political Science, Vol. 15 (2): 430-443.
Stuti Jha - jha@rowan.edu
Associate Professor, Political Science & Economics
- Jonathan Elias BA, Warren Chan MS, Seth Spicer MS, Hanna Brancaccio BA, Usmaan Al-Shehab BS, et al. Self-Expanding Versus Balloon-Expanding Valves 5-Years After Transcatheter Aortic ValveReplacement: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. J Cardiovas Cardiol. 2024. 2(2): 1-9. DOI: doi.org/10.61440/JCC.2024.v2.17
- Sara S. Soliman; Gabrianna, Andrews; Salma, Emara; Naomi Watkins-Granville; Alicia Podwójniak; Iman, Hasan; Jha, Stuti; Alissa Brotman, “Changes in Matches into Surgical Residencies and Fellowships Following the ACGME Merger”, Journal of Surgical Education, Volume 82, Issue 5, 2025, 103466, ISSN 1931-7204
Kul Kapri - kapri@rowan.edu
Associate Professor, Political Science & Economics
- Dulal, R., Ghimire, S., & Kapri, K. (2024). CASTE-ETHNICITY BASED DISPARITIES IN THE LABOR MARKET: EVIDENCE FROM PANEL HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS IN NEPAL. Pennsylvania Economic Review, 31(2), 5.
- Pudasainee-Kapri, S., Li, Y., Kapri, K. P., Fu, M. R., Wiest, D., Kandel, P., & Hussain, M. J. (2025). Emergency department visits among children with asthma: Racial/ethnic disparities before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. Nursing Outlook, 73(3), 102394.
- Pudasainee-Kapri, S., Shrestha, T., Wunnenberg, M., Kapri, K., Chapagain, R. H., & Chapagai, M. The Association Between Low Birth Weight and Postpartum Depression: A Cross-sectional Multisite Study Among Women Within Six Months Postpartum. JOURNAL OF NURSING PRACTICE APPLICATIONS & REVIEWS OF RESEARCH, 12.
- Pudasainee-Kapri, S., Li, Y., Kapri, K., Wiest, D., Fu, M. R., & Hussain, M. (2024, May). Factors Influencing Asthma Health Disparities and Trends of ED Visits/Hospitalization among Children and Adolescents with Asthma in South Jersey. In NURSING RESEARCH (Vol. 73, No. 3, pp. E109-E109). TWO COMMERCE SQ, 2001 MARKET ST, PHILADELPHIA, PA 19103 USA: LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS.
- Pudasainee-Kapri, S., Shrestha, T., & Kapri, K. (2024, May). Postpartum Depression, Maternal Self Efficacy, and Mother-infant bonding among Mothers Attending Immunization Clinic of Tertiary Hospitals in Kathmandu Nepal: Role of Birth Weight and Social Factors. In NURSING RESEARCH (Vol. 73, No. 3, pp. E38-E39). TWO COMMERCE SQ, 2001 MARKET ST, PHILADELPHIA, PA 19103 USA: LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS.
- South Jersey Institute for Population Health (SJIPH). (2024). South Jersey perinatal population health and data project. In SJIPH Project and Partnerships: Child and Family Health. (Project Team: Weist, D., Pudasainee-Kapri, S., Li, Y., Kapri, K.) SJIPH Impact Report 2024, PP. 40-43.
- South Jersey Institute for Population Health (2024). South Jersey longitudinal data project to enhance health equity. In SJIPH Project and Partnerships: Health Equity for Vulnerable Populations, (Project Team: Valentine J., Pudasainee-Kapri, S., Linz, S., Kapri, K., Shmuts, R., Buttler-Witt, K., & Ingemi, Q.), SJIPH Impact Report 2024, PP. 21-23.
Yupeng Li - liy@rowan.edu
Associate Professor, Political Science & Economics
- Pudasainee-Kapri, S., Li, Y., Kapri, K. P., Fu, M. R., Wiest, D., Kandel, P., & Hussain, M. J. (2025). Emergency department visits among children with asthma: Racial/ethnic disparities before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. Nursing Outlook, 73(3), 102394.
- Pudasainee-Kapri, S., Li, Y., Kapri, K., Wiest, D., Fu, M. R., & Hussain, M. (2024, May). Factors Influencing Asthma Health Disparities and Trends of ED Visits/Hospitalization among Children and Adolescents with Asthma in South Jersey. In NURSING RESEARCH (Vol. 73, No. 3, pp. E109-E109). Two Commerce Sq, 2001 Market St., Philadelphia, PA 19103 USA: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.
Dina Rosenberg - rosenbergdin@rowan.edu
Associate Professor, Political Science & Economics
Anastasia Poretskova, Anastasiia Ptichkina, Dina Rosenberg, Eugenia Tarnikova; The Long Shadow Cast by Communism over Women’s Political Representation: Evidence from Post-Communist Countries. Communist and Post-Communist Studies 1 December 2024; 57 (4): 106–137. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/cpcs.2024.2017168
Elaine Zundl - zundl@rowan.edu
Assistant Teaching Professor, Political Science & Economics
Cohen, J., Rodgers, Y. van der M., Durante, K., Kaplowitz, L., Ulu, S., & Zundl, E. (2024). COVID-19 and Changes in the Gendered Division of Unpaid Labor, Job Productivity, and Job Satisfaction (SSRN Scholarly Paper 5049621). Social Science Research Network. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5049621
Zundl, E. (2024, August 30). Op-Ed: NJ Domestic Worker Bill of Rights was a great first step. NJ Spotlight News.
Public Relations and Advertising
Celine Hong - hongs@rowan.edu
Associate Professor of Public Relations, Public Relations & Advertising
Grants
- Advancing the Discipline Grant from National Communication Association
Alison Novak -
Associate Professor, Public Relations and Advertising
- ’And then I found you wonderful people:’ Collective action and online discursive practices during the 2022 infant formula shortage- in Innovative Approaches to the Use of Narrative in Health Communication Research (Vernon Press)
- “Don’t mistake my silence as not caring:” Discursive Communities of Nonvoters on Twitter” In Seitz (Ed.). Quiet Defiance: The Rhetoric of Silent Protest. Lexington Books.
- “Global Discourses of Protest and Support of Offshore Wind Energy.” Qualitative Research Reports in Communication 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1080/17459435.2024.234294
- “News coverage of climate change and generation Z.” Springer Nature: Climatic Change 177, 78-97. 10.1007/s10584-024-03731-4
- “Discourses of online news stories during a crisis: Sharing news from the 2022 Infant Formula Shortage in Formula Finder Groups” In Ranier (Ed.). The Routledge Companion to Journalism Research Methods. Routledge.
Julia C. Richmond - richmondj@rowan.edu
Assistant Professor, Public Relations and Advertising
- Richmond, J. C., & Bell, T. R. (2025). Kim Mulkey, The Washington Post, and a Stealing Thunder Pseudo-Event During the 2024 NCAA Tournament. Communication & Sport, 21674795251334042.
- Richmond, J.C. (2025). Let Us Play: Case Study of Digital Campaigns towards Transgender Inclusion in Youth Sport. Reynolds et.al. Mediating Sex, Gender, and Sexuality in the Gen-Z Era.
- Richmond, J. (2025). I Couldn’t Be a Sellout’ Understanding Rihanna’s Refusal and Absence from the Super Bowl Halftime Show as Protest. Quiet Defiance: The Rhetoric of Silent Protest. Bloomsbury.
- Vilceanu, M. O., & Richmond, J. C. (2024). Yeah, I’ve been immunized: Objectivity, ignorance, and privilege in media coverage of Aaron Rodgers’ COVID-19 vaccine refusal. Journalism, 14648849241266754.
Olga Vilceanu - vilceanu@rowan.edu
Associate Professor, Public Relations and Advertising
- Growing a Sustainable Fashion Business by Leveraging the Student-Entrepreneur Learning Exchange--Case Studies in the Environment, University of California Press
- Yeah, I’ve been immunized: Objectivity, ignorance, and privilege in media coverage of Aaron Rodgers’ COVID-19 vaccine refusal. Journalism. Co-authored with Julia C. Richmond
- Vilceanu, M.O. (2025). Parasocial Intimacy, Change, and Nostalgia in Podcast Listener Reviews. Media and Communication 13. https://doi.org/10.17645/mac.9059
Grants
- Enel North America
Radio, TV & Film
Amanda Almon - almon@rowan.edu
Professor of Biomedical Art & Visualization, Public Relations & Advertising
Grants
- Autism Clinical Research Pilot 2024: Randomized Pilot Evaluation of Healthcare Professional Training Using a Virtual Reality Training Program for Severe Behavior in Children with Autism; Technical Staff: Almon, A. Distributor-Sponsor: New Jersey Department of Health Grant
- Randomized Pilot Evaluation of a Virtual Reality Parent Training Program for Severe Behavior in Children with Autism Primary Technical Staff: Almon, A. Distributor-Sponsor: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
- Systematic Problem-Solving and Algorithmic Reasoning for Children (SPARC) Educational Game; Co-PI; Almon. A. Distributor-Sponsor: Rowan–Rutgers Joint Board Grant
- Turret Gunner Survivability and Simulation Environment (TGSSE) (utilizing: Virtual, Augmented Reality and Artificial Intelligence) Co-PI: Almon, A. Distrubutor-Sponsor: Picatinny Arsenal US Army, Department of Defense
Jonathan Olshefski - olshefski@rowan.edu
Professor, Radio/TV/Film
- Without Arrows (documentary film): National Broadcast on PBS Independent Lens documentary series - January 13, 2025 (streaming distribution on PBS passport, Apple, Amazon, Kanopy)
Grants
- Waterman II Fund, Philadelphia Foundation - to support Without Arrows Community Engagement
Colleen Montgomery - montgomeryc@rowan.edu
Associate Professor, Radio/TV/Film
- Book: The Oxford Handbook of the Disney Musical (Oxford University Press) and a chapter within that book: "Lady and the Transcription: Peggy Lee's Legal Battle with Disney"
Paul Monticone - monticone@rowan.edu
Associate Professor, Radio/TV/Film
- “Post-Production Unions,” in Hollywood Unions, edited by Kate Fortmueller and Luci Marzola (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2024), 114-135.
- “Beyond the Code: Hollywood’s Trade Association and Wartime Public Relations,” Media Industries 12, no. 1 (2025)
Social Work
Staci Fattore - fattore@rowan.edu
Associate Teaching Professor, Social Work
Grants
- “MSW Paid Practicum” (The Justamere Foundation)
Sociology & Anthropology
James Hundley - hundley@rowan.edu
Assistant Professor, Sociology & Anthropology
- We are Coast Salish: Indigeneity, Settler Colonialism and Border Securitization with co-author Jeff Bumgarner, Bloomsbury Academic Press
- Hundley, James M. 2024. “Rethinking Political Symbols: Indigenous Nationhood and Settler Colonialism in the Canada/US Borderlands” Canadian Geographies / Géographies canadiennes 68(3): 380-393. https://doi.org/10.1111/cag.12915
- Hundley, James M. 2024. “The Thin Green Line: Coast Salish Resistance to Energy Projects.” American Review of Canadian Studies 54(2): 115-140. https://doi.org/10.1080/02722011.2024.2346884
- Hundley, James M. 2024. Histories of the Canoe Journey: Border studies, critical Indigenous studies, and the decolonization and unsettling of Coast Salish territory. Journal of Borderlands Studies 39(3): 569-591. https://doi.org/10.1080/08865655.2022.2156373
Jake Keyel - keyel@rowan.edu
Assistant Professor, Sociology and Anthropology
- Jared Keyel. Immigrants, asylum-seekers, and refugees: Navigating conceptual challenges through multidimensional migration space-time. International Journal of Population Studies 2024, 10(4), 40–44
- Henrik L., R. E. Nordquist, Z. Lederman, J. Keyel, P. Mooney Nickel, and C. Berg 2024. “Ethics, One Health approaches and SDGs – conference lessons for a new field.” Frontiers in Health. 1-8.
- Keyel. J. 2024. “‘It's Never Just One Thing:’ Complexifying Migration Concepts and Categories through Stories of Movement from the Middle East and North Africa to the United States.” Journal of Identity and Migration Studies. 18 (2): 1-17.
- Keyel, J. 2025. “War in Yemen (2015-Present).” In Geography in the 21st Century: Defining Moments that Shaped Society, Jayson Funke (lead editor), Waquar Ahmed, Ipsita Chatterjee and Steve McCauley. New York, NY: Bloomsbury Academic.
DeMond Miller - millerd@rowan.edu
Professor, Sociology & Anthropology
- Davis Bivens, N., Miller, D.S. & Mills, J.T. (2024). Who’s streets, our streets: The evolution of street asphalt art and the transformation of liminal spaces for social change. Journal of Urbanism: International Research on Placemaking and Urban Sustainability, 17(2), 237–252. https://doi.org/10.1080/17549175.2024.2354878
Grants
- “Proposal in Response to The New Jersey State Energy Security Plan” (New Jersey Board of Public Utilities) (continuing grant)
Mary Mitsdarffer - mitsdarffer@rowan.edu
Assistant Professor, Sociology & Anthropology
- Alang, S. M., Letcher, A. S., Mitsdarffer, M. L., Kieber-Emmons, A., Rivera, J., Moeller, C., ... & Batts, H. (2025). The Radical Welcome Engagement Restoration Model and Assessment Tool for Community-Engaged Partnerships. Health Promotion Practice, 26(3), 496-506
- Mitsdarffer, M. L., McSorley, A. M., Rojo, E. M., & Pérez-Ramos, J. G. (2024). ¿ De Dónde Eres? Latine Identity and Representation in Health Statistics. American Journal of Public Health, 114(S6), S439-S443.; Alang, S. M., Letcher, A. S., Batts, H., Moeller, C., Biery, N.,
- Mitsdarffer, M., Kieber-Emmons, A.M., Rivera, J. & Johnson, M. (2024). Community-engaged Research Partnerships as Healing Spaces for Health Professionals and Researchers. Progress in Community Health Partnerships: Research, Education, and Action, 18(2), 287-293.
- Becker, J., McDermott-Levy, R., Moore, C., & Mitsdarffer, M. L. (2024). Social Capital as a Framework to Address Organizational Climate Change Policy. Journal of Gerontological Nursing, 50(6), 11-15.
Adam Straub - strauba@rowan.edu
Assistant Professor, Sociology and Anthropology
- Straub, A.M., Vadjunec, J.M. & Fagin, T.D. Networks of Inclusive Exclusion: Social Capital and Resilient Rural Livelihoods in the Southern Great Plains (SGP). Hum Ecol 52, 1309–1327 (2024)
- Adam M. Straub, Liesel A. Ritchie, Duane A. Gill, Andrew S. Fullerton, Erin Boyle, Thomas M. Kersen, A legacy of recreancy?: Perceptions of routinized governmental failure in Jackson, MS, International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 10.1016/j.ijdrr.2025.105756, 128, (105756), (2025).
- Straub, Adam M. 2024. “Fiona and Atlantic Canada: media framing of hazard risk in the Anthropocene.” Disasters. e12641. https://doi.org/10.1111/disa.12641.
World Languages
Allesandra Mirra -
Assistant Teaching Professor, World Languages
- “Savoring history: how Italian cuisine morphed into a global phenomenon”. Italian-American Herald. December 2024: 1, 10-12
Tarek Mousa - mousa@rowan.edu
Associate Teaching Professor, World Languages
Grants
- “Discover Cairo, Learn Arabic through STARTALK” (National Security Agency)
Edward Smith - smithe@rowan.edu
Associate Professor, World Languages
Grants
- “Discover Cairo, Learn Arabic through STARTALK” (National Security Agency)
Writing Arts
Megan Atwood - atwood@rowan.edu
Associate Professor, Writing Arts
- VAMPIRE STORIES (Stories to Scare Your Socks Off), Capstone Publishing
- APOCALYPSE STORIES (Stories to Scare Your Socks Off), Capstone Publishing
- PARANORMAL STORIES (Stories to Scare Your Socks Off), Capstone Publishing
- CRYPTID STORIES (Stories to Scare Your Socks Off), Capstone Publishing
Ron Block - blockr@rowan.edu
Associate Professor, Writing Arts
- "Zeno's Paradox" (poetry) accepted by the literary magazine Schooner (formerly Prairie Schooner)
Tiffany DeRewal - derewal@rowan.edu
Associate Teaching Professor, Writing Arts
- Allison, L., & DeRewal, T. (2024). Where knowledge begins? Generative search, information literacy, and the problem of friction. Critical AI, 2(2). https://doi.org/10.1215/2834703X-11556038
- DeRewal, T. (2025). Evaluating LLM “Research Assistants” and Their Risks for Novice Researchers. Critical AI, 3(2). forthcoming.
Robert Evans - evansr@rowan.edu
Adjunct Professor, Writing Arts
Grants
- Individual Artist Fellowship (Poetry) NJ Council on the Arts
Drew Kopp - kopp@rowan.edu
Professor, Writing Arts
- Speaking Being: Werner Erhard, Martin Heidegger, and a New Possibility of Being Human (Eksmo Trading House: Russian translation of 2019 publication of title with Wiley)
- “De Figuris: Rediscovering Publius Rutilius Lupus.” With Hans-Friedrich Mueller. The Journal for the History of Rhetoric. 27.3 (2024).
Heather Lanier - lanier@rowan.edu
Associate Professor, Writing Arts
- Essay: "The Body of Apologies," River Teeth: A Journal of Narrative Nonfiction
- Essay: "The World Wasn't Made Straight Up and Down," Electric Literature
- Poetry Collection: "Erasing the Book of Pregnancy," Seven Kitchens Press