SOBL Faculty
The School of Social and Behavioral Sciences is home to a diverse and accomplished faculty committed to creating a dynamic and engaging learning environment.
![Mark Berg](/social-behavioral-sciences/images/Mark_Berg1_web.jpg)
Mark Berg
Ph.D. (University of Canterbury [New Zealand]), Associate Professor of Psychology:
perceptual category learning, experimental analysis of behavior, history of psychology,
motivation, industrial/organizational psychology
![John Bulevich](/social-behavioral-sciences/images/John_Bulevich2_web.jpg)
John Bulevich
Ph.D. (Washington University), Associate Professor of Psychology: cognitive control
and long term memory, aging and metacognition
![Vincent Cicirello](/social-behavioral-sciences/images/Vincent-Cicirello.jpg)
Vincent Cicirello
Ph.D. (Carnegie Mellon University), Professor of Computer Science and Information
Systems: artificial intelligence, multi-agent systems, operations research, machine
learning, software engineering, information assurance, biologically-inspired computing
techniques
![Joshua Duntley](/social-behavioral-sciences/images/joshua-duntley.jpg)
Joshua Duntley
Ph.D. (University of Texas), Associate Professor of Criminal Justice: evolutionary
psychology, forensic psychology, homicide, stalking, victim defenses, human mating,
statistics
![Jessica Fleck](/social-behavioral-sciences/images/Fleck_Jessica-psyc-thumb.jpg)
Jessica Fleck
Ph.D. (Temple University), Professor of Psychology: brain, behavior and cognition,
research in problem-solving, creativity, working memory, schizophrenia
![Christine Gayda-Chelder](/social-behavioral-sciences/images/gayda-chelder_christine_web.jpg)
Christine Gayda-Chelder
Ph.D. (Drexel University), Associate Professor of Psychology: health psychology, clinical
neuropsychology, traumatic brain injury, early detection of dementia, caregiver burden
![Tim A. Haresign](/social-behavioral-sciences/images/Tim-Haresign.jpg)
Tim A. Haresign
Ph.D. (University of Connecticut at Storrs), Associate Professor of Biology: neuroscience,
animal behavior, bioacoustics, evolutionary psychology, cognitive science, issues
of diversity
![Nathaniel Hartman](/social-behavioral-sciences/images/Nathaniel-W-Hatman.jpg)
Nathaniel Hartman
Ph.D. (Wesleyan University), Associate Professor of Biology: neuroscience, stem cells,
developmental biology, anatomy, physiology
![Rodger L. Jackson](/social-behavioral-sciences/images/Rodger-L-Jackson.jpg)
Rodger L. Jackson
Ph.D. (Michigan State University), Professor of Philosophy: Ethical theory, applied
ethics, pragmatism, history of philosophy
![Fang Liu](/social-behavioral-sciences/images/Fang-Liu.jpg)
Fang Liu
Ph.D. (University of Pennsylvania), Associate Professor of Physics: biomedical and
health physics, positron emission tomography (PET), surgical probe, biophysics
Jennifer Lyke
Ph.D. (Temple University), Professor of Psychology: counseling psychology, research
methods, abnormal psychology, eating disorders, advanced statistics, states of consciousness
![Elizabeth Shobe](/social-behavioral-sciences/images/Elizabeth-Shobe.jpg)
Elizabeth Shobe
Ph.D. (University of Toledo), Professor of Psychology: cognition, learning theories,
experimental psychology, statistical methods, evolution and behavior
![Marcello Spinella](/social-behavioral-sciences/images/marcello1_web.jpg)
Marcello Spinella
Ph.D. (City University of New York), Professor of Psychology: physiological psychol¬ogy,
clinical neuropsychology, psychometrics, psychopharmacology, herbal medicines, executive
functions, addiction, aging and mental health
![John White](/social-behavioral-sciences/images/john-white-web.jpg)
John White
Ph.D. (North Texas State University), Professor of Psychology: sex crimes, violent
crimes, police psychology, forensic psychology, criminal profiling
![Melissa Zwick](/social-behavioral-sciences/images/Melissa-Zwick.jpg)
Melissa Zwick
Ph.D. (University of Kentucky), Assistant Professor of Biology: neurobiology, human
anatomy, vertebrate physiology, toxicology, science education
![Guia Calicdan-Apostle](/social-behavioral-sciences/images/calicdan_apostle_web.jpg)
Guia Calicdan-Apostle
DSW (University of Pennsylvania), Associate Professor of Social Work: clinical social
work practice, cultural competence, spirituality in mental health, public health intervention
and advocacy (tobacco control)
![Merydawilda Colón](/social-behavioral-sciences/images/Merydawilda-Colon.jpg)
Merydawilda Colón
Ph.D. (The City University of New York), Executive Director of the Stockton Center
for Community Engagement and Professor of Social Work: social work practice, hospice
(grief, death and dying), acculturation and attitudes of Latinos towards hospice,
Latinos and community outreach, social work with oppressed groups
![Susan Cydis](/social-behavioral-sciences/images/cydis.png)
Susan Cydis
Ed.D. (Widener University), Associate Professor of Education: literacy education, elementary
education, authentic instruction and assessment, competency-based education practices
![Lauren DelRossi](/social-behavioral-sciences/images/Lauren-DelRossi.jpg)
Lauren DelRossi
DPT (Stockton University), Associate Professor of Physical Therapy: Gross Motor Development
in rare genetic disorders, technology and pedagogy, interprofessional education and
collaborative practice
![Shawn R. Donaldson](/social-behavioral-sciences/images/shawn-donaldson.jpg)
Shawn R. Donaldson
Ph.D. (Rutgers, The State University), Associate Professor of Sociology: race/class/gender,
sociology of law, medical sociology, demography, South African studies
![Kelly A. Dougherty](/social-behavioral-sciences/images/dougherty_kelly.jpg)
Kelly A. Dougherty
Ph.D. (The Pennsylvania State University), Associate Professor of Exercise Science:
physical activity- and nutrition-related issues in healthy and chronically ill children
and young adults, including those with cystic fibrosis, sickle cell disease, and obesity.
![Marcia Fiedler](/social-behavioral-sciences/images/Marcia-Fiedler.jpg)
Marcia Fiedler
Ed.D. (University of Phoenix), Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies: biblical studies,
Hebrew, Jewish education, Jewish women, women and Jewish law
![Christine A. Gayda-Chelder](/social-behavioral-sciences/images/gayda-chelder_christine_web.jpg)
Christine A. Gayda-Chelder
Ph.D. (Drexel University), Associate Professor of Psychology: health psychology, clinical
neuropsychology, traumatic brain injury, dementia, caregiver burden
![Helana Girgis](/social-behavioral-sciences/images/Helana_Girgis1_web.jpg)
Helana Girgis
Ph.D. (University of Arkansas), Assistant Professor of Psychology: developmental and
lifespan psychology, cognitive development, personality, conceptual development of
foods and idea ownership, cross-cultural research.
![John Gray](/social-behavioral-sciences/images/john-gray.jpg)
John Gray
Ed.D. (Walden University), Visiting Instructor of Organizational Leadership
![Marion Hussong](/social-behavioral-sciences/images/Marion-Hussong2.jpg)
Marion Hussong
Ph.D. (University of Pennsylvania), Professor of Literature and Holocaust and Genocide
Studies: holocaust literature, 19th and 20th century German and Austrian literature,
comparative literature, children's literature
![Janice O. Joseph](/social-behavioral-sciences/images/janice.joseph.jpg)
Janice O. Joseph
Ph.D. (York University), Distinguished Professor of Criminal Justice: juvenile justice,
criminology and deviance, minorities and crime, corrections
![Gorica Majstorovic](/social-behavioral-sciences/images/majstorovic2.jpg)
Gorica Majstorovic
Ph.D. (New York University), Professor of Spanish: Iberian, Latin American and U.S.
Latino literature, film, visual arts and theater, postcolonial studies
![Sara Martino](/social-behavioral-sciences/images/Martino1.jpg)
Sara Martino
Ph.D. (Temple University), Professor of Counseling: counseling psychology, illness-related
stress disorders, female aggression, self-mutilation, superwoman ideal, gender group
identity, psychology of women, marriage and family therapy
![Shelly Meyers](/social-behavioral-sciences/images/Shelly-Meyers.jpg)
Shelly Meyers
Ed.D. (Nova Southern University), Associate Professor of Education: special education,
pedagogy, inclusion, supervision and leadership, education to workplace transition,
behavior management
![Mary Padden](/social-behavioral-sciences/images/Mary-Padden-Denmead.jpg)
Mary Padden
Ph.D. (Widener University), Associate Professor of Nursing: pediatrics, maternal and
child health, research
![Rose Scaffidi](/social-behavioral-sciences/images/Rose-Scaffidi.jpg)
Rose Scaffidi
Dr.N.P. (Drexel University), Associate Professor of Nursing: women's health, research,
assessment
![Allison N. Sinanan](/social-behavioral-sciences/images/Allison-Sinanan2.jpg)
Allison N. Sinanan
Ph.D. (Fordham University), Professor of Social Work, MSW Program Chair: sexual abuse
recurrence in minority children, oppression of children and families of color
![Connie M. Tang](/social-behavioral-sciences/images/C_Tang1.jpg)
Connie M. Tang
Ph.D. (University of Wyoming, Laramie), Professor of Psychology: child and adolescent
development, child maltreatment and juvenile delinquency, psychology and the law,
social cognition, culture and cognition, research methods
![Judith Vogel](/social-behavioral-sciences/images/Judith-Vogel.jpg)
Judith Vogel
Ph.D. (Temple University), Professor of Mathematics: numerical linear algebra, Children
of the Holocaust, Holocaust education using children's literature
![Keith B. Williams](/social-behavioral-sciences/images/Keith_Williams1_web.jpg)
Keith B. Williams
Ph.D. (University of Minnesota), Professor of Psychology: educational psychology,
social psychology, educational testing and measurement, psychology of individual differences
![Kerrin C. Wolf](/social-behavioral-sciences/images/Kerrin-Wolf2.jpg)
Kerrin C. Wolf
Ph.D. (University of Delaware), Assistant Professor of Business Studies, Public Law:
school discipline, children and the law, education law and policy, health law and
policy, juvenile justice
![Kaite Yang](/social-behavioral-sciences/images/Katie-Yang_web.jpg)
Kaite Yang
Ph.D. (Princeton University), Associate Professor of Psychology: social psychology,
personality and individual differences, the emergence of gender differences, meta-analysis,
thought speed and creativity.
PROFESSORS EMERITI
![Joseph J. Marchetti](/social-behavioral-sciences/images/Stockton-Emeriti.jpg)
Joseph J. Marchetti
Ph.D. (University of Pennsylvania), Professor Emeritus of Education: educational research,
educational leadership, organizational leadership, curriculum and instruction
![Jean Mercer](/social-behavioral-sciences/images/Stockton-Emeriti.jpg)
Jean Mercer
Ph.D. (Brandeis University), Professor Emerita of Psychology: developmental psychology,
early childhood, infancy, perception, history and systems
![Linda Williamson Nelson](/social-behavioral-sciences/images/Stockton-Emeriti.jpg)
Linda Williamson Nelson
Ph.D. (Rutgers, The State University), Professor Emerita of Anthropology and Africana
Studies: anthropological linguistics, cultural anthropology, gender and culture, field
methods, contemporary African American literature, African American vernacular English,
African American culture
![Joseph Rubenstein](/social-behavioral-sciences/images/Stockton-Emeriti.jpg)
Joseph Rubenstein
Ph.D. (New School for Social Research), Professor Emeritus of Anthropology: religion
and ritual, anthropological theory, ethnicity, Jewish culture, field methods, food
and culture, anthropological photography, community engagement
![Jess Bonnan-White](/social-behavioral-sciences/images/Jess-Bonnan-2023-08-30.jpg)
Jess Bonnan-White
Ph.D. (University of Iowa) - Professor of Criminal Justice:Homeland security, emergency
management, crisis response, humanitarian assistance, quantitative and qualitative
data analysis, research methods, human security.
609-652-4453 | C122
![Deeanna Button](/social-behavioral-sciences/images/Button.jpg)
Deeanna Button
Ph.D. (University of Delaware) - Professor of Criminal Justice: Violence and victimization,
social inequality.
609-652-4452 | G232
![William Dineen](/social-behavioral-sciences/images/Bill-Dineen.jpeg)
William Dineen
M.A.S. (Fairleigh Dickinson) - Teaching Specialist of Criminal Justice: crime scene
investigation,bloodstain pattern analysis, homicide investigation, criminal investigation,
interview and interrogationtechniques, resilience in policing, the criminal justice
system, and corrections.
609-626-3133 | H242
![Joshua D. Duntley](/social-behavioral-sciences/images/joshua-duntley.jpg)
Joshua D. Duntley
Ph.D. (University of Texas) - Associate Professor of Criminal Justice: Forensic psychology,
evolutionary psychology, homicide and stalking, victim defenses, quantitative methods.
609-626-3570 | G250
![Syeda T. Hadi](/social-behavioral-sciences/images/Hadi_Sayeda_web.jpg)
Syeda T. Hadi
Ph.D. (University of Hawaii at Manoa) Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice: Transnational
feminist criminology, criminalization and victimization of female asylum seekers and
refugees, intersectionality perspective, criminological theories.
609-626-3187 | H236
![Janice O. Joseph](/social-behavioral-sciences/images/janice-Joseph2.jpg)
Janice O. Joseph
Ph.D. (York University, Canada) - Distinguished Professor of Criminal Justice: Juvenile
justice, criminology and deviance, minorities and crime, corrections.
609-652-4312 | H248
![Katherine Kafonek](/social-behavioral-sciences/images/Kafonek-Katherine-Headshot.jpg)
Katherine Kafonek
Ph.D.(University of Delaware) - Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice: Victimology,
Intersectional Criminology
F126
![Marissa P. Levy](/social-behavioral-sciences/images/levy-marissa002.jpg)
Marissa P. Levy
Ph.D. (Rutgers, The State University) - Dean, School of Social and Behavioral Sciences
and Professor of Criminal Justice: Environmental criminology with emphasis on spatial
analysis of crime (crime mapping and crime prevention), evaluations and statistics.
609-652-4512 | H201
![Ruibin Lu](/social-behavioral-sciences/images/R_Lu.jpg)
Ruibin Lu
Ph.D. (Washington State University) - Associate Professor of Criminal Justice: Specialty
courts, U.S. judicial system, drug and alcohol use, community corrections, comparative
criminal justice.
609-626-3829 | B006
![Manish Madan](/social-behavioral-sciences/images/madan21.jpg)
Manish Madan
Ph.D. (Rutgers, The State University) - Associate Professor of Criminal Justice:
Comparative research, policy, and victimization and gender.
609-626-3530 | G237
![William McKnight](/social-behavioral-sciences/images/Mcknight.png)
William McKnight
M.S. (St. Joseph's University) - Teaching Specialist of Criminal Justice: Police
leadership, policing, the criminal justice system, homeland security, risk management
and mitigation, business continuity.
609-652-4442 | H227
![Richard Mulvihill](/social-behavioral-sciences/images/Mulvihill1.jpg)
Richard Mulvihill
M.S. (Nova Southeastern University) - Tenured Instructor of Criminal Justice: Police
and public safety administration, corrections, and criminal justice technology.
609-626-3557 | H251
![Nusret Sahin](/social-behavioral-sciences/images/Nusret-Sahin-08-2023.jpg)
Nusret Sahin
Ph.D. (Rutgers, The State University) - Associate Professor of Criminal Justice:
Race, trust and police legitimacy, police-citizen encounters, terrorism, police technology.
609-626-3825 | B006a
![Kimberley R. Schanz](/social-behavioral-sciences/images/Schanz.jpg)
Kimberley R. Schanz
Ph.D. (CUNY Graduate Center) - Associate Professor of Criminal Justice: Statistics,
research methods, forensic psychology, behavioral consistency in serial sexual assaults,
victim risk assessment, offender-victim interaction.
609-652-4585 | F128
![Amy Yingyi Situ-Liu](/social-behavioral-sciences/images/Amy_Situ-Liu.jpg)
Amy Yingyi Situ-Liu
Ph.D. (Indiana University of Pennsylvania) - Associate Professor of Criminal Justice:
Environmental crime, comparative criminal justice, quantitative and qualitative research
methods, criminology, crime control.
609-652-4314 | G260
![Barbara Stanley](/social-behavioral-sciences/images/Barbara-Stanley.jpg)
Barbara Stanley
M.S. (Drexel University) - Teaching Specialist of Criminal Justice: Medico-Legal Death
Investigation, Crime Scene Analysis, The Crimnal Justice System, Forensics Anthropology,
and Criminal Law
609-652-4987 | H-228
![Christine Tartaro](/social-behavioral-sciences/images/Tartaro.jpg)
Christine Tartaro
Ph.D. (Rutgers University School of Criminal Justice) - Distinguished Professor of
Criminal Justice: Corrections, research methods and statistics, violence in correctional
facilities, suicide in correctional facilities, program evaluation, sentencing.
609-626-6035 | G252
PROFESSORS EMERITI
![Larry E. Nutt](/social-behavioral-sciences/images/Stockton-Emeriti.jpg)
Larry E. Nutt
Ph.D. (University of Chicago) - Professor Emeritus of Criminal Justice: Police behavior,
deterrence, criminology, social theory
![Rupendra Simlot](/social-behavioral-sciences/images/Stockton-Emeriti.jpg)
Rupendra Simlot
Ph.D. (University of Rajasthan) - Professor Emeritus of Criminal Justice: Forensic
science, crime scene investigation, cyber-crime investigation, criminal justice administration,
security management, police behavior, police management, international culture.
![Marcia R. Steinbock](/social-behavioral-sciences/images/Stockton-Emeriti.jpg)
Marcia R. Steinbock
J.D. (Rutgers University School of Law, Camden) - Professor Emerita of Criminal Justice:
Judicial systems, prisoners' rights, psychology and law, Jewish women.
![Oliver D. Cooke](/social-behavioral-sciences/images/Oliver-Cooke.jpg)
Oliver D. Cooke
Ph.D. (University of Massachusetts Amherst) - Associate Professor of Economics: Urban/regional
economics, economic history, political economy, macroeconomics.
609-652-4782 | G263
![Eric Hoyt](/social-behavioral-sciences/images/Eric-Hoyt.jpg)
Eric Hoyt
Ph.D. (University of Massachusetts Amherst) - Assistant Professor of Economics: Labor
Economics, Economics of Inequality and Poverty, Economic History, and Institutional
Economics
69-626-6085 | F230
Mariam Majd
Ph.D. (University of Massachusetts - Amherst) - Assistant Professor of Economics:
International finance, money and banking, political economy.
609-626-3826 | B006b
![Ramya Devan](/social-behavioral-sciences/images/ramya-headshot.jpeg)
Ramya Devan
Ph.D. (The American University) - Professor of Economics: Feminist political economy,
labor and international trade, econometrics.
609-652-4741 | G265
![Siavash Radpour](/social-behavioral-sciences/images/Radpour-Siavash.jpg)
Siavash Radpour
PhD. (The New School, New York) - Assistant Professor of Economics: Labor Economics,
Statistics, Economics of Aging
TBD | H237
ASSOCIATED FACULTY
![Ronald L. Caplan](/social-behavioral-sciences/images/Ronald-L-Caplan.jpg)
Ronald L. Caplan
Ph.D. (University of Massachusetts) - Associate Professor of Public Health: Health
economics, health policy.
PROFESSORS EMERITI
![Deborah M. Figart](/social-behavioral-sciences/images/Stockton-Emeriti.jpg)
Deborah M. Figart
Ph.D. (The American University) - Distinguished Professor Emerita of Economics: Labor
economics, the casino industry, institutional and social economics, discrimination,
financial literacy and student loans, economic education, poverty and inequality,
and economic well-being.
![G. Reza Ghorashi](/social-behavioral-sciences/images/Stockton-Emeriti.jpg)
G. Reza Ghorashi
Ph.D. (Fordham University) - Professor Emeritus of Economics: International trade
and international finance, microeconomics, political economy.
![Melaku Lakew](/social-behavioral-sciences/images/Stockton-Emeriti.jpg)
Melaku Lakew
Ph.D. (University of California at Riverside) - Professor Emeritus of Economics:
Monetary theory, history of economic thought, comparative economic systems, economic
development.
![Ellen Mutari](/social-behavioral-sciences/images/Stockton-Emeriti.jpg)
Ellen Mutari
Ph.D. (The American University) - Professor Emerita of Economics: Labor market and
employment policies; gender, race-ethnicity, and class; economic history; contemporary
political economy.
![Theodore Alter](/social-behavioral-sciences/images/Ted-Alter.jpg)
Theodore Alter
Ph.D. (Yeshiva University) - Asssociate Professor of Social Work: Aging, dementia,
life cycle, health care, end-of-life, ethics, chronic illness, and disability.
![David C. Burdick](/social-behavioral-sciences/images/David-Burdick.jpg)
David C. Burdick
Ph.D. (University of Notre Dame), FGSA, FAGHE - Professor of Psychology and Director,
Stockton Center on Successful Aging: Adult development and aging, technology and
aging, intergenerational relationships, applied gerontology, mental health and aging,
environmental psychology.
![Elizabeth G. Calamidas](/social-behavioral-sciences/images/Elizabeth-Calamidas.jpg)
Elizabeth G. Calamidas
Ph.D. (Temple University) - Associate Professor of Public Health: Community and public
health, health education, health behavior, human sexuality, women and health, aging
and health.
![Merydawilda Colón](/social-behavioral-sciences/images/Merydawilda-Colon.jpg)
Merydawilda Colón
Ph.D. (The City University of New York), L.S.W. - Executive Director of the Stockton
Center for Community Engagement and Professor of Social Work: Social work practice,
hospice (grief, death, and dying), acculturation and attitudes of Latinos toward hospice,
Latinos and community outreach, social work with oppressed groups.
![Lisa E. Cox](/social-behavioral-sciences/images/Cox-Lisa-1.jpg)
Lisa E. Cox
Ph.D. (Virginia Commonwealth University), L.C.S.W. - Professor of Social Work: Clinical
social work practice, psychopathology and cultural neuroscience, health care, HIV/AIDS
clinical trials research, gerontology, research methods, linkage between social support
and medication adherence.
![Jennifer S. Dunkle](/social-behavioral-sciences/images/Jennifer-Dunkle.jpg)
Jennifer S. Dunkle
MSW (Monmouth University) - Associate Professor of Social Work: Culturally competent
aging services, environmental justice, qualitative research, and oral history.
![Christine V. Ferri](/social-behavioral-sciences/images/Ferri_Christine-web.jpg)
Christine V. Ferri
Ph.D. (Duke University) - Associate Professor of Psychology: Geropsychology, abnormal
psychology, psychotherapy, positive psychology, statistical methods.
609-626-6046 | E217a
![Jessica Fleck](/social-behavioral-sciences/images/Fleck_Jessica-psyc-thumb.jpg)
Jessica Fleck
Ph.D. (Temple University) – Professor of Psychology: Cognitive neuroscience, research
in the behavioral and neural underpinnings of problem-solving and creativity, age-related
cognitive decline, neural predictors of cognitive decline and dementia.
609-626-3489 | G253
![Christine A. Gayda-Chelder](/social-behavioral-sciences/images/gayda-chelder_christine_web.jpg)
Christine A. Gayda-Chelder
Ph.D. (Drexel University) - Associate Professor of Psychology: Health psychology,
clinical neuropsychology, traumatic brain injury, early detection of dementia, caregiver
burden.
![Janice O. Joseph](/social-behavioral-sciences/images/janice.joseph.jpg)
Janice O. Joseph
Ph.D. (York University, Canada) - Distinguished Professor of Criminal Justice: Juvenile
justice, criminology and deviance, minorities and crime, corrections.
![Marcello Spinella](/social-behavioral-sciences/images/marcello1_web.jpg)
Marcello Spinella
Ph.D. (City University of New York) - Professor of Psychology: Physiological psychology,
positive psychology, mindfulness, clinical neuropsychology, psychometrics, psychopharmacology,
herbal medicines, executive functions, addiction.
![Claire E. Abernathy](/social-behavioral-sciences/images/Claire-Abernathy.jpg)
Claire E. Abernathy
Ph.D. (Vanderbilt University), Associate Professor of Political Science: American
politics, legislative correspondence management practices.
609-626-3524 | C005a
![James Mac Avery](/social-behavioral-sciences/images/Mac_Avery_2020.jpg)
James Mac Avery
Ph.D. (University of Kentucky), Professor of Political Science: American public opinion,
political behavior, representation, race and ethnicity.
609-626-6021 | G262
![Lauren Marie Balasco](/social-behavioral-sciences/images/Lauren-Balasco-8-2023.jpg)
Lauren Marie Balasco
Ph.D. (University of Delaware), Associate Professor of Political Science and the Pre-Law
Advising Coordinator: Comparative politics, rule of law, democratization, transitional
justice, human rights, Latin American politics.
609-652-4743 | F232
![Michael S. Rodriguez](/social-behavioral-sciences/images/Rodriguez-Michael.jpg)
Michael S. Rodriguez
Ph.D. (Temple University), Professor of Political Science: Washington Internship
Program, race and politics, American government, public policy, religion and politics,
immigration policy.
609-652-4476 | H243
![Tina M. Zappile](/social-behavioral-sciences/images/zappile.jpg)
Tina M. Zappile
Ph.D. (University of Nebraska - Lincoln), Associate Professor of Political Science:
international political economy, international organization, international law, comparative
politics, economic development.
609-626-3816 | F123
![Ghaidaa Hetou](/social-behavioral-sciences/images/Ghaidaa-Hetou.jpg)
Ghaidaa Hetou
Ph.D. (Rutgers University, New Brunswick), Adjunct Professor of Political Science:
International Relations, U.S. Foreign Policy, Political Risk Analysis, Middle East
Politics.
ASSOCIATED FACULTY
![Patrick Hossay](/social-behavioral-sciences/images/Patrick-Hossay.jpg)
Patrick Hossay
Ph.D. (Temple University) - Associate Professor of Sustainability: Environmental
policy and law, sustainable development, alternative energy and design, sustainable
technology.
FORMER PROFESSORS
![David L. Carr](/social-behavioral-sciences/images/Stockton-Emeriti.jpg)
David L. Carr
Ph.D. (State University of New York at Binghamton), Provost Emeritus and Professor
Emeritus of Political Science: comparative politics, political development, comparative
public policy, research methods and statistics.
![William T. Daly](/social-behavioral-sciences/images/Emeritus-2.jpg)
William T. Daly
M.A. (Princeton University), Professor Emeritus of Political Science: international
politics, political development, contemporary political ideologies.
![Lucinda S. Jassel](/social-behavioral-sciences/images/Stockton-Emeriti.jpg)
Lucinda S. Jassel
Ph.D. (University of California at Davis), Professor Emerita of Political Science:
political theory, American government, political parties and behavior.
![Jacqueline Pope](/social-behavioral-sciences/images/Stockton-Emeriti.jpg)
Jacqueline Pope
Ph.D. (Columbia University), Professor Emerita of Political Science: public administration,
public policy, metro politics, Africana studies.
![G. William Sensiba](/social-behavioral-sciences/images/Stockton-Emeriti.jpg)
G. William Sensiba
Ph.D. (Yale University), Professor Emeritus of Political Science: methodology, political
personality and behavior, political sociology, comparative politics.
![Linda J. Wharton](/social-behavioral-sciences/images/Stockton-Emeriti.jpg)
Linda J. Wharton
J.D. (Rutgers School of Law, Camden), Professor of Political Science: constitutional
law, civil liberties, women and the law, advanced constitutional litigation, public
education and the law.
![Mark E. Berg](/social-behavioral-sciences/images/Mark_Berg1_web.jpg)
Mark E. Berg
Ph.D. (University of Canterbury), Associate Professor of Psychology: Perceptual category
learning, experimental analysis of behavior, history of psychology, motivation, industrial/
organizational psychology.
609-626-6862 | G266
![John Bulevich](/social-behavioral-sciences/images/John_Bulevich2_web.jpg)
John Bulevich
Ph.D. (Washington University), Associate Professor of Psychology: Memory Distortion,
Eyewitness Testimony, Metacognition, Retrieval Processes, Aging.
609-626-3821 | H245
![David C. Burdick](/social-behavioral-sciences/images/Burdick1.jpg)
David C. Burdick
Ph.D. (University of Notre Dame), FGSA, FAGHE, Professor of Psychology: Adult development
and aging, technology and aging, intergenerational relationships, applied gerontology,
mental health and aging.
609-652-4311 | F231
![Christine V. Ferri](/social-behavioral-sciences/images/Ferri_Christine-web.jpg)
Christine V. Ferri
Ph.D. (Duke University), Associate Professor of Psychology: Geropsychology, abnormal
psychology, psychotherapy, positive psychology, statistical methods.
609-761-1256 | E217a
![Jessica Fleck](/social-behavioral-sciences/images/Fleck_Jessica-psyc-thumb.jpg)
Jessica Fleck
Ph.D. (Temple University), Professor of Psychology: Brain, behavior and cognition,
problem-solving, working memory, creativity, statistics, research methods.
609-626-3489 | G253
![Christine A. Gayda-Chelder](/social-behavioral-sciences/images/gayda-chelder_christine_web.jpg)
Christine A. Gayda-Chelder
Ph.D. (Drexel University), Associate Professor of Psychology: Health psychology,
clinical neuropsychology, traumatic brain injury, dementia, caregiver burden.
609-626-6075 | C139
![Helana Girgis](/social-behavioral-sciences/images/Helana_Girgis1_web.jpg)
Helana Girgis
Ph.D. (University of Arkansas), Assistant Professor of Psychology: Developmental and
lifespan psychology, cognitive development, personality, conceptual development of
foods and idea ownership, cross-cultural research.
609-652-4212 | H238
![Zornitsa Kalibatseva](/social-behavioral-sciences/images/Zornitsa_Kalibatseva2_web.jpg)
Zornitsa Kalibatseva
Ph.D. (Michigan State University), Associate Professor of Psychology: Clinical psychology,
cross-cultural psychology, assessment, depression, cultural competency, race, ethnicity,
acculturation.
609-626-3894 | G239
![Colleen Kase](/social-behavioral-sciences/images/Kase_Colleen_web.jpg)
Colleen Kase
Ph.D. (University of Maryland), Assistant Professor of Psychology: counseling psychology,
health psychology, stigma, body size/sizeism, sexual minoritygroups, statistical and
research methods.
609-626-3103 | H219
Jennifer A. Lyke
Ph.D. (Temple University), Professor of Psychology: Counseling psychology, research
methods, abnormal psychology, eating disorders, states of consciousness.
609-626-6839 | G210
![Justin Ostrofsky](/social-behavioral-sciences/images/Justin_Ostrofsky1_web.jpg)
Justin Ostrofsky
Ph.D. (The Graduate Center of the City University of New York), Associate Professor
of Psychology: Perception, attention and memory-based processes supporting the ability
to realistically draw objects from observation, statistics, research methods and cognitive
psychology.
609-626-6858 | C113
![David Rosen](/social-behavioral-sciences/images/David-S-Rosen.jpg)
David Rosen
Affiliated Research Faculty
![Nordia Scott](/social-behavioral-sciences/images/Nordia-Scott3.jpg)
Nordia Scott
Ph.D. (Michigan State University), Assistant Professor of Psychology: Ecological-Community
psychology, race andracism, academic resilience, risk and protective factors, privilege
and oppression, systemsperspectives, social change.
609-626-3403 | H202k
![Elizabeth Shobe](/social-behavioral-sciences/images/Liz-Shobe_web.jpg)
Elizabeth Shobe
Ph.D. (University of Toledo), Professor of Psychology: Cognition, learning theories,
experimental psychology, statistical methods, evolution and behavior.
609-626-6032 | G216
![Marcello Spinella](/social-behavioral-sciences/images/marcello1_web.jpg)
Marcello Spinella
Ph.D. (City University of New York), Professor of Psychology: Physiological psychology,
clinical neuropsychology, psychometrics, psychopharmacology, herbal medicines, executive
functions, addiction, aging and mental health.
609-626-6049 | F127
![Connie M. Tang](/social-behavioral-sciences/images/C_Tang1.jpg)
Connie M. Tang
Ph.D. (University of Wyoming), Professor of Psychology: Child and adolescent development,
child maltreatment and juvenile delinquency, psychology and the law, social cognition,
culture and cognition, research methods.
609-626-3523 | G261
![John H. White](/social-behavioral-sciences/images/john-white-web.jpg)
John H. White
Ph.D. (North Texas State University), Professor of Psychology: Forensic neuropsychology,
serial murder, sex crimes, violent crimes, police psychology, forensic psychology,
criminal investigative analysis (profiling).
609-761-1255 | G256
![Keith B. Williams](/social-behavioral-sciences/images/Keith_Williams1_web.jpg)
Keith B. Williams
Ph.D. (University of Minnesota), Professor of Psychology: Educational psychology,
social psychology, educational testing and measurement, individual differences.
609-626-6033 | F234
![Kaite Yang](/social-behavioral-sciences/images/K_Yang1.jpg)
Kaite Yang
Ph.D. (Princeton University), Associate Professor of Psychology: Social psychology,
personality and individual differences, the emergence of gender differences, meta-analysis,
thought speed and creativity.
609-626-3848 | H220
ASSOCIATED FACULTY
![Joshua D. Duntley](/social-behavioral-sciences/images/joshua-duntley.jpg)
Joshua D. Duntley
Ph.D. (University of Texas), Associate Professor of Criminal Justice: Evolutionary
psychology, forensic psychology, homicide, stalking, victim defenses, human mating,
statistics.
![Sara Martino](/social-behavioral-sciences/images/Martino1.jpg)
Sara Martino
Ph.D. (Temple University), Professor of Counseling: Counseling psychology, illness-related
stress disorders, female aggression, gender group identity, psychology of women, marriage
and family therapy.
609-626-5504 | HIS203b
![Erin Sappio](/social-behavioral-sciences/images/sappio1.jpg)
Erin Sappio
Ph.D. (Temple University), NCSP, Assistant Professor of Counseling: Contemplative
Practices, Interprofessional Education, and Social Emotional Learning
609-626-3155 | HIS204
![Elyssa Smith](/social-behavioral-sciences/images/smith_e1.jpg)
Elyssa Smith
Ph.D. (University of Wyoming), LPC, NCC, Assistant Professor of Counseling: Psychodynamic
theory, children and adolescents, narratives of counselors.
HIS203b
PROFESSORS EMERITI
![Michael L. Frank](/social-behavioral-sciences/images/Stockton-Emeriti.jpg)
Michael L. Frank
Ph.D. (State University of New York at Albany), Professor Emeritus of Psychology:
Statistics, mathematical models, motivation, research methods, gambling and risk
taking behavior.
![Sonia V. Gonsalves](/social-behavioral-sciences/images/Stockton-Emeriti.jpg)
Sonia V. Gonsalves
Ph.D. (Temple University), Professor Emerita of Psychology: Educational psychology,
statistics, research methods, psychological and educational testing, experimental
psychology, adolescence, learning.
![Cheryl R. Kaus](/social-behavioral-sciences/images/Stockton-Emeriti.jpg)
Cheryl R. Kaus
Ph.D. (The Pennsylvania State University), Professor of Psychology and Dean Emerita,
Social and Behavioral Sciences: Successful aging, gerontological education, program
development and evaluation.
![David Lester](/social-behavioral-sciences/images/Stockton-Emeriti.jpg)
David Lester
Ph.D. (Brandeis University), Professor Emeritus of Psychology: Abnormal psychology,
psychological statistics, personality, psychological testing, theories of counseling
![Jean Mercer](/social-behavioral-sciences/images/Stockton-Emeriti.jpg)
Jean Mercer
Ph.D. (Brandeis University), Professor Emerita of Psychology: Developmental psychology,
early childhood, infancy, perception, history and systems.
![William M. Miley](/social-behavioral-sciences/images/Stockton-Emeriti.jpg)
William M. Miley
Ph.D. (Temple University), Professor Emeritus of Psychology: Health psychology, mind/body
interactions, abnormal psychology.
![Ted Alter](/social-behavioral-sciences/images/T_Alter.jpg)
Ted Alter
Ph.D., M.S.W. (Yeshiva University), Asssociate Professor of Social Work: Aging, dementia,
life cycle, health care, end-of-life, ethics, chronic illness, and disability.
609-652-4411 | H229
![Robert Barney](/social-behavioral-sciences/images/barney_robert_webv2.jpg)
Robert Barney
Ph.D. (University of Louisville), Associate Professor of Social Work: International
social work, family and community development, cultural diversity in HIV/AIDS support,
research practice.
609-652-4435 | G245
![Guia Calicdan-Apostle](/social-behavioral-sciences/images/calicdan_apostle_web.jpg)
Guia Calicdan-Apostle
DSW (University of Pennsylvania), Associate Professor of Social Work: Spirituality
and mental health, school social work, international social work, racism, immigration
and cultural diversity issues, public health advocacy (tobacco control).
609-626-3820 | H254
![Lisa Cox](/social-behavioral-sciences/images/Cox-Lisa-1.jpg)
Lisa Cox
Ph.D. (Virginia Commonwealth University), LCSW, Professor of Social Work: Clinical
social work practice, psychopathology and cultural neuroscience, health care, HIV/AIDS
clinical trials research, gerontology, research methods, linkage between social support
and medication adherence.
609-652-4310 | F133
![Douglas Deane](/social-behavioral-sciences/images/Deane.jpg)
Douglas Deane
MSW (Arizona State University), LCSW, Coordinator of BSW Field Education: Supervisory
and clinical experience in mental and behavioral health.
609-626-3562 | H223
![Jennifer Dunkle](/social-behavioral-sciences/images/Jennifer-Dunkle.jpg)
Jennifer Dunkle
Ph.D. (Fordham University), Associate Professor of Social Work: Culturally competent
aging services, environmental justice, qualitative research, and oral history.
609-761-1253 | AC224s
![Robin Hernandez-Mekonnen](/social-behavioral-sciences/images/robin-hernandez-mekonnen.jpg)
Robin Hernandez-Mekonnen
Ph.D., (University of Pennsylvania), Associate Professor of Social Work: Social work
with children and families, impacting social and child welfare system reform via research
and policy, immigration and child well-being.
609-761-1257 | AC224e
![Rachel Kirzner](/social-behavioral-sciences/images/kirzner.jpg)
Rachel Kirzner
MSW, (University of Pennsylvania), LCSW, Associate Professor of Social Work: Social
Policy (public benefits), data analysis, research methods, social work practice, neighborhood
effects, community violence exposure.
609-652-4689 | H202j
![Dawn Konrady Fanslau](/social-behavioral-sciences/social-work-bsw/images/Dawn-K-Fanslau.jpg)
Dawn Konrady Fanslau
EdD (Drexel University), LSW, Director of Child Welfare Education Institute, Manager
of BCWEP, MCWEP, and NJCWTP programs: Social work with children and families, impacting
social and child welfare system reform via training, continuing education, and professional
development.
609-652-4270 | G258
![Maya A. Lewis](/social-behavioral-sciences/images/M_Lewis.jpg)
Maya A. Lewis
Ph.D (University of Maryland, Baltimore), Associate Professor of Social Work, BSSW
Program Chair: Human behavior, research methods, social work practice, adolescent
mental health, minority health, health disparities, cultural competence.
609-652-4329 | G243
![Sunny Mathew](/social-behavioral-sciences/images/Sunny-Mathew.jpg)
Sunny Mathew
Ph.D. (Fordham University), Assistant Professor of Social Work: Asian American parenting,
social support andchildrearing practices, social disadvantage and health disparity,
social capital and communitydevelopment; dialectical behavior therapy and life worth
living.
609-652-4427 | H226
![Loretta Mooney](/social-behavioral-sciences/images/mooney.jpg)
Loretta Mooney
Ph.D. (Widener University), Assistant Professor of Social Work: Suicidology, mental
health management and recovery, civil commitment and coercive practices, support for
psychological pain.
609-626-3158 | H234
![Patricia Reid-Merritt](/social-behavioral-sciences/images/reid-merritt-patricia.jpg)
Patricia Reid-Merritt
DSW (University of Pennsylvania), Distinguished Professor of Social Work and Africana
Studies: Social work practice, social work with ethnic and minority groups, school
social policy, organizational policy, Africana perspectives on social work practice.
609-652-4609 | K117
![Allison Sinanan](/social-behavioral-sciences/images/Allison-Sinanan2.jpg)
Allison Sinanan
Ph.D., (Fordham University), LSW, Professor of Social Work, MSW Program Chair: Sexual
abuse recurrence in minority children, oppression of children and families of color,
individual and group counseling, social work practice.
609-626-3561 | B116
![Lori Tomaro](/social-behavioral-sciences/images/Tomaro.png)
Lori Tomaro
MSW (Monmouth University), Assistant Coordinator of MSW Field Education: Child abuse
and neglect; impact of infant/childhood relationship traumas and their influence on
parenting behaviors; diverse populations; therapeutic services to individuals, couples,
and families.
609-626-6817 | H218
![John Wojtowicz](/social-behavioral-sciences/images/John-Wojtowicz.jpg)
John Wojtowicz
MSW, Teaching Specialist of Social Work
609-626-3104 | H233
![Joseph Everett](/social-behavioral-sciences/images/Joseph-Everett.jpg)
Joseph Everett
MSW (Stockton University), Teaching Specialist- Social Work : Economic Justice, Ethics,
Spirituality, Culture, Philosphical Underpinning of Social Work Theory
609-626-3135 | C109-1
![Nicole Cantoni](/social-behavioral-sciences/images/Cantoni-Nicole-headshot.jpeg)
Nicole Cantoni
PhD. (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), Assistant Professor-Social Work: Clinical
Skills, Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion
609-626-3488 | H221
![Jeffrey Feldman](/social-behavioral-sciences/images/Feldman-headshot.jpg)
Jeffrey Feldman
MSW (Rutgers University), Coordinator of Social Work (MSW) Practicum: Social work
practice, social/economic justice, mental health and wellness, social work with diverse
populations, social policy, bridging micro to macro social work.
609-626-6065 | H203
PROFESSORS EMERITI
![Diane S. Falk](/social-behavioral-sciences/images/Stockton-Emeriti.jpg)
Diane S. Falk
Ph.D. (Rutgers University), LCSW, Professor Emerita of Social Work: Social work practice,
program development and administration, child welfare, mental health practice and
policy, human rights, international social work.
![John Searight](/social-behavioral-sciences/images/Stockton-Emeriti.jpg)
John Searight
MSW (University of Pennsylvania), Professor Emeritus and Academic Coordinator of the
BCWEP Program: social work practice, child welfare, child neglect and abuse, child
protective services.
![Shawn Riva Donaldson](/social-behavioral-sciences/images/shawn-donaldson.jpg)
Shawn Riva Donaldson
Ph.D. (Rutgers, The State University), Associate Professor of Sociology: Race/class/gender,
sociology of law, medical sociology, demography, South African studies.
609-652-4455 | H249
![Betsy Erbaugh](/social-behavioral-sciences/images/betsy-erbaugh.jpg)
Betsy Erbaugh
Ph.D. (University of New Mexico), Associate Professor of Sociology: Reproductive and
sexual health, gender, race, class, sexuality, social movements, violence, research
methods.
609-652-4639 | G208
![Laurie Greene](/social-behavioral-sciences/images/laurie-greene.jpg)
Laurie Greene
Ph.D. (Tulane University), Professor of Anthropology: Language and culture, anthropology
of men and women, Latin American and Caribbean cultures, culture in education, social
activism.
609-761-1251 | AC224g
![Bobbi Hornbeck](/social-behavioral-sciences/images/Hornbeck_Bobbi_web.jpg)
Bobbi Hornbeck
Ph.D.(State University of New York), Teaching Specialist of Anthropology: Anthropology,
Archaeology, and North American Prehistory
609-626-3136 | C109-2
![Christina Jackson](/social-behavioral-sciences/images/C_Jackson2021.jpg)
Christina Jackson
Ph.D. (University of California), Associate Professor of Sociology: Urban sociology,
race, class, gender, social movements, inequality.
609-626-3422 | B110
![Nazia Kazi](/social-behavioral-sciences/images/Nazia-Kazi.jpg)
Nazia Kazi
Ph.D. (The Graduate Center at CUNY), Associate Professor of Anthropology: Race, immigration,
inequality, Islamophobia, social theory.
609-626-3572 | L111
ASSOCIATED FACULTY
![Janice O. Joseph](/social-behavioral-sciences/images/janice.joseph.jpg)
Janice O. Joseph
Ph.D. (York University, Canada), Distinguished Professor of Criminal Justice: Juvenile
justice, criminology and deviance, minorities and crime, corrections.
![Margaret E. Lewis](/social-behavioral-sciences/images/margaret-e-lewis.jpg)
Margaret E. Lewis
Ph.D. (State University of New York at Stony Brook), Professor of Biology: Vertebrate
anatomy, anthropology, paleoecology, evolutionary biology, paleontology.
![Ethan C. Levine](/social-behavioral-sciences/images/Levine.jpg)
Ethan C. Levine
Ph.D. (Temple University) - Affiliated Research Faculty: Sexual violence, intimate
partner violence, victim services, gender and sexuality, feminist theory, social construction
of knowledge, quantitative and qualitative methods.
PROFESSORS EMERITI
![Robert E. Helsabeck](/social-behavioral-sciences/images/Stockton-Emeriti.jpg)
Robert E. Helsabeck
Ph.D. (Indiana University), Professor Emeritus of Sociology: Social psychology, research
methods, religion, conflict.
![Elinor Lerner](/social-behavioral-sciences/images/Stockton-Emeriti.jpg)
Elinor Lerner
Ph.D. (University of California at Berkeley), Associate Professor Emerita of Sociology:
Political sociology, sociology of women, deviance, sexuality, popular culture, human/animal
relations.
![Linda Williamson Nelson](/social-behavioral-sciences/images/Stockton-Emeriti.jpg)
Linda Williamson Nelson
Ph.D. (Rutgers, The State University), Professor Emerita of Anthropology and Africana
Studies: Anthropological linguistics, cultural anthropology, gender and culture, field
methods, contemporary African American literature, African American vernacular English,
African American culture.
![Joseph Rubenstein](/social-behavioral-sciences/images/Stockton-Emeriti.jpg)
Joseph Rubenstein
Ph.D. (New School for Social Research), Professor Emeritus of Anthropology: Religion
and ritual, anthropological theory, ethnicity, Jewish culture, field methods, anthropological
photography.
![Franklin O. Smith](/social-behavioral-sciences/images/Stockton-Emeriti.jpg)
Franklin O. Smith
Ed.D. (University of Massachusetts at Amherst), Professor Emeritus of Sociology: Family,
sociology of education, sociology of sports, acting, public oratory.
![Robert J. Barney](/social-behavioral-sciences/images/barney_robert_webv2.jpg)
Robert J. Barney
Ph.D. (University of Louisville), Associate Professor of Social Work: International
social work, family and community developent, cultural diversity in HIV/AIDS support,
research practice, human trafficking.
![Jess Bonnan-White](/social-behavioral-sciences/images/Jess-Bonnan-2023-08-30.jpg)
Jess Bonnan-White
Ph.D. (University of Iowa), Professor of Criminal Justice: Homeland security, emergency
management, crisis response, humanitarian assistance, quantitative and qualitative
data analysis, research methods, human security.
![Deeanna Button](/social-behavioral-sciences/images/Button.jpg)
Deeanna Button
Ph.D. (University of Delaware), Professor of Criminal Justice: Social inequality,
violence/victimization, gender and sexuality, LGBTQ youth and resiliency, criminology,
research methods and statistics.
![Guia Calicdan-Apostle](/social-behavioral-sciences/images/calicdan_apostle_web.jpg)
Guia Calicdan-Apostle
DSW (University of Pennsylvania), Associate Professor of Social Work: Clinical social
work practice, cultural competence, spirituality in mental health, public health intervention
and advocacy (tobacco control), race, ethnicity and diversity issues.
![Shawn R. Donaldson](/social-behavioral-sciences/images/shawn-donaldson.jpg)
Shawn R. Donaldson
Ph.D. (Rutgers, The State University), Associate Professor of Sociology: Race/class/gender,
sociology of law, medical sociology, demography, South African studies.
![Joshua D. Duntley](/social-behavioral-sciences/images/joshua-duntley.jpg)
Joshua D. Duntley
Ph.D. (University of Texas), Associate Professor of Criminal Justice: Evolutionary
psychology, forensic psychology, homicide, stalking, victim defenses, human mating,
statistics.
![Michael R. Hayse](/social-behavioral-sciences/images/Michael-Hayse.jpg)
Michael R. Hayse
Ph.D. (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill), Associate Professor of History
![Marion Hussong](/social-behavioral-sciences/images/Marion-Hussong2.jpg)
Marion Hussong
Ph.D. (University of Pennsylvania), Professor of Literature and Holocaust and Genocide
Studies: 20th century German history, Russian and East European history, Holocaust/genocide
studies, history and memory.
![Christina Jackson](/social-behavioral-sciences/images/C_Jackson2021.jpg)
Christina Jackson
Ph.D. (University of California Santa Barbara), Associate Professor of Sociology:
Urban sociology, race, class, gender, social movements, inequality.
![Janice O. Joseph](/social-behavioral-sciences/images/janice-Joseph2.jpg)
Janice O. Joseph
Ph.D. (York University), Distinguished Professor of Criminal Justice: Juvenile justice,
delinquency, violence against women, minorities and crime, corrections.
609-652-4312 | H248
![Nazia Kazi](/social-behavioral-sciences/images/Kazi.jpg)
Nazia Kazi
Ph.D. (CUNY Graduate Center), Associate Professor of Anthropology: Race, immigration,
inequality, Islamophobia, social theory.
![Manish Madan](/social-behavioral-sciences/images/madan21.jpg)
Manish Madan
Ph.D. (Michigan State University), Associate Professor of Criminal Justice: Comparative
research, policy, gender, victimization, media, policing, statistics.
![Sara Martino](/social-behavioral-sciences/images/Martino1.jpg)
Sara Martino
Ph.D. (Temple University), Professor of Counseling: Counseling psychology, illness-related
stress disorders, female aggression, self-mutilation, superwoman ideal, gender group
identity, psychology of women, marriage and family therapy.
![Patricia Reid-Merritt](/social-behavioral-sciences/images/reid-merritt-patricia.jpg)
Patricia Reid-Merritt
DSW (University of Pennsylvania), Distinguished Professor of Social Work and Africana
Studies: Social work practice, social policy, social work with ethnic/minority groups,
Africana organizations and leadership practices, African-centered social work practice.
![Kimberley R. Schanz](/social-behavioral-sciences/images/Schanz.jpg)
Kimberley R. Schanz
Ph.D. (CUNY Graduate Center), Associate Professor of Criminal Justice: Behavioral
crime scene analysis with an emphasis on the behavioral aspects of sexual assaults,
and forensic psychology.
![Allison N. Sinanan](/social-behavioral-sciences/images/Allison-Sinanan2.jpg)
Allison N. Sinanan
Ph.D. (Fordham University), Professor of Social Work: Sexual abuse recurrence in minority
children, oppression of children and families of color.
![Connie M. Tang](/social-behavioral-sciences/images/C_Tang1.jpg)
Connie M. Tang
Ph.D. (University of Wyoming), Professor of Psychology: Child and adolescent development,
child maltreatment and juvenile delinquency, psychology and the law, social cognition,
culture and cognition, research methods.
![Judith Vogel](/social-behavioral-sciences/images/Judith-Vogel.jpg)
Judith Vogel
Ph.D. (Temple University), Associate Professor of Mathematics: Numerical linear algebra,
Children of the Holocaust, Holocaust education using children's literature.
![Kaite Yang](/social-behavioral-sciences/images/Katie-Yang_web.jpg)
Kaite Yang
Ph.D. (Princeton University), Associate Professor of Psychology: Social psychology,
personality and individual differences, the emergence of gender differences, meta-analysis,
thought speed and creativity.
PROFESSORS EMERITI
![Sonia V. Gonsalves](/social-behavioral-sciences/images/Stockton-Emeriti.jpg)
Sonia V. Gonsalves
Ph.D. (Temple University), Professor Emerita of Psychology: Educational psychology,
statistics, research methods, psychological and educational testing, experimental
psychology, adolescence, learning.
![Melaku Lakew](/social-behavioral-sciences/images/Stockton-Emeriti.jpg)
Melaku Lakew
Ph.D. (University of California at Riverside) - Professor Emeritus of Economics: Monetary
theory, history of economic thought, comparative economic systems, economic development.
![Franklin O. Smith](/social-behavioral-sciences/images/Stockton-Emeriti.jpg)
Franklin O. Smith
Ed.D. (University of Massachusetts at Amherst), Professor Emeritus of Sociology: Family,
sociology of education, sociology of sports, acting, public oratory.