2014

Department of Political Science & Sociology

STUDENT SPOTLIGHTS PREPARING FOR CAREERS BY ENGAGING OUR WORLD

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T he Department continues to offer exciting courses and pro-

grams in International affairs to engage students in cultural

immersion, international service, and global learning. Dr. Rekha

Datta took students again to India for two weeks in January of 2014.

In this unique, life-changing trip, students helped out in the Rain-

bow Program at Loreto Day School in Kolkata, where mainstream

students are integrated with street children to offer everyone an

inclusive education. At the invitation of Dr. Aditi Dey, Principal of

Shri Shikshayatan College, who visited Monmouth University in the

fall, students had an engaging interactive session discussing educa-

tion, culture, social media, and careers at the first Global Symposi-

um between Monmouth University and Shri Shikshayatan College in

Kolkata, India. Students on this and previous trips to India have

carved out academic and career relevance by researching topics

inspired by the trip and by starting careers in an environmental

NGO and in the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C.

TEN DEPARTMENT GRADUATES HEADING TO LAW SCHOOL IN THE FALL OF 2014

Alexes Correa

Penn State’s Dickinson School of Law

Joseph Dellera

Seton Hall Law

Anthony Gianopolus

Widener University Law

Michael Lucia

George Washington Law

Travis Graga

New England School of Law

Mauro Tucci

New England School of Law

Kyle Tucker

Syracuse University Law

Dylan Maynard

American University College of Law

Jordan Barnett

University of Colorado Law

School

Dennis Mikoloy

Rutgers Law School

The department is home to a political

science/legal studies major, a

mock trial team, a debate team, and a pre-law club. So far,

over 90% of department students interested in attend-ing law school in the

fall of 2014 have been accepted into one of their chosen

law schools.

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In only its second year, the Department’s mock trial team made strides in the

regional American Mock Trial Association (AMTA)

competition at the New Haven regional tournament

hosted by Yale University and won the prestigious

Spirit of American Mock Trial Association (AMTA) Award. The team also competed in other invitationals through-

out the 13-14 academic year.

MOCK TRIAL TEAM

WINS AWARD

DEPARTMENT GRADUATES PRACTICING LAW OR ENROLLED IN LAW SCHOOL

Alexandria Todd’13

Brooklyn Law School

Anthony D’Elia’13

Seton Hall Law School

Danielle Diodato’11 Attorney, Levinson

Axelrod, PA

Ali Kliment’11 Attorney, Morgan, Lewis & Backius

Lindsay Melody’11

Attorney, The American

Association for Justice in

D.C

Tamari Lagvilava’12

George Washington Law School

Brian Tiscia’11

Judicial Law Clerk

Arille Giordano’12 The Columbus School of Law,

Catholic University

Our department had our first off site in-terns working for the United Nations this academic year. The interns for the United

Nations Academic Impact (UNAI) were Brian Martin and Ebtihal Al-Alwi. (from left to right) Ebtihal Al-Alwi, Sujung Choi (UN intern), Hasan Ferdous (Chief, Committee Liaison, SCD/DPI, (UN)), Ramu Damodaran

(Deputy Director at United Nations), and Brian Martin.

MODEL UN TEAM COMPETES IN ROME

The Model UN Team traveled to Rome to compete in their second international competition. The team won several awards at the Rome

conference in March of 2014.

Antwuan

Williamson’10

Attorney,

Financial

Industry Regula-

tory Authority

Dan Wisnewski ’10

Attorney,

Greehan,

Taves,

Pandak & Ston-

er, PLLC

Joseph Stefanelli’09

Attorney, UN Internation-al Criminal Tri-

bunal for Rwan-da

Ryan Tetro’07 Attorney, Litigation

Associate at Archer &

Greiner, P.C.

Eric Yngstrom’07

Attorney, The Tashjy Law Firm,

L.L.C.

Robert Baroska ’06

Attorney, Nudelman, Klemm &

Galub

Aviania Iliadis’06 Attorney,

Advocate at Domestic Violence

Crisis Center (DVCC)

Greg Acquiviva’03 Attorney,

NJ Depart-

ment of State,

Office of Lt.

Governor

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The Department had 12 students participate in the Washing-ton Center Semester Internship Program in 2014. The students were placed in the following offices: 1) Karly Tolentino, US Marshals (Karly accepted a full time position with the US Marshals in Virginia); 2) Gabrielle Gunter, (Gabrielle accepted a full time position with the US Marshals in Virginia); 3) Michael Lucia, US House of Representa-tives; 4) Lyndsy Horn, United Macedonian Diaspora; 5) Dylan Hankinson, Syria Support Group; 6) Megan Jones, Double R Produc-tions; 7)Kyle Tucker, Lobbying Strategies; 8) Alexes Correa, Law Firm; 9) Cara Turcich, International Child Art Foundation; 10) Matthew Carmel, Potomac Strategies Lobbying Firm; 11) William Carrigan, Peace thru Culture; 12) Gregory Rucker, US Department of Interior.

12 STUDENTS INTERNED IN THE WASHINGTON SEMESTER12 STUDENTS INTERNED IN THE WASHINGTON SEMESTER12 STUDENTS INTERNED IN THE WASHINGTON SEMESTER DEPARTMENT GRADUATES STARTING CAREERS IN D.C. DEPARTMENT GRADUATES STARTING CAREERS IN D.C. DEPARTMENT GRADUATES STARTING CAREERS IN D.C.

Gabrielle

Gunter’14 United States

Marshals Service in the Judicial

Security Division

Karly

Tolentino’14 United States

Marshals Service in the Tactical Operational

Division

Brandon

Karkovice’12 International Association of

Providers of AIDS Care, Executive Assistant to CEO

Alexandria

Matz’12 U.S. Department of State, Foreign Af-fairs Officer in Of-

fice of India Affairs

Katelyn

Nawoyski’13 U.S. Department of

State, CO.NX, US

Miriam Peguero’13

The World Bank, Program

Assistant for ICSID

Kate

McMahon’09’12 Consultant,

Booz Allen Hamilton

Katy

McChesney’12 Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)

Lindsay Melody’11

The American Asso-ciation for Justice,

Staff Attorney

Kevin

Sanders’11 American Association of State Highway & Trans-

portation

Josh Vallejos’12

Reading Partners,

Site Coordinator

Steve Scarano’03 Corporation for

Public Broadcast-ing, Administration

DEBATE HAWKS WON 14 AWARDS IN 2014

The Department’s Debate Team won 14 team and individual awards throughout the year. Dylan Maynard took a first place speaking award and Saliha Younas received a 2nd place speaking award at the Western Debate Championship in California in March of 2014. The team also competed at West Point Military Academy and other tourna-ments throughout the year. The team also started a debate team at Asbury Park High School in 2010, and coached the Asbury debaters in three Urban Debate League tournaments in NYC in 2014 (below).

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Gabrielle Gunter’14, Amanda

Kruyzinski’14, and Robert Bell’14

presented their senior thesis papers

at the Eastern Sociological Society’s

annual meeting in 2014.

STUDENTS GET PUBLISHED Cara Turcich’14 had her honors thesis, “Marriage Equality, Adoption and the Legal Future for Same-Sex Couples

in America,” published in the May 2014 issue of Righting Wrongs: A Journal of Human Rights . Samuel Maynard’14 and Dr. Ken Mitchell co-wrote and presented the conference paper “Political Economy of

Post-Crises Governance in Argentina, Menem versus Kirchner(s)” at the Northeastern Political Science Association meeting in Philadelphia, November 14-17, 2013.

Morganne Firmstone’11,’13 published in the book LGBT Families, by Nancy J. Mezey, coming out in July 2014, and published by SAGE Publications, Inc.

Arielle Giordano’12 will have her article, “Federal Shield Laws in the Digital Age” was published in December 2014

in Volume 22 Issue 2 in the CommLaw Conspectus' .

Lindsay Currie’05 co-authored Hensel, Nancy and Lindsay Currie. 2013. "The Practice of Undergraduate Research and Mentoring Student Writing," pp. 187-203 in Roisin Donnelly, John Dallat and Marian Fitzmaurice (eds), Super-vising and Writing a Good Undergraduate Dissertation, Bentham Science Press.

Jimmy Morecraft’14 was selected to

receive one of only two 2014 Monmouth

University Library Research Awards. These

awards recognize the outstanding work

that students do after completing a

research project for coursework at

Monmouth University.

PUBLIC

POLICY

GRADUATE

STUDENTS

MOVING

ONWARD &

UPWARD

Tyler Breder’12,’14

Will attend Washington

State University's Ph.D. program

Nicole D’Amore’14 Program As-sistant at The

Society for Prevention of Teen Suicide

Symonne Fisher12’14

Adjunct Professor in

MU’s Sociology

Department

Tom Mendez’12’14

Grants Specialist for Federal Emergency

Management Agency (FEMA)

Dennis Mikoloy’12’14

Will attend Rutgers Newark Law

School

Eric Shannon’14

Will attend The University of

Kansas Ph.D. in Public

Administration

Lisa Scott-Brennan’14 Registered Dieti-

tian for Ocean Medical Center

Out-Patient Dialysis Clinic

Shawna Sullivan’12’14

Director of Constituent Affairs at NJ

State Assembly

Margaret Devico’12

Health Department

Policy Analyst Jersey City

Morganne Firmstone’11,’13

Legislative Aide, Senator Jennifer

Beck, 11th District NJ and Adjunct Pro-fessor in MU’s Soci-ology Department

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ALUMS: WHERE ARE THEY NOW?

Elizabeth Anderson’14

Accepted to London School of Economics

Graduate School

Kelly Craig’14 Savannah

College of Art and Design Graduate

School

Samuel Maynard’14 Georgetown

University Graduate

School in Politi-cal Science

Jessica Roberts’14

Staff member at Fund for the

Public Interest’s Citizen Out-

reach

Mallory Scirocco’14 University of New Haven Graduate

School

Thomas Andrykovitz’10

Attorney Law Clerk to Hon-

orable Cath L. Waldor, U.S.M.J, District Court, NJ

Angela Arenda’13 Council on

Foreign Relations in

NYC

Lianne Kulik’13

Social Studies Teacher at Long

Branch Public Schools

Dina Russo’13 Insurance

Fraud Investigator for

G4S

Jason Wiemken’13 Department of

the Interior

Dante Barry’12

VP, Membership

& Engagement at

Million Hoodies

Movement for

Justice

Jessica Larkins’12

Program Associate at Mathematica

Policy Research

Julie Miller’12 Program

Associate at Mathematica

Policy Research

Chris

Cavaiola’10,’12

Accepted to the

Law Review of

Vermont Law

School

Fred Strahl’12

Owner Larchwood Marketing

Timothy Tracey’10’12

Research Associate, Monmouth University

Polling Institute

Samantha Stillo’11

Law Clerk, Segal

McCambridge Singer & Mahoney

Christopher Menschner’10

Public Policy Analyst at NJ Department of

Human Services

Omar Sedky’08

Analytics, Test-ing, & Special Projects and Social Media Marketing In-tern at Talkler

Labs, LLC

Shaun Golden’05 Monmouth

County Sheriff &

Monmouth County GOP

Chair, Adjunct

Michael Venezi’05

Mayor of Bloomfield,

NJ

DEPARTMENT NEWS

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Full Time Faculty:

Gregory Bordelon, JD Lecturer, Political Science

Rekha Datta, PhD Professor, Political Science

Johanna Foster, PhD

Assistant Professor, Sociology

Director of Sociology & Gender Studies Program

Jennifer McGovern, PhD Lecturer, Sociology

Kenneth Mitchell, PhD Associate Professor, Political Science

Joseph Patten, PhD Associate Professor, Political Science Chair

Saliba Sarsar, PhD Professor, Political Science

Kevin Dooley, PhD Associate Professor, Political Science

Kathryn Kloby, PhD Associate Professor, Political Science Director, MA Public Policy

Nancy Mezey, PhD Associate Professor, Sociology

Enoch Nappen, PhD Associate Professor, Political Science

Steven Chapman, ABD Assistant Professor, Political Science

F ormer New Jersey

Governor Christine Todd

Whitman was Monmouth

University’s Visiting Public

Servant in Residence during the

2013-14 academic year. She

presented in several classes, and

students from MU and the Asbury

Park High School Debate Team

were fortunate to meet her and

learn from her vast experience.

C ongratulations to our

students who graduated

with Department Honors in 2014:

Elizabeth Anderson, Kelly Craig,

Amanda Kruyzynski, Kelsey

Currie, and Sam Maynard.

C ongratulations to our students award

recipients in 2014.

Political Science Academic Award: Elizabeth Anderson

Sociology Academic Award: Amanda Kruyzynski

Political Science Club Leadership Award: Sam Maynard

Sociology Club Leadership Award: Gabrielle Gunter

Sociology Club won The 2014 Global Inclusion Award

Debate Team Leadership Award: Kelly Craig & Dan Roman

Model UN Leadership Award: David Goldenthal

Tom Crane Service Award: Shawna Sullivan

Elvin R. Simmil Memorial Award: Katrina Koerner

Newsletter compiled by Kristen Gillette . For more information about the Department of Political Science & Sociology,

please visit http://www.monmouth.edu/school-of-humanities-social-sciences/political-science-and-sociology.aspx