FASC New Faculty 2013-2014 – Faculty of Arts and Sciences

	Shaheen Ayubi Title/Rank: Assistant Instructor Department: Political Science Email: sayubi@camden.rutgers.edu Phone: (856) 225-2974 Dr. Ayubi, a former part-time lecturer for the Department of Political Science who received the Sybil Cohen Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2008, is now an assistant instructor. Dr. Ayubi earned her Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania, where her dissertation focused on “The Study of Egyptian Foreign Policy: The Role of Leadership in Decision-Making.” Her research interests include the politics of oil and minerals, multinational corporations in transition, the United Nations and the new world order, issues affecting the developing world, and globalization.
	Stephanie Bush-Baskette Title/Rank: Instructor Department: Sociology, Anthropology, and Criminal Justice Email: sbushbask@aol.com Phone: (856) 225-2917 Dr. Bush-Baskette earned her Juris Doctorate from American University’s Washington College of Law and her Ph.D. in criminal justice from Rutgers University-Newark’s Graduate School of Criminal Justice. She was a member of the Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Criminal Justice last year, and joins us again as an instructor. Dr. Bush-Baskette is currently researching the impact of race/gender and policies on black girls and black women in the justice systems.
	Wayne Chan Title/Rank: Assistant Professor Department: Psychology Email: wayne.chan@rutgers.edu Phone: (856) 225-6819 Dr. Chan joins us from the Laboratory of Behavioral Neuroscience at the National Institute of Aging, where he served as a post-doctoral IRTA fellow. He earned his Ph.D. in social/personality psychology from the University of California, Berkeley, where he wrote his thesis on “Cognitive-Affective Consequences of Exposure to Stereotype Information.” Dr. Chan’s research interests include personality and individual differences, stereotyping and prejudice, longitudinal personality changes, stigma from the target’s perspective, discrimination-related psychological and physical distress, social cognition, lay theories, media and communication.
	Joseph J. Cutuli Title/Rank: Assistant Professor Department: Psychology Email: jj.cutuli@rutgers.edu Phone: (856) 225-6619 Dr. Cutuli earned his Ph.D. in developmental psychopathology and clinical science from the University of Minnesota. He has worked as a clinical psychology intern at Children’s Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota and most recently served as a Faculty Research Associate at the School of Social Policy and Practice at the University of Pennsylvania.
	Stephen D. Danley Title/Rank: Assistant Professor Department: Public Policy and Administration Email: stephen.danley@rutgers.edu Phone: (856) 225-6343 Dr. Danley earned his D.Phil in social policy and social work from Oxford University, Nuffield College, where he was a recipient of the Nuffield Marshall Scholarship. Recently Dr. Danley served as an adjunct faculty member at the University of Pennsylvania, where he developed and taught a Benjamin Franklin Scholar Seminar in the Department of Political Science entitled “Local Knowledge: City Policy through the Eyes of New Orleans.”
	Richard Demirjian, Jr. Title/Rank: Instructor Department: History Email: rdemirj@camden.rutgers.edu Phone: (856) 225-6744 Dr. Demirjian has taught at Rutgers-Camden as a part-time lecturer for the Department of History and the Honors College since 2005; this year he joins the faculty as an instructor. Dr. Demirjian earned his Ph.D. in American History from the University of Delaware. His dissertation was titled “‘To All the Great Interests’: Political Economy in the Early Urban Republic.”
	Jinglin Fu Title/Rank: Assistant Professor Department: Chemistry Email: jinglin.fu@rutgers.edu Phone: (856) 225-6612 Dr. Fu joins us from the Center for Single Molecule Biophysics and Innovations in Medicine at Arizona State University, where he worked as an assistant research scientists at the Biodesign Institute. Dr. Fu earned his Ph.D. in chemistry from Arizona State University, where he wrote his dissertation on “Exploring Peptide Space for Enzyme Modulators.” While at Arizona State, Dr. Fu served as an Edson Fellow and received the Edson Student Entrepreneur Initiative Award from the ASU Foundation.
	James Genone Title/Rank: Assistant Professor Department: Philosophy Email: james.genone@camden.rutgers.edu Phone: (856) 225-6233 Dr. Genone joins us from Franklin & Marshall College, where he was a Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy. Dr. Genone earned his Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of California, Berkeley. While at Berkeley, he received the APA Graduate Student Outstanding Paper Prize. His areas of specialization include philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychology, and epistemology.
	Alejandra Josiowicz Title/Rank: Assistant Professor Department: Foreign Languages Email: alejandra.josiowicz@rutgers.edu Phone: (856) 225-6223 Dr. Josiowicz earned her Ph.D. in Spanish and Portuguese from Princeton University, where she was a Charlotte Elizabeth Proctor Fellow and an Armstrong Grant recipient. Her teaching and research interests include Latin American studies, gender and sexuality studies, psychoanalysis, critical race theory, trans-American studies, children’s literature studies, visual media and film studies, and intellectual history.
	Eric A. Klein Title/Rank: Assistant Professor Department: Biology Email: eric.a.klein@rutgers.edu Phone: (856) 225-6335 Dr. Klein joins us from Princeton University, where he was a post-doctoral researcher in the Department of Molecular Biology, where he studied novel mechanisms of prokaryotic protein subcellular localization and organelle development. Dr. Klein earned his Ph.D. in pharmacology from the University of Pennsylvania. In 2010, Dr. Klein received the Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award.
	Luca Larini Title/Rank: Assistant Professor Department: Physics Email: luca.larini@rutgers.edu Phone: (856) 225-6267 Dr. Larini earned his Ph.D. in applied physics from the University of Pisa. He has served as a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Utah’s Center for Biophysical Modeling and Simulation, and most recently was a post-doctoral fellow at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
	Paul Lisicky Title/Rank: Assistant Professor Department: English/Creative Writing Email: paul.lisicky@rutgers.edu Phone: (856) 225-2927 Rutgers-Camden alumnus Paul Lisicky recently served as Rutgers-Camden’s “New Voices” Visiting Writer, an opportunity that allowed him to teach in the graduate creative writing program. Mr. Lisicky earned his M.F.A. in creative writing from the University of Iowa’s Writers’ Workshop. He is the author of the novels Lawnboy and The Burning House, the creative non-fiction work Famous Builder, and the inter-genre Unbuilt Projects.
	Susan Marie Mokhberi Title/Rank: Assistant Professor Department: History Email: s.mokhberi@rutgers.edu Phone: (856) 225-2712 Dr. Mokhberi earned her Ph.D. in European history from the University of California, Los Angeles, where she wrote her dissertation on “France and Persia in the Age of Absolutism.” A recipient of the Fulbright Fellowship and the Clark-Huntington Joint Bibliographical Fellowship, Dr. Mokhberi most recently served as a lecturer for Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles.
	Laura J. Napolitano Title/Rank: Assistant Professor Department: Sociology, Anthropology, and Criminal Justice Email: laura.napolitano@rutgers.edu Phone: (856) 225-5647 Dr. Napolitano earned her Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Pennsylvania. Her areas of interest include the sociology of family; transition to adulthood; family functioning and well-being; adolescence and childhood; inequality; and qualitative methods. A recipient of the Penn Prize for Excellence in Teaching by Graduate Students, Dr. Napolitano previously served as the Harold A. Richman Post-Doctoral Fellow for Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago.
	Jennifer Ann Oberle-Kilic Title/Rank: Assistant Instructor Department: Biology Email: joberle@camden.rutgers.edu Phone: (856) 225-6803 Rutgers alumna Dr. Oberle-Kilic earned her Ph.D. in ecology and evolution from Rutgers University, where she wrote her dissertation on “Fungal community and decomposition dynamics using Fourier transform infrared microscopy and atomic force microscopy.” Dr. Oberle has served as a part-time lecturer at Rutgers since 2007.
	Chinyere Osuji Title/Rank: Assistant Professor Department: Sociology, Anthropology, and Criminal Justice Email: chinyere.osuji@rutgers.edu Phone: (856) 225-2709 Dr. Osuji earned her Ph.D. in sociology from the University of California, Los Angeles. Her research interests include comparative race and ethnicity; immigration; sociology of the family; and qualitative research methods. She recently was a post-doctoral fellow for the Center for Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Osuji is the recipient of the ASA Section on Race and Ethnic Minorities James E. Blackwell Best Graduate Student Paper and a Fulbright IIE Graduate Student Research Fellowship.
	Beth Rabinowitz Title/Rank: Assistant Professor Department: Political Science Email: beth.rabinowitz@rutgers.edu Phone: (856) 225-2971 Dr. Rabinowitz earned her Ph.D. in political science from the University of California, Berkeley. Her research interests include political stability, political leadership, political institutions, state-building, and political transitions. A recipient of the Andrew and Mary Thompson Rocca Fellowship in Advanced African Studies, Dr. Rabinowitz wrote her dissertation on “Reversal of Fortune: Regime Strategies and Political Stability in Cote D’Ivoire and Ghana, 1950-2000.”
	David Salas-de la Cruz Title/Rank: Assistant Professor Department: Chemistry Email: david.salas@rutgers.edu Dr. Salas-de la Cruz earned his Ph.D. in chemical and biomolecular engineering from the University of Pennsylvania. A member of Leap Academic University Charter School’s Board of Trustees, Dr. Salas-de la Cruz most recently served as a senior application engineer/research engineer for the Power Plant Components Division of Holtec International.
	Lisa M. Sibley Title/Rank: Assistant Instructor Department: Chemistry Email: lmsibley@camden.rutgers.edu Rutgers-Camden alumna Ms. Sibley received her master’s degree in physical organic chemistry from the University of California, Davis. Ms. Sibley received the Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Award at UC-Davis.
	Wendy A. Woloson Title/Rank: Assistant Professor Department: History Email: ww207@camden.rutgers.edu Phone: (856) 225-6064 Dr. Woloson earned her Ph.D. in American studies from the University of Pennsylvania, where she wrote her dissertation on “Refined Tastes: Sugar, Confectionary, and Consumers in Nineteenth-Century America.” Her most recent position was with EBSCO Publishing as a consulting historian.