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Michelle Craig McDonald, Assistant Professor of Atlantic History2Regional Reliance:Coffee, the Caribbean, and the Early American Economy,1765-1825AbstractMichelle Craig McDonald in the Department of Historical Studies is currently working on a bookmanuscript that uses the history of the coffee industry to gauge the strength and durability ofNorth America’s economic, social, and political relationships with the West Indies during the latecolonial and early national periods. The first three chapters concentrate on pre-RevolutionaryAmerica and consider coffee production, trade, and consumption within the larger context ofBritish imperialism. The last three chapters determine how these processes changed after U.S.independence. In so doing, this study broadens our understanding of Caribbean and LatinAmerican plantation systems during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, offers newmodels for legal and illegal Atlantic trade networks, and explores the assimilation of an exoticcommodity into American mainstream culture.Aakash Taneja, Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Information SystemsThe central theme underlying my research effort is to engage in multidisciplinaryresearch projects in Information Systems (IS) with a strong emphasis in the area ofinformation security and privacy. My main focus is to understand the human,managerial and technical issues related to information security and privacy in homeand organizations. I recently used higher order conceptualization of theory ofplanned behavior from psychology along with constructs from organizationbehavior, criminal justice and public health to identify and assess the determinantsof employees’ intention towards adverse usage of IS assets. This research is complete and its resultswill be submitted to various scholarly journals within next few months. I am also conductingresearch on home user information security and recently presented a paper under title of“Facilitators and Inhibitors of Home User Information Security - A Crime VictimizationApproach”, at 37th Annual Meeting of the Decision Sciences Institute at San Antonio. Theresponse at the conference was encouraging and we’ll be seeking grant to advance the study.Besides this, I am also working on analyzing the inter-disciplinary nature of IS and it’s evolution asa scientific discipline. A research paper that utilizes bibliometrics and social network analysis todelineate the changes taking place in the knowledge network of IS is currently under review at amajor IS journal. Studies related to IS adoption and usage in organizations interests me a lot. I canforesee the innovative usage of technology at Stockton to be a fruitful area for research related toIS adoption in educational institutions that will help in our teaching efforts and will be beneficial toboth academics and practitioners alike.Believing that teaching and research goes hand in hand together, I am very excited about theopportunities available at Stockton and look forward to work with colleagues at Stockton.
Sara Martino, Assistant Professor of PsychologyI have been working on several different research projects thisyear. I have been collaborating with Christine Ferri and MarcelloSpinella in Psychology on a study of gratitude. We collected datathis summer and again this fall. We hope to publish our findingsthis year. In addition to this project, I have been working on aqualitative study of the data. Several undergraduate students havebeen helping us to analyze gender differences in gratitude. We justsubmitted our qualitative findings to APA to be considered fortheir annual conference in August. I am also collaborating with acolleague of mine, Dr. Erin McLaughlin, on a project involvinghigh school students who self-mutilate. We developed a narrativetherapy intervention based on previous research I did at TempleUniversity and we are beginning our intervention at New EgyptHigh School in December. We also served as keynote speakers forthe ADACO (Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Council of OceanCounty) conference in Toms River, NJ. We provided informationon our project to school counselors, drug and alcohol abuse3counselors and mental health administrators in Ocean County, NJ. Finally, I have two studentsworking with me on focus group research, examining the effects of the media on the rise of obesityamong women.Rachel Martin, Associate Professor of Teacher EducationSara (right) with Dr. ErinMcLaughlinRachel Martin presented a session, "Pushing the Boundaries of Critical Multicultural Education:Two Views," at the annual conference of the National Association for Multicultural Education inPhoenix this fall. In January, she will present at the International Conference on Teacher Educationand Social Justice in Chicago. Her session there is entitled "What's This Book Doing in a LiteracyCourse?" Both sessions are based on the premise that preparing preservice students to successfullyteach literacy acquisition means preparing them to acknowledge their own biases regarding race andclass, and to reconsider their deep-seated beliefs in a fixed notion of "ability."Mark Sullivan, Assistant Professor of Marine ScienceYoung American eels (Anguilla rostrata) undergo one of the more fascinating journeys in the animalkingdom – beginning their lives as small larvae in the Sargasso Sea and subsequently traveling1000s of miles back to the North American estuaries their parents left one year prior. Unfortunately,once individuals return to freshwater, the challenge is not over. The final biological hurdlesfacing these fantastic voyagers form the backbone of research I am currently conducting in theMullica River–Great Bay watershed in collaboration with the Rutgers University Marine Field Station.Preliminary results from this work were presented this fall at the 136 th Annual American FisheriesSociety meeting in Lake Placid, NY and published in the Journal of Fish Biology (69:1081-1101).
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