  {"id":2026,"date":"2022-01-19T09:34:40","date_gmt":"2022-01-19T14:34:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/center-for-community-engagement\/?page_id=2026"},"modified":"2024-10-24T12:43:03","modified_gmt":"2024-10-24T16:43:03","slug":"2021-2022-community-engaged-teaching-and-learning-fellows","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/center-for-community-engagement\/2021-2022-community-engaged-teaching-and-learning-fellows\/","title":{"rendered":"2021-2023 Community-Engaged Teaching and Learning Fellows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>View more about the members of the Community-Engaged Teaching and Learning Fellows Program for the Academic Years 2021 &#8211; 2022 below.<\/p>\n<div class=\"prpl-row\"><div class=\"prpl-column one-third\">\n<figure class=\"responsive-image-holder wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"mlt-responsive-image\" data-original-image=\"\/center-for-community-engagement\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/217\/2022\/01\/Kaczmarek.Christopher3_tight.square.png\" src=\"\/responsive-media\/cache\/center-for-community-engagement\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/217\/2022\/01\/Kaczmarek.Christopher3_tight.square.png.0.1x.generic.jpg\" alt=\"Christopher Kaczmarek\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div><br \/>\n<div class=\"prpl-column two-thirds\"><strong>Christopher\u00a0<\/strong><span style=\"color: #333333\"><b>Kaczmarek<\/b><\/span><br \/>\nAssistant Professor of Interdisciplinary Art<br \/>\nChair, Department of Art and Design<br \/>\nOffice Location: Calcia Hall 110<br \/>\nEmail: <a href=\"mailto:kaczmarekc@montclair.edu\">kaczmarekc@montlclair.edu<\/a>\n<p>Christopher Kaczmarek is a New York based artist and educator whose work spans both experimental and traditional practices, including sculpture, site specific installations, performance, video, built circuits and solar-powered objects. His work is often interactive and designed to guide the viewer towards a deeper contemplation about the inhabited environment.\u00a0 Recent research interests have been concerned with the act of walking as a praxis for artistic production, and the shapes in which collective and collaborative environments can be formed to become spaces where imagination and creativity are used in the service of hopeful outcomes.\u00a0He has had the opportunity to present work at national and international galleries and festivals such as Art Souterrain in Montreal, Canada; the Trinity College Science Gallery, Dublin Ireland; the Byzantine Museum of Agios Germanos, Prespes Greece; the New York Hall of Science, Queens NY; Real Art Ways, Hartford CT; the Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus OH; Art Museum of the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, Chongqing, China; Art Walk Projects, Edinburgh, Scotland; and the Czong Institute for Contemporary Art, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><div class=\"prpl-row\">\n<div class=\"prpl-row\"><\/div><div class=\"prpl-column one-third\">\n<figure class=\"responsive-image-holder wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"mlt-responsive-image\" data-original-image=\"\/center-for-community-engagement\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/217\/2022\/01\/OConnor.png\" src=\"\/responsive-media\/cache\/center-for-community-engagement\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/217\/2022\/01\/OConnor.png.0.1x.generic.jpg\" alt=\"OConnor\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div><br \/>\n<div class=\"prpl-column two-thirds\"><strong>Dr. Shannon O&#8217;Connor<\/strong><br \/>\nAssistant Professor, Psychology<br \/>\nOffice Location: Dickson Hall 119<br \/>\nEmail:\u00a0<a href=\"oconners@montclair.edu\">oconners@montclair.edu<\/a>\n<p>Dr. Shannon O\u2019Connor is an Assistant Professor in the Clinical Psychology Ph.D. program at ÌÇÐÄvlog. She completed her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology at Michigan State University in 2018 after completing her APA-accredited pre-doctoral internship at the UCSD Eating Disorder Center and Rady Children&#8217;s Hospital in San Diego. Dr. O\u2019Connor then completed a post-doctoral fellowship on the Midwest T32 for Eating Disorder Research at the University of Chicago.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. O\u2019Connor\u2019s research interests center on identifying environmental risk factors for eating pathology using genetically-informed designs. She directs the <a href=\"http:\/\/befedlab.com\/\">BeFed<\/a>(\u201cBiological and Environment Factors underlying Eating Disorders) lab on campus. Dr. O\u2019Connor\u2019s research has been published in numerous high impact peer-reviewed journals, such as Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Journal of Psychiatric Research, and International Journal of Eating Disorders. Additionally, she has been recognized for her scholarship through a number of awards, including receiving the Early Career Investigator Award from the Eating Disorder Research Society in 2019. As a Community-Engaged Teaching and Learning Fellow, Dr. O\u2019Connor is eager to partner with community organizations to understand how experiences related to access to food may impact eating behaviors and other mental health factors.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"prpl-row\"><div class=\"prpl-column one-third\">\n<figure class=\"responsive-image-holder wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"mlt-responsive-image\" data-original-image=\"\/center-for-community-engagement\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/217\/2022\/01\/IMG_1150-scaled.jpg\" src=\"\/responsive-media\/cache\/center-for-community-engagement\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/217\/2022\/01\/IMG_1150-scaled.jpg.0.1x.generic.jpg\" alt=\"Headshot\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div><br \/>\n<div class=\"prpl-column two-thirds\"><strong>Yingying (Jennifer) Yang, PhD.<\/strong><br \/>\nAssistant Professor, Psychology<br \/>\nEmail:\u00a0<a href=\"yangyi@montclair.edu\">yangyi@montclair.edu<\/a><br \/>\nPhone: <a href=\"tel:973-655-7639\">973-655-7639<\/a>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Yingying (Jennifer) Yang received\u00a0her doctoral degree in Developmental Psychology from the University of Alabama. She joined ÌÇÐÄvlog in 2017. She is interested in learning and cognition in typically developing children aged 4-12 years old and individuals with intellectual and\/or developmental disabilities. Her research has implications for designing more friendly physical environments for children and people with intellectual disabilities, and for developing training programs to improve people&#8217;s cognitive abilities. She has published in various cognitive and developmental psychology journals such as Research in Developmental Disabilities, Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, and Memory and Cognition. Her research is currently supported by the National Institute of Health.<br \/>\n<\/p><\/div><\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"prpl-row\"><div class=\"prpl-column one-third\">\n<figure class=\"responsive-image-holder wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"mlt-responsive-image\" data-original-image=\"\/center-for-community-engagement\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/217\/2022\/01\/Sze-Liu.jpg\" src=\"\/responsive-media\/cache\/center-for-community-engagement\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/217\/2022\/01\/Sze-Liu.jpg.0.1x.generic.jpg\" alt=\"Sze-Liu\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div><br \/>\n<div class=\"prpl-column two-thirds\"><strong>Sze Yan Liu, PhD, MPH<\/strong><br \/>\nAssistant Professor, Public Health<br \/>\nEmail: <a href=\"mailto:lius@montclair.edu\">lius@montclair.edu<\/a>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Sze Yan Liu is an Assistant Professor of Public Health at ÌÇÐÄvlog. She teaches courses in the health systems and administration concentration. Broadly, her research uses a life-course framework to examine how social processes and policies create, perpetuate or diminish health inequities. Currently, she is studying the impact of gentrification on healthcare utilization. She is interested in incorporating a community-based component into her research and teaching.<br \/>\n<\/p><\/div><\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"prpl-row\"><div class=\"prpl-column one-third\">\n<figure class=\"responsive-image-holder wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"mlt-responsive-image\" data-original-image=\"\/center-for-community-engagement\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/217\/2022\/01\/picture-for-CETL-Fellows.jpg\" src=\"\/responsive-media\/cache\/center-for-community-engagement\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/217\/2022\/01\/picture-for-CETL-Fellows.jpg.0.1x.generic.jpg\" alt=\"Headshot\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div><br \/>\n<div class=\"prpl-column two-thirds\"><strong>Dr. Helen M Roberts<\/strong><br \/>\nProfessor, Mathematics<br \/>\nEmail: <a href=\"mailto:robertsh@montclair.edu\">robertsh@montclair.edu<\/a><br \/>\nPhone: <a href=\"tel:973-655-7886\">973-655-7886<\/a>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Helen Roberts is a Professor in the Department of Mathematics. She received her PhD in Biostatics from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Her scholarly interests lie in the general area of applications of statistical tools to practical problems and her work has covered applications in genetics, population growth, energy use in obtaining food, threats to marine transportation, measurement of the gender gap, and Bayesian methods to aid in minimizing shortages of water. She collaborated with a Life Science professor to write a book on Genetics and most recently has been working on a series of \u201cbriefs\u201d to explain the use of statistical tools to help policy makers achieve the United Nations sustainable development goals. Dr. Roberts chaired the Department of Mathematical Sciences for 16 years. Education is a key component of her work. She chaired the development and implementation of Montclair\u2019s General Education Requirement, has developed new transdisciplinary educational programs at a variety of levels, and is currently particularly interested in ways to involve students in addressing societal problems.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"prpl-row\"><div class=\"prpl-column one-third\">\n<figure class=\"responsive-image-holder wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"mlt-responsive-image\" data-original-image=\"\/center-for-community-engagement\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/217\/2022\/01\/Dr-Aihua.png\" src=\"\/responsive-media\/cache\/center-for-community-engagement\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/217\/2022\/01\/Dr-Aihua.png.0.1x.generic.jpg\" alt=\"Dr Aihua\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div><br \/>\n<div class=\"prpl-column two-thirds\"><strong>Dr. Aihua Li<\/strong><br \/>\nProfessor, Mathematics<br \/>\nOffice: CCIS 130H<br \/>\nEmail: <a href=\"mailto:lia@montclair.edu\">lia@montclair.edu<\/a><br \/>\nDr. Aihua Li is a professor of Mathematics at ÌÇÐÄvlog. She earned her Ph. D. in mathematics from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Her current research involves number theory, difference equation, matrix theory, graph theory, and mathematical education. Dr. Li has been active in servicing the local community by making presentations to local public schools on general mathematics topics such as \u201cBeauty of Mathematics and Amazing Numbers Around Us\u201d, \u201cCrypto Kids\u201d, \u201cContributions of American Women Code Breakers\u201d, etc.\n<p>Dr. Li is also active in the mathematical societies at the national and regional levels. She has been an undergraduate mentor in the<em>National Alliance for Doctoral Studies in the Mathematical Science <\/em>since 2009.She served in several national committees in the <em>Mathematical Association of America<\/em>(MAA) and was the recipient of the \u201c2021 Sr. Stephanie Sloyan Award for Distinguished Service for the MAA-NJ\u201d. Dr. Li was a council member for the <em>Council on Undergraduate Research<\/em>(CUR) for eight years. In 2013, she was awarded the \u201cFaculty Mentoring Award\u201d by Division of Mathematical Science and Computer Science of CUR. At MSU, Dr. Li served as the director of MSU\u2019s <em>Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation<\/em>\u00a0(LSAMP) program from 2015 to 2019.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"prpl-row\"><\/div><div class=\"prpl-column one-third\"><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>View more about the members of the Community-Engaged Teaching and Learning Fellows Program for the Academic Years 2021 &#8211; 2022 below. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":295,"featured_media":2436,"parent":0,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2026","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/center-for-community-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/center-for-community-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/center-for-community-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/center-for-community-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/295"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/center-for-community-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2026"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/center-for-community-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3356,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/center-for-community-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2026\/revisions\/3356"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/center-for-community-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/center-for-community-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}