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Press Release
University Names Amy S. Thompson Dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences
Amy S. Thompson, PhD, has been named Dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at Montclair State University, effective July 8
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Featured News
What the Archive Forgets: Montclair Students Visit the Morgan Library
“A friend who never changes” was the bookplate motto of Belle da Costa Greene, the legendary New York librarian who built the Morgan Library’s collections and shaped its identity as an institution for over four decades. It is a motto that says everything about Greene’s devotion to books, and nothing about the secret she kept for a lifetime.
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Featured News
Montclair welcomes students and faculty from Austria to learn about human trafficking
Students and faculty from the University of Graz Law School in Austria visited Montclair State University for the third year in a row from October 27th-30th, as part of a Criminal and Public Law Perspectives class on Transnational Crime and Justice – Human Trafficking.
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Notices & Announcements
CHSS Restructuring: Your Questions Answered
Planning has been underway for several months regarding a restructuring of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences (CHSS).
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In the Media
Dr. Fiore Quoted in New Yorker Article about the Impact of the Citizenship Law on Italy’s Soccer Team
Dr. Teresa Fiore (Inserra Chair in Italian and Italian American Studies, World Languages and Cultures Dept.) was quoted in a New Yorker article about the impact of the citizenship law on Italy’s soccer team. Titled “Italy Has Failed to Qualify for Three Straight World Cups. Are the Country’s Immigration Policies to Blame?,” the article was penned by Albert Samaha and published in the May 30, 20026 issue.
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Event Highlights
Dr. Fiore Presents on the Allied Landing in Sicily in Literature and Film at Frank Capra Film Fest (Bisacquino)
On May 29, 2026, Dr. Teresa Fiore (Inserra Chair in Italian and Italian American Studies, Global Cultural Studies) presented a paper on John Hersey’s novel A Bell for Adano (1944 Pulitzer Prize) and its adaptation to the big screen directed by Henry King in 1945, and also on Leonardo Sciascia’s short story “10 luglio ’43/Gary Cooper in Licata”, which features a clever cinematographic rendition of the arrival of the American forces on the Southern coast of Sicily that day. Part of a panel titled “Gli italo-americani e lo sbarco in Sicilia del 1943 nella letteratura e nel cinema,” the presentation was included in the Frank Capra Borgo Film Fest’s program.
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Student Success Stories
Uncovering the Written Hand: Emily Walker Completes McNeil Paleography Workshop
English undergraduate student Emily Walker recently completed The Lost World of Handwriting: A Workshop in English Paleography, 1500–1850, offered through the McNeil Center for Early American Studies (MCEAS).
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Student Success Stories
Thirteen Students Return from Montclair in Munich and Berlin 2026
A group of thirteen Montclair students and their instructor, Thomas Herold, just returned from Germany, where they spent twelve days in Munich, Nuremberg, and Berlin, visiting memorials, museums, and historical sites dealing with Germany’s Nazi past and contemporary German post-Holocaust society.
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Student Success Stories
A Feminist God: Madelynn McDevitt Selected for McNeil Undergraduate Research Workshop
English undergraduate student Madelynn McDevitt recently presented her research on the redefinition of women’s roles in Shaker music at the McNeil Center for Early American Studies (MCEAS) Consortium Undergraduate Research Workshop, hosted at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Student Success Stories
Goethe-Institut Representatives Visit Montclair’s SPARK for German Teaching Lab
For the first time since the establishment of Montclair’s SPARK for German Teaching Lab, guests from the New York City Goethe-Institut paid the lab a visit, observing the 12 Montclair students and their faculty mentor Pascale LaFountain as the group facilitated an all-German performance of “Die Wichtelmänner,” or “The Shoemaker and His Elves,” a classic German fairy tale first featured in the 1812 Kinder- und Hausmärchen by the Brothers Grimm.
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