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Dr. Christine Lemesianou is Associate Dean in the College of the Arts and serves as Special Advisor to the Provost for Accreditation. She is responsible for all personnel and budget matters, community outreach and partnerships, and communications. She oversees the Office of Education and Community Outreach in the College of the Arts and her portfolio also includes curriculum development, international programs, pre-college programs, summer bridge programs and student success initiatives. She has received multiple grants from private funders to support pre-college programs for underserved students as well as the New Jersey ReelAbilities Film Festival which celebrates disability through films and promotes disability awareness, inclusion, and justice.

Lemesianou previously served as Associate Director of the School of Communication and Media (SCM) and Associate Professor in Communication and Media Studies. The School encompasses the areas of communication and media studies, television and filmmaking, journalism and digital media, sports communication, animation and VFX, and social media and public relations. She led a Task Force that worked on the creation of the School’s interdisciplinary academic programs and provided leadership in the administrative launch of the School, overseeing the creation its state-of-the-art new facilities, and a wide range of co-curricular and project-based initiatives that have promoted the growth and national reputation of the School. launch of the School and its. Before that, Lemesianou held positions at Montclair State as department chair, faculty member, and program coordinator, and leadership roles as undergraduate curriculum committee leader, executive leadership team member for Middle States Accreditation, and member of the Committee on University Effectiveness and the Strategic Planning Committee.

Lemesianou’s teaching and scholarship focus on how various actors participate in and define the public sphere in today's digital, globalized world. She is interested in the role that emerging media play in the creation of more participatory and inclusive spaces for dialogue. She has presented her research in regional, national, and international conferences and published in academic journals. Lemesianou has expertise in pedagogy, instructional technologies, assessment and accreditation, and community-based teaching and learning. She received the University Distinguished Teacher Award in 2012.

Dr. Lemesianou has deep and broad experiences with accreditation which were cultivated in her role on the Executive Leadership Team for Middle States Accreditation for the past ten years and through her leadership in the recent merger of Bloomfield College with Montclair State University. Her expertise regularly extends beyond the university and she has done consulting work and conducted workshops on curriculum development, external program reviews, assessment of learning, and preparation of accreditation reports and visits for several higher education institutions.


Courses Taught:

Contemporary Issues II: National Issues (GNED 202)
Contemporary Issues III: Global Issues (GNED 303)
Fundamentals of Speech (CMST 101)
Going Viral (CMST200)
Theories in Media Studies (CMST205)
Introduction to Communication & Media Arts (CMDA110)
Theorizing Communication & Media (CMDA210)
Communication, Media & Gender (CMST 245)
Investigative Research Methods (CMDA 310)
Persuasion & Transmedia Campaigns (CMST 405)
Survey: Qualitative Research Methods (CMST 503)
Researching Public & Organizational Relations (CMST 502)
Issues of Public & Organizational Relations (CMST505)
Persuasion and New Media (CMST536)
Globalization and Contemporary Communication (CMST 580)

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Published work includes:

Kelshaw, T., & Lemesianou, C. (2010). Emerging online democracy: The dynamics of formal and informal control in digitally mediated social structures. In T. Dumova and R. Fiordo (Eds.), Handbook of research on social interaction technologies and collaboration software: Concepts and trends (404-416). Hershey, NY: IGI Global Publishing.

Lemesianou, C. A. (2007). The old challenge of motivation: Critical pedagogy, communication, and a thematic approach to teaching. In L. W. Hugenberg, S. Morreale, D. W. Worley, B. Hugenberg, D. A. Worley (Eds.), Basic Communication Course Best Practices (pp. 53-67). Dubuque, IO: Kendall/Hunt Publishing.

Lemesianou, C. A. (2007). Persuasion in Advertising: Analyzing one of the public faces of corporations. Communication Teacher, 21(3), 87-98.

Lemesianou, C. A., & Grinberg, J. (2006). Criticality in education research. In K. Tobin & J. Kincheloe (Eds.), Doing educational research: A handbook (211-234). Rotterdam: Sense Publishers.

Lemesianou, C. A. (2005). The place of politics and the politics of place: The reflexive construction of political identity by members of Generation X. Communication Annual, 61, 65-83.

Lemesianou, C. A. (2003a). Sign matters: The shift in semantic landscapes of the sign Generation-X through time. In H. B. Mokros (Ed.), Identity Matters: Communication-Based Explorations and Explanations, (pp. 31-53). Creskill, NJ: Hampton Press.

Lemesianou, C. A. (2003b). Identity Matters: Epilogue. In H. B. Mokros (Ed.), Identity Matters: Communication-Based Explorations and Explanations, (pp. 269-276). Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press.

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