Jay Bates

Assistant Professor of Professional Practice

Management and Global Business

Rutgers Business School

Jay Bates is an Assistant Professor of Professional Practice with the Management and Global Business department at Rutgers Business School.

Brittni Bertolet

Assistant Professor

Earth & Environmental Sciences

School of Arts and Sciences - Newark

Dr. Britt Bertolet is an aquatic ecologist who investigates the impacts and implications of climate change and global environmental change on the structure and function of lakes, ponds, and rivers. Specifically, her research and teaching primarily focuses on microbial communities and their effect on ecosystem processes, such as greenhouse gas production, carbon storage, and toxin production. Previously, Dr. Bertolet received a PhD from the University of Notre Dame and was a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Research Scholar in Biology at the University of California Irvine. In her free time, she can be found gardening in the backyard, hiking with her family and pup, and eating new food!

Ann Marie Callahan

Assistant Professor of Professional Practice

Accounting and Information Systems

Rutgers Business School

Ann Marie Callahan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Accounting and Information Services at Rutgers’ Business School. She comes from Caldwell University where she taught a wide range of accounting courses and served as coordinator for the MBA and MS-Accounting programs. She is a licensed CPA in New Jersey.  She began her career in public accounting (PwC) and at DeutschBank in various roles in financial and business line reporting, budgeting, and strategic initiatives. Ann Marie is actively involved and has held leadership positions in the AICPA and NJCPA. NJCPA has recognized her as a “Woman of Note” in 2009 and winner of NJCPA Ovation Award for Outstanding Educator in 2023. 

Vinay Chandorkar

Assistant Professor of Professional Practice

Management and Global Business

Rutgers Business School

Vinay Chandorkar is an Assistant Professor of Professional Practice with the Management and Global Business department at Rutgers Business School.

Fay Cobb Payton

Professor

Mathematics and Computer Science

School of Arts and Sciences - Newark

Bio coming soon.

Olivia Anne Foster-Gimbel

Assistant Professor

Mathematics and Computer Science

School of Arts and Sciences - Newark

I am an assistant professor of Management and Global Business at Rutgers School of Business - Newark/New Brunswick. I completed my PhD in Management and Organizations from NYU Stern School of Business. I research allyship, the efforts of those who actively work for equity for marginalized groups, not as a member of that group but in solidarity with its struggle. I focus on challenges that allyship brings, such as evoking negative emotional responses or questioning taken-for-granted policies, and how organizational interventions can increase effort and commitment to social equity goals. 

Nathaniel Hobbs

Assistant Professor of Professional Practice

Management Science and Information Systems

Rutgers Business School

Nathaniel Hobbs is an Assistant Professor of Professional Practice with the Management Science and Information Systems department at Rutgers Business School.

Briana Huett

Assistant Professor of Professional Practice

School of Public Affairs and Administration 

Dr. Briana Huett is an assistant professor of professional practice at the School of Public Affairs and Administration (SPAA). She received her MPA, MS in statistics and analytics, and PhD in public policy from the University of Arkansas and has worked on community engagement and community participatory research efforts at multiple universities before coming to Rutgers Newark. With a background and passion for public and nonprofit work, Dr. Huett’s professional goals are to connect academic teaching and research with community knowledge and expertise to improve access to – and equitable practices within – public services.

Shang Jia

Assistant Professor

Chemistry

School of Arts and Sciences - Newark

Our lab is interested in developing near-infrared fluorophores for in vivo light techniques. We draw inspiration from different dye scaffolds and apply to the near-infrared fluorophore structures to create new molecules with added advantages for applications in biological research and biomedical application, spanning imaging, sensing, diagnostics and treatment. We also work collaboratively on developing material formulations for bioimaging and new tools for studying chemoproteomics.

Natalia Jouan

Assistant Professor of Professional Practice

Accounting and Information Systems

Rutgers Business School

Natalia Jouan is an assistant professor of professional practice at Rutgers University, where she has been teaching accounting since 2014. Prior to academia, she worked in the lending division at Bank of America. Natalia Jouan is a Certified Management Accountant (CMA) and also actively invests in real estate.

Tal Kastner

Associate Professor

Rutgers Law School

Tal Kastner's scholarship focuses on contracts and the operation of legal language in social and historical context. She earned her J.D. at Yale Law School and practiced as a transactional associate at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP.  After law school, she served as a law clerk for President Aharon Barak and Justice Dalia Dorner of the Supreme Court of Israel. She also earned a PhD from Princeton (English) with a dissertation project on the operation of boilerplate in law and literature. She joined Rutgers from Touro Law Center, prior to which she was the Jacobson Fellow in Law and Business and an Acting Assistant Professor of Lawyering at NYU Law School. 

Sungjin Kim

Assistant Professor

Marketing

Rutgers Business School

Sungjin Kim is an Assistant Professor with the Marketing department at Rutgers Business School.

Eun-Jin Kim

Assistant Professor

English

School of Arts and Sciences - Newark

Bio coming soon.

Melanie Plasencia

Assistant Professor

Sociology and Anthropology

School of Arts and Sciences - Newark

Melanie Z. Plasencia earned her PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Dartmouth College. A Rutgers University-New Brunswick alum, she is excited to be close to home teaching at Rutgers-Newark. Her research focuses on race, ethnicity, and aging, particularly how older Latinx immigrants adjust and adapt to growing old in the United States.

Jessica Rofe

Assistant Professor

Rutgers Law School

Jessica Rofé is Assistant Professor of Law and Director of the Constitutional Rights Clinic at Rutgers Law School. Her litigation, research, and teaching focus on the intersection of criminal and immigration law, deportation, detention, and the rights of individuals incarcerated across systems. Jessica’s recent article, titled Peripheral Detention, Transfer, and Access to the Courts (2024), was published in the Michigan Law Review.

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Prior to joining Rutgers Law School, Jessica was Deputy Director and Supervising Attorney at the NYU School of Law Immigrant Rights Clinic, where she and students represented immigrants and community organizations in litigation at the agency, federal court, and Supreme Court level, and supported immigrant rights campaigns locally and nationally. Jessica was also an Immigrant Justice Corps Fellow at Brooklyn Defender Services (2014-2016) and an associate at Cleary Gottlieb in the firm’s Latin America practice (2016-2017).

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Jessica received her J.D. from NYU School of Law, where she was an Arthur Garfield Hays Civil Liberties Fellow.

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Prior to her law career, Jessica taught high school social studies in New York City public schools and received a master’s in teaching from Fordham University.