• B.A. in Sociology from Assumption College
  
• M.A. in Counseling from St. John's University
  
• M.A. in Rhetoric from Temple University
  
• PhD. in Communication, Temple University
  
• ThM. in Theological Communication, Princeton Theological School

1. Kean EEO Professor of the Year Award (May 1999)
2. Book of the Year 1999 from Religious Communication Association (National) for Selling Catholicism.
3. St. Barnabas Health Systems "Spirit of Excellence Award 1998." One of 33 chosen out of 1082 nominations from all over New Jersey.
4. Awarded Communication Studies Department Teacher of the Year 1994-95 at West Chester University

Publications

Books:

1. Selling Catholicism: Bishop Sheen and the Power of Catholicism, University Press of Kentucky. 1998.
2. Kean University: Gateway to Your Success. 2001 (4th edition), Wadsworth Publications.

Articles:

1. "Accountability in Student Peer Liaison Programs." Chapter published in Peer Leadership: A Primer on Program Essentials. Ed. By Suzanne Hamid. National Resource Center for the First Year Experience and Students in Transition at the University of South Carolina. Columbia. 2001. First Year Experience Program in Fall 2000
2. "Ritual Transformation through Michael Jackson's Music." Journal of Communication Inquiry 25:2. (April 2001) 114-131.
3. Forthcoming: Does Mother Know Best? The Traditionalist Rhetoric of Mother Angelica to be published in book, Mythic Identities by Katherine Fry and Barbara Lewis (eds.).
4. With Dr. Teresa Choate ANew Faculty: Starting Them Off In the Right Direction Journal of the Association for Communication Administration (Fall 1998).
5. Snapshot as Argument Speaking in Speech Communication Teacher. Spring 1998. (Dr. Stephen Lucas, author of the most used textbook for public speaking classes has requested permission to republish this as part of a supplement to his book The Art of Public Speaking, McGraw-Hill in 1999)
6. Book review of Generation X Goes to College was printed in The Communication and Theatre Association of Minnesota's Journal in 1997.
7. Our Lady of Television and Bishop Sheen The Journal of Communication and Religion. Fall 1995.
8. Public Speaking : A Matter of the Heart. The Speech Communication Teacher. Spring 1996. (Dr. Stephen Lucas, author of the most used textbook for public speaking classes has requested permission to republish this as part of a supplement to his book The Art of Public Speaking, McGraw-Hill in 1997.)
9. The Rhetoric of Transformation and Change in Martin Luther King's Mountaintop Speech." Howard Journal of Communication. October 1995
10. "Metaphors of Conflict: The Roman Church vs. Imani Temple." The Journal of Communication and Religion. February 1995,