Dr. Jonathan H. Millen is Associate Dean in the College of Liberal Arts, Education, and Sciences.   He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst (1992) in Communication after joining the faculty in the Department of Communication and Journalism at Rider in 1991.  He served as department chair from 2005-2010.  In addition to teaching The Social Impact of Rock and Roll in the American Studies program, he offers a wide array of communication courses and a mediation course for the Law and Justice program.  A past president of the New Jersey Communication Association and member of the editorial board of the Atlantic Journal of Communication, his research on conflict resolution and mediation has been published in Mediation Quarterly, Human Communication, and Human Systems.