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Distinguished Professors
The title of Distinguished Professor is the highest academic honor that CUNY can offer its faculty. The title is conferred by the University Board of Trustees in recognition of exceptional scholarly achievement.
Distinguished Professorships are reserved for faculty with records of exceptional performance by national and international standards of excellence in their profession.
We are proud of our faculty who are ground-breaking researchers and trailblazing scholars, dedicated to pushing the boundaries of knowledge and inspiring the next generation of leaders.
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Andre Aciman
CUNY Graduate Center
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Department:
Comparative Literature
Email:
aaciman@gc.cuny.edu
Office Phone:
212-817-8120
André Aciman received his Ph. D. and A.M. in Comparative Literature from Harvard University and a B.A. in English and Comparative Literature from Lehman College. Before coming to The Graduate Center, he taught at Princeton University and Bard College. Although his specialty is in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English, French and Italian literature (he wrote his dissertation on Madame de LaFayette’s La Princesse de Clèves), he is especially interested in the theory of the psychological novel (roman d’analyse) across boundaries and eras.In addition to teaching the history of literary theory, he teaches the work of Marcel Proust and the literature of memory and exile. André Aciman is the Executive Officer of the Doctoral Program in Comparative Literature and the Director of The Writers’ Institute at the Graduate Center.He is also the author of the novel Call Me by Your Name, of the memoir Out of Egypt, and of False Papers: Essays on Exile and Memory. He has co-authored and edited The Proust Project and Letters of Transit. He is the recipient of a Whiting Writers’ Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a fellowship from The New York Public Library’s Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, The New Republic, The Paris Review, as well as in several volumes of The Best American Essays.
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Sos Agaian
College of Staten Island
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Department:
Computer Science
Email:
sos.agaian@csi.cuny.edu
Office Phone:
718-982-2850
Sos Agaian is a Distinguished Professor of Computer Science at College of Staten Island and the Graduate Center, CUNY. Prior to joining the City University of New York, Dr. Agaian was a Peter T. Flawn Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering with the University of Texas at San Antonio. He has been a visiting faculty at the Tufts University and the Leading Scientist at the AWARE, INC. (Bedford, MA).
His main research interests are in Computational Vision and Machine Learning, Big and Small Data Analytics, Multimodal Biometric and Digital Forensics. He has special interest in the development of scientific systems and architectures applicable to the theory and practice of engineering and computer sciences (emphasizing the usage of complex digital data processing, information sciences and systems technologies to solve the engineering challenges currently facing the military, medical and industrial information processing centers).
He has authored over 600 peer-reviewed research papers, ten books, and nineteen edited proceedings. He is listed as a co-inventor on 44 patents/disclosures. Several of Agaian’s IPs are commercially licensed. Moreover, he played the key role in establishing two start-ups and two university centers: The Center for Simulation Visualization & Real Time Prediction (NSF), and The National Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Research sponsored by the DHS. Furthermore, he has been an invited and keynote speaker at numerous international image related conferences, and along with his students, has won several paper awards from the IEEE. He has mentored 38 Ph.D. students, many of whom have gone on to gain employment at Apple, Boeing, Raytheon Cisco Systems, Freescale, Dell, Motorola, Intel, Cirrus Logic, General Dynamics, Southwest Research Institute, Mediatek, MIT, Lincoln Lab, Johns Hopkins, Tufts University, Macau, China, India, Armenia, UTSA, and the Tampere Institute of Technology. Fifteen of Agaian’s protégés have received notable IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) and SPIE (International Society for Optics and Photonics) awards, including several best paper awards.
Dr. Agaian was elected SPIE Fellow in 2005 for his distinguished and valuable contribution to the field of optical engineering; AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science) Fellow in 2010 for distinguished contributions to advances in the theory of intelligent imaging systems and applied science, including fundamental methodology, service to the profession, and engineering education; IS&T (Imaging Sciences & Technology) Fellow in 2013 for his outstanding contributions to the fields of multimedia-imaging and security systems, including embedded data decryption processes and data hiding methods for mobile communications, and; IEEE Fellow in 2017 “for his contributions to biologically-inspired visual data processing systems.” He also serves as a foreign member of the Armenian National Academy. He received the Distinguished Research Award at the University of Texas at San Antonio, which is its highest research award. He is a member Eta Kappa Nu, and received The Most Influential Member-Award of the School of Engineering, nominated by Tufts University students. Furthermore, he is the recipient of MAEStro Educator of the Year Award, sponsored by the Society of Mexican American Engineers. As well, he is a recipient of the Innovator of the Year Award (UTSA 2014), of the Tech Flash Titans-Top Researcher-Award (San Antonio Business Journal, 2014), and the Entrepreneurship Award (UTSA- 2013 and 2016).
Dr. Agaian received his M.S. degree (summa cum laude) in Mathematics and Mechanics from Yerevan State University, Armenia; his Ph.D. in Mathematics and Physics from the Steklov Institute of Mathematics, Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS); and his Doctor of Engineering Sciences degree from the Institute of Control Systems, RAS.
Current Scholarly Interests:
Computational Vision and Machine Learning, Data Analytics, Multimodal Biometric and Digital Forensics, Information Processing and Fusion, 3D Imaging Visible and Thermal Sensors, Multimedia Security, Needs-Driven Medical and Biomedical Technology.
Kofi Agawu
CUNY Graduate Center
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Department:
Music
Email:
kagawu@gc.cuny.edu
Office Phone:
212-817-8591
Kofi Agawu was born in Ghana, where he received his initial education before studying composition and analysis in the UK and musicology in the US. His work focuses on analytical issues in selected repertoires of Western Europe and West Africa. He is the author of five monographs and numerous articles and reviews. His awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Dent Medal, the Frank Llewellyn Harrison Medal, the Howard T. Behrman Award from Princeton University, and honorary degrees from Stellenbosch University (2017) and Bard College (2019). He has served on the editorial boards of leading journals in musicology, music theory, African studies and ethnomusicology. A Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy, he is a Fellow of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences, Honorary Member of the Royal Musical Association, and Adjunct Professor in the Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana, Legon. He was Music Theorist in Residence for the Dutch-Flemish Music Theory Society in 2008-09 and George Eastman Visiting Professor at Oxford University in 2012-13.
Timothy Alborn
Lehman College
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Department:
History
Email:
timothy.alborn@lehman.cuny.edu
Office Phone:
718-960-2267
Timothy Alborn is Distinguished Professor of History at Lehman College and a consortial faculty member in the Ph.D. Program in History at the CUNY Graduate Center. He has published four monographs, two edited collections, and more than thirty articles on the cultures of business, money and credit in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain.  These draw from political, social, legal, literary, medical, and cultural history and their associated bodies of theoretical literature to shed new light on how financial institutions and practices work, not just economically but also as central players in people’s lived experience. At Lehman, he has served as Chair of the History Department, Dean of Arts and Humanities, and Director of the MA Program in Liberal Studies; at the Graduate Center, he has served as Deputy Executive Officer of the History Department. He has taught courses on British and European history, science and society, the history of capitalism, and the history of popular music. In addition to his teaching and academic work, Alborn edited a music fanzine, Incite!, from 1985 to 1998, and from 1989 to 1998 ran the influential indie-pop label Harriet Records, which he revived in 2021.
Alborn’s first book, Conceiving Companies: Joint-Stock Politics in Victorian England (Routledge, 1998), and a later edited collection, show how companies’ success hinged on their ability to borrow from the new processes and rhetoric that accompanied political reform and the rise of the administrative state in the UK.  His second, Regulated Lives: Life Insurance and British Society, 1800-1914 (Toronto, 2009), connects an extensive archival record spanning dozens of companies to theoretical questions concerning the rise and maturation of modern bureaucratic institutions.  This book, several related articles, and an edited collection argue that the regulatory capacity of British life insurance was less than the sum of its actuarial, medical, and organizational parts, since the new sciences that claimed expertise on its behalf worked at odds with each other, providing customers with surprising levels of agency. Alborn’s two most recent books, All That Glittered: Britain’s Most Precious Metal from Adam Smith to the Gold Rush (Oxford, 2019) and Misers: British Responses to Extreme Saving (Routledge, 2022), tackle the question of money’s paradoxical place in Britain’s rise as a world power between 1700 and 1860. These both work from a series of thick descriptions of money’s manifold cultural meanings to ask larger questions concerning the causes of the century-long success of the gold standard as an international monetary basis; the ambiguous character of British national identity during the long eighteenth century, teetering between an ancient regime and modernity; and the tortured relationship that the “first industrial nation” had with its prodigious wealth.  Both take advantage of the recent explosion in new electronic resources to undertake a comprehensive search through tens of thousands of publications, treating these as a vastly expanded library for nuanced cultural analysis rather than grist for quantitative research.
Current scholarly interest: Representations of alchemy in Britain and the US during the long nineteenth century.
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Ammiel Alcalay
Queens College
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Department:
Classical, Middle Eastern & Asian Languages & Cultures
Email:
ammiel.alcalay@qc.cuny.edu
Office Phone:
718-997-5586
Poet, novelist, translator, critic, and scholar, Ammiel Alcalay is the author of some thirty books, including
a little history, from the warring factions, Islanders, Memories of Our Future: Selected Essays, 1982-1999, and After Jews and Arabs: Remaking Levantine Culture. Ghost Talk, A Bibliography for After Jews & Arabs,
and
A Dove in Free Flight,
by Syrian poet and former political prisoner Faraj Bayrakdar, co-edited with Shareah Taleghani, all came out in 2021.
Controlled Demolition: a work in four books,
and
Follow the Person: Archival Encounters,
are both due out in 2024. His work has appeared in a wide range of small and large venues, from the
Poetry Project Newsletter
to
Time Magazine and the New York Times
Alcalay’s range of reference remains unique, moving from the Middle East and the Balkans to the Beats and Black Arts Movement, as he examines and juxtaposes neglected and forgotten literary and cultural terrain. During the war in former Yugoslavia, he translated numerous books and reportage emerging directly from the war while also presenting important literary texts. Similarly, his groundbreaking work on Middle Eastern and Arab Jewish cultural and political life has inspired several generations of scholars, leading to numerous projects and publications. While bringing works from other parts of the world to the US via translation and advocacy, Alcalay has also been a key scholar in the reconfiguration of US literary and cultural history through his unique publishing, pedagogical, and public project,
Lost & Found: The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative.
Founded in 2009, Alcalay’s work was recognized in 2017 with a Before Columbus Foundation American Book Award. Many of his graduate students have gone on to make significant contributions in various different fields.
Alcalay has been a Visiting Professor at Stanford and Georgetown, where he was the first Lannan Professor of Poetics. At Queens College, he is a member and former chair of the Department of Classical, Middle Eastern & Asian Languages & Cultures. At the Graduate Center, Alcalay is a member of the faculties in Africana Studies, American Studies, Biography & Memoir Studies, Comparative Literature, English, Medieval Studies, and Middle Eastern Studies.
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Robert Alfano
The City College of New York
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Department:
Physics
Email:
ralfano@sci.ccny.cuny.edu
Office Phone:
212-650-5531
Robert Alfano is a Distinguished Professor of Science and Engineering at the City College of CUNY, where he has been a faculty member in the Department of Physics since 1972. Prior to joining the City College, Dr. Alfano was a Research Physicist at GTE Research Laboratories, 1964-1972. He received his Ph.D. in Physics from New York University in 1972, and his Bachelor’s and Master’s in Physics from Fairleigh Dickinson University in 1963 and 1964, respectively. He is a Fellow of American Physical Society, Optical Society of America, and IEEE. He is director of CCNY’s Institute of Ultrafast Spectroscopy and Lasers.Robert Alfano has been involved in developing ultrafast laser spectroscopic techniques and applications of these techniques to study ultrafast dynamical processes in physical, chemical, and biological systems. His research encompasses the study and development of supercontinuum, tunable solid-state lasers, nonlinear optical processes, application of optical spectroscopic techniques for medical diagnosis (optical biopsy), study of photon migration in turbid media, and development of optical imaging techniques for biomedical imaging (optical mammography). He has published more than 700 papers and holds 102 patents. He has mentored 50 Ph.D. students.
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Eric Alterman
Brooklyn College
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Email:
Whatliberalmedia@aol.com
Eric Alterman is a Distinguished Professor of English at Brooklyn College, City University of New York, and Professor of Journalism at the Craig Newmark Graduate School Of Journalism At CUNY.He is also “The Liberal Media” columnist for The Nation, a senior fellow and “Altercation” weblogger for MediaMatters for America, (formerly at MSNBC.com) in Washington, DC, a senor fellow at the Center for American Progress in Washington, DC, where he writes and edits the “Think Again” column, a senior fellow (since 1985) at the World Policy Institute at The New School in New York, and a history consultant to HBO Films.Alterman is the author of six books, including the national bestsellers, What Liberal Media? The Truth About Bias and the News (2003, 2004), and The Book on Bush: How George W. (Mis)leads America (with Mark Green, 2004). The others include: When Presidents Lie: A History of Official Deception and its Consequences, (2004, 2005). His Sound & Fury: The Making of the Punditocracy (1992, 2000), won the 1992 George Orwell Award and his It Ain’t No Sin to be Glad You’re Alive: The Promise of Bruce Springsteen (1999, 2001), won the 1999 Stephen Crane Literary Award, and Who Speaks for America? Why Democracy Matters in Foreign Policy, (1998).
Termed “the most honest and incisive media critic writing today” in the National Catholic Reporter, and author of “the smartest and funniest political journal out there,” in The San Francisco Chronicle, Alterman is frequent lecturer and contributor to virtually every significant national publication in the US and many in Europe. In recent years, he has also been a columnist for: Worth,Rolling Stone, Mother Jones, and The Sunday Express (London). A former Adjunct Professor of Journalism at NYU and Columbia, Alterman received his B.A. in History and Government from Cornell, his M.A. in International Relations from Yale, and his Ph.D. in US History from Stanford. He lives with his family inManhattan where he is completing his seventh book, Why We’re Liberals: A Political Handbook to Post-Bush America, to be published by Viking in March 2008.
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Andrea Alù
CUNY Graduate Center
The City College of New York
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Department:
Photonics, Physics and Electrical Engineering
Email:
aalu@gc.cuny.edu
Office Phone:
212-413-3260
Andrea Alù is the Founding Director of the Photonics Initiative at the Advanced Science Research Center, City University of New York (CUNY). He is also the Einstein Professor of Physics at the CUNY Graduate Center and Professor of Electrical Engineering at The City College of New York.
Dr. Alù is currently the President of the Metamorphose Virtual Institute for Artificial Electromagnetic Materials and Metamaterials, and a member of the Administrative Committee of the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society, as an OSA Traveling Lecturer since 2010, as an IEEE AP-S Distinguished Lecturer since 2014, and as the IEEE joint AP-S and MTT-S chapter chair for Central Texas. He is a Simons Investigator in Physics since 2016, and the Founding Director of the Simons Collaboration on Extreme Wave Phenomena since 2020. He is a full member of URSI, a Fellow of IEEE, NAI, AAAS, MRS, OSA, SPIE and APS, and a Highly Cited Researcher (Clarivate Web of Science) since 2017.
He is also the Editor-in-Chief of Optical Materials Express and has been serving on the Editorial Board of Reviews of Electromagnetics, Physical Review B, Advanced Optical Materials, Laser and Photonics Reviews, New Journal of Physics, EPJ Applied Metamaterials and ISTE Metamaterials. Previously, he served as Associate Editor for Applied Physics Letters, MDPI Materials, IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, Scientific Reports, Metamaterials, Advanced Electromagnetics, and Optics Express. He has also guest-edited special issues for many journals on a variety of topics involving metamaterials, plasmonics, optics and electromagnetic theory.
Alù has received numerous awards for his research activities, including the Blavatnik National Award in Physical Sciences and Engineering (2021), the AAAFM Heeger Award (2021), the Dan Maydan Prize in Nanoscience (2021), the IEEE Kiyo Tomiyasu Award (2020), the DoD Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship (2019), IUMRS Young Researcher Award (2018), ICO Prize in Optics (2016), the inaugural MDPI Materials Young Investigator Award (2016), the Kavli Foundation Early Career Lectureship in Materials Science (2016), the inaugural ACS Photonics Young Investigator Award Lectureship (2016), the Edith and Peter O’Donnell Award in Engineering (2016), and many more. His students have also received several awards, including student paper awards at IEEE Antennas and Propagation and URSI Symposia.
His research interests span a broad range of areas, including metamaterials and plasmonics, electromagnetics, optics and nanophotonics, acoustics, scattering, nanocircuits and nanostructures, miniaturized antennas and nanoantennas, RF antennas and circuits.
Dr. Alù received the Laurea, MS and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Roma Tre, Rome, Italy, in 2001, 2003 and 2007, respectively.
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Arthur Apter
Baruch College
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Department:
Mathematics
Email:
awapter@alum.mit.edu
Office Phone:
646-312-4123
Professor Arthur W. Apter was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, where he attended New York City public schools. After graduation in 1971 from Sheepshead Bay High School, he attended MIT, where he earned his B.S in Mathematics in 1975 and his Ph.D. in Mathematics in 1978.After spending one additional postdoctoral year at MIT, he spent two years in the Mathematics Department of the University of Miami and five years in the Mathematics Department of Rutgers University – Newark Campus.He has been affiliated with the Mathematics Department of Baruch College since 1986, and was appointed to the Doctoral Faculty in Mathematics of the CUNY Graduate Center in 2006. He was the doctoral advisor of Shoshana Friedman (Ph.D. CUNY 2009) and doctoral co-advisor of Grigor Sargsyan (Ph.D. UC Berkeley 2009), whom he mentored as an undergraduate in the CUNY Baccalaureate Program. He has also supervised two additional students in advanced reading courses in mathematics as undergraduates, Lilit Martirosyan and Chase Skipper.
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Sergei Artemov
CUNY Graduate Center
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Department:
Computer Science, Mathematics, and Philosophy
Email:
sartemov@gc.cuny.edu
Office Phone:
212-817-8661
Sergei N. Artemov is a Distinguished Professor of Computer Science, Mathematics, and Philosophy at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He came to CUNY with years of experience acquired in leading research centers around the world, including Cornell University, Stanford University, Moscow State University, and the Russian Academy of Sciences, as well as in France, Switzerland, Italy, and the Netherlands. He is the founder and head of the Research Laboratory for Logic and Computation at the CUNY Graduate Center and is also a founder of Logical Problems in Computer Science, a research laboratory at Moscow State University, of which he was Director for 10 years. His activities at the CUNY Graduate Center include heading a research seminar on Computational Logic, the CUNY Computer Science Colloquium, and the New York Logic Colloquium.Professor Artemov received his B.A. (cum laude) and Ph.D. from Moscow State University. His professional interests are logic in computer science, mathematical logic and proof theory, modal and epistemic logics, knowledge representation and artificial intelligence, automated deduction and verification, and optimal control and hybrid systems.Professor Artemov has pioneered studies of the Logic of Proofs. His major accomplishments in this area include solutions of two problems that had been open since the 1930’s: Gödel’s problem on provability interpretation for modal logic, and formalization of the Brouwer-Heyting-Kolmogorov provability semantics. He has developed a Justification Logic that renders a new, evidence-based foundation for epistemic logic that captures Plato’s view of knowledge as justified true belief. He, along with other researchers from Stanford and Cornell, initiated studies of Dynamic Topological Logic, which has become an active research area with applications.
Professor Artemov has authored more than 164 research papers and supervised 20 successful Ph.D. dissertations and post-doctoral fellows. He is an editor of Annals of Pure and Applied Logic; Moscow Mathematical Journal; the monograph series Studies in Logic, Mathematical Logic and Foundations, and has been the principal organizer of a number of international conferences, including the symposium series Logical Foundations of Computer Science. He has delivered a Distinguished Lecture for the New York Academy of Sciences, Clifford Lectures, the Spinoza Lecture for the European Association for Computer Science Logic, the keynote lecture for the Kurt Goedel Society in Vienna, and a score of plenary and colloquium addresses at leading conferences and research centers worldwide. His paper “Operational Modal Logic” was commended for its excellence by the IGPL/FoLLI Prize Committee for Best Idea of the Year, 1996.
Professor Artemov has been a recipient of numerous research grants in Russia, Europe and the United States. He was awarded a fellowship from the President of Russia “To an Outstanding Scientist,” as well as a number of awards from the Russian Academy of Sciences.
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Paul Attewell
CUNY Graduate Center
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Department:
Sociology
Email:
pattewell@gc.cuny.edu
Office Phone:
212-817-8778
Professor Attewell was born in London, and completed his undergraduate education in England before moving to the United States to pursue a doctorate in sociology at the University of California at San Diego. He then taught for several years at the University of California at Santa Cruz and at Stony Brook University in New York before joining the faculty at the CUNY Graduate Center in 1990, where he works in two doctoral programs: sociology and urban education. Professor Attewell’s recent research has been in the sociology of education with a focus on the relationship between educational institutions and social inequality. He has studied middle and high schools and colleges. His co-authored book Passing the Torch: Does Higher Education Pay Off Across the Generations? won the American Education Research Association’s Outstanding Book Award, and also the Grawemeyer Award in Education. His current research focuses on the reasons for low degree completion rates in non-selective colleges, and includes randomized controlled field experiments in which lower income undergraduates are encouraged to increase their “academic momentum” in college, using monetary incentives.
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Teresa Bandosz
The City College of New York
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Department:
Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
Email:
tbandosz@ccny.cuny.edu
Office Phone:
212-650-6017
Dr. Bandosz is a Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at the City College of CUNY (Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering (Krakow Polytechnic); D.Sci. in Physical Chemistry (Maria Curie-Sklodowska University)). She has a broad experience in materials synthesis and characterization with emphases on their application in separation processes and on the development of catalysts advancing alternative energy fields. For three years she was associated with Dalian University of Technology in China as a Sky Scholar/ Guest Professor of Chemical Engineering. Dr. Bandosz is a Fulbright Senior Scholar, Fellow of the American Carbon Society, Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science and American Carbon Society Graffin Lecturer in Carbon Science and Technology. She edited the book “Activated carbon surface in environmental remediation,” published by Elsevier (2006) and coauthored “Detoxification of Chemical Warfare Agents: From WWI to Multifunctional Nanocomposite Approaches” published in 2018. Her work during last 30 years has resulted in seven U.S. patents and over 400 publications in peer-reviewed journals. Her research interests include conversion of wastes, synthesis of graphene/MOF, graphene/hydroxide composites for separation and energy harvesting applications, visible light photoactivity of carbonaceous materials, energy storage, oxygen reduction catalysts and CO2 sequestration and reduction. She is a coeditor of Journal of Colloid and Interface Science and serves on the Editorial Boards of Carbon, C, Adsorption Science and Technology, Chemical Engineering Journal and Applied Surface Science. She was also a member of the Advisory Board of American Carbon Society, and on the Board of Directors of the International Adsorption Society.
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Sanjoy Banerjee
The City College of New York
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Department:
Chemical Engineering
Email:
banerjee@che.ccny.cuny.edu
Born in Calcutta, India, Professor Banerjee holds a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology and he earned his Ph.D. at the University of Waterloo in Canada. After working eight years with Atomic Energy of Canada, he was Westinghouse Professor in the Engineering and Physics Department at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ont., from 1976 to 1980, when he joined the faculty at The University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB).At UCSB, he served as Vice Chair of the Chemical and Nuclear Engineering Department, 1981 — 1983, and Chair of Chemical Engineering, 1984 — 1989. He also was Mitsubishi Visiting Chair at University of Tokyo and Burgers Visiting Chair in Fluid Mechanics at University of Delft, the Netherlands, in 1996, Guest Professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, 1989 — 1990, and a Visiting Professor in the Department of Nuclear Engineering at The University of California, Berkeley, 1979 — 1981.He currently serves as a member of the Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (USNRC). This Congressionally mandated body maintains oversight on U.S. reactor regulation and regulatory research. In addition, he is a member of the USNRC Advanced Thermal Reactors Review Group and the NASA Fluid Physics Review Group.
In 2006, Professor Banerjee received the Donald Q. Kern Award from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers for his seminal work on transport phenomena in multiphase systems. This research has had major impact on the analyses of plant safety and environmental processes.
Other awards include the Danckwerts Memorial Lecture to the Chemical Engineering Science/Institution of Chemical Engineers in London in 1991 and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers’ Melville Medal in 1983. He is listed as author on more than 190 articles, book chapters and refereed conference proceedings and holds four patents.
Beth Baron
The City College of New York
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Department:
History
Email:
bbaron@gc.cuny.edu
Office Phone:
212-817-7574
Beth Baron, Distinguished Professor of History at City College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York, specializes in modern Middle Eastern history. At CUNY, she has spearheaded the growth of Middle Eastern Studies. She co-founded and now directs the Middle East and Middle Eastern American Center at the CUNY Graduate Center and with colleagues developed its MA program in Middle Eastern Studies in addition to launching a track to train PhD students in Middle Eastern history.
From 2009 to 2014, she edited the International Journal of Middle East Studies, the leading journal in the field, and serves as president of the Middle East Studies Association of North America (MESA) through November 2017. In her capacity as president, Baron has championed academic freedom in the Middle East and North America and led the association’s fight against the Muslim ban. MESA, through the representation of the ACLU became a plaintiff in the case International Refugee Assistance Project, et al. v. Donald Trump, et al., which has made its way to the United States Supreme Court. Among the honors she has received, Baron was named a Carnegie Scholar in 2007-2008.
Baron’s research focuses on the social history of modern Egypt. Her recent book, The Orphan Scandal: Christian Missionaries and the Rise of the Muslim Brotherhood, examines the relationship between Protestant evangelicals and Islamists, arguing that groups such as the Muslim Brotherhood arose in part in reaction to, and in the image of, American and European missionary associations. Earlier books, Egypt as a Woman: Nationalism, Gender, and Politics and The Women’s Awakening in Egypt: Culture, Society, and the Press, pioneer gender and women’s history.
Baron’s latest project is a book on the history of disease, medicine, and reproductive health in colonial Egypt, which follows a pair of articles she authored on slavery in Ottoman Egypt.
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Herman Bennett
CUNY Graduate Center
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Department:
History
Email:
HBennett@gc.cuny.edu
Office Phone:
212-817-8435
Herman Bennett is a Distinguished Professor of History, American Studies, and Global Early Modern Studies at the CUNY Graduate Center where he is also director of the Institute for Research on the African Diaspora in the Americas and the Caribbean (IRADAC). Prior to his tenure at the Graduate Center, he held faculty positions at UNC-Chapel Hill, Johns Hopkins University, Rutgers University, and the Free University of Berlin.
As a renowned scholar on the history of the African diaspora with a focus on Latin American history, his work has called for scholars to broaden the critical inquiry of race and ethnicity in the colonial world. He has written extensively on the presence of African slaves and freedmen in Mexican society during the colonial period and on the consequent interaction between Native Americans, Europeans, and Africans in colonial Mexico. Dr. Bennett has received fellowships from the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, the Mellon Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the American Council of Learned Societies.
His publications include Africans in Colonial Mexico:
Absolutism, Christianity, and Afro-Creole Consciousness, 1570–1640 (2003)
Colonial Blackness: A History of Afro-Mexico (2009)
; and
African Kings and Black Slaves: Sovereignty & Dispossession in the Early Modern Atlantic (2019)
. In 2021, he was elected to become a Senior Editor of The Americas and was appointed to the board of the Hispanic American Historical Review.
Bennett holds a Ph.D. in Latin American history from Duke University where he was a Mellon Scholar of the Humanities.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Atlantic World, Latin American History, African Diaspora
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Laird Bergad
CUNY Graduate Center
Lehman College
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Department:
Latin American and Puerto Rican Studies; History
Email:
lbergad@gc.cuny.edu
Office Phone:
212-817-8465/8438
Laird W. Bergad has been on the faculty of Lehman College’s Department of Latin American and Puerto Rican Studies since 1980 and the Ph.D. Program in History at the Graduate Center from 1985. He is an internationally-respected authority on the social, economic and demographic history of slave-based plantation societies in Latin America and the Caribbean during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. He has published a series of innovative and landmark studies based on archival research that have broadened the historical understanding of Puerto Rico, Cuba, Brazil, and slavery in the Americas.Professor Bergad is the founder and director of the Center for Latin American, Caribbean and Latino Studies at the CUNY Graduate Center. He is the author of six books and numerous scholarly articles. His first book Coffee and the Growth of Agrarian Capitalism in Nineteenth-Century Puerto Rico (Princeton University Press 1983) revised the analytical framework for understanding Puerto Rican history prior to the United States occupation and annexation of 1898. He was one of the first foreign scholars to be granted unrestricted access to Cuban historical archives in the 1980s. His research there resulted in two books: Cuban Rural Society in the Nineteenth Century: The Social and Economic History of Monoculture in Matanzas (Princeton University Press 1990), which examines the evolution of the sugar plantation economy in nineteenth-century Cuba, and (co-authored) The Cuban Slave Market, 1790-1880 (Cambridge University Press 1995), the first empirical examination of the structure of Cuban slave society during the island’s reign as the Caribbean’s leading sugar-producing and slave-importing nation. For this latter book he took thirteen Lehman College students to Cuba in 1988 as a research team which worked in the Cuban National Archives along with twelve students from the University of Havana.
In the 1990s, he turned his attention toward Brazil and began research in the historical archives of Minas Gerais, Brazil’s largest slave-holding province during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. His resulting work was The Demographic and Economic History of Slavery in Minas Gerais, Brazil, 1720-1888 (Cambridge University Press 1999) is a detailed study of slavery in Brazil. He then wrote a synthetic work on the largest slave societies in the Americas, The Comparative Histories of Slavery in Brazil, Cuba, and the United States (Cambridge University Press 2007). Finally, his Hispanics in the United States: A Demographic, Social, and Economic History (co-authored) (forthcoming Cambridge University Press 2010) is the first full-length quantitative study of the U.S. Latino population in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
The recipient of several internationally recognized awards, including Guggenheim, Fulbright and National Endowment for the Humanity fellowships, he was the founding director of Lehman’s interdisciplinary program in Latin American and Caribbean Studies, chaired the College’s Department of Latin American and Puerto Rican Studies, and was a member of the Executive Committee of the CUNY/Cuba (and later Caribbean) Scholarly Exchange Program, as well as the CUNY-University of Puerto Rico Exchange.
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Luisa Borrell
Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy
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Epidemiology & Biostatistics
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Luisa.Borrell@sph.cuny.edu
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Luisa N. Borrell, DDS, Ph.D., is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy, City University of New York (CUNY). She is a social epidemiologist with a research interest in race and ethnicity, socioeconomic position, and neighborhood effects as social determinants of health. She has expertise in research methods and the analysis of large databases, including survey, census and spatially-linked data. She has authored over 100 peer-reviewed journal articles, many in top journals in the fields of epidemiology and public health, and gained significant recognition by her peers as measured by the thousands of citations her work has received. Professor Borrell has received over $7 million in external grants from the National Institutes of Health and the Robert Wood Johnson and R.W. Kellogg foundations.
As an educator, Dr. Borrell has an extensive record in mentoring graduate students, postdoctoral fellows as well as junior faculty.
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Emily Braun
Hunter College
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Art
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ebraun@hunter.cuny.edu
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In addition to her work on modern Italian art and fascist culture, Professor Emily Braun has published on renaissance architecture, late nineteenth-century European painting, twentieth-century American art, women’s studies, Jewish history, and contemporary painting and sculpture. She was awarded a Senior Research Grant from the Getty Foundation (1993), the Hunter College Presidential Award for Excellence in Scholarship (2001), and a Fellowship from the New York Public Library Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers (2002). As a contributing author, she has twice received the annual Henry Allen Moe Prize for Catalogues of Distinction in the Arts (Northern Light: Realism and Symbolism in Scandinavian Painting (1982) and Gardens and Ghettos. (1990)
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Susan Buck-Morss
CUNY Graduate Center
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Political Science
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Susan Buck-Morss is an interdisciplinary thinker and a prolific writer of international reputation. Her most recent book, Hegel, Haiti, and Universal History (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2009), offers a fundamental reinterpretation of Hegel’s master-slave dialectic by linking it to the influence of the Haitian Revolution. Her books The Origin of Negative Dialectics: Theodor W. Adorno, WalterBenjamin, and the Frankfurt Institute (Macmillan Free Press, 1977) and The Dialectics of Seeing: Walter Benjamin and the Arcades Project (MIT Press, 1989) have been translated into several languages and have been called “modern classics in the field.” Other publications include Thinking Past Terror: Islamism and Critical Theory on the Left (Verso, 2003), Dreamworld and Catastrophe: The Passing of Mass Utopia in East and West (MIT Press, 2000), and numerous articles.
A longtime professor at Cornell University’s Department of Government, Buck-Morss was also a member of Cornell’s graduate fields in Comparative Literature; History of Art; German Studies; and the School of Architecture, Art, and City and Regional Planning. She is on the editorial boards of several journals and has been an invited lecturer at dozens of universities worldwide. Her numerous international awards and fellowships include a Getty Scholar grant, a Fulbright Award, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. She holds a Ph.D. in European intellectual history from Georgetown University.
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Glenn Burger
Queens College
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Glenn Burger is Distinguished Professor of English at Queens College and a consortial faculty member in the Ph.D. Program in English and the Certificate Program in Medieval Studies at the CUNY Graduate Center. Prof. Burger earned his BA and MA in English at the University of Toronto and his DPhil at Oxford University. Before coming to CUNY in 2000, he taught for fifteen years at the University of Alberta in Canada. He has been Chair of the Department of English at Queens College since 2011. At Queens and the Graduate Center he has taught courses on Chaucer’s
Canterbury Tales
, Medieval transnational writing and East/West contact, pre- and early modern marriage, as well as Medieval literature more generally.
Prof. Burger’s early research interests were Medieval transnationalism and East/West contact, reflected in his first book publication, a critical edition of a Medieval history of Asia, the Mongols, and the Crusades by the Armenian prince, Hetoum of Korikos:
A Lytell Chronicle: Richard Pynson’s Translation (c. 1520)
of La Fleur des histoires de la terre d’Orient (1307) (University of Toronto Press, 1988). He also co-edited (with Cormack, Hart, and Pylipuik) the essay collection,
Making Contact: Maps, Identity, and Travel
(University of Alberta Press, 2003).
His second book,
Chaucer’s Queer Nation
, brought contemporary queer and postcolonial theory to bear on Chaucer’s
Canterbury Tales
(University of Minnesota Press, 2003) in order to rethink Chaucerian canonicity and questions of gender and sexuality more generally in pre- and postmodern contexts. Coupled with such work was the co-edited collection of essays (with Steven Kruger),
Queering the Middle Ages
(University of Michigan Press, 2001) as well as numerous articles and book chapters since then. These interests in queering Medieval gender and sexuality have more recently focused on the complex role the emergent bourgeois and gentry married household played in forging new early modern heterosexual roles, and with that a new relationship between the individual and the early modern state. His monograph,
Conduct Becoming: Good Wives and Husbands in the Later Middle Ages
(University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018), as well as the recent co-edited collection of essays (with Rory Critten),
Household Knowledges in Late Medieval England and France
(University of Manchester Press, 2019), reflect these broader interests in late Medieval marriage, the bourgeois/gentry household, as well as new modes of thinking about gender and sexuality in the period.
Prof. Burger’s current research and publication focus on bringing premodern affect and emotion in dialogue with contemporary affect theory and the history of emotion studies. With Holly Crocker, he has recently co-edited the essay collection,
Medieval Affect, Feeling, and Emotion
(University of Cambridge Press, 2019). Current work centers on affect and emotion in Medieval literature and Chaucerian texts.
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Scott Burnham
CUNY Graduate Center
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Department:
Music
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sburnham@gc.cuny.edu
Scott Burnham holds a B.M. from Baldwin-Wallace College, a M.M. in Music Composition from the Yale University School of Music, and a Ph.D. in Music Theory and Analysis from Brandeis University.
His research interests include the history of tonal theory, problems of analysis and criticism, and 18-and 19th-century music and culture. He also enjoys giving pre-concert lectures and other public talks in the greater New York region.
Beethoven Hero, Burnham’s study of the values and reception of Beethoven’s heroic-style music, received the 1996 Wallace Berry Award from the Society of Music Theory. His more recent book, Mozart’s Grace, an exploration of beauty in Mozart’s music, received the 2014 Otto Kinkeldey Award from the American Musicological Society. Burnham has also been the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the National Humanities Center. Before joining the faculty at the Graduate Center, Burnham was Scheide Professor of Music History at Princeton University, where he taught from 1989 to 2016.
Current Scholarly Interests:
History of tonal theory, problems of analysis and criticism, and 18-and 19th-century music and culture.
Marvin Carlson
CUNY Graduate Center
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Department:
Theatre and Comparative Literature
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212-817-8877
Marvin A. Carlson, Distinguished Professor (Graduate Center), has a Ph.D. in Drama and Theatre from Cornell University. The Sidney E. Cohn Distinguished Professor of Theatre and Comparative Literature, his research and teaching interests include dramatic theory and Western European theatre history and dramatic literature, especially of the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. He has been awarded the ATHE Career Achievement Award, the George Jean Nathan Prize, the Bernard Hewitt prize, the George Freedley Award, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He has been a Walker-Ames Professor at the University of Washington, a Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Studies at Indiana University, a Visiting Professor at the Freie Universitat of Berlin, and a Fellow of the American Theatre. His best-known book, Theories of the Theatre (Cornell University Press, 1993), has been translated into seven languages. His 2001 book, The Haunted Stage won the Calloway Prize. His newest book, Performance: A Critical Introduction, appeared in a second, revised edition in 2002.
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Noel Carroll
CUNY Graduate Center
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Philosophy
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knollcarroll@gmail.com
Noël Carroll, distinguished professor of philosophy and one of the leading philosophers of art and aesthetics in the U.S., is internationally recognized for his groundbreaking work in the philosophy of film. He is the author of eleven monographs, including The Philosophy of Motion Pictures, Beyond Aesthetics, and The Philosophy of Horror; three edited collections; and over two hundred academic articles and reviews. His work also encompasses the philosophy of literature, the philosophy of visual arts, and social and cultural theory, and he has served as president of the American Society for Aesthetics. Carroll has been a regular contributor of journalistic reviews of dance, theater, and film in publications such as Artforum and the Village Voice. His new book, On Criticism, will be published in Fall 2008, and he is currently working on a book on the philosophy of humor. Carroll joins the Graduate Center from Temple University. He holds a Ph.D. in Cinema Studies from NYU, and a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Illinois at Chicago.
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Eugene Chudnovsky
Lehman College
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Physics and Astronomy
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718-960-8770
Distinguished Professor Eugene M. Chudnovsky, who has been a member of the Lehman Department of Physics and Astronomy faculty since 1988, is an internationally prominent theoretical physicist. He is known for his
theoretical predictions of the phenomenon of magnetic poles “tunneling.” His experimental research also helped lead to the discovery of “quantum magnetic hysteresis,” a novel physics effect reported by major science journals, including Science, Nature and Physics Today. In 1993, he was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society for his “seminal contributions to random ferromagnetism, macrosopic quantum tunneling, and hexatic order in high-temperature superconductors.”Professor Chudnovsky has published more than 120 research articles in physics journals. He is frequently invited to give plenary and review talks on his research at major scientific meetings.
The U.S. Department of Energy has supported Professor Chudnovsky’s research since 1993. This research has resulted in the discovery of the possibility of a new state of matter—“quantum fluid of vortices”—and the prediction of dynamic interaction of vortices with oxygen atoms in high-temperature superconductors. Since 1990, he has been working on projects for the U.S. Air Force, the National Science Foundation and U.S. industries.
Born in Leningrad, Professor Chudnovsky was educated at Kharkov University in the Ukraine, where he received his Ph.D. in theoretical physics in 1973.
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Blanche Cook
John Jay College of Criminal Justice
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History
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bcook@jjay.cuny.edu
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212-237-8813
Blanche Wiesen Cook is Distinguished Professor of History and Women’s Studies at John Jay College and the Graduate Center, CUNY. Her biography, Eleanor Roosevelt: Volume I (Viking Penguin 1992), and Volume II (Viking Penguin 1999) received numerous awards and were on The New York Times best seller list. Volume I won The Los Angeles Times’ 1992 Biography Prize, and the Lambda Literary Award.She is currently working on the third and final volume of Eleanor Roosevelt. The New York State Council on the Humanities honored her as Scholar of the Year in 1996. A frequent contributor of reviews and columns in many newspapers and periodicals, her book The Declassified Eisenhower was listed by The New York Times Book Review as one of the notable books of 1981. She is also the author of Crystal Eastman on Women and Revolution (Oxford University Press).
For more than twenty years Professor Cook produced and hosted her own program for Radio Pacifica, originally called “Activists and Agitators,” subsequently “Women and the World in the 1980s.” She has appeared on such television programs as “The Today Show,” “Good Morning America,” C-Span’s “Booknotes,” and “MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour,” where she participated in the joint PBS-NBC coverage of the 1992 Democratic National Convention. More recently she has hosted various programs for CUNY-TV and in 2010 received the Publishing Triangle’s Bill Whitehead Lifetime Achievement Award.
Professor Cook is deeply committed to the principle of greater dignity, security and human rights for all people worldwide. She is former Vice-President for Research of the American Historical Association, was Vice-President and Chair of the Fund for Open Information and Accountability (FOIA, Inc.), and Co-Founder and Co-Chair of the Freedom of Information and Access Committee of the Organization of American Historians. Actively committed to maintaining the integrity of the Freedom of Information, she also served on the US State Department’s Historical Advisory Committee.
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John Corigliano
Lehman College
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Music
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John.Corigliano@lehman.cuny.edu
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718-960-8250
John Corigliano is among the most honored composers in the United States. He was awarded the 2001 Pulitzer Prize in Music for his Symphony No. 2, introduced in November 2000 by the Boston Symphony Orchestra and subsequently heard in New York, Helsinki, Berlin, and Moscow. In March 2000, Corigliano’s third film score, for “The Red Violin,” was awarded the Academy Award (“Oscar.”)Corigliano’s Symphony No. 1, an impassioned response to the AIDS crisis, captured the 1991 Grawemeyer Award for Best New Orchestral Composition; The Chicago Symphony’s recording of the piece won the Grammy awards for both Best New Composition and Best Orchestral Performance, and it has has been played by more than 150 different orchestras worldwide. A Distinguished Professor of Music at the City University of New York, Corigliano was named in 1991 both to the faculty of the Juilliard School and to the American Academy of Arts and Letters, an organization of American’s most prominent artists, sculptors, architects, writers, and composers.
Commissioned by The Metropolitan Opera, where it premiered in December 1991, Corigliano’s “grand opera buffa” The Ghosts of Versailles sold out two engagements at the Metropolitan (1991 and 1994) as well as its 1995 production at the Chicago Lyric Opera. The nationwide telecast of the Metropolitan’s premiere production was released on videocassette and laser-disk by Deutsche Grammophon. Following its premiere, The Ghosts of Versailles collected the Composition of the Year award from the first International Classic Music Awards. In April 1999, The Ghosts of Versailles received its European premiere, in a new production directed and designed for the opening of the new opera house in Hannover, Germany.
Recent works include 2004’s Circus Maximus: Symphony No. 3, for multiple wind ensembles: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra (“The Red Violin”) released on compact disk by Sony in September 2007 with Marin Alsop leading soloist Joshua Bell and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra; the orchestral song cycle Mr. Tambourine Man: Seven Poems of Bob Dylan, recorded for Naxos in February 2007, with JoAnn Falletta leading soprano soloist Hila Plitmann and the Buffalo Philharmonic; and A Dylan Thomas Trilogy (1999), a memory play/oratorio for boy soprano, tenor, baritone, chorus and orchestra, which will be recorded November 2007 by Leonard Slatkin and the Nashville Symphony Orchestra.
Corigliano’s catalogue includes five concerti, for flute, clarinet, oboe, guitar, and piano; numerous shorter works for large orchestra; and an extensive catalogue of chamber works, which have been recorded on numerous major labels. His music is published exclusively by G. Schirmer, Inc.
Vincent Crapanzano
CUNY Graduate Center
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Anthropology and Comparative Literature
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vcrapanzano@earthlink.net
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(212) 817-8169
Vincent Crapanzano graduated from the Ecole Internationale in Geneva, received his B.A. in philosophy from Harvard, and his PhD in anthropology from Columbia University. He has taught at Princeton, Harvard, the University of Chicago, the University of Paris, the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, the University of Brasilia, and the University of Cape Town. He has lectured in major universities in North and South America, Europe, Hong Kong, and South Africa.He has written on: the epistemology of interpretation, psychoanalysis, ethnopsychiatry and folk healing, spirit possession, theories of the self and other, domination, life histories and the articulation of experience, literalism, fieldwork and the writing of anthropology, imaginative horizons, memory, transgression and hope, referentiality and pragmatics, literary criticism and various literary works. These have appeared in various academic journals as well as such magazine and newspapers as The New Yorker ,The New York Times and the Times Literary Supplement.
He has done fieldwork with the Navajo Indians, the Hamadsha (a Moroccan Muslim confraternity), white South Africans during apartheid, Christian Fundamentalists and legal conservatives in America, and the Harkis (Algerians who sided with the French during the Algerian War of Independence) in France. Among his books, several of which have been translated into German, French, Italian, and Japanese are The Fifth World of Foster Bennett: A Portrait of a Navaho; The Hamadsha; As Essay in Moroccan Ethno-psychiatry; Tuhami: A Portrait of a Moroccan; Waiting: the Whites of South Africa; Hermes’ Dilemma and Hamlet’s Desire: Essays on the Epistemology of Interpretation; Serving the Word: American Literalism from the Pulpit to the Bench: and Imaginative Horizons: An Essay in Literary-Philosophical Anthropology, which was based on the Jansen Memorial Lectures he delivered in Frankfurt am Main.
He is completing a book on the way people recount their lives after a dramatic change of status as well as one on the Harki. He has received awards and grants from, among others, the Rockefeller Foundation, the National Institute of Mental Health, the National Endowment of the Humanities, the Wenner-Gren Foundation, the Centre National de Recherche Scientifique and the Commission Nationale de Cinema, the Mellon Foundation, the Fulbright Commission (Brazil), and the Guggenheim Foundation. He has been a Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Scholar at the California Institute of Technology, and a fellow at the American Academy in Berlin.
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Patricia Cronin
Brooklyn College
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Art
Email:
pcronin@brooklyn.cuny.edu
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917-535-2969
Patricia Cronin’s
unique interdisciplinary feminist approach to figurative and conceptual art employs both two- and three-dimensional mediums from intimate watercolors to large paintings to monumental bronze and marble to examine issues of gender, sexuality and social justice. Major bodies of work focus on the international human rights of LGBTQ+ persons, women and girls, including “Memorial To A Marriage,” the world’s first Marriage Equality monument.
Patricia Cronin’s work has been widely exhibited on an international level, including solo exhibitions at the Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa (2018), The Lab Gallery, Dublin, Ireland (2017), The FLAG Art Foundation, New York (2016), 56
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Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy (2015), Centrale Montemartini Museo, Rome, Italy (2013), Newcomb Art Museum at Tulane University, New Orleans (2012), Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn (2009), American Academy in Rome Art Gallery, Rome, Italy (2007), University at Buffalo, Buffalo (2004), Deitch Projects, New York (2002), White Columns, New York (1998), and Brent Sikkema, New York (1996).
The artist has taken part in important group exhibitions, including at David Zwirner (2022 & 1993),
LGBTQ+ VR Museum
(2022-ongoing), Catharijneconvent Museum, Utrecht, The Netherlands (2021), American Academy in Rome Gallery, Rome, Italy (2019), Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC (2018), New Museum, New York (2013), Station Museum of Contemporary Art, Houston, TX (2010), Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow, Scotland (2009), Cobra Museum, Amstelveen, The Netherlands (2008), Museo D’Arte Contemporanea Roma (MACRO), Rome, Italy (2007), Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT (2002), and Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT (2002).
Additionally, she has received many prestigious awards and fellowships including the esteemed Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome, Italy and others including the New York Foundation for the Arts Artist Fellowship, Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award, Anonymous Was A Woman Award, Pollock Krasner Foundation grant, and Civitella Ranieri Fellowship.
Cronin’s works is collected by numerous museums, including Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow, Scotland, Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, New York, National Gallery of Art, Washington, Perez Art Museum Miami, Miami, Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, Washington, Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, and Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx.
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Joseph Dauben
Lehman College
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History
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jdauben@att.net
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(718) 960-8285
Lehman College and Graduate Center history professor Joseph W. Dauben earned his doctorate from Harvard in 1972, the same year he joined the Lehman faculty. He is the author of two biographies that are considered classics: Georg Cantor: His Mathematics and the Philosophy of the Infinite (Harvard University Press, 1979) and Abraham Robinson: The Creation of Nonstandard Analysis, A Personal and Mathematical Odyssey (Princeton University Press, 1998). In recognition of his singular contributions to the understanding of the development of Chinese mathematics in the Western world, Dauben was elected an Honorary Professor of the Institute for the History of Natural Science, a branch of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, in 2002. Only eight other persons have received this honor.He is also a recently-elected member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, the oldest scientific society in Europe.
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Cathy Davidson
CUNY Graduate Center
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Department:
English, and Futures Initiative
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cdavidson@gc.cuny.edu
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(212) 817-7247
Cathy N. Davidson is a Distinguished Professor in the Ph.D. Program in English at the Graduate Center, The City University of New York, and Director of the Futures Initiative, a new program dedicated to envisioning the future of higher education. Davidson’s main contributions have been in the areas of history of the book, history of industrialism and postindustrialism, and the impact of new technologies on culture, cognition, and learning. She has published more than twenty books including Revolution and the Word: The Rise of the Novel in America’ Closing: The Life and Death of an American Factory, with documentary photographer Bill Bamberger; The Future of Thinking: Learning Institutions in a Digital Age, with David Theo Goldberg; and, most recently, Now You See It: How the Brain Science of Attention Will Transform the Way We Live, Work, and Learn.Davidson is cofounder and administrative director of the Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory (hastac.org), a 14,000+ network committed to “Changing the Way We Teach and Learn.” She is co-PI of the HASTAC/John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Digital Media and Learning Competitions that have awarded more than $10 million in grant funding to support ninety innovative projects operating in more than twenty countries.
In 2010, President Obama appointed her to serve on the National Council Humanities, and she is the first educator to serve on the Board of Directors of Mozilla. She received the Educator of the Year Award (with HASTAC cofounder Goldberg) from the World Technology Network in 2012. She is currently working on a book on innovation, social justice, and the future of higher education.
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Ashley Dawson
College of Staten Island
CUNY Graduate Center
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Ashley Dawson is Distinguished Professor of English at the College of Staten Island and a consortial faculty member in the Ph.D. program in English at the CUNY Graduate Center. He earned his Ph.D. in English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. Before coming to CUNY in 2001, he taught for four years at the University of Iowa. At CSI and the Graduate Center, Professor Dawson teaches courses in postcolonial literature and theory, and in the environmental humanities.
Professor Dawson is the author of Mongrel Nation (Michigan, 2007), which examines racism and resistance in the diasporic Asian and Black cultures of twentieth- and twenty first-century Britain. This book and his subsequent work, The Routledge Concise History of 20th Century British Literature (2012), show how vibrant new cultural forms evolved in tandem with movements that challenged coded racial discourses of cultural nationalism in Britain.
Dawson’s subsequent scholarship and teaching have focused on the climate emergency. His book Extinction (O/R, 2016) argues that today’s devastating biodiversity crisis is grounded in the need for capital to expand relentlessly into all spheres of life. Extinction, he shows, cannot be understood in isolation from a critique of our economic system. Extreme Cities (Verso, 2017) demonstrates that global cities are ground zero for climate change, contributing the lion’s share of carbon to the atmosphere, while also lying on the frontlines of rising sea levels. Dawson argues that our best hope lies not with fortified sea walls, but with urban movements already fighting to remake our cities in a more just and equitable way. People’s Power (O/R, 2022) challenges several decades worth of neoliberal deregulation in the energy sector by advancing a theory of the renewable energy commons grounded in the need to stop thinking of energy as a commodity. Most recently, Dawson’s book Environmentalism from Below (Haymarket, 2024) takes readers inside the popular struggles for environmental liberation around the world. Grassroots movements and the communities where they are born—among the most vulnerable to but also least responsible for the climate crisis—have long been at the forefront of the fight to protect imperiled worlds.
Professor Dawson’s research has consistently been grounded in activism. For example, as the founder of the Climate Action Lab (CAL) at CUNY, Dawson has directed a team of twenty graduate students and worked with artists, activists, and researchers to examine and fortify grassroots climate adaptation efforts in NYC. Dawson aspires to help produce knowledge that will help people’s movements quell the fires increasingly consuming our planet.
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Mikhal Dekel
The City College of New York
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mdekel@ccny.cuny.edu
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212-650-6305
Mikhal Dekel is a Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the City College of New York and the Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Crimes Against Humanity at the CUNY Graduate Center. She is also the Director of CCNY’s Rifkind Center for the Humanities and Arts.
She is the author of
In The East: How My Father and a Quarter Million Polish Jews Survived the Holocaust
(WW Norton, 2021), formerly published as
Tehran Children: A Holocaust Refugee Odyssey
(WW Norton, 2019), as well as
The Universal Jew: Modernity, Masculinity and the Zionist Moment
(Northwestern University Press, 2011); and the Hebrew monograph
Oedipus in Kishinev
(Bialik Institute, 2014).
Tehran Children/ In the East
has been hailed by the New York Times, the New York Review of Books, the Guardian, the BBC, C-Span, TLS and others as the first English language monograph to comprehensively explore the fate of Holocaust refugees in Soviet gulags, Central Asia and the Middle East. It was a finalist for the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature, the Chautauqua Prize for Contribution to the Literary Arts, and the National Jewish Book Awards, and has been translated into German and Hebrew. Professor Dekel publishes regularly in the United States and abroad in academic and non-academic venues such as ELH, Comparative Literature, Boston Review, Foreign Affairs, Gazeta Wyborcza, and Haaretz.
She holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Columbia University and a Bachelor of Law from the Buchmann Faculty of Law at Tel Aviv University. Her work has been supported by the National Endowment of the Humanities, the Mellon Foundation, and the Lady Davis Foundation, among others. In 2021-2022 she was named CCNY’s Stuart Z. Katz Professor of Humanities.
Professor Dekel’s research interests include comparative trauma, genocide and refugee studies; law and literature; the study of restitution and reparations; literature of migrations; and historical memoirs.
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Michael Devitt
CUNY Graduate Center
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Philosophy
Email:
mdevitt@gc.cuny.edu
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212-817-8620
Michael Devitt, a student of the famous American empiricist Willard Van Orman Quine at Harvard, where he earned his Ph.D., has argued his realist position steadily over the years. His Realism and Truth is now in its third printing. He was also chosen as the spokesperson for naturalism (opposition to the a priori, or knowledge not derived from experience) in the forthcoming volume, Contemporary Debates in Epistemology, part of a series published by Blackwell that pits prominent philosophers with opposing views against one another. Fighting for scientific realism is just one of Devitt’s preoccupations as a philosopher; he is also an incredibly prolific scholar in the areas of cognitive science and the philosophy of language. In Ignorance of Language (forthcoming) he criticizes Chomskian views of the place of language in the mind. He has been embroiled for thirty years in a revolution in the “theory of reference,” a revolution that was instigated by the world-famous philosopher and logician, Saul Kripke, who also recently joined the philosophy faculty of The Graduate Center.
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Jason Eckardt
Brooklyn College
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Department:
Music
Email:
jeckardt@brooklyn.cuny.edu
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718-951-5000, x2598
Jason Eckardt
played guitar in jazz and metal bands until, upon first hearing the music of Webern, he immediately devoted himself to composition. Since then, his music has been influenced by his interests in perceptual complexity, the physical and psychological dimensions of performance, political activism, and the natural world.
He has been recognized through commissions from Carnegie Hall, Tanglewood, the Koussevitzky and Fromm Foundations, the Guggenheim Museum, Chamber Music America, New Music USA, The Chicago Center for Contemporary Composition, The New York State Music Fund, Meet the Composer, the Oberlin Conservatory, and percussionist Evelyn Glennie; fellowships from the Guggenheim and Rockefeller Foundations, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Fondation Royaumont, the MacDowell and Millay Colonies, the Fritz Reiner Center, the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts, and the Yvar Mikhashoff Trust; and awards from the League/ISCM, Deutschen Musikrat-Stadt Wesel, the Aaron Copland Fund, the New York State Council on the Arts, the Alice M. Ditson Fund, ASCAP, the University of Illinois, and Columbia University. Eckardt’s music has been heard on festivals including the Festival d’Automne á Paris, Darmstadt, IRCAM-Resonances, the ISCM World Music Days, Voix Nouvelles, Musik im 20. Jahrhundert, Currents in Musical Thought-Seoul, and the International Bartók Festival.
An active promoter of new music, Eckardt was the co-founder and the Executive Director of Ensemble 21, the contemporary music group in New York City. His music appears on 22 commercial recordings including four portrait albums.
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Lisa Farrington
John Jay College of Criminal Justice
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Department:
Art & Music
Email:
lfarrington@jjay.cuny.edu
Office Phone:
212-237-8329/49
Lisa Farrington is a Distinguished Professor and the founding Chair Emeritus of the Art & Music Department at CUNY’s John Jay College of Criminal Justice. Prior to coming to CUNY, she was senior art historian at Parsons School of Design for 16 years, teaching at their New York and Paris campuses. Farrington is also a curator and museum professional with years of service at the National Gallery in Washington D.C., New York’s Museum of Modern Art, Parsons Aronson Galleries, and John Jay’s Shiva Gallery.
A leader in the field of African American art history, Farrington has lectured at dozens of museums and universities worldwide and published ten books in as many years. Most recently she published her largest research project ever—a 450-page revisionist history of African American art from slavery to the 21st century—her second book for Oxford University Press.
She has been the recipient of many awards and honors, including the coveted Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Prize, the Camille Cosby Endowed Professorship, the Ford Foundation Education Fellowship, and three national awards for her Oxford University Press book on the history of black women artists, including the American Library Association BCALA prize for Outstanding Contribution to Literature.
Dr. Farrington earned an Honors Degree from New York’s School of Art and Design, a BFA from Howard University magna cum laude, an MA from American University, and M.Phil. and Ph.D. degrees from the CUNY Graduate Center.
She is currently working on a project on Haitian art and Vodou culture based on her research in that country.
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Michelle Fine
CUNY Graduate Center
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Department:
Psychology and Urban Education
Email:
mfine@gc.cuny.edu
Office Phone:
212-817-8710
Michelle Fine, Distinguished Professor of Social Psychology, Women’s Studies and Urban Education at the Graduate Center, CUNY, has taught at CUNY since 1990. Before that I taught at the University of Pennsylvania for more than a decade. My research focuses on youth in schools, communities and prisons, developed through critical feminist theory and method.Recent awards:
2007 Willystine
Goodsell Award 2007
AERA SIG, Research on Women and Education
Morton Deutsch Award 2005
First Annual Morton Deutsch Award
Teachers College, Columbia University
Bank Street College 2002
Honorary Doctoral Degree for Education and Social Justice
Gustav Meyer Award for Scholarship Dedicated to Social Justice 2001 with Lois Weis, for the book Construction Sites
Teachers College Press
Carolyn Sherif Award, American Psychological Association 2001
Division 35, Division for Psychology of Women
Selected books published in the past decade:
Cammarota, J. and Fine, M. (eds., 2008) Revolutionizing Education: Youth Participatory Action Research in Motion. New York: Routledge Publishers.
Sirin, S. and Fine, M. (2007) Designated Others: Muslim American Youth Negotiating Identities Post 9-11. New York: New York University Press.
Weis, L. and Fine, M. (2005) Beyond silenced voices (second edition) Albany: SUNY Press. 2006 AESA Critics’ Choice Awards (American Educational Studies Association)
Weis, L. and Fine, M. (2004) Working Method: Social justice and social research. New York: Routledge Publishers.
Fine, M., Weis, L., Pruitt, L. and Burns, A. (2004) Off white: essays on race, power and resistance. New York: Routledge Publishers.
Fine, M., Roberts, R., Torre, M. and Bloom, J., Burns, A., Chajet, L., Guishard, M. and Payne, Y. (2004) Echoes of Brown: Youth documenting and performing the legacy of Brown v. Board of Education. New York: Teachers College Press.
Fine, M. and Weis, L. (2003) Silenced Voices, Extraordinary Conversations: Re-imagining urban education. New York: Teachers College Press.
Anand, B., Fine, M., Perkins, T. and Surrey, S. (2002) Keeping the Struggle Alive: Oral Histories of School Desegregation in the North. New York: Teachers College Press.
Fine, M., & Weis, L. (1998) The unknown city: Lives of poor and working class young adults. Boston: Beacon Press.
Guinier, L., Fine, M. and Balin, J. (1996) Becoming Gentlemen: Women, Law School and Institutional Change. Beacon Press.
Selected journal articles and monographs:
Fine, M. and McClelland, S. (2007) The politics of teen women’s sexuality: Public policy and the adolescent female body. Emory Law Review, 56, 4.
Fine, M. and McClelland, S. (2006) Sexuality education and the discourse of desire: Still missing after all these years. Harvard Educational Review. Fall 2006, 76, 3, 297 – 338.
Fine, M., Bloom, J., Burns, A., Chajet, L., Guishard, M., Payne, Y., Perkins-Munn, T. and Torre, M. E. (2005) Dear Zora: A letter to Zora Neale Hurston Fifty years after Brown. Teachers College Record. 107 , 3, 496-528
Fine, M. (2004) The power of the Brown v. Board of Education decision: Theorizing threats to sustainability. American Psychologist, Vol. 59, No. 6, 502–510.
Fine, M., Burns, A., Payne, Y. and Torre, M.E. (2004) Civics Lessons: The color and class of betrayal. Teachers College Record, 106, November, 2193-2223.
Changing Minds: The Impact of College in Prison.
www.changingminds.ws (Michelle Fine, Kathy Boudin, Iris Bowen, Judith Clark, Donna Hylton, Migdalia Martinez, “Missy,” Rosemarie Roberts, Pamela Smart, Maria Torre and Debora Upegui) 2001. Executive Report on the impact of college on prisoners post-release.
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Janet Fodor
CUNY Graduate Center
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Department:
Linguistics and Psychology
Email:
jfodor@gc.cuny.edu
Office Phone:
212-817-8502
Janet Dean Fodor came to the Graduate Center from the University of Connecticut in 1986 as a distinguished professor of linguistics. She is the author of a textbook on semantics entitled Semantics: Theories of Meaning in Generative Grammar, which has been called “a masterpiece of clarity and good sense.” In this work she combined descriptive linguistic concerns with philosophical issues about the nature of meaning, emphasizing its roots in human psychology. In the late 1970s, she developed a program of research in psycholinguistics, focusing on the psychological mechanisms by which people understand the sentences they read or hear. Her current areas of special interest are cross-linguistic experimental studies of sentence processing and prosody; the role of implicit prosody in silent reading; language learnability theory; and computer simulation studies of children’s acquisition of syntax. She is a former president of the Linguistic Society of America. Dr. Fodor earned a B.A. and M.A. from Oxford Oxford University, and a Ph.D. in linguistics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Fred Gardaphe
Queens College
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Fred Gardaphe was born in Chicago in 1952 and raised in Melrose Park, Illinois, a
predominantly Italian American community. His grandparents on his mother’s side emigrated from Bari, Italy. On his father’s side, his grandmother’s family emigrated from Calabria, his grandfather’s family from Canada. He attended Sacred Heart Grammar School, Fenwick Preparatory High School (Oak Park) and Triton College (River Grove) where he earned an Associate of Arts degree in 1973. He earned a Bachelor’s of Science Degree in Education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (1976), a Master’s Degree in English at the University of Chicago (1982) and his Ph.D. in Literature at the University of Illinois at Chicago (1993) with an emphasis on cultural criticism and American multicultural literature.A leading expert in the field, Gardaphe directed the Italian/American and American Studies Programs at the State University of New York at Stony Brook (1998-2008) before coming to Queens College and the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute.
He began his teaching career at the high school level and taught five years in Wisconsin, Iowa, and in an alternative street school in Chicago before taking a position in English and Educational Studies at Columbia College in Chicago. At Columbia he created and taught writing, educational studies, and literature courses and courses in Italian/American film and literature from 1978-1998.
He is Associate Editor of Fra Noi, an Italian American monthly newspaper,
editor of the Series in Italian American Studies at State University of New York Press, and co-founding-co-editor of Voices in Italian Americana, a literary journal and cultural review. He is past President of the American Italian Historical Association (1996-2000), and served as Vice President of the Italian Cultural Center in Stone Park, IL from 1992-1998. He is currently President of MELUS: The Society for the Study of Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States.
His edited books include: New Chicago Stories, Italian American Ways, Shades of Black and White: Conflict and Collaboration Between Two Communities, Cultures, Communities and the Arts, From the Margin: Writings in Italian Americana, and Italian Ethnics: Their Languages, Literature and Lives. He has written two one-act plays: “Vinegar and Oil,” produced by the Italian/American Theatre Company in 1987, and “Imported from Italy,” produced by Zebra Crossing Theater in 1991.
His study, Italian Signs, American Streets: The Evolution of Italian American
Narrative, is based on his dissertation which won the Fondazione Giovanni Agnelli/Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs award for 1993 dissertations) and was published by Duke University Press in 1996; it was named an Outstanding Academic Book for 1996 by Choice. He has also published Dagoes Read: Tradition and the Italian/American Writer and Moustache Pete is Dead!: Italian/American Oral Tradition Preserved in Print. His latest book is From Wiseguys to Wise Men: Masculinity and the Italian American Gangster (Routledge 2006). He is currently at work on a memoir and a study of irony in Italian American art and culture.
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Kevin Gardner
CUNY Graduate Center
The City College of New York
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Department:
Chemistry
Email:
kgardner@gc.cuny.edu
Office Phone:
212-413-3220
Kevin Gardner is a Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the City College of New York and a consortial faculty member in the Biochemistry, Biology, and Chemistry Ph.D. Programs at the CUNY Graduate Center. He is also the Founding Director of the Structural Biology Initiative at the Advanced Science Research Center of the CUNY Graduate Center. Before joining CUNY in 2013, he was on faculty at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas for 15 years.
Prof. Gardner’s research aims to obtain an atomic-level understanding of the mechanisms by which cells sense and respond to changes in their environment. By collaboratively integrating different techniques, ranging from structural biology to biochemistry to drug discovery, these studies have established how such proteins share common ways to turn on & off cellular processes, despite being used in different organisms and responding to different triggers. This information has led not only to a better understanding of fundamental biology but also established novel routes to artificially control protein activity in vitro and in living organisms. This work has been supported by NIH, NSF, CPRIT, and a variety of private foundations since establishing his lab in 1998.
In addition, Prof. Gardner has been a strong proponent of academic/industrial interactions in science throughout his career. Most concretely, the practical applications of his group’s findings have led to two spinoff companies, Peloton Therapeutics, Inc., and Optologix, Inc., with which he has been involved in several roles. Through their efforts, work in the Gardner lab has led to first-in-class cancer therapies being used in the clinic (belzutifan, Merck) and novel light-controlled “optogenetic” protein tools used in academic and industrial settings. Prof. Gardner continues to catalyze such spinoffs through advising NYCEDC’s LifeSciNYC effort and advising individual companies, researchers, and students in this area.
Prof. Gardner has been firmly committed to building interactive academic environments where scientists and trainees openly share expertise, interests, and ideas in biomedical research. This was his central motivation his leading the ASRC Structural Biology Initiative, which launched multiple new tenure-line faculty labs and core facilities during his time as Founding Director. He has also served in multiple roles within New York Structural Biology Center, a collaborative effort between multiple New York universities and medical research institutions to provide access to high-end structural biology instrumentation and expertise.
Gardner and his work have been recognized by awards, including the Stein & Moore Award from The Protein Society (2023) and the BPS Biophysics of Health & Disease Award from the Biophysical Society (2023). Prof. Gardner received his B.S. in Biochemistry from UC Davis, Ph.D.
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Azriel Genack
Queens College
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Department:
Physics
Email:
azriel.genack@qc.cuny.edu
Office Phone:
718-997-3373
College in 1984. He is a member of New York State Center for Advanced Technology on Ultrafast Photonics and Applications at the City University. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and a member of the Optical Society of America. For the last decade, Dr. Genack has been involved in the study of classical wave propagation in the presence of disorder.
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Rosario Gennaro
The City College of New York
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Department:
Computer Science
Email:
rosario@ccny.cuny.edu
Office Phone:
(212) 650-5153
Rosario Gennaro is a Distinguished Professor of Computer Science at the City College of New York and the CUNY Graduate Center and the Director of CCNY’s Center for Algorithms and Interactive Scientific Software (CAISS). He received his “Laurea” in Mathematics from the Universita’ di Catania (Italy) and his M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. After graduating from MIT in 1996, he joined the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center before moving to CUNY in 2012. He works in Cryptography and Network Security, as well as Theoretical Computer Science. His research focus is in mathematically modeling and solving complex societal problems related to the privacy, anonymity, and integrity of everyday electronic transactions. He has authored over 100 peer-reviewed, highly cited, research papers. He is listed as a co-inventor on 12 patents. In 2020, he was named a Fellow by the International Association of Cryptologic Research for his essential research contributions to areas such as Threshold Cryptography, Delegated Computation, and Lower Bounds. IBM Research recognized him with an Outstanding Innovator Award in 2011 for his work in Proactive Security. At CCNY, Gennaro co-founded the Master’s Program in Cybersecurity, with the support of the NYC Economic Development Corporation.
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Masha Gessen
Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism
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Department:
Journalism
Email:
masha.gessen@journalism.cuny.edu
Masha Gessen is a staff writer for The New Yorker specializing in European/Russian life and politics, human rights, and gender studies. Gessen is the author of 11 non-fiction books, including most recently “Surviving Autocracy” (Riverhead Books, June 2020); “The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia”, which won the 2017 National Book Award for Nonfiction; “The Brothers: The Road to an American Tragedy,” a 2015 award-winning account of the Boston Marathon bombers; and “The Man without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin,” a 2012 portrait of the Russian leader that Foreign Affairs said, “shines a piercing light into every dark corner of Putin’s story.”
Gessen was appointed as Newmark J-School’s first Distinguished Professor in 2023. In addition to their appointment at J-School, they are a Distinguished Writer in Residence at Bard College. They are the recipient of numerous awards and prizes, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, an Andrew Carnegie Fellowship, a Nieman Fellowship, the John Chancellor Award, the Hitchens Prize, and the Overseas Press Club Award for Best Commentary. After more than twenty years as a journalist and editor in Moscow, Gessen has been living in New York since 2013
Sarit Golub
Hunter College
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Department:
Psychology
Email:
sgolub@hunter.cuny.edu
Office Phone:
212-396-6304
Sarit A. Golub, PhD, MPH is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Psychology at Hunter College and a member of the PhD faculty in Basic and Applied Social Psychology (BASP) at the CUNY Graduate Center. Dr. Golub is a social psychologist with interdisciplinary training in public health and implementation science, whose scholarship and dissemination activities have made significant contributions to improving the quality and equity of HIV prevention locally, nationally, and internationally.  Dr. Golub directs the Hunter Alliance for Research & Translation (HART), whose mission is to translate research findings into practical implications for service and advocacy organizations, accelerating the pace of equitable, just, empirically-based practice. She has been awarded over $20 million in research funding from NIH, CDC, and other federal agencies, and her research-practice partnerships use scientific collaboration as a lever for health equity, focusing on
the
development and evaluation of novel strategies to decrease stigma, increase access, empower patients and improve sexual health. Her research has been at the forefront of innovation in the rollout of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), and her scholarship has been instrumental in moving the field of HIV and sexual health more broadly away from risk-focused, stigmatizing language toward more person-centered, affirming, and psychologically motivating communication strategies. Dr. Golub conducts community-based implementation research and training in collaboration with health departments, training institutes, and capacity building programs across the United States.
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Cecilia Gonzalez-McHugh
Queens College
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Department:
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Email:
cmchugh@qc.cuny.edu
Office Phone:
718-997-3322
Cecilia Gonzalez-McHugh was born in Argentina and came to the U.S. after her completing her high-school. She went to night school at Duchess Community College and received a BS from Western Connecticut State University in 1987. Dr. McHugh obtained her PhD in Marine Geology and Geophysics from Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University in 1993. That year she began work at Queens College as an Assistant Professor.
As a marine geologist, McHugh explores the world’s oceans and has participated in more than 35 sea-going expeditions. McHugh has studied the sedimentary record of sea-level changes and climate going back in time ~35 million years, providing background information for evaluating future global sea-level and climate changes. McHugh, students and collaborators were precursors to the field of submarine paleoseismology that focuses on understanding when and where megaquakes and tsunamis can occur. The 2004 Sumatra and the 2011 Tohoku-Oki mega-earthquakes and tsunamis were catastrophic geologic events with major societal consequences. Subducting plate boundaries similar to where these submarine earthquakes happened are the most consequential source of tsunamis and pose a huge risk to coastal cities. The ultimate goal is contributing to better hazard predictions and education. Much of McHugh’s research has been accomplished as part of Scientific Ocean Drilling. McHugh participated in seven ocean drilling expeditions to the Atlantic, South Pacific and Indian Oceans with an upcoming expedition to one of the deepest parts of the North West Pacific Ocean, the Japan Trench.
McHugh has represented the U.S. at international proposal evaluation panels and workshops. She was a Distinguished Lecturer for the International Ocean Discovery Program, is a member of the United States Science Advisory Committee for Scientific Ocean Drilling and a Fellow of the Geological Society of America. McHugh has published >50 articles in peer-reviewed journals, co-authored >50 book chapters and contributed to national and international invited talks and workshops. Involvement of PhD, MA and undergraduate students is a large component of McHugh’s research projects. McHugh tells her students to find the type of work or research they would love to do, set your goals and reach for them! You will achieve your dreams.
Current Research Interests
Land-Sea Interactions in the Indian Ocean: Tectonics, Paleoearthquakes, Paleoclimate, Fluvial Processes
Developing Tools for Submarine Earthquake Geology in Subduction and Transform Plate Boundaries
Global Sea Level Changes and Seismic Stratigraphy along Continental Margins
Connections and Reconnections of Marginal Basins in Response to Average Global Sea Level Changes
Impact of Sea Level Changes, Storms and Pollution in Estuaries and Coas
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Renee Goodwin
Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy
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Department:
Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Email:
renee.goodwin@sph.cuny.edu
Office Phone:
646-364-9611
Renee Goodwin is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy, The City University of New York, Adjunct Faculty in the Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, and a licensed Clinical Psychologist.
As an internationally recognized expert in psychiatric and substance use epidemiology, Dr. Goodwin’s work focuses on integrating theory and tools from the fields of human ecology, clinical psychology, population mental health, health services research and substance use epidemiology to identify key public health issues affecting the population, to measure their effects, and then to develop and implement pathways for positive change using a multilevel approach from a life course perspective. Throughout her prolific career, Dr. Goodwin has published over 275 research papers in the field’s leading journals, book chapters and other publications.
Her findings are also widely disseminated in the community via leading news media outlets.
Dr. Goodwin is widely viewed as a leader in the study of mental health and access to treatment, with her recent paper published in American Journal of Preventive Medicine entitled “Trends in US Depression Prevalence from 2015 to 2020: The Widening Treatment Gap,” (Goodwin RD, Dierker LC, Wu M, Galea S, Hoven CW, Weinberger AH) being named 2022
Article of the Year
by the journal.
Dr. Goodwin has also served as Deputy Editor for the journal, Nicotine and Tobacco Research, the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco Research, and on the Editorial Board of several journals.
Dr. Goodwin has been a fervent advocate for public mental health and substance use policy reform, leveraging her research to inform evidence-based practices and improve the well-being of communities both locally and globally. She looks forward to continuing her research, identifying ways to improve mental health and substance use, and decrease barriers to positive change via prevention and intervention at the individual and population level.
Dr. Goodwin holds a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Northwestern University, a Master of Public Health degree in Epidemiology from the Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University and a Bachelor of Science (with Honors) degree in Human Development from the College of Human Ecology, Cornell University.
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Carol Gould
Hunter College
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Department:
Philosophy
Email:
carolcgould@gmail.com
Office Phone:
212-396-6502 (Hunter) 212-817-1940 (the Graduate Center)
Carol C. Gould is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Hunter College and Professor in the Doctoral Programs in Philosophy and Political Science and Director of the Center for Global Ethics & Politics at the Ralph Bunche Institute at The Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She is also Editor of the Journal of Social Philosophy.A native New Yorker, Gould received a BAfrom the University of Chicago and a PhD from Yale University. Prior to joining CUNY in 2009, she taught at Lehman College, Swarthmore College, Stevens Institute of Technology, Columbia University, George Mason University, and Temple University. Her research addresses hard questions in social and political philosophy, with particular attention to the relationship between theory and practice. Her particular interests range across democratic theory, the philosophy of human rights, feminist philosophy, critical social theory, and international ethics.
Gould is the author of Marx’s Social Ontology: Individuality and Community in Marx’s Theory of Social Reality (MIT Press, 1978), which has just appeared in Chinese translation; Rethinking Democracy: Freedom and Social Cooperation in Politics, Economy, and Society, (Cambridge University Press, 1988); and Globalizing Democracy and Human Rights (Cambridge University Press, 2004), which won the 2009 David Easton Best Book Award from the American Political Science Association. She is currently completing a new book entitled Interactive Democracy: The Social Roots of Global Justice, to be published by Cambridge University Press. Her seven edited books include the influential early collection Women and Philosophy (1976), co-edited with Marx Wartofsky; The Information Web: Ethical and Social Implications of Computer Networking (1989); Gender (1999); and Cultural Identity and the Nation-State (2003). She has also published more than sixty articles in social and political philosophy, feminist theory, philosophy of law, and applied ethics. She has given over 150 invited presentations at universities around the world, including more than 30 keynote and plenary addresses at major conferences.
Gould has been active in both the American Philosophical Association and the American Political Science Association, and currently serves as Executive Director of the Society for Philosophy and Public Affairs, and as series editor for global ethics and politics at Temple University Press. She has served as President of the American Society of Value Inquiry, as well as President of the American Section of the International Society of Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy (the IVR). She has been the recipient of numerous awards, including fellowships from the Rockefeller Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities, a National Science Foundation grant, a Fulbright Senior Scholar Award in Paris, a Fulbright Distinguished Chair Professorship in Political and Social Science at the European University Institute, and a fellowship at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC.
Steven Greenbaum
Hunter College
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Department:
Physics & Astronomy
Email:
steve.greenbaum@hunter.cuny.edu
Office Phone:
212-772-4973
Dr. Steve Greenbaum is CUNY Distinguished Professor of Physics at Hunter College and the CUNY Graduate Center, and a Fellow of the American Physical Society. He also served (2008-14) as Executive Officer of the Ph.D. Program in Physics at the CUNY Graduate Center.
During sabbatical years, he served as a Fulbright Scholar at the Weizmann Institute of Science, and a NASA/NRC Senior Research Fellow at the Jet Propulsion Lab, California Institute of Technology, where he was a member of the team that designed the lithium ion batteries for the successful Mars Rover missions.
Prior to his appointment at CUNY, Professor Greenbaum spent two years in the Semiconductor Branch of the US Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C. as an NRC Postdoctoral Fellow. He has also held Visiting Professor positions in the Chemistry Department at Stony Brook University, the Materials Science and Engineering Department at Rutgers University, the School of Chemistry at Tel Aviv University, the Laboratory for Solid State Physics of the University of Paris-Sud (XI), the School of Chemical Sciences at University of Padova, and the Department of Chemistry at University of Rome, La Sapienza.
Dr. Greenbaum was the 2001 recipient of the Roosevelt Gold Medal for Science, bestowed by the New York Council of the United States Navy League, and the 2002 Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Mentoring, awarded jointly by the National Science Foundation and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. He also received the 2003 Richard Nicholson Science Teaching Award. Dr. Greenbaum was selected as one of eleven Jefferson Science Fellows who served as Senior Science and Technology advisors to the U.S. State Department during the 2014-15 academic year. He was also recognized by the Society for the Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS) by receiving their 2016 Distinguished Scientist Award. He is on sabbatical leave in 2018-19 at Ionic Materials, Inc. in Woburn, MA, serving as a senior science advisor.
Dr. Greenbaum’s main research interest involves spectroscopic studies of disordered solids by magnetic resonance and synchrotron x-ray absorption, most of which has recently centered on materials for electrochemical energy storage and conversion (i.e. batteries and fuel cells). He has authored or co-authored over 260 peer reviewed publications and given over 60 invited talks at national or international conferences.
As a dedicated educator and mentor, he has directly supervised the research of 20 postdoctoral associates, 28 Ph.D. students, and numerous M.A. and B.A. research students.
Dr. Greenbaum earned his Ph.D. in Experimental Condensed Matter Physics from Brown University.
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Alison Griffiths
Baruch College
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Department:
Communication Studies
Email:
Alison.griffiths@baruch.cuny.edu
Office Phone:
646-312-3730
Alison Griffiths is a Professor of Film and Media Studies at Baruch College and in the doctoral program in Theatre at the CUNY Graduate Center. An internationally recognized scholar of film, media and visual studies, Griffiths’s research crosses the fields of film studies, nineteenth century visual culture, and medieval visual studies and examines cinema’s relationship to and experience in, non-traditional spaces of media consumption. Griffiths is the recipient of a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, a Meyers Fellowship from the Huntington Library, and a Project Development grant from the American Council of Learned Societies. Her research has also been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, the Eugene Lang Foundation, and PSC-CUNY. Griffiths received a Felix Gross Award for outstanding research by a CUNY junior faculty member and has twice won Baruch College’s Presidential Distinguished Scholarship Award. In 2015-2016, Griffiths served as Interim Dean of the Weissman School of Arts and Sciences at Baruch.
Griffiths is the author of three monographs and over 35 journal articles and book chapters. Her ground-breaking first book,
Wondrous Difference: Cinema, Anthropology, and Turn-of-the-Century Visual Culture
(Columbia University Press, 2003), won the Sixteenth Annual Society for Cinema and Media Studies Dissertation Award in 1999; the Katherine S. Kovacs Award for the best published book in film and media studies in 2003; and honorable mention for the Krazna Krausz Moving Image Book Award in 2004. Her second book,
Shivers Down Your Spine: Cinema, Museums, and the Immersive View
(Columbia, 2008) sought to explode the myth that ideas of immersion endemic to so many contemporary viewing spaces, popular entertainment, and digital media platforms are in any way new. Tracing the idea of a revered gaze to the medieval cathedral, virtual reality to the nineteenth century panorama, fantasies of total immersion to the planetarium space show, and contemporary debates around the utility of immersive and interactive exhibits to the nineteenth century science museum, Shivers Down Your Spine developed new theories of immersive spectatorship. Her third book,
Carceral Fantasies: Cinema and Prisons in Early Twentieth Century American
(Columbia, 2016) examined how cinema gained a foothold in American penitentiaries as well as the range of early images of inmates that fed the carceral imagination. Her fourth book, Nomadic Cinema: A Cultural Geography of the Expedition Film is under contract with Columbia UP and examines cinema as a tool of exploration in the interwar period. Griffiths’ interdisciplinary research has appeared in such journals as the Journal of Visual Culture, Cinema Journal, Screen, Film History, Wide Angle, Continuum, Visual Anthropology Review, Early Popular Visual Culture, Journal of Popular Film and Television, and in numerous anthologies on early cinema, media history, and media audiences.
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Christian Grov
Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy
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Department:
Community Health and Social Sciences
Email:
Christian.Grov@sph.cuny.edu
Office Phone:
646-364-0254
Christian Grov is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Community Health and Social Sciences at the CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy. His research has focused on improving the lives and well-being of LGBTQ populations, with a particular emphasis on sexual health, HIV prevention, and substance use. Other areas of foci have included sex work, HIV treatment and care, sexually transmitted infections, and mental health. Since 2016, his research has been housed at the CUNY Institute for Implementation Science in Population Health, where he is an affiliated investigator.
Since beginning his career at CUNY—first at Brooklyn College in 2008 and then at the School of Public Health in 2016—Dr. Grov’s research has been supported by both the National Institutes for Health as well as the U.S. Centers for Disease Control. He has (co)authored hundreds of articles in peer-reviewed journals, the majority of which have included students and mentees.
Dr. Grov serves as an Associate Editor of the Journal of Sex Research (since 2017) and is former Editor-in-Chief of Sexuality Research and Social Policy. Other key contributions include having served for six years as Chair of the Department of Community Health and Social Sciences, four years on the NIH’s HIV/AIDS Intra- and Inter-personal Determinants and Behavioral Interventions (HIBI) study section, and three years as a member of the NYC Department of Health’s HIV Prevention Planning Group. In 2023, Dr. Grov was named a Fellow of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality (SSSS)—the oldest professional organization devoted to the study of sexuality—in recognition of his significant contributions to research and scholarship in the science of sexuality
Dr. Grov received his PhD in Sociology from the CUNY Graduate Center, an MPH from Hunter College, and completed his undergraduate studies with a double major in Sociology and Psychology at the University of Florida.
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David Grubbs
Brooklyn College
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Department:
Music
Email:
dgrubbs@brooklyn.cuny.edu
Office Phone:
718-951-1188
David Grubbs is Distinguished Professor of Music at Brooklyn College and The Graduate Center, CUNY. At Brooklyn College he also teaches in the MFA programs in Performance and Interactive Media Arts (PIMA) and Creative Writing. He is the author of
Good night the pleasure was ours
The Voice in the Headphones
Now that the audience is assembled
, and
Records Ruin the Landscape: John Cage, the Sixties, and Sound Recording
(all published by Duke University Press) as well as the collaborative artists’ books
Simultaneous Soloists
(with Anthony McCall, Pioneer Works Press) and
Projectile
(with Reto Geiser and John Sparagana, Drag City).
Records Ruin the Landscape
has appeared in French, Italian, and Japanese translations.
Grubbs has released fourteen solo albums and appeared on more than 200 releases. In 2000, his
The Spectrum Between
(Drag City) was named “Album of the Year” in the London
Sunday Times
. He is known for his ongoing cross-disciplinary collaborations with poet Susan Howe and visual artists Anthony McCall and Angela Bulloch, among others. His collaborations with Susan Howe appear on five album releases and have been presented in performance at MoMA, the Southbank Centre, the Walker Art Center, Cambridge University, Harvard University, and Yale University. Grubbs’s collaborations with Anthony McCall include the sound design for
ECLIPSE
, the performance work by McCall and Jonah Bokaer that inaugurated the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s BAM Fisher building. Works by Angela Bulloch featuring soundtracks by Grubbs have been exhibited at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Centre Pompidou, and the Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich. Grubbs and Bulloch premiered a performance work,
The Wired Salutation
, at the Centre Pompidou in 2013, and his collaborative installation with Eli Keszler,
One and One Less
, was exhibited at the MIT List Visual Arts Center in 2014.
Grubbs was a member of the groups Gastr del Sol, Bastro, and Squirrel Bait, and has performed with Tony Conrad, Pauline Oliveros, Luc Ferrari, Will Oldham, Loren Connors, the Red Krayola, and many others. He is one of five musicians profiled in Augusto Contento’s 2012 documentary film
Parallax Sounds
and appears in the Arte television documentary
Lost in Music: Chicago Connections
and the NHK (Japan) television documentary
The Red Krayola
Grubbs holds a Ph.D. in literature from the University of Chicago, and from 1997-99 taught in the Sound and Liberal Arts departments of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. His criticism has appeared in
Chicago Review
Texte zur Kunst
Frieze
Afterall
Modern Painters
The Wire
Bookforum
Tin House
Black Clock
, and
Conjunctions
, and between 1999 and 2007 he regularly published music criticism in the
Süddeutsche Zeitung
. Grubbs is a grant recipient in Music/Sound from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, a former contributing editor for
BOMB
Magazine
, a member of the advisory board of the journal
Sound American
, and a member of the board of directors of the non-profit curatorial platform and publisher Blank Forms.
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David Gruber
Baruch College
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Department:
Natural Sciences
Email:
David.Gruber@baruch.cuny.edu
Office Phone:
646-660-6236
David Gruber is a Distinguished Professor of Biology and Environmental Science at City University of New York, Baruch College and The CUNY Graduate Center; Research Associate in Invertebrate Zoology at the American Museum of Natural History; Adjunct Fellow at the J.B. Pierce Laboratory, Yale School of Medicine and Explorer at the National Geographic Society. His interdisciplinary research bridges animal communication, climate science, marine biology, microbiology and biomedical science, and his inventions include technology to help perceive the underwater world from the perspective of marine life. In this vein, his group developed a “shark-eye” camera to gain a shark’s perspective of their marine environment. His long-standing collaboration with the Harvard Microrobotics Laboratory has designed non-invasive gentle robotics to better understand and respect marine life. Gruber’s research previously led to the discoveries of the first bioflourescent sea turtle, more than 200 species of illuminating sea animals and novel families of fluorescent molecules from marine eels, sharks and corals. He is the Lead and Founder of Project CETI (Cetacean Translation Initiative), a transdisciplinary interspecies communication effort to listen to and translate the communication of whales. In 2019, Gruber was awarded the Lagrange Prize in complex systems science for his advancements “focused on the conservation of biodiversity, protection of resources and the safeguarding of ecosystems.”
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Godfrey Gumbs
Hunter College
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Department:
Physics and Astronomy
Email:
ggumbs@hunter.cuny.edu
Office Phone:
212-650-3935
Godfrey Gumbs, who is based at Hunter College and is a faculty member in The Graduate Center’s Ph.D. program in physics, has made important contributions to solid-state physics. His research, which includes a powerful approach to the study of nanostructures, focuses on several areas, including condensed matter physics, plasma physics, optoelectronics, math and computational techniques. A recent recipient of the Edward A. Bouchet Award, one of the highest given by the American Physical Society, he also is a fellow of the American Physical Society, an honor bestowed on no more than one half of one percent of the society’s members. Gumbs earned a B.A. in physics from Cambridge University, an M.Sc. in physics from the University of Toronto, an M.A. in physics from Cambridge University and a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Toronto.
Cynthia Hahn
Hunter College
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Department:
Art and Art History
Email:
Chahn@hunter.cuny.edu
Office Phone:
212-772-4995
Cynthia Hahn teaches the full range of medieval art at Hunter College and The Graduate Center. Her courses and scholarship focus on issues of production and meaning for both medieval and contemporary makers and audiences, with special attention to issues such as visuality and materiality.
She has published on material from the early Christian period to the Gothic, from across Europe to the Eastern Mediterranean. Her work has appeared in
Art History, Art Bulletin, Gesta, Speculum
, and many other journals and collections. Her books include
Portrayed on the Heart: Narrative Effect in Pictorial Lives of the Saints from the Tenth through the Thirteenth Century
, 2001,
Strange Beauty: Origins and Issues in the Making of Medieval Reliquaries 400-circa 1204
, 2012,
The Reliquary Effect: Enshrining the Sacred Object
, 2017,
“The Thing of Mine I have Loved the Best:” Significant Jewels, (Exhibition catalog, Les Enluminures, New York)
, 2018, and
Passion Relics and the Medieval Imagination, 2020. With Holger Klein she edited Saints and Sacred Matter: The Cult of Relics in Byzantium and Beyond
, 2015 and with
Avinoam Shalem, Seeking Transparency: Rock Crystal across the Mediterranean
, 2020. She has served on the boards of the ICMA, CASVA, and CAA online reviews.
Hahn earned her PhD from the Johns Hopkins University and her MA from the University of Chicago. She previously taught at Florida State University where she was Gulnar K. Bosch professor of Art History. Among other honors, she has been a member at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and the Center for Advanced Study of the Visual Arts in DC, and was elected a Fellow of the Medieval Academy.
She is best known for her work on reliquaries which began with the article: “The Voices of the Saints, What Do Speaking Reliquaries Say?”
Gesta
, 36, 1997 (read in many medieval art history classes), and that work has grown into an examination of the societal, historical, and art historical issues surrounding relics and reliquaries. In line with these interests, she participated in the planning of the major exhibition “Treasures of Heaven: Saints, Relics and Devotion in the Middle Ages” that had venues in Cleveland, Baltimore, and London, contributing an essay for the catalog. During the run of the show, Hunter staged its own show in which medieval reliquaries were put in dialogue with contemporary art:
Objects of Devotion and Desire: Medieval Relic to Contemporary Art
. The show was curated by Hahn and a group of M.A., Ph.D., and MFA. students.
Current scholarly interests:
Professor Hahn is working again with manuscripts– from early Psalters (especially the famous Utrecht Psalter) to secular Renaissance textbooks. For the latter project she is preparing a series of courses leading to a show for Hunter’s Leubsdorf Gallery.
Her work on reliquary pendants has led to an ongoing interest in bodily adornment of the medieval period—from jewelry to armour– and the way that these things create identity: A book is planned with Reaktion press (London). She has recently written an essay on a contemporary jeweler who was inspired by the Middle ages as well as the work of a major contemporary artist who uses materials and community in a way she compared to the construction of reliquaries. She continues to probe questions concerning reliquaries and their significance.
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Kimiko Hahn
Queens College
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718-997-4712
Kimiko Hahn was born in 1955 in Mt. Kisco, New York, the child of artists, a Japanese American mother from Hawaii and a German American father from Wisconsin. She received an undergraduate degree in English and East Asian studies from the University of Iowa, and a master’s degree in Japanese literature from Columbia University in 1984.She is the author of seven collections of poetry, including The Narrow Road to the Interior (W.W. Norton, 2006); The Artist’s Daughter (2002); Mosquito and Ant (1999); Volatile (1998); and The Unbearable Heart (1995), which received an American Book Award.
Hahn is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Foundation for the Arts, as well as a Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Writers’ Award, the Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Prize, and an Association of Asian American Studies Literature Award. She is a Distinguished Professor in the English department at Queens College/CUNY and lives in New York.
(bio courtesy of Poets.org)
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Robert Haralick
CUNY Graduate Center
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Department:
Computer Science
Email:
haralick@aim.com
Office Phone:
212-817-8192
Robert Haralick earned his Ph.D. from the University of Kansas. Before coming to The Graduate Center, he held the prestigious Boeing Egtvedt Professorship in Electrical Engineering at the University of Washington and was vice president of research at Machine Vision International. A fellow of the Institute for Electrical and Electronic Engineers and the International Association for Pattern Recognition (where he also held the office of president), he has served on the editorial boards of journals such as IEEE Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Pattern Recognition, Image and Vision Computing, IEEE Expert, and Machine Vision and Applications. Professor Haralick has authored more than 550 books, chapters, journal articles, and conference papers, among them the seminal two-volume Computer and Robot Vision. He has contributed to image texture analysis, facet modeling for image analysis, shape analysis using mathematical morphology, and in general to computer image processing, computer vision, computer document analysis, and artificial intelligence. His most recent work is in high-dimensional space clustering and pattern recognition techniques applied to combinatorial problems in free group theory.
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David Harvey
CUNY Graduate Center
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Department:
Anthropology, Earth and Environmental Sciences, and History
Email:
dharvey@gc.cuny.edu
Office Phone:
212-817-7211
David Harvey, a leading theorist in the field of urban studies whom Library Journal called “one of the most influential geographers of the later twentieth century,” earned his Ph.D. from Cambridge University, was formerly professor of geography at Johns Hopkins, a Miliband Fellow at the London School of Economics, and Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography at Oxford. His reflections on the importance of space and place (and more recently “nature”)have attracted considerable attention across the humanities and social sciences. His highly influential books include The New Imperialism; Paris, Capital of Modernity; Social Justice and the City; Limits to Capital; The Urbanization of Capital; The Condition of Postmodernity; Justice, Nature, and the Geography of Difference; Spaces of Hope; and Spaces of Capital: Towards a Critical Geography. His numerous awards include the Outstanding Contributor Award of the Association of American Geographers and the 2002 Centenary Medal of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society for his “outstanding contribution to the field of geographical enquiry and to anthropology.” He holds honorary degrees from the universities of Buenos Aires, Roskilde in Denmark, Uppsala in Sweden, and Ohio State University.
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George Hendrey
Queens College
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Department:
Earth and Environmental Science
Email:
george.hendrey@qc.cuny.edu
Office Phone:
718-997-3325
Distinguished Professor of Earth and Environmental Science at Queens CollegeProfessional Preparation
Undergraduate-
University of Washington Zoology B.A., 1966
Graduate-
University of Washington Civil Engineering/Water and Air Resources M.S., 1970
University of Washington Civil Engineering/Comparative Limnology Ph.D., 1973
Appointments
2005 – present City
University of New York. Distinguished Professor.
2004 – 2005 Queens College CUNY. Professor.
2001- 2004 Brookhaven National Laboratory. Senior Ecologist (Tenured)
1977 – 2000 Brookhaven National Laboratory. Ecologist.
1976 – 1977 Cornell University. Visiting Research Associate
1973 – 1976 Norwegian Institute for Water Research (NIVA, Oslo)). Staff Scientist
Publications 5 most relevant (out of 129 peer-reviewed publications)
Hendrey G.R., S.P. Long, I.F. McKee, and N.R. Baker. 1997. Can photosynthesis respond to short-term fluctuations in atmospheric carbon dioxide? Photosynthesis
Research 51: 179-184. (BNL 62922).
Hendrey , G.R., D.S. Ellsworth, K.F. Lewin, and J. Nagy. 1999. A free-air CO 2 enrichment system for exposing tall forest vegetation to elevated atmospheric CO 2. Global Change Biology 5: 293-309.
Percy K.E, C.S. Awmack, R.L. Lindroth, M.E. Kubiski,B..J. Kopper, J.G. Isebrands, K.S. Pregitzer, G.R. Hendrey, Richard E. Dickson, Donald R. Zak, Elina Oksanen, Jaak Sober, Richard Harrington, & David F. Karnosky. 2003. Altered performance of forest pests under CO 2- and O 3 – enriched atmospheres. Nature
420, 403 – 407.
Hendrey G.R. and Miglietta F. (2006) FACE technology: p ast, present and future. Chapter 2 in Managed Ecosystems and CO 2: Case Studies, Processes and Perspectives. Springer 459 pp.
Karipot, A., M.Y. Leclerc, G. Zhang, T. Martin, G. Starr, D. Hollinger, L.E. Hipps, McCaughey, D. J. Anderson and G. R. Hendrey. 200x. Nocturnal C02 exchange over a tall forest canopy associated with intermittent low-level jet activity. J. Theor. Appl. Climatology.(accepted).
Synergistic Activities
Head, Earth System Sciences Division, BNL, 1995-2004.
Co-PI for AmeriFlux project using multiple PFT tracers to assist development of CO2 source attribution within a pine forest 2000-2004.
Principal Investigator, FACE Facility Development Project at BNL (1986 – 2004), Establishment and operational guidance of 9 FACE facilities, 1987-2004 including: IGBP/GCTE Core Project “The Response of CO 2-Related Processes in Grassland Ecosystems in a Three-year Field CO 2 Enrichment Study” Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH-Z), Eschikon, 1993-95; Forest-Atmosphere Carbon Transfer and Storage-II effects of CO 2 and ozone on northern hardwood trees, USFS/Michigan Technical University, Rhinelander, WI: 1996-current); Effects of CO 2 enrichment on desert vegetation, University of Nevada, DOE Nevada Test Site, 1996-99; Effects of CO 2 enrichment on prairie vegetation, University of Minnesota, Cedar Creek Research Station, 1997-99; Forest-Atmosphere Carbon Transfer and Storage – III (FACTS-III/TropiFACE) Prototype Development, with Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama: 1997-99; Effects of CO 2 enrichment on agricultural, Institute for Agroecology, Braunschweig, Germany: 1998-99; and Program Coordinator for the Free-Air Carbon dioxide Enrichment (FACE) program, a consortium of investigators from national laboratories and universities, supported by DOE and other Federal agencies, 1986 – 2004.
Board of Directors, Black Rock Forest, 1989-1999;
Co-inventor, inelastic neutron scattering (INS) technique for quantification of soil carbon.
Numerous projects relating to acid deposition: Biological Effects Governing Board, National Acid Deposition Program (NADP), 1979-81; EPA Administrator’s Round Table, 1983; US-New Zealand Cooperative Science Program Award (NSF), 1992; Fellow, American Institute of Chemists, 1992; Adjunct Professor, Duke University (by vote of the faculty) 1995-2002; Certified Senior Ecologist, Ecological Society of America; Tenure, Brookhaven National Laboratory.
Conceived and initiated (with Michael Reynolds) the Urban Atmospheric Observatory project for New York City.
Collaborators and other affiliations (past 5 years)
Collaborators – Karnosky, David (Michigan Technical Univ.); Lindroth, Richard (Univ. Wisconsin); Norby, Richard (Oak Ridge National Lab.); Nösberger, Josef (Swiss Fed. Inst. Technol, Zurich); Oren, Ram (Duke Univ.); Pregitzer, Kurt (Michigan Technical Univ.); Reich, Peter B. (Univ. Minnesota); Rogers, Alistair (Brookhaven National Lab.); Schlesinger, William (Duke Univ.); Zak Donald R. (U. Michigan); Wilopolski, Lucian (Brookhaven); King John S.(NC State); Leclerc, Monique (UGA); Karipot, Anand (U. Georgia)
Graduate and Post-Doctoral Advisors – Eugene B. Welch (Univ. Washington), Thomas W. Edmonson ( University of Washington, deceased), Russel F. Christman (Univ. North Carolina).
Advisees – None
Peer reviewing
Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
Australian Journal of Botany
Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
Environmental Management
Environmental Monitoring and Assessment
Journal of Environmental Quality
Global Change Biology
Plant, Cell and Environment
Water, Air and Soil Pollution
Agricultural Research Service, USDA
Institute of Ecosystems Studies, Millbrook, NY
National Science Foundation
U.S. Department of Energy
Israel Science Foundation
Springer-Verlag (publisher)
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Dagmar Herzog
CUNY Graduate Center
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Department:
History
Email:
dherzog@gc.cuny.edu
Office Phone:
212-817-8468
Dagmar Herzog is Distinguished Professor of History and the Daniel Rose Faculty Scholar at the Graduate Center, where she teaches courses in Modern European history, the history of the Holocaust and its aftermath, interdisciplinary theory and research methodology, and the histories of gender and sexuality. She received her B.A. (1983) in Political Science and French Literature from Duke University and received her M.A. (1985) and Ph.D. (1991) in History at Brown University. Before coming to the Graduate Center, Prof. Herzog taught for more than a dozen years at Michigan State University. At the Graduate Center, she has conducted extensive comparative and transnational research on how religion and secularization have affected social and political developments in modern Europe. She is the author of Sexuality in Europe: A Twentieth-Century History (Cambridge UP 2011), forthcoming also in Turkish; Sex in Crisis: The New Sexual Revolution and the Future of American Politics (Basic Books 2008); Sex after Fascism: Memory and Morality in Twentieth-Century Germany (Princeton 2005), which has been translated into German and Japanese; and Intimacy and Exclusion: Religious Politics in Pre-Revolutionary Baden (Princeton 1996; Transaction 2007). She is the editor and coeditor of six anthologies, including, most recently, After the History of Sexuality: German Genealogies With and Beyond Foucault (Berghahn 2012 – with Helmut Puff and Scott Spector); Brutality and Desire: War and Sexuality in Europe’s Twentieth Century (Palgrave Macmillan 2009); and Lessons and Legacies VII: The Holocaust in International Perspective (Northwestern 2007).In her work on contemporary sexuality-related policy and disability rights policy in both Europe and the U.S., Prof. Herzog works closely with public health experts and medical and therapeutic professionals as well as jurists, and she frequently speaks to the media and to non-academic publics; she has also worked as a columnist for the Berlin-based tageszeitung. In addition, Prof. Herzog is active in the work of the Holocaust Educational Foundation. She is the recipient of fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies at Princeton University, the Ford Foundation, the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Social Science Research Council, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. She serves as a member of the Board of Editors for the American Historical Review and is currently at work on two new projects: one on the intertwined vicissitudes of disability rights and reproductive rights in the European Union, and one on the politics of the European and American histories of psychoanalysis, trauma, and desire in the postwar era.
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David Himmelstein
Hunter College
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Department:
Urban Public Health
Email:
dhimmels@hunter.cuny.edu
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617-312-0970
David U. Himmelstein M.D. is a Distinguished Professor of Public Health at CUNY’s Hunter College and a Lecturer in Medicine at Harvard Medical School, where he was previously a Professor of Medicine. He also serves as a staff physician at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx.
He has authored or co-authored three books and more than 125 journal articles, including widely-cited proposals for single- payer health care reform, and studies of patient dumping (which led to the enactment of EMTALA law that banned that practice), the high administrative costs of the U.S. health care system, medical bankruptcy (co-authored with Elizabeth Warren), and the mortal consequences of uninsurance. He co-founded, with Dr. Steffie Woolhandler, Physicians for a National Health Program, who’s 20,000 members advocate for non-profit, single payer national health insurance.
Prior to coming to CUNY, he practiced primary care internal medicine and served as the Chief of Social and Community Medicine at the public hospital in Cambridge, MA.
Dr. Himmelstein graduated from Columbia University’s College of Physicians and Surgeons, completed a medical residency at Highland Hospital in Oakland, California, as well as a fellowship in General Internal Medicine at Harvard.
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Peter Hitchcock
Baruch College
CUNY Graduate Center
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Peter.Hitchcock@baruch.cuny.edu
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646-312-3923
Peter Hitchcock is Distinguished Professor of English at Baruch College and at the Graduate Center, CUNY. He is also on the faculty of the Comparative Literature Department, as well as the Certificate Programs in Women’s Studies and Film Studies at the Graduate Center. He teaches courses on postcolonial and decolonial literature, twentieth- and twenty-first-century literature, contemporary fiction, film and film history, and cultural theory. A product entirely of public education, Hitchcock earned his Ph.D. at the Graduate Center.
An internationally recognized scholar of cultural theory, Hitchcock’s books feature both in-depth readings of literature and culture as well as provide theoretical models of cultural critique. His books include Dialogics of the Oppressed (Minnesota, 1992), Oscillate Wildly: Space, Body, and Spirit of Millennial Materialism (Minnesota, 1999), Imaginary States: Studies in Cultural Transnationalism (Illinois, 2003), The Long Space: Transnationalism and Postcolonial Form (Stanford, 2009), Labor in Culture, or, Worker of the World(s) (Palgrave, 2017), and several co-edited collections of essays. Forthcoming books include Seriality and Social Change (Seagull, 2025) and Parasitical Logic in Culture and Society (Bloomsbury, 2025; edited with an introduction). Hitchcock’s articles have appeared in PMLA, New Literary History, Modern Fiction Studies, The Global South, Women’s Studies Quarterly, Genders, Research in African Literatures, Transition, The Comparatist, Comparative Literature, Mosaic, Representations, Cultural Critique, Postcolonial Studies, Cultural Studies, Poetics Today, and New Formations, among many others. His work has also appeared in dozens of anthologies, special collections, handbooks, and guides, including Handbook of Anglophone World Literatures, Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature, Materialism and the Critique of Energy, The Bloomsbury Handbook of Literary and Cultural Theory, The Post-Colonial Contemporary, The Routledge Companion to Literature and Human Rights, Masculinities in African Literary and Cultural Contexts, Chinese Connections, and The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism.
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Terry Huang
Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy
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Department:
Health Policy & Management
Email:
Terry.Huang@sph.cuny.edu
Office Phone:
646-364-0247
Dr. Terry Huang is Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Department of Health Policy and Management, Director of the Center for Systems and Community Design, and Co-Director of the NYU-CUNY Prevention Research Center (CDC-designated) at the City University of New York Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy. Previously, Dr. Huang played a leading role at the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) on the integration of systems science and public health. Dr. Huang has had a long history of research and policy leadership in the area of obesity and chronic disease prevention. In addition, he is passionate about systems-oriented community health, design for health, public health entrepreneurship, and strategies for collective impact. Dr. Huang has lectured and published extensively on these and other topics. In addition to his varied academic research endeavors, his current work also focuses on innovation at the intersection of business, design, and health, including the founding of a new public health entrepreneurship platform, Firefly Innovations (www.firefly-innovations.com). Dr. Huang received the US Department of Health and Human Services Secretary’s Innovation Award in 2010 and the NIH Director’s Award in 2011. In addition, he received the National Cancer Institute Award of Merit in 2012 and was named Distinguished Scientist by the University of Nebraska Medical Center in 2013. Dr. Huang holds a PhD in Preventive Medicine and an MPH from the University of Southern California, an MBA from IE Business School (Madrid, Spain), and a BA in Psychology from McGill University (Montreal, Canada).
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Tyehimba Jess
College of Staten Island
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tyehimba.jess@csi.cuny.edu
Office Phone:
718-982-3638
Tyehimba Jess is the author of two books of poetry, Leadbelly and Olio. Olio won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, The Midland Society Author’s Award in Poetry, and received an Outstanding Contribution to Publishing Citation from the Black Caucus of the American Library Association. It was also nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the PEN Jean Stein Book Award, and the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. Leadbelly was a winner of the 2004 National Poetry Series. The Library Journal and Black Issues Book Review both named it one of the “Best Poetry Books of 2005.”
Jess, a Cave Canem and NYU Alumni, received a 2004 Literature Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, and was a 2004–2005 Winter Fellow at the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center. Jess is also a veteran of the 2000 and 2001 Green Mill Poetry Slam Team, and won a 2000–2001 Illinois Arts Council Fellowship in Poetry, the 2001 Chicago Sun-Times Poetry Award, and a 2006 Whiting Fellowship. He presented his poetry at the 2011 TedX Nashville Conference and won a 2016 Lannan Literary Award in Poetry. He received a Guggenheim fellowship in 2018. Jess is a Professor of English at College of Staten Island.
Jess’ fiction and poetry have appeared in many journals, as well as anthologies such as Angles of Ascent: A Norton Anthology of Contemporary African American Poetry, Beyond the Frontier: African American Poetry for the Twenty-First Century, Role Call: A Generational Anthology of Social and Political Black Literature and Art, Bum Rush the Page: A Def Poetry Jam, Power Lines: Ten Years of Poetry from Chicago’s Guild Complex, and Slam: The Art of Performance Poetry.
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Yunping Jiang
Queens College
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Department:
Mathematics
Email:
yunping.jiang@qc.cuny.edu
Office Phone:
718-997-5848
Yunping Jiang was born in China and received a B.S. and M.S. in Mathematics from Peking University in Beijing before coming to the United States to pursue his Ph.D. at the CUNY Graduate Center. He subsequently taught at Stony Brook University for two years before joining the faculty of Queens College in 1992 and the Graduate Center in 1998.Professor Jiang has published over five dozen research articles in numerous mathematics journals and serves on the editorial boards of Transactions of the American Mathematical Society, Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society, and Geometry. He is also the author of a monograph on dynamical systems, Renormalization and Geometry in One-Dimensional and Complex Dynamics, and a co-editor of several notable collective works, including Dynamical Systems: Proceedings of the International Conference in Honor of Professor Liao Shantao, Complex Dynamics and Related Topics, and Quasiconformal Mappings, Riemann Surfaces, and Teichmüller Spaces. He is a recipient of numerous grants, including several NSF awards, several CUNY collaborative incentive research grants, multiple PSC-CUNY Awards, and a current Simon Foundation Collaborative Grant for his ongoing work on dynamical systems and complex analysis.
Alexandra Juhasz
Brooklyn College
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Department:
Film
Email:
alexandra.juhasz@brooklyn.cuny.edu
Office Phone:
718-951-5664
Dr. Alexandra Juhasz received her BA, Summa Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa, from Amherst College in English and American Studies. Her Ph.D. is in Cinema Studies from NYU. She is a graduate of the Whitney Independent Studio Program where she participated as an activist videomaker. She makes and studies committed media practices that contribute to political change and individual and community growth. She has taught at NYU, Swarthmore and Bryn Mawr Colleges, Claremont Graduate University, USC, Pitzer College, and CUNY on YouTube, media archives, activist media, documentary, and feminist film and video as well as media production, history, and theory. Dr. Juhasz writes about and makes feminist, queer, fake, and AIDS documentary. Her work as media artist, curator, and writer engages with linked social justice commitments, including AIDS, black queer and lesbian media, feminist and queer/trans film, and activist archives and collectives. She is the author or editor of
AIDS TV: Identity, Community and Alternative Video
(Duke University Press, 1995);
Women of Vision: Histories in Feminist Film and Video
(University of Minnesota Press, 2001);
F is for Phony: Fake Documentary and Truth’s Undoing
, co-edited with Jesse Lerner (Minnesota, 2005);
Learning from YouTube
(MIT Press, 2011); co-edited with Alisa Lebow,
The Blackwell Companion on Contemporary Documentary
(2015); with Yvonne Welbon,
Sisters in the Life: 25 Years of African-American Lesbian Filmmaking
(Duke University Press, 2018); with Jih-Fei Cheng and Nishant Shahani
AIDS and the Distribution of Crises
(Duke 2020); and with Nishant Shah,
FAKE!
(University of Minnesota and Melos Presses, 2020); and a book of poetry,
My Phone Lies to Me: Fake News Poetry Workshops as Radical Digital Media Literacy Given the Fact of Fake News
(The Operating System, 2020). Dr. Juhasz is also the producer of educational videotapes on feminist issues from AIDS to teen pregnancy as well as the feature fake documentaries
The Watermelon Woman
(Cheryl Dunye, 1997) which recently enjoyed its 20th year re-release culminating in a purchase by MoMA and
The Owls
(Dunye, 2010).
Current Scholarly Interests
Dr. Juhasz’s current work is in two primary areas: AIDS and queer cultural production and archives; and feminist Internet and media culture including fake news (
) and Fake News Poetry Workshops (
fakenews-poetry.org
), and feminist pedagogy and community (
feministonlinespaces.com
and
ev-ent-anglement.com
). With Anne Balsamo, she was founding co-facilitator of the network, FemTechNet:
femtechnet.org
Saul Kassin
John Jay College of Criminal Justice
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Department:
Forensic Psychology
Email:
skassin@jjay.cuny.edu
Office Phone:
646-557-4505
Saul Kassin received his Ph.D. in personality and social psychology at the University of Connecticut. In 1984, he was awarded a U. S. Supreme Court Judicial Fellowship, and spent the year at the Federal Judicial Center. In 1985 he was a postdoctoral fellow and visiting professor in the Psychology and Law Program at Stanford University. Dr. Kassin has conducted research on police interviewing, interrogation, and the elicitation of confessions, and on the psychology of eyewitness identifications and testimony. He has also studied the impact of these and other types of evidence on jurors and jury decision-making. Dr. Kassin is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and the American Psychological Society.He has served on the editorial board of Law and Human Behavior since 1986. He lectures frequently to judges, lawyers, psychologists, and law enforcement groups. He has worked as an analyst for various news media and as a consultant and expert witness in federal, military, and state courts. He has also co-authored or edited a number of scholarly books, including: Confessions in the Courtroom, The Psychology of Evidence and Trial Procedure, The American Jury on Trial: Psychological Perspectives, and Developmental Social Psychology.
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Thomas Kessner
CUNY Graduate Center
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Department:
History and Urban Education
Email:
tkessner@gc.cuny.edu
Office Phone:
212-817-8437
Thomas Kessner is a graduate of Brooklyn College (1963) and earned his doctorate at Columbia University in 1975 with distinction. He was appointed as distinguished professor at the Graduate Center in 2005. His special areas of interest are American urban and social history and the history of New York City. He has published several books, including The Flight of the Century: Charles A. Lindbergh and the Rise of American Aviation (Oxford, 2010), Capital City: New York City and the Men Behind America’s Rise to Economic Dominance, 1860–1900 (Simon & Schuster, 2003); Fiorello H. LaGuardia and the Making of Modern New York (McGraw Hill, 1989); and The Golden Door (Oxford, 1977), a study of immigrant life and economic mobility in New York City. His work has garnered awards and fellowships from the Rockefeller Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the American Council of Learned Societies. He has served as a consultant to the New York City Board of Education, the Ellis Island Museum, the New York Historical Society, the Museum of the City of New York, and many other scholarly and professional institutions. He was also an associate editor for the Encyclopedia of New York City and has directed more than half a dozen NEH Summer Seminars for College and High School Teachers.
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Andreas Killen
CUNY Graduate Center
The City College of New York
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Department:
History
Email:
akillen@ccny.cuny.edu
Office Phone:
212-650-7454
Andreas Killen is a Distinguished Professor of History at the City College of New York and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He is also co-director of City College’s Rifkind Center for the Humanities and Arts.
He has written widely on German and American history, film history, and the history of psychiatry and brain science. His publications include Berlin Electropolis: Shock, Nervousness, and German Modernity (University of California 2005), 1973 Nervous Breakdown: Watergate, Warhol, and the Birth of Post-60’s America (Bloomsbury 2005), Homo Cinematicus: Science, Motion Pictures, and the Making of Modern Germany (University of Pennsylvania 2017) and, most recently, Nervous Systems: Brain Science in the Early Cold War (HarperCollins 2023), which was a finalist for the Cheiron Book Prize Award. He has also co-edited three books on topics ranging from the history of the human sciences, to the intellectual history of the concept of “catastrophe,” and the history of brainwashing. His research interests include the history of psychiatry, neuroscience, cybernetics, and the relation between science and fringe science.
Professor Killen’s work has been supported by numerous fellowships from institutions like the UCLA Humanities Center, the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, and NYU’s Remarque Institute. In 2023, he was awarded the Stuart Katz Professorship in the Humanities at the City College. He received his undergraduate degree in comparative literature from Reed College and his PhD in History from New York University.
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Wayne Koestenbaum
CUNY Graduate Center
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wkoestenbaum@aol.com
Office Phone:
212-817-8323
Writer, scholar and critic Wayne Koestenbaum is recognized as an important American poet, as one of the founders of queer studies, and as a wide-ranging cultural critic who crosses boundaries of literature, art, music, and popular culture. His book The Queen’s Throat: Opera, Homosexuality, and the Mystery of Desire, published in 1993, had a significant impact on the emerging fields of gender and sexuality studies, as have his groundbreaking essays in influential anthologies.His books of poetry include Ode to Anna Moffo and Other Poems (1990), Rhapsodies of a Repeat Offender (1994), The Milk of Inquiry (1999), and the recent collections Model Homes (2004) and Best-Selling Jewish Porn Films (2006). As a critic, he has published Double Talk: The Erotics of Male Literary Collaboration (1989); Jackie Under My Skin: Interpreting An Icon (1995); Cleavage: Essays on Sex, Stars, and Aesthetics (2000); and Andy Warhol (2001), in addition to The Queen’s Throat.
He is also the author of a novel, Moira Orfei in Aigues-Mortes (2004), as well as a libretto, Jackie O (composed by Michael Daugherty and commissioned by the Houston Grand Opera). His next book of prose, Hotel Theory, will be published in May 2007.
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Victor Kolyvagin
CUNY Graduate Center
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Department:
Mathematics
Email:
vkolyvagin@gc.cuny.edu
Office Phone:
(212) 817-8563
Victor Kolyvagin is the first to hold the Mina Rees Chair in Mathematics, named for The Graduate Center’s first president, who was a distinguished mathematician. He is famous for a series of papers produced over several years and culminating in one on “Euler Systems,” which is considered an original, fundamental breakthrough, and which played an important role in Andrew Wiles’s path to his famous proof of Fermat’s last theorem. Among the most significant discoveries in number theory in the past quarter century, his discovery of Euler Systems continues to be used in the ongoing development of the field and has led to breakthroughs in what are known to mathematicians as the Birch and Swinnerton Dyer conjecture for elliptical curves and Iwasawa’s conjecture for cyclotomic fields, along with other significant applications. He earned his Ph.D. in mathematics from Moscow State University, worked at the Steclov athematical Institute in Moscow, and in 1990 received the USSR Academy of Science’s Chebyshev Prize. Most recently he was J.J. Sylvester Professor of Mathematics at Johns Hopkins University.
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Paul Krugman
CUNY Graduate Center
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Department:
Economics
Email:
pkrugman@gc.cuny.edu
Paul Krugman is an American economist, Distinguished Professor of Economics at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and an op-ed columnist for The New York Times. In 2008, Krugman was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his contributions to New Trade Theory and New Economic Geography. The Prize Committee cited Krugman’s work explaining the patterns of international trade and the geographic distribution of economic activity, by examining the effects of economies of scale and of consumer preferences for diverse goods and services Krugman was previously a professor of economics at MIT, and later at Princeton University. He retired from Princeton in June 2015, and holds the title of professor emeritus there. He is also Centenary Professor at the London School of Economics, and was President of the Eastern Economic Association in 2010. As of 2016, Research Papers in Economics ranked him as the world’s 24th most influential economist based on citations of his work. Krugman is known in academia for his work on international economics (including trade theory, economic geography, and international finance), liquidity traps, and currency crisis.Krugman has written over 20 books, including scholarly works, textbooks and books for a more general audience, and has published over 200 scholarly articles in professional journals and edited volumes. He has also contributed more than 750 columns on economic and political issues to The New York Times, Fortune and Slate.
Ben Lerner
Brooklyn College
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Email:
blerner@brooklyn.cuny.edu
Office Phone:
718-9517-5000 x3556
Ben Lerner is an American poet, novelist, and critic. He has received fellowships from the Fulbright, Guggenheim, and Howard Foundations, and is the author of two internationally acclaimed novels, Leaving the Atocha Station and 10:04. He has published three poetry collections: The Lichtenberg Figures, Angle of Yaw, and Mean Free Path. In 2011 Lerner became the first American to win the Preis der Stadt Münster für internationale Poesie. His monograph, The Hatred of Poetry, was published in the summer of 2016. His essays can be found in Art in America, boundary 2, Frieze, Harper’s, The London Review of Books, and The New Yorker, among many other publications. In 2015, Lerner received a MacArthur Fellowship for writing that “offers a new vision for how people can relate to one other—a glimmer of hope in a world beset by inequality, weather catastrophes, and political upheaval. Lerner is transcending conventional distinctions of genre and style in a body of work that constitutes an extended meditation on how to capture our contemporary moment.”
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Gail Levin
Baruch College
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Department:
Fine and Performing Arts
Email:
Gail.Levin@baruch.cuny.edu
Office Phone:
646-312-4062
An outstanding scholar, biographer and art historian, Professor Levin’s international reputation is based on the 18 books she has written or edited, including her definitive studies of Edward Hopper, her current work on Judy Chicago, and her developing interests in feminist art and Eastern European Jewish immigrant influences on currents of American modernist art. Her work as a curator, particularly at the Whitney Museum of American Art, has deepened the understanding of American modernist art, including abstract impressionism. She has been teaching at Baruch College since 1986 and was a visiting professor at the CUNY Graduate Center in 1979 when she published her first two volumes on Hopper and her work on Synchronism and American Abstractionism. Her work on Hopper was recently cited in the Wall Street Journal as one of the most influential studies of the century and one of the five most influential artist biographies of all time. Besides her many books, Dr. Levin has published numerous articles and given many invited presentations and lectures, both in the United States and abroad. Among her many awards are the Distinguished Fulbright Chair, the National Association of Women Artists Award for Biography and Art History, and the National Endowment for the Humanities grant.
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Eric Lott
CUNY Graduate Center
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Department:
English and American Studies
Email:
elott@gc.cuny.edu
Office Phone:
212-817-8315
Eric Lott teaches American Studies at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, where he currently chairs the English Program. Lott has written and lectured widely at dozens of universities and other institutions on the politics of U.S. cultural and performance history, and his work has appeared in a range of periodicals including The Village Voice, The Nation, The Chronicle of Higher Education, PMLA, Representations, Transition, Social Text, American Literary History, and American Quarterly. He is the author of Love and Theft: Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class (Oxford UP, 1993; 20th Anniversary ed., 2013), from which Bob Dylan took the title for his 2001 album “Love and Theft”; The Disappearing Liberal Intellectual (Basic Books, 2006); and Black Mirror: The Cultural Contradictions of American Racism (Harvard UP, 2017), a study of race, culture, and fantasy across the long twentieth century. Lott has appeared on The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, CBS Sunday Morning, C-Span Book TV, Al Jazeera TV, and various radio shows and podcasts.
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Setha Low
CUNY Graduate Center
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Department:
Anthropology/Earth & Environmental Sciences
Email:
slow@gc.cuny.edu
Office Phone:
212-817-8725
Dr. Setha Low is Distinguished Professor of Environmental Psychology, Geography, Anthropology, and Women’s Studies, and Director of the Public Space Research Group at The Graduate Center, City University of New York. She received her Ph.D. in cultural anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley and currently trains Ph.D. students in the anthropology of space and place, urban anthropology, the politics of public space, the social production of the built environment affect and emotion, and anthropology of the body. She has been awarded a Getty Fellowship, a NEH fellowship, a Fulbright Senior Fellowship, a Future of Places Fellowship and a Guggenheim Fellowship for her ethnographic research on public space in Latin America and the United States. Setha is widely published and internationally recognized and translated for her award winning books on public space and cultural diversity. Her most recent publications are
Spatializing Culture: The Ethnography of Space and Place
(2017),
Anthropology and the City
(2019), and
Spaces of Security
(with M. Maguire) (2019). In the spring of 2019 she undertook staff training on public space and social justice at UN Habitat in Nairobi, Kenya and lectured on the public space and civic life at the Strelka Institute in Moscow, Russia. Her commitment is to both research and engagement to create a more just and inclusive city.
Current Scholarly Interests:
Security and Surveillance, Private Governance, Anthropology of Corporations, Ethnography of Space and Place, Illiberal Urbanism, Politics of Public Space.
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Public Safety Research Group
Twitter: @sethalow
Hernan Makse
The City College of New York
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Department:
Physics
Email:
hmakse@ccny.cuny.edu
Office Phone:
212-650-6847
Hernan Makse currently serves as Distinguished Professor of Physics at the Physics Department of City College of New York, wherein he is responsible for the Complex Networks and Data Science Lab at the Levich Institute. He is also a Member Affiliate at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and co-founder of
Kcore Analytics
, an AI company in New York City.
Makse’s research focuses on the theoretical understanding of complex systems from astatistical physics viewpoint. He is working towards developing new emergent laws for complex systems, ranging from brain networks to biological and social systems, which contribute to interdisciplinary problems in Network Science with applications to Biological and Social Networks, his work on fractality and influencers in complex networks, and in particular, big data analytics.
Dr. Makse is co-author with S. Alarcon of the book
The Science of Influencers and Superspreaders Using Network Theory and AI
, in which he exposes his ideas about how network science and AI can help to understand the future of society, epidemics, biology, markets, ecosystems, and climate change. He is a founding member and editorial board member of the journal Collective Intelligence and an editor of the Journal of Statistical Mechanics and Scientific Reports. He serves as a Distinguished Board Member of the Center of Energy and Sustainability at Bar-Ilan University, Israel. He has received research grants from NSF, NIH, and DOE and serves as a reviewer and panelist at NSF and NIH.
Makse holds a Ph.D. degree in Physics from Boston University, and he is a fellow of the American Physical Society.
Current Scholarly Interests
Physics theory, disordered systems, complex networks including biological and social networks, artificial intelligence, and data science
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Gerald Markowitz
John Jay College of Criminal Justice
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Department:
History
Email:
gmarkowitz@jjay.cuny.edu
Office Phone:
(212) 237-8458
Gerald E. Markowitz, professor of history at The Graduate Center and John Jay College of Criminal Justice, is the author of 43 articles and nine books. He is the co-author of Deceit and Denial: The Deadly Politics of Industrial Pollution, which was published in 2003 and has been praised for chronicling how the lead paint industry knowingly exposed Americans, including children, to toxic substances. Markowitz was featured in the Bill Moyers documentary, “Trade Secrets,” talking about the material in Deceit and Denial. He also co-authored Deadly Dust: Silicosis and the Politics of Industrial Disease in Twentieth Century America.
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José Miguel Martínez Torrejón
Queens College
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Department:
Hispanic Languages and Literatures
Email:
jose.martinez-torrejon@qc.cuny.edu
Office Phone:
718-992-5660
José Miguel Martínez Torrejón has taught at CUNY since 1997. He holds degrees from Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and University of California, Santa Barbara. He has taught at Temple, Columbia, and Universidade Nova de Lisboa, and has been a fellow of the John Carter Brown Library, the Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia and the National Library of Portugal, in addition to numerous international engagements and fellowships. He is the director of the Catherine of Bragança Center for Portuguese Studies at Queens College.
His teaching and research bridges philology, literary criticism, and the history of Early Modern Spain, Portugal, and their colonies. He uses philological and rhetorical analysis to study the history of ideas and the political uses of literature. Among his most notable scholarly contributions are critical, annotated editions of politically charged texts: working in the humanistic tradition, he believes that to read, interpret, and learn from such texts can only begin by approaching them in the light of contemporaneous language, rhetoric, and thought.
His work on such a well-known book as Las Casas’s Brevísima relación has often been described by reviewers as definitive for its edition and annotation, and as a landmark for the interpretive work this allowed. It has been issued by six publishers in Spain, Mexico, and Colombia.
His research on Luso-Hispanic literature has unveiled the importance of miscellany books from the period preceding Portugal’s annexation to the Habsburg monarchy (1580) when an aroused national consciousness permeates every kind of artistic expression. In these inconspicuous chapbooks, without apparent common purpose, compiled poems are interspersed with documents of political nature, so that they engage in a dialogue provoking reflection over issues of collective identity. Part of this long-term object of attention is the construction of the received image of King Sebastian in literary and public discourse during his life and after his death.
He also works on several early accounts of the Spanish exploration of Florida. His book Los pre-textos de “La Florida del Inca” close reads two summaries of Garcilaso Inca’s Florida, showing that they were written before the 1605 publication; one is a book project the author circulated among benefactors in his attempts to attract subsidies; the other is a summary prepared by one of the reviewers, who blocked its publication, but intended to plagiarize the book—which he did. The micro-history of the long process to publish Florida sheds light on how academic practices of the past, were also dependent on patronage, political allegiances, and professional rivalries.
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Soledad Carrasco
University of North Carolina Press
John Matteson
John Jay College of Criminal Justice
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jmatteson@jjay.cuny.edu
Office Phone:
212-237-8586
John Matteson is Distinguished Professor of English at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. His first book, Eden’s Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father, was awarded the 2008 Pulitzer Prize in Biography. Eden’s Outcasts was also named as an Honors Book in Nonfiction by the 2008-09 Massachusetts Book Awards and received a commendation from the Massachusetts State Legislature.Professor Matteson’s more recent book, The Lives of Margaret Fuller, was published by W. W. Norton and Company in January 2012. His shorter work has appeared in The Wall Street Journal; The New York Times; New England Quarterly; CrossCurrents; The Harvard Theological Review; and Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies, among many other publications. Professor Matteson has received the Distinguished Faculty Award of the John Jay College Alumni Association and the Dean’s Award for Distinguished Achievement by a Ph.D. Alumnus of the Columbia University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. He received his A. B. in History from Princeton, where he graduated cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa. He earned a J.D. at Harvard Law School and practiced law in California and North Carolina before returning to the academy to earn a Ph.D. in English from Columbia University. He serves on the advisory boards of the Louisa May Alcott Society and the Biographers International Organization. He is a former fellow in residence at the Leon Levy Center for Biography and is currently the deputy director of that center. A native of northern California, Professor Matteson lives in the Bronx with his wife Michelle. Their daughter Rebecca is a member of the Wellesley College Class of 2016.
Professor Matteson’s current scholarly interests include transcendentalism, the development of the the American novel, and interactions between law and literary culture following the Civil War.
Uday Singh Mehta
CUNY Graduate Center
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Department:
Political Science
Email:
umehta@gc.cuny.edu
Office Phone:
212-817-8699
Uday Singh Mehta, distinguished professor of political science, is a renowned political theorist whose work encompasses a wide spectrum of philosophical traditions. He has worked on a range of issues including the relationship between freedom and imagination, liberalism’s complex link with colonialism and empire, and, more recently, war, peace, and nonviolence. He is the author of two books, The Anxiety of Freedom: Imagination and Individuality in the Political Thought of John Locke (Cornell University Press, 1992) and Liberalism and Empire: Nineteenth Century British Liberal Thought (University of Chicago Press, 1999), which won the J. David Greenstone Book Award from the American Political Science Association in 2001 for the best book in history and theory. In 2002, he was named a Carnegie Foundation scholar. He is currently completing a book on war, peace, and nonviolence, which focuses on the moral and political thought of M. K. Gandhi. He received his undergraduate education at Swarthmore College, where he studied mathematics and philosophy. He has a Ph.D. in political philosophy from Princeton University. Mehta comes
to the Graduate Center from Amherst College, where he was the Clarence Francis Professor in the Social Sciences.
Kate Menken
Queens College
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Department:
Linguistics
Email:
kmenken@qc.cuny.edu
Office Phone:
718-997-2878
Kate Menken is Distinguished Professor of Linguistics and Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) at Queens College of the City University of New York (CUNY). She is also a Research Fellow at the Research Institute for the Study of Language in an Urban Society at the CUNY Graduate Center. She is Co-Editor in Chief of the journal
Language Policy
. Her research interests include language education policy, bilingual education, and educational policies and practices for bilingual students in the U.S. (especially New York City). Her books include
English Learners Left Behind: Standardized Testing as Language Policy
(Multilingual Matters, 2008);
Negotiating Language Policies in Schools: Educators as Policymakers
(with Ofelia García, Routledge, 2010);
Common Core, Bilingual and English Language Learners: A Resource for Educators
(with Guadalupe Valdés and Mariana Castro, Caslon, 2015),
Translanguaging and Transformative Teaching for Emergent Bilingual Students: Lessons from the CUNY-NYSIEB Proje
ct (with the CUNY-NYSIEB team, Routledge, 2020), and
Overcoming the gentrification of dual language, bilingual, and immersion education: Solution-oriented research and stakeholder resources for real integration
(with Garrett Delavan and Juan Freire, Multilingual Matters, 2024).
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Ruth Milkman
CUNY Graduate Center
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Department:
Sociology
Email:
rmilkman@gc.cuny.edu
Office Phone:
212-817-8771
Ruth Milkman is a sociologist of labor and labor movements who has written on a variety of topics involving work and organized labor in the United States, past and present. Her most recent book is Unfinished Business: Paid Family Leave in California and the Future of U.S. Work-Family Policy (Cornell University Press, 2013), coauthored with Eileen Appelbaum. She has also written extensively about low-wage immigrant workers in the United States, analyzing their employment conditions as well as the dynamics of immigrant labor organizing. She helped lead a multicity team that produced a widely publicized study documenting the prevalence of wage theft and violations of other workplace laws in Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York, and recently coauthored a study of the Occupy Wall Street movement. In 2012–13 she was the Matina S. Horner Visiting Professor at Harvard University’s Radcliffe Institute.Milkman’s prize-winning book Gender at Work: The Dynamics of Job Segregation by Sex during World War II (1987) is still widely read and cited. Milkman also published a study of U.S. auto workers, Farewell to the Factory (1997) and a study of immigrant unionism, L.A. Story: Immigrant Workers and the Future of the U.S. Labor Movement (2006). She serves as academic director of the Joseph S. Murphy Institute for Worker Education and Labor Studies and is on the editorial boards of several journals. In 2013 she was given the Public Understanding of Sociology Award by the American Sociological Association. Milkman taught sociology for more than twenty years at the University of California, Los Angeles, and directed the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment there from 2001 to 2008. In 2009, she returned to the Graduate Center, where she had begun her distinguished career in the 1980s. She holds a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of California, Berkeley.
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Nancy K. Miller
CUNY Graduate Center
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Department:
Comparative Literature, English, French
Email:
nmiller@gc.cuny.edu
Office Phone:
212-817-8318
Distinguished Professor Miller’s areas of interest include contemporary autobiography and autobiography theory; women’s writing (American and French); twentieth-century cultural history, after 1945; and feminist theory.
She earned her Ph.D. in French literature, with distinction, from Columbia University. In 1988, after thirteen years of teaching at Columbia College and Barnard College, Dr. Miller accepted an appointment to the Graduate Center as a distinguished professor and began teaching in the Ph.D. Program in English. She was also later appointed to the Ph.D. Programs in Comparative Literature and French.A WWII-era New York child, an early ‘60s graduate student in a largely male academy, and a ‘70s and ‘80s feminist-critic-in-the-trenches, Dr. Miller is one of the founders of the “personal criticism” movement whereby a critic discovers larger truths in meditating on his or her experiences.
Among her selected publications are: The Heroine’s Text: Readings in the French and English Novel, 1722–82 (Columbia University Press, 1980); The Poetics of Gender (Columbia University Press, 1986; paperback edition, 1987); Subject to Change: Reading Feminist Writing (Columbia University Press, 1988; paperback edition, 1989); Getting Personal: Feminist Occasions and Other Autobiographical Acts (Routledge, 1991); French Dressing: Women, Men and Ancien Regime Fiction (Routledge, 1995); Bequest and Betrayal: Memoirs of a Parent’s Death (Oxford University Press, 1996; paperback edition, Indiana University Press, 2000); and But Enough About Me (Columbia University Press, 2002).
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Pyong Gap Min
Queens College
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Department:
Sociology
Email:
pyonggap.min@qc.cuny.edu
Office Phone:
718-997-2810
Pyong Gap Min is Distinguished Professor of Sociology at Queens College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He has taught courses on race and ethnic relations, immigration, ethnic identity, marriage and the family, new immigrants and their religions, and Asian Americans. The areas of his research focus are immigrant entrepreneurship, ethnic identity, changes in the family and women’s gender role, and immigrants’ religions, with a special focus on Asian Americans.Methodologically, Min usually combines quantitative data (survey results and public documents), qualitative data (in-depth personal interviews and participant observations), and newspaper articles. Most of his books and journal articles are based on the above-mentioned multiple data sources. Although he has conducted more than 15 surveys of Korean and other Asian immigrants and their children, he has published only a few articles that are based on survey data or public documents alone. He does not believe a work based on quantitative data alone (especially quantitative data involving multivariate analyses) without voices of members of an immigrant or ethnic group and/or the investigator’s insider’s knowledge can capture the reality of the group under consideration. But he also tends to underestimate the value of works based on qualitative data alone whose findings cannot be generalized to the group.
Min is the author of Ethnic Business Enterprise: Korean Small Business in Atlanta (Center for Migration Studies, 1988), Caught in the Middle: Korean Communities in New York and Los Angeles (University of California Press, 1996), and Changes and Conflicts: Korean Immigrant Families in New York (Allyn and Bacon, 1998). Caught in the Middle was selected as the winner of the 1997 National Book Award in the Social Science by the Association for Asian American Studies and a co-winner of the 1998 Outstanding Book Award by the Asia and Asian America Section of the American Sociological Association. The fifth printing of Changes and Conflicts was published in 2002. His most recent book is Ethnic Solidarity for Economic Survival: Korean Greengrocers in New York City (Russell Sage Foundation, 2008). His new book, Intergenerational Transmission of Ethnicity through Religion: Korean Protestants and Indian Hindus, will be published in 2009 by New York University Press.
Min is the editor of Asian Americans: Contemporary Trends and Issues (Sage Publications, 1995), The Second Generation: Ethnic Identity among Asian Americans (Altamira Press, 2002), Mass Migration to the United States: Classical and Contemporary Periods (Altamira Press, 2002), and Encyclopedia of Racism in the United States (Greenwood Press, 2005). The second edition of his edited book, Asian Americans, was also published in 2006 (Pine Forge Press). He is the co-editor of Struggle for Ethnic Identity: Narratives by Asian American Professionals (Altamira Press, 1999), and Religions in Asian America: Building Faith Communities. (Altamira Press, 2002). Encyclopedia of Racism in the United States was selected as one of the 23 best books published in the reference category in 2005 by the Booklist.
Michael Mirkin
Queens College
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Department:
Chemistry
Email:
mmirkin@qc.cuny.edu
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718-997-4111
Michael Mirkin was born in Alma-Ata, the former USSR. He received his Ph. D. in electrochemistry (1987) from Kazakh State University. He came to the United States as a refugee in 1989. He conducted postdoctoral research with the late Prof. Allen J. Bard at The University of Texas at Austin from 1990 to 1993 and participated in the early development of scanning electrochemical microscopy (SECM). Following this, he joined the faculty at Queens College, where he is currently a Distinguished Professor of Chemistry. He had been an Invited Visiting Professor at Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, in 2013.
Prof. Mirkin and his team specialize in nanoelectrochemistry, focusing on the development and application of nanometer-sized electrochemical probes combined with advanced scanning probe microscopy techniques. Their research aims to explore and understand a wide range of chemical and biological processes at the nanoscale, leveraging the unique versatility and adaptability of these probes. By integrating nanoelectrochemistry with complementary optical techniques and transmission electron microscopy, they strive to attain a more comprehensive understanding of complex systems, from heterogeneous charge-transfer reactions to the release of extracellular vesicles from living cells. He has published approximately 200 journal articles and chapters (Google Scholar h-index: 71), co-edited the first monograph on SECM (3rd edition, 2022), and authored a monograph on nanoelectrochemistry (2015).
Current Scholarly Interests:
Nanoelectrochemistry, Scanning Electrochemical Microscopy, Charge-Transfer Reactions at Interfaces, Bioelectrochemistry, Photoelectrocatalysis, Transport in Nanoconfined Spaces, Electrochemical Sensors, Mathematical Modeling and Simulations.
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John Mollenkopf
CUNY Graduate Center
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Department:
Political Science and Sociology
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jmollenkopf@gc.cuny.edu
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212-817-1646
John Mollenkopf is Director of the Center for Urban Research at The Graduate Center of the City University and teaches courses in political science and sociology on urban politics, public policy, immigration, and the changing nature of urban communities. He has authored or edited more than a dozen books on urban politics, urban policy, and New York City, recently completing Inheriting the
City: The Children of Immigrants Come of Age (Harvard University Press, forthcoming) with Philip Kasinitz, Mary Waters, and Jennifer Holdaway. This study analyzes educational attainment, labor market outcomes, and political and civic involvement among young adult children of immigrant and native minority backgrounds in metropolitan New York. His work on urban policy includes Place Matters: A Metropolitics for the 21st Century (University Press of Kansas, revised edition 2003), with Peter Dreier and Todd Swanstrom, which won the 2002 Michael Harrington Award from the American Political Science Association. He also co-organized the Russell Sage Foundation’s effort to understand the impact of the September 11th attack on New York City and edited its volume, Contentious City (Russell Sage Foundation 2005). He has extensive expertise in New York City politics, voting behavior, minority participation, immigration, neighborhoods, economic development, urban demographics, and the comparative study of these matters in global cities.Mollenkopf has been involved in many New York City policy issues, serving as a consultant to the Department of Homeless Services, the New York City Law Department, and to the Department of Youth and Community Development, and the New York City Districting Commission. He also serves on the steering committee of the Research Consortium for New York City Schools and is a member of the MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Building Resilient Regions. He earned his MA and PhD degrees from the Department of Government at Harvard University his BA from Carleton College.
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Kevin Nadal
John Jay College of Criminal Justice
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Department:
Psychology
Email:
knadal@gc.cuny.edu
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(212) 237-8795
Dr. Kevin Leo Yabut Nadal is a Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the City University of New York (CUNY), with appointments at both John Jay College of Criminal Justice and the CUNY Graduate Center. With a doctorate in counseling psychology from Columbia University, he is one of the leading researchers on topics such as microaggressions, Filipino American mental health, and LGBTQ psychology.
He was the first openly gay President of the Asian American Psychological Association (2015-2017) and the first person of color to serve as the Executive Director of the Center for LGBTQ Studies (2014-2017). He is the Founder of the LGBTQ Scholars of Color National Network, a National Trustee of the Filipino American National Historical Society since 2010, and he has spoken at the White House and the U.S. Capitol.
Dr. Nadal is the author of over 12 books, including
Filipino American Psychology
(Wiley);
Microaggressions and Traumatic Stress
(American Psychological Association);
Queering Law and Order
(Lexington); and
Queer Psychology
(Springer).
His awards include the 2017 American Psychological Association Early Career Award for Distinguished Contributions to Psychology in the Public Interest, the 2019 Richard Tewksbury Award from the Western Society of Criminology, and the 2019 Thought Leadership Award from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. He has conducted equity trainings with organizations like the Los Angeles Lakers and Google, while also testifying as an expert witness for numerous discrimination and cultural competence trials. He has also been featured in
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Magazine,
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Los Angeles Times
, NPR, Buzzfeed, ABC, CBS, and others. In 2018, he was named one of NBC’s Pride 30. In 2021, Nadal became the first Asian American to be named a Distinguished Professor at John Jay College, and the youngest person in CUNY history to climb the ranks from untenured Assistant Professor to Distinguished Professor.
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V. Parameswaran Nair
The City College of New York
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Department:
Physics
Email:
vpn@sci.ccny.cuny.edu
Office Phone:
212-650-5572
Nair obtained his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees from the University of Kerala, India, and his Ph.D. from Syracuse University. He was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton (1983-1985) and the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, Santa Barbara (1985-1986), before joining Columbia University as a faculty member in 1987. He moved to CUNY in 1993.Nair’s research covers a wide spectrum of topics in high energy physics, from solitons, anyons, quark-gluon plasma to Chern-Simons theories and noncommutative geometry. Among his significant contributions are the early identification of the connection of twistors and scattering amplitudes in gauge theories and the use of Hamiltonian techniques in elucidating the nonperturbative structure of Yang-Mills theories.
Nair’s current interests include Theoretical High Energy Physics and Quantum Field Theory, particularly noncommutative geometry and gravity, nonperturbative structure of Yang-Mills theories, twistors and scattering amplitudes.
In addition to well over a hundred research papers, he is also the author of a book, Quantum Field Theory: A Modern Perspective, published by Springer in 2005.
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David Nasaw
CUNY Graduate Center
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Department:
History
Email:
dnasaw@gc.cuny.edu
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212-817-8431
David Nasaw has been on the doctoral faculty at the Graduate Center since 1990. He is currently the Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. Professor of American History as well as the director of the Center of Humanities at the Graduate Center. He is also the author of The Chief: The Life of William Randolph Hearst, which won the Bancroft Prize and the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. His other books include Going Out: The Rise and Fall of Public Amusements, Children of the City: At Work and at Play, and Schooled to Order: A Social History of Public Schooling in the United States.
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Denis Nash
Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy
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Department:
Epidemiology
Email:
denis.nash@sph.cuny.edu
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646-543-2407
Dr. Nash is Distinguished Professor of Epidemiology at the CUNY School of Public Health where he teaches courses in Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Public Health Surveillance, and has mentored over 75 masters students, doctoral students, and post-doctoral fellows training in epidemiology, public health and implementation science. He has worked at the forefront of the emerging field of implementation science, and is the founding Executive Director of CUNY’s new interdisciplinary Institute for Implementation Science in Population Health.
As an epidemiologist with over 20 years of experience in conducting and leading epidemiologic studies, his central interests include infectious diseases, the field of public health surveillance and the use of public health surveillance data to conduct rigorous assessments of programmatic effectiveness and the impact of policies on health. He has worked extensively in domestic and international settings conducting large-scale, “real-world” epidemiologic studies examining key outcomes among persons with HIV infection.
He has published over 150 scientific articles and his research is primarily funded by the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. He is the Associate Director of the Einstein-Rockefeller-CUNY Center for AIDS Research (CFAR) and Director the Implementation Science and Health Outcomes Core of the HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies at Columbia University. Dr. Nash also serves as a standing member on the National Institutes of Health study section review panels.
Examples of recent studies led by Dr. Nash include the CHORDS Study evaluating the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of HIV care coordination at improving HIV viral suppression among over 7,000 persons living with HIV in New York City’s Ryan White Program; the LSTART Study, which enrolled and followed over 1,200 persons initiating HIV treatment in Ethiopia to identify factors associated with late HIV treatment initiation; and the IeDEA Central Africa regional collaboration, which is an implementation science study that follows over 50,000 persons enrolled in HIV care in 5 Central African countries (Burundi, Cameroon, DRC, Republic of Congo, and Rwanda). Dr. Nash also led the development of New York’s Ending the Epidemic Dashboard system, which tracks the progress of Governor Cuomo’s initiative to End New York’s AIDS Epidemic by the end of 2020.
Prior to joining CUNY, Dr. Nash was an Associate Professor of Epidemiology at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health. He also served as the Director of Monitoring, Evaluation for ICAP at Columbia University, where he spearheaded a large-scale, multi-country initiative collecting routine medical records electronically.
Prior to joining academia, Dr. Nash was the Director of HIV/AIDS Surveillance at the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, where he played a key role in implementing named reporting for HIV. Dr. Nash also served as an Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) Officer with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and played a key role in the outbreak investigation around the emergence of West Nile Virus in New York in 1999.
Dr. Nash received his Ph.D. in epidemiology from the University of Maryland, an M.P.H from Johns Hopkins University, and a B.S. in physics from Drexel University.
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Stephen Neale
CUNY Graduate Center
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Department:
Philosophy
Email:
sneale@gc.cuny.edu
Office Phone:
212-817-8615
Stephen Neale is generally acknowledged as one of the best philosophers of his generation in the English-speaking world, and the best working at the interface between philosophy of language and linguistics. Neale is known internationally for producing a large body of scholarship related to descriptions, pronouns, quantification, and demonstratives, and his two books Descriptions and Facing Facts, have both been tremendously influential. He has served as an advisor to the Department of Justice on linguistic, logical, and philosophical issues, particularly in connection with Internet filtering technology. Neale holds a B.A. from University College London, and a Ph.D. from Stanford University. He comes to the Graduate Center from Rutgers University.
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Yoko Nomura
CUNY Graduate Center
Queens College
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Department:
Psychology
Email:
yoko.nomura@qc.cuny.edu
Office Phone:
718-997-3164
Dr. Yoko Nomura is Distinguished Professor of Psychology (in behavioral neurosciences and clinical neuropsychology) at Queens College and the Graduate Center, where she has served on the faculty since 2009. She is also a Faculty Fellow at the CUNY Advanced Science Research Center (ASRC), a Faculty Affiliate at the CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy, and a Professorial Lecturer in Psychiatry at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
Dr. Nomura’s longstanding commitment to women’s health and development was shaped early in life, and this foundation later guided her decision to pursue academic work outside Japan, where structural barriers limited opportunities for women in higher education and research. Influenced by her grandmother—one of the first women in her prefecture to attend college—she completed her undergraduate studies at Tsuda College, an institution with a historic mission of advancing women’s education. After several years of teaching in Japan, she elected to continue her graduate studies in the United States. These formative experiences helped define her enduring focus on women’s wellbeing, stress, and developmental outcomes across the lifespan.
Dr. Nomura is the Principal Investigator of multiple NIH-funded, population-based, longitudinal studies in developmental psychopathology. Central among these is the Stress in Pregnancy (SIP) Study, which she founded over a decade ago to investigate how maternal stress influences fetal and early childhood development. The cohort has now reached adolescence, allowing her team to examine neurobiological, emotional, and behavioral changes across two sensitive developmental periods—gestation and puberty—and to explore associated epigenetic mechanisms. Her research program has expanded to include the study of natural-disaster-related stress and environmental disruptions, contributing to a growing evidence base on how early-life and prenatal exposures influence health trajectories across generations.
Her work has been published in leading journals in developmental psychopathology, neuroscience, psychology, and public health, and has received coverage from national and international media outlets.
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James Oakes
CUNY Graduate Center
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Department:
History
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Email: joakes@gc.cuny.edu
Office Phone:
(212) 817-8439
One of the leading historians of 19th century America, Professor Oakes has an international reputation for path-breaking scholarship. In a series of influential books and essays, he tackled some of the most important questions about the history of the United States from the Revolution through the Civil War. His early work focused on the South, examining slavery as an economic and social system that shaped Southern life. His more recent work examined antislavery thinking in the north and the political processes that led to emancipation. His books, The Ruling Race (1982; second edition 1998), Slavery and Freedom: An interpretation of the Old South (1990) and the latest The Radical and the Republican: Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and the Triumph of Antislavery Politics (2007) are considered pioneering and influential, each having changed the way historians now consider antebellum planters, American slavery and the Old South.An alumnus of Baruch College, Dr. Oakes holds M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California/Berkeley. He has been on the faculty of the CUNY Graduate Center since 1997 and the holder of the Graduate School Humanities Chair since 1998. Prior to coming to CUNY, he taught at Princeton University and Northwestern University.
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Loraine Obler
CUNY Graduate Center
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Department:
Linguistics and Speech—Language—Hearing Sciences
Email:
loraine.obler@gmail.com
Office Phone:
212-817-8809
Loraine K. Obler’s international reputation is based on her groundbreaking work in several areas of neurolinguistics: aphasia, bilingualism, aging, and dementia. She came to the Graduate Center in 1985, and was appointed as a distinguished professor in June 1991. She teaches in the Ph.D. Programs in Speech–Language–Hearing Sciences and Linguistics and also directs the Neurolinguistics Lab, where she continues her prior work on the language changes of healthy aging, the brain bases of bilingualism, cross-language studies of aphasia in monolinguals (e.g., Korean), bilinguals, and multilinguals. As co-principal investigator with Martin Albert of the NIH- and VA-funded Language in the Aging Brain Laboratory (1976–present), she is also affiliated with Boston University School of Medicine and Graduate School, Boston University Gerontology Center, and the Harold Goodglass Aphasia Research Center of the Boston Veterans Administration Healthcare System.Dr. Obler has published widely. She and Kris Gjerlow co-authored Language and the Brain (Cambridge University Press, 1999), which has been translated into Italian (2000), Spanish (2001), Japanese (2002) Portuguese (2002), and Arabic (2009). With Lise Menn, Michael Patrick O’Connor, and Audrey Holland, she co-authored Non-fluent Aphasia in a Multilingual World (Benjamins, 1995). While at the Harold Goodglass Aphasia Research Center, Lise Menn and she co-edited the three volumes of Agrammatic Aphasia: A cross-language narrative sourcebook (John Benjamins, 1985). With Deborah Fein, she co-edited The Exceptional Brain: Neuropsychology of Talent and Special Abilities (Guilford, 1988). With Martin Albert, she co-authored The Bilingual Brain: Neuropsychological and Neurolinguistic Aspects of Bilingualism (Academic Press, 1978).She has also co-edited eight books on language in adults, including, most recently, Clinical Communication Studies in Spanish Speakers: From Research to Clinical Practice with José Centeno and Raquel Anderson (Multilingual Matters, 2007); and she has contributed numerous chapters and articles to books and scholarly journals.
Dr. Obler received her Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Michigan, completing her dissertation on grammaticalization in Arabic while moving into her current field, neurolinguistics, through working in, and heading in 1976, the Aranne Laboratory of Human Neuropsychology at the Neurology Department of Hadassah Hospital, Jerusalem. Among the honors and awards accorded her are two Fulbright Awards to Israel (Hebrew University and Bar Ilan University) and a Lady Davis Award for a Visiting Professorship at Hebrew University.
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Ursula Oppens
Brooklyn College
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Department:
Music
Email:
uoppens@gmail.com
Ursula Oppens is one of the few pianists before the public today who has won equal renown as an interpreter of the established repertoire and a champion of contemporary music. Her performances of music old and new are marked by a powerful grasp of the composer’s musical intentions and an equally sure command of the keyboard’s resources; qualities placing her in the ranks of the world’s foremost interpreters.
Victor Pan
Lehman College
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Department:
Mathematics and Computer Science
Email:
victor.pan@lehman.cuny.edu
Office Phone:
(718) 960-8568
Born in 1939 in Moscow, USSR, I received my MS (1961) and PhD (1964) degrees in Math from the Moscow State University (MGU). Math provided me with few keys that opened many locks. Later I leaned towards Computational Math, not the mainstream then but much more so by now. My Russian journal papers on polynomial computations made me known in the West as “polynomial Pan”. In 1976 I left the oppressive communist regime for freedom in the USA, where I met many leading experts in my field and worked with them. Since “perestroika” I have also participated in math and computer science conferences in Moscow and St. Petersburg and visited my Russian friends and colleagues. I like to attack fundamental problems even if they have long defied efforts of researchers. In 1978 I accelerated matrix multiplication, which was a central topic but in stalemate for a decade. Experts applauded me (D.E.Knuth: “the nicest paper of the year”), and rapid progress resumed. For another example, solving a polynomial equation has been the most basic problem in Math and Computational Math for 4000 years (from the Sumerian times) and is still important, but my fastest solution of 1995 remains unbeaten.I seek links among seemingly unrelated subjects and techniques and try to unify such techniques into a single more powerful method. Sciences, engineering and signal and image processing largely rely on matrix and polynomial computations. In two books (one with D.Bini) and many papers I found and exploited various new links between these two areas, particularly via structured matrices. This work has lead to practical computational advances and has substantially contributed to the rapidly advancing field of unifying symbolic and numerical computations. I have enjoyed excellent environments and collaborations in various Universities and Research Centers, but since 1989 I have been working in CUNY, except for sabbatical leaves. I have been teaching CUNY students and publishing joint papers with some of them in journals and conference proceedings (thus helping students to enter research). So far I have guided and mentored about 20 PhD defenses in Math and Computer Science.
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Rohit Parikh
Brooklyn College
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Department:
Computer and Information Science
Email:
rparikh@gc.cuny.edu
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718-951-5000 x2058
Rohit Parikh is a Distinguished Professor of Computer Science, Mathematics and Philosophy, Graduate Center, and Dept. of Computer Science, Brooklyn College.. All his degrees, one in Physics, and two in Mathematics, are from Harvard. Apart from CUNY, he has taught at Boston University, Stanford, NYU, Bristol University (in UK), and Panjab University (in India).
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Steven Penrod
John Jay College of Criminal Justice
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Department:
Psychology
Email:
spenrod@jjay.cuny.edu
Office Phone:
212-237-8877
Steven Penrod earned his J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1974 and his Ph.D. in Psychology from Harvard University in 1979. He joined the faculty of John Jay College of Criminal Justice as a Distinguished Professor of Psychology in the fall of 2001. Prior to that he was professor and director of the Law/Psychology program at the University of Nebraska from 1995-2001. He was on the law faculty at the University of Minnesota from 1988-1995 and the psychology faculty at the University of Wisconsin from 1979-1988. His teaching interests include psychology and law, research methods, multivariate data analysis, meta-analytic methods, social psychology, and dispute resolution. His research interests include jury decision-making, eyewitness reliability, the death penalty, media influences, procedural justice, dispute resolution, and the use of social scientific evidence.
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Graham Priest
CUNY Graduate Center
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Department:
Philosophy
Email:
gpriest@gc.cuny.edu
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212-817-8624
Graham Priest, BA, MA (Cambridge) MSc, PhD (London), LittD (Melbourne), FAHA, was born in London, and studied at Cambridge and the London School of Economics. In 1976 he moved to Australia, where he has since held positions at the Universities of Western Australia, Queensland, and Melbourne. Before joining CUNY in 2009, he was Boyce Gibson Professor of Philosophy at the University of Melbourne.
He is also Arché Professorial Fellow at the University of St Andrews in Scotland.Graham is well known for his work on logic, metaphysics, and the history of philosophy – and in particular for his controversial view that some contradictions are true (dialetheism). His books include: In Contradiction, Beyond the Limits of Thought, Doubt Truth to be a Liar, Towards Non-Being, and Introduction to Non-Classical Logic, three of which have gone into second editions. However, his philosophical interests are much wider than this; in recent years, for example, he has been exploring issues in Buddhist philosophy.
For relaxation, Graham practices karatedo. He is a fourth dan in Shitoryu, and an Australian national kumite referee and kata judge. He also has a passion for music, and particularly Western opera.
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Jesse Prinz
CUNY Graduate Center
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Department:
Philosophy
Email:
jesse@subcortex.com
Jesse Prinz, distinguished professor of philosophy, is a notable expert in philosophy of psychology and a strong proponent of the emerging methodology known as experimental philosophy. His books include Furnishing the Mind: Concepts and Their Perceptual Basis (2002); Gut Reactions: A Perceptual Theory of the Emotions (2004); and The Emotional Construction of Morals (2007). Two books are forthcoming: Beyond Human Nature and The Conscious Brain. His edited books include Mind and Cognition (3rd ed.), with William Lycan (2008); and Handbook of Philosophy of Psychology (forthcoming). He was a visiting fellow at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, a research fellow at the School for Advanced Study at the University of London, and before coming to the Graduate Center, was John J. Rogers Distinguished Professor in the department of philosophy at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He holds a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Chicago.
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Theodore Raphan
Brooklyn College
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Department:
Computer Science
Email:
raphan@nsi.brooklyn.cuny.edu
Office Phone:
718-951-4193
Theodore Raphan was a postdoctoral fellow in neurophysiology at Mt. Sinai School of Medicine and was appointed assistant professor of neurology in 1979. Since coming to Brooklyn College in 1982, he has been associate professor, professor and Broeklundian Professor of Computer and Information Science. He was appointed Distinguished Professor in 1994. He directs the Institute of Neural and Intelligent Systems at Brooklyn College and does research on robotics, machine learning, molecular dynamics, database management, biomechanics, the role of the vestibular system in stabilizing gaze and locomotion, and modeling the mechanisms of learning in sensory-motor systems. He also is engaged in educational programs, developing programs to include robotics in teaching computer science and directing a STEM program for the Early College High School program. He has had continuous funding from the NIH, NASA, NSF and NY State since 1976.
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David Reynolds
Baruch College
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rey.sn@juno.com
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646-312-3942
David S. Reynolds is Distinguished Professor of English and American Studies at Baruch College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He is the author of John Brown, Abolitionist: The Man Who Killed Slavery, Sparked the Civil War, and Seeded Civil Rights, winner of the Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award; winner of the Kansas State Book Award; finalist for the Peter Seaborg Award for Civil War Scholarship; listed among “The Outstanding Books of 2005” by the National Book Critics Circle; listed among “Top Picks” of “Notable Books of 2005” by American Library Association; and noted as “the most widely reviewed book in America in major periodicals” for the period of April 19-May 5, 2005 by Publishers’ Lunch. His other books include Walt Whitman and Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass the 150th Anniversary Edition. His earlier books include Walt Whitman’s America: A Cultural Biography, winner of the coveted Bancroft Prize and the Ambassador Book Award and finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. His other books include Beneath the American Renaissance: The Subversive Imagination in the Age of Emerson and Melville (winner of the prestigious Christian Gauss Award and Honorable Mention for the John Hope Franklin Prize), George Lippard, and Faith in Fiction: The Emergence of Religious Literature in America. He is the editor of George Lippard, Prophet of Protest: Writings of an American Radical and the coeditor of The Serpent in the Cup: Temperance in American Literature and of an edition of three works by the popular nineteenth-century novelist George Thompson. He is a regular contributor to the New York Times Book Review. He received a B.A. magna cum laude from Amherst College and a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. He is at work on a book on the politics and culture of Jacksonian America, to be published by HarperCollins. Distinguished Professor Reynolds is one of a handful of professors chosen to represent CUNY in its “Look Who’s Teaching Here” ad campaign, featured in New York’s subways, buses, posters, and newspapers. Professor Reynolds is included in Who’s Who in America and Who’s Who in the World. He was born and raised in Rhode Island and currently lives on Long Island with his wife, Suzanne Nalbantian, a professor of comparative literature at Long Island University. Their daughter, Aline Reynolds, recently graduated magna cum laude from Barnard College.
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Joan Richardson
CUNY Graduate Center
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Joan Richardson is Distinguished Professor of English, Comparative Literature, and American Studies at The Graduate Center. Author of a two-volume biography of the poet Wallace Stevens, she co-edited, with Frank Kermode, Wallace Stevens: Collected Poetry and Prose (Library of America, 1997). Her essays on Stevens, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Jonathan Edwards have been published in the Wallace Stevens Journal, in Raritan, and elsewhere, and essays on Alfred North Whitehead, William James, and pragmatism have appeared in the journals Configurations and The Hopkins Review. Review essays have appeared in Bookforum and other journals. Her study A Natural History of Pragmatism: The Fact of Feeling from Jonathan Edwards to Gertrude Stein was published by Cambridge University Press in 2007, and was nominated for the 2011 Grawemeyer Award in Religion. Another volume for Cambridge, Pragmatism and American Experience will be published in June 2014. Among other current writing engagements, she is preparing for press Images, Shadows of Divine Things, the project for which she was awarded a 2012 Guggenheim Fellowship. Inspired in part by Jonathan Edwards, it is a secular spiritual autobiography in hybrid, experimental form. Professor Richardson has also been the recipient of several other awards, including a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship and a Senior Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Her work reflects an abiding interest in the way that philosophy, natural history, and science intersect with literature. She is particularly preoccupied with the complex relation between language and perception.
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David Rindskopf
CUNY Graduate Center
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Department:
Educational Psychology and Psychology
Email:
drindskopf@gc.cuny.edu
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212-817-8287
David Rindskopf is Distinguished Professor of Educational Psychology and Psychology at the CUNY Graduate Center, where he has taught since 1979. His research and teaching are in the area of applied statistics, measurement, and research design. He is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA), and has served as the President of the New York Chapter of the ASA. He has also served as President of the Society of Multivariate Experimental Psychology; he has served as Associate Editor of the Society’s journal, Multivariate Behavioral Research. Professor Rindskopf is currently Editor of the Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, jointly published by ASA and the American Educational Research Association.Professor Rindskopf’s research mostly involves creative applications of statistical techniques to applied problems. He is pursuing one such application along with Professor William Shadish of UC Merced, for which they have a grant from the Institute of Educational Sciences in the U.S. Department of Education: Data from some research areas come from case studies, which often provide detailed observations or measurements of individuals. Professors Rindskopf and Shadish are investigating ways of using statistical methods to analyze data from such studies; these methods try to capture the pattern of results within each individual, and then see how much similarity there is across people. If there are differences, these methods can be used to try to discover explanations for these differences.
Professor Rindskopf has also applied his knowledge to help the business community. For example, along with his colleague Professor Alan Gross he has worked with Business Week to detect attempts to “cheat” on surveys that are used to help determine the ranking of MBA programs.
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Jennifer Roberts
CUNY Graduate Center
The City College of New York
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Department:
Classical and Modern Languages and Literatures
Email:
jroberts@ccny.cuny.edu
Jennifer Roberts (Ph. D., Yale) is Distinguished Professor of Classics at the City College of New York and the City University of New York Graduate Center. A past president of the Association of Ancient Historians, she specializes in the theory and practice of democracy and in the political, military and intellectual history of Greece during the classical period, but she also teaches Latin literature, classical mythology, warfare in antiquity, and women’s studies. Her publications include
Accountability in Athenian Government
(1982),
Athens on Trial: The Antidemocratic Tradition in Western Thought
(1994), editions of Thucydides’
Peloponnesian War
(1998) and Herodotus’
Histories
(2013), both with Walter Blanco, and
The Plague of War: Athens, Sparta, and the Struggle for Ancient Greece
(2017). Her cultural history of Greece,
Out of One, Many: Ancient Greek Ways of Thought and Culture
was published by Princeton University Press in 2024 and her
Very Short Introduction to Thucydides
by Oxford University Press in February, 2025. She is working now on a history of Athens for Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
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Corey Robin
Brooklyn College
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Department:
Political Science
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Corey Robin is an internationally acclaimed political theorist whose books and articles have been translated into thirteen languages. A frequent contributor to
The New Yorker
and
The New York Review of Books
, he has written on an array of subjects, from Hannah Arendt and Max Weber to the promise of socialism and the history of bathroom break. He is the author of three books:
Fear: The History of a Political Idea
The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Donald Trump
, which
The New Yorker
hailed as “the book that predicted Trump”; and
The Enigma of Clarence Thomas
, which the
New York Times
described as “razor-sharp … gratifying and unsettling … incisive and superbly argued.” He has received multiple fellowships and awards—including from the Cullman Center of the New York Public Library, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the Russell Sage Foundation—and two book prizes from the American Political Science Association. He has been profiled in
The New York Times
(“the quintessential public intellectual for the digital age”), the
Chronicle of Higher Education
(“one of academe’s most persistent brawlers”), and
Tablet
(“a Sartre for the social-media age”). He received his undergraduate degree from Princeton and his PhD from Yale.
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Margaret Rosario
CUNY Graduate Center
The City College of New York
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Department:
Psychology
Email:
mrosario@gc.cuny.edu
Office Phone:
212-650-5420
Margaret Rosario, PhD, is a Distinguished Professor of Psychology at The City University of New York—The City College and Graduate Center. Her research focuses on identity, its development and implications for health and other adaptive outcomes. Stress is also of interest.The research has primarily centered on lesbian, gay, and bisexual young people undergoing sexual identity development. The relations between stress and sexual identity development to health and other adaptive outcomes are of critical interest, as are the mediators and moderators of those relations. In addition, she is interested in the determinants of sexual orientation and the intersection of multiple identities. Dr. Rosario is the recipient of research grants, as principal- or co-investigator, from the National Institutes of Health. She is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality. She has received the Distinguished Scientific Achievement award from the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality, as well as the Distinguished Scientific Contributions award and Distinguished Contribution to Ethnic Minority Issues award from Division 44 of the American Psychological Association, the Society for the Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity. She is also an Associate Editor of the
Journal of Sex Research and of Annals of LGBTQ Public and Population Health
, and a member of the editorial boards of
Archives of Sexual Behavior and the American Journal of Community Psychology
. She is Past President of Division 44 of the American Psychological Association. Dr. Rosario did her postdoctoral training at Columbia University’s Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, her doctorate at New York University, and her bachelor’s degree at Princeton University.
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Jay Rosen
College of Staten Island
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Department:
Mathematics
Email:
jrosen30@optimum.net
Office Phone:
718-982-3610
Jay Rosen received his Ph.D. in Mathematics from Princeton University and a B.A. in Mathematics from Harvard University. Before coming to the College of Staten Island and the CUNY Graduate Center, he taught at the University of Massachusetts and was a Research Associate at Rockefeller University.In addition to his teaching activities at CUNY, he has held a number of visiting positions and has given special lectures around the world. He is the author of numerous publications including the book Markov Processes, Gaussian Processes, and Local Times.
Professor Rosen is co-organizer of the probability group and the weekly Probability Seminar at the CUNY Graduate Center, and co-organizer of the Northeast Probability Seminar, an annual meeting funded by the NSF.
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Helena Rosenblatt
CUNY Graduate Center
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Department:
History
Email:
HRosenblatt@gc.cuny.edu
Office Phone:
718-817-8463
Helena Rosenblatt
is a Distinguished Professor of history, political science, and French at the Graduate Center, CUNY, where she regularly teaches the Literature of Early Modern Europe, a required course for entering Ph.D. students in European history, as well as courses on the Enlightenment, the French Revolution, Key Concepts in the Western tradition, Comparative revolutions, and the History of liberalism. She is also a member of the M.A. programs in Liberal Studies and Biography and Memoir. From 2009 to 2018, she served as the Executive Officer of the Ph.D. program in History.
Dr. Rosenblatt is the author of
Rousseau and Geneva. From the First Discourse to the Social Contract, 1749-1762
(Cambridge University Press, 1997),
Liberal Values: Benjamin Constant and the Politics of Religion
(Cambridge University Press, 2008) and
The Lost History of Liberalism from Ancient Rome to the Twenty-First Century
(Princeton University Press, 2018), which was named one of
Foreign Affairs’
Best Books of 2018, one of
The American Interests’
Top Books of 2018, and
El Confidencial’s
ten best history books of the year as well as
Isthmus’
Most important read of 2018 which will be translated into eight languages.
Her articles have appeared in academic journals such as
Modern Intellectual History, French Politics, Society and Culture, History of European Ideas
, and many others, as well as in numerous encyclopedias and collections of essays. Rosenblatt has also edited books for Cambridge University Press, including
Thinking with Rousseau, from Machiavelli to Schmitt
(co-edited with Paul Schweigert, 2017),
French Liberalism from Montesquieu to the Present Day
(co-edited with Raf Geenens, 2012) and
The Cambridge Companion to Constant
(2009). She has served on the board of editors of
Modern Intellectual History
Global Intellectual History
, and the
Tocqueville Revie
w.
In 2020 Rosenblatt was awarded John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation fellowship for an intellectual biography of Madame de Staël titled “Napoleon’s Nemesis: Madame de Staël (1767-1817) and the Origins of Liberalism.”
Rosenblatt received a B.A. from Barnard College and an M.A. as well as a Ph.D. in European Intellectual History from Columbia University.
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Morris Rossabi
Queens College
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Department:
History
Email:
morris.rossabi@qc.cuny.edu
Office Phone:
718-997-5382
Morris Rossabi was born in in the multi-ethnic environment of Alexandria, Egypt and was raised to speak Arabic, English, and French. Migrating to the U.S. as a boy, he became fluent i German before studying for a Ph.D. in East and Central Asian History at Columbia University. During graduate school, he learned Chinese and Japanese and several Central Asian languages. Fluency in those languages permitted him to conduct research for his first two books China and Inner Asia (Thames and Hudson, 1975) and China among Equals (University of California Press, 1983), which were major challenges to the conventional wisdom about Chinese foreign relations. He showed that China was well informed about foreign lands, was not isolationist, and often treated foreigners as equals–all contrary to the prevailing interpretations.He then pioneered the study of Central and Inner Asia, focusing attention on these neglected regions. His articles and books on the Muslims and Manchus of China, on relations between China and Central Asia, and on cultural and economic interchanges along the Silk Roads, among other subjects, were well received by scholars. Culmination of these studies was his book Khubilai Khan (University of California Press, 1988), which was chosen as the Main Selection for May of 1988 by the History Book Club and was translated into six foreign languages. The New Republic stated that this first study of one of the most famous figures in world history “was much more than a biography” and “was a comprehensive treatment of the cultural and political dimensions of the thirteenth century in both China and Central Asia.” Professor Jonathan Spence of Yale University wrote of Rossabi’s book on the first attested man from China to travel to Europe (Voyager from Xanadu; Kodansha, 1992): “Rossabi’s erudite commentary and fine evocation of context has given the adventure a wider scope.” Prompted by these reviews, the Editor of the authoritative, multi-volume Cambridge History of China honored Rossabi by commissioning him to write the chapters on China and Inner Asia from the mid-13th century to 1800.
As China and Inner Asia became easier to visit in the 1980s, Rossabi, who had studied social and cultural relations among China, Central Asia, and the Middle East, traveled to these regions, resulting in a series of major exhibitions. He wrote essays for three catalogs of Chinese and Mongolian art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and Asian Art Museum of San Francisco among others, and the College Art Association awarded its prize for best catalog of the year 2002 to “The Legacy of Genghis Khan.” At the same time, his travels stimulated involvement in promoting economic and political democracy in the regions he had studied. He assisted the Open Society Institute to found an office in Mongolia in 1996 and served on the Advisory Board of its Project for Central Eurasia from 1996 to 1999. Later he became Chair of the Arts and Culture Board, which fostered artistic renewal and freedom in Central Asia, Mongolia, the Caucasus, Afghanistan, and the Middle East. Such involvement resulted in two scholarly books: Modern Mongolia: From Khans to Commissars to Capitalists ( University of California Press, 2005), which received the Philio Lilienthal imprint, and (with Mary Rossabi) Bounty from the Sheep (White Horse Press, 2000).
His scholarly studies aside, Rossabi has been an ardent advocate for public education about Asia. He has appeared on television and radio, given speeches at the Council on Foreign Relations, universities, and libraries throughout the U.S., Europe, and Asia, written articles for the mass media, and lectured at museums and public interest groups. He has also collaborated with the Asia Society, China Institute, Columbia University, and the American Museum of Natural History to train secondary school teachers and to produce curricular materials. The Association for Asian Studies, the leading organization in this field, bestowed the Franklin Buchanan Award on “From Silk to Oil,” one of these curricular materials.
In sum, Rossabi has devoted himself to scholarly research, teaching, and public service work on Asia.
(Foster Henry)
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Annette Saddik
CUNY Graduate Center
New York City College of Technology
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Department:
Theatre (GC), English (City Tech)
Email:
asaddik@citytech.cuny.edu
Office Phone:
(718) 260-5392
Annette J. Saddik (Ph.D., Rutgers University) is CUNY Distinguished Professor of Theatre and Literature, with a dual teaching appointment at The Graduate Center Ph.D. Program in Theatre and New York City College of Technology Department of English. She specializes in 20th- and 21st-century drama and performance, particularly the work of Tennessee Williams. Dr. Saddik has published four books, as well as numerous essays in scholarly journals, anthologies, and encyclopedias of theatre history.
Her most recent book,
Tennessee Williams and the Theatre of Excess: The Strange, The Crazed, The Queer
(CambridgeUP, 2015), contextualizes Williams’ plays through what she terms a “theatre of excess”, which seeks liberation through grotesque exaggeration, chaos, and ambivalent laughter. Her other books include
Contemporary American Drama
(Edinburgh UP [U.K] and Oxford UP [U.S.], 2007), an exploration of the performance of American identity on the stage since World War II;
The Politics of Reputation: The Critical Reception of Tennessee Williams’ Later Plays
(Associated University Presses/Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 1999), which was the first full-length study of Williams’ post-1961 career; and
The Traveling Companion and Other Plays
(New Directions Publishing, 2008), a definitive edited collection of Williams’ previously unpublished late plays.
A frequent keynote speaker, public commentator, dramaturge, and contributor to both national and international playbills and newspaper articles, Dr. Saddik is often invited to speak at theatre talk-backs on and off Broadway, and regularly advises on productions, collaborating with theatre professionals and academics throughout the U.S., the U.K., Europe, Asia, Africa, and South America. Since 2016, she has served the League of Off-Broadway Theatres and Producers as a Lucille Lortel Awards voter, and also serves on the editorial boards of
The Tennessee Williams Annual Review
and the
Journal of Contemporary Drama in English.
Current Scholarly Interests:
20th- and 21st-century drama and performance; Tennessee Williams; Samuel Beckett; Cabaret and Burlesque performance; Broadway/Off-Broadway; dramaturgy; theories of the grotesque/the carnivalesque/clowns; connections between science and theatre (e.g., “science plays”).
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Talia Schaffer
CUNY Graduate Center
Queens College
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Talia.Schaffer65@login.cuny.edu
Talia Schaffer is a Distinguished Professor of English at Queens College and a consortial faculty member in the Ph.D. Program in English and the Women’s and Gender Studies Program at the CUNY Graduate Center. She has produced ten books, over fifty articles and book chapters, and over fifty invited and keynote talks at major national and international conferences. She teaches and writes about feminist theory, disability studies, ethics of care, the marriage plot, queer kinship, nineteenth-century women’s writing and popular fiction, Victorian material culture, and domestic labor.
In her earlier research, Prof. Schaffer’s research focused on Victorian women’s aesthetic production. In
Women and British Aestheticism
(coedited with Kathy A. Psomiades, University Press of Virginia, 1999) and in
The Forgotten Female Aesthetes: Literary Culture in Late-Victorian England
(University Press of Virginia, 2000), she recovered female aesthetes’ discursive strategies, political suppositions, and cultural affiliations, arguing that aestheticism was originally developed as a female style. To make this women’s work accessible to students, Prof. Schaffer produced a scholarly edition of Lucas Malet’s 1901 novel,
The History of Sir Richard Calmady
(University of Birmingham Press, 2003) and edited a 600-page anthology,
Literature and Culture at the Fin de Siécle
(Longman, 2007) including writing on urban sociology, spiritualism, sexology, New Women texts, aestheticism, and documents of colonial encounters. Curious about the female aesthetes’ precursors, she wrote
Novel Craft: Fiction and the Victorian Domestic Handicraft
(Oxford UP, 2011), exploring women’s amateur craft in the mid-nineteenth century. This book was featured on the cover of the
TLS.
After 2010, Prof. Schaffer began rethinking the social relations in which her subjects were enmeshed. “Extending Families,” coedited with Kelly Hager (
Victorian Review
, 2013), provided a space for assessing Victorian family and marriage criticism. Her award-winning
Romance’s Rival: Familiar Marriage in Victorian Fiction
(Oxford UP, 2016)
surveyed hundreds of texts over three centuries, using anthropology, law, politics, family history, and disability studies to argue that Victorians wanted marriage to be “familiar,” not necessarily erotic: safe comradeship that offers a rewarding future. It won the NAVSA prize for the best book in Victorian Studies and was chosen as one of the
Choice
outstanding titles of the year. Her attention to extended networks led to
Communities of Care: The Social Ethics of Victorian Fiction
(Princeton UP, 2021). This book brought the feminist and disability studies philosophy of “ethics of care” to the attention of literary criticism, creating a global and historical story of collective affiliation in which Victorian practices align with queer families of choice, Indigenous relationality, and Black other-mothering.
Choice
called it “groundbreaking” and
Victorian Studies
called it “stunning.”
Prof. Schaffer continues her commitment to make texts accessible for scholarship and teaching. In 2020, she co-edited
The Routledge Companion to Victorian Literature
with Dennis Denisoff
placing the genres of the novel, poetry, and drama and issues of gender, social class, and race in conversation with subjects like ecology, colonialism, digital humanities, sexualities, disability, material culture, and animal studies. Another major collection,
Disability’s Hidden Twin: Discourses of Care and Dependency,
coedited with Chris Gabbard, introduced care ethics readings in subjects ranging from Shakespeare to contemporary Indian fiction. Her current work focuses on the history of feminism, labor, embodiment, and care.
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Mitchell Schaffler
The City College of New York
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Department:
Biomedical Engineering
Email:
mschaffler@ccny.cuny.edu
Office Phone:
212-650-5070
Mitchell B. Schaffler is the CUNY and Wallace H. Coulter Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the City College of New York, and Director of the New York Center for Biomedical Engineering (NYCBE), the research consortium among CCNY and the major New York City teaching hospitals and medical schools. Before coming to City College, he was Professor of Orthopaedics, Anatomy and CellBiology and Director of Orthopaedic Research at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. He is an authority on skeletal biomechanics, bone material properties (i.e., bone quality) in aging and disease, osteoporosis and bone cell mechanobiology. His research pioneered the current understandings of how wear and tear processes occur in bone from normal usage, how bone can self-repair wear and tear damage at the cellular and microscope level to prevent fracture, and how failures of that cellular repair process in aging and disease cause bone to become fragile and fracture.He received his B.S. in Biological Sciences from Stony Brook University, his Ph.D. studies in Anatomy and Orthopaedics from West Virginia University and did post-doctoral studies at the U.S. Department of Energy Radiobiology Laboratory at the University of Utah. Prior to joining the faculty at City College, he served on the faculties of the University of California, San Diego, the University of Michigan and the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. He has authored more than 250 full-length research articles, reviews, symposia papers and book chapters on skeletal biomechanics and biology. He has served on advisory panels for the National Institutes of Health, NASA, the Orthopedic Research and Educational Foundation and the Arthritis Foundation. He is a Fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering and the American Association of Anatomists.
Mary Schooling
Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy
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Department:
Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Email:
mary.schooling@sph.cuny.edu
Office Phone:
646-364-9519
Distinguished Professor Mary Schooling began her career in public health in 2002 as a part-time teaching assistant at the University of Hong Kong, after earning a PhD in Epidemiology from University College London (UK). This followed an earlier career in technology and operations research that began at IBM.
She joined CUNY in 2010 and has been a Professor at the CUNY School of Public Health since 2013. Professor Schooling serves on the Editorial Board of
PLOS ONE
, is an Associate Editor of the
Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health
(BMJ Publishing Group), and an Advisory Editor for
Social Science & Medicine
Her research program examines the health effects of lifespan trade-offs with growth and reproduction, crossing traditional disciplinary boundaries and yielding several translatable mechanistic insights. These include:
A comprehensive explanation of changing disease patterns during the epidemiological transition, including the emergence of higher rates of ischemic cardiovascular disease in men than in women, as well as differing disease profiles by migration status—specifically, higher risks of diabetes, hemorrhagic stroke, and infection-related cancers, alongside lower risks of hormone-related cancers and ischemic cardiovascular disease—commonly observed among migrants from less to more economically developed settings.
Recognition by the United States Food and Drug Administration (2014–2015) and Health Canada (2014) that androgens constitute a novel cardiovascular disease risk factor, with measurable impacts on clinical practice and pharmaceutical sales.
Identification of existing drug classes—such as neurokinin-3 receptor antagonists—and traditional Chinese medicines, including Puerarin, that likely act on the reproductive axis and may be repurposed more broadly to combat cardiovascular disease.
Professor Schooling holds a PhD in Epidemiology from University College London; an MSc in Statistics from Birkbeck College, University of London; an MSc in Operational Research from the University of Strathclyde; and an MA in Pure Mathematics and Medieval History from the University of St Andrews.
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Grace Schulman
Baruch College
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Grace_Schulman@baruch.cuny.edu
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646-312-3941
She is author of Marianne Moore: The Poetry of Engagement; editor of Ezra Pound, translator from the Hebrew of T. Carmi’s At the Stone of Losses; and co-translator from the Spanish of Pablo Antonio Cuadra’s Songs of Cifar. She is Poetry Editor of the Nation, and former director of the Poetry Center, 92nd Street Y. Schulman received her Ph.D. from New York University, and is Distinguished Professor of English at Baruch College, CUNY. She has taught poetry writing at Princeton, Columbia, Wesleyan, Bennington, and Warren Wilson. Her poems have been published in the New Yorker, the New Republic, Paris Review, Antaeus, Grand Street, the Yale Review, the Hudson Review, and the Kenyon Review, among other journals. Her essays and translations have appeared widely. She lives in New York with her husband, a scientist, Dr. Jerome L. Schulman.
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Robert Schwartz
Baruch College
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Department:
Business
Email:
Robert_Schwartz@baruch.cuny.edu
Office Phone:
(646) 312-3467
Robert A. Schwartz is Marvin M. Speiser Professor of Finance and University Distinguished Professor in the Zicklin School of Business, Baruch College, CUNY. Before joining the Baruch faculty in 1997, he was Professor of Finance and Economics and Yamaichi Faculty Fellow at New York University’s Leonard N. Stern School of Business, where he had been a member of the faculty since 1965. Professor Schwartz received his Ph.D. in Economics from Columbia University. His research is in the area of financial economics, with a primary focus on the structure of securities markets. He has published over 50 refereed journal articles and fifteen books, including The Equity Trader Course (co-authored with Reto Francioni and Bruce Weber) Wiley & Sons, 2006, Equity Markets in Action: The Fundamentals of Liquidity, Market Structure and Trading (co-authored with Reto Francioni) Wiley & Sons, 2004, and Reshaping the Equity Markets: A Guide for the 1990s, Harper Business, 1991 (reissued by Business One Irwin, 1993). He has served as a consultant to various market centers including the New York Stock Exchange, the American Stock Exchange, Nasdaq, the London Stock Exchange, Instinet, the Arizona Stock Exchange, Deutsche Börse, and the Bolsa Mexicana. From April 1983 to April 1988, he was an associate editor of The Journal of Finance, and he is currently an associate editor of the Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, the Review of Pacific Basin Financial Markets and Policies, and The Journal of Entrepreneurial Finance & Business Ventures, and is a member of the advisory boards of International Finance and The Journal of Trading. In December 1995, Professor Schwartz was named the first chairman of Nasdaq’s Economic Advisory Board, and he served on the EAB until Spring 1999. He is developer, with Bruce Weber, of the trading and market structure simulation, TraderEx.
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Jillian Schwedler
CUNY Graduate Center
Hunter College
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Department:
Political Science
Email:
jschwedler@gc.cuny.edu
Office Phone:
212-650-3469
Dr. Jillian Schwedler is Distinguished Professor of Political Science at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, where she joined the faculty in 2013. She is Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Crown Center at Brandeis University and was previously Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council. She earned three degrees from New York University: a PhD in Politics (2000), an MA in Middle East Studies (1993), and a BA in Near East Languages and Literatures (1988).
Dr. Schwedler has held visiting professorships as the Center for Global and International Studies at the University of Salamanca, Spain (Spring 2020) and the Institute for Advance Study at the University of Bologna–Forlí (Fall 2023). In Spring 2027, she will be Visiting Posen Professor at the University of Chicago. She has been visiting scholar in residence at multiple research institutions, including the Sidi-Bou Said School of Critical Protest Studies (Tunisia), the New Jordan Research Center (Amman), and that Arab Archives Institute (Amman). Dr. Schwedler has given more than a hundred featured and keynote lectures in more than two dozen countries.
Dr. Schwedler’s research focuses on contentious politics and political geography, particularly concerning protests in urban and peri-urban settings. Her regional specialization is the Middle East, with special expertise in Jordan and Yemen. Her books include the award-winning Faith in Moderation: Islamist Parties in Jordan and Yemen (Cambridge 2006) and (with Laleh Khalili) Policing and Prisons in the Middle East (Columbia 2010). Her articles have appeared in World Politics, Comparative Politics, Middle East Policy, Middle East Report, Middle East Critique, Journal of Democracy, and Social Movement Studies, among many others. Her most recent books are the two-time award-winning Protesting Jordan: Geographies of Power and Dissent (Stanford University Press, 2022) and The Political Science of the Middle East: Theory and Research since the Arab Uprisings, author and co-editor with Marc Lynch and Sean Yom (Oxford University Press, 2022).
Dr. Schwedler’s work has been supported by grants and fellowships from the Fulbright Scholars Program (3 times), the National Science Foundation, the United States Institute of Peace, the Social Science Research Council, and the American Council of Overseas Research Centers, among others.
Dr. Schwedler has served as an elected member of the APSA Council, the governing board of the American Political Science Association; as an elected member of the Board of Directors of the Middle East Studies Association of North America (MESA); and as chair of the Board of Directors and member the Editorial Committee of the Middle East Research and Information Project (MERIP), publishers of the quarterly journal Middle East Report. She is co-director (with Dr. Laryssa Chomiak) of the Sidi Bou Said School of Critical Protest Studies in Tunisia.
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Michael Shub
The City College of New York
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Department:
Mathematics
Email:
mshub@ccny.cuny.edu
Office Phone:
212-650-6517
Michael Shub began his mathematical career as a dynamicist. In his thesis he defined and laid the groundwork for the classification of expanding maps which was ultimately completed by Gromov. In the hands of his advisor, Steve Smale, these maps provided the first examples of structurally stable strange attractors, thus contributing in an essential way to the revolution in dynamical systems theory now known as chaos theory. In dynamics he proceeded to study the relations between smooth dynamics and algebraic topology formulating the entropy conjecture and proving a variety of theorems on this theme. The conjecture was ultimately proven by Yomdin. In more recent years he has worked with Charles Pugh on the extent that chaotic dynamical systems may be understood statistically. The theme is that the same mechanisms which produce chaos makes the systems ergodic. Their conjecture that volume preserving partially hyperbolic dynamics are generally stably ergodic has been verified by Pugh and Shub and others for a very large collection of cases.
In 1981 he began working with Steve Smale on the complexity theory of solving first one and then a system of polynomial equations. This work continues today with astounding success by Beltran, Pardo, Beurgisser, Cucker and Lairez. With Lenore Blum they initiated a general theory of complexity of computation over the reals -or complex numbers -or indeed any ring or field- thus generalizing the classical theory of Turing and problems such as does P =NP? to the real and complex numbers. They bring together the classical themes of mathematics such: analysis, algebra and topology, to create a multi-disciplinary merger of numerical analysis, scientific computing and theoretical computer science. Along the way, Shub with Lenore and Manuel Blum proposed a pseudo-random number generator now called BBS and proved it cryptographically secure.
Shub has had positions at Brandeis University, the University of California at Santa Cruz, The City University of New York, IBM Research, the University of Toronto and the CONICET in Argentina. He is currently Distinguished Professor of Mathematics at City College of CUNY and the CUNY Graduate Center.
He is a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the New York Academy of Science and the Fields Institute. He has given invited talks to the American, Australian and Spanish mathematics societies as well to the International Congress of Mathematicians. He was the second AMS-SIAM Invited Lecturer, the founding Chair of the Society for the Foundations of Computational Mathematics and the founding Editor of its eponymous journal.
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Paul Julian Smith
CUNY Graduate Center
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Department:
Spanish
Email:
psmith@gc.cuny.edu
Office Phone:
212-817-8393
Paul Julian Smith is Distinguished Professor of Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures and Languages. He is a renowned specialist in the visual culture of Spain and Latin America, although he began his research in the field of Spanish Golden Age literature. After taking his BA (1980) and PhD (1984) in Cambridge, his first academic post was at Queen Mary College, University of London. He then became the Professor of Spanish (1933) in the University of Cambridge from 1991 to 2010, the fifth scholar to occupy this sole established Chair. He has been invited as Visiting Professor in 10 universities including University of California Berkeley, New York University, Lund (Sweden), Stanford, and the Universidad Carlos III, Madrid. He is the author of 15 books, some of which are translated into Spanish and Chinese, including: Writing in the Margin: Spanish Literature of the Golden Age (Oxford: Oxford UP, 1988), Laws of Desire: Questions of Homosexuality in Spanish Writing and Film, 1960-90 (Oxford: Oxford UP, 1992), The Theatre of García Lorca: Text, Performance, Psychoanalysis (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1998); The Moderns: Time, Space, and Subjectivity in Contemporary Spanish Culture (Oxford: Oxford UP, 2000); Contemporary Spanish Culture: TV, Fashion, Art, and Film (Oxford: Polity, 2003); Amores Perros (London: BFI, 2003), Spanish Visual Culture: Cinema, Television, Internet (Manchester: Manchester UP, 2006), Television in Spain: From Franco to Almodóvar (London: Boydell and Brewer, 2006), and Spanish Screen Fiction: Between Cinema and Television (Liverpool: Liverpool UP, 2009). He has written over sixty academic articles and given over one hundred invited lectures and conference papers. He is also a frequent contributor to Sight and Sound, the monthly magazine of the British Film Institute and writes a regular column for Film Quarterly, published by University of California Press. He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2008 and was invited to be on the Jury for Mexican Feature Films at the Morelia International Film Festival in 2009. His film reviews can be read here: http://sites.google.com/site/pauljuliansmithfilmreviews/Home
Domna Stanton
CUNY Graduate Center
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Department:
French
Email:
dstanton112@aol.com
Office Phone:
212-817-8386
Domna Stanton is a renowned scholar of seventeenth-century and early-modern French studies with an influential feminist perspective. Her first book, The Aristocrat as Art: A Study of the Honnête Homme and the Dandy in 17th- and 19th-Century French Literature, is considered a classic. Her most recent books are Women Writ, Women Writing: Gendered Discourse and Differences in Seventeenth-Century France and The Nation as Its Others. Her edited volumes include The Defiant Muse: French Feminist Poems from the 12th to the 20th Centuries; The Female Autograph; Discourses of Sexuality from Aristotle to AIDS; and Feminisms in the Academy. Among her extensive professional accomplishments, Professor Stanton was the first female editor of PMLA, the journal of the Modern Language Association; she assumes the presidency of the MLA in 2005. Previously the Elizabeth M. Douvan Collegiate Professor at the University of Michigan, she received her Ph.D. from Columbia University. Professor Stanton is also now teaching and writing on international human rights and is an active member of the board of Human Rights Watch.
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Ruth Stark
CUNY Graduate Center
The City College of New York
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Department:
Chemistry
Email:
rstark@ccny.cuny.edu
Office Phone:
212-650-8916
Professor Stark received her A.B. degree at Cornell University in upstate New York and obtained her Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry under the guidance of Robert and Regitze Vold at the University of California, San Diego in 1977. Subsequently, she joined the group of Dr. Robert Griffin at MIT’s National Magnet Lab as an NIH Postdoctoral Fellow for two years. In 1979, she was appointed Assistant Professor of Chemistry at Amherst College and spent a sabbatical year in Professor Mary Roberts’ lab at MIT. She moved to CUNY College of Staten Island in 1985 as Associate Professor of Chemistry, gaining the designation of CUNY Distinguished Professor in 2006. Professor Stark also directs the CUNY Institute for Macromolecular Assemblies, which relocated to The City College of New York in September, 2007.
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Benjamin Steinberg
CUNY Graduate Center
The City College of New York
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Department:
Mathematics
Email:
bsteinberg@ccny.cuny.edu
Office Phone:
212-650-5482
Benjamin Steinberg received his Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley in 1998, working under the supervision of John Rhodes.  After his Ph.D., Steinberg was an NSF-NATO Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Porto in Portugal, where he also held the position of Professor Auxiliar for 2 years.  He then spent 7 years at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada before coming to The City College of New York in 2010, where he is currently a Distinguished Professor of Mathematics.  He is also on the Graduate Faculty of the CUNY Graduate Center Department of Mathematics.
Steinberg’s initial work focused on applications of finite semigroup theory to the theory of formal languages and automata theory, where he became noted for his systematic usage of techniques from profinite monoid and profinite group theory for solving algorithmic problems about finite state automata and regular languages.  At that time Steinberg also began branching out into geometric group theory, and in particular, the study of automaton groups and self-similar groups, which connect automata theory to the study of symmetry.
In 2005, Steinberg became interested in the representation theory of finite semigroups and its applications to automata theory, probability theory and combinatorics.  Around that time, Steinberg and his student, F. Arnold, introduced synchronizing groups (inspired by connections between representation theory and automata theory), which has since become its own topic in permutation group theory, studied by leading group theorists such as Peter Neumann and Peter Cameron.    He also initiated a modernization of the representation theory of finite semigroup theory, culminating in his 2016 book on the subject, as well as a 2021 memoir in Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society.
Motivated by his research on the representation theory of finite inverse semigroups, Steinberg initiated the study of convolution algebras of etale groupoids over arbitrary rings, which serve as algebraic analogues of groupoid C*-algebras, generalizing the much-studied class of Leavitt path algebras.  These algebras are now called Steinberg algebras and are studied by a large group of both ring theorists and C*-algebraists and has led to new interactions between these fields.
Steinberg is the author of three books published by Springer.  He is the Managing Editor of the International Journal of Algebra and Computation and serves on the editorial boards of SpringerBriefs in Mathematics, Semigroup Forum, and Discussiones Mathematicae – General Algebra and Applications.  Steinberg was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to Brazil, 2018-2019.  He has been an invited plenary speaker at the Annual Meeting of the Australian Mathematical Society.  Steinberg was a Member of the Corporation of The Fields Institute 2004-2007.
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Joseph Straus
CUNY Graduate Center
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Department:
Music
Email:
jstraus@gc.cuny.edu
Office Phone:
212-817-8602
Joseph Straus is a music theorist specializing in music of the twentieth century, with research interests that include set theory, voice-leading in post-tonal music, the music of Stravinsky, and the music Ruth Crawford Seeger. His book, Introduction to Post-Tonal Theory, is a standard college textbook on this topic. His book Remaking the Past received the Wallace Berry award from the Society for Music Theory (SMT); Prof. Straus was the President of the SMT from 1997-99.
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Ida Susser
Hunter College
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Department:
Anthropology
Email:
isusser@hunter.cuny.edu
Ida Susser, Distinguished Professor of anthropology at Hunter College and the CUNY Graduate Center, has conducted ethnographic research in the U.S., Southern Africa, Puerto Rico, Spain, and France, with a focus on urban social movements and the urban commons, gender, the global AIDS epidemic, and environmental movements.
Her research in Barcelona and Paris (2019) was funded by an award from the National Science Foundation. Susser’s investigation probes the context of the political polarization in Europe following the 2008 recession during which the extreme right has been energized while new progressive parties have been formed. The study involves examining the social transformation in the practice of democracy that may be occurring in those cities with respect to the controversial efforts of young people, as well as the middle-aged population and pensioners who are joining mass demonstrations in both Spain and France.
Her ethnographic approach allows for an analysis of the popular pressures, changes in work, changes in class formation and the social reproduction of society that have led to such new movements.
Susser is the author of numerous books, chapters, and articles, including the book The Tumultuous Politics of Scale (co-edited with Don Nonini). (Forthcoming, Rutledge Press 2019).
The updated version of another book, Norman Street: Poverty and Politics in an Urban Neighborhood (Oxford University Press 2012), is a study of New York City during and after the 1975 fiscal crisis. A new chapter, “Claiming a Right to New York City,” discusses the changing neighborhoods, including the displacement of artists as well as poor people, of Greenpoint and Williamsburg in Brooklyn, New York, from the earlier ethnography up to the Occupy movement of 2011.The original edition (Oxford 1982) explores working class consciousness, racism, ethnic identities and gender in the emergence of social movements in those localities.
Professor Susser’s book AIDS, Sex and Culture: Global Politics and Survival in Southern Africa (Wiley-Blackwell 2009) was awarded the Eileen Basker Memorial Prize for research in women and health, by the Society for Medical Anthropology (2012). It discusses the ways in which men and women mobilized against the denialism of political officials, to prevent and treat AIDS in Southern Africa—from small group meetings to major demonstrations—and how these strong, social protest movements were ultimately successful in changing AIDS policy in South Africa.
Her other books include Medical Anthropology in the World System (co-authored with Hans Baer and Merril Singer), Wounded Cities: Destruction and Reconstruction in a Globalized World (co-edited with Jane Schneider), and Rethinking America (co-edited with Jeff Maskovsky).
Susser received the Distinguished Achievement Award in the Critical Study of North America from the Society for the Anthropology of North America, and has been the recipient of numerous grants, including the MacArthur Foundation Research and Writing Fellowship, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Institute of Health and the National Science Foundation, among others.
She was co-chair of the Social Science Track for the 2008 Mexico City International AIDS Society Conference and the AAA Commission of World Anthropologies. Additionally, she is a founding member of the steering committee of Athena: Advancing Gender Equity and Human Rights in the Global Response to HIV/AIDS, and is past President of the American Ethnological Society and founding President of the Society for the Anthropology of North America.
Susser received her Ph.D. from Columbia University.
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Maria Tamargo
The City College of New York
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Department:
Chemistry
Email:
mtamargo@ccny.cuny.edu
Office Phone:
212-650-7941
Having spent her early years in Havana, Cuba, Maria Tamargo moved with her family first to Milwaukee, Wisconsin and then to San Juan, Puerto Rico, where the family settled in the late 1960’s. She obtained a Bachelor’s degree in Chemistry at the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras, and a PhD in Chemistry at Johns Hopkins University, in Baltimore, Maryland. She began her professional career in 1978 as a Member of Technical Staff at AT&T Bell Labs, and later at Bellcore, before joining the faculty of the Chemistry department at the City College of New York in 1993.
Tamargo’s research has focused on the synthesis and characterization of semiconductor materials with technological applications. At CCNY she established a leading research program on the molecular beam epitaxial (MBE) growth of semiconductor materials, including wide bandgap II-VI semiconductors, and pursued novel photonics applications such as high performance photovoltaics, infrared light emitters and infrared sensors. She also investigates materials known as topological insulators that are being vigorously pursued for advanced technologies such as quantum computing. She is in the Doctoral Programs in Chemistry, Physics and Electrical Engineering. Over the years she has also been deeply involved in advancing educational and mentoring programs that strive for a more diverse and inclusive participation in the science and engineering fields.
Tamargo is the author of over 300 research publications in peer reviewed journals and book chapters, as well as several patents. She served as Dean of Science at CCNY from 2001 to 2007 and as Executive Officer of the Doctoral Program in Chemistry at the CUNY Graduate Center from 2011 to 2014. She is Fellow of the American Physical Society and Member of the National Academy of Engineering. She received the MBE Innovator Award from the North American Conference on MBE in 2017 and the 2021 SACNAS Distinguished Scientist Award. She is the Director of the National Science Foundation CREST Center for Interface Design and Engineered Assembly of Low Dimensional Systems, or IDEALS.
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Anthony Tamburri
Queens College
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Department:
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute; Department of European Languages and Literatures
Email:
anthony.tamburri@qc.cuny.edu
Office Phone:
212-642-2005
Anthony Julian Tamburri is Distinguished Professor of European Languages and Literatures and Dean of the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute (Queens College, The City University of New York). His research interests lie in literature, cinema, semiotics, interpretation theory, and cultural studies. He has divided his intellectual work evenly between Italian and Italian/American studies, authoring fourteen books and one hundred essays circa on both subject areas in English and Italian. He is also the editor of more than thirty volumes and special issues of journals. His more recent publications include: authored volumes: Re-reading Italian Americana: Specificities and Generalities on Literature and Criticism (2014); Re-viewing Italian Americana: Generalities and Specificities on Cinema (2011); Una semiotica dell’etnicità: nuove segnalature per la scrittura italiano/americana (2010); and Narrare altrove: diverse segnalature letterarie (2007); co-edited volumes: Europe, Italy and the Mediterranean (2014); Italoamericana: The Literature of the Great Migration, 1880-1943, edited by Francesco Durante in Italian (2014); The Cultures of Italian Migration: Diverse Trajectories and Discrete Perspectives. (2011); Mediated Ethnicity: New Italian-American Cinema. (2010); and the best-selling anthology, From The Margin: Writings in Italian Americana (1991; 2000 2nd). He is also a co-founder of Bordighera Press, publisher of Voices in Italian Americana, Italiana, and three book series’, VIA Folios, Crossings, and Saggistica, as well as the Bordighera Poetry Prize.Tamburri has been the recipient of various, academic and scholarly awards and grants over the years. Southern Connecticut State University named him its Distinguished Alumnus for the year 2000, where he earned a B.S. in Italian and Secondary Education, and the first to earn honors in student teaching of Italian. In 2010, he received a series of awards that included ILICA’s “Frank Stella Person of the Year”, and, conferred motu proprio, the honor of Cavaliere dell’Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana. In 2012 he received The Lehman-LaGuardia Award for Civic Achievement from the Commission for Social Justice Order Sons of Italy (New York State) in America and B’nai B’rith International (Metro-North Region); and he was nominated to and accepted into the Order of Merit of Savoy as Cavaliere.
Tamburri is a member of numerous organizations for which he has also held administrative positions and national office. He has been a member of the MLA’s Executive Committee for the Division on Modern Italian Literature, and co-founder of the Discussion Group on Italian/American Literature. He was president of the Italian American Studies Association from 2003-2007, and vice-president of the American Association of Teachers of Italian for 2006-2007, and served as president for 2008-2009.
Tamburri’s degrees are from Southern Connecticut State University (B.S., Italian & Spanish), Middlebury College (M.A., Italian), University of California, Berkeley (Ph.D., Italian and Spanish). In addition to teaching at Smith, Middlebury, and Auburn, he spent thirteen years at Purdue University, before moving to Florida Atlantic where, from 2000 to 2006, he served as Chair of Languages and Linguistics and subsequently Associate Dean for Research, Graduate, and Interdisciplinary Studies, as well as director of the Ph.D. in Comparative Studies and its Program for the Public Intellectual.
Tamburri has founded and directed summer programs in Italy and also held positions for the University of Pennsylvania and Middlebury College’s Scuola Estiva Italiana. He was also the first Esposito Visiting Faculty Fellow at University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth.
Tamburri is also executive producer of the TV program Italics (TW 75, RCN 77), in collaboration with CUNY TV, and a member of the founding directors of the Italian American Digital Project, which produces the Internet portal i-Italy.org, the magazine i-Italy, and i-ItalyTV.
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Jeanne Theoharis
Brooklyn College
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Department:
Political Science
Email:
JTheoharis@brooklyn.cuny.edu
Office Phone:
718-951-5306
Jeanne Theoharis received her A.B. in Afro-American Studies from Harvard University and her Ph.D. in American Culture from the University of Michigan. She is the author or co-author of seven books and dozens of articles on the Black freedom struggle in 20th century America and the contemporary politics of race and inequality in schools, social policy, and the justice system. Her biography, The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks, has garnered widespread acclaim and numerous awards. Debuting on The New York Times bestseller list, the book won a 2014 NAACP Image Award for Biography/Autobiography and the Letitia Woods Brown Award from the Association of Black Women Historians. Her other books include the widely-cited Freedom North: Black Freedom Struggles Outside of the South, 1940-1980, and Groundwork: Local Black Freedom Movements in America with Komozi Woodard; Want to Start A Revolution?: Radical Women in the Black Freedom Struggle with Dayo Gore and Komozi Woodard; Not Working: Latina Immigrants, Low Wage Jobs and the Failure of Welfare Reform with Alejandra Marchevsky and Our Schools Suck: Students Talk Back to a Segregated Nation about the Failures of Urban Education with Gaston Alonso, Noel Anderson, and Celina Su. She has received grants from the NEH, the AAUW, and the Rockefeller Foundation. She co-curates a monthly public education series at the Schomburg Center for Research on Black Culture of the NYPL titled “Conversations in Black Freedom Studies.” Co-founder of Educators for Civil Liberties, she has written extensively on civil and human rights issues in the federal system post-9/11. Her work has appeared in The Nation, the Chronicle of Higher Education, Slate, The Root, the Washington Post, and The Progressive.
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YingLi Tian
The City College of New York
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Department:
Electrical Engineering
Email:
ytian@ccny.cuny.edu
Office Phone:
212-650-5389
Dr. YingLi Tian is CUNY Distinguished Professor in
Electrical Engineering
at the
City College of New York
(CCNY) and Computer Science at
Graduate Center
of the City University of New York (CUNY). She is a Fellow of the
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
(IEEE). She received her PhD from the Department of Electronic Engineering at the
Chinese University of Hong Kong
in 1996. Her research interests include computer vision, machine learning, artificial intelligence, assistive technology, medical imaging analysis, and remote sensing. She has published more than 200 peer-reviewed papers in journals and conferences in these areas, and holds 29 issued patents. Her research has been supported by NSF, NIH, ONR, DHS, FHWA, ARO, CUNY, CCNY, as well as industry sponsors.
She is a pioneer in automatic facial expression analysis, human activity understanding, and assistive technology. Dr. Tian’s research on automatic facial expression analysis and database development while working at the
Robotics Institute
at
Carnegie Mellon University
has made significant impact in the research community and received the “
Test of Time Award
” at IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition 2019. Before joining CCNY, Dr. Tian was a research staff member at
IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
and led the video analytics team. She received the IBM Outstanding Innovation Achievement Award in 2007 and the IBM Invention Achievement Awards every year from 2002 to 2007. Since Dr. Tian joined CCNY in Fall 2008, she has been focusing on assistive technology by applying computer vision and machine learning technologies to help people with special needs including the blind and visually impaired, deaf and hard-of-hearing, and the elderly. She serves as associate editors for IEEE Trans. on Multimedia (TMM), Computer Vision and Image Understanding (CVIU), Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation (JVCI), and Machine Vision and Applications.
Rein Ulijn
Hunter College
The City College of New York
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Department:
Chemistry
Email:
rulijn@gc.cuny.edu
Office Phone:
212-413-3380
Rein Ulijn is Distinguished Professor at The City University of New York (CUNY), Albert Einstein Professor of Chemistry at Hunter College, and Founding Director of the Nanoscience Initiative at the Advanced Science Research Center (ASRC). Trained in the Netherlands and the UK (Ph.D., Strathclyde, Postdoc Edinburgh) and having held faculty positions at the Universities of Manchester and Strathclyde, UK, before joining CUNY in 2014, Ulijn has built an internationally recognized research program focused on biologically inspired materials science. His scholarship focuses on understanding and applying the molecular “assembly code” that governs peptide self-assembly, enabling the rational design of adaptive, functional, and sustainable materials. Integrating experimental, computational, and high-throughput approaches, his lab develops materials with applications in sustainable manufacturing, energy, and healthcare. They also study how the emergence of function relates to matter-to-life transitions.
A prolific inventor and translational scientist, Ulijn holds multiple patents and has co-founded several companies, including Biogelx (biomaterials for 3D cell culture), Renephra (wearable microneedle-based fluid removal), and BioWraptor (peptide-based biologics stabilization). His work has been recognized with numerous honors, including selection as a Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellow by the U.S. Department of Defense—the DoD’s most prestigious single-investigator award—and fellowships from the Royal Society of Chemistry and the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
Beyond his individual research, Ulijn is a builder of innovation ecosystems. At CUNY, he has led the creation of advanced research infrastructure, cross-institutional partnerships with Columbia University and others, and industry-engaged educational programs. He co-leads the NSF Research Traineeship program Nanoscience Connected to Life and directs major initiatives such as the Gotham Foundry Materials Innovation Hub and the Tech-Biome project, designed to accelerate materials discovery, commercialization, and regional economic development. Through these efforts, he integrates fundamental science, entrepreneurship, and workforce training, fostering an inclusive and globally competitive innovation community.
Current Scholarly Interests:
Biologically Inspired Systems, Peptide-Based Materials, Molecular Self-Assembly, Universal Assembly Code, Computational Materials Discovery, Automation and AI in Materials Science, High-Throughput Experimentation, Physical Chemistry, Technology Translation and Commercialization, Cross-Sector Collaborations, Research Infrastructure Development.
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Virginia Valian
Hunter College
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Department:
Psychology
Email:
little.linguist@hunter.cuny.edu
Office Phone:
212-772-5557
Virginia Valian is a faculty member of the Ph.D. Programs in Psychology and Linguistics and has been a psychology professor at Hunter College since 1987. Valian’s landmark book Why So Slow? The Advancement of Women (MIT Press, 1998) uses the concepts of gender schemas and the accumulation of advantage to explain why so few women from scientists to choreographers are at the top of their professions. Valian is co-director of Hunter’s Gender Equity Project, a National Science Foundation-sponsored initiative to solve gender equity problems faced by women in science. Valian is also internationally recognized for her innovative experimental and cross-linguistic research on children’s acquisition of syntax. Her next book, Input and Innateness: Controversies in Language Acquisition, was published by MIT Press.(Photo credited to: Frank Fournier)
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Paul Wachtel
The City College of New York
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Department:
Psychology
Email:
pwachtel@ccny.cuny.edu
Office Phone:
212-650-5660
Paul L. Wachtel, Ph.D. is CUNY Distinguished Professor in the doctoral program in clinical psychology at City College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He did his undergraduate studies at Columbia University, received his doctorate in clinical psychology at Yale, and is a graduate of the NYU postdoctoral program in psychoanalysis and psychotherapy. He was a cofounder of the Society for the Exploration of Psychotherapy Integration (SEPI) and is a past president of that organization.
Among his books are The Poverty of Affluence (1983); Family Dynamics in Individual Psychotherapy (with Ellen F. Wachtel) (1986); Action and Insight (1987); Psychoanalysis, Behavior Therapy, and the Relational World (1997); and Race in the Mind of America: Breaking the Vicious Circles Between Blacks and Whites (1999). His most recent books are Relational Theory and the Practice of Psychotherapy (2008), Inside the Session: What Really Happens in Psychotherapy (2011), the second edition of Therapeutic Communication (2011), and the forthcoming Cyclical Psychodynamics and the Contextual Self: The Inner World, the Intimate World, and the World of Culture and Society.
He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and was the winner of the 2010 Hans H. Strupp Award for Psychoanalytic Writing, Teaching, and Research, the 2012 Distinguished Psychologist Award by Division 29 (Psychotherapy) of APA, and the 2013 Scholarship and Research Award by Division 39 (Psychoanalysis) of APA.
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David Waldstreicher
CUNY Graduate Center
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Department:
History
Email:
dwaldstreicher@gc.cuny.edu
Office Phone:
212-817-8450
David Waldstreicher is a historian of early and nineteenth-century America, with particular interests in political and cultural history. He comes to the Graduate Center from Temple University, where he was a professor of history and coeditor of the Journal of the Early Republic. He previously taught at Bennington College, Yale University, and the University of Notre Dame.
Waldstreicher is author of Slavery’s Constitution: From Revolution to Ratification (2009); Runaway America: Benjamin Franklin, Slavery and the American Revolution (2004); and In the Midst of Perpetual Fetes: The Making of American Nationalism, 1776-1820 (1997). As editor, his books include A Companion to John Adams and John Quincy Adams (2013), A Companion to Benjamin Franklin (2011), Beyond the Founders: New Approaches to the Political History of the Early American Republic (2004) and The Struggle Against Slavery: A History in Documents (2001). He has contributed recent articles to American Political Thought, Rutgers Law Journal, William and Mary Quarterly, and Early American Studies and has written numerous chapters in edited volumes, as well as book reviews for The New York Times Book Review, The Boston Globe, and other venues. He is on the editorial board of Reviews in American History and is coeditor of the Early American Studies book series at the University of Pennsylvania Press.Waldstreicher is an elected member of the American Antiquarian Society and the recipient of awards and fellowships from the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers, New York Public Library; the American Philosophical Society; and the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, among others. He received his B.A. from the University of Virginia and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Yale University.
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Mac Wellman
Brooklyn College
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Email:
mwellman@brooklyn.cuny.edu
Office Phone:
718-951-5480
Mac Wellmann’s recent work includes The Difficulty of Crossing a Field (with composer David Lang) at ACT in San Francisco and at Montclair in the fall of 2006, and at UT Austin in 2010; and 1965 UU for performer Paul Lazar, and directed by Stephen Mellor at the Chocolate Factory in the fall of 2008. He is also working on two plays for chorus: The Invention of Tragedy (Classic Stage Company) and Nine Days Falling commissioned by the Stuck Pigs Company of Melbourne, Australia. He has received numerous honors, including both NEA and Guggenheim Fellowships. In 1990 he received an Obie (Best New American Play) for Bad Penny, Terminal Hip and Crowbar. In 1991 he received another Obie for Sincerity Forever. Three collections of his plays have been published: The Bad Infinity (PAJ/Johns Hopkins University Press), Two Plays, and The Land Beyond the Forest (both Sun and Moon). Sun and Moon also published A Shelf in Woop’s Clothing, his third collection of poetry, and two novels: The Fortuneteller (1991) and Annie Salem (1996). In 1997 he received the Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Writers’ Award. In 2003 he received his third Obie, for lifetime Achievement (Antigone, Jennie Richee and Bitter Bierce all cited). In 2004 he received an award from the Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts. In 2006 his third novel, Q’s Q, was published by Green Integer, and in 2008 a volume of stories, A Chronicle of the Madness of Small Worlds, was published by Trip Street Press. His recent books of poetry are Miniature (2002) and Strange Elegies (2006) both from Roof Books. He is the Donald I. Fine Professor of Play Writing at Brooklyn College.
Douglas Whalen
CUNY Graduate Center
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Department:
Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences
Email:
dwhalen@gc.cuny.edu
Office Phone:
212-817-8806
Douglas H. Whalen has conducted research on a broad range of topics in speech perception, speech production and cognitive neuroscience, as well as coordinating efforts to document endangered languages. He joined the Graduate Center faculty in 2011 from Haskins Laboratories in New Haven, CT, where continues to hold the position of Vice President of Research. His perceptual work has highlighted the way in which listeners use all information available to them when perceiving a speech signal, even when the information might be misleading and thus better left unattended. Both behavioral and neural imaging work indicate that such a phenomenon is due to the precedence that the speech signal takes in the processing of our perceptual world. Perception of the speech signal is, the evidence indicates, based on recovering the production that produced it, rather than on attending to the sounds per se. This link has led to work on measuring speech production, both in its acoustic aspects (e.g., the pitch of vowels or the planning of coarticulation), the muscles of the larynx, the volume of air taken into the lungs before sentences of different lengths, magnetic resonance imaging of the vocal tract, and finding the surface of the tongue with ultrasound. Combining these efforts has been the focus of a grant from the National Institute of Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, “Links between production and perception of speech,” of which Dr. Whalen has been PI for the past 13 years.These results have been published in a wide variety of journals, from Science to the Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research to Language to the Papers of the Algonquian Conference. His work with the late Alvin M. Liberman has received the most attention, with both the evidence for and theory about the recovery of speech gestures during perception generating continuing debate. He has also edited, with Louis M. Goldstein and Catherine T. Best, a volume of papers from the eighth Laboratory Phonology conference.
Dr. Whalen is President and Founder of the Endangered Language Fund. This non-profit organization provides support for documentation and revitalization of languages in danger of ceasing to be spoken. There are an estimated 3500-6300 such languages, all likely to fall silent within this century. The Fund provides grants to individuals and tribes for such work, both worldwide in the Language Legacies program, and in the northwestern United States, in the Native Voices Endowment: A Lewis & Clark Expedition Bicentennial Legacy. The Fund also sponsors workshops, such as the Breath of Life Archival Institute in Washington, DC, in June 2011.
Dr. Whalen received his Ph.D. in Linguistics from Yale University in 1983, performing the experiments themselves at Haskins Laboratories. Since that time, he has been a full-time researcher and administrator at Haskins, leading or working on a dozen grants from NIH, NSF and other sources. He was elected a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America in 2008.
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Catherine Widom
John Jay College of Criminal Justice
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Department:
Forensic Psychology
Email:
cwidom@jjay.cuny.edu
Office Phone:
212-237-8978
Cathy Spatz Widom is Distinguished Professor in the Psychology Department at John Jay College and a member of the Graduate Center faculty, City University of New York. She is a fellow of the American Psychological Association (Division 41 – Law and Psychology), the American Psychopathological Association, and the American Society of Criminology. A former faculty member at Harvard, Indiana, University at Albany (SUNY), and New Jersey Medical School, Widom is co-editor of Journal of Quantitative Criminology and has served on the editorial boards of psychology and criminology journals. She is a frequent consultant on national review panels and has been invited to testify before congressional and state committees. She has published extensively on the long-term consequences of child abuse and neglect, including numerous papers on the cycle of violence. Widom served on the Committee on Law and Justice at the Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences at the National Research Council (NRC) and was co-chair of the NRC Panel on Juvenile Crime, Juvenile Justice. Professor Widom has received numerous awards for her research, including the 1989 American Association for the Advancement of Science Behavioral Science Research Prize for her paper on the “cycle of violence”. Since 1986, Widom has been engaged in a large study to determine the long term consequences of early childhood abuse (physical and sexual) and neglect and is currently completing research on the intergenerational transmission of violence.
Richard Wolin
CUNY Graduate Center
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Department:
Comparative Literature, History, and Political Science
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rwolin@gc.cuny.edu
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212-817-8446
Richard Wolin is a highly regarded authority in the field of modern European intellectual history. He received a B.A. from Reed College, and an M.A. and Ph.D. from York University in Toronto and has held faculty positions at Reed College and Rice University where he was D.D. McMurtry Professor of History. He is the author of several books on subjects such as Martin Heidegger, Heidegger’s influential Jewish students (Hannah Arendt, Karl Loewith, Hans Jonas, and Herbert Marcuse), Walter Benjamin, the history of twentieth-century ideas, and modern cultural criticism. In addition to his scholarly writing, Professor Wolin is a regular contributor to such publications as the New Republic, Dissent, Tikkun, and The Los Angeles Times, which has earned him a reputation as a leading public intellectual. He is on several editorial review boards and has received grants and awards from the German Marshall Fund, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
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Stephanie Woolhandler
Hunter College
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Department:
Urban Public Health
Email:
swoolhan@hunter.cuny.edu
Office Phone:
617-312-2766
Steffie Woolhandler, M.D., MPH is a Distinguished Professor at The City University of New Yorks Hunter’s College, a primary-care doctor in the South Bronx, and a Lecturer in Medicine at Harvard Medical School, where she was formerly Professor of Medicine.
She has published more than 150 journal articles, reviews, chapters, and books on health policy and is a leading advocate of non-profit national health insurance for the United States. She, along with Dr. David Himmelstein co-founded Physicians for a National Health Program. Among her influential scholarly articles are studies on patient dumping (which led to a federal ban on that practice), medical bankruptcy (co-authored with Elizabeth Warren), waste in hospitals and, in medicine more generally, the lethality of being uninsured, and proposals for single payer health reform.
A native of Louisiana, she graduated from LSU Medical School in New Orleans, and completed an internal medicine residency at Cambridge Hospital and a research fellowship in General Internal Medicine at Harvard. During her stint as a Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellow at the Institute of Medicine (now the National Academy of Medicine) she worked with Senator Paul Wellstone and then-Congressman Bernie Sanders.
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Naomi Zack
Lehman College
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Department:
Philosophy
Email:
Naomi.Zack@Lehman.cuny.edu
Office Phone:
718-960-1976
Naomi Zack is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Lehman College, CUNY and an
affiliated member of the CUNY Graduate Center Philosophy Department. She was born in
Brooklyn, grew up in lower Manhattan, received a BA from New York University in 1966, and
a PhD in Philosophy from Columbia University in 1970. Zack then left academia and
philosophy for 20 years. She returned in 1990 to teach at the University of Albany until
2001. She then taught at the University of Oregon until returning to NYC to teach at Lehman
College, in Fall 2019.
Zack’s scholarly work has spanned Philosophy of Race, Disaster Studies, and Social and
Political Philosophy, with later books moving toward more contemporary cultural and
political issues based on earlier work in the history of philosophy and philosophy of
science. Recent books are:
Intersectionality: A Philosophical Framework
(based on
2020/2022 Phi Beta Kappa-Romanell lectures, Oxford University Press, March 2023) and
Democracy, a Very Short Introduction
(in the Oxford University Press series, Fall 2023). Also
recent are: 2nd eds of
Philosophy of Race, An Introduction
(Palgrave, Macmillan, 2009/2023)
and
Ethics for Disaster
(Rowman & Littlefield, 2018/2023);
Ethics and Race: Past and
Present Intersections and Controversies
(Rowman & Littlefield, 2022);
The American Tragedy
of COVID-19: Social and Political Crises of 2020
(Rowman & Littlefield, 2021),
Progressive
Anonymity: From Identity Politics to Evidence-Based Government
(Rowman & Littlefield
2020). Earlier books include:
Reviving the Social Compact: Inclusive Citizenship in an Age
of Extreme Politics
(2018), her edited 51-essay
Oxford Handbook on Philosophy and
Race
(2017) Still earlier books include:
The Theory of Applicative Justice: An Empirical
Pragmatic Approach to Correcting Racial Injustice
(Rowman & Littlefield, 2016);
White
Privilege and Black Rights: The Injustice of US Police Racial Profiling and
Homicide
(Rowman & Littlefield, 2015),
The Ethics and Mores of Race: Equality after the
History of Philosophy
(Rowman & Littlefield, 2011/2015),
Inclusive Feminism: A Third Wave
Theory of Women’s Commonality
(Rowman & Littlefield, 2005),
Philosophy of Science and
Race
(Routledge, 2002) and
Race and Mixed Race
(Temple University Press, 1992).
Zack gave the John Dewey Lecture at the Pacific Division Meeting of the American
Philosophical Society in April 2021. She teaches, writes essays, and lectures on the
subjects of these books.
Current Scholarly Interests
Dr. Zack’s main interests are philosophy of race, political philosophy, higher education, and
disaster, in terms of these questions: How should we address the ongoing social
importance of the idea of race, despite its scientific emptiness? How are contemporary
Left and Right politics related to cultural opinions? How can higher education draw on its
proven strengths to survive contemporary crises? What can be done to make disaster
preparation an integral part of normal life?
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