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Elaine Abelson, PhD, New York University. American history; New York City; gender studies; the 1960’s.

Sonja Amadae, PhD, University of California at Berkeley. Political theory; philosophy of economic and social science.

Bea Banu, PhD, Graduate Center CUNY. Aesthetics; philosophy of art.

Claudia Barrachi, PhD, Vanderbilt University. Ancient philosophy; 19th and 20th century continental philosophy; aesthetics.

Robert Beauregard, PhD, Cornell University. Urban theory and history, U.S. postwar cities, urbanization, urbanism.

Howard S. Berliner, ScD, Johns Hopkins University. Health care organization and finance; access to care for underserved groups; for-profit health care.

Arthur Blumenthal, PhD, University of Washington. Psychology.

Colette Brooks, MFA, Yale University. Writing; creative nonfiction; theater, avant garde theater.

Paulo Carpignano, PhD, University of Rome. Media theory; sociology of culture, social history, education, and new technologies; media and the labor process; higher education and cyberspace.

Jose Casanova, PhD, Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Science, New School University. Religion, democratization, and social change in Latin America, Southern Europe, and Eastern Europe; state making, nation building, market reform, and civil society in the Ukraine.

Emanuele Castano, PhD, Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium. Collective identity; dehumanization; agency and responsibility; terror management theory.

Sumita Chakravarty, PhD, Lucknow University, India; PhD University of Illinois. Urbana-Champaign; media theory; global and cultural studies; film studies.

Katayoun Chamany, PhD, University of California at Berkeley. Genetics; infectious disease; cell biology; public policy.

Alice Crary, PhD, University of Pittsburgh. Philosophy of language; moral philosophy; analytic philosophy.

Simon Critchley, PhD, University of Essex. French philosophy; ethics; Marx; deconstruction.

Karen D’Avanzo, PhD, Long Island University. Developmental psychopathology; risk and resilience and child/adolescent development; contextual factors and adolescent substance use; dual diagnosis psychotherapy development; psychotherapy integration; maternal drug use; psychopathology and child/adolescent outcome; longitudinal research on affluent teens.

Sarah Daynes, PhD, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales. Sociology of race and social movements.

Juan De Castro, PhD, University of Southern California. Comparative literature; Latin American literature; Latino literature.

James Dodd, PhD, Boston University. Phenomenology; 19th and 20th century continental philosophy; Kant; Schelling.

Duncan Foley, PhD, Yale University. Economic theory and political economy; macroeconomics; econometrics; growth and distribution.

Oz Frankel, PhD, University of California at Berkeley. Social and political history of 19th-century U.S., Victorian Britain; history of the social sciences; race relations; media and print culture; popular culture; reform, state formation, and historiography.

Jeffrey Goldfarb, PhD, University of Chicago. Michael E. Gellert Professor of Sociology, The Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Science. Politics; theatre; Polish and Soviet society.

Neil Gordon, PhD, Yale University. 19th Century French and American literature; American fiction and nonfiction of the 40’s, 50’s, and 60’s; contemporary Israeli fiction; psychoanalytic theory and criticism.

William Hirst, PhD, Cornell University. Cognitive science; cognitive neuroscience, especially memory and attention; social remembering.

David Howell, PhD, Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Science New School University. Labor market outcomes; immigration and New York City at the turn of the century; employment; education, health, and public policy; ethnicity and citizenship.

Mala Htun, PhD, Harvard University. Comparative politics; gender and politics; Latin American politics; politics of gender and ethnic representation in Latin America and worldwide.

Eiko Ikegami, PhD, Harvard University. Comparative historical sociology; Japanese society; theory and sociology of culture; public spheres in comparative perspective; civility and state formation in Japan; identities, network, and social change.

Courtney Jung, PhD, Yale University. Political identity; democratic transitions; South Africa; indigenous rights; liberal and democratic theory; Mexico.

Marcel Kinsbourne, DM Oxford University. Cognitive neuroscience; with special reference to attention; consciousness and children's learning.

Nat Kogan, Ph. D., Harvard University. Life-span developmental psychology; sex and gender issues; creativity; psychology and the arts.

Paul Kottman, PhD, University of California at Berkeley. Shakespeare; renaissance drama and literature; continental philosophy and literature; classical drama and literature; literary theory.

Ferentz Lafargue, PhD Candidate Yale University. African-American and multi-ethnic American literature, Caribbean literatures and theories.

Mark Larrimore, PhD, Princeton University. Modern religious thought; history of ethics; philosophy and theory of religion.

Jane Lazarre, MA, The Graduate Faculty, CUNY. Fiction; non-fiction; African-American literature traditions in fiction and autobiography; women’s literature and feminist criticism.

Orville Lee, PhD, University of California at Berkeley. Cultural sociology; historical sociology; social and cultural theory.

Laura Liu, PhD Rutgers University. Urban, political, and feminist geography; gender and ethnic studies; community and labor organizing; social group identity and place identity; migration and work; race and space; Chinatowns.

Claudio Lomnitz, PhD, Stanford. Anthropology; historical studies; Mexico.

Bonnie Marranca, MA, Hunter College. Contemporary American performance history; American and European drama; European modernism. Founder and editor/publisher of PAJ.

Minelle Mahtani, PhD, University College London. Critical cultural geography; feminist geography; diversity in the media.

Alan McGowan, MS, Institute for Teachers of Science & Mathematics. Social and ethical implications of genetics research; environmental analysis and policy; public understanding of science.

Pablo Medina, MA, Georgetown University. Fiction; non-fiction; poetry; Latin American and Cuban literature; Latino literature.

Inessa Medzhibovskaya, PhD Princeton University. Russian and European literature; critical theory; moral and religious philosophy; intellectual and cultural history.

William Milberg, PhD, Rutgers University. Labor market effects of international trade; methodology of economics.

Joan Miller, PhD, University of Chicago. Interpersonal motivation; moral judgment and behavior; family, peer, and friend relationships; theory of mind; attachment.

Simonetta Moro, PhD candidate, University of Central Lancashire, England. Theory and practice of contemporary art and architecture; studio practice (painting, drawing, printmaking, installation art); art history.

Anne Murphy, PhD, Columbia University. South Asian religions, literature, and history; religions in the U.S. and the South Asian transnational diaspora; historiography; museology; philanthropy and social service.

Dmitri Nikulin, PhD, Institute for Philosophy of the Academy of Sciences, Moscow. Ancient and early modern philosophy.

Adriana Petryna, PhD, University of California, Berkeley. Anthropological theory; medical anthropology; science, technology, and society; bioethics; transitioning societies and states; globalization and citizenship.

Henning Plessner, Dr, Technical University of Chemnitz-Zwickau, Germany. Judgment and decision making in sports; implicit attitude formation and measurement; inductive reasoning.

David Plotke, PhD, University of California at Berkeley. American political development; contemporary political and social theory; political judgment and collective action; sources of democratic continuity.

Ross Poole, B.Phil, Oxford University. Political science.

Ivan Raykoff, PhD, University of California at San Diego. Music history; theory and performance; cultural studies; critical theory in music.

Adolph Reed, PhD, Atlanta University. American and African-American politics and political thought; urban politics; American political development; class and race in 20th-century American politics and social thought.

Rose Rejouis, PhD, Princeton University. African and Caribbean literature; French literature; short and experimental fiction; literary criticism and theory; magical realism and fantastic fiction; detective fiction; childhood narratives.

Sara Ruddick, PhD, Harvard University. M.A. RAdcliffe College. B.A. Vassar College.

Scott Salmon, PhD, Syracuse University. Urban political-economy; urban geography and critical urban theory; globalization and urban governance in North America and the Pacific Rim; global/globalizing cities; race, inequality, and neo-liberalism; urban regeneration and citizenship; planning and public space.

Helio San Miguel, PhD, Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain. Philosophy and history of science; 16th to 18th century philosophy, science and technology; Greek philosophy; contemporary philosophy of science and analytic philosophy; scientific cinema; Latin American and Indian cinema.

Elaine Savory, PhD University of the West Indies, M of Philosophy, University of Leeds. Poetry; literary criticism; Caribbean literature; women's writing; cross-cultural writing.

Polly Scarvalone, PhD, Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Science New School University. Assessment and treatment of trauma; comparative therapeutic modalities from short-term to psychoanalysis; psychotherapy and sexual identities.

Michael Schober, PhD, Stanford University. Psychology of language and discourse; interaction and collaboration in pairs and groups; technologically mediated communication; musical collaboration.

Anwar Shaikh, PhD, Columbia University. Macroeconomics; international political economy; mathematical economics; growth and cycle theory; national economic accounts; economic history; exchange rates; globalization; U.S. macroeconomic policy; finance theory.

David Shapiro, PhD, University of Southern California. Psychotherapy; psychopathology.

Stuart Shedletsky, MFA, Yale University. Solo artist; curator.

Mark Statman, BA, Columbia University. MA Candidate, University of Virginia. Writing; poetry; short fiction; education studies.

Howard Steele, PhD, University College of London. Clinical psychology; attachment research; human development.

Miriam Steele, PhD, University College of London. Clinical psychology; attachment research; human development.

Sekou Sundiata, MA, City College, CUNY. Music; literature; poetry.

McWelling Todman, PhD, The Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Science, New School University. Substance abuse disorders; psychotic disorders and their co-morbid manifestations; cognitive rehabilitation; self-deception and other delusional processes; chronic boredom.

Zishan Ugurlu, PhD, Ankara University, MFA acting, Columbia, MFA directing, Istanbul. acting; directing; voice; movement; international theater.

Bhawani Venkataraman, PhD, Columbia University. Chemistry; environment

Val Vinokurov, PhD, Princeton University. Comparative literature; modern Russian literature; Jewish studies; ethics and aesthetics; translation; creative writing.

Tatiana Wah, PhD, Rutgers University. National and regional economic development in the Caribbean and Haiti, global city management of expatriate communities.

Peter Wallace, MFA, Yale School of Drama. Directing; contemporary and new work; Shakespeare; Greeks; sculpture.

Judith B. Walzer, PhD, Brandeis University. 19th and 20th century English and American literature.

McKenzie Wark, PhD, Murdoch University, Australia. Cinema studies; television studies; new media; cyber culture; computer games; popular music; media theory; critical theory.

Bernard Weitzman, PhD, Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Science, New School University. Contemplative psychotherapy; the application of the perspective of Buddhist psychology and the psychologies of the world’s spiritual traditions to psychodynamic thinking; Jungian psychology; transference in psychotherapy.

Terry Williams, PhD, City University of New York. Race; drug culture; urban life; poverty.

Jennifer Wilson, PhD, Princeton University. Harmonic analysis; partial differential equations; visual representations; ethno-mathematics.

Vera Zolberg, PhD, University of Chicago. Sociology of culture and the arts; avant-garde movements; outsider art; cultural institutions; cultural policies and politics; social construction of memory.


 
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