Department Faculty/Staff Listing

Recent Presentations/Productions:

“Philosophy of Rights,” “Ethical Justifications of Capitalism,” “Critiques of Capitalism: Right and Left,” and “Ethical Entrepreneurship,” presented at the Institute for Humane Studies summer seminar on Moral Foundations of Capitalism. Clemson, SC. June 20-26, 2009.

“Integrating Service-Learning in an Environmental Ethics Course” (with MMC students Genni Lee Hester, Diana Brown, and Julia Cunningham), presented at the First Annual NYMAPS Service-Learning Symposium. New York, NY. May 5, 2009.

“Commentary on Jeff Buechner’s Are There Forms of Rationality Unique to a Family that Can Justify the Concept of “Family Values?” presented at the Third Annual Felician College Ethics Institute Conference. Rutherford, NJ. April 18, 2009.

“Aristotle, Liberalism, and the Common Advantage.” presented at the Second Annual MacIntyrean Philosophy Conference. St. Meinrad, IN. August 1, 2008. and at the New Jersey Regional Philosophical Association Conference. Mahwah, NJ. November 8, 2008.

“Protecting Individuals: Multicultural Citizenship versus Freedom of Association.” presented at the 25th International Social Philosophy Conference. Portland, OR. July 17, 2008.

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Jessica Blatt, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Political Science
email
212-774-4842

Degrees
B.A. University of California, Berkeley
M.A. New School for Social Research
Ph. D. New School for Social Research


Jessica Blatt joined Marymount Manhattan College in Spring 2010. Before coming to the College, she taught American politics at Sarah Lawrence College.

Professor Blatt’s research focuses on American political thought and particularly how ideas about difference—race, gender, class, and other categories—interact with political discourse and public policy. She is working on a book on racial thought and the origins of the discipline of political science in America. She teaches courses on media and politics, public policy, American electoral politics, and race, among other topics.

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Jennifer N. Brown, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of English
email
212-517-0601

Degrees
B.A., Georgetown University
M.A., Georgetown University
Ph.D., The Graduate Center, City University of New York

Dr. Brown’s teaching and research interests include medieval literature in Middle English, Middle Scots, Anglo-Norman, and Latin, as well as literary and feminist theory. Her book Three Women of Liège: A Critical Edition of and Commentary on the Middle English Lives of Elizabeth of Spalbeek, Christina Mirabilis, and Marie d'Oignies was published in 2008 by Brepols Publishers in their series "Medieval Women: Texts and Contexts." Dr. Brown's research and publications focus on medieval devotional literature written by, for, and about women. Her most recent work has been on the 12th-century Lives of Edward the Confessor written in Latin and Anglo-Norman, especially that by the anonymous Nun of Barking Abbey. She has published articles in Magistra: A Journal of Women’s Spirituality in History, Medieval Feminist Forum, the Journal of the History of Sexuality, as well as several edited collections. Currently, she is co-editing a book on Barking Abbey and working on Catherine of Siena's tradition in medieval England. Dr. Brown writes and edits the "Medieval Women's Writing" and “Middle Scots Poetry” chapters of the annual Year's Work in English Studies (Oxford University Press). She also wrote and edited the "Middle Ages" chapter for the Instructor's Guide to the Norton Anthology of Western Literature. In addition, she is the Vice President of the Medieval Club of New York.

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Millie Burns, M.F.A.
Director, Hewitt Gallery of Art
Assistant Professor of Art
email
212-517-0692

Degrees
M.F.A., Hunter College of the City University of New York
B.F.A., American InterContinental University

Millie Burns is a cross-media artist. She is experienced in traditional and digital photography, serigraphy, artists' books, and ceramics. She also works with static and kinetic, 2 D and 3 D digital media. Professor Burns produced an educational video for the State of New Jersey and a documentary video entitled Poetry in Motion for Riverdale Neighborhood House. MTA Arts for Transit commissioned her to design an 8' x 148' steel barrier fence for the New York City Transit Authority's Botanic Garden station. Her work, much of it commissioned, is exhibited and collected internationally and is included in the public and private collections of Hassan II of Morocco, Chemical Bank, Banker's Trust, The New York Public Library, The Brooklyn Museum of Art, Price Waterhouse & Company, The Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, Dun & Bradstreet, The Marriott Corporation, Saint Vincent's Hospital, and Haines Lundberg Waehler.

In addition to the Hewitt Gallery of Art at Marymount, Professor Burns has curated exhibits for The Rotunda Gallery, The YWCA Gallery, and Beyer, Blinder, Belle. She was Gallery Curator at Dance Theater Workshop from 1990 through 1993. She is a panelist for the MTA Arts for Transit Permanent Art Program.

Millie Burns' recent presentations include "The Challenge of Conducting a Successful Arts Integration Program, Sarah Lawrence College, Architecture and Design in the Curriculum, Common Ground 2004 Arts in Education Conference, Partners for Arts Education & New York State Council on the Arts, Syracuse, “to study Gordon Parks”, Empire State Partnerships Summer Seminar, Long Island University C.W. Post Campus, Survival Skills Workshop, Artists' Space, and Making the Grade: Successful Visual Arts and Math Integration, Art Works! Symposium, Empire State Partnerships, Brooklyn Museum of Art. She has been a guest lecturer at New York Institute of Technology, Cooper Union, University of Mississippi, Barnard College, Long Island University, and New York University, and a Visiting Scholar at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. Committed to underserved communities, she has been a Visiting Artist, Artist in Residence, and Museum Educator, sharing her skills in architecture, calligraphy, web design, mural painting, sculpture, and installation art. She has been a workshop leader, seminar instructor, panelist, and moderator on topics that include children's book illustration and production, pinhole photography, survival tactics for artists, and professional presentation. Burns has been presenter for the New York Foundation for the Arts' Artists' Fellowship Program and a panelist for the New York State Council on the Arts' Arts in Education Program. Taken with technology, Millie Burns has completed a template for a K-12 curriculum that is grounded in her belief that learning should reinforce self-identity and incorporate the reinforcing elements of interdisciplinary content, inquiry learning, partnership, sustained and reflective engagement, and analysis of primary documents.

Recent Presentations/Productions:

Study of Gordon Parks. Empire State Partnerships Summer Seminar. Long Island University C.W. Post Campus. Brookdale, New York. July 13 - 17, 2008.

Designer/Animator, Yes and No. Director Kelsy Chauvin. Brooklyn, NY. June 2009.

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Peter Cain, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Psychology
email
212-774-0777

Degrees
B.A., State University of New York at New Paltz
M.A.; M. Phil., Hunter College
Ph.D., City University of New York

Dr. Cain earned a B.A. in Biology from SUNY New Paltz and entered the work force. He returned to academia to pursue his Ph.D. in Psychology at the City University of New York, specializing in BioPsychology and Animal Behavior. After receiving his degree, Dr. Cain accepted a post-doctoral research position in the Department of BioStructure and Function at the University of Connecticut Health Center. He subsequently taught at Mt. Holyoke College and St. Lawrence University before returning to New York. At Marymount Manhattan College, he will be working at the interface between psychology, biology, and chemistry in neuroscience and behavior and is Coordinator of the Neuroscience minor. He teaches general psychology, animal behavior, animal play, drugs and the brain, perception, and physiological psychology/behavioral neuroscience. He is looking forward to working with interested undergraduate students on research projects. Dr. Cain is a Visiting Scholar in Dr. Eric Klann’s laboratory at New York University.

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Carol Camper, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of English, Chair of English Department
email
212-774-0731

Degrees
B.A., Wittenberg University
M.A., The State University of New York, College at Buffalo
Ph.D., The State University of New York, College at Buffalo

Carol Camper, Associate Professor of English, has a Ph.D. from the State University of New York at Buffalo. Her teaching and research interests include British and American Modernism, the modern European novel, the lives of women in early modern Europe, feminist theory, and developments in the teaching of writing on all college levels.

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Ross Chappell
Operations Director for Fine and Performing Arts Division
email
212-774-0765

Degrees
B.A., Carson-Newman College
M.A., University of Montevallo

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Yu-Yin Cheng, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of History and International Studies, Interim Chair of International Studies Department
email
212-774-4833

Degrees
B.A., National Taiwan Normal University
M.A., University of California, Davis
Ph.D., University of California, Davis


Yu-Yin Cheng teaches courses in Chinese and East Asian culture and history, and world history. Her specialization is in intellectual, religious and women’s history of China during the late imperial period (1368-1910 CE). She is the author of A Chronological Biography of Lo Ju-fang (1515-1588): Poet, Philosopher, Activist [in Chinese] (1995), and co-editor of Under Confucian Eyes: Texts on Gender in Chinese History (2001, with Susan Mann). Currently, she is working on a translation project on the writings of a Chinese Christian, Yang Tingyun (1562-1627), and a book manuscript on Chinese intellectual-activists in the 16th century.

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Giovanna Chesler, M.F.A.
Assistant Professor of Communication Arts
email
212-774-4866

Degrees
M.F.A., San Francisco State University
B.A., University of Virginia


Giovanna Chesler is a Director and Producer of documentary and narrative films and web based work that address themes of the body, sexuality, and gender. She teaches courses in video production and film theory. Her film work produced through her production company G6 Pictures (www.g6pictures.com) includes Period: The End of Menstruation (16mm, 54min, 2006), distributed by Cinema Guild, NY, BeauteouS: The Trilogy (16mm, 43min, 2000-2002) and hand-some, distributed by Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre. She is developing a web television network around sexually transmitted infections which launched with the Tune in HPV channel.

Sound theory and documentary theory figure prominently in her critical research; a recently published article in Jump Cut, Spring 2007, explores a ‘sound first’ pedagogy in the audio/video classroom, and she has a chapter on Frederick Wiseman’s use of sound in a forthcoming edition on his work.

Chesler works as a cinematographer and has shot for independent filmmakers and broadcast television.


Recent Publications:

Chesler, Giovanna. “Re-Presenting Choice: Tune in HPV.” K. Wailoo, J. Livingston, R. Aronowitz, S. Epstein (Eds.). The HPV Debates. (Forthcoming).

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Recent Presentations/Productions:

Chair, “Menstrual Movies: Re-imagining Blood on Screen.” Society for Menstrual Cycle Research Conference. Spokane, Washington. June 5, 2009.

Co-Chair with Heath Dillaway, “Honoring the Work of Randi Koeske: A Round Table Discussion.” Society for Menstrual Cycle Research Conference. Spokane, Washington. June 6, 2009.

Panelist with Rebecca Mushtare, Dana Edell and Comm Arts students, “Communication and Sexual Health: Service Learning in Creative Media.” NYMAPS Symposium Beyond the Classroom: Co-Educating Students in the Service-Learning Partnership. Colin Powell Center for Policy Studies: The City College of New York. May 5, 2009.

Keynote Lecture, Connecticut National Organization of Women. Annual Convention, Connecticut College: New London, CT. November 15, 2008.

Invited Lecture, “Challenging Dominant Health Discourses through Feminist Film Practice: A discussion by Filmmaker and Web Producer Giovanna Chesler.” Department of Women’s Studies, University of Michigan: Ann Arbor, MI. October 16, 2008.

Invited Lecture, “Home Grown Sexual Health Messages: Connecting personal experiences with medical knowledge.” Grand Rounds, Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Michigan Medical Center: Ann Arbor, MI. October 17, 2008.

Presenter, “Re-Presenting Choice: Tune in HPV.” Locating Risk / Masking Uncertainty Symposium: Rutgers University: NJ. September 26, 2008.

Panelist, “Making Your Media Matter Conference Report.” on the panel “Festivals, Conferences, Centers: Opportunities for Documentary Film Teachers and Students.” University Film and Video Association Conference, Colorado College: Boulder, CO. August 13, 2008.

Panelist, “Tune in HPV: Digital Storytelling from the Classroom.” on the panel “Activist Filmmaking and the Academy: Theory and Practice.” University Film and Video Association Conference, Colorado College: Boulder, CO. August 13, 2008.

Productions:

Director/Producer/Screenwriter/Editor, “Bye Bi Love.” Short narrative film in High Definition Video (24p,) shot on location in Brooklyn, NY. January 25 – 28, 2009. In post-production.

Producer/Web Publisher. “Tune in HPV.” . Web media project – online community and video entertainment site built to educate, entertain and connect people who have human papillomavirus. Continuous work (2008/2009).


Exhibitions

Director/Producer, Period: The End of Menstruation (54 min documentary feature, distributed by Cinema Guild: NY, 2006). Screened at Doc Watchers: Harlem, NY. March 2, 2009, Connecticut National Organization of Women, Annual Convention, Connecticut College: New London, CT. November 15, 2008, Department of Women’s Studies, University of Michigan: Ann Arbor, MI. October 15, 2008.

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Ken Ching, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Mathematics
email
212-517-0657

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Hallie Cohen
Associate Professor of Art
Art Department Coordinator
email
212-517-0691

Degrees
B.F.A., Tyler School of Art
M.F.A., Maryland Institute College of Art

Hallie Cohen received her M.F.A. from the Hoffberger School of Painting of the Maryland Institute College of Art, where she studied with the painter Grace Hartigan and received the Henry Walters Traveling Fellowship. She received her B.F.A from the Tyler School of Art where she majored in painting and drawing and minored in printmaking. She has been at Marymount Manhattan since 1974 where she has taught drawing, figure drawing, painting, design, watercolor and art history to two generations of art and non-art majors.

Professor Cohen is a founding member of the artists’ group Retrogarde, exhibiting her work at The Cork Gallery, Lincoln Center, La Mama’s La Galleria, and the Terry Schreiber Studio Gallery.

She paints in watercolor, creates sculptures and three-dimensional installations and illustrates writer Francis Levy’s short stories and humor. Her current work in watercolor reflects her interests in food, the medical and memory.

She was the moderator of a panel discussion of In the Realms of the Unreal, a film on the life of “outsider artist” Henry Darger, hosted by The Philoctetes Center in conjunction with The Film Forum, at The New York Psychoanalytic Institute.




Recent Publications:

Illustrations in Design Disasters: Great Designers, Fabulous Failure and Lessons Learned by Steven Heller. New York: Allworth Press. October 2008.


Recent Presentations/Productions:

Exhibitions:
Retrogarde Painters & Guest Artists. Westbeth Gallery: 55 Bethune Street, New York, NY. January 16- February 1, 2009.

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Alan Cohen, Ph.D.
Chair of the Teacher Education Department
Assistant Professor of Teacher Education
email
212-774-4851

Degrees
B.A., City College of New York, M.S., Hofstra University, Ph.D., Hofstra University

Alan Cohen joined the Teacher Education Faculty in September 2010 after serving in several roles at Adelphi University for nine years. He was the director of the special education program at Adelphi, the chair of the department of Curriculum and Instruction and the Assistant Dean for Curriculum and Instruction. Dr. Cohen taught undergraduate and graduate-level courses in the foundations of special education, formal and informal methods of assessment, and team collaboration. Prior to Adelphi, Dr. Cohen had a career in private and public schools first as a school psychologist (23 years) and later as an administrator for special education (seven years). Dr. Cohen is a Licensed Psychologist in New York.

At Marymount, Dr. Cohen teaches Children & Youth with Disabilities, Inclusive Teaching of Children &Youth with Disabilities, and he supervises student teachers.

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Carmen Coll, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus
French Department
email
212-517-0626

Degrees
Officier des Palmes Academiques
Licence-es-Lettres, University of Nancy
Ph.D., The Graduate School and University Center
Maitrise, Sorbonne, Paris



Professor Coll was awarded the medal of Officer in the order of Academic Palms by the French Government in 2001. Specializing in affairs related to the European Union, she has been a regular Visiting Professor at Columbia University's Business School and at the Institut d'Etudes Francaises in Avignon, France. Dr. Coll coordinates the programs of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Paris for students; in addition she developed the teaching of Business French at Marymount Manhattan. She has created Summer school Programs and has supervised Study Abroad. Finally, she has developed courses on women writers in developing countries and is the author of various articles in these related areas as well as on women filmmakers in France -- her latest field of research.

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Michael Colvin, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Spanish
email
212-517-0549

Degrees
B.A. Stockton State College
Ph.D. Temple University

Michael Colvin received his Ph.D. from the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Temple University in Philadelphia. His areas of research interest include late twentieth-century Latin American narrative, Portuguese fado music, and Iberian film and popular culture produced under fascist dictatorships. He is the author of two books: Las últimas obras de José Donoso: Juegos, roles y rituales en la subversión del poder (Madrid: Pliegos, 2001) and The Reconstruction of Lisbon: Severa’s Legacy and the Fado’s Rewriting of Urban History (Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2008). Michael Colvin regularly teaches intermediate and advanced Spanish grammar, courses on Spanish and Latin American Literature and Civilization, and writing seminars about Hispanic New York and the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War.


Recent Publications:

Colvin, Michael. “Images of Defeat: Early Fado Films and the Estado Novo's Notion of Progress.” Portuguese Studies. Forthcoming.


Recent Presentations/Productions:

The Reconstruction of Lisbon: Severa’s Legacy and the Fado’s Rewriting of Urban History.” Guest Lecture at the Center for Portuguese Studies and Culture: University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, MA. March 12, 2009.

“Re-pensar Lisboa: A Mitologia da Severa e a Renascença do Bairro da Mouraria das Cinzas das Demolições.” Guest lecture at the Centre de Recherche Interdisciplinaire sur les Mondes Ibériques Contemporains: Université de la Sorbonne (Paris IV). April 7, 2009.

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Mark Conard, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Philosophy
email
212-774-0704

Degrees
B.A., Wright State University
M.A., Miami University
Ph.D., Temple University

Mark T. Conard received his Ph.D. from Temple University in Philadelphia. His main areas of interest include Ancient Greek Philosophy, specifically Plato and Aristotle; German Philosophy, specifically Kant, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche; and Popular Culture and Philosophy. He is the author of numerous articles in these areas, as well as co-editor and contributor to The Simpsons and Philosophy and Woody Allen and Philosophy, and he is the editor of The Philosophy of Film Noir. He regularly teaches courses in Introduction to Philosophy, Logic, Modern Philosophy, Ethics, and Popular Culture and Philosophy.

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Kevin Connell
Associate Professor of Theatre Arts
email
212-774-0713

Degrees
B.F.A., The Ohio State University
M.F.A., University of California, San Diego

KEVIN CONNELL is currently an Associate Professor of Theatre Arts at Marymount Manhattan College, where he serves as the President of the Faculty Council and Coordinator of Junior and Senior Acting. In the spring of 2008, he served as the College’s Acting Assistant Dean of Academic Affairs.

Directing credits include: Christopher Durang's Baby with the Bathwater (2007) for Ground UP Productions (NYC); Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet (2007) for the Collective Company (NYC); Marivaux’s The Triumph of Love (2009), Constance Cox’s adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime (2005) and Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s The Rivals (2004) at the National Black Theatre (NYC); Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer (2009), Michael John LaChiusa's musical Hello Again (2008), Tennessee Williams' Approaching the End of a Summer and Edward Albee's Finding the Sun (2007), A.A. Milne’s The Ugly Duckling (2006), an adaptation of Shakespeare’s King Richard the Second titled The Holy Terror (2005), James Valcq and Fred Alley's musical The Spitfire Grill (2003), Seneca’s Trojan Women (2002), Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest (2001) and Tony Kushner’s Reverse Transcription (2000) all at Marymount Manhattan College. He performed in the play Temporarily Yours, (also playwright) at the 2001 Edinburgh Fringe Festival (Scotland). Additionally, Kevin has performed in productions at The National Theatre (London), La Jolla Playhouse (San Diego, CA), Steppenwolf Theatre Company (Chicago, IL), TheatreWorks USA (NYC/Tour), The Wayside Theatre (Winchester, VA), TheatreFest, NJ (Montclair, NJ) and Pinewood Film Studios (London), among other credits. Kevin is currently co-adapting the stage version of Kathryn Harrison’s novel Exposure. He attended The Ohio State University (B.F.A.) and the University of California, San Diego (M.F.A.).
Check out his website.

Recent Presentations/Productions:

Director, She Stoops to Conquer. Theresa Lang Theatre: Marymount Manhattan College’s Department of Theatre Arts. Spring 2009.

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Robert Dutiel
Associate Professor of Theatre Arts
email
212-774-0763

Degrees
B.S., University of Nebraska - Lincoln
M.F.A., University of Nebraska - Lincoln


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Millie Falcaro
Assistant Professor of Art
email
212-517-0693

Degrees
B.A., Empire State College of the Arts, State University of New York
M.F.A., University of Hartford

Millie Falcaro joined the art department faculty in 2001. Professor Falcaro earned her B.A. from Empire State College before earning her M.F.A. from University of Hartford with a thesis exhibition entitled: Nature: Re-exposed and completed the four year academic course requirement from the Philadelphia School of Psychoanalysis. Her creative interests lies in the intersection of the disciplines of psychology, writing and photography. Her work is located in the function of memory, intuition and chance in the art making process. She is the coordinator the photography program which is the fourth concentration in the art department curriculum and initiated the educational partnership with The International Center of Photography.

In June 2010, she was invited as a guest professor by the English Department at the Karl-Franzen-University of Graz in Austria. Her course, “The Conversation between Poetry and the Visual Arts” was offered in June 2010 through The Centre of Intermediality Studies as an interdisciplinary seminar to both undergraduates and graduate students.

Previous to her appointment at Marymount Manhattan College, she taught at The Fashion Institute of Technology. Her work is exhibited and collected both domestically and abroad.

Recent Presentations/Productions:

Interdisciplinary presentation of faculty writing group at Bedford Hills conference: “Write On! A Group Experience.” Crossing Borders Conference at the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility. Panel presentation with Cecilia Feilla, Magdalena Maczynska and Michael Backus. October 17, 2008.

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Cecilia Feilla, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of English
Assistant Professor of English
email
212-774-0774

Degrees
B.A., University of Michigan
M.A., New York University
Ph.D., New York University


Cecilia Feilla, Assistant Professor of English, has a Ph.D. from New York University. Her teaching and research interests include Restoration and 18th century literature, the early history of the novel, urban studies, and women's literature. Her current research focuses on the sentimental tableau in 18th century literature and visual culture.

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Anthony Ferro
Associate Professor of Dance
email
212-517-0613

Degrees
B.A. in Dance, Marymount Manhattan College
M.F.A. in Interdisciplinary Arts, Goddard College, VT

Anthony Ferro’s career spans over thirty-six years of international experience in the fields of classical ballet and modern dance, theatre, opera, film and video. His solo credits include the companies of Twyla Tharp, Louis Falco, Dennis Wayne, Kazuko Hirabiyashi as well as The Metropolitan Opera and The Atlanta Ballet. Artistic Director to the companies of Dance South, Atlanta, and Ballet Midland, Texas, he founded the Dance Department for the Fine Arts Division of Midland College. Mr. Ferro also served as resident choreographer for Theatre Thalia and taught at the Balettakademien in Gothenburg, Sweden (1989-1996). Mr. Ferro, Associate Professor of Dance at Marymount Manhattan College, holds an MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts from Goddard College, Vermont, and a BA in Dance from MMC, where he has been a faculty member since 1998. His extensive contributions to community-based outreach programs earned him awards from the National Endowment of the Arts in 1983 and 1984. Mr. Ferro, along with choreographer-educator James Sutton, Associate Arts Professor, Tisch School of the Arts/New York University, performed an evening of solo works at the Merce Cunningham Studio in New York, 2007.

Recent Presentations/Productions:

Performer/Choreographer, “Under-Friction” - new solo work with score composed by Annie Gosfield: Merce Cunningham Studio. West Village, NY. January 2009.

Performer, “Belasco Duet” - in James Sutton.Anthony Ferro/Dances with score composed by Lionel Belasco and choreographed by New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts Associate Arts Professor James Sutton: Merce Cunningham Studio. January 2009.

Choreographer, “Red Wagon” - originally conceived in 1981 and re-staged at Midland Festival Ballet, Texas. Medley of songs from 1930’s Big Band era. Ballet was granted Gala status by adjudicator Soili Arvola for Regional Dance America / Southwest performances. Sugarland, TX. March 2009.

Choreographer, “Say April” - new chamber work staged for BA Dance majors at Marymount Manhattan College Dance Department’s Dancer at Work series with score by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: The Great Hall at MMC. April 2009.

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Mary Fleischer
Professor of Theatre Arts
Chair of the Division of Fine and Performing Arts
email
212-774-0761

Degrees
B.A., The State University of New York, College at Purchase
M.A., Hunter College of The City University of New York
Ph.D., The Graduate School and University Center, The City University of New York

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Recent Publications:

Fleischer, Mary. “D’Annunzio et Rubinstein: La Pisanelle, ou La Mort parfumée.” Ida Rubinstein: une utopie de la synthèse des arts à l’épreuve de la scène. Ed. and trans. Pascal Lécroart. Besançon: Presses Universitaires de Franche-Comté. 2008: 173-186.

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Richard Garrett, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Business Management
email
212-517-0636

Degrees
B.A., Texas Christian University
Ph.D., The New School for Social Research

Richard Garrett, associate professor of economics, joined the faculty of Marymount Manhattan after holding teaching positions at Tufts University and Rutgers University. He has also worked as an industry and company analyst for labor unions and was the Associate Director of Research for the Union of Needletrades , Industrial and Textile Employees. Dr Garrett received a BA. Degree from Texas Christian University, a Ph.D. from The New School for Social Research and has done graduate work at the Cornell-Baruch School of Industrial Relations.

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Lora Georgiev
Administrative Assistant
email
212-517-0523

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Jens Giersdorf
Assistant Professor of Dance
email
212-517-0615

Degrees
M.A. Universität Leipzig, Germany
Ph.D. University of California, Riverside



Recent Publications:

“Canonization and Practice: Transmission of Yvonne Rainer’s Trio A.” Dance Research Journal. Forthcoming. (peer-reviewed journal).

“From Utopia to Archive: A Dance Analysis.” Dance and Memory. Ed. Susanne Franco and Marina Nordera, translated into French and Italian. Forthcoming.

“Dance Studies: An Epistemological Genealogy.” Dance Studies Reader. Ed. Alexandra Carter and Janet O’Shea. Routledge, London. Forthcoming.

“Unpopulärer Tanz als Krise universeller Geschichtsschreibung oder Wie Yutian und ich lang anhaltenden Spaß mit unseriöser Historiographie hatten.” Original and Revival. Ed. Christina Thurner, Zurich: Chronos Verlag, 2009. Forthcoming.

“Dance Studies in the International Academy: Genealogy of a Disciplinary Formation.” Dance Research Journal. 41.1 Summer (2009): 23-44, (peer-reviewed journal).

“Dancing, Marching, Fighting: Folk, the Dance Ensemble of the East German Armed Forces, and Other Choreographies of Nationhood.” Discourses in Dance. 4.2 (2008): 39-58, (peer-reviewed journal).

Co-authored with Cecilia Feilla and Magdalena Maczynska “The Embodied City: Walking and Writing in the Urban Classroom.” Transformation: The Journal of Inclusive Scholarship and Pedagogy. XIX.1 (2008): 118-137. (peer-reviewed journal).

“Von der Utopie zum Archiv: Patricio Bunster und die politische Funktion der Choreographie.” Forum Modernes Theater. 23.1 (2008): 29-36.

“Tanzwissenschaften, Dance Studies, Dance Theory: Vergleichende Untersuchung der Tanzwissenschaft in der internationalen Akademie.” Tanzforschung & Tanzausbildung. Berlin: Henschel Verlag. 2008: 45-52.


Recent Presentations/Productions:

“Embodiment of the Nation: Cultures of Exercise and Collective Emotions.” University of Hamburg. Germany. May 14, 2009.

“Unpopulärer Tanz als Krise universeller Geschichtsschreibung oder Wie Yutian und ich lang anhaltenden Spaß mit unseriöser Historiographie hatten.” Original and Revival: Geschichts-Schreibung im Tanz: University of Bern. Switzerland. November 18, 2008.

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Manuel Guzmán, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Sociology, Chair of Sociology Department
email
212-517-0616

Degrees
Ph.D. Graduate Center, City University of New York
M.A., Graduate Faculty, New School for Social Research
B.A., University of Detroit

Professor Guzmán is a sociologist and specializes in the study of gender and sexuality. His work focuses on the social organization of eroticism and its relationship to categories of race, class, gender and the nation. His dissertation, "Latino Homosexualities in the Epoch of Gayness" is a sustained effort to look at the complicated relationship between categories of race and sexuality in the development of systems of homosexuality both in the United States and Puerto Rico. Prior to his work as an academic, Professor Guzman was a psychotherapist and youth advocate at the Hetrick-Martin Institute for the Protection of Lesbian and Gay Youth in the city of New York. For many years, he has also worked as a community organizer developing programs with various constituencies, especially helping develop advocacy and community support groups among gay Latino men. Most recently, he joined the Board of Directors of the College and Community Fellowship, a non-profit agency that supports formerly incarcerated women in their pursuit of higher education, and research on the power of higher education as a democratizing force in the process of transition from prison back into the community.

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Judith Hanks, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Biology
email
212-517-0667

Dr. Hanks holds a Ph.D. in Biology from the City University of New York. Her research focuses on the evolutionary relationships among fern taxa from both a morphological and photochemical standpoint. Currently Dr. Hanks is engaged in research at the New York Botanical Garden (NYBG) where she maintains an Honorary Research Associate appointment in the Institute of Systematic Botany. Dr. Hanks uses scanning electron microscopy to elucidate the microarchitecture of fern spores and applies the information in the phylogenetic analysis of this important group of plants. Her work can be seen on www.plantsystematics.org website (type in keyword spores). At NYBG she has also worked on projects examining species diversity in the coastal forests of Brazil and the isolation of novel phytochemicals from various plant species.

Prior to joining the Division of Natural Science and Mathematics at Marymount Manhattan, Dr. Hanks held an assistant professorship in the School of Allied Health and Life Sciences at New York Institute of Technology. Her years of teaching at NYIT and microbiological background from grant supported research in marine microbial ecology has led to current interests in the isolation, elucidation and potential use of phytochemicals as antimicrobial agents. The microorganisms investigated include medically important opportunists of the human body.

Dr. Hanks teaches the shared curriculum courses, Plagues and Humankind, Human Biology, and HIV/AIDS, in addition to the biology major courses of General Biology, Physiology, Microbiology and Ecology.

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Bradley Herling, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Religious Studies
email
212 517-0618

Degrees
B.A., Wesleyan University
Ph.D., Boston University


Bradley Herling received his Ph.D. from Boston University with a specialization in Philosophy of Religion. Before Marymount Manhattan, he taught at the University of Massachusetts-Boston, Emerson College, and B.U., and his research interests include comparative philosophy of religion (especially the historical interchange between Germany and India); theory and method in the study of religion; religion, philosophy, and film; and the nature and problem of evil. Prof. Herling regularly teaches courses devoted to world religious traditions (eastern and western), philosophies of religion, and a variety of themes in the study of religion.


Recent Publications:

Deliver Us From Evil. Co-edited with M. David Eckel. Boston University Studies in Philosophy and Religion. London and New York: Continuum. 2009.

“Ethics, Heart, and Violence in Miller’s Crossing.” In The Philosophy of the Coen Brothers. Ed. Mark T. Conard. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press. 2008.


Recent Presentations/Productions:

Panelist and organizer, “Post-Religious? Post-Secular? An Interdisciplinary Panel on the Contemporary State of Religion.” Marymount Manhattan College. March 2009.

Presider and organizer, “John Clayton’s Religions, Reason, and Gods: A Panel Discussion.” American Academy of Religion National Meeting, Chicago, IL. November 2008.

“ ‘Either a Hermeneutical Consciousness or a Critical Consciousness’: Renegotiating Theories of the Germany-India Encounter.” German Studies Association Annual Conference. St. Paul, MN, October. 2008.

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James Holl
Associate Professor of Art
email
212-774-4819

Degrees
B.A., University of Washington
M.F.A., Columbia University

James Holl is a Graphic Designer, Digital Illustrator and Fine Artist who has been practicing professionally in New York City for over 25 years. Since he founded James Holl Design Company in 1978, he has served a wide range of corporate, editorial and non-profit clients. James Holl Design Company has designed and produced trade and fine-art catalogs, websites, corporate identity programs, national and trade advertising, packaging, brochures, magazines, annual reports and book covers. Additionally, Professor Holl works as a Set Consultant and Stylist for Photography Productions and his Digital Illustrations are represented worldwide by Getty Images.

Selected clients of James Holl Design Company include Adidas, Aetna, AT&T, Avon, Citibank, Chase Manhattan Bank. Chubb, Credit Suisse/First Boston, Brooklyn Children's Museum, Doubleday, Emerson College, Hill and Knowlton, Houghton/Mifflin, IBM, International Paper, JC Penny, JP Morgan Chase, Knoll International, March of Dimes, Marymount Manhattan College, Metropolitan Transit Authority, McGraw Hill, NYNEX, Newsweek, Random House, Scholastic Magazine, Sloan Kettering Memorial Cancer Center, The Asia Society, Abelow Sherman Architects, Stephen Bobbitt Architects, and PFC Corporation.

Professor Holl has exhibited his Fine Art work widely since 1978. He has mounted solo exhibitions with public institutions such as The New Museum, PS1 Museum, and Artists Space in New York. Most recently Holl exhibited his work at Photo District Gallery in New York City, The Catskill Mountain Foundation in Hunter, New York and BCB Gallery in Hudson, New York. Additional selected exhibitions include The Seattle Art Museum, 1708 East Main Gallery in Richmond, VA, Philadelphia Art Alliance, Zone Gallery in Springfield, MA, and in New York City at Columbia University 55 Mercer Gallery, St. John's University, Lehman College, Gotham Fine Arts Gallery, John Carl Warnecke Architects, OIA Police Building Gallery, Bill Bace Gallery, CB's 313 Gallery, Trenkman Gallery, Soho Center for Contemporary Art, Public Image Gallery and 14 Sculptors Gallery.

Professor Holl was commissioned by JP Morgan Co. Inc. to create two series of fine art work. His most recent commission was an 8 ft. x 10 ft. site-specific artwork for the Omni Hotel Baseball stadium complex in San Diego, CA. A previous commission by Creative Time asked Professor Holl, along with architect Elizabeth Diller and performance artist Kaylynn Sullivan, to create a site-specific installation for Art on the Beach which was subsequently featured in the book Anita Contini, Insights/ Onsites, Visual Arts Program, National Endowment for the Arts, "Alternative Sites and Uncommon Collaborators: The Story of Creative Time,² Published by Partners for Livable Places, Washington, D.C.,1984. James Holl has been a member of the faculty at MMC since fall 1997. He has previously taught at The School of Visual Arts, St. John's University, Marymount Tarrytown and Jersey City State College.


Recent Publications:

The Landscape Painter, An Autobigraphy 1974 through 1994. Milan: Charta, August 2009. Forthcoming.

Wides, Susan. Mobile views: Kaaterskill/Mannahatta. Design for photo book proposal. Prestel and the Hudson River Museum, New York, NY. 2010. Forthcoming.

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Julie Huntington, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of French
email
212-517-0645

Degrees
Ph.D. Vanderbilt University
B.A. Eastern Michigan University

Julie Huntington earned her Ph.D. in French from Vanderbilt University. Her teaching and research interests focus on exploring questions of language, identity, voice and representation in twentieth- and twenty-first-century Francophone literature and film. Her current research projects include analyses of texted musical phenomena in twentieth-century West African and Caribbean novels, and contemporary Francophone works in dialogue with the French literary canon. She also works on projects in foreign language pedagogy, placing particular emphasis on evaluating strategies for teaching literature and promoting intercultural awareness at all levels of foreign language teaching.


Recent Publications:

Sounding Off: Rhythm, Music and Identity in West African and Caribbean Francophone Novels. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. Fall 2009.


Recent Presentations/Productions:

Répliques à Voltaire et à Paul Éluard: le dialogue intertextuel de Simone Schwarz-Bart.” Conseil International d’Études Francophones annual conference. New Orleans, LA. June 2009.

“Responses to Voltaire and Paul Éluard: The Intertextual Dialogue of Simone Schwarz-Bart.” Constructing Black France, A Transatlantic Dialogue Symposium: Barnard College and Columbia University. New York, NY. April 2009.

“Bridging Divides Between Language and Literature in Foreign Language Classes.” American Council for the Teaching of Foreign Languages annual convention. Orlando, FL. November 2008.

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Ann Jablon, Ph.D.
Professor of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology
Program Director of Communication Sciences and Disorders
Chair of the Division of the Sciences
email
212-774-0721

Degrees
B.A., Queens College of The City University of New York
M.A., Queens College of The City University of New York
Ph.D., The Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York.

Professor of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology, Chair Communication Sciences and Disorders --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Ann D. Jablon holds a Ph.D. in Speech and Hearing Sciences (Psycholinguistics) from the Graduate School of the City University of New York. Before joining Marymount Manhattan, Dr. Jablon conducted research in lexical and syntactic processing in typical adults. She also maintained a pediatric practice in speech-language pathology for over 15 years. In her practice, she primarily served children who were diagnosed with autistic spectrum disorders and those diagnosed with learning disabilities. Dr. Jablon has been at Marymount Manhattan College for over 15 years. She teaches a broad range of courses within the Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology major. Her current areas of interest include the nature of clinical teaching in the profession and the practice of bilingual speech-language pathology. She has written and presented on these topics.

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Kelsey Jordahl, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Physics
email
212-517-0651

Dr. Jordahl received his B.S. in Physics from Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, Florida. He studied marine geophysics in the joint graduate program of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, where he earned a Ph.D. in Oceanography. After receiving his doctorate, he was awarded a Chateaubriand Fellowship from the government of France for a year of postdoctoral study at the Université de Bretagne Occidentale in the Institut Universitaire Européen de la Mer in Plouzané, France. He was also a postdoctoral researcher for four years at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute in California. His research interests are in the origin, distribution and structure of seafloor volcanoes and volcanic islands, plate tectonics, and heat and fluid flow. He has participated in research expeditions at sea in the South Pacific, Hawaiian Islands, and off the coast of California.

Dr. Jordahl joined Marymount Manhattan College in the fall of 2005. He teaches physics, earth science, and general science courses. He has previously taught at the University of California, Santa Cruz; Hartnell College; William Paterson University and Fairleigh Dickinson University.

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Anastacia Kurylo, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Communication Arts
email
212-774-4864

Degrees
B.A., Stony Brook University, The State University of New York
M.A., New York University
Ph.D., Rutgers University

Professor Kurylo earned a Master’s degree in Speech & Interpersonal Communication at New York University and a Ph.D. in Communication at Rutgers University. Prior to joining Marymount Manhattan College, she taught at the Borough of Manhattan Community College, New York University, Pace University, Rutgers University, and St. John’s University. Her research interests include the examination of stereotype use in interpersonal, intercultural, and organizational contexts.

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Katie Langan
Chair of the Dance Department, Professor of Dance
email
212-517-0611

Degrees
B.A., Marymount Manhattan College, Valedictorian 1990

Katie Langan (Artistic Director/Chair of Dance) teaches advanced levels of Ballet and Pointe, is a frequent choreographer for the College’s dance company, and is the Artistic Director of the Dance Department’s semi-annual performance series. Under Ms. Langan’s tenure, this performance series has grown from an in-studio presentation of works by faculty and student choreographers to a major dance event featuring new and re-staged works by America’s most noted choreographers.

In addition to her work at Marymount, Ms. Langan taught company class for The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater for over three years and continues to teach advanced levels for the Ailey School summer program. She has also taught at Dance Space, NYU Tisch, and Ballet Maestro along with Master Classes for the Connecticut Performing Arts Center and others. Lectures for Broadway Dance Center’s Teachers’ Conference have included How to Teach a Good Barre, Why Go to College, How to Teach Fondus, and To the Pointe. Dancer Magazine recently published Ms. Langan’s cover story entitled From Studio, To College, To Stage: The Importance of Modern Dance Training in March 2008 and since then has published several articles including the cover story The Spectrum of Contemporary Ballet — Giving Your Students a Leg Up.

Ms. Langan received her dance training at the North Carolina School of the Arts, American Ballet Theatre and the School of American Ballet. Before coming to Marymount, Ms. Langan performed with numerous companies including the Boston Repertory Company, New York City Opera, William Carter Dance Ensemble, the Zurich Ballet, Chamber Ballet USA, New Jersey Ballet, and Twyla Tharp. She has had the opportunity to work directly with Rudolf Nureyev, Natalia Makarova, Antony Tudor, Billy Forsythe, Rudi van Dan Zieg, Gelsey Kirkland, Eleanor D’Antuano, and Brian McDonald to name a few. After retiring from performance, Ms. Langan studied art and design at MMC and received her B.A., summa cum laude, in 1990 when she graduated as class valedictorian. With over twenty ballets created, her 1995 ballet, Akhmatova, was asked to be a part of the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts video archive in the Jerome Robbins Dance Division.


Recent Publications:

Langan, Katie. “Working with Ballet Syllabi; The Skinny on Ballet Certifications.” Dancer Magazine. Dancer Publishing Co., Inc. New York, NY. December 2008: Feature Story 82-84.

A Call to Arms: Dance Education.” Dancer Magazine. Dancer Publishing Co., Inc. New York, NY. November 2008: Feature Story 96-98.

Finis Jhung, & Jennifer Ringer. “Words of Advice.” Pointe Magazine. Macfadden Performing Arts Media LLC. New York, NY. October/November 2008: 50.

Going Live – a 5, 6, 7, 8!” Dancer Magazine. Dancer Publishing Co., Inc. New York, NY. October 2008: Feature Story 118-122.

Rennie Harris – Sharing the Hip-Hip Legacy.” Dancer Magazine. Dancer Publishing Co., Inc. New York, NY. September 2008: Feature Story 142-144.

Studio For Rent.” Dancer Magazine. Dancer Publishing Co., Inc. New York, NY. September 2008: Feature Story 120-122.

Contemporary Ballet: Giving Your Dancers A Leg Up.” Dancer Magazine. Dancer Publishing Co., Inc. New York, NY. August 2008: Cover Story 110-117.


Recent Presentations/Productions:

Lecturer. "Preparing Your Dancer for College." Broadway Dance Center's Teacher Workshop. Sheraton New York Hotel and Tower. New York, NY. July 7, 2008.

Productions:

Choreographer. “Tides II.” Score Constructed on a Macintosh Centris 650 using Studio Vision 3.0. Arrangement by Sergio Garcia-Marruz, Katie Langan, & Saul Spangenberg. Marymount Manhattan College Faculty Concert: Theresa Lang Theatre. New York, NY, December 4-6, 2008.

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Kathleen LeBesco, Ph.D.
Professor
email
212-774-4861

Degrees
B.A., The State University of New York at Albany
M.A., The State University of New York at Albany
Ph.D., University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Katie LeBesco regularly teaches Principles and Theories of Communication, History and Development of Communication Theory, and Communication Today. She also teaches electives including Gender, Sexuality and Media, Media Criticism, and Deconstructing Reality TV, and interdisciplinary courses including Edible Ideologies: The Politics of Food, Feminist and Queer Theory, and Queer Eye: Lesbian and Gay Cinema. She is author of Revolting Bodies? The Struggle to Redefine Fat Identity and co-editor of The Drag King Anthology, Edible Ideologies: Representing Food and Meaning, and Bodies Out of Bounds: Fatness and Transgression. She is currently working on a new book about food and class politics.


Recent Publications:

Review of Online Social Support: The Interplay of Social Networks and Computer-Mediated Communication, by Antonina Bambina. Journal of Language and Social Psychology 27.3 (2008): 312-314.

Review of Choosing Children: Genes, Disability, and Design, by Jonathan Glover. Disability Studies Quarterly 28.3 (Summer 2008); available online at .

“Weight Management, Good Health, and the Will to Normality.” Critical Feminist Perspectives On Eating Dis/Orders, 146-155. Ed. Maree Burns & Helen Malson. London, UK: Routledge Press, 2009.

“Quest for a Cause: The Fat Gene, the Gay Gene, and the New Eugenics.” The Fat Studies Reader. Ed. Sondra Solovay & Esther Rothblum. New York: New York University Press. Forthcoming.

With Kembrew McLeod. “Using Zines to Foster Critical Communication.” EME: Explorations in Media Ecology. Forthcoming.

“‘Gots to Get Got’: Social Justice and Audience Reception of Omar Little in The Wire.” Down to “The Wire”: Urban Decay and American Television. Ed. Tiffany Potter and C.W. Marshall. Continuum Press. Forthcoming.


Recent Presentations/Productions:

With Peter Naccarato. “Against Food Snobbery: Resisting Culinary Capital Through the Embrace of ‘Junk.’” Association for the Study of Food and Society Conference: State College, PA. May 29, 2009.

“Culture Jamming and/as Service Learning.” New Jersey Communication Association Conference. Union, NJ. March 28, 2009.

“Expertise, Taste and Authenticity in On-Line Restaurant Criticism.” Crossing Borders 2 Conference. Bedford Hills, NY. October 17, 2008.

“Disability Studies and Pop Culture.” Disability Studies and Media seminar: City University of New York Graduate Center. New York, NY. July 12, 2008.

“Ideologies of Disability in Friday Night Lights.” Society for Disability Studies Conference. New York, NY. June 21 2008.

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Alessandra Leri, Ph.D
Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Environmental Science
email
212-517-0661

Degrees
Ph.D., Chemistry, Princeton University, 2007
M.A., Italian, University of Virginia, 2002
B.S., Chemistry, College of William and Mary, 2000

Professor Leri joined the MMC faculty in the fall of 2007. After undergraduate training at the College of William and Mary that included experience in a synthetic organic chemistry lab, she went on to Princeton University to pursue a Ph.D. in chemistry with an environmental focus. Her doctoral work focused on the geochemistry of natural organochlorine and –bromine in soil and sediment systems, entailing field studies and synchrotron-based X-ray absorption spectroscopic measurements. These studies shed light on 1) the cycling of natural organochlorine in decaying plant material and 2) the broad distribution of naturally produced organobromine in diverse sedimentary systems. This research has contributed to overturning the paradigmatic view of halogens as unreactive inorganic species in the environment. Professor Leri is currently performing theoretical studies on the fundamental nature of the carbon-chlorine bond. She also plans to involve MMC students in a research program geared towards the geochemistry of contaminated sediments in the New York area.

Professor Leri teaches General Chemistry I and II, Organic Chemistry I, and Environmental Science with an Ethical Perspective, an upper-level course for non-science majors. She is involved in developing the environmental studies program and curricula at MMC and in the near future will teach a new course on Energy and Climate Change.


Recent Publications:

M. Hay, A. Leri, and S. Myneni, “Organosulfur Speciation and Dynamics in Forest Floor Leaf Litter and Dissolved Organic Matter.” Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta72 (2008): A359.

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Leslie Levin, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Business Management
email
212-517-0634

Degrees
B.A., Goucher College
M.A., Brown University
M.B.A., Columbia University
Ph.D., Brown University

Leslie Levin has a Ph.D. in Hispanic Studies from Brown University and an MBA in Marketing from Columbia University. She is an Associate Professor of Marketing and has taught at Columbia, Fordham and New York Universities. Professor Levin has more than 20 years of experience in marketing and communications in business and non-profit organizations: the former Bristol-Myers, Lever Brothers, Burson-Marsteller, and Catalyst.


Recent Publications:

Levin, Leslie and Mary Mattis. Stories of Success: Women Entrepreneurs in the United States. International Research.

Handbook on Successful Women Entrepreneurs. Eds. Sandra Fielden, and Marilyn Davidson. Manchester, Canada: The University of Manchester. To be published first quarter 2010.


Recent Presentations/Productions:

Levin, Leslie and Mary Mattis. The Role of Case Studies in Presenting Continuing Challenges for Women Entrepreneurs. Academy of Management Annual Conference: Anaheim, CA. August 8-12, 2008.

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Corey Liberman, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Communication Arts
email
212-517-0632

Degrees
B.A., University of Delaware
M.A., Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Ph.D., Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey


Corey Liberman has specific interests in understanding how communication affects, and is affected by, membership in organizational social networks. Specifically, he studies issues of social influence and how this comes to affect such things as employee commitment, employee satisfaction, knowledge management practices, employee socialization, and employee identification. He has presented over 25 papers at national, regional, and local conferences (three of which won a “Top Paper Award”), and is co-author of an upcoming book chapter entitled “Networking smart: How social ties can create and impact opportunities.” Prior to coming to Marymount Manhattan College, Corey was an Assistant Instructor in the Department of Communication at Rutgers University where he taught courses in basic communication, interpersonal communication, small group communication, and organizational communication. Corey received the 2007 Teaching Award from the International Communication Association and the 2005 Teaching Assistant Award from the Department of Communication at Rutgers University.

Recent Presentations/Productions:

Liberman, C. J. Pivotal moments of development and change: The study of identification as a defining moment in organizational communication studies. Paper presented at the annual Eastern Communication Association conference. Philadelphia, PA. April 2009.

All of social life is a stage: Using video media to teach the basic interpersonal communication course. GIFTS panel presented at the annual New Jersey Communication Association conference. Union, NJ. March 2009.

Communicating effectively in small group settings: Understanding decision-making, conflict management, and leadership through experiential learning. GIFTS panel presented at the annual New York State Communication Association conference in Kerhonkson, NY, October 2008.

Birds of a feather flock together, or do they? Understanding the homophily/heterophily debate within the organizational communication context. Paper presented at the annual New York State Communication Association conference. Kerhonkson, NY. October 2008.

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Twila Liggett, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Education
email
212-774-4852

Degrees
B.S., Union College, Lincoln, NE
M.A., University of Nebraska
Ph.D., University of Nebraska


Dr. Twila C. Liggett is the Founder of the outstanding PBS Children's TV series, Reading Rainbow which premiered on PBS in 1983. She also served as Executive Producer of the Emmy award winning series, Reading Rainbow, from its inception through the Fall of 2006. Her knowledge and experience continue to provide the vital links between the parallel worlds of education and television that have made Reading Rainbow successful. Under her leadership, the series has won over 160 awards including the Prix Juenesse (1992) a prestigious international award, the Peabody (1993), and 26 national Emmys, ten of which are in the Outstanding Children's Series category.

As an educator and author, Dr. Liggett has published widely on issues ranging from literacy to human potential. In 1979 she received an American Educational Research Association award for a work she co-authored, The Whole Person Book. Toward Self-Discovery and Life Options. She also co-authored the Reading Rainbow Guide To Children's Books: The 101 Best Titles, (Citadel Press, Revised 1996). Author of a chapter, The Family Literacy Alliance: Using Public Television Book-based Series to Motivate At-Risk Populations in Family Literacy: Connections In Schools and Communities published by the International Reading Association (1995), Dr. Liggett also wrote entries for A Handbook for Literacy Educators: Research on Teaching the Communicative and Visual Arts "Voices from the Field," (Macmillan, 1998) and The Continuum Encyclopedia of Children’s Literature (K.S. Giniger Company, Inc., 2001). From 1997-2000, Dr. Liggett held a secondary role as a Senior Vice President at JuniorNet, an online service for kids. She has also held appointments as an adjunct professor at Marymount Manhattan College (1999-2000) and New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts (2001-2002).

Dr. Liggett holds a Ph.D. in Curriculum, Instruction and Administration, a MA in Elementary Education (both from the University of Nebraska) and a BS in Secondary and Music Education (Union College, Nebraska). Dr. Liggett was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Marymount Manhattan College (New York City) in 2001.

Dr. Liggett joined the faculty of Marymount (Fall 2006) as an Assistant Professor of Teacher Education with a specialty of Literacy. In addition to her classes, she is hard at work on new book for parents, tentatively titled "Just Read Anything – How to Raise Intelligent, Literate Kids."

Recent Presentations/Productions:

Radio Interview with Dallas Anioce, Senior Editor. Kidcaster Radio: United Media Company. Regarding the importance of quality children’s media. March 30, 2009.

“One Voice Institute of Elemental Ethics and Education.” North Eastern Regional Conference and Forum. Presenter on the chilling impact of “No Child Left Behind” on learning. November 16, 2008.

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David Linton, Ph.D.
Professor of Communication Arts
email
212-517-0642

Degrees
B.S., Indiana University of Pennsylvania
M.Ed., Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Ph.D., New York University

David Linton has been on the faculty of MMC for more than twenty years and holds the rank of Professor of Communications Arts. He is the President of the Faculty Council, the body that represents the faculty to the administration of the College. His research interests and publications are wide ranging including such topics as the media environment of Elizabethan England, the reading behavior of the Virgin Mary, the history of the Luddite movement, and the formation of literary and media canons. He is currently writing a book about the social construction and images of menstruation and teaches an interdisciplinary course on this subject in addition to course in communications theory, media, and public speaking.


Recent Publications:

“Keeping Secrets.” Grifith Review. Summer 2008-2009, # 22.



Recent Presentations/Productions:

“No Laughing Matter? - From Shame to Humor in Menstrual Product Advertising,” Keynote Address for Society for Menstrual Cycle Research. June 2009.

“Mother/Daughter Relationships in Menstrual Product Advertising.” Crossing Borders Conference at the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility. Bedford Hills, NY. October 17, 2008.

“The Public Period: Menstrual Product Advertising as a Marker of Change in the Perception of Women.” Berkshire Conference on the History of Women. Minneapolis, MN. June 15, 2008.

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Clare Lowell, Ed.D.
Assistant Professor of Education
email
212-774-4837

Professor Lowell earned a Doctorate of Education from Hofstra University in 2000. She has an MS in Journalism from Columbia University and an MA in English Literature from Adelphi University. Prior to joining Marymount, Professor Lowell was a teacher and administrator in public education for over 30 years. She has taught English at every secondary level and has acted as educator and English Chairperson for the Herricks School District (20 years), and educator and Director of English, K-12, for the East Williston School District (12 years). She has also served as a free-lance writer and reporter for many well known publications. Professor Lowell teaches courses on The American School, Adolescent Education, First Year Writing Seminar, Literacy Development in the Content Area, Issue and Trends in Inclusive Teaching, The Social Studies Curriculum in Inclusive Settings, Developing Curricula in Inclusive Adolescent Education Settings, and Reflective Practice. Dr. Lowell is adviser to Kappa Delta Pi. She is Secretary of the Faculty Council.

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Nancy Lushington
Artist-in-Residence, Dance (O'Donnell)
email
212-517-0614

Degrees
B.A., Adelphi University

Nancy performed as a soloist with the May O'Donnell Dance Company for over 15 years. She has dance with the Joyce Tirsler Danscompany, Theatre Dance Collection, Verlezza Dance, as well as in Leonard Bernstein's Mass at the Kennedy Center. She has appeared on television and in print for Danskin. She is Currently on the faculty at MMC and Montclair State University, and is the Artistic Director of the Dance in Education Fund, Inc.

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Magdalena Maczynska, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of English
Director of the Writing Seminar Program
email
212-517-0643

Degrees
B.A., Wroclaw University Poland
M.A., Wroclaw University Poland
Ph.D., The Catholic University of America


Dr. Magdalena Maczynska's teaching and research interests include contemporary fiction, the history of the novel, narrative studies, rhetoric and composition, creative writing, and English as a foreign language.

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Lia Leon Margolin, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Mathematics
email
212-517-0650

Degrees
Ph.D. in Physics and Mathematics, Tbilisi State University, Georgia
M.S. in Physics, Tbilisi State University, Georgia

Dr. Lia Leon Margolin received her Ph.D. in Physics and Mathematics from Tbilisi State University, Georgia. She joined Marymount Manhattan College’s Mathematics Department in September 2006 after serving for two years as the Chair of Mathematics and Science at the University of Phoenix Jersey City Campus. Dr. Margolin is a recipient of Career Education Corporation’s (CEC) “Educator of the Year 2005” award for teaching excellence, and J. Soros International Science Foundation Grant for her research in Mathematical Physics. Dr. Margolin’s current research interests are in Theoretical Optics, Mathematical Modeling of few-electron quantum dots (artificial atoms), and Few-Body Physics. She has been a Research Fellow at the Laboratory of Holographic Recording and Processing of Information of The Institute of Cybernetics in Georgia for the past four years and received a Diplomate in Mathematical Physics in recognition of her work as a research fellow. Dr. Margolin developed two new upper level shared curriculum courses in Mathematics at MMC. She has ongoing research collaborations with scientists at New York City College of Technology, CUNY and Tbilisi State University, Georgia. She invites undergraduate students to participate in her research.


Recent Publications:

Margolin, L., S. Tsiklauri, “Ground State Energies and Wave Functions of Few- Electron Quantum Dots in Parabolic Confinement.” Proceedings of the 8-th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Statistics, Mathematics, and Related Fields. Honolulu, Hawaii. January 13-15, 2009.

R. Kezerashvili, S. Tsiklauri, “Three Electrons in External Magnetic Field.” Journal of Few-Body Systems. Springer Wien vol.44 (2008): pages 241-244.



Recent Presentations/Productions:

Invited speaker. “How to Improve the Quantitative and Analytical Skills of Life Science Undergraduates.” Plenary Session: Incorporating Math into Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.

Special Symposium sponsored by American Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB) . Colorado College: Colorado Springs, CO. August 5-8, 2009.

Oral Presentation. “Investigation of the Structure and Decay of Five-Body Hypernuclear Systems with the use of the Hypersperical Function Method.” 19th International IUPAP Conference on Few-Body Problems in Physics. Bonn University: Germany. August 31 - September 5, 2009.

Invited Speaker and Applied Mathematics Session Chair. “Ground State Energies and Wave Functions of Few- Electron Quantum Dots in Parabolic Confinement.” 8th Hawaii International Conference on Statistics, Mathematics, and Related Fields. Honolulu, HI. January 3-15, 2009.

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James Martin
Assistant Professor of Art
email
212-517-0694

Degrees
B.F.A. University of Texas
M.F.A. East Texas State University

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Philip Meyers, Ph.D.
Professor of Mathematics
email
212-517-0663

Degrees
B.S., Brooklyn College of The City University of New York
M.A., University of Maryland
Ph.D., University of Maryland

Dr. Philip Meyers teaches mathematics and finance. In addition to his doctorate in mathematics, he has held careers in operations research, including two years with the Police Commissioner here in New York, and finance, as a professional speculator, money manager and consultant on risk management. He is currently working to incorporate examples of the mathematical patterns in nature, into the quantitative reasoning curriculum.

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Jennifer Milligan, Ph.D
Assistant Professor of History
email
212-774-4831

Degrees
Ph.D Rutgers University

Jennifer Milligan, Assistant Professor of History, teaches a range of courses in European and World History. Dr. Milligan’s research focuses on the cultural and political history of modern France, particularly the cultural components of citizenship and identity. She is finishing a book manuscript, "Making a Modern Archive: The Case of the Archives Nationales of France." Dr. Milligan has also begun a new project on cosmopolitan citizenship and “postcolonial” visions of political community in Pondicherry and Auroville, India.

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David Mold
Associate Professor of Theatre Arts
Director of Theatre Admissions
email
212-774-0764

Degrees
B.F.A., Boston University
M.F.A., The Theatre School, DePaul University

David Mold is the former artistic director of New Theatre in Boston where he developed, directed and produced new plays.

In New York, David has directed new plays by Louise Rozett, Social Progress (Naked Angels) and Break (On the Leash Productions), Lee Blessing's Down the Road (Third Eye Repertory), the cabaret 66% Sondheim (Triad Theatre), and he co-directed Kafka's Report to an Academy with Gunter Meisner (Gene Frankel Theatre).

He has directed for the Open Door Theatre, the Alley Theatre, the New Ehrlich Theatre, and was a co-founder and co-artistic director of The Theatre Company, Inc., all in Boston.

In Chicago, he has directed at the Victory Gardens Theatre and DePaul University, and in Indianapolis at Edyvean Repertory Theatre and Butler University.

Directing credits include Beirut, Bent, Maria Irene Fornes' The Conduct of Life, All in the Timing, Desire Under the Elms, Miss Julie, Uncle Vanya, A Lie of the Mind, Romeo and Juliet, As You Like It, Measure for Measure, Barrie Keefe's Gimme Shelter, Vaclav Havel's Temptation, The Crucible, the Purcell opera Dido and Aeneas, Sondheim's A Little Night Music and the premiere of the Brad Ellis' musical Woman King, as well as premieres of the plays Han't (Larry Blaimire), Double Vision (Barbara Blumenthal), St. Andrew's Eve (James D'Entremont), Hang Tough and Seven Day Wonder (both F.W. Penn Young). At MMC, Professor Mold has directed productions of Bogosian's subUrbia. Garcia Lorca's The House of Bernarda Alba, Chekhov's The Seagull in an adaptation by Tom Stoppard, and since 2000 he has been the director for the department's annual Senior Acting Showcase presented for producers, agents and casting directors in Manhattan. In Chicago, he worked as a dramaturge at Bailiwick Repertory and the Goodman Theatre. He earned his M.F.A. in Directing from The Theatre School at DePaul University and holds a B.F.A. in Theatre Performance from Boston University.

He has taught at Jordan College of Fine Arts at Butler University, The Theatre School at DePaul University, American Musical and Dramatic Academy, the Commonwealth School and at the New Ehrlich Theatre Conservatory in Boston, which he also headed as Education Director. As an actor, Professor Mold has worked in theatre, film and television.

He has conducted master classes in acting and audition technique at performing arts schools in Dallas, Chicago and San Francisco.

Recent Presentations/Productions:

Director, Marymount Manhattan College Senior Showcase: Scenes & Monologues 2009. Abingdon Theatre Complex, 312 West 36th Street, New York, NY. May 13 - 14, 2009.

Stage Director, The Yellow Star: A Little Light Dispels Great Darkness, concert version of opera written and composed by Bradley Detrick, presented by the Driscoll Professorship in Jewish-Catholic Studies: Iona College, Christopher J. Murphy Auditorium. New Rochelle, NY. October 28, 2008.

Director, Major Barbara by George Bernard Shaw. The Theresa Lang Theatre. Marymount Manhattan College. October 15 - 19, 2008.

Coordinator and moderator for Senior Seminars presented for graduating MMC seniors in Theatre Arts. Seminars focus on the business of the acting profession: Headshots & Resumes with photographer Jeremy Folmer. February 13, 2009; Actors Equity Association with Tom Miller, Education Outreach Coordinator of AEA. March 13, 2009; MMC Theatre Arts Alumni Panel. March 20, 2009; Agents, Managers & Casting Directors with Lisa Gold of Actors Connection. March 27, 2009; and Screen Actors Guild with Bernadine Goldberg: Member Education, SAG. April 3, 2009.

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Jeff Morrison
Assistant Professor of Theatre Arts
email
212-517-0405

Degrees
B.A. University of Pennsylvania
M.F.A. University of Wisconsin at Madison

Jeff Morrison comes to us most recently from the American Repertory Theatre’s Institute for Advanced Theatre training at Harvard University, where he teaches the first 2 months of the M.F.A. voice curriculum during the summer. For the last five years, he served on the theatre faculty of San Diego State University, where he taught vocal production and text work, movement and body awareness, and collaborative approaches to making new theatre. He has also taught at the Moscow Art Theatre, the Old Globe School in San Diego, Tufts University, and the University of Northern Iowa. He received his BA in Theatre and Folklore from the University of Pennsylvania (1992); his M.F.A. in Acting from University of Wisconsin, Madison, (1997); and is a Certified Associate Teacher of Fitzmaurice Voicework (2000). He recently received a $25,000 grant from the Trust for Mutual Understanding to fund an international teaching exchange between Russian and American teachers of voice for the theatre, and will be traveling to Moscow in October to finish that project. He has been working as an experimental theatre artist for over ten years, first as a student of Roberta Carreri of the Odin Teatret, and has created or collaborated in new works that have appeared in New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Seattle, San Diego, St. Louis, Madison, and Cleveland.

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Rebecca Mushtare, M.F.A.
Assistant Professor in Communication Arts
email
212-774-4862

Rebecca Mushtare is a visual artist working in both the physical and virtual realms. Rooted in research, her projects often investigate the space and technology of power/privilege from that of the cyborg to the toys of a toddler. The dissonance of technologies that are simultaneously liberating and oppressive (many home technologies fit into this category) is of particular interest to Rebecca. She has worked in a variety of media, including: installation, physical computing, performance, lenticular and digital prints, artist books, web sites, and dyed/manipulated fabrics. Documentation of her projects can be found at http://rebeccawhite.us. Rebecca teaches courses exploring digital media.

Recent Presentations/Productions:

Co-Presenters: Dana Edell and Giovanna Chesler. “Service Learning in Creative Media” Service-Learning Symposium: “Beyond the Classroom: Co-Educating Students in the Service-Learning Partnership.” NYMAPS: City College of New York. New York, NY. May 5, 2009.

“Failing is NOT an Option.” National Symposium on Defining and Promoting Student Success. Faculty Resource Network: University of San Francisco. San Francisco, CA. November 21, 2008.NYU Facutly Resource Network.

Exhibitions:

Pieced Together. Hewitt Gallery of Art. Marymount Manhattan College. New York, NY. November 3 – December 2, 2008.

It’s Not Easy. Social Environmental Aesthetics. Exit Art Underground. New York, NY. July 24 – August 29, 2008.

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Anthony Naaeke, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor in Communication Arts
email
212-517-0664

Degrees
B.A., University of Ghana
M.A., Duquesne University
Ph.D., Duquesne University


Anthony Naaeke's research interests include persuasion in cultural (African) narratives; communicating faith in a postmodern world; and communication and advocacy in development communication. He has published in the Journal of Dagaare Studies and Gender and Behavior.

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Peter Naccarato, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of English, Chair of Humanities Division
email
212-517-0603

Degrees
B.A., Villanova University
Ph.D., State University of New York, College at Stony Brook

Peter Naccarato, Associate Professor of English, has a Ph.D. from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. His teaching and research interests include twentieth-century literature, literary theory, and cultural studies. He has written on the Modernist period, with a specific emphasis on Virginia Woolf. His recent scholarly work focuses on the role of food and food practices in circulating ideology and sustaining individial and group identities.

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Richard Niles
Professor of Theatre Arts
email
212-774-4872

Degrees
B.F.A, NYU Tisch School of the Arts
M.F.A., Brooklyn College of the City University of New York
Ph.D., The Graduate School and University Center, The City University of New York

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Rosemary Nossiff, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Political Science
Chair, Social Science Division
email
212-774-0732

Degrees
B.A., University of New Hampshire
M.A., California State University
Ph.D., Cornell University

Dr. Rosemary Nossiff joined the Marymount Manhattan College Faculty as an Assistant Professor of Political Science in the Fall of 2004. Before coming to the College, she taught American politics at Rutgers University.

Professor Nossiff’s interests are in the areas of American political development, public policy, and social justice. Her book, Before Roe: Abortion Policy in the States, published in 2001, was a comparative study of abortion policy in the United States in the seven year period preceding the 1973 Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade. Currently she is working on an analysis of gender inequality in the workplace which examines the impact key legislative and judicial decisions have had on employment practices. Her future research plans include a study of women in prison.

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Ellen Orenstein
Associate Professor of Theatre Arts
email
212-774-4873

Degrees
B.A., Wesleyan University
M.F.A., University of Washington


Recent Publications:

“Defying Gravity: Physics, Art and Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard.” (book chapter), Stages to Performance. Scheduled release Summer-Fall 2009.


Recent Presentations/Productions:

Director, Surfacing (staged reading). Planet Connections Theatre Festivity. New York, NY. June 2009.

Director, Our Town. The Theresa Lang Theatre: Marymount Manhattan College. New York, NY. November 2008.

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Katalin Othmer, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Mathematics
email
212-517-0401

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Claire Owen, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
email
212-774-4882

Degrees
B.A., Marymount Manhattan College
M.A., Adelphi University
Ph.D., Adelphi University

A graduate of Marymount Manhattan College, Claire Owen has had more than 20 years experience in business at the management level. She received her Ph.D. in Psychology from the Derner Institute at Adelphi University in 2004, and is combining her extensive business experience with her training in psychology to help develop the Industrial/Organizational program at MMC. Claire has had a long love affair with MMC, and has been involved in the school in one iteration or another since 1994, as a student, as a staff member, an adjunct, and as a full-time Assistant Professor in Psychology. She teaches a variety of courses, with a concentration in I/O courses such as Organizational Psychology, Dynamics of Interviewing, and Training & Development. Other courses include Personality Psychology, Ethnic and Cultural Perspectives on Psychology, and Psychology of Women. Her research interests are primarily in the areas of mentoring, women in leadership, and adult development.

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Erin O'Connor, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Sociology
email
(212) 774-4846

Degrees
2009 Ph.D., Sociology, New School for Social Research
2002 M.A., Sociology, New School for Social Research
1993 Honors, B.A., Interdisciplinary Humanities, Michigan State University


Erin O'Connor is a sociologist specializing in the fields of culture, art, knowledge, work and ethnography. As an ethnographer, Professor O'Connor became a glassblower in order to research the relations between bodily practice, creativity, labor, craft, workers and artists, as well as the emergence of culture in the glassblowing studio for her dissertation, "HOTSHOP: An Ethnography of Embodied Knowledge in Glassblowing". She has also conducted ethnographic analysis of creativity in interdisciplinary scientific research as a researcher at the Social Science Research Council. Her work has appeared in Thesis Eleven, Qualitative Sociology Review, Qualitative Sociology and Ethnography, as well as in edited volumes, such as Practicing Culture and Embodying Sociology: Retrospect, Progress and Prospects.

At Marymount Manhattan, Professor O'Connor teaches Sociology of Culture and the Arts, Sociology, and Great Social Thinkers. Prior to Marymount Manhattan, she taught sociology at New School's Eugene Lang College, St. John's University and also co-taught a course in the great philosophical and literary works from Antiquity and the 19th Century at New York University for six years.




Recent Publications:

(forthcoming) "Conflict and Consensus-Building in Interdisciplinary Scientific Research." Co-Authored with Diana Rhoten and Ingrid Erikson.

2009 "The Act of Collaborative Creation and the Art of Integrative Creativity: Originality, Disciplinarity and Interdisciplinarity in Science." Co-Authored with Diana Rhoten. Thesis Eleven (96(1)).

2007 “The Centripetal Force of Expression: Drawing Embodied Histories into Glassblowing.” Qualitative Sociology Review, "Ethnographies of Artistic Work," Edited by Howard Becker and Marie Buscatto.

2007 “Hot Glass: The Calorific Imagination of Practice in Glassblowing.” In Craig Calhoun and Richard Sennett (eds.), Practicing Culture. London: Routledge.

2007 “Embodied Knowledge in Glassblowing: meaning and the struggle towards proficiency (modified reprint).” In Chris Shilling (ed.), Embodying Sociology: Retrospect, Progress and Prospects, The Sociological Review Monograph.

2006 “Glassblowing Tools: Extending the Body towards Practical Knowledge and Informing a Social World.” Qualitative Sociology, 29(2).

2005 “Embodied Knowledge: Meaning and the Struggle Towards Proficiency in Glassblowing.” Ethnography 6(2).

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Cheryl Paradis, Psy.D.
Associate Professor of Psychology
email
212-774-4885

Degrees
B.A., Marymount Manhattan College
M.A.. Yeshiva University
Psy.D, Yeshiva University

Cheryl Paradis has a Psy.D. in clinical psychology from Yeshiva University. She teaches the following courses: General Psychology, Abnormal Psychology, Developmental Psychology, Community Psychology and Forensic Psychology. She has approximately twenty years experience evaluating and treating individuals with severe and persistent mental illnesses in inpatient hospital settings. She is trained in cognitive behavioral treatment and has worked with individuals with anxiety disorders in outpatient settings. She is also trained in psychodiagnostic and neuropsychological testing. She has evaluated individuals with brain damage and dysfunction in psychiatric, medical and forensic settings. She has conducted research in the areas of brain damage, cross- cultural issues and forensic psychology and published in journals such as Culture, Medicine & Psychiatry, Journal of Anxiety Disorders and Journal of Offender Rehabilitation. She has also co-authored chapters related to assessment and treatment of anxiety disorders.


Recent Publications:

Paradis, C., S. Friedman, D.E. Hinton, R.J. McNally, L.Z. Solomon, K. Lyons. The Cross-Cultural Assessment of the Phenomenology of Sleep Paralysis: The Sleep Paralysis Questionnaire (SPQ). CNS Neuroscience and Therapeutics. Submitted.

---. The Measure of Madness: A forensic psychologist explores the criminal mind. Citadel Press. Expected date of release January 2010.



Recent Presentations/Productions:

Paradis C., E. Owen, C. Sembach. “Assessment of Cognitive Functioning in Elderly Defendants Undergoing Competency to Proceed Evaluations.” The New York State Psychological Association. May 1, 2009.

---. E. Owen, R. Peck, D. Kelly, D’Emic. “Malingering and the Competency to Stand Trial Evaluation.” Panel presentation with the assistant director of the Kings County Hospital Forensic Psychiatry Service, an assistant district attorney specializing in psychiatric cases, the mental health expert of the Brooklyn Legal Aid Society and the Judge presiding over the Mental Health Court of Kings County: The Brooklyn Legal Aid Society. April 2009.

---. E. Owen, M. Fullar, C. E. Sembach. “Detecting Malingering of Memory Impairment in a Forensic Population.” Eastern Psychological Association. March 2009.

---. J. Jill Mains. “Currents Issues in Psychology and Law: Attitudes Towards Convicted Sex Offenders.” The Eastern Psychological Association. March 2009.

---. K. Luongo. “Current Issues in Psychology and Law: The Role of Sexual Orientation in Attitudes toward the Battered Woman Syndrome Defense.” The Eastern Psychological Association. March 2009.

---. K. Luongo, J. Mains. “Currents Issues in Psychology and Law.” Crossing Borders, Marymount Manhattan College at Bedford Hills Correctional Facility. 2008.

---. G. Venito. “The Women of the Manson Family and the Power of Obedience.” Crossing Borders Conference: Marymount Manhattan College at Bedford Hills Correctional Facility. 2008.

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Vladimir Pashkevich, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Business Management
email
212-517-0639

Degrees
Ph.D., University Cincinnati (2004)
M.S.B.A., University of Cincinnati (2004)
M.S., Belarus State University (1994)
M.S. (five-year diploma), Belarus State University (1992)

Marketing professor Vladimir Pashkevich received his PhD in marketing and MSBA in quantitative analysis from University of Cincinnati and his MS from Belarus State University. He previously was a visiting professor at Montana State University. The study of consumer judgment and decision processes, with specific emphasis in the areas of inference, selective information processing, and biased processing are the primary interests of Dr. Pashkevich. Related areas of interest are measurement issues and relationships between theoretical concepts and empirical observations. He is also interested in the intersection of the areas of culture, consumer decision making and attitudinal and value judgments. Dr. Pashkevich is interested in pedagogy and multimedia techniques for classroom presentation and is currently teaching courses on marketing research and decision making.

Dr. Pashkevich is a member of the American Marketing Association, the Association for Consumer Research, and the Society for Consumer Psychology.

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Vandana Rao, Ph.D.
Professor of Business Management,
Chair, Division of Accounting and Business Management
email
212-517-0635

Degrees
M.A., Bombay University, India
Ph.D., State University of New York, Stony Brook

Vandana Rao joined Marymount Manhattan College in 2008. She teaches courses in finance and management and serves as division chair. Upon completing her doctoral studies in economics at SUNY in Stony Brook, Vandana returned to India. From 1987 to 1992 she established the Population Research Center in Himachal Pradesh University, India where she conducted research and produced reports on health and family welfare programs for the Government on India and international organizations such as the UNICEF. Vandana has also done graduate work in management at the Graduate Center, City University of New York.
Dr. Rao came to Marymount after 15 years at Indiana University-East where she was a member of the Business Division and taught courses ranging from economics and statistics to international finance and business. At Indiana University she was inducted into the faculty colloquium for excellence in teaching (FACET), an organization of selected faculty dedicated to teaching excellence. Her current area of research is in Risk Management and she has published articles and book chapters in this field. She has been active in professional regional and national organizations such as the Midwest Business Administration Association and the Allied Social Sciences Association.

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Raymond Recht
Professor of Theatre Arts
email
212-774-0762

Degrees
B.F.A. Carnegie Mellon University
M.F.A. Yale University

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Christina Rinaldi
Administrative Assistant for Dance
email
212-517-0612

Degrees
B.A., Marymount Manhattan College

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Mark Ringer
Professor of Theatre Arts
email
212-774-0712

Degrees
B.A., University of California, Los Angeles
M.F.A., University of California, Los Angeles
Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara

Dr. Ringer teaches Theater History, Shakespeare, Opera, Ancient Greek Drama and Culture, Dramaturgy, as well as other subjects. He has worked as a professional dramaturg, actor, and director throughout the USA and Europe. His first book Electra and the Empty Urn: Metatheater and Role Playing in Sophocles was published by the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. His next book manuscript, Monteverdi the Dramatist is in circulation. He has published articles in Shakespeare Bulletin and The New York Times.


Recent Publications:

Schubert’s Theater of Song. New York, NY: Amadeus Press. 2009.


Recent Presentations/Productions:

“Gloucester” in King Lear. National Black Theatre. Take Wings and Soar Productions. New York, NY. February, 2009.

Dramaturgy for above production.

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MJ Robinson, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor in Communication Arts
email
212-774-4867

Degrees
Ph.D., New York University (2008)
M.A., Cinema Studies, New York University
M.A., English Literature, Loyola Marymount University
B.A., Communication Arts/Film Production, Loyola Marymount University
B.A., English Literature, Loyola Marymount University

MJ Robinson regularly teaches Introduction to Film and Video, Contemporary World Cinema, Film History and Communication and the Future. In addition to her academic and teaching careers, Robinson has worked as a film archivist and researcher for independent producers, and was a creative consultant to Meg Ryan and Jane Campion on Campion's 2003 film In the Cut. Most recently, Robinson was the production liaison between Kaledo, KG, an international producing firm and all three Law & Order series. She is currently working on a book based on her dissertation: “'Voice of the City?': The Rise and Fall of WNYC-TV.” Her other research and teaching interests include: film theory and history, media and globalization, media policy, new film technologies and broadcast history.

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Michelle Ronda, M.A.,
Instructor in Sociology
email
212-774-4843

Degrees
Ph.D. from Graduate Center, City University of New York, expected 2010
M.Phil.from Graduate Center, City University of New York, 2003
M.A. from University of Texas at Austin, 1993
B.A. from Queens College, City University of New York, 1989

Michelle Ronda has long-standing interests in criminal justice, public policy and the methods of social research. Her dissertation, "The Professionalization of Community, the Weight of Democracy and the Compromise of Punishment in Community Change" is a case study of a New York City neighborhood examining the impact of neoliberal political forces on people working within low-income urban neighborhoods struggling for social change. Her research focuses on the difficulties that emerge when inequalities of gender, race, ethnicity, poverty and power are obscured and how efforts at “community empowerment” engender exhaustion among the very people they are meant to inspire as well as how the pursuit of funding alters the quality of grassroots social programs.

Professor Ronda has taught Sociology, Criminology and Social Problems as an Adjunct Instructor at John Jay College and the Borough of Manhattan Community College within the City University of New York.

At Marymount Manhattan she teaches Sociology, Criminology, Urban Sociology and Research Methods. She is faculty advisor to the Bedford Hills College Program Club.

Professor Ronda worked as the interim executive director of the College and Community Fellowship (CCF), a non-profit agency at the City University of New York that supports formerly incarcerated people in their pursuit of higher education. Many students who had earned college credit in the Bedford College Program through Marymount Manhattan College were active participants in CCF.

More recently, Professor Ronda acted as principle investigator on many social program evaluations, working closely with nonprofits, local residents and governmental agencies on projects including efforts to address youth violence, youth substance abuse, improve children’s educational experiences and train community residents to advocate for health care in underserved communities.

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Jason Rosenfeld
Associate Professor of Art History
email
212-517-0677

Degrees
B.A. Duke University
M.A. Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
Ph.D. Institute of Fine Arts, New York University


Jason Rosenfeld has been a member of the faculty at MMC since fall 2003. Dr. Rosenfeld received his B.A. from Duke University and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University with a dissertation titled "New Languages of Nature in Victorian England: The Pre-Raphaelite Landscape, Natural History and Modern Architecture in the 1850s." He has previously taught at Assumption College in Worcester, Massachusetts, New York University, and Queens College, New York. Academic interests include British art, specifically Victorian, modern architecture, and contemporary art.

He has published many articles and reviews on British art and architecture and contemporary art and has been a frequent reviewer for Art in America and ARTNews. He was a co-curator of the exhibition, "The Post-Pre-Raphaelite Print" at the Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York, in 1995, and contributed to the "Pre-Raphaelite and Other Masters: The Andrew Lloyd Webber Collection" exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, in 2003. He also contributed an essay to the catalogue of Marcel Dzama's exhibtion at the David Zwirner Gallery, New York, in 2005. Recent research interests have revolved around the life and career of the Victorian painter Sir John Everett Millais (1829-1896) and his monograph on that artist for Phaidon Press Ltd. will be published in 2010. In addition, he co-curated the major exhibition on Millais at Tate Britain, London, the National Gallery of British Art, with Alison Smith, Senior Curator of Paintings, which traveled to the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, followed by venues in Fukuoka and Tokyo, Japan. The exhibition was seen by in excess of 660,000 visitors.

Dr. Rosenfeld has been named Distinguished Chair at Marymount Manhattan College for the period 2009-2012. As Distinguished Chair, he will work on his second exhibition for Tate Britain in London, co-curating a major survey of the works of the nineteenth-century Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, England's greatest avant-garde artistic group. The exhibition will open in London in the fall of 2012 and travel to a number of international venues. In addition, he has been the lead contributor on a monograph on the contemporary American artist, Stephen Hannock, to be published by Hudson Hills Press in the summer of 2009.


Recent Publications:

Rosenfeld, Jason, Martha Hoppin, Garrett White, and Mark C. Taylor. Stephen Hannock. Manchester, VT: Hudson Hills Press (forthcoming 2009).

---. “J.M.W.Turner at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.” Victorian Studies (forthcoming 2009).

---. “Absent of Reference: New Languages of Nature in the Critical Responses to Pre-Raphaelite Landscapes.” Writing the Pre-Raphaelites: The Textual Formation of a Victorian Avant-Garde. Ed. Tim Barringer and Michaela Giebelhausen. Aldershot: Ashgate Press (forthcoming 2009): 151-70.

---. and Alison Smith. John Everett Millais. Amsterdam: Van Gogh Museum (Dutch and English editions). 2008.

---. and Alison Smith. John Everett Millais. Tokyo: The Asahi Shimbun. 2008.

---. “John Everett Millais, English Pre-Rapahelite.” Numen Art Magazine (Spain). 5 (November 2008).



Recent Presentations/Productions:

Rosenfeld, Jason. “Not Stokstad-Worthy?: Mainstreams of Modern Art and John Everett Millais.” “Why Victorian Art?” Conference. Department of Art History: CUNY Graduate Center. February 6, 2009.

---. Timothy Barringer, Paul Mellon Professor of Art, Yale University, Elizabeth Prettejohn, Professor, Department of the History of Art, Bristol University (UK), and Cassandra Albinson, Assistant Curator, Yale Center for British Art, “Material Culture Sessions: Victorian Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art.” North American Victorian Studies Association Conference: Yale University. New Haven, CT, November 14 and 15, 2008.

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Benedetta Sampoli Benitez, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Chemistry
email
212-517-0653

Degrees
B.S., University of Florence
M.S., University of Florence
Ph.D., University of California, San Diego

Dr. Benedetta Sampoli Benitez joined the Faculty at Marymount Manhattan College in the Fall of 2000. After graduating with honors in Chemistry at the University of Florence, Italy, where she is from, she went on to the University of California, San Diego for her PhD. While at UCSD, her main areas of research were Protein Chemistry and Structural Biology. Upon completion of her graduate studies in 1999, she worked at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center as a research fellow. Her current research interests are in the area of computational biology. In particular, she investigates the fidelity mechanisms of DNA polymerases using molecular dynamics simulations. Her latest publication in this area was featured on the cover of the Biophysical Journal. She is also involved in modeling studies of neurotransmitters/receptors interactions. To support her research, she has active collaborations with scientists at NYU, Scripps Research Institute and UCSD. She welcomes undergraduate students to work with her. At MMC, Dr. Sampoli Benitez teaches a variety of courses in chemistry and biochemistry, both for Biology majors and for non-science majors. She also supervises numerous internships in the medical institutions of New York City, such as Cornell Medical Center, Sloan Kettering Cancer Research and Rockefeller University.


Recent Publications:

Sampoli Benitez, B., K Arora, L. Balisreri and T. Schlick. “Mismatched base-pair simulations for ASFV Pol X/DNA complexes help interpret frequent G*G misincorporation.” Journal of Molecular Biology, Dec. 31, 2008, 384(5):1086-97.

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Alister Sanderson, Ph.D.
Professor of Communication Arts
email
212-774-4863

Degrees
B.A., Oxford University
M.A., New York University
Ph.D. New York University


Prof. Alister Sanderson holds a B.A. in English Language and Literature from Oxford University and the M.A. and Ph.D. in Cinema Studies from New York University, where he was a George Amberg Doctoral Research Fellow and specialized in WWII British documentary film. Before coming to MMC, he taught at NYU, Drew University, the School of Visual Arts and Brooklyn College. He also made experimental films, sat on the board of directors of the Millennium Film Workshop, and founded and edited the Millennium Film Journal, a quarterly devoted to avant-garde film-making. In commercial television, Alister was A&E's Creative Director and senior producer during that network's launch. He went on to head up his own communications and production company which was hired for the launches of Lifetime, Lifetime Medical Television, Request Television (America's first pay-per-view channel), the Sci-Fi Channel and TNT. Among other clients were HBO, Showtime, The Movie Channel, Nickelodeon, National Geographic, the New York Times, USA Network, The Long Island Philharmonic, Artpark, Pilobolus, the David Parsons Dance Company, and the NYC Refugee Employment Project. Recently, Alister has been producing, writing and directing for the History Channel (for which he received the American Advertising Federation's Addy award) as well as for Biography, the Kennedy Space Center, the Smithsonian and the National Constitution Center. His own recent films include the award-winning A Little Tour of Manhattan and Sun Tea. Chase Games, made with Prof. Elizabeth Higgins and featuring MMC dance students, was shown in 2005 at the Utah Arts Festival and the Independent Film Festival in Florida. Among the courses Alister teaches are Beginning Video, Intro. to Film & Video, Producing for Television and The Avant-garde in Theatre, Film & Art. He is the Director of CommArts' Theresa Lang Center for Producing, which provides the facilities for MMC students to work creatively in video, sound design, graphic design and interactive multimedia.

Recent Presentations/Productions:

Writer/Producer/Director, on-air programming spots for The History Channel and A&E. June – December 2008.

Writer/Producer/Director, two commercials for Kingsborough Community College: The City University of New York. June 2008.

Film screening

The Four Senses and More of Kirche Zeile (Alister Sanderson, director). Marymount Manhattan College. May 6, 2009.

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Peter Schaefer, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Communication Arts
email
212-517-0678

Degrees
B.A., Northwestern University
M.A., University of Iowa
Ph.D., University of Iowa

Peter Schaefer received his Ph.D. in Communication Studies from The University of Iowa and joined the faculty of MMC in the fall of 2008. He teaches classes such as Principles and Theories of Communication, History and Development of Communication Theory, and Introduction to Film and Video. His research examines histories and theories of new media including the ideology of aesthetics and simplicity in Apple products, interface design and the politics of user participation, and the role of batteries in communication history.

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Morgan Schwartz, M.F.A.
Associate Professor in Communication Arts
Assistant Professor of Digital Media
email
212-774-4865

Degrees
BSE Chemical Engineering, Princeton University
MFA School of Museum of Fine Arts/Tufts University

Morgan Schwartz [http://sodacity.net] is a visual artist who creates video installations, single-channel videos, urban actions and interactive media projects. He works collaboratively on projects in response to specific sites or cultural systems. Morgan teaches courses in new media and interactive digital media. He earned a BSE in Chemical Engineering from Princeton University in 1996 and his MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts/Tufts University in 2002. Previous to joining Marymount Manhattan College, Morgan was Visiting Faculty in New Media at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts/Tufts University in Boston, MA.

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Ghassan Shabaneh, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of International Studies
email
212-774-4824

Degrees
Ph.D., International Relations, CUNY Graduate Center
M.Phil., CUNY Graduate Center
M.A., Rutgers University
B.A., William Paterson State University


Ghassan Shabaneh is a Mellon Fellow in Human Security at the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Relations at the CUNY Graduate Center, and he is an Assistant Professor of Middle East and International Studies at Marymount Manhattan College in NYC. Mr. Shabaneh has completed his doctoral dissertation on "The Role of The United Nations in State Building: The Case of Palestine." He taught and lectured at Rutgers, Hunter, and Queens Colleges in the last few years. During his career, Mr. Shabaneh has done extensive field research in the Middle East.

Recent Presentations/Productions:

Freedom of the Press in the Arab World. The United Nations May 7, 2009

Implications of Repatriation and Human Development: Congo and Palestine Refugees in Comparative Perspective. SUNY College at Old Westbury. April 20, 2009

TV Interviews:

Shabaneh, Ghassan: Al Jazeera TV. This morning. New York, September 4, 2009

Shabaneh, Ghassan: The Last Hour; Egypt TV. New York. September 3, 2009

Shabaneh, Ghassan: Al Jazeera TV. This morning. New York, August 16, 2009

Shabaneh, Ghassan: The Last Hour; Egypt TV. New York. August, 3, 2009

Shabaneh, Ghassan: Akher Sa’a. Last Hour. Egyptian TV. New York. August. 1, 2009

Shabaneh, Ghassan: Al Jazeera TV. This Morning. New York, July 14, 2009

Shabaneh, Ghassan: Al Jazeera TV. Today’s Harvest. New York, July 7, 2009

Shabaneh, Ghassan: WorldFocus. NY. June 30, 2009

Shabaneh, Ghassan: W-ABC Eyewitness News. New York. June, 16, 2009.

Shabaneh, Ghassan: WorldFocus. NY. June 9, 2009

Shabaneh, Ghassan: WorldFocus. NY. May 28, 2008

Shabaneh, Ghassan: The Last Hour; Egypt TV. New York. May, 17, 2009

Shabaneh, Ghassan: Egypt TV. New York. May, 7 2009

Shabaneh, Ghassan: Future TV. New York. May 12, 2009

Shabaneh, Ghassan: Al-Arabyya TV. New York. , April 28, 2009

Shabaneh, Ghassan: Egypt TV. New York. April, 10, 2009

Shabaneh, Ghassan: Future Lebanese TV. New York. April 2, 2009

Shabaneh, Ghassan: Lebanese Broadcasting Company TV. New York March 7, 2009

Shabaneh, Ghassan: Al shams TV. New York January 20, 2009

Shabaneh Ghassan: Al Sa’a TV. New York January 4, 2009

Shabaneh, Ghassan. W-ABC Eyewitness News. New York. January 5, 2009

Shabaneh, Ghassan: CBC TV. New York. January 6, 2009

Radio Interviews:

Shabaneh, Ghassan: Arab Voice Radio: Cairo. New York. August 15, 2009

Shabaneh, Ghassan: Arab Voice Radio: Cairo. New York. July 19, 2009

Shabaneh, Ghassan: Radio Monte-Carlo. New York. May 5, 2009

Shabaneh, Ghassan: Radio Monte-Carlo. New York. April 27, 2009

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Sejal Shah, M.F.A.
Assistant Professor of English
email
212-774-4876

Degrees
B.A., Wellesley College
M.F.A., University of Massachusetts, Amherst


Sejal Shah's teaching interests include fiction, ethnic American literature, creative nonfiction, and writing that falls between genres. Her fiction, poetry, and essays have appeared in many journals, including Indiana Review; The Massachusetts Review; Pleiades; meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism; Prairie Fire; Catamaran; and Hanging Loose. Her writing can also be found in the anthologies Under Her Skin: How Girls Experience Race in America (Seal Press) and Contours of the Heart: South Asians Map North America, winner of the American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation (Temple University Press).


Recent Publications:

Shah, Sejal. “Cul-de-sac.” EDNA (forthcoming).

“Utterances, Unkeepables.” IWT Journal: Writing From the Inside Out. Vol. 3 (July 2008): 57-60.


Recent Presentations/Productions:

Fiction Reading. Visiting Writers Series. Writers and Books. Rochester, New York. May 14, 2009.

Fiction Reading. Millay Colony Residents Reading. Hudson Opera House. Sponsored by The Millay Colony for the Arts. Hudson, NY. October 18, 2008.

Shah, Sejal. Collaborator/Performer, “Ball's Out: Play to Win.” Sponsored by the Black Earth Collaborative Arts Company. Luther College, Decorah, IA. July 24 - 26, 2008.

Fiction Reading. Kenyon College. Sponsored by The Kenyon Review Writers Workshop. Gambier, OH. June 19, 2008.

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Teresa Signorelli, Ph. D, CCC-SLP
Clinic Director
email
212-774-0728

Degrees
B.A. Binghamton University
M.S. Boston University
Ph.D. CUNY Graduate Center

Teresa M. Signorelli is the Director of Marymount’s speech and hearing clinic that provides therapy and evaluations to adults and children with communication and related needs. She is a bilingual speech-language pathologist in practice since 1993 and has worked with patients with a variety of communication and feeding disorders in private practice, school and hospital settings. Her practice also extends to corporate clients with professional needs including accent modification and public speaking. Dr. Signorelli’s research regards speech perception and production, memory and aging language skills in multilingual speakers. She has presented her work at conferences internationally and collaborates with scientists in the United States and abroad.

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Patricia Simon
Associate Professor of Theatre Arts
email
212-774-0714

Degrees
B.F.A. Boston Conservatory of Music
M.F.A. Florida Atlantic University

Patricia Simon is an Associate Professor of Theatre Arts and Coordinator for Musical Theatre at the college. She teaches Musical Theatre Techniques, Advanced Musical Theatre and special topics such as Cor E New Musicals, Cor E The Musicals of Harold Prince with Stephen Sondheim and Special Topics: Directing Musicals.

At MMC Pat has directed Baby, She Loves Me, Speakeasy, Metropolitan Music, The Grass Harp, Plain and Fancy, The Human Heart, Carousel and The Human Comedy. She has introduced the college to such guest directors as Jeff Dunn, Richard Sabellico, John Znidarsic and Marcia Milgrom Dodge. Major figures in the arts have become involved with the College including Betty Buckley, Rosetta LeNoire, Ned Rorem, Tommy Tune, Jeff Calhoun, Al Hirschfeld, Kitty Carlisle Hart and Betty Comden due to Pat's efforts. Pat assisted in putting together the show that honored Theresa Lang by arranging to have Charles Strouse, Penny Fuller and Marc Kudisch entertain.

Prior to MMC, Pat worked as the Casting Director and Literary Manager for the WPA Theatre. She went on to assist Mark Redanty at Bauman-Hiller Talent Agency. Other teaching includes Musical Theatre Works and AMDA. Pat served on the Board of Directors of Musical Theatreworks and currently sits on the Board of Dance Machine International. Pat began her career as a performer and played professionally in such roles as Tzeitel in Fiddler on the Roof, Sally Bowles in Cabaret and Joan in Dames at Sea. She was a soloist with the Florida Symphony Orchestra. She has a BFA in Acting with a Minor in Musical Theatre from Boston Conservatory of Music and an MFA in Directing from Florida Atlantic University where she studied under Joshua Logan. She is currently compiling an Oral History on Mr. Logan.

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Martha Sledge, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of English
email
212-517-0602

Degrees
B.A., Louisiana College
M.A., Ohio State University
Ph.D., Emory University

Martha Sledge, Associate Professor of English, has a Ph.D. from Emory University. Her teaching and research interests are in American literature, autobiography, literary theory, and women's literature. Her current research focuses on American women's autobiography of WWI and 19th century women's diaries and literature.

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Linda Solomon, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology
email
212-774-4884

Degrees
B.A., University of Toronto
Ph.D., University of Toronto

Linda Zener Solomon has a Ph.D. in Social Psychology from the University of Toronto in Canada. Dr. Solomon has been a Research Associate/Consultant at the Institute for Developmental Studies, NYU, and also the Office of Research and Evaluation, NYC Department of Education. She taught at Baruch College and Hunter College before coming to Marymount Manhattan. Dr. Solomon was instrumental in establishing a chapter of Psi Chi (the National Honor Society in Psychology) at MMC. Her research interests include helping behavior, gender roles, and mentor-mentee relationships. She encourages her students to become actively involved in either her research or research of their own. She co-edited a Readings Book in social psychology and has published her research in such journals as Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin and the Journal of Social Psychology. She was co-author of the entry on 'mentor' in the upcoming Encyclopedia of Human Development.


Recent Publications:

Solomon, L., with A. Preston, L. Cooper, C. Owen, “Occupational Self-Esteem: Impact on Career Decision-Making." Submitted to the Journal of College Student Development.

---. with C. Paradis, S. Friedman, D.E Hinton, R.J. McNally, K. Lyons. “The cross-cultural assessment of the phenomenology of sleep paralysis: The Sleep Paralysis Questionnaire (SPQ).” Submitted to CNS Neuroscience and Therapeutics.



Recent Presentations/Productions:

Solomon, L., A. Preston, C. J. Owen, & L. Cooper. “Occupational self-esteem: Impact on career decision-making.” Presented at the Eastern Psychological Association Convention. Pittsburgh, PA. March 5 – 8, 2009.

---. A. Preston, C. J. Owen, & L. Cooper. “The impact of hardiness on career decision-making difficulties of young adults.” Presented at the Association for Psychological Science Convention. San Francisco, CA. May 21 – 24, 2009.

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Rebecca L. Sperling, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Social Work/Sociology
Coordinator of the Social Work Program
email
212-774-4844

Degrees
Ph.D., Columbia University
M.S., Columbia University
B.A., California State University at Los Angeles

Rebecca L. Sperling is an Associate Professor and the Coordinator of the Social Work sequence at Marymount Manhattan College. Both her M.S.W. and Ph.D. are from the Columbia University School of Social Work where she taught at the graduate level as an adjunct professor for five years, as a full-time lecturer for two years, and at the doctoral level in the Practice sequence in the fall of 2007. At Marymount, Professor Sperling has developed and overseen the Minor in Social Work, a series of five courses offered in the Social Science Division through the Department of Sociology. Within that sequence, the “Valuing Difference” course is offered as a selection in the shared curriculum because of its general importance to the Marymount community. Her teaching and her clinical work are grounded in systems theory, a firm belief in people's strengths and the centrality of listening to people tell their stories. She also teaches elective courses in teh Sociology curriculum.

In over twenty years as a practitioner, Dr. Sperling has been a clinical supervisor in out-patient hospital, community and school-based settings. She has run programs in the Lower East Side and at Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York City that focused on the treatment of alcohol and substance abuse and the improvement of mental health, and crisis intervention for families. She has acted as Civilian Co-Coordinator of Parenting Programs in the Parenting Center at the Bedford Hills Women’s Correctional Facility, has taught in the College Bound Program, and continues to have an active interest in our program at Bedford Hills. Professor Sperling also maintains a private practice in New York City. Her areas of professional knowledge and interest include: diversity, mental health, prison systems, women's studies, human development, substance abuse and oral history.

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Bernard Starr, Ph.D.
email
212-774-4889

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Jill Stevenson
Assistant Professor of Theatre Arts
email
212-517-0617

Degrees
B.S. Valparaiso University
Ph.D. Graduate City, City University of New York

Dr. Stevenson teaches Theatre History I and II, as well as advanced seminars on topics in Theatre history. Recent seminars include “Dramatic Theory and Criticism,” and Advanced Studies courses on “Medieval Performance,” “Japanese Theatre,” and “Melodrama and 19th-century U.S. Popular Performance.” She also teaches the first-year Writing I and II seminars.

In her recent book Performance, Cognitive Theory, and Devotional Culture, Jill uses cognitive theory to examine how medieval performance contributed to visual and material culture in the later Middle Ages. In her new project, she uses theories of embodied belief and medievalism to examine contemporary evangelical performative culture. She received a 2010 Research Fellowship from the American Society for Theatre Research and a 2010 Sokol Award from MMC to support this new research. In addition to this scholarship, Jill is committed to innovative pedagogy and to promoting the value that theatre and performance can hold for teachers and scholars in other disciplines, and for students as part of their liberal arts education. Each semester she organizes a college-wide dialogue series in which faculty and students explore the Theatre Department’s mainstage productions from various interdisciplinary perspectives.

Jill is active in a number of professional organizations including the Medieval and Renaissance Drama Society (MRDS), the American Society for Theatre Research (ASTR), the Modern Language Association (MLA), and the Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE). She is a member of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education’s 2011 Conference Planning Committee, and also serves on the Editorial Board for the academic journal Research Opportunities in Medieval and Renaissance Drama.


Recent Publications:

Performance, Cognitive Theory, and Devotional Culture: Sensual Piety in Late Medieval York. Cognitive Studies in Literature and Performance Series. New York: Palgrave, 2010.
Review of Visualizing Medieval Performance: Perspectives, Histories, Contexts, ed. Elina Gertsman (Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2008) Theatre Journal 61, no. 3 (October 2009): 491-2.
Review of Carol Symes, A Common Stage: Theater and Public Life in Medieval Arras. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2007. Theatre Journal 60.3 (2008): 513-4.

Forthcoming Publications:

“Marymount Manhattan College’s Theatre Archives and Active Learning,” co-authored with Mary Elizabeth Brown, Metropolitan Archivist 16, no. 2 (Summer 2010), forthcoming.
“Review of Sarah Ruhl’s Passion Play,” Ecumenica: A Journal of Theatre and Performance 3, no. 2 (Fall 2010), forthcoming.
Review of Penny Granger, The N-Town Play: Drama and Liturgy in Medieval East Anglia (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2009), European Medieval Drama 15 (2011): forthcoming.
Review of “Oberammergau Passion Play 2010: Performance and Context,” Material Religion: The Journal of Objects, Art, and Belief 7, no. 2 (July 2011), forthcoming.
“Embodied Enchantments: Cognitive Theory and the York Mystery Plays,” in Reflections on the York Mystery Plays, ed. Margaret Rogerson (under contract with York Medieval Press; projected publication, 2011).
“Rhythmic Liturgy, Embodiment, and Female Authority in Barking’s Easter Plays,” Barking Abbey: Authorship and Authority, eds. Jennifer Brown and Donna Bussell (under contract with Boydell & Brewer; projected publication, 2011).


Recent Presentations/Productions:

Co-Organizer and Participant, working session entitled “Contaminating Bodies: The Threat of Women on Performative Display,” the American Society for Theatre Research 2010 Conference, Seattle, November 2010.
“Animating Medieval Material Culture with Cognitive Theory,” International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, May 2010.
“Embodying Female Authority and Community in the Barking Easter Plays,” The Modern Language Association Convention, December 2009 (Organized session).
“Embodying Sacred History: The Creation Museum as Performance,” The Association for Theatre in Higher Education 2009 Conference, New York, August 2009 (Organized session).
“‘Living in the Blend’ of Medieval Performance: Then and Now,” International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, May 2009 (Organized session).
“Performance and Cognitive Enchantment,” Symposium on Theatre and Cognitive Studies, University of Pittsburgh, February 27-March 1, 2009.
“Cognitive Crossings between Body and Mind: How Do We Really See Theatre?” 2008 Crossing Borders Conference at the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility, New York, October 2008.
“Cognitive Theory, Sensual Performance, and Rhythmic Texts,” International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, May 2008.

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Haila Strauss
Associate Professor of Dance
email
212-774-4871

Degrees
B.A., Sarah Lawrence College
M.A., Teachers College, Columbia University

Recent Presentations/Productions:

Choreographer, Major Barbara. The Theresa Lang Theatre. October 2008.

Choreographer, Our Town. The Theresa Lang Theatre. November 2008.

Choreographer, She Stoops to Conquer. The Theresa Lang Theatre. April 2009.

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Cary Tamura
Macintosh Technician
email
212-517-0595

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Richard (Roy) Tietze Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Psychology
email
212-774-4887

Degrees
B.A., Iona College
M.A., Fordham University
Ph.D., Fordham University

Dr. Tietze serves as Program Coordinator and Chair of Psychology. Trained as a clinician, he teaches courses such as; Personality Psychology, Group Dynamics, and Family Processes, a course he developed for MMC’s Psychology Dept. Interested to unify our approach to education in both Arts & Sciences, he has also developed a course for MMC’s Cultural Studies program called “Jazz and American Identity”, and teaches Psychological Portraits in Literature with Prof. John Costello from English Lit. Last year, he directed the department through its first Program Review and recruited 2 new faculty, to help direct Psychology at MMC into the 21st Century.

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Laura Tropp, Ph.D.
Associate Professor and Chair of Communication Arts
email
212-774-4868

Degrees
B.A., Hunter College of the City University of New York
M.A., New York University
Ph.D., New York University

Laura Tropp specializes in media and politics and representations of pregnancy and motherhood in popular culture. She teaches courses in communication theory, media history, campaigns and elections, media law and new communication technologies. Her current research focuses on representations of pregnancy and motherhood in media, and the use of television in voter mobilization drives. Tropp is currently at work on a manuscript on pregnancy and media titled, A Womb with a View: Pregnancy in Changing Media Environments.


Recent Publications:

Links, Chicks, Blogs, Banners: Using the Internet for Youth Voter Mobilization.” Mosh the Polls: Youth Voters, Popular Culture, Democratic Engagement. Ed. Brian Cogan and Anthony Kelso. Lexington Books: Lanham, MD. 2008.


Recent Presentations/Productions:

Panelist, “Pregnancy in New Media Environments.” Media in Transition Conference, MIT: Cambridge, MA, April 24, 2009.

Panelist, “Battling the Blues: Representation of Post-Partum Depression in Popular Culture.” Mothers Gone Mad: Motherhood and Madness Oppression and Resistance Conference, New York, NY. May 29, 2009.

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Eileen Tynan, Ph.D.
Division of Accounting and Business Management
email
212-517-0621

Degrees
B.A., Marymount Manhattan College
Ph.D., University of Colorado

Eileen Tynan is an associate professor with a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Colorado at Boulder; her specialty is the economics of health care. Dr. Tynan has over 20 years experience as a health services researcher and policy analyst. For the past decade, she has been involved in the response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic. From 1991 to 1995, she was Director of Policy for the New York State AIDS Institute, the agency responsible for New York State policies and programs to combat HIV/AIDS. Dr Tynan is a graduate of Marymount Manhattan College, where she was an Economics major. Courses Taught: Principles of Microeconomics, Strategic Management, Contemporary Workplace, HIV/AIDS Epidemic.

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Andrew Warshaw
Associate Professor of Music and Dance, Music Director
email
212-774-0772

Degrees
B.A., Wesleyan University
M.F.A., New York University


ANDREW WARSHAW is Associate Professor of Music and Dance at Marymount Manhattan College. He is a composer, writer and former dancer whose music and lyrics for theater and dance have premiered at the Zellerbach Theater, Lincoln Center, Dance Theater Workshop in New York, and many other venues. His collaborators have included director/writer George C. Wolfe, playwright David Lindsay-Abaire, CONTRABAND, choreographers Stephan Koplowitz, Randy Warshaw, and Yoshiko Chuma, and film maker Richard Schlesinger. Warshaw's current project, The Sparks, The Ringing, an opera about an African-American musicologist with a Hasidic son, has been given support by many foundations and the New York State Council on the Arts, with major sections performed at the Brooklyn Museum of Art.

Over the past year Warshaw has been writing about, speaking about, and performing what he calls Locomotion-Encoded Musical Patterns (LEMPS), a conceptualization of musicians' physical movements as fundamental elements of musical organization. Presentations include the Music and Evolutionary Thought Conference of the Centre for Music and Science of Cambridge University and The Institute for Advanced Study at Durham University, as well as the Philoctetes Center and the Music of the Spheres Society in New York. For this work he is a finalist for the 2009 Thatcher Hoffman Smith Prize.

Warshaw has an ongoing involvement with African-related musics, including work in W. Africa as a producer of the NPR series Afropop, a long essay on W. African music and politics called Guinea Dreams, published in The Gettysburg Review, and an ongoing collaboration with Gambian kora player Salieu Suso for The Sparks, The Ringing. He has taught at New York University, Lincoln Center Institute, Carnegie Hall, and Touro College, and has worked as a consultant in arts education for the Brooklyn Philharmonic and the New Jersey Performing Arts Center. Warshaw holds a B.A. from Wesleyan University and an M.F.A. from New York University.

Recent Presentations/Productions:

Musical Creatures: How Vertebrate Locomotion Shapes Human Music. The Philoctetes Center for the Multidisciplinary Study of the Imagination. New York, NY. October 28, 2008.

Warshaw, Andrew and William Moulton. Making Music with Developmental Movement Patterns. 15th Annual Conference of the International Guild of Musicians in Dance. Florida State University. March 7, 2009.

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Steven Wat, M.S.
Assistant Professor of Mathematics
email
212-517-0652

Degrees
B.A., University of Hawaii
M.S., Courant Institute at New York University

Professor Wat was born on the island of Oahu and studied mathematics at the University of Hawaii before moving to the much smaller island of Manhattan. He has been teaching at Marymount since 1994 and is also a drop-in tutor at the Center for Academic Advancement. He has recently taught a variety of courses in the math minor, including linear algebra, number theory and combinatorics. Outside of the classroom, Professor Wat has been spotted hiking and biking the mountains of Hawaii.

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Donald Williams, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Psychology
email
212-774-4886

Degrees
B.B.A., City College of The City University of New York
Ph.D., University of Houston

Dr. Donald T. Williams is an Associate Professor of Psychology. He teaches courses in learning, cognitive psychology and human sexuality. He also teaches the capstone senior level course in the history and theories of psychology. Dr. Williams has published articles in major psychology journals in the areas of learning and memory. His current research interest is the psychological characteristics of people who get tattoos. Dr. Williams also works in the area of forensic psychology, doing assessments and giving testimony.

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Jerry Williams, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of English
email
212-517-0604

Degrees
B.A., Vermont College
M.F.A., University of Arizona
Ph.D., Oklahoma State University


Jerry Williams' teaching interests include poetry, creative nonfiction, and contemporary literature. Carnegie Mellon University Press published his first collection of poems, Casino of the Sun, in 2003, and his second, Admission, in 2010. The Overlook Press published his anthology of breakup and divorce poetry, It's Not You, It's Me, in 2010. Recently, he has been working on a memoir called The Wrong House.


Recent Publications:

Books:
Williams, Jerry. Admission. Pittsburgh, PA: Carnegie Mellon University Press (forthcoming in late 2009).

Editor. It's Not You It's Me: The Poetry of Breakup and Divorce. New York: The Overlook Press (forthcoming in 2010).

Journals:
Williams, Jerry. “A Burden.” Evergreen Review. Forthcoming.

A Fine Powder.” The Helen Burns Poetry Anthology: New Voices from the Academy of American Poets' University and College Prizes. 1999-2008. Forthcoming.

Bed, Bath, and Beyond.” Drunken Boat. Forthcoming.

Murder or Suicide in the Father Poems of John Berryman's Dream Songs.” Drunken Boat. Forthcoming.

Review of The Book of Whispering in the Projection Booth by Joshua Marie Wilkinson.” Pleiades. Forthcoming.

Truck.” New Ohio Review (No. 5, Spring 2009): 74-78.

Menstruation Blues.” Pleiades (Vol. 29 No. 2, 2009): 19-20.

Truce.” New Ohio Review (No. 3, Spring 2008): 177-178.

The Tonight Show.” Minnesota Review (No. 70 Spring/Summer 2008): 27-28.

Review of No Real Light by Joe Wenderoth.” Pleiades (Vol. 28 No. 2, 2008): 212-215.

Gem City.” Barrow Street (Winter 2008): 219.


Recent Presentations/Productions:

Williams, Jerry. Poetry Reading and Interview. Joe Milford Poetry Show. BlogTalkRadio. February 28, 2009.

Poetry Reading. Stella Adler Studio. Sponsored by the Harold Clurman Reading Series. September 25, 2008.

Poetry Reading. Asian-American Writers Workshop. Sponsored by Drunken Boat. August 28, 2008.

Poetry Reading. Barnes and Noble. Sponsored by the Bronx Arts Council. August 15, 2008.

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Kent Worcester, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Political Science and Int'l Studies
email
212-774-4845

Degrees
B.A., University of Massachusetts at Boston
M.A., Columbia University
M.Phil., Columbia University
Ph.D., Columbia University

Kent Worcester is an associate professor of political science and international studies. He is the author of 'C.L.R. James: A Political Biography' (1996) and 'The Social Science Research Council, 1923-1998' (2001), and the coeditor of 'Trade Union Politics: American Unions and Economic Change, 1960s-1990s' (1995) and 'Violence and Politics: Globalization's Paradox' (2002). He teaches courses on democratic theory, international relations, social movements, and contemporary warfare.


Recent Publications:

“Toon Town: New York City and Comic Books.” Seaport: New York’s History Journal. Forthcoming.

A Comics Studies Reader, edited by Jeet Heer and Kent Worcester. University Press of Mississippi. 2009.

“The Academy Discovers Comics.” MoCCA Art Festival Program (June 2009): pp. 8-9.

Review of David Hadju, The Ten-Cent Plague. New Politics (XII/2 Winter 2009): pp. 156-158.

“Interview with Kevin Pyle.” New Politics (XII/1 Summer 2008): pp. 157-163.


Recent Presentations/Productions:

“Comic Books and New York City.” Dutchess Community College. April 23, 2009. (Speakers in the Humanities Program, New York Council for the Humanities)

“Is Comics Studies a Branch of Journalism History?” Keynote address to the Joint Journalism History Conference. Marymount Manhattan College. March 14, 2009.

Panelist, “Graphic Novels and Academic Acceptance.” New York Comic-Con. February 6, 2009.

“Teaching the Graphic Novel at the Undergraduate Level.” Graphica in Education: Fordham University. January 31, 2009.

“Comic Books and New York City.” French-American School. January 30, 2009. (Speakers in the Humanities Program, New York Council for the Humanities).

“The Republican Defeat.” post-election divisional roundtable. Marymount Manhattan College. November 11, 2008.

“The McCain Campaign.” pre-election divisional roundtable. Marymount Manhattan College. October 23, 2008.

Chair and discussant, “The State of Comix: Cultural Identity, the Nation, and the Visual Politics of American Comics.” American Studies Association annual conference. Albuquerque, NM. October 17, 2008.

“What is the Textus Roffensis?” Faculty Projects Luncheon Series. Marymount Manhattan College. October 15, 2008.

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Roger Zeeman, PhD
Assistant Professor of Teacher Education
Department Chair
email
212-774-4851

Degrees
B.A., Harvard University
M.S., Yeshiva University
Ph.D., Yeshiva University


Roger Zeeman joined the Teacher Education Faculty in September 2006 after serving as Principal of the Alpine Learning Group, an education and treatment program for children with autism. Dr. Zeeman was a school psychologist in public and private schools including seven years at The Midland School for children with special needs and was Director of Pupil Services in the Bridgewater-Raritan and Montgomery Township School Districts. In Montgomery, he was also Interim Superintendent of Schools. For five and one-half years, Dr. Zeeman had been a member of the faculty of Special Education and Counseling at William Paterson University. Additionally, he returned to be Associate Professor and Chair in 2003-2004. He had worked as Principal of the Piscataway Regional Day School serving students with multiple disabilities. Dr. Zeeman is a Nationally Certified School Psychologist and a Licensed Psychologist in New York and New Jersey.

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Kirche Zeile
Assistant Professor of Theatre Arts
email
212-774-4894

Degrees
B.A., Tulane University
M.F.A., NYU Tish School of the Arts

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