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Political Science Faculty Listing
Jessica Blatt
Assistant Professor of Political Science
email
646-393-4138
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.
Rosemary Nossiff
Associate Professor of Political Science
email
646-393-4135
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.
Ghassan Shabaneh
Associate Professor Chair, International Studies Department
email
646-393-4136
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 Associate Professor of Middle East and International Studies at Marymount Manhattan College in NYC. Dr. Shabaneh wrote 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
Kent Worcester, Ph.D.
Professor of Political Science
email
646-393-4137
Degrees
B.A, University of Massachusetts at Boston M.A., Columbia University M. Phil., Columbia University Ph.D., Columbia University
Kent Worcester is a professor of political science. He is the 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: Globilization'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.
A Comic Studies Reader, edited by Jeet Heer adn Kent Worcester. University Press of Mississippi. 2009
"The Academy Discovers Comics". MOCCA Art Festival Programe (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 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 College. October 23, 2008. Chair and Discussant, "The State of Comix: Cultural Identity, the Nation, and the Visual Politics fo American Comics." American Studies Association annual conference. Albuquerque, NM. October 17, 2008. "What is the Textus Roffensis?" Faculty Projects Luncheon Series. Marymount Manahattan College. October 15, 2008.
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