Campus Experts Guide

MYRNA L. FISCHMAN

Chair, Accounting, Taxation and Law Department; Professor of Accounting; Director, Center for Accounting Education; Adviser, Accounting SocietyB.S., M.S., City College, CUNY; Ph.D., New York University

Specialties:

Accounting, Accounting Education

Publications:

• Editor, Delta Pi Epsilon Annual Yearbook
• Author “Who will teach our Future CPAs?” published in Trusted Professional
• Reviewer, The CPA Journal

Honors/Awards:

• Recipient, Community Service Society Award (1969)
• Recipient, Dr. Emanuel Saxe Outstanding CPA in Education Award (1994-95)
• Recipient, Lifetime Achievement Award, Soroptimist International (1997)
• Recipient, Director’s Award, Department of the Treasury, IRS (2000)
• Executive Professional of the Year, Strathmore’s Who’s Who?

Professional Affiliations

• Member, New York State Society Certified Public Accountants (NYSSCPA)
• Member, Foundation for Accounting Education (FAE)
• Member, American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA)
• Member, American Accountants Association (AAA)
• Member, Institute of Management Accountants (IMA)
• Member, Association of Government Accountants (AGA)

PHILIP WOLITZER

Professor Emeritus of AccountingB.B.A., Baruch College; M.B.A., New York University

Specialties:

Financial Statement Presentation, Forensics, Cost Accounting, Financial Analysis, Ethics

Publications:

• Author, “Ethics as a Value Added Service,” published in The CPA Journal (2001)
• Author, “Serious Action Requires Serious Thought,” published in The CPA Journal (2002)
• Author, “Reviving the Profession,” published in The CPA Journal (2003)
• Author, “Organizing your Financial Ratios Analysis Using PALMS,” published in the Proceeding of the 54th Midwest Finance Association (2005)
• Author, “Some Entrepreneurship Pitfalls,” published in the New England Journal of Entrepreneurship

Honors/Awards:

• Recipient, Outstanding CPA in Education Award
• Distinguished Service Award, the New York CPA Society
• Accountant of the Year, the Accounting Society of Adelphi University
• Outstanding Educator of America
• Hall of Fame, New York State Society of CPAs
• Lifetime Professional Achievement Award, Accountants Club of America
• Chancellors Award for Distinguished Service, Long Island University
• In 1998, the University honored him by dedicating a portion of the Humanities Building as the Philip Wolitzer Complex.

Professional Affiliations

• Member, American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA)
• Member, New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants (NYSSCPA)
• Member, American Association of University Professors (AAUP)
• Member, Accountants Club of America (ACA)
• Member, American Accounting Association (AAA)

MICHAEL J. K. BOKOR

Assistant Professor of EnglishB.A., University of Cape Coast (Ghana); M.A., Ph.D., Illinois State University

Specialties:

Technical and Professional Communication/Rhetoric and Composition/Linguistics

Publications:

• Author, “The Last Laugh” (2009)
• Author, “Africa Goes for Outsourcing,” published in “Outsourcing Technical Communication: Issues, Policies, and Practices” (2008)
• Author, “Connecting with the ‘Other’ in Technical Communication: World Englishes and Ethos Transformation of US Native English-Speaking Students,” published in Technical Communication Quarterly, 20(02), April 2011, pp. 208–237.
• Author, “Moving International Technical Communication Forward: A World Englishes Approach,” published in Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, 41(2), April 2011, pp. 113–138.

Honors/Awards:

• Recipient, Ora Brettal Award for Scholarship, Illinois State University (2008)
• Recipient, University Club Award, Illinois State University (2008)
• Recipient, International Studies and Programs Office Fellowship Award, Illinois State University (2004 and 2005)
• Recipient, Writing Programs Administration Award for facilitating a professional development workshop for new international graduate teaching assistants, Illinois State University (2003)
• Member, The National Scholars Honor Society (Lambda Cum Laude)

Professional Affiliations

• Member, Association of Teachers of Technical Writing (ATTW)
• Member, Modern Language Association (MLA)
• Member, National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE)
• Member, Council of Programs in Scientific and Technical Communication (CPTSC)
• Member, Organization of Global Communicators
• Member, The National Scholars Honor Society (Lambda Cum Laude)

GAIL-ANN G. GREAVES-VENZEN

Chair, Communication Studies, Performance Studies and Theatre; Associate Professor of Communication Studies, Performance Studies and TheatreB.A., M.A., Brooklyn College, CUNY; Ph.D., Howard University

Specialties:

Calypso; Cultures of the Caribbean, the United States and Africa; Intercultural Communication; Rhetoric

HILDI HENDRICKSON

Chair, Department of Sociology/Anthropology; Associate Professor of AnthropologyB.A., M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., New York University

Specialties:

Small-Scale Societies, Clothing Cross-Culturally, African Cultures, Material Culture, Ritual and Spirituality

Publications:

• Author and Editor, “Clothing and Difference: Embodied Identities in Colonial and Post-colonial Africa”
• Author, “Toward A Cross-cultural Analysis of Dress in 19th and 20th Century Namibia” and “A Sign of the Times: Samuel Maharero's Body and the Legitimation of Herero Leadership" (book chapters)
• Author, “The ‘Long’ Dress and the Construction of Herero Identities in Southern Africa,” published in African Studies
• Author, “Namibia,” published in The Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion (in press)

Honors/Awards:

• Recipient, Zora Neale Hurston Fellowship
• Recipient, National Science Foundation Grant
• Recipient, Wenner-Gren Foundation Grant
• Recipient, Social Science Research Council Grant
• Member, Phi Beta Kappa

Professional Affiliations

• Member, American Anthropological Association
• Member, African Studies Association

KIMBERLY F. JONES-DE OLIVEIRA

Associate Professor of HistoryB.A., Trinity College; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles

Specialties:

African Presence in Latin America, Race Relations in Brazil

VALERIE WALKER

Professor of Community HealthB.S., Hunter College; M.S., M.P.H., Columbia University

Specialties:

Cultural Exchange Programs in Kenya and East Africa, Evaluation of Health Care Centers, Human-Animal Bonding

Publications:

• Co-author, “Pet Facilitated Therapy Potential Benefits,” published in Community Animal Control

AMANDIA SPEAKES-LEWIS

Coordinator, MSW Program-Brooklyn Campus; Assistant ProfessorB.A. Stony Brook University; M.S.W. Stony Brook University; PhD, Adelphi University

Specialties:

HIV/AIDS, health disparities, mental health, relationships, couples

Publications:

Co-author  "Emotional Strain in Caregiving", Published in Journal of Women and Aging"(2011)

Co-author "Food habits of black older adults in New York City: Are there difference between African-American and Caribbean born immigrants?" Roundtable on Forum on Public Policy, (2007)

Author "Understanding blame and burnout in HIV/AIDS: recommendations for effective practice"  North American Journal of Psychology,  (2011)

Co-author "The move toward American modernity: Empowerment and individualism in the black mega church", Journal of African American Studies. (2011)

Honors/Awards:

Community Leadership Award

Professional Affiliations

• Member, Council on Social Work Education
• Member, National Minority AIDS Council
• Member, National Association of Social Workers
• Licensed Clinical Social Work, State of New York
• Member Phi Alpha Iota, Social Work Honor Society

DONALD ALLPORT BIRD

Professor of JournalismA.B., Rutgers University; M.A., Ph.D., Indiana University

Specialties:

American Folklore, Assassination and Mass Media, Metropolitan Daily Tabloid Journalism, Popular Culture, Rumor and Gossip

LEAH DILWORTH

Professor of EnglishB.A., Oberlin College; M.A., Ph.D., Yale University

Specialties:

19th- and 20th-Century American Literature, Ethnography

Publications:

• Author, “Imagining Indians in the Southwest: Persistent Visions of a Primitive Past,” published in Smithsonian

JOSEPH DORINSON

Professor of HistoryB.A., M.Phil., Columbia University

Specialties:

African-American Sports Heroes, Brooklyn, Humor Studies, Jewish History, Popular Culture, Russian Immigration, Sports History

Publications:

• Author, “Ethnic Humor: Subversion and Survival,” published in “What’s So Funny? Humor in American Culture”
• Author, “Anyone Here A Sailor? Popular Entertainment and the Navy”
• Co-editor, “Jackie Robinson: Race, Sports and the American Dream”
• Author, “Jackie’s a Hero Now — But He Wasn’t Always” and “Paul Robeson, All-American,” published in the New York Daily News
• Co-editor, “Paul Robeson (1898-1976): A Centennial Symposium,” Pennsylvania History
• Author, “The Educational Alliance: An Institutional Study in Americanization and Acculturation,” published in “Immigration and Ethnicity”
• Author, “Brooklyn: The Elusive Image,” published in “Is Anyone Here From Brooklyn?”

RALPH ENGELMAN

Chair, Journalism Department; Professor of JournalismB.A., Earlham College; M.A., Ph.D., Washington University (St. Louis)

Specialties:

Communications Law, Electronic Media and Privacy, History of the Press, Public Broadcasting

Publications:

• Author, “Public Radio and Television in America: A Political History”
• Author, “Friendlyvision: Fred Friendly and the Rise and Fall of Television Journalism”

Professional Affiliations

• Former Board Member, WBAI

PATRICK HORRIGAN

Associate Professor of EnglishB.A., Catholic University; Ph.D., Columbia University

Specialties:

19th- and 20th-Century American Culture, Creative Nonfiction Writing, Fiction, Lesbian and Gay Literature

Publications:

• Author, “Widescreen Dreams: Growing Up Gay at the Movies,”
• Author, “Messages for Gary,” a one-act play performed at the New York International Fringe Festival

LEAH DILWORTH

Professor of EnglishB.A., Oberlin College; M.A., Ph.D., Yale University

Specialties:

19th- and 20th-Century American Literature, Ethnography

Publications:

• Author, “Imagining Indians in the Southwest: Persistent Visions of a Primitive Past,” published in Smithsonian

HILDI HENDRICKSON

Chair, Department of Sociology/Anthropology; Associate Professor of AnthropologyB.A., M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., New York University

Specialties:

Small-Scale Societies, Clothing Cross-Culturally, African Cultures, Material Culture, Ritual and Spirituality

Publications:

• Author and Editor, “Clothing and Difference: Embodied Identities in Colonial and Post-colonial Africa”
• Author, “Toward A Cross-cultural Analysis of Dress in 19th and 20th Century Namibia” and “A Sign of the Times: Samuel Maharero's Body and the Legitimation of Herero Leadership" (book chapters)
• Author, “The ‘Long’ Dress and the Construction of Herero Identities in Southern Africa,” published in African Studies
• Author, “Namibia,” published in The Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion (in press)

Honors/Awards:

• Recipient, Zora Neale Hurston Fellowship
• Recipient, National Science Foundation Grant
• Recipient, Wenner-Gren Foundation Grant
• Recipient, Social Science Research Council Grant
• Member, Phi Beta Kappa

Professional Affiliations

• Member, American Anthropological Association
• Member, African Studies Association

ROBERT K. BARRY

Coordinator, Communications, Visual Arts and Performing Arts Division; Chair, Art Department; Associate Professor of ArtB.A., Pitzer College; M.F.A., University of Delaware

Specialties:

Ceramics, Porcelain, Raku, Tin-glazed Earthenware (Majolica)

Exhibits:

• Laramie County Community College, Cheyenne, Wy.
• Solo exhibits in Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, Chicago and Berlin
• International Ceramic Workshop, Tokoname, Japan

CYNTHIA DANTZIC

Professor of ArtB.F.A. Yale University; M.F.A., Pratt Institute

Specialties:

2D and 3D Design, Chinese Calligraphy, Color Interaction, Drawing, Painting, Western Calligraphy

Publications:

• Author, “100 New York Painters”
• Author, “Drawing Dimensions”
• Author, “Design Dimensions”

NANCY GROVE

Director of Galleries; Associate Professor of ArtB.A., Sarah Lawrence College; M.A., University of Chicago; Ph.D., The Graduate Center, CUNY

Specialties:

Contemporary Art, Isamu Noguchi, Marisol, Martha Jackson-Jarvis

HILARY LORENZ

Associate Professor of Art and Media ArtsB.S., Western Michigan University; M.A., M.F.A., University of Iowa

Specialties:

Book Design, Computer Graphics, Digital Photography, Digital Printmaking, Personal Magazine Publishing, Photography, Printmaking

Exhibits:

• 11th Taiwan Print and Drawing Biennial, Taiwan Museum of Fine Art
• Frans Masereel Centrum, Belgium (2003)
• Abstractions in Photography, Hunderdon Museum of Art (2002)
• Digital Art 2001, New York Hall of Science (2001)
• Digital Salon, School of Visual Arts Museum (2000)
• Printed Identity, American Swedish Museum, Philadelphia (2000)
  

Honors/Awards:

• Listed in Who’s Who in American Art and Who’s Who in the World

ELIZABETH A. RUDEY

Professor of Art; Art Education CoordinatorB.A., New York University; M.A., M.Ed., Ed.D, Teachers College, Columbia University

Specialties:

Art Education, Ceramics (Sculpture and Functional Pottery), Jewelry

Exhibits:

• Art and Media Arts Faculty Exhibition, The Salena Gallery, Brooklyn Campus
• “Wish You Were Here” and “Generations lll,” AIR Gallery, New York, N.Y.
• “Heel to Toe,” Smithtown Township Arts Council, St. James, N.Y. “50th Anniversary Exhibition of Resident Artists,” The Archie Bray Foundation
• Tile Festival, The Moravian Tile Works, Doylestown, Pa.
• The University Council for Art Education Millenium
• Art Exhibition, The Rosenberg Gallery, New York University
• “Tiles,” a juried exhibition, The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, Pa.
  

Honors/Awards:

• Research on Egyptian jewelry reproductions for the Metropolitian Museum of Art
• Member, College Art Association, National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts, New York State Art Teachers Association, New York City Art Teachers Association, University Council on Art Education

ALEXANDER M. SHEDRINSKY

Professor of Chemistry and BiochemistryM.S., Leningrad University; M.S., Ph.D., New York University

Specialties:

Amber, Chemistry of Archeology, Organic Materials Used in Art, Waxes

Manuscript Reviewer, The Journal of Analytical and Applied Pyrolysis, Curator and Archeometry

MARK G. BIRCHETTE

Associate Professor of BiologyB.A., Yale College; M.A., Ph.D., Harvard University

Specialties:

Biology of Racial Differences, Comparative Anatomy, Evolutionary Biology, Human Anatomy, Locomotor Behavior of Fossil Primates, Primate Paleontology

DAVID COHEN

Dean, Richard L. Conolly College of Liberal Arts and Sciences; Professor of BiologyB.S., M.S., Brooklyn Campus, Long Island University; Ph.D., New York University

Specialties:

Biology, Evolution, Plant Morphogenesis

ANTHONY LYNDON DEPASS

Associate Dean, Research; Associate Professor of BiologyB.S., University of Connecticut; M.S., Ph.D., University of Massachusetts, Amherst; Postdoctoral Study, Yale University School of Medicine

Specialties:

Cell and Molecular Biology

CAROLE GRIFFITHS

Associate Professor of BiologyB.A., Sarah Lawrence College; M.A., City College, CUNY; Ph.D., The Graduate Center, CUNY

Specialties:

Evolution of Birds of Prey

Publications:

• Author, “Whither Taxonomy?” published in “John Bull’s Birds of New York”
• Author, “The correlation of protein structure and evolution of protein-coding genes: Phylogenetic inference using cytochrome oxidase III,” published in “Molecular Biology Evolution”

CECILIA KOVAC

Associate Professor of BiologyB.S., St. John’s University; M.S., New York University; Ph.D., Columbia University

Specialties:

Interactions of Regulator Proteins with DNA, Molecular Immunology

D. KEITH SERAFY

Professor of BiologyB.A., University of South Florida; M.S., Ph.D., University of Maine

Specialties:

Echinoderm Biology (Sea Urchins, Star Fish, etc.), Invertebrate Zoology, Local Flora and Fauna

Publications:

• Co-author, “Distribution, diet and reproduction in the genus Echinus: Evidence for recent diversification,” published in Echinoderm Research
• Author, “Echinoderm biology: A functional biology of Echinoderms by John Lawrence,” published in BioScience

JOSE G. TELLO

Assistant Professor of Biology B.Sc., Universidad Ricardo Palma (Lima, Peru); M.Sc., University of Missouri-St. Louis; Ph.D., University of Illinois at Chicago

Specialties:

Evolutionary Biology

MARIA VOGELSTEIN

Assistant Dean, Conolly College; Assistant Professor of Biology B.S., St. Joseph’s College; M.S., New York University

Specialties:

Anatomy, Cell Biology, Hematology, Histology (slides of human tissue), Light and Electron Microscopy, Physiology, Sickle Cell Anemia

JOSEPH DORINSON

Professor of HistoryB.A., M.Phil., Columbia University

Specialties:

African-American Sports Heroes, Brooklyn, Humor Studies, Jewish History, Popular Culture, Russian Immigration, Sports History

Publications:

• Author, “Ethnic Humor: Subversion and Survival,” published in “What’s So Funny? Humor in American Culture”
• Author, “Anyone Here A Sailor? Popular Entertainment and the Navy”
• Co-editor, “Jackie Robinson: Race, Sports and the American Dream”
• Author, “Jackie’s a Hero Now — But He Wasn’t Always” and “Paul Robeson, All-American,” published in the New York Daily News
• Co-editor, “Paul Robeson (1898-1976): A Centennial Symposium,” Pennsylvania History
• Author, “The Educational Alliance: An Institutional Study in Americanization and Acculturation,” published in “Immigration and Ethnicity”
• Author, “Brooklyn: The Elusive Image,” published in “Is Anyone Here From Brooklyn?”

JAN ROSENBERG

Professor Emerita of SociologyB.A., M.A., University of Illinois; Ph.D., University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Specialties:

Empowerment Zones, Jews of Brooklyn, Joblessness, Urban Neighborhoods, Welfare Reform

Publications:

• Co-editor, “Urban Society”, Widely reported research on Fort Greene, Brooklyn (sponsored by HUD)

ADVA DINUR

Assistant Professor ; Managerial SciencesB.A., Hebrew University (Israel); Ph.D., Temple University

Specialties:

Data Security, Information Systems Analysis and Design, Programming Languages and Environments

Publications:

Author, “Tacit Knowledge Taxonomy and Transfer: Case-Based Research,” published in the Journal of Behavioral and Applied Management (2010)

Co-author, “Abandoning Ship at Scandia Inc.: Parts A, B & C.,” published in the New England Journal of Entrepreneurship (2009)

Co-author, “The Missing Inventory at Zenith International Trucks, Inc,” published in the Journal of International Academy for Case Studies (2009)

Co-author, “ Critical Context and International Intrafirm Best-Practice Transfers, ” published in the Journal of International Management ( 2009)

Co-author, “Incorporating Outcomes Assessment and Rubrics into Case Instruction,” published in the Journal of Behavioral and Applied Management (2009)

Co-author, "Outcomes Assessment, Rubrics, and Case Instruction: A Preliminary Discussion and Study," published in the Institute of Behavioral and Applied Management Proceedings (2008, received Best Paper Award )

Author, “Knowledge Transfer: Stories from the Front,” published in LIU BCLS Notes (2006)

Co-author, “Knowledge Management Processes and International Joint Ventures,” published in Organization Science (1998), reprinted in “Organizational Learning and Knowledge Management” (2008)

Co-author, “JIBS Twenty-five Year Index,” published in the Journal of International Business Studies (1994)

Lectures and Presentations

Co-author, “ Adding Value at H & H Financial Services, Inc., ” published in the Proceedings of the Institute of Behavioral and Applied Management (2009)

Co-author, “ Abandoning Ship at Scandia, Inc.: Parts A, B, and C, ” presented at the The CASE Association  Annual Conference, in association with the Eastern Academy of Management (2009)

Co-author, “ Creating Experiential Learning Exercises from Cases: ‘Cases' in Point, ” presented at the Institute of Behavioral and Applied Management Annual Meeting (2008)

Co-author, " Outcomes Assessment, Rubrics, and Case Instruction: A Preliminary Discussion and Study ,” presented at the Institute of Behavioral and Applied Management Annual Meeting (2008)

Author, “ Beyond the Dichotomy: Case-Based Taxonomy of Tacit Knowledge, ” presented at the Academy of Management Annual Meeting (2006)

Author, “ Knowledge Transfer: Stories from the front. Learn about Knowledge Transfer, how companies do it, and why some fail,” presented as part of the Beyond the Classroom Lecture Series, Brooklyn Campus School of Business, Public Administration and Information Sciences (2006)

Co-author, “ The Transfer of Knowledge in the Multinational Corporation: Considering Context ” Presented at the Academy of International Business (1999)

MOHAMMED GHRIGA

Dean, School of Business, Public Administration and Information Sciences; Associate Professor of Computer SciencesB.S., University of Sciences and Technology (Algeria); M.S., Ph.D., Brooklyn Polytechnic University

Specialties:

Data Security, Information Systems Analysis and Design, Programming Languages and Environments

HARRY E. STUCKE

Director, M.B.A. Program; Professor of Managerial SciencesB.S., Fordham University; M.B.A., New York University

Specialties:

Downsizing, Turnarounds, Organizational Behavior Training Programs, Project Management, Feasibility Studies Covering Managerial and Marketing Strategy with Cost and Organizational Drivers on a National and Transnational Level

Publications:

• Author, “Resume Page on the Web: Marketing and Career Development,” paper presented at the Academy of Marketing Science’s 9th Bi-Annual World Marketing Congress
• Author, Economic Analysis of Brooklyn, study presented at the Brooklyn Campus/NATWES Seminar
• Author, research on the global auto industry and the strategic positioning of Russian and Chinese auto groups, presented at senior-level conferences and symposia

Honors/Awards:

• Honoree, Long Island University 75th Anniversary Dinner
• Recipient, Newton Award for Excellence in Teaching, Long Island University
• Recipient, AT&T Best Teacher Award
• Recipient, Certificate of Commendation, City of New York
• Recipient, Who’s Who in Consulting Award, Cornell University

MARY JO DROPKIN

Associate Professor of NursingB.S., Cornell University; M.S., University of Nebraska; Ph.D., New York University

Specialties:

Head and Neck Cancer

Publications:

• Author, articles on anxiety, problem-focused coping strategies, disfigurement/dysfunction and post-operative coping behaviors associated with head and neck cancer for NYSNA Council of Nursing Research Clearinghouse
• Author, “Head and Neck Cancer: A recovery perspective,” published in Developments in Supportive Care

ESTHER LEVINE-BRILL

Chair, Undergraduate Nursing Program; Professor of NursingB.S.N., M.S.N., Hunter College, CUNY; Ph.D., New York University

Specialties:

Cancer Care, Medical-Surgical Nursing, Women in the Military

Publications:

• Co-author, “Together We Serve,” presented to the Association of Military Surgeons of the U.S.
• Co-author, “Foundations for Nursing”

Honors/Awards:

• Major, U.S. Army Nurse Corps Reserves

ROBERT V. DIGREGORIO

Professor of Pharmacy PracticeB.S., St. John’s University; Pharm.D., Medical College of Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University

Specialties:

Adverse Drug Reactions, Ambulatory Care, Arrhythmias, Asthma, Bioterrorism Emergency Preparedness, Cardiac Arrest, Cardiovascular Medications, Disaster Medicine, Emergency Medicine, Medication Errors, Pharmacy Practice, Toxicology

Publications:

• Author, “Primary Care”
• Author, “Pharmacotherapetics: A Primary Care Clinical Guide” Author, “A randomized trial of nebulized magnesium sulfate in addition to albuterol in the treatment of acute mild-to-moderate acute asthma exacerbations in adults,” published in the Annals of Emergency Medicine
• Author, “The appropriate selection of a low molecular weight heparin for an Acust Coronary Syndrome clinical pathway,” published in The New York Health-System Pharmacist
• Author, “Pharmacotherapeutic Advances in Cardiac Resuscitation: A Review of the Advanced Cardiac Life Support,” included in “Guidelines and their Impact on Pharmacy Practice,” published in the Journal of Pharmacy Practice
• Author, “Pharmacoethics: Unblinding a clinical trial for personal gain,” published in The Pharmacist
• Author, “Evaluation of the periotest as a diagnostic tool for dental implants,” published in the Journal of Oral Implantology

THOMAS J. JOHNSON

Director, Division of Respiratory Care; Associate Professor of Respiratory CareB.A., Fordham University; M.S., Brooklyn Campus, Long Island University

Specialties:

Chemical and Biological Warfare, Respiratory Care Management, Trauma Care

Publications:

Peer Reviewed

• Johnson, T Managing Disasters: Respiratory Care in Mass Critical Care: In Wyka K, Matthews PJ, Clark WF Foundations of Respiratory Care, 2nd edition, 2009 Delmar Thompson Learning Albany NY (in print)
• Goodfellow L, Johnson T, Barnes T, Opt’Holt T, Wilkins R, Percey Edwards, a Computerized Case National Tuberculosis Curriculum Consortium, 2007 http://ntcc.ucsd.edu
• Johnson, Thomas J, DeRose D, Phillips A Will Respiratory Care Become Single Gender Medical Profession? A survey of Enrollment by Gender in Respiratory Care Programs (abstract) Respiratory Care 2003, 48:11; 1067
• Johnson Thomas J. Aftermath of 9/11: What Have Respiratory Therapists Management Bulletin. Sept/Oct 2000
  Johnson T.
• The Impending Human Resource Crisis in Respiratory Care Learned? AARC Times Nov 2003, 27:11; 34-38AARC Johnson TJ.
• Emergency Preparedness and Respiratory Care Education AARC Education Bulletin #18 Winter 2002 Bessmertny O, DiGregorio RV, Cohen H, Becker E, Looney D, Golden J, Kohl L, and Johnson T.
• A Randomized Clinical Trail of Nebulized Magnesium Sulfate in Addition to Albuterol in the Treatment of Acute Mild-to-Moderate Asthma Exacerbations in Adults. Annals of Emergency Medicine. 2002 39:6; 585-591

Not-Peer Reviewed

• Johnson, Thomas J Biological Terror Countermeasures and Respiratory Care. RT. 2004 August 33-35, 42
• Johnson, TJ 2,000 Years of Biowarfare. Military History. 2002, August 24, 74-77
• Johnson TJ, Survival Guide: Taking Over a New Managerial Position Requires People Skills. Advance for Respiratory Care Managers. 2001 Jan; 10(1): 49-50
• Johnson T, Medicine and Warriors. In: Stricevic MV, Karate, Martial Art and Sport, Vol 5, 2000
• Johnson T, The Impending Human Resource Crisis in Respiratory Care. Focus, 2001 Spring: 10-25
• Johnson TJ, A Transition Timeline. . Advance for Respiratory Care Managers. 2001 Jan; 10(1): 50
• Stricevic MV, Karate Martial Art and Sport Volume 3. 1999 Johnson T, (contributing author)
• Stricevic MV, Karate Martial Art and Sport Volume 2. 1997 Johnson T, (contributing author)

Presentations

• “What is the Potential for Sudden Death due to Long Q-T Syndrome in Intercollegiate Athletes? (Poster/platform) American Association of Respiratory Care International Congress December 1-4, 2001 San Antonio Texas
• “Detection of Occult Exercise-Induced Asthma in Collegiate Athletes Following a Six Minute Run” (Poster/platform) American Association of Respiratory Care International Congress December 1-4, 2001 San Antonio Texas
• NYSSRC 23rd Managers’ and Educators’ Conference “Respiratory Care: Where are We Going and How Will We Get There” June 4, 2010
• NJSRC Shore Conference “Disaster Management from Preparedness to Recovery” October 16, 2008
• NYSSRC 9th Turning Stone Conference “Disaster Management: From Natural Ones to Terrorism, the Nature of the Beast” and “Better Clinical Decisions: How to Think Like a Doc” September 11, 2008
• 21st Annual Managers & Educators’ Conference, Round Top NY “Managing Disasters and Terrorism” June 5, 2008
• West Point Hudson Valley Respiratory Managers Conference, “Neonatal Resuscitation, It’s All New” and “How Doctors Think” November 9, 2007
• 20th Annual Managers/Educators Conference “Propaganda, Professionalism and Other ‘P’ Words” June 7-8, 2007
• Albany Teaching Day NEC-NYSSRC "ARDS and an Influenza Pandemic" March 30, 2007
• Mt. Sinai Medical Center, Topics in Respiratory Care “Pandemic Influenza” December 4, 2006
• West Point Hudson Valley Respiratory Managers Conference, “Preparing for a Flu Pandemic”, “Know Your Enemy, Gram-Negative and Other Evil-Doers”, “Chest Trauma” and “Taking Over a Leadership Position” November 3, 2006
• J. Robert Wilson Memorial Lecture Akron, OH “Flu Pandemic: Crisis & Opportunity” Medical Management of the Bio-chemical Victim” October 20, 2006
• American Association for Respiratory Care International Congress, “Treating the Chemical Victim” December 3, 2005
• West Point Hudson Valley Respiratory Managers Conference, “Countermeasures to Terrorism Part I – Blast, Incendiary and Nuclear”, “Countermeasures to Terrorism Part II – Biological and Chemical” and “Pulmonary Hypertension” November 11, 2005
• American Association for Respiratory Care, Summer Forum “Lights, Camera, Action-Community Theatre Actors in ‘Teaching and Assessing Interview Skills’ and ‘Assessing Affective Skills’” July 8, 2005
• 18th Annual Spring Forum “RT’s Response to Chemical Weapons” and “”Certification in Use of Nerve Agent Antidote Kit” June 10, 2005
• Pennsylvania Society for Respiratory Care Valley Forge Conference “Respiratory Care’s Countermeasures to Chemical Terrorism” April 22, 2005
• North West Area Heath Education Consortium’s 19th High Country Conference on Respiratory Care “Countermeasures to Chemical Terror” and “ Countermeasures by Respiratory Therapists to Biological Terrorism” February 9, 2005
• New York State Society for Respiratory Care Conference at Turning Stone “ Respiratory Care’s Countermeasures to Chemical Terror” October 1, 2004
• 17th Annual Respiratory Care Spring Forum “The RTs Role in Dealing with Bioterrorism” June 11, 2004
• American Association for Respiratory Care International Congress, “Bioweapons, Medical Countermeasures” and “Lessons Learned by Hospital RC Departments: The Aftermath of 9-11 in New York City” December 8, 2003
• American Association for Respiratory Care, Summer Forum The Dr. H.F. Helmholtz, Jr. Educational Lecture Series “Teaching Your Students and Staff About Inhaled Toxic Agents” and “What Can We Teach About Bioterrorism? Teach Everything!” July 26, 2003
• Arizona Society for Respiratory Care. “Managing the Bugs of Bioterror” and “So What is a Nice Respiratory Therapist like You to do with the Victims of Bio-chem Terrorism?” June 4, 2003
• Region II for Respiratory Care “The Aftermath of 9/11 in New York City: What We Have Learned Medically.” April 11, 2003
• Primedia Workplace Learning (live broadcast) “Biological and Toxic Terror: A Primer for Respiratory Care and Healthcare Providers.” March 25, 2003
• New York State Society for Respiratory Care- Southeastern Chapter Annual Symposium “Preparing for the Worst – Bioterrorism.” November 8, 2002
• New Jersey Society for Respiratory Care Annual Shore Conference “The RTs Role in the Treatment of the Gas Terrorist Victim” October 25, 2002
• Focus Conference on Respiratory Care & Sleep Medicine “Healthcare Practitioners Response to Bioterrorism” April 26, 2002
• University Health Care Consortium “Preparing the Respiratory Therapist for the Unthinkable Gas Warfare Terrorism” and “Respiratory Therapists Response to Bioterrorism” February 19, 2002
• West Point Conference Hudson Valley Respiratory Directors’ Association “Preparing the Respiratory Therapist for Gas Warfare” “Hemodynamics: What Do the Numbers Mean?” October 26, 2001
• Tennessee Society for Respiratory Care. Nashville, TN; AIDS, TB and the Healthcare Worker June 20, 1991

AZZEDINE BENSALEM

Professor of Chemistry and BiochemistryB.S., M.S., Ph.D., Université de Nantes (France)

Specialties:

Low Temperature Synthesis of Metal Nitrides, Metal Implants, Solid State Chemistry

Publications:

• Co-author, articles in the Journal of Dental Research, the Journal of Material Science Letters, the Journal of Solid State Chemistry, the Material Research Bulletin and the Journal of Physics

GLEN D. LAWRENCE

Professor of Chemistry and BiochemistryB.S., Pratt Institute; M.A., SUNY Plattsburgh; Ph.D., Utah State University

Specialties:

Dietary Fats and Health, Free Radicals and Reactive Oxygen Species in Biochemical Systems, Metal Nutrients and Toxic Metals, Bioanalytical Chemistry, Bioinorganic Chemistry

Publications:

• Author, “The Fats of Life: Essential Fatty Acids in Health and Disease” (2010)
• Co-author, “Promotion by Phosphate of Fe(III)- and Cu(II)-catalyzed Autoxidation of Fructose,” published in Carbohydrate Research (2008)
• Co-author, “Determination of oxolinic acid in feeds and cultured fish using capillary electrophoresis, published in Food Chemistry (2002)
• Co-author, “Analytical reliability of Mobile-Phase Recycling in Liquid Chromatography, published in Analytical Chemistry (2000)
• Author, “Putting Dietary Fats in Perspective,” published in the Journal of the Nutritional-Dietetic Association of the Philippines (2000)
• Co-author, “Diet, Cholesterol and Heart Disease: Socio-Political Ramification of a Misguided Hypothesis,” published in the Silliman Journal (1999)
• Co-author, “UV Catalysis, Cyanotype Photography and Sunscreens,” published in the Journal of Chemical Education (1999) (With on-line supplementary materials)
• Co-author, “Benzaldehyde formation from aspartame in the presence of ascorbic acid and transition metal catalyst,” published in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry (1996)
• Co-author, “Determination of atropine in nerve gas antidotes and other dosage forms by high performance liquid chromatography,” published in the Journal of the Association of Official Analytical Chemists (1995)
• Co-author, “Benzene production from decarboxylation of benzoic acid in the presence of ascorbic acid and a transition metal catalyst,” published in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry (1993)
• Co-author, “Quantitative measurements of biogenic amines and their metabolites in the brain of fish and amphibians,” published in the Microchemical Journal (1993)
• Author, “Chemical reactions involving changes in state: the liberal arts undergraduate experience,” published in the Journal of Chemical Education (1993)
• Co-author, “Studies on New, Centrally Active and Reversible Acetylcholinesterase Inhibitors, published in Neurochemical Research (1990)
• Co-author, “Extraction of physostigmine from biological fluids and analysis by liquid chromatography with electrochemical detection,” published in the Journal of Pharmaceutical Methods (1990)Author, “Effect of dietary lipids on adjuvant-induced arthritis in rats,” published in Nutrition Research (1990)
• Co-author, “The increase in ferrioxamine B reduction potential with increasing acidity of the medium,” published in Bioelectrochemistry and Bioenergetics (1989)
• Author, “Modulation of Chemically-Induced Epilepsy in Mice by Dietary Polyunsaturated Fats,” published in the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences (1987)
• Author, “Ethylene Formation from Methionine and Its Analogs,” published in “Handbook of Methods for Oxygen Radical Research” (1985)
• Co-author, “In vivo Production of Ethylene from 2-Keto-4-methylthiobutyric Acid in Mice,” published in Biochemical Pharmacology (1985)
• Co-author, “Effect of Age and Protein Deficiency on Glutathione Metabolism in Rats,” published in Fed Proc (1985)
• Co-author, “Lipid Peroxidation in Dimethylhydrazine-Induced Colon Cancer,” published in the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences (1984)
• Co-author, “Concentrating Ethane from Breath to Monitor Lipid Peroxidation,” Methods Enzymol (1984)
• Co-author, “Ethane Exhalation as an Index of in vivo Lipid Peroxidation: Concentrating Ethane from a Breath Collection Chamber,” published in Analytical Biochemistry (1982)
• Co-author, “Ethane Exhalation by Vitamin E Deficient Rats,” published in the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences (1982)
• Co-author, “Potentiometric Titrations and Oxidation-Reduction Potentials of Manganese and Copper-Zinc Superoxide Dismutases,” published in the Biochemical Journal (1979)
• Co-author, “The Chemistry of Biological Manganese,” published in Coordination Chemistry Reviews (1978)
• Co-author, “Model Studies for Molybdenum Enzymes: Reduction of Cytochrome c Derivatives by -oxo-bis(oxodihydroxo(L-cysteinato)molybdate (V),” published in the Journal of Inorganic and Nuclear Chemistry (1978)
• Co-author, “Model Studies for Molybdenum Enzymes: Reduction of Cytochrome c Complexes by -oxo-bis(oxodihydroxo(L-cysteinato)molybdate (V),” published in the Biochemical Journal (1977)
• Co-author, “Model Studies for Molybdenum Enzymes: Reduction of Cytochrome c by Molybdenum (V)-Cysteine Complexes,” published in the Biochemical Journal (1975)
• Co-author, “Synthesis of Magnesium Protoporphyrin IX in Vitro,” published in Photosynthetica (1973)

Honors/Awards:

Newton Award for Excellence in Teaching

Professional Affliations

Member, American Association for the Advancement of Science

HANNIA A. LUJÁN-UPTON

Associate Professor of Chemistry and BiochemistryB.S., St. Francis College; Ph.D., Polytechnic University

Specialties:

Polymer Chemistry, Drug Delivery Systems, Release of Fragrances

NIKITA MATSUNAGA

Associate Professor of Chemistry and BiochemistryB.A., American International College; Ph.D., Iowa State University

Specialties:

Computational Chemistry, Mechanisms in the Vision Process

WAYNE SCHNATTER

Associate Professor of Chemistry and BiochemistryB.S., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; M.A., Ph.D., Princeton University

Specialties:

Organic Chemistry, Reactions of Carbene Complexes with Special Alkynes

ANDREAS A. ZAVITSAS

Senior Professor of Chemistry and BiochemistryB.S., The City College of New York, CUNY; M.A., Ph.D., Columbia University

Specialties:

Chemistry, Organic Free Radicals, Water Solutions, Phenolic Resins

Publications:

• Co-author, “Heats of Formation of Organic Compounds by a Simple Calculation,” published in the Journal of Organic Chemistry (2010)
• Co-author, “Shortcomings of Basing Radical Stabilization Energies on Bond Dissociation Energies of Alkyl Groups to Hydrogen,” published in the Journal of Organic Chemistry (2010)
• Co-author, “A comparison of Methods for Measuring Relative Radical Stabilities of Carbon-centered Radicals,” published in Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics (2010)
• Author, “Response to: ‘Comments on ‘Ideal Behavior of Water Solutions of Strong Electrolytes and Non-electrolytes at High Concentrations’ by A. A. Zavitsas’ {Journal of Solution Chemistry (2010)} by A. Apelblat,” published in the Journal of Solution Chemistry (2010)
• Author, “The Nature of Aqueous Solutions: Insights into Multiple Facets of Chemistry and Biochemistry from Freezing-Point Depressions,” published in Chemistry – A European Journal (2010)
• Author, “Whence the Energy Term of the Rate Constant?” published in the Journal of Physical Chemistry A (2010)
• Author, “Ideal Behavior of Water Solutions of Strong Electrolytes and Non-electrolytes at High Concentrations,” published in the Journal of Solution Chemistry (2010)
• Co-author, “Effects of Molecule Stabilization Energies on Radical Reactions: G3 and G3(MP2) Model Chemistries Applied to Benzylic Systems,” published in the Journal of Physical Chemistry (2009)
• Author, “A Single Universal Scale of Radical Stabilization Energies Does Not Exist: Global Bond Dissociation Energies and Radical Thermochemistries Are Described by Combining Two Universal Scales,” published in the Journal of Organic Chemistry (2008)
• Co-author, “Enthalpies of Formation of Hydrocarbons by Hydrogen Atom Counting. Theoretical Implications,” published in the Journal of Physical Chemistry A (2008)
• Co-author, “Remote Substituent Effects on Allylic and Benzylic Bond Dissociation Energies. Effects on Stabilization of Parent Molecules and Radicals,” published in the Journal of Organic Chemistry (2007)
• Co-author, “Reactions of Alkyl Radicals with Substituted Toluenes and the Effect of Substituents on Dissociation Energies of Benzyl C–H Bonds,” published in Helvetica Chimica Acta (2006)
• Author, “Comparison of the relative accuracy of the potential energy curve of hydrogen fluoride from ab initio calculations and from an empirical ‘universal’ function,” published in the Journal of Molecular Spectroscopy (2006)
• Author, “The potential energy curve of the ground state potassium dimer, X 1 K2,” published in the Journal of Chemical Physics (2006)
• Co-author, “Stabilization Energies of Extensively Conjugated Propargylic Radicals,” published in the Journal of Organic Chemistry (2006)
• Author, “Aqueous Solutions of Calcium Ions: Hydration Numbers and the Effect of Temperature,” published in the Journal of Physical Chemistry B (2005)
• Co-author, “G3(MP2) Enthalpies of Hydrogenation, Isomerization, and Formation of Extended Linear Polyacetylenes,” published in the Journal of Physical Chemistry A (2005)
• Interview Subject, “Is Conjugation Stabilization Real?” published in Chemical & Engineering News (2004)
• Co-author, “On the Lack of Conjugation Stabilization in Polyynes (Polyacetylenes),” published in the Journal of Organic Chemistry (2004)
• Author, “Regularities in molecular properties of ground state stable diatomics,” published in the Journal of Chemical Physics (2004)
• Co-author, “Comparison of spectroscopic potentials and an a priori analytical function. The potential energy curve of the ground state of the sodium dimer, X 1 Na2,” published in the Journal of Chemical Physics (2004)
• Author, “The Potential Energy Curve of the Ground State of Lithium, X 1 Li2," published in the Journal of Molecular Spectroscopy (2003)
• Co-author, “The Conjugation Stabilization of 1,3-Butadiyne Is Zero,” published in Organic Letters (2003)
• Co-author, “Pauling's Electronegativity Equation and a New Corollary Accurately Predict Bond Dissociation Enthalpies and Enhance Current Understanding of the Nature of the Chemical Bond,” published in the Journal of Organic Chemistry (2003)
• Author, “The Relation between Bond Lengths and Dissociation Energies of Carbon-Carbon Bonds,” published in the Journal of Physical Chemistry A (2003)
• Author, “Comment on Identity Hydrogen Abstraction Reactions, X∙ + H X΄ → X H + X΄∙ (X = X΄ = CH3, SiH3, SnH3, PbH3): A Valence Bond Modeling,” published in the Journal of Physical Chemistry A (2002)
• Author, “Properties of Water Solutions of Electrolytes and Nonelectrolytes,” published in the Journal of Physical Chemistry B (2001)
• Author, “Logic vs. Misconceptions in Undergraduate Organic Textbooks. Radical Stabilities and Bond Dissociation Energies,” published in the Journal of Chemical Education (2001)
• Author, “First Book,” a letter to the editor published in the Journal of Chemical & Engineering News (2000)
• Author, “Energy Barriers to Chemical Reactions. Why, How and How Much? Non-Arrhenius Behavior in Hydrogen Abstractions by Radicals,” published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society (1998)
• Author, “Hydrogen abstraction by radicals. Different approaches to understanding factors controlling reactivity,” published in the Journal of the Chemical Society (London), Perkin Transactions 2 (1998)
• Co-author, “5-exo-trig versus 6-endo-trig Cyclization of Alk-5-enoyl Radicals. The Role of One-Carbon Ring Expansion,” published in Chemistry - A European Journal (1997)
• Author, “Factors Controlling Reactivity in Hydrogen Abstractions by Free Radicals,” published in the Journal of the Chemical Society (London), Perkin Transactions 2 (1996)
• Co-author, “Energies of Activation. The Paradigm of Hydrogen Abstractions by Radicals,” published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society (1995)
• Co-author, “Accurate Calculations of Reactivities and Diasterioselectivities in Complex Molecules. An AM1 Study of 1,3-Dioxolan-4-ones and Related Oxygen Heterocycles,” published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society (1995)
• Author, “War Story,” published in Confrontation magazine (1995)
• Author, “The Energy-Distance Relationship in Chemical Bonding. Accurate Calculation of Potential Energy Curves,” published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society (1991)
• Co-author, “New Potential Energy Function for Bond Extensions,” published in the Journal of Physical Chemistry (1989)
• Author, “Quantitative Relationship between Bond Dissociation Energies, Infrared Stretching Frequencies, and Force Constants in Polyatomic Molecules,” published in the Journal of Physical Chemistry (1987)
• Co-author, “Allylic Oxidations by Peroxyesters Catalyzed by Copper Salts. The Potential for Stereoselective Syntheses,” published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society (1986)
• Co-author, “sec-Alkyl Radicals React with Toluenes by Addition and Abstraction,” published in the Proceedings of the Fourth International Symposium on Organic Free Radicals, Royal Society of Chemistry (1984)
• Co-author, “Kinetics of Free Radical Brominations. Effects of Ring Substitution on the Strength of Benzyl C-H Bonds,” published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society (1983)
• Author, “Review of ‘Diradicals,’” published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society (1983)
• Co-author, “The Meaning of 'Polar Effects' in Free Radical Reactions,” published in Radicaux Libres Organiques (1978)
• Co-author, “Reactions of Undecyl Radicals with Substituted Toluenes,” published in the Journal of Organic Chemistry (1975)
• Co-author, “Hydrogen Abstractions by Free Radicals. Factors Controlling Reactivity,” published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society (1975)
• Co-author, “The Meaning of the Polar Effect in Hydrogen Abstractions by Free Radicals. Reactions of the tert-Butoxy Radical,” published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society (1972)
• Author, “Energy Barriers to Chemical Reactions. Why, How, How Much?,” published in Chemtech (1972)
• Co-author, “Kinetics of the Free Radical Chain Chlorination of Hydrocarbons with tert-Butyl Hypochlorite,” published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society (1972)
• Author, “Activation Energy Requirements in Hydrogen Abstractions. Quantitative Description of the Causes in Terms of Bond Energies and Infrared Frequencies,” published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society (1972)
• Author, “Teaching Computer Applications: Calculations of Potential Energy Surfaces,” published in the Journal of Chemical Education (1971)
• Co-author, “The Reversible Hydration of Formaldehyde. Thermodynamic Parameters,” published in the Journal of Physical Chemistry (1970)
• Co-author, “Base-Catalyzed Hydroxymethylation of Phenol by Aqueous Formaldehyde. Kinetics and Mechanism,” published in the Journal of Polymer Science A-1 (1968)
• Author, “Formaldehyde Equilibria: Their Effect on the Kinetics of the Reaction with Phenol,” published in the Journal of Polymer Science A-1 (1968)
• Author, “Acid Ionization Constants of Phenol and Some Hydroxymethylphenols Between 20° and 60°C,” published in the Journal of Chemical and Engineering Data (1967)
• Co-author, “Effects of Formaldehyne Equilibria,” published in the Proceedings of the 2nd National Symposium on Phenolic Resins, Division of Organic Coatings and Plastics Chemistry, American Chemical Society (1967)
• Co-author, “Correlation of Isotope Effects in Substitution Reactions with Nucleophilicities. Secondary -Deuterium Isotope Effect in the Iodine-131 Exchange of Methyl-d3 Iodide,” published in the Canadian Journal of Chemistry (1967)
• Author, “Kinetics of Sodium Hydroxide-Catalyzed Hydroxymethylation of Phenol by Formaldehyde,” published in the Proceedings of the 1st National Symposium on Phenolic Resins, Division of Organic Coatings and Plastics Chemistry, American Chemical Society (1966)
• Interview Subject, “Computer Simulates Methylolation Reactions,” published in Chemical and Engineering News (1966)
• Co-author, “Energetics of Alkyl Radical Reactions. Competitive Abstraction of Halogens,” published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society (1965)
• Co-author, “Synthesis and Isomerization of 2,6-Dimethyl-n-Butylbenzene,” published in the Journal of Organic Chemistry (1965)
• Co-author, “The Transition State in Methyl Radical Formation. The Secondary -Deuterium Isotope Effect,” published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society (1964)
• Author, “t-Butyl Hypochlorite Chlorination of Hydrocarbons. The Role of Chlorinated Solvents,” published in the Journal of Organic Chemistry (1964)
• Co-author, “The Transition State in Methyl Radical Formation. The -Deuterium Effect,” published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society (1964)
• Co-author, “The Copper Catalyzed Reaction of Peresters with Hydrocarbons,” published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society (1963)
• Author, “Synthesis of 1,3-Dimethyl-2-n-Butylbenzene by the Use of tert-Butyl as a Blocking Group,” published in the Baskerville Chemical Journal (1959)

Honors/Awards:

• Recipient, Abraham Krasnoff Memorial Award for Scholarly Achievement (single work), Long Island University
• Recipient, Founders Award, Westchester Graduate Campus of Long Island University
• 75th Anniversary Honoree, Long Island University

Professional Affiliations

• Member, American Chemical Society
• Former Chair, School Board, Holy Cross School, Brooklyn, N.Y.

ALEXANDER M. SHEDRINSKY

Professor of Chemistry and BiochemistryM.S., Leningrad University; M.S., Ph.D., New York University

Specialties:

Amber, Chemistry of Archeology, Organic Materials Used in Art, Waxes

Manuscript Reviewer, The Journal of Analytical and Applied Pyrolysis, Curator and Archeometry

ELLEN A. BECKER

Academic Coordinator, Respiratory Care; Associate Professor of Respiratory Care A.S., Madison Area Technical College; B.S., M.S., Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison

Specialties:

Asthma Management, Pediatric Respiratory Therapy

Publications:

Refereed:

• States RA, Nirenberg A, Becker EA, Jones SC, Dropkin MJ. [Abstract] Tools to measure students’ knowledge and attitudes toward cancer education. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 2007;55(4):S136.
• Nirenberg A, Becker EA, Dropkin MJ, Jones SC, Reynolds D, States RA. [Abstract] A culturally sensitive learning module for healthcare students about cancer education with older minority adults. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 2007;55(4):S137.
• Becker EA. Use of digital video clips to supplement artificial airways instruction. Respiratory Care Education Annual. Summer 2006;15:49-57.
• Becker EA and Godwin EG. Faculty interventions to improve interdisciplinary teamwork through computer conferencing. Journal of Allied Health. 2005;34:176-183.
• Becker EA. Promoting baccalaureate completion among respiratory therapists. Respiratory Care Education Annual. Fall 2003;12:11-20.
• Becker EA. Respiratory therapy managers’ preferences on baccalaureate and master’s degree education for respiratory therapists. Respiratory Care. 2003;48(9):840-858.
• Bessmertny O, DiGregorio RV, Cohen H, Becker E, Looney D, Golden J, Kohl L, and Johnson T. A randomized clinical trail of nebulized magnesium sulfate in addition to albuterol in the treatment of acute mild-to-moderate asthma exacerbations in adults. Annals of Emergency Medicine. 2002;39(6):585-591.
• Becker EA, Hiller Scott A, Guttman S, Zelski L, Jaffee-Gropack S, Kiefer C, Riquelme L, McManus M, and Nieves E. Creating interdisciplinary team practice through computer conferencing. Respiratory Care Education Annual. 2000;9:19-34.
• Becker EA and Gibson CC. Attitudes among practicing respiratory therapists in a midwestern state toward completing a baccalaureate degree and toward distance education. Respiratory Care. 1999;44:1337-52.
• Becker EA and Gibson CC. Fishbein and Ajzen’s Theory of Reasoned Action: Accurate prediction of behavioral intentions for enrolling in distance education courses. Adult Education Quarterly. 1998:43-55.

Online:

• Becker EA (content expert). Mosby’s respiratory care online for Egan’s fundamentals of respiratory care, 9th Ed. Online Course. St. Louis: Elsevier, 2010.

Letters:

• Becker EA [Letter]. Life experience credit versus ‘diploma mill’. Respiratory Care. 2004: 1061-62.

Presentations

Refereed:

• Becker EA. Why do Respiratory Therapists Pursue Baccalaureate Degrees? American Association for Respiratory Care 54th International Respiratory Congress. Anaheim, CA. December 14, 2008.
• States RA, Nirenberg A, Becker E, Jones S, Sheinfeld-Gorin S, Willis V, Simmons N, Amesz F [Poster]. Cancer screening education for health professions students. Minority Institute – Comprehensive Cancer Center Partners, National Cancer Institute. Bethesda, MD. September 12-13, 2006.
• Becker EA. Characteristics of students who benefit from video resources. American Association for Respiratory Care Summer Forum. Orlando, FL 9 Jul. 2005.
• Ireland M, Becker EA. A family affair: A pilot study of inner-city children with asthma and their primary caretakers: Responses to receiving and giving massage therapy. 16th International Research Congress, Honor Society of Nursing, Sigma Theta Tau International. Kona, Hawaii, 10 Jul. 2005.
• Becker EA. Improving adherence to therapy at home. 2003 49th Annual AARC International Respiratory Congress, Las Vegas, NV 9 Dec. 2003.

Grants:

• Zahradnik A & Becker EA. Tailoring Messages to Improve Asthma Control. (8/01/09-11/30/09). Long Island University Worksite Wellness Grant. $8500.
• Shah B, Becker EA, & Iacobellis F. Health and Wellness Strategies Used by Asthmatic Patients: A Multi-Disciplinary Experiential Learning Activity for Students. (9/1/09-8/31/10) Long Island University Health and Wellness Institute Grant. $4000.
• Becker EA. Asthma Education (Project manager). (7/01/09-6/30/10). New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. $18,500.
• Becker EA. Asthma Education (Project manager). (7/01/08-6/30/09). New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. $10,000.
• Becker EA. Asthma Education, Counseling, and Prevention Program (Co-PI). (9/30/08-9/29/09). Centers for Disease Control, #1H75EH000375-01. $348,798.
• Becker EA. Community Asthma Education in Schools (Project manager). (07/01/07-06/30/08). New York City Council, $10,000.
• Becker EA. Asthma and Healthy Exercise Program (Project manager). (07/01/06-06/30/07). New York City Council, $15,000.
• Ireland M, Becker EA. A family affair: A pilot study of inner-city children with asthma and their primary caretakers: Responses to receiving and giving massage therapy.(7/1/05-7/1/06). Sigma Theta Tau Honor Society of Nursing. $4981.
  Co-Investigator for the following grant. States RA – Project Director and Anita Nirenberg – Project Co-Director. (4/1/03 – 3/31/06). Cancer screening education for health care students. National Cancer Institute. $298,163.
• Co-Primary Investigator: Ireland M and Becker EA. A family affair: A pilot study of inner-city children with and their primary caretakers: Responses to receiving and giving massage therapy. (07/04-06/04). Sigma Theta Tau International. $1000.
• Instructional Design Coordinator for the following grant. Received 25% release time for 2.5 semester(s): States RA. - Project Director, and Susman WM- Project Co-Director. (7/1/2001 - 6/30/2004). Interdisciplinary community based health education. Department of Health & Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration, #1 D37 HP 00838-01. $292,438.

AMY PATRAKA GINSBERG

Associate Dean, School of Education; Associate Professor of CounselingB.A., Tufts University; Ed.M., Ph.D., Teachers College, Columbia University

Specialties:

Identity Development, Young Adulthood, the Psychology of Stuttering, School Violence Prevention

Publications:

• Author, “Working with students who stutter,” published in the Kappa Delta Pi Record (2002)
• Author, “Shame, self-consciousness and locus of control in people who stutter,” published in the Journal of Genetic Psychology (2000)
• Co-author, “Understanding stuttering and counseling clients who stutter,” published in the Journal of Mental Health Counseling (2000)
• Co-author, “The effectiveness of the ‘Warning Signs’ program in educating youth about violence prevention: A study with urban high school students,” published in Professional School Counseling (2003)

Honors/Awards:

• Recipient and Project Director, $300,000 federal grant for the establishment of youth violence prevention collaborative programming in downtown Brooklyn, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (2001-2003)
• Recipient and Project Director, $10,000 award in support of youth and community development initiative, Tiger Woods Foundation (2003)
• Recipient, $1,000 award in support of college campus violence prevention efforts, Robert G. Porter Scholar’s Program, American Federation of Teachers (2003)
• Recipient, $5,000 award for coordination of counseling services at the Learning Center for Educators and Families, Paul Newman/Newman’s Own Foundation (2001)

Professional Affiliations

• Member, The American Counseling Association
• Member, The Association for Counselor Education and Supervision
• Member, The American Psychological Association, Division 17: Counseling Psychology
• Member, New York State Counseling Association
• Member, New York State Mental Health Counseling Association
• Member, New York State Psychological Association

LINDA JACOBS

Associate Professor of Human Development and LeadershipB.A., Brooklyn College, CUNY; M.A., Ph.D., New York University

Specialties:

Diagnostic Assessment of Children, School Psychology

Publications:

• Author, “Resurrecting the Buried Self: Fairy Tales and the Analytic Encounter.” published in Psychoanalytic Review (2011)
• Author, “Meeting Beyond the Frame: Extraordinary Demands and Analytic Choices,” published in Psychoanalytic Perspectives (2009)
• Author, “Parent-Centered Child Work: A Relational Shift in Child Treatment,” published in Journal of Infant, Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy (2006)
• Co-author, “Parent Focused Child Therapy: Attachment, Identification, and Reflective Functions” (2006)
• Co-author, “Parent Therapy: A Relational Alternative to Working with Children” (2002)
• Author, “AIDS Curriculum for School District 15”
• Author, “Family Origins of Marital Concepts,” published in The CUNY Woman’s Coalition Journal
• Author, “Onset of Parenting and Stressful Events,” published in The Journal of Prevention
• Author, “The Psychology of the Rapist and His Victim,” published in “Rape: The First Sourcebook for Women"

HAZEL M. SANDERSON-MARCOUX

Associate Dean, School of Nursing; Associate Professor of Nursing; Coordinator, RN-B.S. Program B.S., Brooklyn Campus, Long Island University; M.Ed., Ed.D., Teachers College, Columbia University

Specialties:

Pediatric Critical Care Nursing, Nursing of fragile infants in the home, Loss and bereavement in Children

Publications:

• Author, “Loss and Bereavement in Children,” published in “Pediatric Nursing: Caring for Children and Their Families”

Honors/Awards:

• Recipient, The Brooklyn Nursing Partnership Award for Dedication to Nursing Academia and Nursing Practice (2008)
• Leadership Fellow, American Academy for Colleges of Nursing (2002)

Professional Affiliations

• Board Chair, Brooklyn Queens Long Island Area Health Education Center (BQLIAHEC)
• Member, American Nurses Association
• Former President, Lambda Iota Epsilon (Brooklyn Campus School of Nursing Honor Society)

TEMPII CHAMPION

Associate Professor of Communication Sciences and DisordersB.S. Speech and Hearing, Northeastern University; M.A., Communication Sciences and Disorders, Hampton University; Ph.D., Communication Sciences Disorders, University of Massachusetts -Amherst

MARLA DEL COLLINS

Associate Professor of Communication Studies, Performance Studies and TheatreB.F.A., West Virginia University; M.A., Ph.D., New York University

Specialties:

Gender Roles in Communication, Rhetorical Criticism

Publications:

• Author, “Why This Feminist Still Likes Bill: Recognizing Male Depression,” published in Smoke Signals
• Author, “The Powers That Be: How Feminism Promotes Complex Communication in a Patriarchal Society,” published in New Dimensions in Communication

BRIDGET DWYER

Assistant Clinic Administrator of Communication Sciences and Disorders; Assistant Professor of Communication Sciences and DisordersB.S., Education of the Speech and Hearing Handicapped, Brooklyn College; M.S., Speech-Language Pathology, Brooklyn College

ELAINE GELLER

Associate Professor of Communication Sciences and DisordersB.S., M.S., Communication Sciences and Disorders, Queens College ; Ph.D., Speech and Hearing Sciences, Graduate Center

GAIL-ANN G. GREAVES-VENZEN

Chair, Communication Studies, Performance Studies and Theatre; Associate Professor of Communication Studies, Performance Studies and TheatreB.A., M.A., Brooklyn College, CUNY; Ph.D., Howard University

Specialties:

Calypso; Cultures of the Caribbean, the United States and Africa; Intercultural Communication; Rhetoric

BARBARA PARISI

Professor of Communication Studies, Performance Studies and TheatreB.A., Hunter College, CUNY; M.A., Brooklyn College, CUNY; M.A., The Graduate Center, CUNY; M.A., Ph.D., New York University

Specialties:

Communication Studies, Performance Studies, Theatre

Publications:

• Co-author, “Empowerment Through Communication”
• Editor, “The Best American Short Plays” series

Honors/Awards:

• A founder and the executive director of the Ryan Repertory Company at the Harry Warren Theatre, Brooklyn

JOHN SANNUTO

Assistant Professor of Communication Studies, Performance Studies and TheatreB.A., Brooklyn College, CUNY; M.A., D.A., New York University

Specialties:

Directing, Movement for Actors, Oral Interpretation, Public Speaking, Theatre, Voice and Diction

HILARY LORENZ

Associate Professor of Art and Media ArtsB.S., Western Michigan University; M.A., M.F.A., University of Iowa

Specialties:

Book Design, Computer Graphics, Digital Photography, Digital Printmaking, Personal Magazine Publishing, Photography, Printmaking

Exhibits:

• 11th Taiwan Print and Drawing Biennial, Taiwan Museum of Fine Art
• Frans Masereel Centrum, Belgium (2003)
• Abstractions in Photography, Hunderdon Museum of Art (2002)
• Digital Art 2001, New York Hall of Science (2001)
• Digital Salon, School of Visual Arts Museum (2000)
• Printed Identity, American Swedish Museum, Philadelphia (2000)
  

Honors/Awards:

• Listed in Who’s Who in American Art and Who’s Who in the World

MARJAN MOGHADDAM

Associate Professor of Media ArtsB.A., Empire State College; M.F.A., C.W. Post Campus, Long Island University

Specialties:

Computer and Digital Art

Exhibits:

• Chaos Conference at the University of Georgia
• New York International Video and New Media Festival
• International Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques (Siggraph ’98)
• “Digital Americana ’98” at the Orlando Museum of Art
• CG Centenary 1999 International Competition and Conference in Computer Graphics (Aizu, Japan)

Honors/Awards:

• Prize Winner, Art & Science Collaborations Inc.’s Second Annual Digital Art Competition at the New York Hall of Science and the Brooks Gallery at Cooper Union

CHRISTOPHER LEAGUE

Associate Professor of Computer ScienceB.S., Johns Hopkins University; M.S., University of Maryland, College Park; Ph.D., Yale University

Specialties:

Programming Languages, Operating Systems and Artificial Intelligence; Compilers, Type Theory and Computer Security

Publications:

• Author, “Something for Everyone: AI Lab Assignments that Span Learning Styles and Aptitudes,” published in the Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges (2008)
• Co-author, “Schema-Based Compression of XML Data with Relax NG,” published in the Journal of Computers (2007)
• Author, “MetaOCaml Server Pages: Web Publishing as Staged Computation,” published in Science of Computer Programming (2006)
• Co-author, “Typed Compilation Against Non-Manifest Base Classes,” published in Proceedings of the Workshop on the Construction and Analysis of Safe, Secure, and Interoperable Smart Devices (2006)

Honors/Awards:

• Recipient, Award for Teaching Excellence, University of Maryland (1996)
• Recipient, IBM Outstanding Undergraduate Award, Johns Hopkins University (1995)

Professional Affiliations

• Member, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), including special interest groups on programming languages (SIGPLAN) and computer science education (SIGCSE)
• Member, IEEE Computer Society

JOSE A. RODRIGUEZ

Professor of Computer ScienceB.A., Rutgers University; M.S., New York University; Ph.D., Stevens Institute of Technology

Specialties:

Computer Networks, Graph Theory, Combinatorics, Graph Algorithms, Operating Systems, Object Oriented Design

Publications:

• Co-author, “A new technique for the characterization of graphs with a maximum number of spanning trees,” published in Discrete Mathematics (Special Issue on Algebraic and Topological Methods in Graph Theory)
• Co-author, “Reliability of networks with delay constraints,” published in Congressus Numerantium
• Co-author, “A new proof of the Fisher-Ryan bound for the number of cliques if a graph,” published in Congressus Numerantium
• Co-author, “Bounds on the maximum number of edge-disjoint Steiner trees of a graph,” published in Congressus Numerantium
• Co-author, “On the conjecture that amount all graphs on n nodes and e edges, one with a maximum number of spanning trees must be almost-regular,” published in Congressus Numerantium
• Co-author, “Chromatic polynomials with least coefficients,” published in Discrete Mathematics (Special Issue on Chromatic Polynomials and Related Topics)
• Co-author, “(K, j)-Domination and (K, j)-Reliability,” published in Networks
  Co-author, “A sharp upper bound for the number of spanning trees of a graph,” published in Congressus Numerantium
• Co-author, “Generalized Edge-Toughness,” published in the Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Conference of the Chilean Computer Science Society (IEEE sponsored)
• Co-author, “Graphs with maximum number of spanning trees and optimally reliable graphs,” published in Combinatorial Optimization: Theory and Practice
• Author, “Reconstructing graphs from their odd-vertex subsets,” published in Congressus Numerantium
• Co-author, “Graphs with most number of three-point induced connected subgraphs,” published in Discrete Applied Mathematics
• Co-author, “A generalized chromatic polynomial, acyclic orientations with prescribed sources and sinks, and network reliability,” published in Discrete Mathematics

AMY PATRAKA GINSBERG

Associate Dean, School of Education; Associate Professor of CounselingB.A., Tufts University; Ed.M., Ph.D., Teachers College, Columbia University

Specialties:

Identity Development, Young Adulthood, the Psychology of Stuttering, School Violence Prevention

Publications:

• Author, “Working with students who stutter,” published in the Kappa Delta Pi Record (2002)
• Author, “Shame, self-consciousness and locus of control in people who stutter,” published in the Journal of Genetic Psychology (2000)
• Co-author, “Understanding stuttering and counseling clients who stutter,” published in the Journal of Mental Health Counseling (2000)
• Co-author, “The effectiveness of the ‘Warning Signs’ program in educating youth about violence prevention: A study with urban high school students,” published in Professional School Counseling (2003)

Honors/Awards:

• Recipient and Project Director, $300,000 federal grant for the establishment of youth violence prevention collaborative programming in downtown Brooklyn, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (2001-2003)
• Recipient and Project Director, $10,000 award in support of youth and community development initiative, Tiger Woods Foundation (2003)
• Recipient, $1,000 award in support of college campus violence prevention efforts, Robert G. Porter Scholar’s Program, American Federation of Teachers (2003)
• Recipient, $5,000 award for coordination of counseling services at the Learning Center for Educators and Families, Paul Newman/Newman’s Own Foundation (2001)

Professional Affiliations

• Member, The American Counseling Association
• Member, The Association for Counselor Education and Supervision
• Member, The American Psychological Association, Division 17: Counseling Psychology
• Member, New York State Counseling Association
• Member, New York State Mental Health Counseling Association
• Member, New York State Psychological Association

STANLEY NASS

Professor of Human Development and LeadershipB.A., City College, CUNY; M.A., New York University; M.A., Ed.D., Columbia University

Specialties:

Freud, Psychobiography, Short-Term Psychotherapy

Publications:

• Editor, “Crisis Intervention Therapy”
• Co-author, “Adjustment Psychology”
• Co-author, “Turn Your Life Around: Self Knowledge for Self Improvement”
  

MICHAEL J. K. BOKOR

Assistant Professor of EnglishB.A., University of Cape Coast (Ghana); M.A., Ph.D., Illinois State University

Specialties:

Technical and Professional Communication/Rhetoric and Composition/Linguistics

Publications:

• Author, “The Last Laugh” (2009)
• Author, “Africa Goes for Outsourcing,” published in “Outsourcing Technical Communication: Issues, Policies, and Practices” (2008)
• Author, “Connecting with the ‘Other’ in Technical Communication: World Englishes and Ethos Transformation of US Native English-Speaking Students,” published in Technical Communication Quarterly, 20(02), April 2011, pp. 208–237.
• Author, “Moving International Technical Communication Forward: A World Englishes Approach,” published in Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, 41(2), April 2011, pp. 113–138.

Honors/Awards:

• Recipient, Ora Brettal Award for Scholarship, Illinois State University (2008)
• Recipient, University Club Award, Illinois State University (2008)
• Recipient, International Studies and Programs Office Fellowship Award, Illinois State University (2004 and 2005)
• Recipient, Writing Programs Administration Award for facilitating a professional development workshop for new international graduate teaching assistants, Illinois State University (2003)
• Member, The National Scholars Honor Society (Lambda Cum Laude)

Professional Affiliations

• Member, Association of Teachers of Technical Writing (ATTW)
• Member, Modern Language Association (MLA)
• Member, National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE)
• Member, Council of Programs in Scientific and Technical Communication (CPTSC)
• Member, Organization of Global Communicators
• Member, The National Scholars Honor Society (Lambda Cum Laude)

BERNICE BRAID

Adviser to the Provost; Professor Emerita of EnglishB.A., M.A., University of California at Los Angeles; Ph.D., Occidental College

Specialties:

Cross-Disciplinary Learning, Curriculum Design, Experiential Learning Strategies, Honors Education

Honors/Awards:

• Named Faculty Leader for Excellence in Teaching by Change Magazine

ROBERT GLASS

University Dean of International Education; Dean, Global CollegeB.A., University of British Columbia; M.A., Temple University; M.Phil., Ph.D., Syracuse University

Specialties:

International Education

JONATHAN D. GOUGH

Assistant Professor of Chemistry and BiochemistryB.S., Eastern Nazarene College; Ph.D., Syracuse University

Specialties:

Chemical Biology, Organic Chemistry, Computational Chemistry

Publications:

Co-author, “Using Natural Products to Unravel Cell Biology,” published in “Chemical Biology: From Small Molecules to Systems Biology and Drug Design” (2007)
Co-author, “Probing Protein Function with Small Molecules,” published in Ernst Schering Research Foundation Workshop: Chemical Genomics (2005)
Co-author, “ortho-and meta-Substituted Aromatic Thiols as Efficient Redox Buffer for Increasing the Folding Rate of a Disulfide Containing Protein,” published in the Journal of Biotechnology (2005)
Co-author, “Increased Catalytic Activity of Protein Disulfide Isomerase (PDI) in the Presence of Aromatic Thiol Based Redox Buffers,” published in Bioorganic Medicinal Chemistry Letters (2005)
Co-author, “Effects of Redox Buffer Properties on the Folding of a Disulfide Containing Protein: Dependence upon pH, Thiol pKa, and Thiol Concentration,” published in the Journal of Biotechnology (2005)
Co-author, “Aromatic Thiol pKa Effects on the Folding Rate of a Disulfide Containing Protein,” published in Biochemistry (2003)
Co-author, “Folding Disulfide-Containing Proteins Faster with an Aromatic Thiol,” published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society (2002)
Co-author, “Ionic Blockade of the Rat Connexin40 Gap Junction Channel by Large Tetraalkylammonium Ions,” published in the Biophysical Journal (2001)
Co-author, “Modeling Antileukemic Activity of Carboquinones with Electrotopological State and Chi Indices,” published in the Journal of Chemical Information and Computer Sciences (1999)
Co-author, “Modeling the Toxicity of Amide Herbicides Using the Electrotopological State,” published in Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (1999)

Honors/Awards:

Post Doctoral Fellow, Yale University Center for Genomics and Proteomics (2004-2006)
Graduate Fellow, Syracuse University (1998-2003)
Recipient, Teaching Assistantship, Syracuse University (four semesters from 1998-2003)
Recipient, Summer Research Fellowship, Schrader Endowment Fund-Eastern Nazarene (1998)
Outstanding Senior Chemistry Major, Eastern Nazarene College (1998)
Recipient, Summer Research Fellowship, Schrader Endowment Fund-Eastern Nazarene (1997)
Eagle Scout, Boy Scouts of America (1993)

Professional Affliations

Member, American Chemical Society (Biotechnology Division and Physical Chemistry Division)

JOANN HALPERN

Director of Academic Affairs and Senior Studies, Global College; Assistant Professor of International EducationB.A., Dartmouth College; M.A., Harvard University; Ph.D., New York University

Specialties:

Cross-Cultural Training, Expatriate Management, German Culture, International Education, Internationalization of Universities

Publications:

• Author, “Coming Home: The Dilemma of Repatriation,” published in “CDSsence”
• Author, “The Dilemma of Repatriation: Managing Expatriate Expectations” (doctoral dissertation)

HALBERT BARTON

Associate Professor of AnthropologyB.A., University of California-Santa Cruz; M.A., Ph.D., Cornell University

Specialties:

Afro-Caribbean Drum-Dancing (particularly the Puerto Rican Bomba), Latin American Studies

Publications:

• Author, “El espacio social como tambor: Bomba en la época post-patriarchal” published in “A Gathering of Poets and Players: Voice and Performance in Caribbean Culture(s)”

DANA HASH-CAMPBELL

Chair, Dance Department; Associate Professor of Dance; Coordinator, Dance Wellness ProgramB.F.A., Brooklyn Campus, Long Island University; M.F.A., University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee

Specialties:

Ballet Technique, Biomechanics for Dance, Choreography

JOHN SANNUTO

Assistant Professor of Communication Studies, Performance Studies and TheatreB.A., Brooklyn College, CUNY; M.A., D.A., New York University

Specialties:

Directing, Movement for Actors, Oral Interpretation, Public Speaking, Theatre, Voice and Diction

AZZEDINE BENSALEM

Professor of Chemistry and BiochemistryB.S., M.S., Ph.D., Université de Nantes (France)

Specialties:

Low Temperature Synthesis of Metal Nitrides, Metal Implants, Solid State Chemistry

Publications:

• Co-author, articles in the Journal of Dental Research, the Journal of Material Science Letters, the Journal of Solid State Chemistry, the Material Research Bulletin and the Journal of Physics

SWETA CHAWLA

Assistant Professor of Pharmacy PracticeB.S., Pharm.D., Philadelphia College of Pharmacy

Specialties:

Hepatitis

Publications:

• Co-author, “New Therapeutic Options for the Management of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus in Adults,” published in the American Journal of Managed Care

FRAIDY N. MALTZ

Assistant Professor of Pharmacy PracticeB.S., Pharm.D., Arnold & Marie Schwartz College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, Long Island University

Specialties:

Community Pharmacy Practice, Diabetes

Publications:

• Co-author, “New Therapeutic Options for the Management of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus in Adults,” published in the American Journal of Managed Care

ELAENA QUATTROCCHI

Assistant Professor of Pharmacy PracticeB.S., Pharm.D., St. John’s University

Specialties:

Diabetes Management, Endocrinology

JESSICA ROSENBERG

Associate Professor of Social Work; Director, GranCare ProgramB.A., Sarah Lawrence College; M.S.W., Hunter School of Social Work; Ph.D., Yeshiva University

Specialties:

Treatment of Serious Mental Illness, Social Work Practice with Latinos, Grandparent Caregivers, Workforce Issues, Social Work and Labor

Publications:

• Author, “Working in social work: The real world guide to practice settings” (2009)
• Co-editor, “Community Mental Health: Challenges for the 21st Century” (2006)
• Author, “Organized Labor’s Contribution to the Human Services: Lessons from the Past and Strategies for the Future,” published in the Journal of Workplace Behavioral Health (2009)
• Author, “Oral Histories and Older Adults: Infusing Content on Cultural Diversity and Aging in BSW Education,” published in the New York State Social Work Education Association Conference Proceedings (2007)
• Co-author, “Whose treatment is it anyway? The role of consumer preferences in mental health care,” published in the American Journal of Psychiatric Rehabilitation (2007)
• Co-author, “Do unions matter? An examination of the historical and contemporary role of labor unions in the social work profession,” published in Social Work, the Journal of the National Association of Social Workers
• Co-author, “No need to hide: Out of the closet and mentally ill,” published in Best Practices in Mental Health: An International Journal (2004)

Professional Affiliations

• New York State Licensed Clinical Social Worker
• Certified Field Instructor
• Former Board Member, National Association of Social Workers, NYC Chapter
• Former Delegate, National Association of Social Workers, NYC Chapter
• Former Board Liaison, New York State Social Work Education Association
• Treasurer, Rainbow Heights Club

VALERIE LAVA

Associate Professor of Teaching and LearningB.A., Brooklyn College, CUNY; M.S., Hunter College, CUNY; Ed.D., Teachers College, Columbia University

Specialties:

Children with Disabilities

FOTIOS M. PLAKOGIANNIS

Professor of PharmaceuticsDiploma, University of Athens (Greece); M.S., Ohio State University; Ph.D., University of Southern California

Specialties:

Drug Absorption After Oral Administration, Transdermal Drug Delivery

Publications:

• More than 70 research papers presented throughout the world
• Author, “Basic Concepts in Biopharmaceutics: An Introduction”
• Author, “Self-Assessment of Current Knowledge in Pharmacy”

LORRAINE A. CICERO

Assistant Dean, Academic and Student Affairs; Associate Professor of Pharmacy PracticeB.A., Stony Brook University; B.S., St. Johns University; M.S., Arnold & Marie Schwartz College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, Long Island University; Pharm.D., St. John’s University

Specialties:

Drug Information Programs, Management of Ingestion of Poisons

Publications:

• Columnist, Drug Topics, the Hospital Pharmacy Report and the New York City Pharmacists Society Newsletter;
• Representative topics include “The ‘New’ Uses of Vitamin E,” “Smoking Cessation” and “Can Depressed Patients Be Treated with Worts?”

HENRY COHEN

Associate Professor of Pharmacy PracticeB.S., M.S., Arnold & Marie Schwartz College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, Long Island University; Pharm.D., St. John’s University

Specialties:

Adverse Drug Reactions, Infectious Diseases, Intensive Care Medicine

ROBERT V. DIGREGORIO

Professor of Pharmacy PracticeB.S., St. John’s University; Pharm.D., Medical College of Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University

Specialties:

Adverse Drug Reactions, Ambulatory Care, Arrhythmias, Asthma, Bioterrorism Emergency Preparedness, Cardiac Arrest, Cardiovascular Medications, Disaster Medicine, Emergency Medicine, Medication Errors, Pharmacy Practice, Toxicology

Publications:

• Author, “Primary Care”
• Author, “Pharmacotherapetics: A Primary Care Clinical Guide” Author, “A randomized trial of nebulized magnesium sulfate in addition to albuterol in the treatment of acute mild-to-moderate acute asthma exacerbations in adults,” published in the Annals of Emergency Medicine
• Author, “The appropriate selection of a low molecular weight heparin for an Acust Coronary Syndrome clinical pathway,” published in The New York Health-System Pharmacist
• Author, “Pharmacotherapeutic Advances in Cardiac Resuscitation: A Review of the Advanced Cardiac Life Support,” included in “Guidelines and their Impact on Pharmacy Practice,” published in the Journal of Pharmacy Practice
• Author, “Pharmacoethics: Unblinding a clinical trial for personal gain,” published in The Pharmacist
• Author, “Evaluation of the periotest as a diagnostic tool for dental implants,” published in the Journal of Oral Implantology

JADWIGA S. NAJIB

Professor of Pharmacy PracticeB.S. St. John’s University; Pharm.D., University of Minnesota – Twin Cities

Specialties:

Alcoholism and Substance Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders

Publications:

• Author, “Eszopiclone, a Nonbenzodiazepine Sedative-Hypnotic Agent for the Treatment of Transient and Chronic Insomnia”
• Author, “Drug-Induced Movement Disorders,” published in Drug Injury: Liability, Analysis and Prevention
• Author, “Fenofibrate in the Treatment of Dyslipidemia: A Review of the Data as They Relate to the New Suprabioavailable Tablet Formulation,” published in Clinical Therapeutics
• Author, “Entacapone: A Catechol-O-Methyltransferase Inhibitor for the Adjunctive Treatment of Parkinson’s Disease,” published in Clinical Therapeuticss

JACK M. ROSENBERG

Professor of Pharmacy Practice and Pharmacology; Director, International Drug Information CenterB.S., Albany College of Pharmacy; M.S., Brooklyn College of Pharmacy, Long Island University; Pharm.D., University of Michigan; Ph.D., St. John’s University

Specialties:

Drug Interactions, Prescription and Over-the-Counter Drugs, Toxic Effects of Drugs

Publications:

• Co-editor, “Athletic Drug Reference”
• Co-author, “Prescriber’s Guide to Drug Interactions,” published in Medical Economics
  

JORDAN KAPLAN

Director, M.S.-Human Resource Management Program ; Associate Professor of Managerial Science; Associate Professor of Human Resource Management, School of NursingB.A., Brooklyn Campus, Long Island University; M.B.A., C.W. Post Campus, Long Island University; D.B.A., University of Sarasota

Specialties:

Human Resources Management, Service Sector Management

Publications:

• Author, “Full Edition Review: of ‘Management, Leading and Collaborating in the Competitive World’” (8th edition)
• Author, “Comparative Review: ‘Contemporary Management,’ 6th ed.”
• Author, “Comprehensive Review: ‘Contemporary Management,’ 4th ed.”
• Author, “Review and Comparison: ‘HRM,’ 12th ed., and “Managing HRM,” 4th ed.”
• Author, “Instructor Supplements: Labor Relations”
• Author, “Text Review: ‘Management,’ 2nd ed.”
• Author, “Choosing Wisely: Using Personality to Advise Business Majors,” published in the Proceedings of the International Conference of the Association of Management and the International Association of Management Conference (2002)
• Author, “Electronic Commerce: Limiting and Growth Factors,” published in the Proceedings of Tehnomus X (Suceava, Romania)
• Author, “Models and Goals of Business Ethics Education,” published in the Journal of Modern Business.
• Author, “A Study of Employer Compliance with the Reasonable Accommodation Provision of Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act and Gender,” published in the Proceedings of the 15th Annual International Conference of Association of Management and the International Association of Management
• Author, “A Personal Management Program for the Management and Control of Stress Experienced as a Result of Downsizing or Career Change,” published in the Proceedings of the 14th Annual International Conference of the Association of Management and the International Association of Management

Honors/Awards:

• Listed in Who’s Who In America (2009-2010)
• Listed in Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers (2004-2005)
• Recipient, “Best Professor of LIU” Award, Brooklyn Campus Student Government Association (2002-2003)
• Recipient, Teaching Award, Brooklyn Campus Student Government (1998-1999)
• Recipient, Certificate of Achievement for online course developed for the National Association of Purchasing Management, American Society of Association Executives (1999)

Professional Affiliations

• Faculty Adviser, Brooklyn Campus Chapter of the Society of Human Resources Management (SHRM)
• Faculty Adviser, Brooklyn Campus Chapter of Sigma Beta Delta, the International Honor Society for Business, Management and Administration
• Member, Society of Human Resources Management
• Member, Institute of Supply Management (ISM)
• Member, National Association of Purchasing Management New York (NAPM-NY)

AMIN ZEWAIL

Chair, Economics Department; Associate Professor of EconomicsB.A., Alexandria University; M.A., Brooklyn College, CUNY; Ph.D., Fordham University

Specialties:

International Trade, Money and Banking, Social and Economic Structure of the Middle East

REBECCA E. DYASI

Associate Professor of Teaching and LearningB.Sc., University of Sierra Leone (West Africa); M.S., Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Specialties:

Science Teacher Training

Publications:

• Author, “Beginning the Journey: Doing Science,” published in the Corlears School Occasional Paper Series (1998)
• Author, “The National Education Goals: The AACTE Member Response,” published by the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (1992)
• Author, articles and/or chapters published in The Constructivist (1993), “Designing Professional Development for Teachers of Science and Mathematics (2003), “Crossing Borders in Literacy and Science Instruction: Perspectives on Theory and Practice” (2004) and “Holding Values” (2005)

WALTER GLICKMAN

Chair, Physics Department; Professor of PhysicsB.S., Alfred University; M.S., Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University

Specialties:

Einstein, Holistic Education, Science Pedagogy

Publications:

• Author, “The Physics of Higher Education,” published in Holistic Education Review

GALE STEVENS HAYNES

Provost, Brooklyn Campus; Professor of Political ScienceB.A., M.S., Brooklyn Campus, Long Island University; J.D., L.L.D., St. John’s University

Specialties:

Campus Diversity, Educational Administration, University Expansion

KATHLEEN KESSON

Chair, Department of Teaching, Learning and Leadership; Professor of Teaching, Learning and LeadershipB.A., Flaming Rainbow University (through Westminster College’s University Without Walls Program) ; M.Ed., Ed.D., Oklahoma State University

Specialties:

Teacher Research and Inquiry, Critical Theory and Critical Pedagogy, Aesthetics in Education, Spirituality in Education, Democracy and Education, Young Adult Literature

Publications:

• Co-author, “(De)liberating curriculum and pedagogy: Exploring the promise and perils of ‘scientifically-based’ approaches”
• Editor, “Defending public schools: Teaching for a democratic society”
• Co-author, “Curriculum wisdom: Educational decisions in democratic societies”
• Co-author, “Understanding democratic curriculum leadership”
• Co-author, “Reconceptualizing professional development for curriculum leadership: Inspired by John Dewey and informed by Alain Badiou,” published in Educational Philosophy and Theory
• Co-author, “Descriptive inquiry: A contemplative approach to classroom-based research,” published in Teachers College Record
• Author, “For the love of frogs: Promoting ecological sensitivity through the arts,” published in Encounter: Education for Meaning and Social Justice
• Author, “Inhuman powers and ‘Terrible Things’: The theory and practice of alienated labor in urban schools,” published in The Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies
• Author, “Different approaches to citizenship education,” published in Social Science Docket
• Author, “Jung’s archetypal psychology and teacher development,” published in Encounter: Education for Meaning and Social Justice
• Author, “Doing good science: On the virtues of simply ‘messing about,’” published in Encounter: Education for Meaning and Social Justice
• Author, “Contemplative spirituality, currere, and social transformation: Finding our ‘way,’” published in Journal of Curriculum Theorizing
• Author, “Thinking against from within: Reconstituting the university as a democratic space,” published in The Vermont Connection
• Co-author, “Integrated curriculum and service learning: Linking school-based knowledge and social action,” published in English Education
• Author, “The foundations of holism: Some philosophical and political dilemmas,” published in Holistic Education Review
• Author, “Eco-logos: Postmodern revelations and the recovery of archaic wisdoms,” published in JCT: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Curriculum Studies
• Author, “The unfinished puzzle: Toward a dynamic holism,” published in Holistic Education Review
• Author, “A neo-humanist model of education,” Holistic Education Review
• Author, “Malefic generosity,” published in The Encyclopedia of Curriculum Studies
• Author, “Human ecology curriculum,” published in The Encyclopedia of Curriculum Studies
• Author, “Teacher as researcher,” published in The Encyclopedia of Curriculum Studies
• Author, “Cultivating democratic character: Reconceptualising “citizenship” for a partnership era,” published in “Alternative Educational Futures: Pedagogies for an Emergent World”
• Author, “Teaching,” published in “Knowledge and Power in the Global Economy: The Effects of School Reform in a Neoliberal/Neoconservative Age”
• Co-author, “Descriptive inquiry as transformative teacher preparation,” published in “Curriculum for a Progressive, Provocative, Poetic, and Public Pedagogy”
• Author, “An inhuman power: Alienated labor in low-performing schools,” published in “Defending Public Schools: Teaching For A Democratic Society”
• Co-author, “Cultivating democratic curriculum judgments: Toward a mature profession,” published in “Defending Public Schools: Teaching For A Democratic Society”
• Co-author, “Democratic education and the creation of the just and loving community,” published in “Creativity And Collaborative Learning: A Practical Guide To Empowering Students And Teachers”
• Co-author, “On the need for a new theory of experience,” published in “Curriculum Visions”
• Author, “Tantra: The quest for the ecstatic mind,” published in “Nurturing Our Wholeness”
• Author, “Contemplative spirituality, currere, and social transformation: Finding our ‘way,’” published in “Educational Yearning: The Journey Of The Spirit And Democratic Education”
• Co-author, “Curriculum work as public intellectual leadership” published in the proceedings of the Curriculum and Pedagogy Conference
• Author, “Investigating spiritual experience: Progressive pedagogy and the nonrational,” published in “Higher Education And Democracy: Experiments In Progressive Pedagogy At Goddard College”
• Author, “Critical theory and holistic education: Carrying on the conversation,” published in “The Renewal Of Meaning In Education”
• Author, “Curriculum theory and pedagogic practice: Troubling the split between idea and lived experience,” published in The Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy
• Author, “The spiritual dimensions of curriculum,” published in Holistic Education Review
• Co-author, “Review: ‘Intellectual advancement through disciplinarity’ by William F. Pinar,” published in Educational Researcher
• Author, “Review: ‘Re-envisioning education and democracy’ by Ruthanne Kurth-Schai and Charles R. Green,” published in Teachers College Record
• Author, “Review: ‘The primal, the modern, and the vital center: A theory of balanced culture in a living place’ by Donald W. Oliver, Julie Canniff and Jouni Korhonen,” published in Encounter: Education for Meaning and Social Justice
• Co-author, “Review: ‘The lure of the transcendent: Collected essays by Dwayne E. Huebner’ edited by Vikki Hillis,” published in Curriculum Inquiry
• Author, “Review: ‘Experience and education’ by John Dewey,” published in Teacher Magazine
• Author, “Review: ‘The universal schoolhouse’ by James Moffett,” published in Holistic Education Review
• Author, “Review: ‘Holistic education: Some Australian explorations’ by David and Helen Dufty,” published in the Australian Journal of Curriculum Inquiry
• Author, “Review of the work of C.A. Bowers,” published in Holistic Education Review
• Author, “Three Poems from San Francisco Series,” published in Downtown Brooklyn

Honors/Awards:

• Elected Member, Professors of Curriculum
• Recipient, Ted Aoki Award, Journal of Curriculum Theorizing
• Holmes Scholar, Oklahoma State University
• Recipient, Robert Glenn Rapp Foundation Distinguished Graduate Fellowship, Oklahoma State University
• Dean J. Andrew Holley Scholarship, Oklahoma State University
• Best Paper Award, Wholistic Education SIG American Education Research Association

Professional Affiliations

• Member, American Association for the Advancement of Curriculum Studies
• Member, International Association for the Advancement of Curriculum Studies
• Member, American Education Research Association
• Member, John Dewey Society
• Member, The Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators
• Member, Editorial Boards of the Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy, Teacher Inquiry and Encounter: Education for Meaning and Social Justice

NANCY LEMBERGER

Associate Professor of Bilingual Education; Bilingual Education CoordinatorB.A., California State College, Sonoma; M.A., California State College, Hayward; M.Ed., Ed.D. Teachers College, Columbia University

Specialties:

Bilingual Education, Teaching English as a Second Language (TESOL), Online Education

Publications:

• Co-author, “Certification and teaching: ‘Closer Look’ at some New York City Bilingual Education and English as a Second Language Teachers,” published in The Journal of Multilingual Research, (2011)
• Author, “Integrating technology into teacher education courses: One educator’s journey from technophobe to techy,” published in the Peer-reviewed Proceedings of the World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare & Higher Education (2007)
• Co-author, “Russian bilingual science learning: Perspectives from secondary students,” published in the International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism (2002)
• Co-author, “Identifying and applying a communicative and constructivist model to transfer knowledge,” published by the International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism (2002)
• Author, “What do the New York State teacher certification exams really measure? Implications for preparing bilingual and English as second language teachers,” published in New York State Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development: Impact on Instructional Improvement (2001)
• Co-author, “Teaching and Learning Science in Two Languages: Perspectives from a Russian Bilingual Secondary Science Teacher and her Students,” published in the New York State Association for Bilingual Education Journal (1998)
• Author, “Review: ‘Latina and Latino voices in literature for children and teenagers,’” published in NABE News (1998)
• Author, “Bilingual Education: Teachers’ Narratives” (1997)
• Author, “Factors affecting language development from the perspectives of four bilingual teachers, published in the Journal of Educational Issues of Language Minority Students (1996) and reprinted in “Teaching English as a Second Language” (1998/1999 and 1999/2000)
• Co-author, “Project Unity: Collaboration among bilingual, general and special education staffs,” published in NABE News (1994)
• Co-author, “Collaborative models for staffs working with LEP students in general and special education programs,” published in The Forum (1994)
• Author, “Title VII Fellows' Open Forum,” published in the Proceedings of the Third National Research Symposium on Limited English Proficient Students’ Issues. (1993)

Professional Affiliations

• Member, American Educational Research Association
• Member, Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education
• Member, California Association for Bilingual Education
• Member, English Language Learner Advocacy Group
• Member, International Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages
• Member, National Association for Bilingual Education
• Member, New York State Association for Bilingual Education
• Member, New York State Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages

XIAO-MING LI

Professor of EnglishM.A., East China Teachers’ University; M.A., Ph.D., University of New Hampshire

Specialties:

Asian and Asian-American Literature, Bilingual Education, Composition Studies, English as a Second Language

Publications:

• Author, “Good Writing in Cross Cultural Context”
• Author, “Mending the Sky and Other Chinese Myths”
• Author, “Writing from the Vantage Point of an Outsider/Insider,” published in “Non-Native Educators in English Language Teaching”

ANDREW LIVANIS

Chair, Human Development and Leadership ; Associate Professor of Human Development and LeadershipB.A., St. John’s University; M.S., St. John’s University; Ph.D., CUNY Graduate Center; Board Certified Behavior Analyst, Doctoral Level (BCBA-D)

Specialties:

Autism, Consultation, Behavior Analysis, Reading Instruction, Social Skills Interventions for Children with Behavioral Issues

Publications:

• Co-author, “Guided Social Stories: Group Treatment of Adolescents with Asperger Disorder in the Schools,” published in “Handbook of Cognitive Behavior Group Therapy with Children and Adolescents”
• Co-author, “The Development of the Adolescent Nervios Scale: Preliminary Findings,” published in Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology
• Co-author, “Using Performance Feedback to Improve Treatment Integrity of Class-wide Behavior Plans: An Investigation of Observer Reactivity,” published in the Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis

Professional Affiliations

• Member, Association for Behavior Analysis (ABA)
• Member, Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapy (ABCT)
• Treasurer, CBT in the Schools, Special Interest Group
• Member and Reviewer, Excelsior: Leadership in Teaching Learning
• Reviewer, Journal of School Psychology
• Member, National Association of School Psychologists
• Member, Steering Committee, National Bilingual Network
• Member, Program Review Committee, National Bilingual Network
• Member, New York State Association for Behavior Analysis (NYSABA)
• Member, New York Association of School Psychologists (NYASP)
• Brooklyn Representative to Executive Committee, NYASP
• Member, Newsletter Editorial Board, NYASP
• General Board Member, NYASP
• Member, Conference 2009 Planning Committee, NYSAP
• President, School Psychology Educators’ Council of New York State (2008–2010)

JOHN M. LONIE

Associate Professor of Social and Administrative SciencesB.S., Arnold & Marie Schwartz College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, Long Island University; M.A., New School for Social Research; Ed.D., Columbia University

Specialties:

Pharmacist/Patient Communication, Psychological and Behavioral Factors in Learning and Pharmacist Education

KLAUDIA M. RIVERA

Professor of Education; Director, I-START Program; Coordinator, TESOL Program & Early Childhood ProgramB.A., Central American University (Nicaragua); M.S., Bank Street College of Education; Ed.D., Teachers College, Columbia University

Specialties:

Participatory and Popular Education and Research, Critical Pedagogy, Language and Literacy, Biliteracy, Language Policy, TESOL, Community-based Education, Family Literacy

Publications:

• Co-editor and author, “Adult biliteracy: Sociocultural and programmatic responses” (2008)
• Author, “Sociocultural perspectives and classroom practice,” published in “Working with English language learners: Perspectives and practice” (2005)
• Co-author, “How threatened is the Spanish of New York Puerto Ricans?” published in “Can threatened languages be saved? Reversing language shift revisited: A 21st century perspective” (2001)
• Author, “Popular research and social transformation: A community-based approach to critical pedagogy,” published in TESOL Quarterly (1999)
• Author, “From developing one’s voice to making oneself heard: Affecting language policy from the bottom up,” published in “Socio- political perspectives on language policy and language planning” (1999)
• Author, “Native language literacy and adult ESL instruction,” published in ERIC Digest (1999)
• Author, “El Barrio Popular Education,” published in “Many families, many literacies: An international declaration of principles” (1997)

Honors/Awards:

• Recipient, The David Newton Award for Teaching Excellence, Long Island University
• Recipient, Literacy Recognition Award. Literacy Assistance Center
• Member, Latina Rights Initiative at the IV United Nations World Conference on Women and the NGO Forum on Women (Beijing, China)
• Research Fellow, National Institute of Education at the Latino Institute

Professional Affiliations

• Member, American Educational Research Association (AERA)
• Member, Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL)
• Member, American Association of Applied Linguistics (AAAL)
• Member, International Reading Association (IRA)
• Member, National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE)
• Member, WE Learn: Women and Literacy

ELIZABETH A. RUDEY

Professor of Art; Art Education CoordinatorB.A., New York University; M.A., M.Ed., Ed.D, Teachers College, Columbia University

Specialties:

Art Education, Ceramics (Sculpture and Functional Pottery), Jewelry

Exhibits:

• Art and Media Arts Faculty Exhibition, The Salena Gallery, Brooklyn Campus
• “Wish You Were Here” and “Generations lll,” AIR Gallery, New York, N.Y.
• “Heel to Toe,” Smithtown Township Arts Council, St. James, N.Y. “50th Anniversary Exhibition of Resident Artists,” The Archie Bray Foundation
• Tile Festival, The Moravian Tile Works, Doylestown, Pa.
• The University Council for Art Education Millenium
• Art Exhibition, The Rosenberg Gallery, New York University
• “Tiles,” a juried exhibition, The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, Pa.
  

Honors/Awards:

• Research on Egyptian jewelry reproductions for the Metropolitian Museum of Art
• Member, College Art Association, National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts, New York State Art Teachers Association, New York City Art Teachers Association, University Council on Art Education

THOMAS J. SCHMITZ

Professor of Physical TherapyB.S., SUNY Buffalo; M.S., Boston University; Ph.D., New York University

Specialties:

Curriculum Planning, Educational Methodology, Management of Neurologic Deficits, Outcome Measures

Publications:

• Co-author, “Physical Rehabilitation Assessment and Treatment”

GLADYS PALMA DE SCHRYNEMAKERS

Associate Provost, Brooklyn CampusB.A., St. John’s University ; M.S., City College, CUNY; P.D., C.W. Post Campus, Long Island University; M.A., Ph.D., Columbia University

Specialties:

Higher Education Assessment, Latinos in Higher Education, Urban Studies, Vampires

Publications:

• Editor, Connections, the faculty development newsletter

ELLEN L. SHORT

Coordinator of Graduate Programs in Counseling; Associate Professor of CounselingB.A., Lawrence University; M.A., Northwestern University; Ph.D., New York University

Specialties:

Group Dynamics Focusing on Race, Ethnicity, Gender, Social Class and Culture

Publications:

Books and Book Chapters:

• Co-author, “Multicultural perspectives of racial and ethnic group differences on intelligence in the United States,” published in “Cambridge Handbook of Intelligence” (2011)
• Co-author, “Racial and Cultural Dynamics in Group and Organizational Life. Crossing Boundaries” (2010)
• Co-author, “Counseling Immigrants and Refugees,” published in “Handbook of Multicultural Counseling” (3rd ed., 2010)
• Author, “Systemic/Organizational/Institutional (SOI) Transference Exercise,” published in “Experiential Activities for Teaching Multicultural Counseling Classes and Infusing Cultural Diversity into Core Classes” (in press)
• Co-author, “Crossing Multiple Boundaries: Reflections on the Belgirate II Experience,” published in “Adaption and Innovation. Theory, Design and Role-Taking in Group Relations Conferences and their Applications, Volume II” (2009)
• Co-author, “Multicultural Issues and the Assessment of Aptitude,” published in “The Handbook of Multicultural Assessment” (3rd ed, 2007)
• Co-author, “Educational Assessment,” published in The Encyclopedia of Education and Human Development (2005)
• Co-author, “Racial-cultural Training for Group Counseling and Psychotherapy,” published in “The Handbook on Racial-Cultural Psychology” (2004)
• Co-author, “Multicultural Issues and the Assessment of Aptitude,” published in “The Handbook of Multicultural Assessment” (2nd ed, 2001)

Articles:

• Co-author, “Two Models of Group Therapy for Women of Color,” submitted to the Journal for Specialists in Group Work (2010)
• Author, “Race, Culture and Containment in the Formal and Informal Systems of Group Relations Conferences,” published in Organizational & Social Dynamics (2007)
• Co-author, “Racial Dialogue Among Women: A Group Relations Theory Analysis,” published in Organizational & Social Dynamics (2007)
• Author, “Two Generations Exploring Entrepreneurship, Added and Alterated Values for Institutions; or, One Generation Exploring Entrepreneurship, Added and Alterated Values for Institutions,” posted on the International Forum for Social Innovation/Forum International de l’Innovation Sociale (IFSI-FIIS) Web site (2006)
• Co-author, “The Facets of Cultural Competence: Searching Outside the Box,” published in The Counseling Psychologist (2001)

Honors/Awards:

• Honorable Mention, American Psychological Association Minority Fellowship (1999)
• Recipient, Monroe Stein Memorial Scholarship (1999)

Professional Affiliations

• Associate, The New York Center of the A.K. Rice Institute for the Study of Groups, Organizations and Social Systems
• Member, The A. K. Rice Institute for the Study of Social Systems

EUGENE SPATZ

Director, Sports Sciences Division; Associate Professor of Sports Sciences; Coordinator, Adapted Physical Education Track; Coordinator, Coaching & Conditioning TrackB.S., University of Michigan; M.S., Brooklyn Campus, Long Island University

Specialties:

Adapted Physical Education

Publications:

• Co-author, “Leisure-time Internet use does not correlate with obesity or physical fitness among African-American adolescent girls,” published in Pediatric Exercise Science

CECELIA TRAUGH

Dean, School of Education; Professor of Teaching and Learning; Director, Center for Urban EducatorsB.A., M.A., University of California at Riverside; Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley

Specialties:

Descriptive Inquiry; Classroom-Based Inquiry

Publications:

• Co-author, “Transforming Problems into Possibilities: Seeing What’s There Rather Than What’s Not,” published in Scholarly Partnerships Edu (2008)
• Co-author, “Descriptive inquiry: A contemplative approach to classroom-based research,” published in Teachers College Record (2006)
• Author, “Trusting the Possibilities: Giving Voice to Vito’s Ideas,” to be published in Teaching & Learning: The Journal of Natural Inquiry and Reflective Practice.
• Co-author, “Transforming one teacher education program through inquiry, difference and field experience,” published in “Portraits of Teacher Preparation: Learning to Teach in a Changing America” (2005)
• Author, “Finding the Color of the Sky: Inquiry in Teacher Preparation,” published in “Defending Public Schools,” (2004)
• Co-author, “Using descriptive inquiry to transform the education of linguistically diverse U.S. teachers and students,” published in “Opportunities and Challenges of (Societal) Bilingualism”
• Author, “Learning How to Talk (and Work) Across Difference,” published in Educators for Urban Minorities (2002)
• Author, “Remarks for the Opening of the Center for Urban Educators, published in Educators for Urban Minorities (2002)
• Author, “Inquiry as a Mode of Renewal: Imagining the Possibilities of Circumstance,” published in CUE Point of View (2002)
• Editor, “Collaborative Conversations for Literacy: Professional Development in a Middle-School Classroom,” published as part of the Institute for Literacy Studies’ Occasional Paper Series (2000)
• Editor, “Keeping the Possibilities Present: A Study of One Child’s Math Thinking by Linda Dolinko,” published as part of the Institute for Literacy Studies’ Occasional Paper Series (2000)
• Editor, “The Power of Mathematics: Stories of Change from Urban Classrooms” (2000)
• Author, “Whole-School Inquiry: Values and Practice,” published in “From Another Angle: Children’s Strengths and School Standards” (1999)
• Author, “The Work of Professional Development in Informal Education Programs,” a report describing the work of the Youth Practitioners Institute, available from the Institute for Literacy Studies (1996)
• Author, “Connecting Standards Back to Their Human Source,” published in the New York City Writing Project Newsletter (1995)
• Author, “Exploring Values and Standards: Implications for Assessment,” published in the National Center for the Restructuring of Education, Schools and Teaching (NCREST) Monograph (1992)
• Author, “Writing Report Cards,” published in Pathways (1991)
• Co-author, “Three Values: The Ways One School Works to Educate the Whole Child,” published in Networking (1991)
• Author, “Creating Knowledge in a School Setting: A Story,” published in the Proceedings of the Progressive Education Conference (1989)
• Author, “Speaking Out: Teachers on Teaching,” published in the North Dakota Study Group Monograph (1986)
• Author, “Computers: A Reflection,” published in “Humanistic Perspectives on Computers in the Schools” (1985)
• Author, “Prairie View High School,” published in “Portraits of High Schools” (1985)
• Author, “Rural High Schools: Heart of Education in North Dakota,” published in the North Dakota Journal of Education (1984)
• Co-author, “A Descriptive Study of Pre-Service Teachers’ Attitudes Toward and Aptitude in Mathematics,” published in the College Student Journal (1981)
• Co-author, “Student Employment: Implications for Teachers and Schools,” published in Teacher Training Perspectives (1980)
• Author, “Secondary Students’ Attitudes Toward and Experience with Evaluating Teachers,” published in The High School Journal (1980)
• Co-author, “Multi-Cultural Education: A Conceptual Approach, published in Educational Leadership (1979)
• Author, “Study/Discussion of the Effect the Emphasis on Inquiry Methodology Has Had on the Attitudes and Teaching Behavior of Junior and Senior High School Social Studies Teachers,” published in The Social Studies (1978)
• Author, “Some Thinking Skills Defined in Historiographical Terms,” published in The Clearing House (1977)
• Author, “The American Parade: The 34th Star, a media review, published in The History Teacher (1977)
• Co-author, “The Confrontation Meeting: A Model for Identifying First Year Junior High School Teachers’ Problems,” published in The Clearing House (1976)
• Author, “The Living Bicentennial Series: ‘The Living Jefferson’ and ‘The Living Documents,’ a media review,” published in The History Teacher (1976)
• Author, “To Lead a Nation and For All the People, a media review,” published in The History Teacher (1975)
• Author, “Evaluating Inquiry Procedures,” published in The Social Studies (1974)

Honors/Awards:

• Breitwieser Award, Scholarship and Service (University of North Dakota)
• Danforth Teaching Fellow

Professional Affiliations

• Member, Board of Trustees, Prospect Center, North Bennington, Vt. (1986-2001)
• President, Board of Trustees (1991-2000)
• Member, North Dakota Study Group on Evaluation (since 1980)
• Member, Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD)
• Member, National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE)

JESSICA TRUBEK

Director of Field Experiences and School RelationsB.A., Barnard College, Columbia University; M.A., Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison

Specialties:

University-School Relations, Supervision of Student Teachers, Teacher Inquiry

Publications:

• Co-author, “Where have all the minority educators gone and when will they ever learn?” published in Educators for Urban Minorities (1999)
• Co-author, “Dialogue: Does a teacher (educational researcher, counselor or other professional)’s race, gender, class, ethnicity and ideology belong in the classroom?” published in Race, Gender and Class: Interdisciplinary Topics in Race, Gender and Class (2003)
• Co-author, “A personal view of family, character and morality,” published in Social Science Docket (2006)
  

SUSAN ZINAR

Chair, Department of Teaching and Learning; Associate Professor of Teaching and LearningB.A., Brandeis University ; M.A.T., Harvard University; Ph.D., Teachers College, Columbia University

Specialties:

Diagnosis and Remediation of Reading Disabilities

Publications:

• Author, “Relative Contributions of Word Identification Skill and Comprehension-monitoring Behavior to Reading Comprehension,” published in Contemporary Educational Psychology
• Author, “Group Supervision and Collaborative Reflection in a Remedial Reading Program,” published in Journal of Reading Education

LANA T. BORNO

Assistant Professor of Pharmacy PracticePharmD., Eshelman School of Pharmacy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Specialties:

Ambulatory Care Pharmacy and Geriatrics

Publications:

• Author, “Relative Contributions of Word Identification Skill and Comprehension-monitoring Behavior to Reading Comprehension,” published in Contemporary Educational Psychology
• Author, “Group Supervision and Collaborative Reflection in a Remedial Reading Program,” published in Journal of Reading Education

DAWN F. KILTS

Dean, School of Nursing; Professor of NursingB.S., Adelphi University; M.A., A.B.D., New York University; Certificate, Molloy College

Specialties:

Academic Nursing Centers, Health Care for the Elderly, the Homeless, Nursing Education, Nursing Shortage and Profession

• Volunteer with the nonprofit Sierra Leone Health Pride, Inc., helped provide health care education and clinical support in western African country
• Adult Nurse Practitioner
  

BEVERLY LYONS

Director, Master of Public Administration Program; Professor of Public Administration ; Director, Advanced Certificate in Gerontology AdministrationB.A., Queens College, CUNY; M.A., New York University; G.E.C., Hunter-Mount Sinai Geriatric Program; Ph.D., Fordham University

Specialties:

Disparities Between Racial/Ethnic Minority and Majority Older Adults, the Use of Alternative and Complementary Medicines Among People of Color, the Impact of Nutrition and Lifestyle throughout the Life Course, Barriers to Advance Health Care Planning Among Older Adults of Color

Publications:

• Author, “Cultural food habits among Caribbean-born immigrants: How do chronic kidney disease clients fare?” published in The Journal of Policy Forum
• Author, “The food habits of Black older adults in New York City: Are these differences between African Americans and Caribbean-born Immigrants,” published in The Journal of Policy Forum
• Author, “5-A-day fruit and vegetable initiative: How do African American elders fare?” published in African American Research Perspectives
• Co-author, “The role of print media in reducing health disparities among minorities,” published in African American Research Perspectives
• Co-author, “Differences between older Black residents of special care units (SCUs) and of traditional units,” published in the Journal of Social Work and Long-Term Care
• Co-author, “The impact of cognitive impairment, functional impairment, and behavior disorders on affective disorder,” published in the Journal of Social Work and Long-Term Care
• Co-author, “Reducing health risks and psychological distress among older black residents of naturally occurring retirement communities,” published in the Journal of Gerontological Social Work
• Author, “Sociocultural differences between American-born and West Indian-born elderly Blacks: A comparative study of health and social service use”
• Co-author, “Cultural differences in health beliefs: Implications for social work practice in health care settings,” published in Social Work in Health Care

Honors/Awards:

• Named a “Rising Teaching Star” by Long Island University Magazine
• Recipient, National Institute on Aging Research Fellowship at the Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan
• Recipient: Pilot Investigator’s Award, Resource Center for Minority Aging (RCMAR), Columbia University Center for the Active Life of Minority Elders (CALME)
• Inductee, Pi Alpha Alpha (honor society)
• Inductee, Phi Upsilon Omicron (honor society)

Professional Affiliations

• Registered Dietitian (R.D.), Commission on Dietetic Registration
• Certified Dietitian/Nutritionist (C.D.N.), New York State Department of Education, Division of Licensing Services
• Licensed Master Social Worker (L.M.S.W.), New York State Department of Education, Division of Licensing Services
• Member, National Association of Social Work (NASW)
• Member, American Dietetic Association (ADA)
• Member, Gerontological Society of America (GSA)
• Member, State Society on Aging of New York (SSA)
• Member, Senior Umbrella Network of Brooklyn (SUN-B)
• Member, American Society of Public Administration (ASPA)
• Member School Representative, National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration (NASPAA)

AMY MA

Clinical Coordinator, Nursing; Assistant Professor of NursingB.S., Eastern University of Chemical Technology (China); M.S., Medical University of South Carolina; D.N.P., Case Western Reserve University

Specialties:

Primary Care, Geriatric Care, Minority Health, Workforce Issues, Health Care for College Students, Nursing Shortage, Immigrant Nurses

Publications:

• Co-author, “Otomycosis: diagnosis and treatment review and update,” published in The American Journal for Nurse Practitioners (2010)
• Co-author, “Demands of Immigration among Chinese Immigrant Nurses,” published in the International Journal of Nursing Practice (2010)
• Co-author, “Should Nursing Students be Required to Participate in Actual Birth During Their Obstetric Clinical Experience?” published in The American Journal of Maternal/Child Nursing (2009)
• Author, “An Unusual Vacation Experience,” published in “Nursing Stories: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Journey” (2009)

• Member, American Association of Nurse Practitioners
• Member, Nurse Practitioner Association of New York State
• President, Brooklyn/Queen’s Chapter of the Nurse Practitioner Association
• Member, Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing

CAROL MAGAI

Dean, Graduate Research; Professor of PsychologyB.A., M.A., Michigan State University; Ph.D., Rutgers University

Specialties:

Health and Motivation in Elder and Diverse Populations, Ethnogerontology, Emotions Research

Publications:

• Co-author, “The Role of Emotions in Social and Personality Development: History, Theory and Research”
• Editor, “Handbook of Emotion, Adult Development and Aging”

JOSEPH D. FILONOWICZ

Professor of PhilosophyB.A., Hope College; M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., Columbia University

Specialties:

Moral Philosophy, Psychology of Ethics

Publications:

• “Fellow-Feeling and the Moral Life” (2008)
• Introduction, “An Inquiry Concerning Virtue, In Two Discourses (1699)” by Anthony Ashley Cooper
• Author, “Ethical Sentimentalism Revisited,” published in History of Philosophy Quarterly
• Author, “Black American Philosophy as American Philosophy: Transcendentalism, Pragmatism, and Black Existentialism,” published in “American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Philosophy and the Black Experience”
  

Honors/Awards:

• Recipient, Newton Award for Excellence in Teaching

ELLIOTT SCHUMAN

Professor of PsychologyB.S., U.S. Naval Academy; M.A., Ph.D., Columbia University

Specialties:

Arbitration, Freud, Mediation, Mental Health and Ethics, Psychotherapy, Schizophrenia

DAVID COHEN

Dean, Richard L. Conolly College of Liberal Arts and Sciences; Professor of BiologyB.S., M.S., Brooklyn Campus, Long Island University; Ph.D., New York University

Specialties:

Biology, Evolution, Plant Morphogenesis

CAROLE GRIFFITHS

Associate Professor of BiologyB.A., Sarah Lawrence College; M.A., City College, CUNY; Ph.D., The Graduate Center, CUNY

Specialties:

Evolution of Birds of Prey

Publications:

• Author, “Whither Taxonomy?” published in “John Bull’s Birds of New York”
• Author, “The correlation of protein structure and evolution of protein-coding genes: Phylogenetic inference using cytochrome oxidase III,” published in “Molecular Biology Evolution”

JOSE G. TELLO

Assistant Professor of Biology B.Sc., Universidad Ricardo Palma (Lima, Peru); M.Sc., University of Missouri-St. Louis; Ph.D., University of Illinois at Chicago

Specialties:

Evolutionary Biology

SAMUEL C. JONES

Associate Professor of Social WorkB.A., SUNY Stony Brook; M.S.W., D.S.W., Hunter College School of Social Work, CUNY

Specialties:

Psycho-Educational Treatment for Families with a Schizophrenic Member, Short-Term Therapy

SUSANNA JONES

Associate Professor of Social Work; Undergraduate Social Work Program CoordinatorB.A., California State University, Northridge; M.S.W., San Jose State University; Ph.D., The Graduate Center, CUNY

Specialties:

Immigration Policy and Practice, Single Motherhood, History of the American Family, Marriage and Family Policy, Feminist Theory

Publications:

• Author, “Working with immigrant clients: Perils and possibilities for social workers,” Families in Society (2012)
• Co-author, articles published in the Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare (2012); Social Work Practice with Latinos: Key Issues and Emerging Themes (2010); Journal of Baccalaureate Social Work (2009); Socialism & Democracy (2008); and Global Networks: A Journal of Transnational Affairs (2008)
• Author, "Exercising agency, Becoming a single mother: Decision making processes of unmarried women," published in Marriage and Family Review (2008)
• Author, “Social Work,” published in International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, 2nd edition (2008)
• Author, “Lucy Stone,” published in the Dictionary of Modern Philosophers, 1860-1960 (2005)
• Author, "Review: 'Before Roe: Abortion Policy in the United States' by Paula Nossiff," published by the Association for Research on Mothering (2004)
• Author, "Review: 'Sing Your Own Song: A Guide for Single Mothers' by Cynthia Orange," published by the Association for Research on Mothering

Professional Affiliations

• Member, National Association of Social Workers, NYC Chapter
• Member, Council on Social Work Education
• Member, Baccalaureate Program Directors
• Member, Phi Alpha Iota Chi Social Work Honor Society

LARRY L. BANKS

Associate Professor of Media ArtsB.A., Rutgers University; M.F.A., C.W. Post Campus, Long Island University

Specialties:

Film, Television and Video Production; Documentaries

Films:

• Director of Photography, feature films including “Juice,” “Strapped,” “Fly by Night” and “Substitute 2”
• Director/Producer/Cinematographer, documentaries including “A Litany for Survival: The Life and Works of Audre Lorde” (1994); “Soul Vietnam/Black Amerasians: Forgotten Casualties of Vietnam” (1995); “John Henrik Clarke: A Great and Mighty Walk” (1996); and “Hands of Light” (2005)
• Director, “Blues Stories” (1997); “Blackbird” (HD feature, 1998); and “Living the Blues” (2005)
• Producer, trailer for the HBO series “Jazzman” (2006)
• Created the look of commercials for brands including Nike, Levi-Strauss and AT&T

Honors/Awards:

• Worked alongside esteemed directors such as Spike Lee, Forest Whitaker and Steve Horn

DENNIS BROE

Graduate Coordinator, M.A. Program; Associate Professor of Media Arts B.A., Indiana University; M.A., Ph.D., New York University

Specialties:

Film and Television History and Theory, Film Noir, Global Cinema, Hollywood 1930-1960

Publications:

• Feature Writer and Researcher, The Village Voice, The Boston Phoenix, Science and Society, Our Town
• Author, “Film Noir: American Workers in Post-War Hollywood”

STUART FISHELSON

Professor of Media ArtsB.A., M.A., Long Island University

Specialties:

Digital Photography, Film Production, Manipulated Polaroid, Video Documentary

Films:

• Video, “Reflections on Einstein”
• Video Documentary, “Povereta Salonika,” about the deportation of the Jews of Salonica and Greece

Honors/Awards:

• Award-winning multi-image presentation, “Visions of Einstein”

CLAIRE GOODMAN

Chair, Media Arts Department; Associate Professor of Media ArtsB.A., Exeter University (U.K.); M.A., Brooklyn Campus, Long Island University

Specialties:

Documentary Film, Media Aesthetics, Screenwriting

Films:

• Associate Producer, “Paris is Burning”

KEVIN LAUTH

Associate Dean, Conolly College; Professor of Media Arts B.A., Lehman College, CUNY; M.S., Brooklyn College, CUNY

Specialties:

Cable Access Television, Video Production

ROSE IANNICELLI

Dean, Student Financial ServicesB.A., M.S., Brooklyn Campus, Long Island University

Specialties:

Financial Aid Funding, Financial Planning for Students

PATRICK HORRIGAN

Associate Professor of EnglishB.A., Catholic University; Ph.D., Columbia University

Specialties:

19th- and 20th-Century American Culture, Creative Nonfiction Writing, Fiction, Lesbian and Gay Literature

Publications:

• Author, “Widescreen Dreams: Growing Up Gay at the Movies,”
• Author, “Messages for Gary,” a one-act play performed at the New York International Fringe Festival

HARRIET MALINOWITZ

Professor of EnglishB.A., Queens College, CUNY; M.F.A., University of Massachusetts at Amherst; M.A., Hunter College, CUNY; Ph.D., New York University

Specialties:

Lesbian and Gay Issues in College Writing, Propaganda, Rhetoric of Zionism and Palestine, Writing Theory and Pedagogy, Women’s Studies

Publications:

• Author, “Textual Orientations: Lesbian and Gay Students and the Making of Discourse Communities”
• Author, articles in College English, the Journal of Advanced Composition Studies and the Modern Language Association’s Feminism and Composition

DONNA S. WANG

Chair, Social Work Department-Brooklyn Campus; Assistant ProfessorB.S. Shippensburg University; M.S.W. Temple University; PhD, Fordham University

Specialties:

Gerontology, social work education, mental health in ethnic minorities, alternative therapies

Publications:

Author,  "The use of self and reflective practice in relational teaching and adult learning: A social work perspective"  In press at Reflective Practice.

Co-Author,  Social workers' attitudes towards working older adults: A review of the literature.  In press at Journal of Social Work Education.

Author,  Interdisciplinary methods of treatment of depression in older adults: A primer for practitioners. In press at Activities, Adaptation and Aging, 35 (4).

Author,  "Managing pain in older adults: The benefits of yoga postures, meditation and mindfulness."  Published in Topics in Geriatric Rehabilitation, 27 (2), 104-109.

Author,  "Feasibility of a yoga intervention for enhancing the mental well-being and physical functioning of older adults living in the community".  Published in Activities, Adaptation and Aging, 34 (2), 85-97.

Author,  The use of yoga for mental and physical health among older adults: a review of the literature. Published in International Journal of Yoga Therapy, 19 (1), 91-96.

Author,  Recruitment and retention of older adults: Lessons shared from conducting an intervention study.  Published in Perspectives on Social Work, 7 (2), 33-37.

Author,  "Service Delivery and Research Considerations for the 85+ Population", Published in Journal of Gerontological Social Work, 43 (1), 5-17.

Professional Affiliations

• Member, AGE-SW
• Member, Council on Social Work Education
• Member, Gerontological Association of America
• Member, International Association of Yoga Therapists
• Member, National Association of Social Workers
• Member, Society for Social Work and Research
• Licensed Social Worker, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
• Licensed Master of Social Work, State of New York
• Registered Yoga Teacher, Yoga Alliance

ERLINDA N. DUBAL

Director, M.S. Executive Program for Nursing & Health Care Management; Assistant Professor of NursingB.S.N., University of Santo Tomas (Philippines); M.B.A., Brooklyn, Campus, Long Island University; M.A., New York University

Specialties:

Health Care Management, Nursing Administration, Health Care Management

Honors/Awards:

• Award of Excellence in Nursing Administration from the Philippine Nurses Association of New York
• Women’s History Month Honoree, designated by East Harlem Department of Community Affairs

BARRY S. ECKERT

Dean, School of Health ProfessionsB.S., M.S., State University of New York at Albany; Ph.D., School of Medicine, University of Miami

Specialties:

Health Professions Education

LINDA JACOBS

Associate Professor of Human Development and LeadershipB.A., Brooklyn College, CUNY; M.A., Ph.D., New York University

Specialties:

Diagnostic Assessment of Children, School Psychology

Publications:

• Author, “Resurrecting the Buried Self: Fairy Tales and the Analytic Encounter.” published in Psychoanalytic Review (2011)
• Author, “Meeting Beyond the Frame: Extraordinary Demands and Analytic Choices,” published in Psychoanalytic Perspectives (2009)
• Author, “Parent-Centered Child Work: A Relational Shift in Child Treatment,” published in Journal of Infant, Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy (2006)
• Co-author, “Parent Focused Child Therapy: Attachment, Identification, and Reflective Functions” (2006)
• Co-author, “Parent Therapy: A Relational Alternative to Working with Children” (2002)
• Author, “AIDS Curriculum for School District 15”
• Author, “Family Origins of Marital Concepts,” published in The CUNY Woman’s Coalition Journal
• Author, “Onset of Parenting and Stressful Events,” published in The Journal of Prevention
• Author, “The Psychology of the Rapist and His Victim,” published in “Rape: The First Sourcebook for Women"

FRAIDY N. MALTZ

Assistant Professor of Pharmacy PracticeB.S., Pharm.D., Arnold & Marie Schwartz College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, Long Island University

Specialties:

Community Pharmacy Practice, Diabetes

Publications:

• Co-author, “New Therapeutic Options for the Management of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus in Adults,” published in the American Journal of Managed Care

DAVID Q. PHAM

Assistant Professor of Pharmacy PracticePharm.D., University of the Pacific

Specialties:

Ambulatory Care, Cardiology, Infectious Disease

Publications:

• Author, “Student Multiethnicity: the Untapped Health Education Resource,” Health Educator

ROOPALI SHARMA

Assistant Professor of Pharmacy PracticeB.Sc., University of Rhode Island ; Pharm.D., St. John’s University

Specialties:

Cardiology, Clinical Pharmacology, Emergency Medicine, HIV/AIDS Pharmacotherapy, Infectious Diseases, Toxicology

Publications:

• Contributing Editor, American Association of Critical-Care Nurses Clinical Issues, Scientific Reviewer, The New York Health-system Pharmacists

VALERIE WALKER

Professor of Community HealthB.S., Hunter College; M.S., M.P.H., Columbia University

Specialties:

Cultural Exchange Programs in Kenya and East Africa, Evaluation of Health Care Centers, Human-Animal Bonding

Publications:

• Co-author, “Pet Facilitated Therapy Potential Benefits,” published in Community Animal Control

HONGJUN YIN

Assistant Professor of Social and Administrative SciencesB.S., M.S., China Pharmaceutical University; Ph.D., University of Illinois at Chicago

Specialties:

Cost Effectiveness and Cost Benefit Analysis, Cost of Illness Analysis, Epidemiology and Health Policy Evaluation

RICHARD MATTHES

Associate Professor of Communication Sciences and DisordersB.A., Rutgers University; M.A., Montclair State College; Ed.D., Columbia University

Specialties:

Management of Hearing Loss, Relationship Between Auditory Processing Ability and Academic Performance

NINOTCHKA DEVORAH BENNAHUM

Associate Professor of Communication Studies, Performance Studies and TheatreB.A., Swarthmore College; M.A., Ph.D., New York University

Specialties:

Dance, Art History, Criticism, Performance Theory, Theatre

Publications:

• Author, “Antonia Merce, La Argentina: Flamenco and the Spanish Avant-Garde”

DENNIS BROE

Graduate Coordinator, M.A. Program; Associate Professor of Media Arts B.A., Indiana University; M.A., Ph.D., New York University

Specialties:

Film and Television History and Theory, Film Noir, Global Cinema, Hollywood 1930-1960

Publications:

• Feature Writer and Researcher, The Village Voice, The Boston Phoenix, Science and Society, Our Town
• Author, “Film Noir: American Workers in Post-War Hollywood”

JOSEPH DORINSON

Professor of HistoryB.A., M.Phil., Columbia University

Specialties:

African-American Sports Heroes, Brooklyn, Humor Studies, Jewish History, Popular Culture, Russian Immigration, Sports History

Publications:

• Author, “Ethnic Humor: Subversion and Survival,” published in “What’s So Funny? Humor in American Culture”
• Author, “Anyone Here A Sailor? Popular Entertainment and the Navy”
• Co-editor, “Jackie Robinson: Race, Sports and the American Dream”
• Author, “Jackie’s a Hero Now — But He Wasn’t Always” and “Paul Robeson, All-American,” published in the New York Daily News
• Co-editor, “Paul Robeson (1898-1976): A Centennial Symposium,” Pennsylvania History
• Author, “The Educational Alliance: An Institutional Study in Americanization and Acculturation,” published in “Immigration and Ethnicity”
• Author, “Brooklyn: The Elusive Image,” published in “Is Anyone Here From Brooklyn?”

STACEY HORSTMANN GATTI

Assistant Professor of HistoryA.B., Hamilton College; M.A., Ph.D., Emory University

Specialties:

History of Feminism, History of Women’s Organizations, United States in the Progressive Era, Women in Politics, Southern History

Publications:

• Author, “Mary McLendon: Mother of Suffrage Work in Georgia”
• Author, “From Thinking Globally to Acting Locally: The Women of the Setauket Library Club (1896-1924),” published in the Long Island Historical Journal
• Co-author, “Feminism,” published in the Encyclopedia of Democracy

RAUL MOLINA-MEJIA

Director, Model UN Program, Political Science Department; Adjunct Professor of HistoryB.A., M.A., San Carlos University, Guatemala

Specialties:

History of World Civilizations, International Studies, Latin American Studies, Human Rights, United Nations

Publications:

• Author, “Bringing justice to Guatemala: the need to confront genocide and other crimes against humanity,” published in “State Violence and Genocide in Latin America: The Cold War Years”
• Guest Co-editor, “Social Justice” (1999)
• Author, “Libertad Académica en el contexto de los eventos políticos en Guatemala,” published in “World University Service, Libertad Académica en América Latina y el Caribe 4: Educación y Derechos Humanos” (1996)
• Author, “Academic Freedom and Political Events in Guatemala,” published in “World University Service, Academic Freedom 4: Education and Human Rights” (1996)
• Author, “Political Economy in Guatemala,” published in “Grida di Pace, Venti di Guerra: Il proceso di pace in Centroamerica” (1990)
• Author, numerous articles published in academic and news media publications

Lectures and Presentations

• Guest speaker, conferences and universities in the U.S., Europe and Latin America
• Participation, documentaries on Guatemala

Honors/Awards:

• Recipient, Guatemalan Order of National Recognition for the Help, Assistance, Care and Protection of Migrants (National Decoration with Medal and Diploma) (2012)
• Member, Board of the National Collegiate Conference Association – National Model United Nations (2011)
• Grand Marshal, Central American Day Parade, Long Island, New York (2009)
• Recipient, Award for Dedication to the Guatemalan Community, City of Houston (2007)
• Recipient, Leadership Award, AGMAUSA (Long Island Area Office of Organization of Guatemalans on Long Island) (2006)
• Recipient, Award for Human Rights Work, Casa Guatemala in Chicago, (1999)
• Recipient, Award, Commission for the Defense of Human Rights in Central America (1997)
• Recipient, Human Rights Award, University of Chicago (1994)

Professional Affiliations

• Member, Latin American Studies Association
• Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Guatemala Peace and Development Network

JORAM WARMUND

Acting Coordinator, Social Science Division; Chair, History Department; Professor of HistoryB.A., Queens College, CUNY; M.A., Columbia University; Ph.D., New York University

Specialties:

German History, Holocaust History, Modern European History

Publications:

• Co-editor, “Jackie Robinson: Race, Sports and the American Dream”

LESTER N. WILSON

Director, United Nations Graduate Certificate Program; Director, Institute for the Study of International Organizations; Professor of HistoryA.B., University of Chicago; B.S., Roosevelt University; ; M.A., Ph.D., University of Illinois

Specialties:

History of 17th-Century France, International Organizations

YAFENG XIA

Associate Professor of HistoryB.A., Nanjing Normal University; M.A., Nanjing Normal University; Ph.D., University of Maryland, College Park

Publications:

• Author, “Negotiating with the Enemy: U.S.-China Talks during the Cold War, 1949-1972” (2006)
• Author, “Jin shinian lai Mei Ying liangguo xueshujie dui lengzhanshi yanjiu shuping” [A Survey Article on the Cold War Studies in the United States and Britain in the Last Ten Years], to be published in Shixue jikan [Collected Papers of History Studies]
• Co-author, “‘Whirlwind’ of China: Zhou Enlai’s Shuttle Diplomacy in 1957 and Its Effect,” to be published in Cold War History
• Co-author, “Vacillating between Revolution and Détente: Mao’s Changing Psyche and Policy toward the U.S., 1969-1976,” published in Diplomatic History (2010)
• Author, “Wang Jiaxiang: New China’s First Ambassador and the CCP’s First Director of International Liaison Department,” published in the American Journal of Chinese Studies (2009)
• Co-author, “Hidden Currents during the Honeymoon --- Mao Zedong, Khrushchev and the 1957 Moscow Conference,” published in the Journal of Cold War Studies (2009)
• Author, “New Evidence for China’s Role in the Hungarian Crisis of October 1956: A Note,” published in The International History Review (2009)
• Author, “Shilun Nikesong zhengfu duiwai zhengce juece de jizhi, guocheng yu zhuyao renyuan” (On the Structures, Processes and Personalities in the Nixon Administration’s Foreign Policy Decision-making),” published in Shixue jikan [Collected Papers of History Studies] (2009)
• Author, “‘Nikesong zhuyi’ yu Meiguo duiwai zhengce de tiaozheng” (The Nixon Doctrine and U.S. Foreign Policy Change), published in Zhonggong dangshi yanjiu [CCP History Studies] (2009)
• Author, “Myth or Reality: Factional Politics, U.S.-China Relations, and Mao Zedong’s Psychology in His Sunset Years, 1972-1976,” published in The Journal of American-East Asian Relations (2008)
• Guest Editor, The Journal of American-East Asian Relations (2008)
• Co-author, “Competing for Leadership: Split or Détente in the Sino-Soviet Bloc,” published in The International History Review (2008)
• Author, “The Study of Cold War International History in China—A Review of the Last Twenty Years,” published in the Journal of Cold War Studies (2008) and translated into Chinese and published in Lengzhan Guojishi Yanjiu [Cold War International History Studies] (2008)
• Author, “Chongping liushi niandai Zhong Mei dashiji huitan” (A Reappraisal of Sino-American Ambassadorial Talks in the 1960s), published in Lengzhan Guojishi Yanjiu [Cold War International History Studies] (2007)
• Author, “New Scholarship and Directions in the Study of the Diplomatic History of the People’s Republic of China,” published in The Chinese Historical Review (2007)
• Author, “China’s Elite Politics and Sino-American Rapprochement, January 1969-February 1972,” published in the Journal of Cold War Studies (2006)
• Author, “Negotiating at Cross-Purposes: Sino-American Ambassadorial Talks, 1961-1968,” published in Diplomacy and Statecraft (2005)
• Author, “Vietnam for Taiwan? – A Reappraisal of Nixon-Zhou Enlai Negotiation on Shanghai Communiqué,” the American Review of China Studies (2002)
• Author, “Mao’s Mental Map and World View during the Cold War,” published in “Mental Maps in the Cold War Era” (2010)
• Author:,“The Taiwan Issue in Sino-American Rapprochement Negotiations,” published in “Taiwan in the 21st Century” (2003)

Honors/Awards:

• Public Policy Scholar, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (June-August, 2010)
• Recipient, Faculty Research Grant, Long Island University (2006)
• Recipient, Lee Hysan Visiting Scholar Grant (2006)
• Recipient, IGCA Best Dissertation Award, Institute for Global Chinese Affairs, University of Maryland (2004)
• Recipient, Richard Farrell Prize for Best Dissertation in the History Department, University of Maryland (2003/2004)

Affiliations

• Member, American Historical Association (2000-present)
• Member, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (2001-present)
• Member, Phi Alpha Theta (2002-present)
• Member and Board of Directors, Chinese Historians in the United States (2001-present)

LINDA JACOBS

Associate Professor of Human Development and LeadershipB.A., Brooklyn College, CUNY; M.A., Ph.D., New York University

Specialties:

Diagnostic Assessment of Children, School Psychology

Publications:

• Author, “Resurrecting the Buried Self: Fairy Tales and the Analytic Encounter.” published in Psychoanalytic Review (2011)
• Author, “Meeting Beyond the Frame: Extraordinary Demands and Analytic Choices,” published in Psychoanalytic Perspectives (2009)
• Author, “Parent-Centered Child Work: A Relational Shift in Child Treatment,” published in Journal of Infant, Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy (2006)
• Co-author, “Parent Focused Child Therapy: Attachment, Identification, and Reflective Functions” (2006)
• Co-author, “Parent Therapy: A Relational Alternative to Working with Children” (2002)
• Author, “AIDS Curriculum for School District 15”
• Author, “Family Origins of Marital Concepts,” published in The CUNY Woman’s Coalition Journal
• Author, “Onset of Parenting and Stressful Events,” published in The Journal of Prevention
• Author, “The Psychology of the Rapist and His Victim,” published in “Rape: The First Sourcebook for Women"

VALERIE MICHELSEN

Professor Emerita of NursingA.A.S., SUNY Farmingdale; B.S., Long Island University; M.S., Adelphi University

Specialties:

Effects of Protease Inhibitor Therapy on Clients with HIV/AIDS; Medical-Surgical Adult Nursing

ROOPALI SHARMA

Assistant Professor of Pharmacy PracticeB.Sc., University of Rhode Island ; Pharm.D., St. John’s University

Specialties:

Cardiology, Clinical Pharmacology, Emergency Medicine, HIV/AIDS Pharmacotherapy, Infectious Diseases, Toxicology

Publications:

• Contributing Editor, American Association of Critical-Care Nurses Clinical Issues, Scientific Reviewer, The New York Health-system Pharmacists

WALTER GLICKMAN

Chair, Physics Department; Professor of PhysicsB.S., Alfred University; M.S., Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University

Specialties:

Einstein, Holistic Education, Science Pedagogy

Publications:

• Author, “The Physics of Higher Education,” published in Holistic Education Review

STEPHEN M. GROSS

Senior Adviser to the President for Pharmacy; Dean Emeritus, Arnold & Marie Schwartz College of Pharmacy and Health SciencesB.S., M.A., Ed.D., Columbia University

Specialties:

Alternative Medicine Therapies; Managed Care; Pharmacy Administration; Pharmacy Education, Pharmacy Practice and the Law

KATHLEEN KESSON

Chair, Department of Teaching, Learning and Leadership; Professor of Teaching, Learning and LeadershipB.A., Flaming Rainbow University (through Westminster College’s University Without Walls Program) ; M.Ed., Ed.D., Oklahoma State University

Specialties:

Teacher Research and Inquiry, Critical Theory and Critical Pedagogy, Aesthetics in Education, Spirituality in Education, Democracy and Education, Young Adult Literature

Publications:

• Co-author, “(De)liberating curriculum and pedagogy: Exploring the promise and perils of ‘scientifically-based’ approaches”
• Editor, “Defending public schools: Teaching for a democratic society”
• Co-author, “Curriculum wisdom: Educational decisions in democratic societies”
• Co-author, “Understanding democratic curriculum leadership”
• Co-author, “Reconceptualizing professional development for curriculum leadership: Inspired by John Dewey and informed by Alain Badiou,” published in Educational Philosophy and Theory
• Co-author, “Descriptive inquiry: A contemplative approach to classroom-based research,” published in Teachers College Record
• Author, “For the love of frogs: Promoting ecological sensitivity through the arts,” published in Encounter: Education for Meaning and Social Justice
• Author, “Inhuman powers and ‘Terrible Things’: The theory and practice of alienated labor in urban schools,” published in The Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies
• Author, “Different approaches to citizenship education,” published in Social Science Docket
• Author, “Jung’s archetypal psychology and teacher development,” published in Encounter: Education for Meaning and Social Justice
• Author, “Doing good science: On the virtues of simply ‘messing about,’” published in Encounter: Education for Meaning and Social Justice
• Author, “Contemplative spirituality, currere, and social transformation: Finding our ‘way,’” published in Journal of Curriculum Theorizing
• Author, “Thinking against from within: Reconstituting the university as a democratic space,” published in The Vermont Connection
• Co-author, “Integrated curriculum and service learning: Linking school-based knowledge and social action,” published in English Education
• Author, “The foundations of holism: Some philosophical and political dilemmas,” published in Holistic Education Review
• Author, “Eco-logos: Postmodern revelations and the recovery of archaic wisdoms,” published in JCT: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Curriculum Studies
• Author, “The unfinished puzzle: Toward a dynamic holism,” published in Holistic Education Review
• Author, “A neo-humanist model of education,” Holistic Education Review
• Author, “Malefic generosity,” published in The Encyclopedia of Curriculum Studies
• Author, “Human ecology curriculum,” published in The Encyclopedia of Curriculum Studies
• Author, “Teacher as researcher,” published in The Encyclopedia of Curriculum Studies
• Author, “Cultivating democratic character: Reconceptualising “citizenship” for a partnership era,” published in “Alternative Educational Futures: Pedagogies for an Emergent World”
• Author, “Teaching,” published in “Knowledge and Power in the Global Economy: The Effects of School Reform in a Neoliberal/Neoconservative Age”
• Co-author, “Descriptive inquiry as transformative teacher preparation,” published in “Curriculum for a Progressive, Provocative, Poetic, and Public Pedagogy”
• Author, “An inhuman power: Alienated labor in low-performing schools,” published in “Defending Public Schools: Teaching For A Democratic Society”
• Co-author, “Cultivating democratic curriculum judgments: Toward a mature profession,” published in “Defending Public Schools: Teaching For A Democratic Society”
• Co-author, “Democratic education and the creation of the just and loving community,” published in “Creativity And Collaborative Learning: A Practical Guide To Empowering Students And Teachers”
• Co-author, “On the need for a new theory of experience,” published in “Curriculum Visions”
• Author, “Tantra: The quest for the ecstatic mind,” published in “Nurturing Our Wholeness”
• Author, “Contemplative spirituality, currere, and social transformation: Finding our ‘way,’” published in “Educational Yearning: The Journey Of The Spirit And Democratic Education”
• Co-author, “Curriculum work as public intellectual leadership” published in the proceedings of the Curriculum and Pedagogy Conference
• Author, “Investigating spiritual experience: Progressive pedagogy and the nonrational,” published in “Higher Education And Democracy: Experiments In Progressive Pedagogy At Goddard College”
• Author, “Critical theory and holistic education: Carrying on the conversation,” published in “The Renewal Of Meaning In Education”
• Author, “Curriculum theory and pedagogic practice: Troubling the split between idea and lived experience,” published in The Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy
• Author, “The spiritual dimensions of curriculum,” published in Holistic Education Review
• Co-author, “Review: ‘Intellectual advancement through disciplinarity’ by William F. Pinar,” published in Educational Researcher
• Author, “Review: ‘Re-envisioning education and democracy’ by Ruthanne Kurth-Schai and Charles R. Green,” published in Teachers College Record
• Author, “Review: ‘The primal, the modern, and the vital center: A theory of balanced culture in a living place’ by Donald W. Oliver, Julie Canniff and Jouni Korhonen,” published in Encounter: Education for Meaning and Social Justice
• Co-author, “Review: ‘The lure of the transcendent: Collected essays by Dwayne E. Huebner’ edited by Vikki Hillis,” published in Curriculum Inquiry
• Author, “Review: ‘Experience and education’ by John Dewey,” published in Teacher Magazine
• Author, “Review: ‘The universal schoolhouse’ by James Moffett,” published in Holistic Education Review
• Author, “Review: ‘Holistic education: Some Australian explorations’ by David and Helen Dufty,” published in the Australian Journal of Curriculum Inquiry
• Author, “Review of the work of C.A. Bowers,” published in Holistic Education Review
• Author, “Three Poems from San Francisco Series,” published in Downtown Brooklyn

Honors/Awards:

• Elected Member, Professors of Curriculum
• Recipient, Ted Aoki Award, Journal of Curriculum Theorizing
• Holmes Scholar, Oklahoma State University
• Recipient, Robert Glenn Rapp Foundation Distinguished Graduate Fellowship, Oklahoma State University
• Dean J. Andrew Holley Scholarship, Oklahoma State University
• Best Paper Award, Wholistic Education SIG American Education Research Association

Professional Affiliations

• Member, American Association for the Advancement of Curriculum Studies
• Member, International Association for the Advancement of Curriculum Studies
• Member, American Education Research Association
• Member, John Dewey Society
• Member, The Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators
• Member, Editorial Boards of the Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy, Teacher Inquiry and Encounter: Education for Meaning and Social Justice

JOSEPH P. NATHAN

Director, International Drug Information Center and the Pharmacy Student Computer Laboratory; Associate Professor of Pharmacy PracticeB.S., Pharm.D., Arnold & Marie Schwartz College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, Long Island University; M.S., Arnold & Marie Schwartz College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, Long Island University; Pharm.D., University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences

Specialties:

Drug Information Services, Drug Information Literacy

Publications:

• Co-author, articles in the American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy (AJHP), the Journal of the American Pharmacists Association (JAPhA), the Annals of Pharmacotherapy, and Hospital Pharmacy

ELLIOTT SCHUMAN

Professor of PsychologyB.S., U.S. Naval Academy; M.A., Ph.D., Columbia University

Specialties:

Arbitration, Freud, Mediation, Mental Health and Ethics, Psychotherapy, Schizophrenia

JOSEPH DORINSON

Professor of HistoryB.A., M.Phil., Columbia University

Specialties:

African-American Sports Heroes, Brooklyn, Humor Studies, Jewish History, Popular Culture, Russian Immigration, Sports History

Publications:

• Author, “Ethnic Humor: Subversion and Survival,” published in “What’s So Funny? Humor in American Culture”
• Author, “Anyone Here A Sailor? Popular Entertainment and the Navy”
• Co-editor, “Jackie Robinson: Race, Sports and the American Dream”
• Author, “Jackie’s a Hero Now — But He Wasn’t Always” and “Paul Robeson, All-American,” published in the New York Daily News
• Co-editor, “Paul Robeson (1898-1976): A Centennial Symposium,” Pennsylvania History
• Author, “The Educational Alliance: An Institutional Study in Americanization and Acculturation,” published in “Immigration and Ethnicity”
• Author, “Brooklyn: The Elusive Image,” published in “Is Anyone Here From Brooklyn?”

JORAM WARMUND

Acting Coordinator, Social Science Division; Chair, History Department; Professor of HistoryB.A., Queens College, CUNY; M.A., Columbia University; Ph.D., New York University

Specialties:

German History, Holocaust History, Modern European History

Publications:

• Co-editor, “Jackie Robinson: Race, Sports and the American Dream”

DAWN F. KILTS

Dean, School of Nursing; Professor of NursingB.S., Adelphi University; M.A., A.B.D., New York University; Certificate, Molloy College

Specialties:

Academic Nursing Centers, Health Care for the Elderly, the Homeless, Nursing Education, Nursing Shortage and Profession

• Volunteer with the nonprofit Sierra Leone Health Pride, Inc., helped provide health care education and clinical support in western African country
• Adult Nurse Practitioner
  

KIMBERLY F. JONES-DE OLIVEIRA

Associate Professor of HistoryB.A., Trinity College; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles

Specialties:

African Presence in Latin America, Race Relations in Brazil

KATHLEEN MODROWSKI

Director, Global Studies, Global CollegeB.A., University of Toledo; ; M.A., École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales; A.B.D., Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales

Specialties:

French, Human Rights, International Non-Governmental Program Planning and Assessment

RAUL MOLINA-MEJIA

Director, Model UN Program, Political Science Department; Adjunct Professor of HistoryB.A., M.A., San Carlos University, Guatemala

Specialties:

History of World Civilizations, International Studies, Latin American Studies, Human Rights, United Nations

Publications:

• Author, “Bringing justice to Guatemala: the need to confront genocide and other crimes against humanity,” published in “State Violence and Genocide in Latin America: The Cold War Years”
• Guest Co-editor, “Social Justice” (1999)
• Author, “Libertad Académica en el contexto de los eventos políticos en Guatemala,” published in “World University Service, Libertad Académica en América Latina y el Caribe 4: Educación y Derechos Humanos” (1996)
• Author, “Academic Freedom and Political Events in Guatemala,” published in “World University Service, Academic Freedom 4: Education and Human Rights” (1996)
• Author, “Political Economy in Guatemala,” published in “Grida di Pace, Venti di Guerra: Il proceso di pace in Centroamerica” (1990)
• Author, numerous articles published in academic and news media publications

Lectures and Presentations

• Guest speaker, conferences and universities in the U.S., Europe and Latin America
• Participation, documentaries on Guatemala

Honors/Awards:

• Recipient, Guatemalan Order of National Recognition for the Help, Assistance, Care and Protection of Migrants (National Decoration with Medal and Diploma) (2012)
• Member, Board of the National Collegiate Conference Association – National Model United Nations (2011)
• Grand Marshal, Central American Day Parade, Long Island, New York (2009)
• Recipient, Award for Dedication to the Guatemalan Community, City of Houston (2007)
• Recipient, Leadership Award, AGMAUSA (Long Island Area Office of Organization of Guatemalans on Long Island) (2006)
• Recipient, Award for Human Rights Work, Casa Guatemala in Chicago, (1999)
• Recipient, Award, Commission for the Defense of Human Rights in Central America (1997)
• Recipient, Human Rights Award, University of Chicago (1994)

Professional Affiliations

• Member, Latin American Studies Association
• Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Guatemala Peace and Development Network

JOSEPH DORINSON

Professor of HistoryB.A., M.Phil., Columbia University

Specialties:

African-American Sports Heroes, Brooklyn, Humor Studies, Jewish History, Popular Culture, Russian Immigration, Sports History

Publications:

• Author, “Ethnic Humor: Subversion and Survival,” published in “What’s So Funny? Humor in American Culture”
• Author, “Anyone Here A Sailor? Popular Entertainment and the Navy”
• Co-editor, “Jackie Robinson: Race, Sports and the American Dream”
• Author, “Jackie’s a Hero Now — But He Wasn’t Always” and “Paul Robeson, All-American,” published in the New York Daily News
• Co-editor, “Paul Robeson (1898-1976): A Centennial Symposium,” Pennsylvania History
• Author, “The Educational Alliance: An Institutional Study in Americanization and Acculturation,” published in “Immigration and Ethnicity”
• Author, “Brooklyn: The Elusive Image,” published in “Is Anyone Here From Brooklyn?”

KLAUDIA M. RIVERA

Professor of Education; Director, I-START Program; Coordinator, TESOL Program & Early Childhood ProgramB.A., Central American University (Nicaragua); M.S., Bank Street College of Education; Ed.D., Teachers College, Columbia University

Specialties:

Participatory and Popular Education and Research, Critical Pedagogy, Language and Literacy, Biliteracy, Language Policy, TESOL, Community-based Education, Family Literacy

Publications:

• Co-editor and author, “Adult biliteracy: Sociocultural and programmatic responses” (2008)
• Author, “Sociocultural perspectives and classroom practice,” published in “Working with English language learners: Perspectives and practice” (2005)
• Co-author, “How threatened is the Spanish of New York Puerto Ricans?” published in “Can threatened languages be saved? Reversing language shift revisited: A 21st century perspective” (2001)
• Author, “Popular research and social transformation: A community-based approach to critical pedagogy,” published in TESOL Quarterly (1999)
• Author, “From developing one’s voice to making oneself heard: Affecting language policy from the bottom up,” published in “Socio- political perspectives on language policy and language planning” (1999)
• Author, “Native language literacy and adult ESL instruction,” published in ERIC Digest (1999)
• Author, “El Barrio Popular Education,” published in “Many families, many literacies: An international declaration of principles” (1997)

Honors/Awards:

• Recipient, The David Newton Award for Teaching Excellence, Long Island University
• Recipient, Literacy Recognition Award. Literacy Assistance Center
• Member, Latina Rights Initiative at the IV United Nations World Conference on Women and the NGO Forum on Women (Beijing, China)
• Research Fellow, National Institute of Education at the Latino Institute

Professional Affiliations

• Member, American Educational Research Association (AERA)
• Member, Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL)
• Member, American Association of Applied Linguistics (AAAL)
• Member, International Reading Association (IRA)
• Member, National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE)
• Member, WE Learn: Women and Literacy

NINO MARZELLA

Associate Professor of Pharmacy PracticeB.S., Pharm.D., Arnold & Marie Schwartz College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, Long Island University

Specialties:

Infectious Disease, Internal Medicine

Publications:

• Author, “Statins and the Cytochrome P-450 system,” published in the New York Harbor Clinical Pharmacy Newsletter

JOANN HALPERN

Director of Academic Affairs and Senior Studies, Global College; Assistant Professor of International EducationB.A., Dartmouth College; M.A., Harvard University; Ph.D., New York University

Specialties:

Cross-Cultural Training, Expatriate Management, German Culture, International Education, Internationalization of Universities

Publications:

• Author, “Coming Home: The Dilemma of Repatriation,” published in “CDSsence”
• Author, “The Dilemma of Repatriation: Managing Expatriate Expectations” (doctoral dissertation)

KIMBERLY F. JONES-DE OLIVEIRA

Associate Professor of HistoryB.A., Trinity College; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles

Specialties:

African Presence in Latin America, Race Relations in Brazil

RAUL MOLINA-MEJIA

Director, Model UN Program, Political Science Department; Adjunct Professor of HistoryB.A., M.A., San Carlos University, Guatemala

Specialties:

History of World Civilizations, International Studies, Latin American Studies, Human Rights, United Nations

Publications:

• Author, “Bringing justice to Guatemala: the need to confront genocide and other crimes against humanity,” published in “State Violence and Genocide in Latin America: The Cold War Years”
• Guest Co-editor, “Social Justice” (1999)
• Author, “Libertad Académica en el contexto de los eventos políticos en Guatemala,” published in “World University Service, Libertad Académica en América Latina y el Caribe 4: Educación y Derechos Humanos” (1996)
• Author, “Academic Freedom and Political Events in Guatemala,” published in “World University Service, Academic Freedom 4: Education and Human Rights” (1996)
• Author, “Political Economy in Guatemala,” published in “Grida di Pace, Venti di Guerra: Il proceso di pace in Centroamerica” (1990)
• Author, numerous articles published in academic and news media publications

Lectures and Presentations

• Guest speaker, conferences and universities in the U.S., Europe and Latin America
• Participation, documentaries on Guatemala

Honors/Awards:

• Recipient, Guatemalan Order of National Recognition for the Help, Assistance, Care and Protection of Migrants (National Decoration with Medal and Diploma) (2012)
• Member, Board of the National Collegiate Conference Association – National Model United Nations (2011)
• Grand Marshal, Central American Day Parade, Long Island, New York (2009)
• Recipient, Award for Dedication to the Guatemalan Community, City of Houston (2007)
• Recipient, Leadership Award, AGMAUSA (Long Island Area Office of Organization of Guatemalans on Long Island) (2006)
• Recipient, Award for Human Rights Work, Casa Guatemala in Chicago, (1999)
• Recipient, Award, Commission for the Defense of Human Rights in Central America (1997)
• Recipient, Human Rights Award, University of Chicago (1994)

Professional Affiliations

• Member, Latin American Studies Association
• Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Guatemala Peace and Development Network

JAMES S. SUTTERLIN

Research Director, Institute for the Study of International Organizations, United Nations Graduate Certificate Program; Adjunct Professor of United Nations Studies

Specialties:

International Conflict Resolution, Iraq and International Politics, Multilateral Governance, U.S. Foreign Service

Publications:

• Co-author, “The United Nations and Iraq: Defanging the Viper”
• Co-author, “Pilgrimage for Peace,” memoirs of former Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar
• Author, “The Maintenance of International Security”

LESTER N. WILSON

Director, United Nations Graduate Certificate Program; Director, Institute for the Study of International Organizations; Professor of HistoryA.B., University of Chicago; B.S., Roosevelt University; ; M.A., Ph.D., University of Illinois

Specialties:

History of 17th-Century France, International Organizations

LOUIS J. PARASCANDOLA

Professor of EnglishB.A., Brooklyn College; M.A., Brooklyn Campus, Long Island University; M.L.S., Pratt Institute; Ph.D., The Graduate Center, CUNY

Specialties:

19th-Century English Literature; Italian-American Culture; Literature of the African Diaspora, including Anglophone Caribbean Literature

GLORIA A. COOPER

Associate Professor of MusicB.S., M.M.Ed., University of Missouri, Columbia; Ed.D, Columbia University

Specialties:

Jazz Piano, Jazz Singing

Performances:

• Pianist and Singer, the Jazz Workshop and the Pier 47 Jazz Club, San Francisco, Calif.
• Accompanist for Gloria Lynne, Chicago Jazz Festival
• Pianist and Singer, The Blue Note, Birdland, Maxims and Rainbow and Stars in New York City 
• Taught workshops in the U.S., Japan, Europe and Africa
  

SAM NEWSOME

Associate Professor of MusicB.A., Berklee College of Music; M.M., Purchase College, SUNY

Specialties:

Saxophone (Jazz)

Recordings:

• “The Roumanian-American Jazz Suite,” Jazzaway Records (2008)
• “Monk Abstractions,” Some New Music (2007)
  

DONALD ALLPORT BIRD

Professor of JournalismA.B., Rutgers University; M.A., Ph.D., Indiana University

Specialties:

American Folklore, Assassination and Mass Media, Metropolitan Daily Tabloid Journalism, Popular Culture, Rumor and Gossip

RALPH ENGELMAN

Chair, Journalism Department; Professor of JournalismB.A., Earlham College; M.A., Ph.D., Washington University (St. Louis)

Specialties:

Communications Law, Electronic Media and Privacy, History of the Press, Public Broadcasting

Publications:

• Author, “Public Radio and Television in America: A Political History”
• Author, “Friendlyvision: Fred Friendly and the Rise and Fall of Television Journalism”

Professional Affiliations

• Former Board Member, WBAI

ERROL LOUIS

Adjunct Associate Professor of JournalismB.A., Harvard University; M.A., Yale University; J.D., Brooklyn Law School

Specialties:

Social Policy, Urban Politics

MILORAD V. STRICEVIC

Professor of Sports SciencesM.S., M.D., Belgrade University Medical School (Yugoslavia)

Specialties:

Karate, Sports Medicine

Publications:

• Author, “Karate: Martial Art and Sport”

HALBERT BARTON

Associate Professor of AnthropologyB.A., University of California-Santa Cruz; M.A., Ph.D., Cornell University

Specialties:

Afro-Caribbean Drum-Dancing (particularly the Puerto Rican Bomba), Latin American Studies

Publications:

• Author, “El espacio social como tambor: Bomba en la época post-patriarchal” published in “A Gathering of Poets and Players: Voice and Performance in Caribbean Culture(s)”

GAIL-ANN G. GREAVES-VENZEN

Chair, Communication Studies, Performance Studies and Theatre; Associate Professor of Communication Studies, Performance Studies and TheatreB.A., M.A., Brooklyn College, CUNY; Ph.D., Howard University

Specialties:

Calypso; Cultures of the Caribbean, the United States and Africa; Intercultural Communication; Rhetoric

CELIA S. LICHTMAN

Chair, Foreign Language and Literature Department; Professor of Foreign Languages and LiteratureB.A., Brooklyn College, CUNY; M.A., Ph.D., New York University

Specialties:

Latin American Novels and Short Stories, Literature of Revolution; Women Writers of Latin America

MARIA MCGARRITY

Associate Professor of EnglishB.A., Rutgers University ; M.A., University of New Orleans; Ph.D., University of Miami

Specialties:

Irish, Caribbean, Modern British, and Postcolonial Literatures and Theory; Twentieth-Century and Transatlantic Studies.

Publications:

Book

• Washed by the Gulf Stream: the Historic and Geographic Relation of Irish and Caribbean Literature. Newark, DE: University of Delaware Press, 2008.

Edited Volume

• Irish Modernism and the Global Primitive, co-edited collection with Claire Culleton. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.

Articles

• “Hell’s Kitchen as Contact Zone: The African in Jim Sheridan’s In America,” College Language Association Journal. 51 (2008): 304-323.
• “‘I’m a Naughty Girl’: Prostitution and Outsider Women in James Joyce’s ‘The Boarding House’ and Eric Walrond’s ‘The Palm Porch,’” with co-author, Louis J. Parascandola, College Language Association Journal. 50 (2006): 141-161.
• “Mary Seacole’s Wonderful Adventures: an Eastward Economy of Disease,” Victorians Institute Journal. 34 (2006):127-144.
• “The Gulf Stream and the Epic Drives of Joyce and Walcott.” Ariel: a Review of International English Literature. 34 (2003): 1-22.
• “The ‘Houses of decay’ and Shakespeare’s ‘Sonnet XIII:’ Another Nexus in ‘Proteus.’” James Joyce Quarterly. 35 (1997): 153-155.

Honors/Awards:

• Long Island University, Office of Sponsored Research, Intramural Research Grant, 2010
  -research at the British Library examining the Harriet Shaw Weaver and Roger Casement papers to examine conceptions of Primitivism in Irish Modernism
• Columbia University, University Seminars, Leonard Hastings Schoff Grant, 2008
  - subvention to support the publication of Washed by the Gulf Stream: the Historic and Geographic Relation of Irish and Caribbean Literature.
• National Endowment for the Humanities Grant, Summer Seminar, 2007, Trinity College Dublin, “James Joyce’s Ulysses: Texts and Contexts”
  -research at the Library of Trinity College Dublin and the National Library of Ireland exploring Irish Primitivism through James Joyce, Roger Casement, and the Congo.
• University of Miami, Center for Latin American Studies, Doctoral Research Grant, 2000-2001
  -research at the National Library at the Institute of Jamaica, Kingston, examining the papers of Peter Browne Howe, Marquess of Sligo, last Governor of Jamaica under slavery.
• University of Miami, Department of English, Doctoral Research Grant, 2001
  -research at the National Library of Ireland and Library of Trinity College Dublin using the NLI’s Index of the Irish Abroad, West Indies

J. PATRICE MCSHERRY

Professor of Political Science; Director of Latin American and Caribbean Studies ProgramB.A., University of California, Berkeley; M.A., Ph.D., The Graduate Center, City University of New York (CUNY)

Specialties:

Comparative Politics, Human Rights, International Relations, Latin American Politics, Role of the Military in Latin America, Operation Condor (Cold War Military Intelligence Network in Latin America), Music and Social-Political Movements in Chile

Publications:

• Co-editor, “The Iraq Papers” (2010)
• Author, “Los Estados Depredadores: Operación Cóndor y la Guerra Encubierta en América Latina” (revised and translated, 2009)
• Author, “Predatory States: Operation Condor and Covert War in Latin America” (2005)
• Author, “Incomplete Transition: Military Power and Democracy in Argentina” (1997)
• Guest co-editor, special edition of Social Justice (1999)
• Author, some five dozen articles published in professional journals, other print media and book chapters

Lectures and Presentations
Invited guest speaker at some 25 campuses in the U.S., Europe and Latin America.

Broadcasts
Featured analyst in five documentaries, several radio and television programs.

Honors/Awards:

• Research on Operation Condor used as resource in five Latin American human rights trials
• Recipient, Fulbright Senior Scholar Award (Chile 2011, Uruguay 2005)
• Recipient, Distinguished Alumni Award, The Graduate Center, CUNY (2009)
• Recipient, Certificate for Outstanding Teaching in Political Science, American Political Science Association and Pi Sigma Alpha (2008)
• Recipient, David Newton Award for Excellence in Teaching, LIU (2008)
• Recipient, Choice Award for Outstanding Academic Title (2006)
• Recipient, research/writing grant, World Council of Churches, International Programme (2001)
• Recipient, travel grant, São Paulo Research Foundation to teach mini-course (2001)
• Recipient, research and creative projects grant, SUNY New Paltz (1996)
• Recipient, New York State/United University Professions Award (1995)
• Recipient, Fellowship, Institute for the Study of World Politics (1992-1993)
• Recipient, Dissertation Year Fellowship, The Graduate Center, CUNY (1992-1993)
• Recipient, Fulbright Dissertation Research Award (Argentina 1992)

Professional Affiliations

• Member, American Political Science Association
• Member, Latin American Studies Association
• Editorial Board Member, Journal of Third World Studies and Social Justice Journal

RAUL MOLINA-MEJIA

Director, Model UN Program, Political Science Department; Adjunct Professor of HistoryB.A., M.A., San Carlos University, Guatemala

Specialties:

History of World Civilizations, International Studies, Latin American Studies, Human Rights, United Nations

Publications:

• Author, “Bringing justice to Guatemala: the need to confront genocide and other crimes against humanity,” published in “State Violence and Genocide in Latin America: The Cold War Years”
• Guest Co-editor, “Social Justice” (1999)
• Author, “Libertad Académica en el contexto de los eventos políticos en Guatemala,” published in “World University Service, Libertad Académica en América Latina y el Caribe 4: Educación y Derechos Humanos” (1996)
• Author, “Academic Freedom and Political Events in Guatemala,” published in “World University Service, Academic Freedom 4: Education and Human Rights” (1996)
• Author, “Political Economy in Guatemala,” published in “Grida di Pace, Venti di Guerra: Il proceso di pace in Centroamerica” (1990)
• Author, numerous articles published in academic and news media publications

Lectures and Presentations

• Guest speaker, conferences and universities in the U.S., Europe and Latin America
• Participation, documentaries on Guatemala

Honors/Awards:

• Recipient, Guatemalan Order of National Recognition for the Help, Assistance, Care and Protection of Migrants (National Decoration with Medal and Diploma) (2012)
• Member, Board of the National Collegiate Conference Association – National Model United Nations (2011)
• Grand Marshal, Central American Day Parade, Long Island, New York (2009)
• Recipient, Award for Dedication to the Guatemalan Community, City of Houston (2007)
• Recipient, Leadership Award, AGMAUSA (Long Island Area Office of Organization of Guatemalans on Long Island) (2006)
• Recipient, Award for Human Rights Work, Casa Guatemala in Chicago, (1999)
• Recipient, Award, Commission for the Defense of Human Rights in Central America (1997)
• Recipient, Human Rights Award, University of Chicago (1994)

Professional Affiliations

• Member, Latin American Studies Association
• Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Guatemala Peace and Development Network

GREGARY J. RACZ

Associate Professor of Foreign Languages and LiteratureB.A., Rutgers University; M.A., Ph.D., Princeton University

Specialties:

Translation Studies, Literary Theory, Comparative Literature, Poetics

Publications:

• Translator, “Life Is a Dream” by Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Penguin Classics
• Translator, “Fuenteovejuna” by Lope de Vega, Norton Anthology of Drama
• Editor, “Three Comedies by Jaime Salom,” University Press of Colorado
• Editor, “Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) As Writer and Social Critic,” Edwin Mellen Press
• Author, “British Models, Methinks: Translating Jaime Salom’s ‘Renaissance’ for Contemporary American Audiences,” published by ESTRENO Studies in Contemporary Theater
• Author, “Strategies of Deletion in Pablo Neruda’s Romeo y Julieta,” published in “Latin American Shakespeares”
• Author, “Trimming Whitman’s Leaves of Grass: Borges as Translator of ‘Song of Myself’,” in “Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) As Writer and Social Critic”
• Author, “Straight to the Source: Using Phaedrus and La Fontaine to Retranslate Fable V, 25, of Félix María Samaniego,” published by Romanic Review
• Author, “Two Modes of Rereading in the Twentieth-Century Novel,” in “Second Thoughts: A Focus on Rereading”
• Translator, “Gerona” by Benito Pérez Galdós

Honors/Awards:

• Honorary Member, Alpha Chi (National College Honor Scholarship Society)
• Recipient, Crossing Boundaries Award (for translation), International Quarterly
• Recipient, Carpeta de poesía Award, Luz Bilingual Publishing Poetry Translation Contest
• Recipient, Sidney Sulkin Award for Prose, Poet Lore

Professional Affiliations

• Vice President, American Literary Translators Association (ALTA)
• Member, American Translators Association (ATA)
• Member, Modern Language Association (MLA)
• Member, American Translation and Interpreting Studies Association (ATISA)

JOSÉ RÁMÓN SÁNCHEZ

Chair, Urban Studies Department; Professor of Political ScienceB.A., Columbia University; M.A., University of Michigan; Ph.D., New York University

Specialties:

Political Theory, Power, Puerto Rican Politics, Political Science Methods and Writing, Urban Studies, Housing

Publications:

• Author, “Notice of Eviction: The History of Puerto Rican Housing in New York City 1920-1980,” published in Centro Journal
• Author, “The Permanent Housing Shortage: The New York Experience”
• Author, “Puerto Ricans and the Door of Participation in U.S. Politics,” published in “Hispanic Cultures of the United States”
• Author, “Puerto Rican Politics in New York: A Critique of Second Hand Theory,” published in “Latinos in New York”
• Author, “Boricua Power; A Political History of Puerto Ricans in the United States”
• Co-author, “The Iraq Papers”

WILLIAM BURGOS

Director, Writing Across the Curriculum ProgramB.A., Columbia University; Ph.D., Yale University

Specialties:

Latin-American Literature, Literature of the Puerto Rican Diaspora

Publications:

• Co-author, “The Commuter Nation: Perspectives on Puerto Rican Migration”

CELIA S. LICHTMAN

Chair, Foreign Language and Literature Department; Professor of Foreign Languages and LiteratureB.A., Brooklyn College, CUNY; M.A., Ph.D., New York University

Specialties:

Latin American Novels and Short Stories, Literature of Revolution; Women Writers of Latin America

RALPH ENGELMAN

Chair, Journalism Department; Professor of JournalismB.A., Earlham College; M.A., Ph.D., Washington University (St. Louis)

Specialties:

Communications Law, Electronic Media and Privacy, History of the Press, Public Broadcasting

Publications:

• Author, “Public Radio and Television in America: A Political History”
• Author, “Friendlyvision: Fred Friendly and the Rise and Fall of Television Journalism”

Professional Affiliations

• Former Board Member, WBAI

STEPHEN M. GROSS

Senior Adviser to the President for Pharmacy; Dean Emeritus, Arnold & Marie Schwartz College of Pharmacy and Health SciencesB.S., M.A., Ed.D., Columbia University

Specialties:

Alternative Medicine Therapies; Managed Care; Pharmacy Administration; Pharmacy Education, Pharmacy Practice and the Law

SUSAN ZINAR

Chair, Department of Teaching and Learning; Associate Professor of Teaching and LearningB.A., Brandeis University ; M.A.T., Harvard University; Ph.D., Teachers College, Columbia University

Specialties:

Diagnosis and Remediation of Reading Disabilities

Publications:

• Author, “Relative Contributions of Word Identification Skill and Comprehension-monitoring Behavior to Reading Comprehension,” published in Contemporary Educational Psychology
• Author, “Group Supervision and Collaborative Reflection in a Remedial Reading Program,” published in Journal of Reading Education

CAROL ALLEN

Professor of EnglishB.A., M.A., University of Virginia; Ph.D., Rutgers University

Specialties:

American, Caribbean and African-American Literature; Black Women Intellectuals; Women’s Studies

MICHAEL BENNETT

Professor of EnglishB.A., Whitman College; M.A., Ph.D., University of Virginia

Specialties:

Abolition Movement, African-American Literature, Slavery, Urban Ecological Criticism

Publications:

• Co-editor, “Recovering the Body: Self-Representations by African American Women”
• Co-editor, “The Nature of Cities: Ecocriticism and Urban Environments”
• Author, “The Nature of Slavery: Frederick Douglass and Anti-Pastoralism,” published in “Beyond Nature Writing”
• Co-author, “We Can See Them, But We Can’t Hear Them: LGBT Members of African American Families,” published in “Queer Families, Queer Politics: Challenging Culture and the State”
• Author, “African American Families and Public Policy: The Legacy of the Moynihan Report,” published in “African Americans and the Public Agenda: The Paradoxes of Public Policy”

LEAH DILWORTH

Professor of EnglishB.A., Oberlin College; M.A., Ph.D., Yale University

Specialties:

19th- and 20th-Century American Literature, Ethnography

Publications:

• Author, “Imagining Indians in the Southwest: Persistent Visions of a Primitive Past,” published in Smithsonian

SEALY ANN GILLES

Chair, English Department; Associate Professor of EnglishB.A., Carleton College; M.Phil., Ph.D., The Graduate Center, CUNY

Specialties:

Medieval British Literature

Publications:

• Author, “Text and Territory: Geographical Imagination and the European Middle Ages"

PATRICK HORRIGAN

Associate Professor of EnglishB.A., Catholic University; Ph.D., Columbia University

Specialties:

19th- and 20th-Century American Culture, Creative Nonfiction Writing, Fiction, Lesbian and Gay Literature

Publications:

• Author, “Widescreen Dreams: Growing Up Gay at the Movies,”
• Author, “Messages for Gary,” a one-act play performed at the New York International Fringe Festival

ROBERT HULLOT-KENTOR

Professor of English; Professor of Foreign Languages and Literature B.A., Marlboro College; M.A., Goddard College; Ph.D., University of Massachusetts

XIAO-MING LI

Professor of EnglishM.A., East China Teachers’ University; M.A., Ph.D., University of New Hampshire

Specialties:

Asian and Asian-American Literature, Bilingual Education, Composition Studies, English as a Second Language

Publications:

• Author, “Good Writing in Cross Cultural Context”
• Author, “Mending the Sky and Other Chinese Myths”
• Author, “Writing from the Vantage Point of an Outsider/Insider,” published in “Non-Native Educators in English Language Teaching”

CELIA S. LICHTMAN

Chair, Foreign Language and Literature Department; Professor of Foreign Languages and LiteratureB.A., Brooklyn College, CUNY; M.A., Ph.D., New York University

Specialties:

Latin American Novels and Short Stories, Literature of Revolution; Women Writers of Latin America

MARIA MCGARRITY

Associate Professor of EnglishB.A., Rutgers University ; M.A., University of New Orleans; Ph.D., University of Miami

Specialties:

Irish, Caribbean, Modern British, and Postcolonial Literatures and Theory; Twentieth-Century and Transatlantic Studies.

Publications:

Book

• Washed by the Gulf Stream: the Historic and Geographic Relation of Irish and Caribbean Literature. Newark, DE: University of Delaware Press, 2008.

Edited Volume

• Irish Modernism and the Global Primitive, co-edited collection with Claire Culleton. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.

Articles

• “Hell’s Kitchen as Contact Zone: The African in Jim Sheridan’s In America,” College Language Association Journal. 51 (2008): 304-323.
• “‘I’m a Naughty Girl’: Prostitution and Outsider Women in James Joyce’s ‘The Boarding House’ and Eric Walrond’s ‘The Palm Porch,’” with co-author, Louis J. Parascandola, College Language Association Journal. 50 (2006): 141-161.
• “Mary Seacole’s Wonderful Adventures: an Eastward Economy of Disease,” Victorians Institute Journal. 34 (2006):127-144.
• “The Gulf Stream and the Epic Drives of Joyce and Walcott.” Ariel: a Review of International English Literature. 34 (2003): 1-22.
• “The ‘Houses of decay’ and Shakespeare’s ‘Sonnet XIII:’ Another Nexus in ‘Proteus.’” James Joyce Quarterly. 35 (1997): 153-155.

Honors/Awards:

• Long Island University, Office of Sponsored Research, Intramural Research Grant, 2010
  -research at the British Library examining the Harriet Shaw Weaver and Roger Casement papers to examine conceptions of Primitivism in Irish Modernism
• Columbia University, University Seminars, Leonard Hastings Schoff Grant, 2008
  - subvention to support the publication of Washed by the Gulf Stream: the Historic and Geographic Relation of Irish and Caribbean Literature.
• National Endowment for the Humanities Grant, Summer Seminar, 2007, Trinity College Dublin, “James Joyce’s Ulysses: Texts and Contexts”
  -research at the Library of Trinity College Dublin and the National Library of Ireland exploring Irish Primitivism through James Joyce, Roger Casement, and the Congo.
• University of Miami, Center for Latin American Studies, Doctoral Research Grant, 2000-2001
  -research at the National Library at the Institute of Jamaica, Kingston, examining the papers of Peter Browne Howe, Marquess of Sligo, last Governor of Jamaica under slavery.
• University of Miami, Department of English, Doctoral Research Grant, 2001
  -research at the National Library of Ireland and Library of Trinity College Dublin using the NLI’s Index of the Irish Abroad, West Indies

LOUIS J. PARASCANDOLA

Professor of EnglishB.A., Brooklyn College; M.A., Brooklyn Campus, Long Island University; M.L.S., Pratt Institute; Ph.D., The Graduate Center, CUNY

Specialties:

19th-Century English Literature; Italian-American Culture; Literature of the African Diaspora, including Anglophone Caribbean Literature

ROBERT PATTISON

Professor of EnglishA.B., Yale University; M.A., University of Sussex; Ph.D., Columbia University

Specialties:

British Literature, History of Ideas

Publications:

• Author, “The Great Dissent: John Henry Newman and the Liberal Heresy” (1991)
• Author, “The Triumph of Vulgarity” (1987)
• Author, “On Literacy” (1982)
• Author, “Tennyson and Tradition” (1980)
• Author, “The Child Figure in English Literature” (1978)
• Author, “Can Education Civilize?” published in Academic Questions (2004)
• Author, articles on Walter Bagehot, Evolution, Football, Edmund Gosse, A.E. Housman, Lord John Russell and Leslie Stephen, published in The Encyclopedia of the Victorian Era (2004)
• Author, “Rock and Romanticism: On the Road to Nowhere,” published in “Vi har alltid vært romantiske: En bok om det moderne” (2001)
• Co-author, "A Guide to the Pronunciation of the Scientific Names for Harmful Algae," published in The Journal of Applied Phycology (2000)
• Author, "The Mean Machine," published in The Nation (1988)
• Author, "The Stupidity Crisis," published in the ADE Bulletin (1988)
• Author, “Review: E.D. Hirsch's ‘Cultural Literacy and Allan Bloom's Closing of the American Mind,’” The Nation (1987)
• Author, "Connect the Dots," published in The Nation (1987)
• Author, "A Mirror for Magistrates," published in The Nation (1986)
• Author, "Literacy: Confessions of a Heretic," published in “Language, Schooling, and Society” (l985)
• Author, "Trollope among the Textuaries," published in “Reconstructing Literature” (1983)
• Author, “Review: Various books on Edwin Drood,” published in the Dickens Studies Newsletter (1983)
• "Gray's `Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat': A Rationalist's Aesthetic," published in the University of Toronto Quarterly (1979/80)
• Author, "John Henry Newman and the Arian Heresy," published in Mosaic (1978)
• Author, "Being a Disquisition wherin were told whats happening to english," published in The New York Times (1974)

Honors/Awards:

• Recipient, Guggenheim Fellowship for a revaluation of John Henry Newman (1986-87)
• Recipient, Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship to complete “On Literacy”
• Recipient, Guggenheim Fellowship to complete “On Literacy” (1980-81, declined)
• Recipient, Long Island University Trustees Award for Scholarship (1979, 1985)

GREGARY J. RACZ

Associate Professor of Foreign Languages and LiteratureB.A., Rutgers University; M.A., Ph.D., Princeton University

Specialties:

Translation Studies, Literary Theory, Comparative Literature, Poetics

Publications:

• Translator, “Life Is a Dream” by Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Penguin Classics
• Translator, “Fuenteovejuna” by Lope de Vega, Norton Anthology of Drama
• Editor, “Three Comedies by Jaime Salom,” University Press of Colorado
• Editor, “Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) As Writer and Social Critic,” Edwin Mellen Press
• Author, “British Models, Methinks: Translating Jaime Salom’s ‘Renaissance’ for Contemporary American Audiences,” published by ESTRENO Studies in Contemporary Theater
• Author, “Strategies of Deletion in Pablo Neruda’s Romeo y Julieta,” published in “Latin American Shakespeares”
• Author, “Trimming Whitman’s Leaves of Grass: Borges as Translator of ‘Song of Myself’,” in “Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) As Writer and Social Critic”
• Author, “Straight to the Source: Using Phaedrus and La Fontaine to Retranslate Fable V, 25, of Félix María Samaniego,” published by Romanic Review
• Author, “Two Modes of Rereading in the Twentieth-Century Novel,” in “Second Thoughts: A Focus on Rereading”
• Translator, “Gerona” by Benito Pérez Galdós

Honors/Awards:

• Honorary Member, Alpha Chi (National College Honor Scholarship Society)
• Recipient, Crossing Boundaries Award (for translation), International Quarterly
• Recipient, Carpeta de poesía Award, Luz Bilingual Publishing Poetry Translation Contest
• Recipient, Sidney Sulkin Award for Prose, Poet Lore

Professional Affiliations

• Vice President, American Literary Translators Association (ALTA)
• Member, American Translators Association (ATA)
• Member, Modern Language Association (MLA)
• Member, American Translation and Interpreting Studies Association (ATISA)

BERNARD SCHWEIZER

Associate Professor of EnglishB.A., University of Minnesota; Ph.D., Duke University

Specialties:

20th- and 21st-century British Literature; Modernism; the Female Epic; the Politics of Travel Writing; Religious Subversion in Literature; Artists as Public Intellectuals; Interdisciplinary and Comparative Studies Involving Ideology, Religion, Gender and Genre; Authors Rebecca West, Evelyn Waugh, Graham Greene, George Orwell, Peter Shaffer and Philip Pullman

Publications:

• Author, “Hating God: The Untold Story of Misotheism” (2010)
• Co-author, “‘The Return of the Soldier’ by Rebecca West: A Contextual Edition” (2010)
• Co-author, “Not So Innocent Abroad: The Politics of Travel and Travel Writing” (2009)
• Editor, “Twentieth-Century Writers as Public Intellectuals,” special issue of Studies in the Humanities (2008)
• Editor, “Rebecca West Today: Contemporary Critical Approaches” (2006)
• Editor, “Approaches to the Anglo and American Female Epic, 1621-1984” (2006)
• Editor, “Survivors in Mexico” by Rebecca West (2003)
• Author, “Rebecca West: Heroism, Rebellion and the Female Epic” (2002)
• Author, “Radicals on the Road: The Politics of English Travel Writing in the 1930s” (2001)

Professional Affiliations

• President, International Rebecca West Society
• Member, Modern Language Association of America
• Member, Modernist Studies Association
• Member, The Space Between Society
• Member, International Society for Travel Writing

LEAH DILWORTH

Professor of EnglishB.A., Oberlin College; M.A., Ph.D., Yale University

Specialties:

19th- and 20th-Century American Literature, Ethnography

Publications:

• Author, “Imagining Indians in the Southwest: Persistent Visions of a Primitive Past,” published in Smithsonian

JORDAN KAPLAN

Director, M.S.-Human Resource Management Program ; Associate Professor of Managerial Science; Associate Professor of Human Resource Management, School of NursingB.A., Brooklyn Campus, Long Island University; M.B.A., C.W. Post Campus, Long Island University; D.B.A., University of Sarasota

Specialties:

Human Resources Management, Service Sector Management

Publications:

• Author, “Full Edition Review: of ‘Management, Leading and Collaborating in the Competitive World’” (8th edition)
• Author, “Comparative Review: ‘Contemporary Management,’ 6th ed.”
• Author, “Comprehensive Review: ‘Contemporary Management,’ 4th ed.”
• Author, “Review and Comparison: ‘HRM,’ 12th ed., and “Managing HRM,” 4th ed.”
• Author, “Instructor Supplements: Labor Relations”
• Author, “Text Review: ‘Management,’ 2nd ed.”
• Author, “Choosing Wisely: Using Personality to Advise Business Majors,” published in the Proceedings of the International Conference of the Association of Management and the International Association of Management Conference (2002)
• Author, “Electronic Commerce: Limiting and Growth Factors,” published in the Proceedings of Tehnomus X (Suceava, Romania)
• Author, “Models and Goals of Business Ethics Education,” published in the Journal of Modern Business.
• Author, “A Study of Employer Compliance with the Reasonable Accommodation Provision of Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act and Gender,” published in the Proceedings of the 15th Annual International Conference of Association of Management and the International Association of Management
• Author, “A Personal Management Program for the Management and Control of Stress Experienced as a Result of Downsizing or Career Change,” published in the Proceedings of the 14th Annual International Conference of the Association of Management and the International Association of Management

Honors/Awards:

• Listed in Who’s Who In America (2009-2010)
• Listed in Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers (2004-2005)
• Recipient, “Best Professor of LIU” Award, Brooklyn Campus Student Government Association (2002-2003)
• Recipient, Teaching Award, Brooklyn Campus Student Government (1998-1999)
• Recipient, Certificate of Achievement for online course developed for the National Association of Purchasing Management, American Society of Association Executives (1999)

Professional Affiliations

• Faculty Adviser, Brooklyn Campus Chapter of the Society of Human Resources Management (SHRM)
• Faculty Adviser, Brooklyn Campus Chapter of Sigma Beta Delta, the International Honor Society for Business, Management and Administration
• Member, Society of Human Resources Management
• Member, Institute of Supply Management (ISM)
• Member, National Association of Purchasing Management New York (NAPM-NY)

HARRY E. STUCKE

Director, M.B.A. Program; Professor of Managerial SciencesB.S., Fordham University; M.B.A., New York University

Specialties:

Downsizing, Turnarounds, Organizational Behavior Training Programs, Project Management, Feasibility Studies Covering Managerial and Marketing Strategy with Cost and Organizational Drivers on a National and Transnational Level

Publications:

• Author, “Resume Page on the Web: Marketing and Career Development,” paper presented at the Academy of Marketing Science’s 9th Bi-Annual World Marketing Congress
• Author, Economic Analysis of Brooklyn, study presented at the Brooklyn Campus/NATWES Seminar
• Author, research on the global auto industry and the strategic positioning of Russian and Chinese auto groups, presented at senior-level conferences and symposia

Honors/Awards:

• Honoree, Long Island University 75th Anniversary Dinner
• Recipient, Newton Award for Excellence in Teaching, Long Island University
• Recipient, AT&T Best Teacher Award
• Recipient, Certificate of Commendation, City of New York
• Recipient, Who’s Who in Consulting Award, Cornell University

GREG FOX

Associate Athletic Director/External RelationsB.S., Fairleigh Dickinson University

Specialties:

Sports Marketing, Sports Writing, Sports Public Relations

Publications:

• Author, “Radicals on the Road: The Politics of English Travel Writing in the 1930s”

JORDAN KAPLAN

Director, M.S.-Human Resource Management Program ; Associate Professor of Managerial Science; Associate Professor of Human Resource Management, School of NursingB.A., Brooklyn Campus, Long Island University; M.B.A., C.W. Post Campus, Long Island University; D.B.A., University of Sarasota

Specialties:

Human Resources Management, Service Sector Management

Publications:

• Author, “Full Edition Review: of ‘Management, Leading and Collaborating in the Competitive World’” (8th edition)
• Author, “Comparative Review: ‘Contemporary Management,’ 6th ed.”
• Author, “Comprehensive Review: ‘Contemporary Management,’ 4th ed.”
• Author, “Review and Comparison: ‘HRM,’ 12th ed., and “Managing HRM,” 4th ed.”
• Author, “Instructor Supplements: Labor Relations”
• Author, “Text Review: ‘Management,’ 2nd ed.”
• Author, “Choosing Wisely: Using Personality to Advise Business Majors,” published in the Proceedings of the International Conference of the Association of Management and the International Association of Management Conference (2002)
• Author, “Electronic Commerce: Limiting and Growth Factors,” published in the Proceedings of Tehnomus X (Suceava, Romania)
• Author, “Models and Goals of Business Ethics Education,” published in the Journal of Modern Business.
• Author, “A Study of Employer Compliance with the Reasonable Accommodation Provision of Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act and Gender,” published in the Proceedings of the 15th Annual International Conference of Association of Management and the International Association of Management
• Author, “A Personal Management Program for the Management and Control of Stress Experienced as a Result of Downsizing or Career Change,” published in the Proceedings of the 14th Annual International Conference of the Association of Management and the International Association of Management

Honors/Awards:

• Listed in Who’s Who In America (2009-2010)
• Listed in Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers (2004-2005)
• Recipient, “Best Professor of LIU” Award, Brooklyn Campus Student Government Association (2002-2003)
• Recipient, Teaching Award, Brooklyn Campus Student Government (1998-1999)
• Recipient, Certificate of Achievement for online course developed for the National Association of Purchasing Management, American Society of Association Executives (1999)

Professional Affiliations

• Faculty Adviser, Brooklyn Campus Chapter of the Society of Human Resources Management (SHRM)
• Faculty Adviser, Brooklyn Campus Chapter of Sigma Beta Delta, the International Honor Society for Business, Management and Administration
• Member, Society of Human Resources Management
• Member, Institute of Supply Management (ISM)
• Member, National Association of Purchasing Management New York (NAPM-NY)

YUKO MINOWA

Associate Professor of MarketingB.S., M.B.A., Ph.D., Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey

Specialties:

Marketing, Consumer Research

Publications:

• Co-author, “Researchers’ Introspection for Multi-sited Ethnography: A Xenoheteroglossic Autoethnography,” to be published in the Journal of Business Research
• Co-author, “Social Change and Gendered Gift Giving Rituals: A Historical Analysis of Valentine’s Day in Japan,” to be published in the Journal of Macromarketing
• Co-author, “State Promotion of Consumerism in Safavid Iran: Shah Abbas I and Royal Silk Textiles,” published in the Journal of Historical Research in Marketing
• Co-author, “Consuming the Black Gospel Culture: An Interpretive Study of Symbolic Exchanges,” published in Advances in Consumer Research
• Author, “The Importance of Being Earnest and Playful: Consuming the Rituals of West Indian American Day Carnival and Parade,” published in European Advances in Consumer Research
• Author, “Elixir of Eternal Life or Libation to Ethnic Spirits: The Meanings of Tea in Japan,” published in European Advances in Consumer Research
• Author, “Rhapsody in Pearl,” published in The Strad
• Co-Author, “Love My Gift, Love Me or is it Love Me, Love My Gift: A Study of The Cultural Construction of Romantic Gift-Giving among Japanese Couples,” published in Advances in Consumer Research
• Co-Author, “Optimal Pricing Strategies for Primary and Contingent Products under Duopoly Environment,” published in Dynamic Competitive Analysis in Marketing: Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems
• Co-Author, “‘Are They Saying the Same Thing’? An Exploratory Study of Japanese and American Automobile Advertising,” published in Global and Multinational Advertising

Honors/Awards:

• Co-investigator, Research Grant, Yoshida Hideo Memorial Foundation
• Recipient, Letter of Recognition, American Advertising Federation
• Fellow, Doctoral Consortium, American Marketing Association

Professional Affiliations

• Member, Association for Consumer Research
• Member, American Marketing Association

JOHN EHRENBERG

Chair, Political Science Department; Senior Professor of Political ScienceB.A., Dartmouth College; M.A., Ph.D., Stanford University

Specialties:

History of Political Thought, Marxism, Contemporary Political Ideologies, Democratic Theory

Publications:

• Author, “The History of Civil Society Ideas and Theories,” published in “The Oxford Handbook of Civil Society” (2011)
• Author, “Left Matters: An Interview with Cornel West,” published in New Political Science (2011)
• Co-editor, “The Iraq Papers” (2010)
• Author, “Servants of Wealth: The Right’s Assault on Economic Justice” (2006)
• Author, “Black Gold: Mining Racial Fear in the Service of Wealth,” published in Logos (2006)
• Author, “Civil Society: The Critical History of an Idea (2001, translated editions in 2002)
• Author, “Equality, Democracy and Community from Tocqueville to Putnam” published in “Robert Putnam and Social Capital: Critical Perspectives on American Democracy and Social Engagement” (2002)
• Author, “Civil Society and its Discontents,” published in “Working Papers in Local Governance and Democracy” (1999)
• Author, “Proudhon and His Age” (1996)
• Author, “Class Politics and the State: Lenin and the Contradictions of Socialism,” published in Science and Society (1995)
• Author, “The Dictatorship of the Proletariat: Marxism's Theory of Socialist Democracy” (1992)

Honors/Awards:

• Recipient, Michael J. Harrington Prize of the Caucus for a New Political Science of the American Political Science Association for the Best Book of 1999
• Recipient, Alfred McCoy Award for Lifetime Achievement, Caucus for a New Political Science (2008)
• Recipient, Trustees Award for Scholarly Achievement, Long Island University (1994)
• Recipient, David Newton Award for Excellence in Teach¬ing, Long Island University (1990)

Professional Affiliations

• Member, American Political Science Association
• Editorial Board Member, New Political Science and Science & Society

JAMES A. ALLAN

Chair, Mathematics Department; Associate Professor of MathematicsB.S., University of Durham (UK); M.S., New York University; M.S., Ph.D., Polytechnic University

Specialties:

Topological Measure Theory

Publications:

• Author, “Topological Properties of Generalized Wallman Spaces and Lattice Relations,” published in the International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematics Sciences
• Author, “Lattice Repleteness and Completeness in Terms of Abstract Wallman Spaces,” published in the Journal of Mathematical Sciences

SHAHRIAR MOKHTARI-SHARGHI

Associate Professor of MathematicsB.Sc., Sharif University of Technology (Iran); M.A., M.Sc., Ph.D., Columbia University

Specialties:

Undergraduate and Graduate Mathematics

MEIYU SU

Associate Professor of MathematicsB.S., M.S., Henan Normal University (China); Ph.D., The Graduate Center, CUNY

Specialties:

Algebra, Differential Equations, Finite Math, Precalculus, Statistics

Publications:

• “Measured Solenoidal Riemann Surfaces and Holomorphic Dynamics,” published in the Journal of Differential Geometry

LARRY L. BANKS

Associate Professor of Media ArtsB.A., Rutgers University; M.F.A., C.W. Post Campus, Long Island University

Specialties:

Film, Television and Video Production; Documentaries

Films:

• Director of Photography, feature films including “Juice,” “Strapped,” “Fly by Night” and “Substitute 2”
• Director/Producer/Cinematographer, documentaries including “A Litany for Survival: The Life and Works of Audre Lorde” (1994); “Soul Vietnam/Black Amerasians: Forgotten Casualties of Vietnam” (1995); “John Henrik Clarke: A Great and Mighty Walk” (1996); and “Hands of Light” (2005)
• Director, “Blues Stories” (1997); “Blackbird” (HD feature, 1998); and “Living the Blues” (2005)
• Producer, trailer for the HBO series “Jazzman” (2006)
• Created the look of commercials for brands including Nike, Levi-Strauss and AT&T

Honors/Awards:

• Worked alongside esteemed directors such as Spike Lee, Forest Whitaker and Steve Horn

DENNIS BROE

Graduate Coordinator, M.A. Program; Associate Professor of Media Arts B.A., Indiana University; M.A., Ph.D., New York University

Specialties:

Film and Television History and Theory, Film Noir, Global Cinema, Hollywood 1930-1960

Publications:

• Feature Writer and Researcher, The Village Voice, The Boston Phoenix, Science and Society, Our Town
• Author, “Film Noir: American Workers in Post-War Hollywood”

CLAIRE GOODMAN

Chair, Media Arts Department; Associate Professor of Media ArtsB.A., Exeter University (U.K.); M.A., Brooklyn Campus, Long Island University

Specialties:

Documentary Film, Media Aesthetics, Screenwriting

Films:

• Associate Producer, “Paris is Burning”

KEVIN LAUTH

Associate Dean, Conolly College; Professor of Media Arts B.A., Lehman College, CUNY; M.S., Brooklyn College, CUNY

Specialties:

Cable Access Television, Video Production

WALTER VASILAKY

Professor Emeritus of Computer ScienceB.A., Rutgers University; M.S., University of Maryland; Ph.D., New York University

Specialties:

Biomedical Imaging Algorithms used in CAT, MRI and PET (Positron Emission Tomography); Object-Relational Databases (Managing Pictures, Documents, Sound and Video)

ROBERT AQUINO

Chair, Music Department; Professor of MusicB.M., M.M., Manhattan School of Music

Specialties:

Jazz, Music Theory

Performances:

• Composer, “Three Pieces for Orchestras,” music for the film “Ursula” (Cannes Film Festival award winner)

Honors/Awards:

• First Prize Winner, Abraham Frost Prize in Composition

GAIL-ANN G. GREAVES-VENZEN

Chair, Communication Studies, Performance Studies and Theatre; Associate Professor of Communication Studies, Performance Studies and TheatreB.A., M.A., Brooklyn College, CUNY; Ph.D., Howard University

Specialties:

Calypso; Cultures of the Caribbean, the United States and Africa; Intercultural Communication; Rhetoric

LEAH DILWORTH

Professor of EnglishB.A., Oberlin College; M.A., Ph.D., Yale University

Specialties:

19th- and 20th-Century American Literature, Ethnography

Publications:

• Author, “Imagining Indians in the Southwest: Persistent Visions of a Primitive Past,” published in Smithsonian

MICHAEL HITTMAN

Professor of AnthropologyB.A., Brooklyn Campus, Long Island University; M.A., New York University; Ph.D., University of New Mexico

Specialties:

Cultures of North American Indians, Ghost Dance Religions, Peyote Rites, the Northern Paiutes (of Nevada)

Publications:

• Author, “Nomogwet: The Life-History of Corbett Mack, Northern Paiute Opiate Addict”
• Author, “Wowoka and the Ghost Dance: A Sourcebook”

ERLINDA N. DUBAL

Director, M.S. Executive Program for Nursing & Health Care Management; Assistant Professor of NursingB.S.N., University of Santo Tomas (Philippines); M.B.A., Brooklyn, Campus, Long Island University; M.A., New York University

Specialties:

Health Care Management, Nursing Administration, Health Care Management

Honors/Awards:

• Award of Excellence in Nursing Administration from the Philippine Nurses Association of New York
• Women’s History Month Honoree, designated by East Harlem Department of Community Affairs

DAWN F. KILTS

Dean, School of Nursing; Professor of NursingB.S., Adelphi University; M.A., A.B.D., New York University; Certificate, Molloy College

Specialties:

Academic Nursing Centers, Health Care for the Elderly, the Homeless, Nursing Education, Nursing Shortage and Profession

• Volunteer with the nonprofit Sierra Leone Health Pride, Inc., helped provide health care education and clinical support in western African country
• Adult Nurse Practitioner
  

ESTHER LEVINE-BRILL

Chair, Undergraduate Nursing Program; Professor of NursingB.S.N., M.S.N., Hunter College, CUNY; Ph.D., New York University

Specialties:

Cancer Care, Medical-Surgical Nursing, Women in the Military

Publications:

• Co-author, “Together We Serve,” presented to the Association of Military Surgeons of the U.S.
• Co-author, “Foundations for Nursing”

Honors/Awards:

• Major, U.S. Army Nurse Corps Reserves

AMY MA

Clinical Coordinator, Nursing; Assistant Professor of NursingB.S., Eastern University of Chemical Technology (China); M.S., Medical University of South Carolina; D.N.P., Case Western Reserve University

Specialties:

Primary Care, Geriatric Care, Minority Health, Workforce Issues, Health Care for College Students, Nursing Shortage, Immigrant Nurses

Publications:

• Co-author, “Otomycosis: diagnosis and treatment review and update,” published in The American Journal for Nurse Practitioners (2010)
• Co-author, “Demands of Immigration among Chinese Immigrant Nurses,” published in the International Journal of Nursing Practice (2010)
• Co-author, “Should Nursing Students be Required to Participate in Actual Birth During Their Obstetric Clinical Experience?” published in The American Journal of Maternal/Child Nursing (2009)
• Author, “An Unusual Vacation Experience,” published in “Nursing Stories: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Journey” (2009)

• Member, American Association of Nurse Practitioners
• Member, Nurse Practitioner Association of New York State
• President, Brooklyn/Queen’s Chapter of the Nurse Practitioner Association
• Member, Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing

VALERIE MICHELSEN

Professor Emerita of NursingA.A.S., SUNY Farmingdale; B.S., Long Island University; M.S., Adelphi University

Specialties:

Effects of Protease Inhibitor Therapy on Clients with HIV/AIDS; Medical-Surgical Adult Nursing

DIANE REYNOLDS

Assistant Professor of NursingB.S., Hunter-Bellevue School of Nursing, CUNY; M.S., SUNY Downstate; Ed.D., Teachers College, Columbia University

Specialties:

Adult Medical-Surgical Nursing, Oncology Nursing, HPV and Cervical Cancer

Publications:

• Author, “Prostate Cancer Screening in African-American Men: Barriers and Methods for Improvement,” published in the American Journal of Men's Health (2007)
• Author, “Literature Review of Theory Based Empirical Studies Examining Adolescent Tanning Practices,” published in Dermatology Nursing (2007)
• Author, “Spotlight on research: Review of ‘A pilot study of chlorhexidine and benzydamine oral rinses for the prevention and treatment of irradiation mucositis in patients with head and neck cancer,’” published in ORL-Head and Neck Nursing (2007)
• Co-author, “African-American Spirituality: A Process of Honoring God, Others, and Self,” published in the Journal of Holistic Nursing (2007)
• Author, “Examining Spirituality in Women with Breast Cancer: Holistic Nursing Practice” (2005)
• Author, “Cervical Cancer in Hispanic Women,” published in the Clinical Journal of Oncology Nursing (2004)

Honors/Awards:

• Recipient, Merit-based Award, Cynthia Davis Sculco Scholarship Fund, Teacher’s College, Columbia University (2007-2008, 2006-2007, 2005-2006)
• Selected to be the first NLN Ambassador for the School of Nursing (2006)
• Recipient, Promise of Nursing for New York Regional Faculty Fellowship (2006)
• Recipient, Merit-based Award, Elisabeth Phillips Scholarship Fund, Teacher’s College, Columbia University (2004-2005)
• Recipient, sponsorship from the Oncology Nursing Society through a grant from the National Cancer Institute to attend the Cancer Prevention and Early Detection Program for Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Minority Serving Institutions for Nurse Educators (2005)
• Recipient, grant from Teacher’s College, Columbia University, to attend the State of the Science Conference (2004)
• Recipient, Merit-based Award, Caroline E. Stackpole Scholarship Fund, Teacher’s College, Columbia University (2003-2004)
• Recipient, educational grant from the Oncology Nursing Society Foundation for Leadership, Information, and Research (CLIR) from Amgen to attend the Oncology Nursing Society’s National Conference on Hematologic Toxicities (2003)

• Certified as a Nurse Educator (CNE) on June 7, 2006 (Effective until 2011)
• Member, Eastern Nursing Research Society (2007 – present)
• Member, Council for the Advancement of Nursing Science (2006-present)
• Member, American Cancer Society-Cancer Action Network (2005-present)
• Member, Scholarship Committee, National Association of Catholic Nurses (2005-present)
• Member, National Association of Catholic Nurses (1997- present)
• Member, Oncology Nursing Society - New York City chapter (2005-present)
• Member, ONS Special Interest Group: Spiritual Care (2004-present)
• Member, ONS Special Interest Group: Hospice (2004-present)
• Member, Oncology Nursing Society (1993-present)
• Member, National League of Nursing (1989-present)
• Member, Lambda Iota Upsilon
• Member, Kappa Delta Pi
• Member, Sigma Theta Tau, Alpha Zeta chapter

HAZEL M. SANDERSON-MARCOUX

Associate Dean, School of Nursing; Associate Professor of Nursing; Coordinator, RN-B.S. Program B.S., Brooklyn Campus, Long Island University; M.Ed., Ed.D., Teachers College, Columbia University

Specialties:

Pediatric Critical Care Nursing, Nursing of fragile infants in the home, Loss and bereavement in Children

Publications:

• Author, “Loss and Bereavement in Children,” published in “Pediatric Nursing: Caring for Children and Their Families”

Honors/Awards:

• Recipient, The Brooklyn Nursing Partnership Award for Dedication to Nursing Academia and Nursing Practice (2008)
• Leadership Fellow, American Academy for Colleges of Nursing (2002)

Professional Affiliations

• Board Chair, Brooklyn Queens Long Island Area Health Education Center (BQLIAHEC)
• Member, American Nurses Association
• Former President, Lambda Iota Epsilon (Brooklyn Campus School of Nursing Honor Society)

DORIS OBLER

Assistant Professor of Occupational TherapyB.S., SUNY Downstate Medical Center; M.S.W., Adelphi University

Specialties:

Mental Health, Pediatrics

Publications:

• Co-author, “Using the Clubhouse Model with the Ticket to Work Program,” published in “OT Practice”
• Co-author, “The Clubhouse Model: An Outcome Study on Attainment and status, and Hospital Recidivism,” published in “Work”

MICHAEL SARACENO

Assistant Professor of Occupational TherapyB.S., M.S., Touro College

Specialties:

Hand therapy, Orthopedics, School-Based Practice

ANNE HILLER SCOTT

Academic Field Work Coordinator, Occupational Therapy; Associate Professor of Occupational TherapyB.A., M.A., Ph.D., New York University

Specialties:

Psychosocial Issues in Recovery, Smoking Cessation, Wellness and Community Health, Wellness for and Media Representations of People with Disabilities

Publications:

• Editor, “New Frontiers in Psychosocial Therapy”
• Contributor, articles in Occupational Therapy in Mental Health, the Journal of Allied Health and the American Journal of Occupational Therapy

HOLLY WASSERMAN

Academic Coordinator, Occupational Therapy Program; Assistant Professor of Occupational TherapyB.S., Brooklyn College; M.S., Boston University

Specialties:

Clinical Fieldwork Education, Ergonomics, Treatment of Adult Physical Dysfunction, Work Assessment

ALMAS BABAR

Professor of Pharmaceutics B.S., University of Punjab; M.S., Ph.D., St. John’s University

Specialties:

Drug Delivery Systems; Formulation of Cosmetic, Toiletry and Pharmaceutical Products

Publications:

• Tables published in the Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Drug Development and Industrial Pharmacy, and Pharmaceutica ACTA Helvetiae

ANTHONY CUTIE

Director, Division of Pharmaceutical Sciences; Professor of PharmaceuticsB.S., Arnold & Marie Schwartz College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, Long Island University; M.S., Ph.D., Rutgers University

Specialties:

Aerosol Research, Product Development

Publications:

• Various articles in “Remington’s Pharmacy Practice” and “Principles of Industrial Pharmacy”

RUTESH H. DAVE

Assistant Professor of Pharmaceutical SciencesB.S., K.L.E. Society's College of Pharmacy (India); Ph.D., Arnold & Marie Schwartz College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, Long Island University

Specialties:

Capsules, Formulation, Pre-Formulation, Tablets, Suspensions

DONNA DOLINSKY

Director, Division of Social and Administrative Sciences; Professor of Social and Administrative SciencesB.S., University of Toledo; M.A., Hollins College; Ph.D., University of Toledo

Specialties:

Patient Behavior, Patient-Pharmacist Communication

Publications:

• Contributor, Behavioral Medicine and Social and Behavioral Aspects of Pharmaceutical Care
• Author, “The Need for Pharmaceutical Care,” published in Pharmaceutical Care
• Author, “Psychological Aspects of the Illness Experience,” published in Pharmacy Practice: Social & Behavioral Aspects

MICHALAKIS SAVVA

Professor of PharmaceuticsPh.D., School of Pharmacy, University of Pittsburgh

Specialties:

Cationic Surfactants/Lipids, non-Viral Gene therapy

Publications:

• Author, “PVP a Pretender Molecule,” published in “Proceedings at the International Symposium of Controlled Release of Bioactive Materials”
• Author, “A Genetically Modified Recombinant tumor Necrosis Factor-A conjugated to the distal Terminals of Liposomal Surface Grafted Polythyleneglycol Chains,” published in the International Journal of Pharmaceuticals
• Author, “Synthesis, In Vitro Transfection Activity and Physicochemical Characterization of Novel N,N/-diacyl-1,2-diaminopropyl-3-carbamonyl(dimethylaminoethane) Amphiphilic Derivatives,” published in “Chemistry and Physics of Lipids”
• Author, “Correlation of the Physicochemical Properties of Symmetric 1,3-dialkoylamidopropane-based Cationic Lipids Containing Single Primary and Tertiary Amine Polar Head Groups with In Vitro Transfection Activity,” published in “Colloids and Surfaces B: Biointerfaces”
  

Honors/Awards:

• Recipient, Newton Award for Teaching Excellence

MADIHA SIDHOM

Associate Professor of PharmaceuticsB.S., M.S., University of Assiut; Ph.D., Moscow First Medical Institute (USSR)

Specialties:

Effects of Sunscreens, Pharmaceutical Analysis and Quality Control

GRAZIA STAGNI

Associate Professor of PharmaceuticsB.S., Università Degli Studi di Bologna (Italy); M.S., Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin

Specialties:

Bioanalytical Assays, Computer Simulation, Iontophoresis, Microdialysis in the Skin, Pharmacodynamics, Pharmacokinetics

Publications:

• Author, various articles in the Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences, The Journal of Chromatography, Biopharmaceutics and Pharmacokinetics, the Journal of the American Geriatric Society, The Journal of Controlled Release and the International Journal of Pharmaceutics

DAVID R. TAFT

Dean, Arnold & Marie Schwartz College of Pharmacy and Health Sceiences; Associate Professor of PharmaceuticsB.S., University of Rhode Island; Ph.D., University of Connecticut

Specialties:

Pharmacokinetics (Drug Absorption, Distribution, Metabolism and Excretion in Human Body)

KENZA E. BENZEROUAL

Assistant Professor of PharmaceuticsB.S., Paul Sabatier University (France); M.S., Toulouse Polytechnic University; Ph.D., Montreal University

Specialties:

Pharmacology

STEPHEN M. GROSS

Senior Adviser to the President for Pharmacy; Dean Emeritus, Arnold & Marie Schwartz College of Pharmacy and Health SciencesB.S., M.A., Ed.D., Columbia University

Specialties:

Alternative Medicine Therapies; Managed Care; Pharmacy Administration; Pharmacy Education, Pharmacy Practice and the Law

JOHN M. LONIE

Associate Professor of Social and Administrative SciencesB.S., Arnold & Marie Schwartz College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, Long Island University; M.A., New School for Social Research; Ed.D., Columbia University

Specialties:

Pharmacist/Patient Communication, Psychological and Behavioral Factors in Learning and Pharmacist Education

HONGJUN YIN

Assistant Professor of Social and Administrative SciencesB.S., M.S., China Pharmaceutical University; Ph.D., University of Illinois at Chicago

Specialties:

Cost Effectiveness and Cost Benefit Analysis, Cost of Illness Analysis, Epidemiology and Health Policy Evaluation

LANA T. BORNO

Assistant Professor of Pharmacy PracticePharmD., Eshelman School of Pharmacy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Specialties:

Ambulatory Care Pharmacy and Geriatrics

Publications:

• Author, “Relative Contributions of Word Identification Skill and Comprehension-monitoring Behavior to Reading Comprehension,” published in Contemporary Educational Psychology
• Author, “Group Supervision and Collaborative Reflection in a Remedial Reading Program,” published in Journal of Reading Education

ROBERT V. DIGREGORIO

Professor of Pharmacy PracticeB.S., St. John’s University; Pharm.D., Medical College of Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University

Specialties:

Adverse Drug Reactions, Ambulatory Care, Arrhythmias, Asthma, Bioterrorism Emergency Preparedness, Cardiac Arrest, Cardiovascular Medications, Disaster Medicine, Emergency Medicine, Medication Errors, Pharmacy Practice, Toxicology

Publications:

• Author, “Primary Care”
• Author, “Pharmacotherapetics: A Primary Care Clinical Guide” Author, “A randomized trial of nebulized magnesium sulfate in addition to albuterol in the treatment of acute mild-to-moderate acute asthma exacerbations in adults,” published in the Annals of Emergency Medicine
• Author, “The appropriate selection of a low molecular weight heparin for an Acust Coronary Syndrome clinical pathway,” published in The New York Health-System Pharmacist
• Author, “Pharmacotherapeutic Advances in Cardiac Resuscitation: A Review of the Advanced Cardiac Life Support,” included in “Guidelines and their Impact on Pharmacy Practice,” published in the Journal of Pharmacy Practice
• Author, “Pharmacoethics: Unblinding a clinical trial for personal gain,” published in The Pharmacist
• Author, “Evaluation of the periotest as a diagnostic tool for dental implants,” published in the Journal of Oral Implantology

BROOKE D. FIDLER

Assistant Professor of Pharmacy PracticePharm.D., University of Rhode Island

Specialties:

Community Practice, Disease Management Services in Community Pharmacies, Management of Lipid Disorders, Smoking Cessation

Publications:

• “Medication Therapy in Diabetes,” Sturdy Memorial Hospital, Massachusetts
• “Anticonvulsant Medications and the Pediatric Population,” Hasbro Children’s Hospital, Rhode Island
• “Pharmacotherapy of Smoking Cessation,” Horton Medical Center, New York
• Author, various articles in Drug Store News, Drug Topics P&T Journal, The New York State Journal of Health-systems Pharmacy and Critical Care Nurse

SUZANNA GIM

Assistant Professor of Pharmacy PracticeB.A., New York University; Pharm.D., University of Maryland

Specialties:

Drug Information, Psychology

Publications:

• Co-author, “Constitutively Active AKT is an Important
• Regulator of TRAIL Sensitivity in Prostate Cancer,” published in “Oncogene”
• Co-author, “Pro-Survival Funcion of AKT/protein Kinase B Prostate Cancer Cells,” published in the Journal of Biological Chemistry

HAROLD L. KIRSCHENBAUM

Associate Dean for Professional Affairs; Professor of Pharmacy PracticeB.S., Brooklyn College of Pharmacy, Long Island University; M.S., Long Island University; Pharm.D., Massachusetts College of Pharmacy

Specialties:

Institutional Research, Curriculum Development

Publications:

Co-author, articles published in the American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education, Clinical Therapeutics, Pharmacy and Therapeutics, Journal of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine and the International Journal of Pharmaceutical Compounding
Coauthor, “Pharmacy Practice Handbook of Medication Facts”

Honors/Awards:

Recipient, Founder’s Award, Arnold & Marie Schwartz College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences (2008, 1995)
Recipient, Rho Chi Alumni Honor Roll, Arnold & Marie Schwartz College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences (2006)
Recipient, Honoree and Alumni Award Recipient, Alumni Association’s 17th All-Class Reunion Dinner Dance (2002)

Professional Affiliations

Member, Rho Chi (Pharmacy Honor Society)
Member, Phi Lambda Sigma (Pharmacy Leadership Society)
Member, American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy
Member, American Pharmacists Association
Member, American Society of Health-System Pharmacists
Member, Drug Information Association
Member, New York State Council of Health-System Pharmacists

MELISSA MITCHELL

Assistant Professor of Pharmacy PracticeB.S., University of Texas at Austin; Pharm.D., University of the Pacific

Specialties:

Internal Medicine and Psychiatry

Publications:

• Co-author, “Understanding the Treatment Options in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder,” CJHP (2008) Mitchell et al., “A Retrospective Review of the Effects of Depression on Weight Loss Postbariatric Surgery” (abstract), published in Pharmacy Practice
• Co-author, “Schizophrenia,” published in Applied Therapeutics: The Clinical Use of Drugs
  

JADWIGA S. NAJIB

Professor of Pharmacy PracticeB.S. St. John’s University; Pharm.D., University of Minnesota – Twin Cities

Specialties:

Alcoholism and Substance Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders

Publications:

• Author, “Eszopiclone, a Nonbenzodiazepine Sedative-Hypnotic Agent for the Treatment of Transient and Chronic Insomnia”
• Author, “Drug-Induced Movement Disorders,” published in Drug Injury: Liability, Analysis and Prevention
• Author, “Fenofibrate in the Treatment of Dyslipidemia: A Review of the Data as They Relate to the New Suprabioavailable Tablet Formulation,” published in Clinical Therapeutics
• Author, “Entacapone: A Catechol-O-Methyltransferase Inhibitor for the Adjunctive Treatment of Parkinson’s Disease,” published in Clinical Therapeuticss

AMBER JEAN-MARIE PABON

Visiting Professor of Adolescent Urban Education; Education Coordinator, Adolescence Urban Education Program B.A. University of California Los Angeles; M.A. City University New York, Brooklyn College; Ph.D. City University New York Graduate Center (ABD)

Publications:

• Pabon, A., Kharem, H., Anderson, N. (2011). Minding the gap: Cultivating Black male teachers in a time of crisis in urban schools. Journal of Negro Education.
• Pabon, A. (2011). Creating an Urban Teacher Preparation Program. Theory Research and Action in Urban Education.
• Pabon, A. When the Writing Isn't Right: Collecting Student Work for Assessment and Instruction. Teachers Network Leadership Institute. www.teachersnetwork.org.

Performances:

(Keynote/Plenary Address)

• Pabon, A (2010). Brooklyn, New York: A Slice of the Multilingual Apple. Presented at The Third Annual International Conference of Linguistic Landscapes, Strasbourg, France, May 5 – 7.
• Pabon, A. (2010). Dangerous Minds: Critical Media Literacy and the Contemporary Teacher. Presented at Teachers, Teaching and the Movies III, Vassar College, New York.
• Pabon, A. (2007). From the Gavel to the Classroom: How Teachers Can Have an Impact on NYC Public School Funding. Presented at the Sixth Annual Curriculum, Community, Collaboration & Celebration Conference. New York, NY.
• Moss, A. (2006). What is the Campaign for Fiscal Equity? Presented at the Teachers Network Leadership Institute Monthly Meeting. New York, NY.
• Moss, A (2006). Teaching Equity: A Fair-Share Curriculum. Presented at the Fifth Annual Curriculum, Community, Collaboration & Celebration Conference for New York City Public School Educators & Concerned Citizens. New York, NY.

(Chair/Discussant/Respondent)

• Pabon, A. (2010). A Necessary Crisis: Addressing Power, Privilege and Normativity in Teacher Education Courses. Presented at The Democratic Education Symposium: By the People for the People. Medgar Evers College, New York.

Honors/Awards:

• Sue Zalk Award, CUNY Graduate Center (2010)
• Doctoral Grant Competition #4, CUNY Graduate Center (2010)
• Enhanced Chancellor's Fellowship, CUNY Graduate Center (2008, 2009)
• MetLife Fellowship Award (2005, 2006, 2007)

Professional Memberships

National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE)

JOHN PAPADOPOULOS

Associtate Professor of Pharmacy PracticeB.S., St. John’s University; Pharm.D., Arnold & Marie Schwartz College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, Long Island University

Specialties:

Critical Care Pharmacotherapy, Infectious Diseases, Cardiology, Neurological Emergencies

Publications:

• Author, “Hematogenous Candidiasis in Critically Ill Adult Patients: Epidemiology, Risk Factors, and Management,” published in the Journal of Pharmacy Practice

ANASTASIA M. RIVKIN

Associtate Professor of Pharmacy PracticeB.S., Pharm.D., North Dakota State University

Specialties:

Critical Care, Gastroenterology, Hepatology, Infectious Diseases, Pharmacy Practice

Publications:

• Author, “Adefovir dipivoxil in the treatment of chronic hepatitis B,” published in the Annals of Pharmacotherapy
• Author, “Valacyclovir-induced seizures in end-stage renal disease,” published in the Annals of Pharmacotherapy
• Author, “Tegaserod maleate in the treatment of irritable bowel syndrome: a clinical review,” published in Clinical Therapeutics
• Author, “Infliximab in graft-versus-host disease,” published in the American Journal of Health Systems Pharmacy
• Author, “Chronic hepatitis B: current and future treatment options,” published in Pharmacotherapy
  

BROOKE D. FIDLER

Assistant Professor of Pharmacy PracticePharm.D., University of Rhode Island

Specialties:

Community Practice, Disease Management Services in Community Pharmacies, Management of Lipid Disorders, Smoking Cessation

Publications:

• “Medication Therapy in Diabetes,” Sturdy Memorial Hospital, Massachusetts
• “Anticonvulsant Medications and the Pediatric Population,” Hasbro Children’s Hospital, Rhode Island
• “Pharmacotherapy of Smoking Cessation,” Horton Medical Center, New York
• Author, various articles in Drug Store News, Drug Topics P&T Journal, The New York State Journal of Health-systems Pharmacy and Critical Care Nurse

FRAIDY N. MALTZ

Assistant Professor of Pharmacy PracticeB.S., Pharm.D., Arnold & Marie Schwartz College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, Long Island University

Specialties:

Community Pharmacy Practice, Diabetes

Publications:

• Co-author, “New Therapeutic Options for the Management of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus in Adults,” published in the American Journal of Managed Care

KRISTANA ARP

Professor of PhilosophyB.A., University of Chicago; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, San Diego

Specialties:

20th-Century French and German Philosophy, Feminist Theory

Publications:

• Author, “The Bonds of Freedom: The Existentialist Ethics of Simone de Beauvoir”
• Author, “A Different Voice in the Phenomenological Tradition: Simone de Beauvoir and the Ethics of Care,” published in “Feminist Phenomenology”
• Author, “Beauvoir’s Concept of Bodily Alienation,” published in “Re-Reading the Canon: Feminist Interpretations of Simone de Beauvoir”
  

MARGARET CUONZO

Chair, Philosophy Department; Associate Professor of PhilosophyB.A., Barnard College; M.Phil., Ph.D., The Graduate Center, CUNY

Specialties:

Feminist Issues in Science, Philosophy of Language, Philosophical Paradoxes

Publications:

• Author, “The Need for Integrating Statistical and Probabilistic Reasoning Into the Philosophy Curriculum” and “Meet the Cloneheads: A Review of Cloning: Responsible Science or TechnoMadness?” published in Humanities/AITIA Magazine
• Author, “Why the Sorites Paradox Has a Restricted Solution at Best,” published in Facta Philosophica
  

JOSEPH D. FILONOWICZ

Professor of PhilosophyB.A., Hope College; M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., Columbia University

Specialties:

Moral Philosophy, Psychology of Ethics

Publications:

• “Fellow-Feeling and the Moral Life” (2008)
• Introduction, “An Inquiry Concerning Virtue, In Two Discourses (1699)” by Anthony Ashley Cooper
• Author, “Ethical Sentimentalism Revisited,” published in History of Philosophy Quarterly
• Author, “Black American Philosophy as American Philosophy: Transcendentalism, Pragmatism, and Black Existentialism,” published in “American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Philosophy and the Black Experience”
  

Honors/Awards:

• Recipient, Newton Award for Excellence in Teaching

SOPHIA WONG, PH.D.

Associate Professor of PhilosophyB.A., University of Alberta; M.A., University of Alberta; Ph.D. Columbia University

Specialties:

Social and Political philosophy, Health Care Ethics, Disability Studies, Philosophy of Education

Publications:

• Author, “Duties of Justice to Citizens with Cognitive Disabilities,” published in Metaphilosophy (2009)
• Co-author, “Preimplantation genetic diagnosis and reproductive autonomy,” published by Reproductive Biomedicine Online (2009)
• Author, “Cognitive Disabilities and the Scope of Contractualist Justice,” published in the Auslegung Journal of Philosophy (2009)
• Co-author, “Sharing Strategies for Succeeding as a Feminist Philosopher,” published in the APA Newsletter (2009)
• Author, “Justice and Cognitive Disabilities: Specifying the Problem,” published in Essays in Philosoph (2008)
• Author, “The Moral Personhood of Individuals Labeled 'Mentally Retarded': A Rawlsian Response to Nussbaum,” published in Social Theory and Practice (2007)
• Author, “At Home with Down Syndrome and Gender,” published in Hypatia (2002)

Honors/Awards:

• Recipient, David Newton Award for Excellence in Teaching, Long Island University (2010)
• Recipient, Presidential Award for Outstanding Teaching, Columbia University (2002)
• Recipient, Doctoral Fellowship, Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada (1995-98)

Professional Affiliations

• Member, Society for Disability Studies
• Member, Long Island Philosophical Society
• Member, New York Society for Women in Philosophy
• Member, Association for Feminist Ethics and Social Theory
• Member, International Association of Bioethics

HILARY LORENZ

Associate Professor of Art and Media ArtsB.S., Western Michigan University; M.A., M.F.A., University of Iowa

Specialties:

Book Design, Computer Graphics, Digital Photography, Digital Printmaking, Personal Magazine Publishing, Photography, Printmaking

Exhibits:

• 11th Taiwan Print and Drawing Biennial, Taiwan Museum of Fine Art
• Frans Masereel Centrum, Belgium (2003)
• Abstractions in Photography, Hunderdon Museum of Art (2002)
• Digital Art 2001, New York Hall of Science (2001)
• Digital Salon, School of Visual Arts Museum (2000)
• Printed Identity, American Swedish Museum, Philadelphia (2000)
  

Honors/Awards:

• Listed in Who’s Who in American Art and Who’s Who in the World

AUDREY SACKNER-BERNSTEIN

Associate Professor of Media ArtsB.F.A., Cornell University; M.F.A., Visual Studies Workshop

Specialties:

Photographic Collages and Montages

Exhibits:

• The Print Center, Philadelphia, Pa.
• Candace Perich Gallery, Ridgefield, Conn.
• Pentaprisma Gallery, Barcelona, Spain
• Johnson Art Museum, Ithaca, N.Y.
• Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, France (permanent collection)

CRISTIANA KAHL COLLINS

Associate Director, Division of Physical Therapy; Assistant Professor of Physical Therapy; Coordinator, Post-Professional M.S. Program in Physical TherapyB.S., M.A., New York University

Specialties:

Manual Therapy Skills; Neurological Rehabilitation; Physical Therapy for People with Multiple Sclerosis, Stroke and Spinal Cord Injuries

WING S. FU

Assistant Professor of Physical Therapy; Coordinator of Admissions and Program Recruitment, Division of Physical TherapyP.D., Hong Kong Polytechnic University; M.A., New York University; Ph.D.(c), Nova Southeastern University

Specialties:

Orthopedic physical therapy, Pediatric physical therapy

STACY JAFFEE GROPACK

Director, Division of Physical Therapy; Associate Professor of Physical TherapyB.S., M.S., Brooklyn Campus, Long Island University; Ph.D., New York University

Specialties:

Psychosocial and Educational Issues in Physical Therapy; Pediatric Physical Therapy

MARSHALL HAGINS

Associate Professor of Physical TherapyB.S., M.A., New York University

Specialties:

Physical Therapy Treatment for Professional Dancers

MICHAEL MASARACCHIO

Assistant Professor of Physical TherapyB.S., M.S., Brooklyn Campus, Long Island University; T.D.P.T., Creighton University

Specialties:

Clinical Orthopedics in Physical Therapy, the Knee, the Shoulder

EVANGELOS PAPPAS

Assistant Professor of Physical TherapyB.S., Technological Educational Institution (TEI), Greece; M.Sc., Quinnipiac University; Ph.D., New York University

Specialties:

Biomechanics, Motion Analysis, Orthopedic Physical Therapy, Prevention of Sports Injuries in Female Athletes, Sports Medicine & Exercise Physiology, Sports Physical Therapy

Publications:

• Co-author, “Response Stability for the Optotrak 3020 Motion Analysis System,” published in the Journal of Medicine Engineering and Technology
• Manuscript Reviewer, Journal of Rheumatology, Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise, Journal of Orthopaedic and Sports Physical Therapy and Journal of Athletic Training
  

Honors/Awards:

• Co-recipient, National Institute on Occupational Safety and Health grant for “The effect of an inclined surface on biomechanical variables during a jumping task”

• Member, Research Subcommittee and Awards Committee, American Physical Therapy Association

YASSER SALEM

Assistant Professor of Physical TherapyB.S., M.S., Cairo University (Egypt); Ph.D., University of Central Arkansas

Specialties:

Neurology, Pediatrics, Neuroscience, Motor Control

THOMAS J. SCHMITZ

Professor of Physical TherapyB.S., SUNY Buffalo; M.S., Boston University; Ph.D., New York University

Specialties:

Curriculum Planning, Educational Methodology, Management of Neurologic Deficits, Outcome Measures

Publications:

• Co-author, “Physical Rehabilitation Assessment and Treatment”

REBECCA A. STATES

Associate Professor of Physical TherapyB.A., Barnard College; M.A., Teachers College, Columbia University; Ph.D., Columbia University

Specialties:

Computational Modeling of Human Movement, Human Motor Control, Joint Coordination

Publications:

• Author, “Two Simple Methods for Improving the Reliability of Joint Center Locations,” published in Clinical Biomechanics
• Author, “The Interplay of Biomechanical Constraints and Kinematic Strategies in Selecting Arm Postures,” published in the Journal of Motor Behavior

ELIZABETH A.J. SALZER

Director, Division of Physician Assistant Studies; Associate Professor of Physician Assistant StudiesA.B., Smith College; B.S., Brooklyn Campus, Long Island University; M.A., Columbia University and the Union Theological Seminary
Postgraduate Residency for Physician Assistants in Obstetrics and Gynecology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, North Central Bronx Hospital and Montefiore Hospital

Specialties:

General Obstetrics and Gynecology, Gynecologic Oncology, Medical Education

Publications:

• Co-author, “Correlating Papanicolaou Smear, Colposcopic impression, and Biopsy: Results from the Women’s Interagency HIV Study,” published in the Journal of Lower Genital Tract Diseases
• Co-author, “Interrater Variability in Diagnosis of Cervical Biopsies from Women with HIV-1: Results from the Women’s Interagency HIV Study,” published in the Journal of Lower Genital Tract Diseases
• Author, “Pelvic Inflammatory Disease,” published in Physician Assistant

Honors/Awards:

Member, Alpha Eta National Allied Health Honor Society (2009-present)
Member, Pi Alpha National Honor Society for Physician Assistants (2008-present)
Recipient, Program Director’s Award, The Brooklyn Hospital Center/Long Island University Physician Assistant Program (1992)
Recipient, Stanley S. Bergen Award, The Brooklyn Hospital Center/Long Island University Physician Assistant Program (1992)
Recipient, Clara Willoughby Davidson Fellowship of Smith College (1984-1986)

Professional Affiliations

Educational Affiliate, American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
Licensed Sexual Assault Forensic Examiner (SAFE)

WALTER GLICKMAN

Chair, Physics Department; Professor of PhysicsB.S., Alfred University; M.S., Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University

Specialties:

Einstein, Holistic Education, Science Pedagogy

Publications:

• Author, “The Physics of Higher Education,” published in Holistic Education Review

JOHN EHRENBERG

Chair, Political Science Department; Senior Professor of Political ScienceB.A., Dartmouth College; M.A., Ph.D., Stanford University

Specialties:

History of Political Thought, Marxism, Contemporary Political Ideologies, Democratic Theory

Publications:

• Author, “The History of Civil Society Ideas and Theories,” published in “The Oxford Handbook of Civil Society” (2011)
• Author, “Left Matters: An Interview with Cornel West,” published in New Political Science (2011)
• Co-editor, “The Iraq Papers” (2010)
• Author, “Servants of Wealth: The Right’s Assault on Economic Justice” (2006)
• Author, “Black Gold: Mining Racial Fear in the Service of Wealth,” published in Logos (2006)
• Author, “Civil Society: The Critical History of an Idea (2001, translated editions in 2002)
• Author, “Equality, Democracy and Community from Tocqueville to Putnam” published in “Robert Putnam and Social Capital: Critical Perspectives on American Democracy and Social Engagement” (2002)
• Author, “Civil Society and its Discontents,” published in “Working Papers in Local Governance and Democracy” (1999)
• Author, “Proudhon and His Age” (1996)
• Author, “Class Politics and the State: Lenin and the Contradictions of Socialism,” published in Science and Society (1995)
• Author, “The Dictatorship of the Proletariat: Marxism's Theory of Socialist Democracy” (1992)

Honors/Awards:

• Recipient, Michael J. Harrington Prize of the Caucus for a New Political Science of the American Political Science Association for the Best Book of 1999
• Recipient, Alfred McCoy Award for Lifetime Achievement, Caucus for a New Political Science (2008)
• Recipient, Trustees Award for Scholarly Achievement, Long Island University (1994)
• Recipient, David Newton Award for Excellence in Teach¬ing, Long Island University (1990)

Professional Affiliations

• Member, American Political Science Association
• Editorial Board Member, New Political Science and Science & Society

DALIA FAHMY

Assistant Professor of Political ScienceB.A., M.A., New York University; M.A., Ph.D., Rutgers University

Specialties:

Politics of the Middle East, U.S. Foreign Policy, Political Islam, Democratization

Honors/Awards:

• Recipient, Islamic Scholarship Fund Award
• Recipient, Porte Fund Award
• Recipient, McCormick Pre-Dissertation Award
• Recipient, Graduate School Special Study Award
• Trustee Scholar, New York University
• Recipient, Academic Excellence Scholarship, Union Camp Corporation
• Bloustien Scholar, State of New Jersey

Professional Affiliations

• Member, American Political Science Association
• Member, Midwest Political Science Association
• Member, Middle Eastern Studies Association
• Member, American Academy of Religion

DIANA KLEBANOW

Adjunct Professor of Political ScienceB.A., Brooklyn College, CUNY; A.M., Ph.D., New York University

Specialties:

Women in 20th-Century American Politics, the Presidency

Publications:

• Co-author, “People’s Lawyers: Crusaders for Justice in American History”
• Author, “Urban Legacy: The Story of America’s Cities”
• Author, articles on Fiorello H. LaGuardia and Seth Low for the Encyclopedia of World Biography
• Author, articles in the Journal of American History

J. PATRICE MCSHERRY

Professor of Political Science; Director of Latin American and Caribbean Studies ProgramB.A., University of California, Berkeley; M.A., Ph.D., The Graduate Center, City University of New York (CUNY)

Specialties:

Comparative Politics, Human Rights, International Relations, Latin American Politics, Role of the Military in Latin America, Operation Condor (Cold War Military Intelligence Network in Latin America), Music and Social-Political Movements in Chile

Publications:

• Co-editor, “The Iraq Papers” (2010)
• Author, “Los Estados Depredadores: Operación Cóndor y la Guerra Encubierta en América Latina” (revised and translated, 2009)
• Author, “Predatory States: Operation Condor and Covert War in Latin America” (2005)
• Author, “Incomplete Transition: Military Power and Democracy in Argentina” (1997)
• Guest co-editor, special edition of Social Justice (1999)
• Author, some five dozen articles published in professional journals, other print media and book chapters

Lectures and Presentations
Invited guest speaker at some 25 campuses in the U.S., Europe and Latin America.

Broadcasts
Featured analyst in five documentaries, several radio and television programs.

Honors/Awards:

• Research on Operation Condor used as resource in five Latin American human rights trials
• Recipient, Fulbright Senior Scholar Award (Chile 2011, Uruguay 2005)
• Recipient, Distinguished Alumni Award, The Graduate Center, CUNY (2009)
• Recipient, Certificate for Outstanding Teaching in Political Science, American Political Science Association and Pi Sigma Alpha (2008)
• Recipient, David Newton Award for Excellence in Teaching, LIU (2008)
• Recipient, Choice Award for Outstanding Academic Title (2006)
• Recipient, research/writing grant, World Council of Churches, International Programme (2001)
• Recipient, travel grant, São Paulo Research Foundation to teach mini-course (2001)
• Recipient, research and creative projects grant, SUNY New Paltz (1996)
• Recipient, New York State/United University Professions Award (1995)
• Recipient, Fellowship, Institute for the Study of World Politics (1992-1993)
• Recipient, Dissertation Year Fellowship, The Graduate Center, CUNY (1992-1993)
• Recipient, Fulbright Dissertation Research Award (Argentina 1992)

Professional Affiliations

• Member, American Political Science Association
• Member, Latin American Studies Association
• Editorial Board Member, Journal of Third World Studies and Social Justice Journal

JOSÉ RÁMÓN SÁNCHEZ

Chair, Urban Studies Department; Professor of Political ScienceB.A., Columbia University; M.A., University of Michigan; Ph.D., New York University

Specialties:

Political Theory, Power, Puerto Rican Politics, Political Science Methods and Writing, Urban Studies, Housing

Publications:

• Author, “Notice of Eviction: The History of Puerto Rican Housing in New York City 1920-1980,” published in Centro Journal
• Author, “The Permanent Housing Shortage: The New York Experience”
• Author, “Puerto Ricans and the Door of Participation in U.S. Politics,” published in “Hispanic Cultures of the United States”
• Author, “Puerto Rican Politics in New York: A Critique of Second Hand Theory,” published in “Latinos in New York”
• Author, “Boricua Power; A Political History of Puerto Ricans in the United States”
• Co-author, “The Iraq Papers”

SI SHEPPARD

Assistant Professor of Political ScienceB.A., Auckland University, New Zealand; M.A., Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand; Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University

Specialties:

Political Parties, Campaigns and Elections, the Media, the Presidency, Geopolitics, Military History, Sociopolitical Decline and Collapse, Popular Culture and Politics, Dystopian Politics, Technology, Culture and Politics

Publications:

• Author, “The Jewish Revolt, 66-73” (forthcoming, 2013)
• Author, “Actium, 31 BC” (2009)
• Author, “Philippi, 42 BC” (2008)
• Author, “The Partisan Press: A History of Media Bias in the United States” (2007)
• Author, “Pharsalus, 48 BC” (2006)
• Author, “Broken Circle: The Decline and Fall of the Fourth Labour Government” (1999)
• Author, multiple published articles in professional journals, several dozen in print media and two book chapters

Honors/Awards:

• Honorary Member, Alpha Lambda Delta Freshman Honor Society
• Recipient, Teaching Assistant of the Year Award, Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts & Sciences, Johns Hopkins University, 2006; nominated finalist (2005)
• Recipient, the Sir Desmond Todd Award for best M.A. or Ph.D. thesis in a political subject, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand (1997)

Professional Affiliations

• Member, American Political Science Association
• Member, New York State Political Science Association

DAWN F. KILTS

Dean, School of Nursing; Professor of NursingB.S., Adelphi University; M.A., A.B.D., New York University; Certificate, Molloy College

Specialties:

Academic Nursing Centers, Health Care for the Elderly, the Homeless, Nursing Education, Nursing Shortage and Profession

• Volunteer with the nonprofit Sierra Leone Health Pride, Inc., helped provide health care education and clinical support in western African country
• Adult Nurse Practitioner
  

JAN ROSENBERG

Professor Emerita of SociologyB.A., M.A., University of Illinois; Ph.D., University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Specialties:

Empowerment Zones, Jews of Brooklyn, Joblessness, Urban Neighborhoods, Welfare Reform

Publications:

• Co-editor, “Urban Society”, Widely reported research on Fort Greene, Brooklyn (sponsored by HUD)

JADWIGA S. NAJIB

Professor of Pharmacy PracticeB.S. St. John’s University; Pharm.D., University of Minnesota – Twin Cities

Specialties:

Alcoholism and Substance Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders

Publications:

• Author, “Eszopiclone, a Nonbenzodiazepine Sedative-Hypnotic Agent for the Treatment of Transient and Chronic Insomnia”
• Author, “Drug-Induced Movement Disorders,” published in Drug Injury: Liability, Analysis and Prevention
• Author, “Fenofibrate in the Treatment of Dyslipidemia: A Review of the Data as They Relate to the New Suprabioavailable Tablet Formulation,” published in Clinical Therapeutics
• Author, “Entacapone: A Catechol-O-Methyltransferase Inhibitor for the Adjunctive Treatment of Parkinson’s Disease,” published in Clinical Therapeuticss

LINDA JACOBS

Associate Professor of Human Development and LeadershipB.A., Brooklyn College, CUNY; M.A., Ph.D., New York University

Specialties:

Diagnostic Assessment of Children, School Psychology

Publications:

• Author, “Resurrecting the Buried Self: Fairy Tales and the Analytic Encounter.” published in Psychoanalytic Review (2011)
• Author, “Meeting Beyond the Frame: Extraordinary Demands and Analytic Choices,” published in Psychoanalytic Perspectives (2009)
• Author, “Parent-Centered Child Work: A Relational Shift in Child Treatment,” published in Journal of Infant, Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy (2006)
• Co-author, “Parent Focused Child Therapy: Attachment, Identification, and Reflective Functions” (2006)
• Co-author, “Parent Therapy: A Relational Alternative to Working with Children” (2002)
• Author, “AIDS Curriculum for School District 15”
• Author, “Family Origins of Marital Concepts,” published in The CUNY Woman’s Coalition Journal
• Author, “Onset of Parenting and Stressful Events,” published in The Journal of Prevention
• Author, “The Psychology of the Rapist and His Victim,” published in “Rape: The First Sourcebook for Women"

ELIZABETH KUDADJIE-GYAMFI

Assistant Professor of PsychologyB.Sc., University of Ghana; M.A., Ph.D., Stony Brook University

Specialties:

Factors that Affect Decision Making, Impulsive vs. Self-Controlled Decisions

Publications:

• Author, “Temporal patterning in choice among delayed outcomes,” published in “Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes”

LAURIE R. LEHMAN

Associate Professor of Special EducationB.A., Clark University; M.A., Arizona State University; Ph.D., New York University

Specialties:

Special Education, Teacher Education, Inclusive Education, the Lives of Children and Adults with Disabilities, Innovative Pedagogy in Teacher Education

Publications:

• Co-editor, “The cruel years: American voices at the dawn of the 20th century,” 2nd ed. (2003)
• Co-author, “Transforming one Teacher Education program through inquiry, difference and field experience,” published in “Portraits of teacher preparation: Learning to teach in a changing America” (2005)
• Co-author, “Students reveal the complexities of Inclusive Education” (submitted for publication)
• Co-author, “The power of autobiography: Rethinking disability, rethinking teaching,” published in Excelsior: Leadership in Teaching and Learning (2007)
• Co-author, “Double entry journals: A pedagogical response to the need to create a ‘Third Space’ in Teacher Education,” published in CUE Point of View (December 2002)
• Co-author, “Teacher, student, and school attributes as predictors of teachers’ responses to inclusion,” published in the Journal of Special Education (1997)
• Co-author, “Differential Effectiveness of General Case Programming and Rule Learning,” published in Focus on Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities (1996)
• Co-author, “A curricular approach to support the transition to adulthood of adolescents with visual or dual sensory impairments and cognitive disabilities,” published by Hunter College, City University of New York (1991)
• Co-author, “Psychological Adjustment and Characteristics in Recent Spinal Cord Injuries,” final report for the National Institute for Health Research and the U.S. Department of Education (1982)
• Co-author, “The relationship between pressure sores and adjustment in spinal cord injured individuals,” published in Rehabilitation Psychology (1982)
• Co-author, “Increasing appropriate behaviors in children in a nursery school setting,” published in Rehabilitation Psychology (1979)
• Author, “Review: ‘Claiming disability: Knowledge and Identity,’” published in Educators for Urban Minorities (2001)
• Author, “Review: ‘Raymond’s Portrait: The life and art of Raymund Hu,’” published in Disability Studies Quarterly 2000)
• Author, “Review: ‘The special-needs reading list: An annotated guide to the best publications for parents and professionals,’” published in Disability Studies Quarterly (1999)
• Author, “Review: ‘Disability and the dilemmas of education and justice,’” published in Disability Studies Quarterly (1998)
• Author, “Review: ‘Education action research: Becoming practically critical,’” published in Disability Studies Quarterly (1997)
• Author, “Review: ‘Curriculum trends, special education, and reform: Refocusing the conversation,’” published in Disability Studies Quarterly (1997)
• Author, “Review: The Dreamkeepers: Successful teachers of African American Children,’” published in Disability Studies Quarterly (1996)

ANDREW LIVANIS

Chair, Human Development and Leadership ; Associate Professor of Human Development and LeadershipB.A., St. John’s University; M.S., St. John’s University; Ph.D., CUNY Graduate Center; Board Certified Behavior Analyst, Doctoral Level (BCBA-D)

Specialties:

Autism, Consultation, Behavior Analysis, Reading Instruction, Social Skills Interventions for Children with Behavioral Issues

Publications:

• Co-author, “Guided Social Stories: Group Treatment of Adolescents with Asperger Disorder in the Schools,” published in “Handbook of Cognitive Behavior Group Therapy with Children and Adolescents”
• Co-author, “The Development of the Adolescent Nervios Scale: Preliminary Findings,” published in Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology
• Co-author, “Using Performance Feedback to Improve Treatment Integrity of Class-wide Behavior Plans: An Investigation of Observer Reactivity,” published in the Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis

Professional Affiliations

• Member, Association for Behavior Analysis (ABA)
• Member, Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapy (ABCT)
• Treasurer, CBT in the Schools, Special Interest Group
• Member and Reviewer, Excelsior: Leadership in Teaching Learning
• Reviewer, Journal of School Psychology
• Member, National Association of School Psychologists
• Member, Steering Committee, National Bilingual Network
• Member, Program Review Committee, National Bilingual Network
• Member, New York State Association for Behavior Analysis (NYSABA)
• Member, New York Association of School Psychologists (NYASP)
• Brooklyn Representative to Executive Committee, NYASP
• Member, Newsletter Editorial Board, NYASP
• General Board Member, NYASP
• Member, Conference 2009 Planning Committee, NYSAP
• President, School Psychology Educators’ Council of New York State (2008–2010)

STANLEY NASS

Professor of Human Development and LeadershipB.A., City College, CUNY; M.A., New York University; M.A., Ed.D., Columbia University

Specialties:

Freud, Psychobiography, Short-Term Psychotherapy

Publications:

• Editor, “Crisis Intervention Therapy”
• Co-author, “Adjustment Psychology”
• Co-author, “Turn Your Life Around: Self Knowledge for Self Improvement”
  

PAUL MICHAEL RAMIREZ

Chair, Psychology Department; Professor of PsychologyB.A., Lehman College, CUNY; M.A., New York University; M.A., City College, CUNY; M.Phil., Ph.D., The Graduate Center, CUNY

Specialties:

Clinical Neuropsychology, Clinical Psychology, Cross-Cultural Psychology (with emphasis on the Hispanic community), Psychology of Crowds, Psychology of Jury Selection

LISA SAMSTAG

Professor of Psychology; Coordinator, Psychotherapy Research Program, Brooklyn Campus Psychological Services CenterDip.C.S., Institute of Child Study, University of Toronto; B.A., Queen's University (Canada); M.Phil., Ph.D., The Graduate Center, CUNY; M.A., City College, CUNY

Specialties:

Psychotherapy Research, the Therapeutic Relationship, Personality Disorders, Psychoanalysis, Developmental Psychology

Publications:

• Author, “Mending the gap: An introduction to the commentaries on Dinger,” published on Psychotherapy: Theory, Research, Practice, Training (2009)
• Co-quthor, “Therapeutic alliance ruptures and their resolution in the early phase of three brief psychotherapies for personality disorders,” published in Psychotherapy: Theory, Research, Practice, Training (2009)
• Co-author, “Maternal regulation strategies in the United States and Turkey: A brief report,” published in the Journal of Cross Cultural Psychology (2008)
• Co-author, “Comment: Can some interpersonalists be more different than alike? Implications for method in practice and research,” published in Psychotherapy: Theory, Research, Practice, Training (2008)
• Co-author, “Evaluating negative process: A comparison of working alliance, interpersonal behavior, and narrative coherency among three psychotherapy outcome conditions,” published in the American Journal of Psychotherapy (2008)
• Author, “The necessary and sufficient conditions of therapeutic personality change: Reaction to Rogers’ 1957 article,” published in Psychotherapy: Theory, Research, Practice, Training (2007)
• Author, “The working alliance in psychotherapy: An overview of the invited papers in the special section,” published in Psychotherapy: Theory, Research, Practice, Training (2006)
• Co-author, “A comparative treatment study of personality disorders,” published in Psychotherapy: Theory, Research, Practice, Training (2005)
• Co-author, “A comparative treatment study of potential treatment failures,” published in Psychotherapy: Theory, Research, Practice, Training (2005)
• Co-author, “Repairing alliance ruptures,” published in Psychotherapy: Theory, Research, Practice, Training (2002)
• Author, “The common versus unique factors hypothesis in psychotherapy research: Did we misinterpret Rosenzweig?” published in the Journal of Psychotherapy Integration (2002)
• Co-author, “A cognitive-interpersonal case study of a self,” published in Journal of Clinical Psychology (2001)
• Co-author, “Adding group psychotherapy to medication treatment in dysthymia: A randomized prospective pilot study,” published in the Journal of Psychotherapy Practice & Research (2001)
• Co-author, “One step further in assessing how interpretations influence the process of psychotherapy,” published in Psychotherapy Research (2000)
• Co-author, “Early identification of treatment failures in short-term psychotherapy: An assessment of therapeutic alliance and interpersonal behavior,” published in the Journal of Psychotherapy Practice & Research (1998)
• Co-author, “A randomized prospective study comparing supportive and dynamic therapies: Outcome and alliance,” published in the Journal of Psychotherapy Practice & Research (1998)
• Co-author, “Interpersonal scenarios: An ideographic measure of self-schemas,” published in Psychotherapy Research (1998)
• Co-author, “Development of a sub¬outcome strategy to measure interpersonal process in psychotherapy from an observer perspective,” published in the Journal of Clinical Psychology (1997)
• Co-author, “Follow-up assessment of medication-treated dysthymia,” published in Progress in Neuropsychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry (1996)
• Co-author, “Linking in-session change to overall outcome in short-term cognitive therapy,” published in the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology (1995)
• Co-author, “The clinical impact of benzodiazepine regulation,” published in Hospital and Community Psychiatry (1994)
• Co-author, “Self-scenarios as a repeated measures outcome measurement of self-schemas in short-term cognitive-behavior therapy,” published in Behavior Therapy (1994)
• Co-author, “Patient pre-treatment inter¬personal problems and therapeutic alliance in short-term cognitive therapy,” published in the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology (1994)
• Co-author, “Short-term dynamic psychotherapy of personality disorders,” published in the American Journal of Psychiatry (1994)
• Co-author, “Patient defense/therapist interventions,” published in Psychotherapy: Theory, Research, Practice, Training (1994)
• Co-author, “Long-term treatment of double depression: A preliminary study with serotonergic antidepressants,” published in Progress in Neuropsychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry (1993)
• Co-author, “A randomized double blind study of fluoxetine and placebo in treatment of dysthymia,” published in the American Journal of Psychiatry (1993)
• Co-author, “Assessing patient suitability for short-term cognitive therapy,” published in Cognitive Therapy & Research (1993)
• Co-author, “A preliminary study of serotonergic antidepressants in treatment of dysthymia,” published in Progress in Neuropsychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry (1992)
• Co-author, “Adherence to brief supportive psycho¬therapy,” published in the World Journal of Psychosynthesis (1992)
• Co-author, “The relative predictive validity of two therapeutic alliance measures in cognitive therapy,” published in Psychological Assessment: A Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology (1991)
• Co-author, “The therapeutic relationship,” published in “Handbook of Counseling Psychology (2008)
• Co-author, “Defining and identifying alliance ruptures,” published in “Core Concepts in Brief Dynamic Psychotherapy” (2004)
• Co-author, “Repairing alliance ruptures,” published in “Psychotherapy Relationships That Work: Therapists’ Relational Contributions to Effective Psychotherapy” (2002)
• Co-author, “Resolving therapeutic alliance ruptures: A task analytic investigation,” published in “The Working Alliance: Theory, Research and Practice (1994)
• Co-author, “Towards a clarification of the processes involved in resolving ruptures in the therapeutic alliance,” published in “Psychotherapy and Process Research (1993)
• Co-author, “Review: ‘Succeeding with difficult clients: Applications of cognitive appraisal therapy,’” published in Contemporary Psychology (2003)
• Author, “Review: ‘Selecting effective treatments: A comprehensive, systematic guide to treating mental disorders,’” published in the Journal of Psychotherapy Integration (2001)
• Co-author, “Procedural Manual for Interpersonal Scenarios” (1992)
• Author, “A theory-specific quantitative analysis of interpersonal process in treatment failures,” paper presented at the International Meeting of the Society for Psychotherapy Research (2005)
• Discussant, “Beth Israel Brief Psychotherapy Research Program: New measures of the therapeutic relationship,” panel presentation at the International Meeting of the Society for Psychotherapy Research (2004)
• Co-author, “Repairing therapeutic alliance ruptures: An evaluation of therapist interventions,” paper presented at the International Meeting of the Society for Psychotherapy Research (2004)
• Co-author, “Internalization and clinical development in psychotherapy supervision: A study of psychologists in training, paper presented at the North American Meeting of the Society for Psychotherapy Research (2003)
• Co-author, “Does multiculturalism in psychotherapy training matter? Some findings from the LIU Psychotherapy Research Program,” symposium presented at the International Meeting of the Society for the Exploration of Psychotherapy Integration (2003)
• Co-author, “The Development of the Rupture Resolution Coding Scale,” paper presented at the International Meeting of the Society for Psychotherapy Research (2002)
• Co-author, “A comparative treatment study of potential treatment failures,” paper presented at the International Meeting of the Society for Psychotherapy Research (2002)
• Co-author, “A comparative treatment study of personality disorders,” paper presented at the International Meeting of the Society for Psychotherapy Research (2002)
• Co-author, “What attachment literature can contribute to the study of the therapeutic relationship,” paper presented at the International Meeting of the Society for Psychotherapy Research (2000)
• Co-author, “Relation of patient and therapist attachment style and introject to the establishment of the therapeutic alliance,” paper presented at the International Meeting of the Society for Psychotherapy Research (2000)
• Co-author, “Interpersonal and attachment perspectives on the alliance and outcome, paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association (2000)
• Co-author, “A comparative analysis of the therapeutic alliance, paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association (2000)
• Co-author, “A comparative analysis of therapeutic outcome and failure, paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association (2000)
• Author, “Difficult dyads and unsuccessful treatments: A comparison of the therapeutic relationship among dropout, poor, and good outcome groups in brief psychotherapy, paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Psychological Association, Division 39 (1999)
• Co-author, “Interpersonal and attachment perspectives on developing therapeutic alliances: SASB and Narrative Coherency in brief psychotherapy,” paper presented at the International Meeting of the Society for Psychotherapy Research (1999)
• Co-author, “A comparative analysis of treatment efficacy and failure,” paper presented at the International Meeting of the Society for Psychotherapy Research (1998)
• Co-author, “A comparison of treatment outcome for dysthymia and non-dysthymia patients in brief psychotherapy,” paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association (1997)
• Co-author, “Personality predictors of treatment success in brief support psychotherapy,” paper presented at the International Meeting of the Society for Psychotherapy Research (1996)
• Co-author, “Difficult dyads: Evaluation of a method for assessing interpersonal process and predicting treatment failure, paper presented at the International Meeting of the Society for Psychotherapy Research (1995)
• Co-author, “A randomized prospective study comparing supportive and dynamic therapies: alliance and outcome, paper presented at the International Meeting of the Society for Psychotherapy Research (1995)
• Co-author, “How the patient sees problems in the alliance: A second look at types of rupture events,” paper presented at the International Meeting of the Society for Psychotherapy Research (1995)
• Co-author, “A replication of the alliance rupture resolution model,” paper presented at the International Meeting of the Society for Psychotherapy Research (1995)
• Co-author, “Resolving problems in the therapeutic alliance: A single-case presentation,” paper presented at the International Meeting of the Society for Psychotherapy Research (1995)
• Co-author, “In-session interpersonal predictors of treatment outcome,” paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association (1994)
• Co-author, “Content analysis of therapeutic alliance rupture events,” paper presented at the International Meeting of the Society for Psychotherapy Research (1994)
• Co-author, “Resolving therapeutic alliance ruptures,” paper presented at the International Meeting of the Society for Psychotherapy Research (1994)
• Co-author, “A project to study therapeutic alliance ruptures,” paper presented at the International Meeting of the Society for Psychotherapy Research (1994)
• Co-author, “Ruptures in the therapeutic alliance I: Assessment,” paper presented at the International Meeting of the Society for Psychotherapy Research (1994)
• Co-author, “In-session interpersonal predictors of treatment outcome,” paper presented at the International Meeting of the Society for Psychotherapy Research (1994)
• Co-author, “Pretreatment predictors of the therapeutic alliance,” paper presented at the International Meeting of the Society for Psychotherapy Research (1994)
• Co-author, “The development of the psychometric properties of interpersonal scenarios,” paper presented at the International Meeting of the Society for Psychotherapy Research (1993)
• Co-author, “Longterm follow-up of medication-treated dysthymia,” paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association (1993)
• Co-author, “Towards a contextually and ecologically valid assessment of self-schemas,” paper presented at the International Meeting of the Society for Psychotherapy Research (1993)
• Co-author, “The use of self-scenarios as a repeated measures outcome measurement of self-schemas in short-term cognitive therapy,” paper presented at the International Meeting of the Society for Psychotherapy Research (1993)
• Co-author, “Relationship between patient pretreatment interpersonal problems and the therapeutic alliance,” paper presented at the International Meeting of the Society for Psychotherapy Research (1992)
• Co-author, “Relationship variables of patient-therapist interpersonal transactions to the therapeutic alliance within session and across treat¬ment,” paper presented at the International Meeting of the Society for Psychotherapy Research (1992)
• Co-author, “A comparison of alliance rupture resolution and nonresolution events,” paper presented at the International Meeting of the Society for Psychotherapy Research (1992)
• Co-author, “ (Towards validation of patient and therapist self-report measures of suboutcome,” paper presented at the International Meeting of the Society for Psychotherapy Research (1992)
• Co-author, “The use of self-scenarios as an ideographic measure of schemas in cognitive therapy,” paper presented at the 25th Annual Convention of the Association for Advancement of Behavior Therapy (1991)
• Co-author, “The construction of the rupture resolution coding system,” paper presented at the International Meeting of the Society for Psychotherapy Research (1991)
• Co-author, “Shifts in alliance and complementarity within session and across treatment,” paper presented at the International Meeting of the Society for Psychotherapy Research (1991)
• Co-author, “The verification of the rupture resolution process through sequential analyses,” paper presented at the International Meeting of the Society for Psychotherapy Research (1991)
• Co-author, “Brief dynamic psychotherapy of personality disorders,” paper presented at the International Meeting of the Society for Psychotherapy Research (1991)
• Co-author, “Predictive validity of alliance measures in cognitive therapy,” paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Psychological Association (1990)
• Co-author, “Parental bond and childhood trauma as predictors of maladaptive personality,” poster presented at the American Psychological Association (Division 8) (2009)
• Co-author, “Evaluating alliance ruptures: Assessment of learned skills, trainee characteristics, and clinical experience,” poster presented at the Mid-Atlantic Meeting of the Society for Psychotherapy Research (2007)
• Co-author, “Varying perspectives on resolving ruptures in the therapeutic alliance: The relationship to symbolic narrative and reflection,” poster presented at the North American Meeting of the Society for Psychotherapy Research (2006)
• Co-author, “The concept of the wounded healer in psychotherapy,” poster presented at the North American Meeting of the Society for Psychotherapy Research (2006)
• Co-author, “The effects of parenting styles and childhood trauma on adult personality disorders,” poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association (2004)
• Co-author, “A typology of therapist reported alliance ruptures,” poster presented at the International Meeting of the Society for Psychotherapy Research (2002)
• Co-author, “A cross-cultural examination of attitudes and intentions toward seeking professional psychological help: The relationship of attachment, acculturation, psychological distress, and social desirability,” poster presented at the International Meeting of the Society for Psychotherapy Research (2002)
• Co-author, “Assessment of dysthymia,” poster presented as a new research poster at the Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association (1994)
• Co-author, “Double depression: A preliminary study of treatment with serotonergic antidepressants,” poster presented as a new research poster at the Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association (1991)
• Co-author, “The use of self-scenarios as an ideographic measure of personal schemas,” poster presented at the International Meeting of the Society for Psychotherapy Research (1991)
• Author, “The problem of the good-analyst feeling,” workshop presented at The William Alanson White Institute of Psychoanalysis, Clinical Services Meeting (2007)
• Moderator, “Personality disorders: Different theoretical, clinical, and empirical perspectives,” dialogue group presented at the International Meeting of the Society for the Exploration of Psychotherapy Integration (2003)
• Co-author, “Who will benefit from time-limited psychotherapy?” workshop presented through New York University’s Employee Assistance Program (2000)
• Cp-author, “Working with alliance ruptures in time-limited psychotherapy,” workshop presented through New York University’s Employee Assistance Program (2000)
• Author, “Predicting treatment failure: A comparison of the therapeutic relationship among dropout, poor, and good outcome groups in brief psychotherapy,” paper presented at Long Island University’s Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology (1999)
• Co-author, “Treating resistant patients in a brief dynamic psychotherapy,” paper presented as part of a seminar series on working with personality-disordered patients at Beth Israel Medical Center (1997)
• Participant, “Future of psychoanalytic education: Preservation and innovation,” conference cosponsored by the New York Freudian Society and the New York Psychoanalytic Society (2008)

Honors/Awards:

• Fellow, American Psychological Association, Division 29 (2008)
• Recipient, I. H. Paul Dissertation Award, Clinical Psychology Department, The City University of New York (1998)

Affiliations

• Licensed Psychologist, New York State
• Guest Editor, Psychotherapy: Theory, Research, Practice, Training (2006)
• Associate Editor/Book Review Editor, Psychotherapy: Theory, Research, Practice, Training (2004 – present)
• Editorial Board Member, Psychotherapy Research (2003 - 2004)
• Editorial Board Member, Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy (2000 – 2002)
• Peer Reviewer, Contemporary Psychoanalysis (2008)
• Peer Reviewer, Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology (2002 – present)
• Peer Reviewer, Psychotherapy Research (2001 - 2003)
• Member, American Psychoanalytic Association – Research Associate
• Member, American Psychological Association: Divisions 12, 29, & 39
• Member, Harry Stack Sullivan Society (2003-2009)
• Member, Society for the Exploration of Psychotherapy Integration
• Member, Society for Psychotherapy Research
• Member, White Society

ELLIOTT SCHUMAN

Professor of PsychologyB.S., U.S. Naval Academy; M.A., Ph.D., Columbia University

Specialties:

Arbitration, Freud, Mediation, Mental Health and Ethics, Psychotherapy, Schizophrenia

BEVERLY LYONS

Director, Master of Public Administration Program; Professor of Public Administration ; Director, Advanced Certificate in Gerontology AdministrationB.A., Queens College, CUNY; M.A., New York University; G.E.C., Hunter-Mount Sinai Geriatric Program; Ph.D., Fordham University

Specialties:

Disparities Between Racial/Ethnic Minority and Majority Older Adults, the Use of Alternative and Complementary Medicines Among People of Color, the Impact of Nutrition and Lifestyle throughout the Life Course, Barriers to Advance Health Care Planning Among Older Adults of Color

Publications:

• Author, “Cultural food habits among Caribbean-born immigrants: How do chronic kidney disease clients fare?” published in The Journal of Policy Forum
• Author, “The food habits of Black older adults in New York City: Are these differences between African Americans and Caribbean-born Immigrants,” published in The Journal of Policy Forum
• Author, “5-A-day fruit and vegetable initiative: How do African American elders fare?” published in African American Research Perspectives
• Co-author, “The role of print media in reducing health disparities among minorities,” published in African American Research Perspectives
• Co-author, “Differences between older Black residents of special care units (SCUs) and of traditional units,” published in the Journal of Social Work and Long-Term Care
• Co-author, “The impact of cognitive impairment, functional impairment, and behavior disorders on affective disorder,” published in the Journal of Social Work and Long-Term Care
• Co-author, “Reducing health risks and psychological distress among older black residents of naturally occurring retirement communities,” published in the Journal of Gerontological Social Work
• Author, “Sociocultural differences between American-born and West Indian-born elderly Blacks: A comparative study of health and social service use”
• Co-author, “Cultural differences in health beliefs: Implications for social work practice in health care settings,” published in Social Work in Health Care

Honors/Awards:

• Named a “Rising Teaching Star” by Long Island University Magazine
• Recipient, National Institute on Aging Research Fellowship at the Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan
• Recipient: Pilot Investigator’s Award, Resource Center for Minority Aging (RCMAR), Columbia University Center for the Active Life of Minority Elders (CALME)
• Inductee, Pi Alpha Alpha (honor society)
• Inductee, Phi Upsilon Omicron (honor society)

Professional Affiliations

• Registered Dietitian (R.D.), Commission on Dietetic Registration
• Certified Dietitian/Nutritionist (C.D.N.), New York State Department of Education, Division of Licensing Services
• Licensed Master Social Worker (L.M.S.W.), New York State Department of Education, Division of Licensing Services
• Member, National Association of Social Work (NASW)
• Member, American Dietetic Association (ADA)
• Member, Gerontological Society of America (GSA)
• Member, State Society on Aging of New York (SSA)
• Member, Senior Umbrella Network of Brooklyn (SUN-B)
• Member, American Society of Public Administration (ASPA)
• Member School Representative, National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration (NASPAA)

ENNA CROSMAN

Chair, Community Health Department; Professor of Community HealthB.S., Hunter College, CUNY; M.S., M.P.H., Columbia University

Specialties:

Epidemiology, International Public Health

ANTHONY SANTELLA, MPH, DRPH, CHES

Assistant Professor of Public HealthB.S., University of Connecticut; M.P.H., Emory University; Dr.P.H., Tulane University

Specialties:

Public Health, Program Planning and Evaluation, Health Disparities, Health Services Research, Health Care Administration, HIV/AIDS

Publications:

• Author, “Balanced Scorecards for Academic Departments,” presented to the Department of Health Systems Management faculty and staff. (New Orleans, La., 2005)
• Co-author, “Analysis of recruitment strategy costs for preventive HIV vaccine trials,” presented at the National HIV Prevention Conference (Atlanta, Ga., 2005)
• Co-author, “Cancer Survivor Resources and Services,” presented at the C-Change Semi-Annual Meeting (Washington, D.C., 2005)
• Co-author, “Gender, Age, and Geographic Variation in Hospital Length of Stay among HIV-Infected Adults in Louisiana,” presented at the Academy Health Annual Research Meeting (Orlando, Fla., 2007)
• Co-author, “Using Focus Groups to Elicit Consumer Priorities,” presented at the HRSA Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program Meeting (Washington, D.C., 2007)
• Co-author, “Developing and Implementing a User Friendly Priority Setting Tool,” presented at the HRSA Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program Meeting (Washington, D.C., 2007)
• Co-author, “Factors Associated in Hospital Length of Stay among HIV-Infected Adults in Louisiana, presented at the American College of Preventive Medicine (Los Angeles, Calif., 2009)
• Co-author, “Prevalence of chronic conditions, quality of life, and medical care utilization in a cohort of persons with HIV/AIDS,” presented at American Public Health Association Annual Meeting (Philadelphia, Pa., 2009)
• Co-author, “Development of a Comprehensive HIV Care Coordination Program in New York City,” presented at the Conference of the International Association of Physicians in AIDS Care (New Orleans, La, 2009)

Reports

• Author, “Cancer Survivor Resources and Services,” submitted to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Division of Cancer Prevention and Control (2005)
• Co-author, “2009-2012 Comprehensive Strategic Plan for HIV/AIDS Services in NYC,” submitted to the Health Resources and Services Administration, HIV/AIDS Bureau (2008)
• Author, “Report from Student Focus Groups, American Council on Education Internationalization Project” (2010)

Peer-Reviewed Articles

• Co-author, “The Development and Implementation of a User-Friendly Priority Setting Tool for HIV Services in NYC, published in the Journal of Community Health (2010)
• Co-author, “Factors Associated with Hospital Length of Stay among HIV-Infected Adults in Louisiana,” published in the Journal of the Louisiana State Medical Society (2010)

Peer-Reviewed Articles

• Co-author, “The Development and Implementation of a User-Friendly Priority Setting Tool for HIV Services in NYC,” published in the Journal of Community Health (2010)
• Co-author, “Factors Associated with Hospital Length of Stay among HIV-Infected Adults in Louisiana,” published in the Journal of the Louisiana State Medical Society (2010)

Honors/Awards:

• Recipient, U.S. Public Health Traineeship
• Recipient, Jack R. Aron Public Health Scholarship
• Member, Delta Omega Honor Society
• Member, Alpha Eta Honor Society

Professional Affiliations

• Member, American Public Health Association
• Member, Delta Omega National Honorary Public Health Society
• Member, Public Health Association of New York City
• Member, Community-Campus Partnerships for Health

VALERIE WALKER

Professor of Community HealthB.S., Hunter College; M.S., M.P.H., Columbia University

Specialties:

Cultural Exchange Programs in Kenya and East Africa, Evaluation of Health Care Centers, Human-Animal Bonding

Publications:

• Co-author, “Pet Facilitated Therapy Potential Benefits,” published in Community Animal Control

HONGJUN YIN

Assistant Professor of Social and Administrative SciencesB.S., M.S., China Pharmaceutical University; Ph.D., University of Illinois at Chicago

Specialties:

Cost Effectiveness and Cost Benefit Analysis, Cost of Illness Analysis, Epidemiology and Health Policy Evaluation

SUSAN ZINAR

Chair, Department of Teaching and Learning; Associate Professor of Teaching and LearningB.A., Brandeis University ; M.A.T., Harvard University; Ph.D., Teachers College, Columbia University

Specialties:

Diagnosis and Remediation of Reading Disabilities

Publications:

• Author, “Relative Contributions of Word Identification Skill and Comprehension-monitoring Behavior to Reading Comprehension,” published in Contemporary Educational Psychology
• Author, “Group Supervision and Collaborative Reflection in a Remedial Reading Program,” published in Journal of Reading Education

DAVID COHEN

Dean, Richard L. Conolly College of Liberal Arts and Sciences; Professor of BiologyB.S., M.S., Brooklyn Campus, Long Island University; Ph.D., New York University

Specialties:

Biology, Evolution, Plant Morphogenesis

ROBERT GLASS

University Dean of International Education; Dean, Global CollegeB.A., University of British Columbia; M.A., Temple University; M.Phil., Ph.D., Syracuse University

Specialties:

International Education

JONATHAN D. GOUGH

Assistant Professor of Chemistry and BiochemistryB.S., Eastern Nazarene College; Ph.D., Syracuse University

Specialties:

Chemical Biology, Organic Chemistry, Computational Chemistry

Publications:

Co-author, “Using Natural Products to Unravel Cell Biology,” published in “Chemical Biology: From Small Molecules to Systems Biology and Drug Design” (2007)
Co-author, “Probing Protein Function with Small Molecules,” published in Ernst Schering Research Foundation Workshop: Chemical Genomics (2005)
Co-author, “ortho-and meta-Substituted Aromatic Thiols as Efficient Redox Buffer for Increasing the Folding Rate of a Disulfide Containing Protein,” published in the Journal of Biotechnology (2005)
Co-author, “Increased Catalytic Activity of Protein Disulfide Isomerase (PDI) in the Presence of Aromatic Thiol Based Redox Buffers,” published in Bioorganic Medicinal Chemistry Letters (2005)
Co-author, “Effects of Redox Buffer Properties on the Folding of a Disulfide Containing Protein: Dependence upon pH, Thiol pKa, and Thiol Concentration,” published in the Journal of Biotechnology (2005)
Co-author, “Aromatic Thiol pKa Effects on the Folding Rate of a Disulfide Containing Protein,” published in Biochemistry (2003)
Co-author, “Folding Disulfide-Containing Proteins Faster with an Aromatic Thiol,” published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society (2002)
Co-author, “Ionic Blockade of the Rat Connexin40 Gap Junction Channel by Large Tetraalkylammonium Ions,” published in the Biophysical Journal (2001)
Co-author, “Modeling Antileukemic Activity of Carboquinones with Electrotopological State and Chi Indices,” published in the Journal of Chemical Information and Computer Sciences (1999)
Co-author, “Modeling the Toxicity of Amide Herbicides Using the Electrotopological State,” published in Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (1999)

Honors/Awards:

Post Doctoral Fellow, Yale University Center for Genomics and Proteomics (2004-2006)
Graduate Fellow, Syracuse University (1998-2003)
Recipient, Teaching Assistantship, Syracuse University (four semesters from 1998-2003)
Recipient, Summer Research Fellowship, Schrader Endowment Fund-Eastern Nazarene (1998)
Outstanding Senior Chemistry Major, Eastern Nazarene College (1998)
Recipient, Summer Research Fellowship, Schrader Endowment Fund-Eastern Nazarene (1997)
Eagle Scout, Boy Scouts of America (1993)

Professional Affliations

Member, American Chemical Society (Biotechnology Division and Physical Chemistry Division)

FATHER CHARLES KEENEY

ChaplainB.A., Cathedral College; M.Div., Seminary of the Immaculate Conception

Specialties:

Catholic Religion

ELLEN A. BECKER

Academic Coordinator, Respiratory Care; Associate Professor of Respiratory Care A.S., Madison Area Technical College; B.S., M.S., Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison

Specialties:

Asthma Management, Pediatric Respiratory Therapy

Publications:

Refereed:

• States RA, Nirenberg A, Becker EA, Jones SC, Dropkin MJ. [Abstract] Tools to measure students’ knowledge and attitudes toward cancer education. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 2007;55(4):S136.
• Nirenberg A, Becker EA, Dropkin MJ, Jones SC, Reynolds D, States RA. [Abstract] A culturally sensitive learning module for healthcare students about cancer education with older minority adults. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 2007;55(4):S137.
• Becker EA. Use of digital video clips to supplement artificial airways instruction. Respiratory Care Education Annual. Summer 2006;15:49-57.
• Becker EA and Godwin EG. Faculty interventions to improve interdisciplinary teamwork through computer conferencing. Journal of Allied Health. 2005;34:176-183.
• Becker EA. Promoting baccalaureate completion among respiratory therapists. Respiratory Care Education Annual. Fall 2003;12:11-20.
• Becker EA. Respiratory therapy managers’ preferences on baccalaureate and master’s degree education for respiratory therapists. Respiratory Care. 2003;48(9):840-858.
• Bessmertny O, DiGregorio RV, Cohen H, Becker E, Looney D, Golden J, Kohl L, and Johnson T. A randomized clinical trail of nebulized magnesium sulfate in addition to albuterol in the treatment of acute mild-to-moderate asthma exacerbations in adults. Annals of Emergency Medicine. 2002;39(6):585-591.
• Becker EA, Hiller Scott A, Guttman S, Zelski L, Jaffee-Gropack S, Kiefer C, Riquelme L, McManus M, and Nieves E. Creating interdisciplinary team practice through computer conferencing. Respiratory Care Education Annual. 2000;9:19-34.
• Becker EA and Gibson CC. Attitudes among practicing respiratory therapists in a midwestern state toward completing a baccalaureate degree and toward distance education. Respiratory Care. 1999;44:1337-52.
• Becker EA and Gibson CC. Fishbein and Ajzen’s Theory of Reasoned Action: Accurate prediction of behavioral intentions for enrolling in distance education courses. Adult Education Quarterly. 1998:43-55.

Online:

• Becker EA (content expert). Mosby’s respiratory care online for Egan’s fundamentals of respiratory care, 9th Ed. Online Course. St. Louis: Elsevier, 2010.

Letters:

• Becker EA [Letter]. Life experience credit versus ‘diploma mill’. Respiratory Care. 2004: 1061-62.

Presentations

Refereed:

• Becker EA. Why do Respiratory Therapists Pursue Baccalaureate Degrees? American Association for Respiratory Care 54th International Respiratory Congress. Anaheim, CA. December 14, 2008.
• States RA, Nirenberg A, Becker E, Jones S, Sheinfeld-Gorin S, Willis V, Simmons N, Amesz F [Poster]. Cancer screening education for health professions students. Minority Institute – Comprehensive Cancer Center Partners, National Cancer Institute. Bethesda, MD. September 12-13, 2006.
• Becker EA. Characteristics of students who benefit from video resources. American Association for Respiratory Care Summer Forum. Orlando, FL 9 Jul. 2005.
• Ireland M, Becker EA. A family affair: A pilot study of inner-city children with asthma and their primary caretakers: Responses to receiving and giving massage therapy. 16th International Research Congress, Honor Society of Nursing, Sigma Theta Tau International. Kona, Hawaii, 10 Jul. 2005.
• Becker EA. Improving adherence to therapy at home. 2003 49th Annual AARC International Respiratory Congress, Las Vegas, NV 9 Dec. 2003.

Grants:

• Zahradnik A & Becker EA. Tailoring Messages to Improve Asthma Control. (8/01/09-11/30/09). Long Island University Worksite Wellness Grant. $8500.
• Shah B, Becker EA, & Iacobellis F. Health and Wellness Strategies Used by Asthmatic Patients: A Multi-Disciplinary Experiential Learning Activity for Students. (9/1/09-8/31/10) Long Island University Health and Wellness Institute Grant. $4000.
• Becker EA. Asthma Education (Project manager). (7/01/09-6/30/10). New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. $18,500.
• Becker EA. Asthma Education (Project manager). (7/01/08-6/30/09). New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. $10,000.
• Becker EA. Asthma Education, Counseling, and Prevention Program (Co-PI). (9/30/08-9/29/09). Centers for Disease Control, #1H75EH000375-01. $348,798.
• Becker EA. Community Asthma Education in Schools (Project manager). (07/01/07-06/30/08). New York City Council, $10,000.
• Becker EA. Asthma and Healthy Exercise Program (Project manager). (07/01/06-06/30/07). New York City Council, $15,000.
• Ireland M, Becker EA. A family affair: A pilot study of inner-city children with asthma and their primary caretakers: Responses to receiving and giving massage therapy.(7/1/05-7/1/06). Sigma Theta Tau Honor Society of Nursing. $4981.
  Co-Investigator for the following grant. States RA – Project Director and Anita Nirenberg – Project Co-Director. (4/1/03 – 3/31/06). Cancer screening education for health care students. National Cancer Institute. $298,163.
• Co-Primary Investigator: Ireland M and Becker EA. A family affair: A pilot study of inner-city children with and their primary caretakers: Responses to receiving and giving massage therapy. (07/04-06/04). Sigma Theta Tau International. $1000.
• Instructional Design Coordinator for the following grant. Received 25% release time for 2.5 semester(s): States RA. - Project Director, and Susman WM- Project Co-Director. (7/1/2001 - 6/30/2004). Interdisciplinary community based health education. Department of Health & Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration, #1 D37 HP 00838-01. $292,438.

THOMAS J. JOHNSON

Director, Division of Respiratory Care; Associate Professor of Respiratory CareB.A., Fordham University; M.S., Brooklyn Campus, Long Island University

Specialties:

Chemical and Biological Warfare, Respiratory Care Management, Trauma Care

Publications:

Peer Reviewed

• Johnson, T Managing Disasters: Respiratory Care in Mass Critical Care: In Wyka K, Matthews PJ, Clark WF Foundations of Respiratory Care, 2nd edition, 2009 Delmar Thompson Learning Albany NY (in print)
• Goodfellow L, Johnson T, Barnes T, Opt’Holt T, Wilkins R, Percey Edwards, a Computerized Case National Tuberculosis Curriculum Consortium, 2007 http://ntcc.ucsd.edu
• Johnson, Thomas J, DeRose D, Phillips A Will Respiratory Care Become Single Gender Medical Profession? A survey of Enrollment by Gender in Respiratory Care Programs (abstract) Respiratory Care 2003, 48:11; 1067
• Johnson Thomas J. Aftermath of 9/11: What Have Respiratory Therapists Management Bulletin. Sept/Oct 2000
  Johnson T.
• The Impending Human Resource Crisis in Respiratory Care Learned? AARC Times Nov 2003, 27:11; 34-38AARC Johnson TJ.
• Emergency Preparedness and Respiratory Care Education AARC Education Bulletin #18 Winter 2002 Bessmertny O, DiGregorio RV, Cohen H, Becker E, Looney D, Golden J, Kohl L, and Johnson T.
• A Randomized Clinical Trail of Nebulized Magnesium Sulfate in Addition to Albuterol in the Treatment of Acute Mild-to-Moderate Asthma Exacerbations in Adults. Annals of Emergency Medicine. 2002 39:6; 585-591

Not-Peer Reviewed

• Johnson, Thomas J Biological Terror Countermeasures and Respiratory Care. RT. 2004 August 33-35, 42
• Johnson, TJ 2,000 Years of Biowarfare. Military History. 2002, August 24, 74-77
• Johnson TJ, Survival Guide: Taking Over a New Managerial Position Requires People Skills. Advance for Respiratory Care Managers. 2001 Jan; 10(1): 49-50
• Johnson T, Medicine and Warriors. In: Stricevic MV, Karate, Martial Art and Sport, Vol 5, 2000
• Johnson T, The Impending Human Resource Crisis in Respiratory Care. Focus, 2001 Spring: 10-25
• Johnson TJ, A Transition Timeline. . Advance for Respiratory Care Managers. 2001 Jan; 10(1): 50
• Stricevic MV, Karate Martial Art and Sport Volume 3. 1999 Johnson T, (contributing author)
• Stricevic MV, Karate Martial Art and Sport Volume 2. 1997 Johnson T, (contributing author)

Presentations

• “What is the Potential for Sudden Death due to Long Q-T Syndrome in Intercollegiate Athletes? (Poster/platform) American Association of Respiratory Care International Congress December 1-4, 2001 San Antonio Texas
• “Detection of Occult Exercise-Induced Asthma in Collegiate Athletes Following a Six Minute Run” (Poster/platform) American Association of Respiratory Care International Congress December 1-4, 2001 San Antonio Texas
• NYSSRC 23rd Managers’ and Educators’ Conference “Respiratory Care: Where are We Going and How Will We Get There” June 4, 2010
• NJSRC Shore Conference “Disaster Management from Preparedness to Recovery” October 16, 2008
• NYSSRC 9th Turning Stone Conference “Disaster Management: From Natural Ones to Terrorism, the Nature of the Beast” and “Better Clinical Decisions: How to Think Like a Doc” September 11, 2008
• 21st Annual Managers & Educators’ Conference, Round Top NY “Managing Disasters and Terrorism” June 5, 2008
• West Point Hudson Valley Respiratory Managers Conference, “Neonatal Resuscitation, It’s All New” and “How Doctors Think” November 9, 2007
• 20th Annual Managers/Educators Conference “Propaganda, Professionalism and Other ‘P’ Words” June 7-8, 2007
• Albany Teaching Day NEC-NYSSRC "ARDS and an Influenza Pandemic" March 30, 2007
• Mt. Sinai Medical Center, Topics in Respiratory Care “Pandemic Influenza” December 4, 2006
• West Point Hudson Valley Respiratory Managers Conference, “Preparing for a Flu Pandemic”, “Know Your Enemy, Gram-Negative and Other Evil-Doers”, “Chest Trauma” and “Taking Over a Leadership Position” November 3, 2006
• J. Robert Wilson Memorial Lecture Akron, OH “Flu Pandemic: Crisis & Opportunity” Medical Management of the Bio-chemical Victim” October 20, 2006
• American Association for Respiratory Care International Congress, “Treating the Chemical Victim” December 3, 2005
• West Point Hudson Valley Respiratory Managers Conference, “Countermeasures to Terrorism Part I – Blast, Incendiary and Nuclear”, “Countermeasures to Terrorism Part II – Biological and Chemical” and “Pulmonary Hypertension” November 11, 2005
• American Association for Respiratory Care, Summer Forum “Lights, Camera, Action-Community Theatre Actors in ‘Teaching and Assessing Interview Skills’ and ‘Assessing Affective Skills’” July 8, 2005
• 18th Annual Spring Forum “RT’s Response to Chemical Weapons” and “”Certification in Use of Nerve Agent Antidote Kit” June 10, 2005
• Pennsylvania Society for Respiratory Care Valley Forge Conference “Respiratory Care’s Countermeasures to Chemical Terrorism” April 22, 2005
• North West Area Heath Education Consortium’s 19th High Country Conference on Respiratory Care “Countermeasures to Chemical Terror” and “ Countermeasures by Respiratory Therapists to Biological Terrorism” February 9, 2005
• New York State Society for Respiratory Care Conference at Turning Stone “ Respiratory Care’s Countermeasures to Chemical Terror” October 1, 2004
• 17th Annual Respiratory Care Spring Forum “The RTs Role in Dealing with Bioterrorism” June 11, 2004
• American Association for Respiratory Care International Congress, “Bioweapons, Medical Countermeasures” and “Lessons Learned by Hospital RC Departments: The Aftermath of 9-11 in New York City” December 8, 2003
• American Association for Respiratory Care, Summer Forum The Dr. H.F. Helmholtz, Jr. Educational Lecture Series “Teaching Your Students and Staff About Inhaled Toxic Agents” and “What Can We Teach About Bioterrorism? Teach Everything!” July 26, 2003
• Arizona Society for Respiratory Care. “Managing the Bugs of Bioterror” and “So What is a Nice Respiratory Therapist like You to do with the Victims of Bio-chem Terrorism?” June 4, 2003
• Region II for Respiratory Care “The Aftermath of 9/11 in New York City: What We Have Learned Medically.” April 11, 2003
• Primedia Workplace Learning (live broadcast) “Biological and Toxic Terror: A Primer for Respiratory Care and Healthcare Providers.” March 25, 2003
• New York State Society for Respiratory Care- Southeastern Chapter Annual Symposium “Preparing for the Worst – Bioterrorism.” November 8, 2002
• New Jersey Society for Respiratory Care Annual Shore Conference “The RTs Role in the Treatment of the Gas Terrorist Victim” October 25, 2002
• Focus Conference on Respiratory Care & Sleep Medicine “Healthcare Practitioners Response to Bioterrorism” April 26, 2002
• University Health Care Consortium “Preparing the Respiratory Therapist for the Unthinkable Gas Warfare Terrorism” and “Respiratory Therapists Response to Bioterrorism” February 19, 2002
• West Point Conference Hudson Valley Respiratory Directors’ Association “Preparing the Respiratory Therapist for Gas Warfare” “Hemodynamics: What Do the Numbers Mean?” October 26, 2001
• Tennessee Society for Respiratory Care. Nashville, TN; AIDS, TB and the Healthcare Worker June 20, 1991

SAMUEL C. JONES

Associate Professor of Social WorkB.A., SUNY Stony Brook; M.S.W., D.S.W., Hunter College School of Social Work, CUNY

Specialties:

Psycho-Educational Treatment for Families with a Schizophrenic Member, Short-Term Therapy

MARIA VOGELSTEIN

Assistant Dean, Conolly College; Assistant Professor of Biology B.S., St. Joseph’s College; M.S., New York University

Specialties:

Anatomy, Cell Biology, Hematology, Histology (slides of human tissue), Light and Electron Microscopy, Physiology, Sickle Cell Anemia

MICHAEL BENNETT

Professor of EnglishB.A., Whitman College; M.A., Ph.D., University of Virginia

Specialties:

Abolition Movement, African-American Literature, Slavery, Urban Ecological Criticism

Publications:

• Co-editor, “Recovering the Body: Self-Representations by African American Women”
• Co-editor, “The Nature of Cities: Ecocriticism and Urban Environments”
• Author, “The Nature of Slavery: Frederick Douglass and Anti-Pastoralism,” published in “Beyond Nature Writing”
• Co-author, “We Can See Them, But We Can’t Hear Them: LGBT Members of African American Families,” published in “Queer Families, Queer Politics: Challenging Culture and the State”
• Author, “African American Families and Public Policy: The Legacy of the Moynihan Report,” published in “African Americans and the Public Agenda: The Paradoxes of Public Policy”

MATTHEW J. CORRIGAN

Assistant Professor of Social WorkB.A., SUNY New Paltz; M.S.W., SUNY Albany; Ph.D., SUNY Albany

Specialties:

Substance abuse prevention and treatment.

Publications:

Corrigan, M.J., Loneck, B., Videka, L., and Brown, M.C. (2007). Moving the Risk and
Protective Factor Framework toward Individualized Assessment in Adolescent Substance Abuse Prevention. The Journal of Child and Adolescent Substance Abuse, 16(3), 17-34.

Corrigan, M.J., Loneck, B., and Videka, L. (2007). The Development and Preliminary Validation of the ADSI:  A Substance Abuse Prevention Tool. Research on Social Work Practice, 17(3), 348-357.

Corrigan, M.J. (2009).  Item Selection Methods for the Adolescent Domain Screening Inventory. Research on Social Work Practice, 19(1), 77-82.

Corrigan, M.J., Loneck, B., Videka, L., Newman, L.J., & Rajendran, K. (2009). Characteristics of Prevention Services and Prevention Counseling Programs in New York State. The Journal of Child and Adolescent Substance Abuse, 18(2), 117-130.

Corrigan, M.J., Bill, M.L., & Slater, J.R. (2009). The Development of a Substance Abuse Curriculum in a Master of Social Work Program. Journal of Social Work Education, 45(3), 513-520.

Corrigan, M.J., Newman, L.J., Videka, L., & Loneck, B. (2009). Field Study of New York State Student Assistance and Prevention Counseling Programs. Journal of Social Work Practice in the Addictions, 9(4), 366-380.

Loneck, B., Corrigan, M.J., Videka, L., Newman, L.J., Reed, J.C., & Moonan, K.E (2010). Prevention Counseling and Student Assistance Programs: A Review of the Literature. Journal of Child and Adolescent Substance Abuse, 19(4), 279-299.

Corrigan, M.J., Newman, L.J., Videka, L., Loneck, B., & Rajendran, K. (2011). Characteristics of Students and Services in New York State Student Assistance and Prevention Counseling Programs. Journal of Child and Adolescent Substance Abuse, 20(2), 155-165.

Corrigan, M.J. & Gurdineer, E.E. (In Press). Reliability Analyses for the ADSI: Test-Retest and Internal Consistency. Journal of Child and Adolescent Substance Abuse.

Corrigan, M.J., Videka, L., Loneck, B., Newman, L.J., & Rajendran, K. (In Press).
Characteristics of Student Assistance and Prevention Counseling Programs in response to Environmental Impacts. Journal of Child and Adolescent Substance Abuse.   

Corrigan, M.J. (In Press). Predictive Validity Test of the Adolescent Domain Screening
Inventory. Journal of Child and Adolescent Substance Abuse.

Professional Affiliations

Member, Society for Social Work and Research

Member, Board of Directors – Alcohol and Drug Abuse Council of Orange County

SAMUEL C. JONES

Associate Professor of Social WorkB.A., SUNY Stony Brook; M.S.W., D.S.W., Hunter College School of Social Work, CUNY

Specialties:

Psycho-Educational Treatment for Families with a Schizophrenic Member, Short-Term Therapy

SUSANNA JONES

Associate Professor of Social Work; Undergraduate Social Work Program CoordinatorB.A., California State University, Northridge; M.S.W., San Jose State University; Ph.D., The Graduate Center, CUNY

Specialties:

Immigration Policy and Practice, Single Motherhood, History of the American Family, Marriage and Family Policy, Feminist Theory

Publications:

• Author, “Working with immigrant clients: Perils and possibilities for social workers,” Families in Society (2012)
• Co-author, articles published in the Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare (2012); Social Work Practice with Latinos: Key Issues and Emerging Themes (2010); Journal of Baccalaureate Social Work (2009); Socialism & Democracy (2008); and Global Networks: A Journal of Transnational Affairs (2008)
• Author, "Exercising agency, Becoming a single mother: Decision making processes of unmarried women," published in Marriage and Family Review (2008)
• Author, “Social Work,” published in International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, 2nd edition (2008)
• Author, “Lucy Stone,” published in the Dictionary of Modern Philosophers, 1860-1960 (2005)
• Author, "Review: 'Before Roe: Abortion Policy in the United States' by Paula Nossiff," published by the Association for Research on Mothering (2004)
• Author, "Review: 'Sing Your Own Song: A Guide for Single Mothers' by Cynthia Orange," published by the Association for Research on Mothering

Professional Affiliations

• Member, National Association of Social Workers, NYC Chapter
• Member, Council on Social Work Education
• Member, Baccalaureate Program Directors
• Member, Phi Alpha Iota Chi Social Work Honor Society

AMANDIA SPEAKES-LEWIS

Coordinator, MSW Program-Brooklyn Campus; Assistant ProfessorB.A. Stony Brook University; M.S.W. Stony Brook University; PhD, Adelphi University

Specialties:

HIV/AIDS, health disparities, mental health, relationships, couples

Publications:

Co-author  "Emotional Strain in Caregiving", Published in Journal of Women and Aging"(2011)

Co-author "Food habits of black older adults in New York City: Are there difference between African-American and Caribbean born immigrants?" Roundtable on Forum on Public Policy, (2007)

Author "Understanding blame and burnout in HIV/AIDS: recommendations for effective practice"  North American Journal of Psychology,  (2011)

Co-author "The move toward American modernity: Empowerment and individualism in the black mega church", Journal of African American Studies. (2011)

Honors/Awards:

Community Leadership Award

Professional Affiliations

• Member, Council on Social Work Education
• Member, National Minority AIDS Council
• Member, National Association of Social Workers
• Licensed Clinical Social Work, State of New York
• Member Phi Alpha Iota, Social Work Honor Society

DONNA S. WANG

Chair, Social Work Department-Brooklyn Campus; Assistant ProfessorB.S. Shippensburg University; M.S.W. Temple University; PhD, Fordham University

Specialties:

Gerontology, social work education, mental health in ethnic minorities, alternative therapies

Publications:

Author,  "The use of self and reflective practice in relational teaching and adult learning: A social work perspective"  In press at Reflective Practice.

Co-Author,  Social workers' attitudes towards working older adults: A review of the literature.  In press at Journal of Social Work Education.

Author,  Interdisciplinary methods of treatment of depression in older adults: A primer for practitioners. In press at Activities, Adaptation and Aging, 35 (4).

Author,  "Managing pain in older adults: The benefits of yoga postures, meditation and mindfulness."  Published in Topics in Geriatric Rehabilitation, 27 (2), 104-109.

Author,  "Feasibility of a yoga intervention for enhancing the mental well-being and physical functioning of older adults living in the community".  Published in Activities, Adaptation and Aging, 34 (2), 85-97.

Author,  The use of yoga for mental and physical health among older adults: a review of the literature. Published in International Journal of Yoga Therapy, 19 (1), 91-96.

Author,  Recruitment and retention of older adults: Lessons shared from conducting an intervention study.  Published in Perspectives on Social Work, 7 (2), 33-37.

Author,  "Service Delivery and Research Considerations for the 85+ Population", Published in Journal of Gerontological Social Work, 43 (1), 5-17.

Professional Affiliations

• Member, AGE-SW
• Member, Council on Social Work Education
• Member, Gerontological Association of America
• Member, International Association of Yoga Therapists
• Member, National Association of Social Workers
• Member, Society for Social Work and Research
• Licensed Social Worker, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
• Licensed Master of Social Work, State of New York
• Registered Yoga Teacher, Yoga Alliance

LAURA KOENIG

Associate Professor of Communication Sciences and DisordersB.A., Linguistics, University of Chicago; M.A., Linguistics, University of Pennsylvania; Ph.D., Speech & Hearing Sciences, The Graduate Center, CUNY

Specialties:

Multiculturalism, Speech Perception, Speech Science

NELSON MOSES

Chair, Communication Sciences and Disorders; Professor of Communication Sciences and DisordersB.A., M.A., Speech-Language Pathology, City College of New York; Ph.D., Speech-Language Pathology, New York University

Specialties:

Language Disorders in Children with Severe Developmental Disabilities, Speech-Language Pathology

Publications:

• Author, “Intervention Planning for Children with Communications Disorders”

LU-FENG SHI

Associate Professor of Communication Sciences and DisordersM.B., Shanghai Medical University; Ph.D. & M.S., Audiology, Syracuse University

SYLVIA YÚDICE WALTERS

Associate Professor of Communication Sciences and DisordersB.A., Speech-Language Pathology, Brooklyn College; M.S., Education of Speech/Hearing Handicapped, Brooklyn College; Ph.D., Bilingual Education, New York University

Specialties:

Development of Speech and Language Skills in Bilingual and Deaf Children with Communicative Impairments, Speech-Language Pathology

JERI WEINSTEIN-BLUM

Associate Professor of Communication Sciences and DisordersB.S., Speech-Language Pathology, Boston University ; M.S., Speech-Language Pathology, Columbia University

GINA YOUMANS

Associate Professor of Communication Sciences and DisordersB.S., M.S., Psychology, Florida State University; M.S., Speech and Hearing Sciences, North Carolina Chapel Hill ; Ph.D., Communication Sciences and Disorders, Florida State University

SCOTT YOUMANS

Associate Professor of Communication Sciences and DisordersB.S., Communication Disorders, College of Saint Rose; M.Ed., Communication Disorders, North Carolina Central University; Ph.D., Communication Sciences Disorders, Florida State University

JOSEPH DORINSON

Professor of HistoryB.A., M.Phil., Columbia University

Specialties:

African-American Sports Heroes, Brooklyn, Humor Studies, Jewish History, Popular Culture, Russian Immigration, Sports History

Publications:

• Author, “Ethnic Humor: Subversion and Survival,” published in “What’s So Funny? Humor in American Culture”
• Author, “Anyone Here A Sailor? Popular Entertainment and the Navy”
• Co-editor, “Jackie Robinson: Race, Sports and the American Dream”
• Author, “Jackie’s a Hero Now — But He Wasn’t Always” and “Paul Robeson, All-American,” published in the New York Daily News
• Co-editor, “Paul Robeson (1898-1976): A Centennial Symposium,” Pennsylvania History
• Author, “The Educational Alliance: An Institutional Study in Americanization and Acculturation,” published in “Immigration and Ethnicity”
• Author, “Brooklyn: The Elusive Image,” published in “Is Anyone Here From Brooklyn?”

GREG FOX

Associate Athletic Director/External RelationsB.S., Fairleigh Dickinson University

Specialties:

Sports Marketing, Sports Writing, Sports Public Relations

Publications:

• Author, “Radicals on the Road: The Politics of English Travel Writing in the 1930s”

EVANGELOS PAPPAS

Assistant Professor of Physical TherapyB.S., Technological Educational Institution (TEI), Greece; M.Sc., Quinnipiac University; Ph.D., New York University

Specialties:

Biomechanics, Motion Analysis, Orthopedic Physical Therapy, Prevention of Sports Injuries in Female Athletes, Sports Medicine & Exercise Physiology, Sports Physical Therapy

Publications:

• Co-author, “Response Stability for the Optotrak 3020 Motion Analysis System,” published in the Journal of Medicine Engineering and Technology
• Manuscript Reviewer, Journal of Rheumatology, Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise, Journal of Orthopaedic and Sports Physical Therapy and Journal of Athletic Training
  

Honors/Awards:

• Co-recipient, National Institute on Occupational Safety and Health grant for “The effect of an inclined surface on biomechanical variables during a jumping task”

• Member, Research Subcommittee and Awards Committee, American Physical Therapy Association

REBECCA A. PETERSEN

Clinical Coordinator, Athletic Training Education Programs; Assistant Professor of Sports SciencesB.S., Old Dominion University; M.S., Long Island University

Specialties:

Athletic Training, Sports Medicine & Exercise Physiology

TRACYE RAWLS-MARTIN

Director, Athletic Training Education Programs; Assistant Professor of Sports SciencesB.S., M.S., Brooklyn Campus, Long Island University

Specialties:

Athletic Training, Sports Medicine & Exercise Physiology

Publications:

• Co-author, "Gender Influence of Response Time to Sensory Stimuli," published in the Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research (In Press)

EUGENE SPATZ

Director, Sports Sciences Division; Associate Professor of Sports Sciences; Coordinator, Adapted Physical Education Track; Coordinator, Coaching & Conditioning TrackB.S., University of Michigan; M.S., Brooklyn Campus, Long Island University

Specialties:

Adapted Physical Education

Publications:

• Co-author, “Leisure-time Internet use does not correlate with obesity or physical fitness among African-American adolescent girls,” published in Pediatric Exercise Science

DAVID SPIERER

Assistant Professor of Sports SciencesB.A., University of Albany; M.A., Columbia University, Teachers College; Ed.D., Columbia University, Teachers College

Specialties:

Foundational and Advanced Exercise Physiology
Pathophysiology of Health and Disease

Research Interests

Cardiovascular and Autonomic Function in Health and Disease
Auditory and Visual Stimuli and Reaction Time
Nitric Oxide and Cardiovascular Condition

Publications:

• Co-author, “Get Firefighter Fit” (2008)
• Co-author, “Response Time to Stimuli in Division I Soccer Players,” published in the Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research (In Press)
• Co-author, “Gender Influence of Response Time to Sensory Stimuli,” published in the Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research (In Press)
• Co-author, “Exercise Training Improves Cardiovascular and Autonomic Profiles in HIV,” published in Clinical Autonomic Research (2007)
• Co-author, “Inactive Brains: A dilemma case study,” published by the National Center for Case Study Teaching and Science (2007)
• Co-author, “Effects of Active vs. Passive Recovery on Work Performed During Serial Supramaximal Exercise Tests,” published in the International Journal of Sports Medicine (2004)
• Co-author, “Validating Facemask Use for Gas Exchange Analysis in Patients with Congestive Heart Failure,” published in the Journal of the Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation (2001)

MILORAD V. STRICEVIC

Professor of Sports SciencesM.S., M.D., Belgrade University Medical School (Yugoslavia)

Specialties:

Karate, Sports Medicine

Publications:

• Author, “Karate: Martial Art and Sport”

JOHN SUAREZ

Director of AthleticsB.S., Fairleigh Dickinson University; M.Ed., East Stroudsburg University

Specialties:

Collegiate Athletics

AMY PATRAKA GINSBERG

Associate Dean, School of Education; Associate Professor of CounselingB.A., Tufts University; Ed.M., Ph.D., Teachers College, Columbia University

Specialties:

Identity Development, Young Adulthood, the Psychology of Stuttering, School Violence Prevention

Publications:

• Author, “Working with students who stutter,” published in the Kappa Delta Pi Record (2002)
• Author, “Shame, self-consciousness and locus of control in people who stutter,” published in the Journal of Genetic Psychology (2000)
• Co-author, “Understanding stuttering and counseling clients who stutter,” published in the Journal of Mental Health Counseling (2000)
• Co-author, “The effectiveness of the ‘Warning Signs’ program in educating youth about violence prevention: A study with urban high school students,” published in Professional School Counseling (2003)

Honors/Awards:

• Recipient and Project Director, $300,000 federal grant for the establishment of youth violence prevention collaborative programming in downtown Brooklyn, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (2001-2003)
• Recipient and Project Director, $10,000 award in support of youth and community development initiative, Tiger Woods Foundation (2003)
• Recipient, $1,000 award in support of college campus violence prevention efforts, Robert G. Porter Scholar’s Program, American Federation of Teachers (2003)
• Recipient, $5,000 award for coordination of counseling services at the Learning Center for Educators and Families, Paul Newman/Newman’s Own Foundation (2001)

Professional Affiliations

• Member, The American Counseling Association
• Member, The Association for Counselor Education and Supervision
• Member, The American Psychological Association, Division 17: Counseling Psychology
• Member, New York State Counseling Association
• Member, New York State Mental Health Counseling Association
• Member, New York State Psychological Association

MATTHEW J. CORRIGAN

Assistant Professor of Social WorkB.A., SUNY New Paltz; M.S.W., SUNY Albany; Ph.D., SUNY Albany

Specialties:

Substance abuse prevention and treatment.

Publications:

Corrigan, M.J., Loneck, B., Videka, L., and Brown, M.C. (2007). Moving the Risk and
Protective Factor Framework toward Individualized Assessment in Adolescent Substance Abuse Prevention. The Journal of Child and Adolescent Substance Abuse, 16(3), 17-34.

Corrigan, M.J., Loneck, B., and Videka, L. (2007). The Development and Preliminary Validation of the ADSI:  A Substance Abuse Prevention Tool. Research on Social Work Practice, 17(3), 348-357.

Corrigan, M.J. (2009).  Item Selection Methods for the Adolescent Domain Screening Inventory. Research on Social Work Practice, 19(1), 77-82.

Corrigan, M.J., Loneck, B., Videka, L., Newman, L.J., & Rajendran, K. (2009). Characteristics of Prevention Services and Prevention Counseling Programs in New York State. The Journal of Child and Adolescent Substance Abuse, 18(2), 117-130.

Corrigan, M.J., Bill, M.L., & Slater, J.R. (2009). The Development of a Substance Abuse Curriculum in a Master of Social Work Program. Journal of Social Work Education, 45(3), 513-520.

Corrigan, M.J., Newman, L.J., Videka, L., & Loneck, B. (2009). Field Study of New York State Student Assistance and Prevention Counseling Programs. Journal of Social Work Practice in the Addictions, 9(4), 366-380.

Loneck, B., Corrigan, M.J., Videka, L., Newman, L.J., Reed, J.C., & Moonan, K.E (2010). Prevention Counseling and Student Assistance Programs: A Review of the Literature. Journal of Child and Adolescent Substance Abuse, 19(4), 279-299.

Corrigan, M.J., Newman, L.J., Videka, L., Loneck, B., & Rajendran, K. (2011). Characteristics of Students and Services in New York State Student Assistance and Prevention Counseling Programs. Journal of Child and Adolescent Substance Abuse, 20(2), 155-165.

Corrigan, M.J. & Gurdineer, E.E. (In Press). Reliability Analyses for the ADSI: Test-Retest and Internal Consistency. Journal of Child and Adolescent Substance Abuse.

Corrigan, M.J., Videka, L., Loneck, B., Newman, L.J., & Rajendran, K. (In Press).
Characteristics of Student Assistance and Prevention Counseling Programs in response to Environmental Impacts. Journal of Child and Adolescent Substance Abuse.   

Corrigan, M.J. (In Press). Predictive Validity Test of the Adolescent Domain Screening
Inventory. Journal of Child and Adolescent Substance Abuse.

Professional Affiliations

Member, Society for Social Work and Research

Member, Board of Directors – Alcohol and Drug Abuse Council of Orange County

MYRNA L. FISCHMAN

Chair, Accounting, Taxation and Law Department; Professor of Accounting; Director, Center for Accounting Education; Adviser, Accounting SocietyB.S., M.S., City College, CUNY; Ph.D., New York University

Specialties:

Accounting, Accounting Education

Publications:

• Editor, Delta Pi Epsilon Annual Yearbook
• Author “Who will teach our Future CPAs?” published in Trusted Professional
• Reviewer, The CPA Journal

Honors/Awards:

• Recipient, Community Service Society Award (1969)
• Recipient, Dr. Emanuel Saxe Outstanding CPA in Education Award (1994-95)
• Recipient, Lifetime Achievement Award, Soroptimist International (1997)
• Recipient, Director’s Award, Department of the Treasury, IRS (2000)
• Executive Professional of the Year, Strathmore’s Who’s Who?

Professional Affiliations

• Member, New York State Society Certified Public Accountants (NYSSCPA)
• Member, Foundation for Accounting Education (FAE)
• Member, American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA)
• Member, American Accountants Association (AAA)
• Member, Institute of Management Accountants (IMA)
• Member, Association of Government Accountants (AGA)

NINOTCHKA DEVORAH BENNAHUM

Associate Professor of Communication Studies, Performance Studies and TheatreB.A., Swarthmore College; M.A., Ph.D., New York University

Specialties:

Dance, Art History, Criticism, Performance Theory, Theatre

Publications:

• Author, “Antonia Merce, La Argentina: Flamenco and the Spanish Avant-Garde”

BARBARA PARISI

Professor of Communication Studies, Performance Studies and TheatreB.A., Hunter College, CUNY; M.A., Brooklyn College, CUNY; M.A., The Graduate Center, CUNY; M.A., Ph.D., New York University

Specialties:

Communication Studies, Performance Studies, Theatre

Publications:

• Co-author, “Empowerment Through Communication”
• Editor, “The Best American Short Plays” series

Honors/Awards:

• A founder and the executive director of the Ryan Repertory Company at the Harry Warren Theatre, Brooklyn

JOHN SANNUTO

Assistant Professor of Communication Studies, Performance Studies and TheatreB.A., Brooklyn College, CUNY; M.A., D.A., New York University

Specialties:

Directing, Movement for Actors, Oral Interpretation, Public Speaking, Theatre, Voice and Diction

HENRY COHEN

Associate Professor of Pharmacy PracticeB.S., M.S., Arnold & Marie Schwartz College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, Long Island University; Pharm.D., St. John’s University

Specialties:

Adverse Drug Reactions, Infectious Diseases, Intensive Care Medicine

VICTOR COHEN

Assistant Professor of Pharmacy PracticeB.S., Northeastern University; Pharm.D., St. John’s University

Specialties:

Emergency Medicine and Toxicology, Pharmaceutical Care, Pharmacotherapy

ROBERT V. DIGREGORIO

Professor of Pharmacy PracticeB.S., St. John’s University; Pharm.D., Medical College of Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University

Specialties:

Adverse Drug Reactions, Ambulatory Care, Arrhythmias, Asthma, Bioterrorism Emergency Preparedness, Cardiac Arrest, Cardiovascular Medications, Disaster Medicine, Emergency Medicine, Medication Errors, Pharmacy Practice, Toxicology

Publications:

• Author, “Primary Care”
• Author, “Pharmacotherapetics: A Primary Care Clinical Guide” Author, “A randomized trial of nebulized magnesium sulfate in addition to albuterol in the treatment of acute mild-to-moderate acute asthma exacerbations in adults,” published in the Annals of Emergency Medicine
• Author, “The appropriate selection of a low molecular weight heparin for an Acust Coronary Syndrome clinical pathway,” published in The New York Health-System Pharmacist
• Author, “Pharmacotherapeutic Advances in Cardiac Resuscitation: A Review of the Advanced Cardiac Life Support,” included in “Guidelines and their Impact on Pharmacy Practice,” published in the Journal of Pharmacy Practice
• Author, “Pharmacoethics: Unblinding a clinical trial for personal gain,” published in The Pharmacist
• Author, “Evaluation of the periotest as a diagnostic tool for dental implants,” published in the Journal of Oral Implantology

JOSEPH P. NATHAN

Director, International Drug Information Center and the Pharmacy Student Computer Laboratory; Associate Professor of Pharmacy PracticeB.S., Pharm.D., Arnold & Marie Schwartz College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, Long Island University; M.S., Arnold & Marie Schwartz College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, Long Island University; Pharm.D., University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences

Specialties:

Drug Information Services, Drug Information Literacy

Publications:

• Co-author, articles in the American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy (AJHP), the Journal of the American Pharmacists Association (JAPhA), the Annals of Pharmacotherapy, and Hospital Pharmacy

SIDHARTHA D. RAY

Professor of ToxicologyB.S., Utkal University, India; M.S., Ph.D., Indore University, India

Specialties:

Antitoxic, Antidiabetic and Anticarcinogenic Properties of Phytochemicals, Drug- and Chemically Induced Toxicity, Mechanistic Toxicology, Molecular Mechanisms of Cell Death, Target Organ Toxicity

Honors/Awards:

• Recipient, Newton Award for Teaching Excellence
• Recipient, Abraham Krasnoff Memorial Award for Lifetime Scholarly Achievement

MICHAEL BENNETT

Professor of EnglishB.A., Whitman College; M.A., Ph.D., University of Virginia

Specialties:

Abolition Movement, African-American Literature, Slavery, Urban Ecological Criticism

Publications:

• Co-editor, “Recovering the Body: Self-Representations by African American Women”
• Co-editor, “The Nature of Cities: Ecocriticism and Urban Environments”
• Author, “The Nature of Slavery: Frederick Douglass and Anti-Pastoralism,” published in “Beyond Nature Writing”
• Co-author, “We Can See Them, But We Can’t Hear Them: LGBT Members of African American Families,” published in “Queer Families, Queer Politics: Challenging Culture and the State”
• Author, “African American Families and Public Policy: The Legacy of the Moynihan Report,” published in “African Americans and the Public Agenda: The Paradoxes of Public Policy”

KATHLEEN KESSON

Chair, Department of Teaching, Learning and Leadership; Professor of Teaching, Learning and LeadershipB.A., Flaming Rainbow University (through Westminster College’s University Without Walls Program) ; M.Ed., Ed.D., Oklahoma State University

Specialties:

Teacher Research and Inquiry, Critical Theory and Critical Pedagogy, Aesthetics in Education, Spirituality in Education, Democracy and Education, Young Adult Literature

Publications:

• Co-author, “(De)liberating curriculum and pedagogy: Exploring the promise and perils of ‘scientifically-based’ approaches”
• Editor, “Defending public schools: Teaching for a democratic society”
• Co-author, “Curriculum wisdom: Educational decisions in democratic societies”
• Co-author, “Understanding democratic curriculum leadership”
• Co-author, “Reconceptualizing professional development for curriculum leadership: Inspired by John Dewey and informed by Alain Badiou,” published in Educational Philosophy and Theory
• Co-author, “Descriptive inquiry: A contemplative approach to classroom-based research,” published in Teachers College Record
• Author, “For the love of frogs: Promoting ecological sensitivity through the arts,” published in Encounter: Education for Meaning and Social Justice
• Author, “Inhuman powers and ‘Terrible Things’: The theory and practice of alienated labor in urban schools,” published in The Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies
• Author, “Different approaches to citizenship education,” published in Social Science Docket
• Author, “Jung’s archetypal psychology and teacher development,” published in Encounter: Education for Meaning and Social Justice
• Author, “Doing good science: On the virtues of simply ‘messing about,’” published in Encounter: Education for Meaning and Social Justice
• Author, “Contemplative spirituality, currere, and social transformation: Finding our ‘way,’” published in Journal of Curriculum Theorizing
• Author, “Thinking against from within: Reconstituting the university as a democratic space,” published in The Vermont Connection
• Co-author, “Integrated curriculum and service learning: Linking school-based knowledge and social action,” published in English Education
• Author, “The foundations of holism: Some philosophical and political dilemmas,” published in Holistic Education Review
• Author, “Eco-logos: Postmodern revelations and the recovery of archaic wisdoms,” published in JCT: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Curriculum Studies
• Author, “The unfinished puzzle: Toward a dynamic holism,” published in Holistic Education Review
• Author, “A neo-humanist model of education,” Holistic Education Review
• Author, “Malefic generosity,” published in The Encyclopedia of Curriculum Studies
• Author, “Human ecology curriculum,” published in The Encyclopedia of Curriculum Studies
• Author, “Teacher as researcher,” published in The Encyclopedia of Curriculum Studies
• Author, “Cultivating democratic character: Reconceptualising “citizenship” for a partnership era,” published in “Alternative Educational Futures: Pedagogies for an Emergent World”
• Author, “Teaching,” published in “Knowledge and Power in the Global Economy: The Effects of School Reform in a Neoliberal/Neoconservative Age”
• Co-author, “Descriptive inquiry as transformative teacher preparation,” published in “Curriculum for a Progressive, Provocative, Poetic, and Public Pedagogy”
• Author, “An inhuman power: Alienated labor in low-performing schools,” published in “Defending Public Schools: Teaching For A Democratic Society”
• Co-author, “Cultivating democratic curriculum judgments: Toward a mature profession,” published in “Defending Public Schools: Teaching For A Democratic Society”
• Co-author, “Democratic education and the creation of the just and loving community,” published in “Creativity And Collaborative Learning: A Practical Guide To Empowering Students And Teachers”
• Co-author, “On the need for a new theory of experience,” published in “Curriculum Visions”
• Author, “Tantra: The quest for the ecstatic mind,” published in “Nurturing Our Wholeness”
• Author, “Contemplative spirituality, currere, and social transformation: Finding our ‘way,’” published in “Educational Yearning: The Journey Of The Spirit And Democratic Education”
• Co-author, “Curriculum work as public intellectual leadership” published in the proceedings of the Curriculum and Pedagogy Conference
• Author, “Investigating spiritual experience: Progressive pedagogy and the nonrational,” published in “Higher Education And Democracy: Experiments In Progressive Pedagogy At Goddard College”
• Author, “Critical theory and holistic education: Carrying on the conversation,” published in “The Renewal Of Meaning In Education”
• Author, “Curriculum theory and pedagogic practice: Troubling the split between idea and lived experience,” published in The Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy
• Author, “The spiritual dimensions of curriculum,” published in Holistic Education Review
• Co-author, “Review: ‘Intellectual advancement through disciplinarity’ by William F. Pinar,” published in Educational Researcher
• Author, “Review: ‘Re-envisioning education and democracy’ by Ruthanne Kurth-Schai and Charles R. Green,” published in Teachers College Record
• Author, “Review: ‘The primal, the modern, and the vital center: A theory of balanced culture in a living place’ by Donald W. Oliver, Julie Canniff and Jouni Korhonen,” published in Encounter: Education for Meaning and Social Justice
• Co-author, “Review: ‘The lure of the transcendent: Collected essays by Dwayne E. Huebner’ edited by Vikki Hillis,” published in Curriculum Inquiry
• Author, “Review: ‘Experience and education’ by John Dewey,” published in Teacher Magazine
• Author, “Review: ‘The universal schoolhouse’ by James Moffett,” published in Holistic Education Review
• Author, “Review: ‘Holistic education: Some Australian explorations’ by David and Helen Dufty,” published in the Australian Journal of Curriculum Inquiry
• Author, “Review of the work of C.A. Bowers,” published in Holistic Education Review
• Author, “Three Poems from San Francisco Series,” published in Downtown Brooklyn

Honors/Awards:

• Elected Member, Professors of Curriculum
• Recipient, Ted Aoki Award, Journal of Curriculum Theorizing
• Holmes Scholar, Oklahoma State University
• Recipient, Robert Glenn Rapp Foundation Distinguished Graduate Fellowship, Oklahoma State University
• Dean J. Andrew Holley Scholarship, Oklahoma State University
• Best Paper Award, Wholistic Education SIG American Education Research Association

Professional Affiliations

• Member, American Association for the Advancement of Curriculum Studies
• Member, International Association for the Advancement of Curriculum Studies
• Member, American Education Research Association
• Member, John Dewey Society
• Member, The Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators
• Member, Editorial Boards of the Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy, Teacher Inquiry and Encounter: Education for Meaning and Social Justice

JAN ROSENBERG

Professor Emerita of SociologyB.A., M.A., University of Illinois; Ph.D., University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Specialties:

Empowerment Zones, Jews of Brooklyn, Joblessness, Urban Neighborhoods, Welfare Reform

Publications:

• Co-editor, “Urban Society”, Widely reported research on Fort Greene, Brooklyn (sponsored by HUD)

JOSÉ RÁMÓN SÁNCHEZ

Chair, Urban Studies Department; Professor of Political ScienceB.A., Columbia University; M.A., University of Michigan; Ph.D., New York University

Specialties:

Political Theory, Power, Puerto Rican Politics, Political Science Methods and Writing, Urban Studies, Housing

Publications:

• Author, “Notice of Eviction: The History of Puerto Rican Housing in New York City 1920-1980,” published in Centro Journal
• Author, “The Permanent Housing Shortage: The New York Experience”
• Author, “Puerto Ricans and the Door of Participation in U.S. Politics,” published in “Hispanic Cultures of the United States”
• Author, “Puerto Rican Politics in New York: A Critique of Second Hand Theory,” published in “Latinos in New York”
• Author, “Boricua Power; A Political History of Puerto Ricans in the United States”
• Co-author, “The Iraq Papers”

GLADYS PALMA DE SCHRYNEMAKERS

Associate Provost, Brooklyn CampusB.A., St. John’s University ; M.S., City College, CUNY; P.D., C.W. Post Campus, Long Island University; M.A., Ph.D., Columbia University

Specialties:

Higher Education Assessment, Latinos in Higher Education, Urban Studies, Vampires

Publications:

• Editor, Connections, the faculty development newsletter

CECELIA TRAUGH

Dean, School of Education; Professor of Teaching and Learning; Director, Center for Urban EducatorsB.A., M.A., University of California at Riverside; Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley

Specialties:

Descriptive Inquiry; Classroom-Based Inquiry

Publications:

• Co-author, “Transforming Problems into Possibilities: Seeing What’s There Rather Than What’s Not,” published in Scholarly Partnerships Edu (2008)
• Co-author, “Descriptive inquiry: A contemplative approach to classroom-based research,” published in Teachers College Record (2006)
• Author, “Trusting the Possibilities: Giving Voice to Vito’s Ideas,” to be published in Teaching & Learning: The Journal of Natural Inquiry and Reflective Practice.
• Co-author, “Transforming one teacher education program through inquiry, difference and field experience,” published in “Portraits of Teacher Preparation: Learning to Teach in a Changing America” (2005)
• Author, “Finding the Color of the Sky: Inquiry in Teacher Preparation,” published in “Defending Public Schools,” (2004)
• Co-author, “Using descriptive inquiry to transform the education of linguistically diverse U.S. teachers and students,” published in “Opportunities and Challenges of (Societal) Bilingualism”
• Author, “Learning How to Talk (and Work) Across Difference,” published in Educators for Urban Minorities (2002)
• Author, “Remarks for the Opening of the Center for Urban Educators, published in Educators for Urban Minorities (2002)
• Author, “Inquiry as a Mode of Renewal: Imagining the Possibilities of Circumstance,” published in CUE Point of View (2002)
• Editor, “Collaborative Conversations for Literacy: Professional Development in a Middle-School Classroom,” published as part of the Institute for Literacy Studies’ Occasional Paper Series (2000)
• Editor, “Keeping the Possibilities Present: A Study of One Child’s Math Thinking by Linda Dolinko,” published as part of the Institute for Literacy Studies’ Occasional Paper Series (2000)
• Editor, “The Power of Mathematics: Stories of Change from Urban Classrooms” (2000)
• Author, “Whole-School Inquiry: Values and Practice,” published in “From Another Angle: Children’s Strengths and School Standards” (1999)
• Author, “The Work of Professional Development in Informal Education Programs,” a report describing the work of the Youth Practitioners Institute, available from the Institute for Literacy Studies (1996)
• Author, “Connecting Standards Back to Their Human Source,” published in the New York City Writing Project Newsletter (1995)
• Author, “Exploring Values and Standards: Implications for Assessment,” published in the National Center for the Restructuring of Education, Schools and Teaching (NCREST) Monograph (1992)
• Author, “Writing Report Cards,” published in Pathways (1991)
• Co-author, “Three Values: The Ways One School Works to Educate the Whole Child,” published in Networking (1991)
• Author, “Creating Knowledge in a School Setting: A Story,” published in the Proceedings of the Progressive Education Conference (1989)
• Author, “Speaking Out: Teachers on Teaching,” published in the North Dakota Study Group Monograph (1986)
• Author, “Computers: A Reflection,” published in “Humanistic Perspectives on Computers in the Schools” (1985)
• Author, “Prairie View High School,” published in “Portraits of High Schools” (1985)
• Author, “Rural High Schools: Heart of Education in North Dakota,” published in the North Dakota Journal of Education (1984)
• Co-author, “A Descriptive Study of Pre-Service Teachers’ Attitudes Toward and Aptitude in Mathematics,” published in the College Student Journal (1981)
• Co-author, “Student Employment: Implications for Teachers and Schools,” published in Teacher Training Perspectives (1980)
• Author, “Secondary Students’ Attitudes Toward and Experience with Evaluating Teachers,” published in The High School Journal (1980)
• Co-author, “Multi-Cultural Education: A Conceptual Approach, published in Educational Leadership (1979)
• Author, “Study/Discussion of the Effect the Emphasis on Inquiry Methodology Has Had on the Attitudes and Teaching Behavior of Junior and Senior High School Social Studies Teachers,” published in The Social Studies (1978)
• Author, “Some Thinking Skills Defined in Historiographical Terms,” published in The Clearing House (1977)
• Author, “The American Parade: The 34th Star, a media review, published in The History Teacher (1977)
• Co-author, “The Confrontation Meeting: A Model for Identifying First Year Junior High School Teachers’ Problems,” published in The Clearing House (1976)
• Author, “The Living Bicentennial Series: ‘The Living Jefferson’ and ‘The Living Documents,’ a media review,” published in The History Teacher (1976)
• Author, “To Lead a Nation and For All the People, a media review,” published in The History Teacher (1975)
• Author, “Evaluating Inquiry Procedures,” published in The Social Studies (1974)

Honors/Awards:

• Breitwieser Award, Scholarship and Service (University of North Dakota)
• Danforth Teaching Fellow

Professional Affiliations

• Member, Board of Trustees, Prospect Center, North Bennington, Vt. (1986-2001)
• President, Board of Trustees (1991-2000)
• Member, North Dakota Study Group on Evaluation (since 1980)
• Member, Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD)
• Member, National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE)

JESSICA TRUBEK

Director of Field Experiences and School RelationsB.A., Barnard College, Columbia University; M.A., Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison

Specialties:

University-School Relations, Supervision of Student Teachers, Teacher Inquiry

Publications:

• Co-author, “Where have all the minority educators gone and when will they ever learn?” published in Educators for Urban Minorities (1999)
• Co-author, “Dialogue: Does a teacher (educational researcher, counselor or other professional)’s race, gender, class, ethnicity and ideology belong in the classroom?” published in Race, Gender and Class: Interdisciplinary Topics in Race, Gender and Class (2003)
• Co-author, “A personal view of family, character and morality,” published in Social Science Docket (2006)
  

AMY PATRAKA GINSBERG

Associate Dean, School of Education; Associate Professor of CounselingB.A., Tufts University; Ed.M., Ph.D., Teachers College, Columbia University

Specialties:

Identity Development, Young Adulthood, the Psychology of Stuttering, School Violence Prevention

Publications:

• Author, “Working with students who stutter,” published in the Kappa Delta Pi Record (2002)
• Author, “Shame, self-consciousness and locus of control in people who stutter,” published in the Journal of Genetic Psychology (2000)
• Co-author, “Understanding stuttering and counseling clients who stutter,” published in the Journal of Mental Health Counseling (2000)
• Co-author, “The effectiveness of the ‘Warning Signs’ program in educating youth about violence prevention: A study with urban high school students,” published in Professional School Counseling (2003)

Honors/Awards:

• Recipient and Project Director, $300,000 federal grant for the establishment of youth violence prevention collaborative programming in downtown Brooklyn, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (2001-2003)
• Recipient and Project Director, $10,000 award in support of youth and community development initiative, Tiger Woods Foundation (2003)
• Recipient, $1,000 award in support of college campus violence prevention efforts, Robert G. Porter Scholar’s Program, American Federation of Teachers (2003)
• Recipient, $5,000 award for coordination of counseling services at the Learning Center for Educators and Families, Paul Newman/Newman’s Own Foundation (2001)

Professional Affiliations

• Member, The American Counseling Association
• Member, The Association for Counselor Education and Supervision
• Member, The American Psychological Association, Division 17: Counseling Psychology
• Member, New York State Counseling Association
• Member, New York State Mental Health Counseling Association
• Member, New York State Psychological Association

KLAUDIA M. RIVERA

Professor of Education; Director, I-START Program; Coordinator, TESOL Program & Early Childhood ProgramB.A., Central American University (Nicaragua); M.S., Bank Street College of Education; Ed.D., Teachers College, Columbia University

Specialties:

Participatory and Popular Education and Research, Critical Pedagogy, Language and Literacy, Biliteracy, Language Policy, TESOL, Community-based Education, Family Literacy

Publications:

• Co-editor and author, “Adult biliteracy: Sociocultural and programmatic responses” (2008)
• Author, “Sociocultural perspectives and classroom practice,” published in “Working with English language learners: Perspectives and practice” (2005)
• Co-author, “How threatened is the Spanish of New York Puerto Ricans?” published in “Can threatened languages be saved? Reversing language shift revisited: A 21st century perspective” (2001)
• Author, “Popular research and social transformation: A community-based approach to critical pedagogy,” published in TESOL Quarterly (1999)
• Author, “From developing one’s voice to making oneself heard: Affecting language policy from the bottom up,” published in “Socio- political perspectives on language policy and language planning” (1999)
• Author, “Native language literacy and adult ESL instruction,” published in ERIC Digest (1999)
• Author, “El Barrio Popular Education,” published in “Many families, many literacies: An international declaration of principles” (1997)

Honors/Awards:

• Recipient, The David Newton Award for Teaching Excellence, Long Island University
• Recipient, Literacy Recognition Award. Literacy Assistance Center
• Member, Latina Rights Initiative at the IV United Nations World Conference on Women and the NGO Forum on Women (Beijing, China)
• Research Fellow, National Institute of Education at the Latino Institute

Professional Affiliations

• Member, American Educational Research Association (AERA)
• Member, Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL)
• Member, American Association of Applied Linguistics (AAAL)
• Member, International Reading Association (IRA)
• Member, National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE)
• Member, WE Learn: Women and Literacy

JAN ROSENBERG

Professor Emerita of SociologyB.A., M.A., University of Illinois; Ph.D., University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Specialties:

Empowerment Zones, Jews of Brooklyn, Joblessness, Urban Neighborhoods, Welfare Reform

Publications:

• Co-editor, “Urban Society”, Widely reported research on Fort Greene, Brooklyn (sponsored by HUD)

CAROL ALLEN

Professor of EnglishB.A., M.A., University of Virginia; Ph.D., Rutgers University

Specialties:

American, Caribbean and African-American Literature; Black Women Intellectuals; Women’s Studies

KRISTANA ARP

Professor of PhilosophyB.A., University of Chicago; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, San Diego

Specialties:

20th-Century French and German Philosophy, Feminist Theory

Publications:

• Author, “The Bonds of Freedom: The Existentialist Ethics of Simone de Beauvoir”
• Author, “A Different Voice in the Phenomenological Tradition: Simone de Beauvoir and the Ethics of Care,” published in “Feminist Phenomenology”
• Author, “Beauvoir’s Concept of Bodily Alienation,” published in “Re-Reading the Canon: Feminist Interpretations of Simone de Beauvoir”
  

TEMPII CHAMPION

Associate Professor of Communication Sciences and DisordersB.S. Speech and Hearing, Northeastern University; M.A., Communication Sciences and Disorders, Hampton University; Ph.D., Communication Sciences Disorders, University of Massachusetts -Amherst

MARLA DEL COLLINS

Associate Professor of Communication Studies, Performance Studies and TheatreB.F.A., West Virginia University; M.A., Ph.D., New York University

Specialties:

Gender Roles in Communication, Rhetorical Criticism

Publications:

• Author, “Why This Feminist Still Likes Bill: Recognizing Male Depression,” published in Smoke Signals
• Author, “The Powers That Be: How Feminism Promotes Complex Communication in a Patriarchal Society,” published in New Dimensions in Communication

MARGARET CUONZO

Chair, Philosophy Department; Associate Professor of PhilosophyB.A., Barnard College; M.Phil., Ph.D., The Graduate Center, CUNY

Specialties:

Feminist Issues in Science, Philosophy of Language, Philosophical Paradoxes

Publications:

• Author, “The Need for Integrating Statistical and Probabilistic Reasoning Into the Philosophy Curriculum” and “Meet the Cloneheads: A Review of Cloning: Responsible Science or TechnoMadness?” published in Humanities/AITIA Magazine
• Author, “Why the Sorites Paradox Has a Restricted Solution at Best,” published in Facta Philosophica
  

BRIDGET DWYER

Assistant Clinic Administrator of Communication Sciences and Disorders; Assistant Professor of Communication Sciences and DisordersB.S., Education of the Speech and Hearing Handicapped, Brooklyn College; M.S., Speech-Language Pathology, Brooklyn College

ELAINE GELLER

Associate Professor of Communication Sciences and DisordersB.S., M.S., Communication Sciences and Disorders, Queens College ; Ph.D., Speech and Hearing Sciences, Graduate Center

AMY PATRAKA GINSBERG

Associate Dean, School of Education; Associate Professor of CounselingB.A., Tufts University; Ed.M., Ph.D., Teachers College, Columbia University

Specialties:

Identity Development, Young Adulthood, the Psychology of Stuttering, School Violence Prevention

Publications:

• Author, “Working with students who stutter,” published in the Kappa Delta Pi Record (2002)
• Author, “Shame, self-consciousness and locus of control in people who stutter,” published in the Journal of Genetic Psychology (2000)
• Co-author, “Understanding stuttering and counseling clients who stutter,” published in the Journal of Mental Health Counseling (2000)
• Co-author, “The effectiveness of the ‘Warning Signs’ program in educating youth about violence prevention: A study with urban high school students,” published in Professional School Counseling (2003)

Honors/Awards:

• Recipient and Project Director, $300,000 federal grant for the establishment of youth violence prevention collaborative programming in downtown Brooklyn, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (2001-2003)
• Recipient and Project Director, $10,000 award in support of youth and community development initiative, Tiger Woods Foundation (2003)
• Recipient, $1,000 award in support of college campus violence prevention efforts, Robert G. Porter Scholar’s Program, American Federation of Teachers (2003)
• Recipient, $5,000 award for coordination of counseling services at the Learning Center for Educators and Families, Paul Newman/Newman’s Own Foundation (2001)

Professional Affiliations

• Member, The American Counseling Association
• Member, The Association for Counselor Education and Supervision
• Member, The American Psychological Association, Division 17: Counseling Psychology
• Member, New York State Counseling Association
• Member, New York State Mental Health Counseling Association
• Member, New York State Psychological Association

LINDA JACOBS

Associate Professor of Human Development and LeadershipB.A., Brooklyn College, CUNY; M.A., Ph.D., New York University

Specialties:

Diagnostic Assessment of Children, School Psychology

Publications:

• Author, “Resurrecting the Buried Self: Fairy Tales and the Analytic Encounter.” published in Psychoanalytic Review (2011)
• Author, “Meeting Beyond the Frame: Extraordinary Demands and Analytic Choices,” published in Psychoanalytic Perspectives (2009)
• Author, “Parent-Centered Child Work: A Relational Shift in Child Treatment,” published in Journal of Infant, Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy (2006)
• Co-author, “Parent Focused Child Therapy: Attachment, Identification, and Reflective Functions” (2006)
• Co-author, “Parent Therapy: A Relational Alternative to Working with Children” (2002)
• Author, “AIDS Curriculum for School District 15”
• Author, “Family Origins of Marital Concepts,” published in The CUNY Woman’s Coalition Journal
• Author, “Onset of Parenting and Stressful Events,” published in The Journal of Prevention
• Author, “The Psychology of the Rapist and His Victim,” published in “Rape: The First Sourcebook for Women"

KIMBERLY F. JONES-DE OLIVEIRA

Associate Professor of HistoryB.A., Trinity College; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles

Specialties:

African Presence in Latin America, Race Relations in Brazil

ESTHER LEVINE-BRILL

Chair, Undergraduate Nursing Program; Professor of NursingB.S.N., M.S.N., Hunter College, CUNY; Ph.D., New York University

Specialties:

Cancer Care, Medical-Surgical Nursing, Women in the Military

Publications:

• Co-author, “Together We Serve,” presented to the Association of Military Surgeons of the U.S.
• Co-author, “Foundations for Nursing”

Honors/Awards:

• Major, U.S. Army Nurse Corps Reserves

CELIA S. LICHTMAN

Chair, Foreign Language and Literature Department; Professor of Foreign Languages and LiteratureB.A., Brooklyn College, CUNY; M.A., Ph.D., New York University

Specialties:

Latin American Novels and Short Stories, Literature of Revolution; Women Writers of Latin America

HARRIET MALINOWITZ

Professor of EnglishB.A., Queens College, CUNY; M.F.A., University of Massachusetts at Amherst; M.A., Hunter College, CUNY; Ph.D., New York University

Specialties:

Lesbian and Gay Issues in College Writing, Propaganda, Rhetoric of Zionism and Palestine, Writing Theory and Pedagogy, Women’s Studies

Publications:

• Author, “Textual Orientations: Lesbian and Gay Students and the Making of Discourse Communities”
• Author, articles in College English, the Journal of Advanced Composition Studies and the Modern Language Association’s Feminism and Composition

JORDAN KAPLAN

Director, M.S.-Human Resource Management Program ; Associate Professor of Managerial Science; Associate Professor of Human Resource Management, School of NursingB.A., Brooklyn Campus, Long Island University; M.B.A., C.W. Post Campus, Long Island University; D.B.A., University of Sarasota

Specialties:

Human Resources Management, Service Sector Management

Publications:

• Author, “Full Edition Review: of ‘Management, Leading and Collaborating in the Competitive World’” (8th edition)
• Author, “Comparative Review: ‘Contemporary Management,’ 6th ed.”
• Author, “Comprehensive Review: ‘Contemporary Management,’ 4th ed.”
• Author, “Review and Comparison: ‘HRM,’ 12th ed., and “Managing HRM,” 4th ed.”
• Author, “Instructor Supplements: Labor Relations”
• Author, “Text Review: ‘Management,’ 2nd ed.”
• Author, “Choosing Wisely: Using Personality to Advise Business Majors,” published in the Proceedings of the International Conference of the Association of Management and the International Association of Management Conference (2002)
• Author, “Electronic Commerce: Limiting and Growth Factors,” published in the Proceedings of Tehnomus X (Suceava, Romania)
• Author, “Models and Goals of Business Ethics Education,” published in the Journal of Modern Business.
• Author, “A Study of Employer Compliance with the Reasonable Accommodation Provision of Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act and Gender,” published in the Proceedings of the 15th Annual International Conference of Association of Management and the International Association of Management
• Author, “A Personal Management Program for the Management and Control of Stress Experienced as a Result of Downsizing or Career Change,” published in the Proceedings of the 14th Annual International Conference of the Association of Management and the International Association of Management

Honors/Awards:

• Listed in Who’s Who In America (2009-2010)
• Listed in Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers (2004-2005)
• Recipient, “Best Professor of LIU” Award, Brooklyn Campus Student Government Association (2002-2003)
• Recipient, Teaching Award, Brooklyn Campus Student Government (1998-1999)
• Recipient, Certificate of Achievement for online course developed for the National Association of Purchasing Management, American Society of Association Executives (1999)

Professional Affiliations

• Faculty Adviser, Brooklyn Campus Chapter of the Society of Human Resources Management (SHRM)
• Faculty Adviser, Brooklyn Campus Chapter of Sigma Beta Delta, the International Honor Society for Business, Management and Administration
• Member, Society of Human Resources Management
• Member, Institute of Supply Management (ISM)
• Member, National Association of Purchasing Management New York (NAPM-NY)

JOHN HIGH

Assistant Professor of EnglishB.A., M.A., San Francisco State University

Specialties:

Poetry

Publications:

• Author, eight books, including a trilogy of poetic novels, “The Desire Notebooks”
• Translator, several books of contemporary Russian Poetry
• Chief editor, “Crossing Centuries – The New Russian Poetry”

Honors/Awards:

• Recipient, four Fulbright Fellowships 
• Recipient, Long Island University’s Newton Award for Teaching Excellence (2009)
  

HARRIET MALINOWITZ

Professor of EnglishB.A., Queens College, CUNY; M.F.A., University of Massachusetts at Amherst; M.A., Hunter College, CUNY; Ph.D., New York University

Specialties:

Lesbian and Gay Issues in College Writing, Propaganda, Rhetoric of Zionism and Palestine, Writing Theory and Pedagogy, Women’s Studies

Publications:

• Author, “Textual Orientations: Lesbian and Gay Students and the Making of Discourse Communities”
• Author, articles in College English, the Journal of Advanced Composition Studies and the Modern Language Association’s Feminism and Composition

DEBORAH MUTNICK

Professor of EnglishB.A., University of Michigan; M.F.A., University of North Carolina; Ph.D., New York University

Specialties:

Composition, Rhetoric

Publications:

• Author, “Writing in an Alien World: Basic Writing and the Struggle for Equality in Higher Education”

Honors/Awards:

• W. Ross Winterowd Award for most outstanding book on composition theory (1998)
  

LEWIS WARSH

Director, M.F.A. Program in Creative Writing; Associate Professor of EnglishB.A., M.A., City College of New York, CUNY

Specialties:

Poetry, fiction, 19th and 20th century American and European literature

Publications:

Books:

• A PLACE IN THE SUN ( 2010)
• INSEPRABLE: POEMS 1995-2005 (2008)
• TED’S FAVORITE SKIRT (2002)
• THE ORIGIN OF THE WORLD (2001)
• TOUCH OF THE WHIP (2001)
• MONEY UNDER THE TABLE (1998)

Honors/Awards:

• James Shestack Prize, The American Poetry Review, 1993
• Fund for Poetry Award, 1993
• New York Foundation of the Arts Award in Poetry, 1987
• National Endowment of the Arts Grant in Poetry, 1980
• Creative Arts Public Service Award in Fiction, 1977

Professional Affiliations

• The Poetry Project at St. Marks Church, New York, N.Y., 1973--
• PEN International, New York, N.Y., 1999--/