Radu Iovita
Hometown: Bucharest, Romania
Education: AB in Anthropology, Harvard University, MPhil Archaeology, University of Cambridge, PhD in Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania
NYU Position: Assistant Professor
Favorite Books: About Heroes and Tombs (Ernesto Sábato), Khazar Dictionary (Milorad Pavić), Wild Sheep Chase (Haruki Murakami)
Favorite Leisure Activities: Playing guitar, riding motorcycles
Research Interests: Human evolution, archaeology, Neanderthals, Denisovans
Dale Jamieson
Hometown: San Diego, CA
Education: B.A. Philosophy and Religion, San Francisco State University M.A., Ph.D. Philosophy, University of North Carolina
NYU Position: Professor of Environmental Studies and Philosophy
Favorite Leisure Activities: Anything in the ocean
Research Interests: Ethics, Environmental Values
Favorite Inspirational Quote: “Money doesn’t talk, it swears.” ~2016 Nobel Prize winner in literature, Bob Dylan
Alex Jassen
Hometown: Seattle, Washington
Education: B.A. Jewish Studies; Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, University of Washington; Ph.D. Hebrew and Judaic Studies, New York University
NYU Position: Chair, Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies, Ethel and Irvin Edelman Associate Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies
Favorite Book: I enjoy books about New York history
Favorite Leisure Activities: Baking, Running, spending time with family
Research Interests: Religion, Judaism, History
First-Generation College Student? No
Colin Jerolmack
Hometown: Philadelphia, PA
NYU Position: Associate Professor of Sociology and Environmental Studies
Favorite Books: Everything in Its Path, Kai Erickson; Tally's Corner, by Elliot Liebow
Favorite Leisure Activities: Cycling
Research Interests: Human-animal Relations, Environmental Studies, Culture
Trace Jordan
(Proud to Be First Leadership Team)
Education: B.Sc: Applied Physics; M.Sc.: Laser Physics, University of Essex; M.A.: History and Philosophy of Science, University of Toronto; Ph.D.: Chemistry, Princeton University
NYU Position: Director, Foundations of Scientific Inquiry, College Core Curriculum, Faculty, Fellow-in-Residence, Senior House
Favorite Books: The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck; The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
Favorite Leisure Activities: Listening to live music (rock and blues)
Research Interests: Factors that enhance student learning, interest, and motivation.
Favorite Inspirational Quote: “Imagination is more important than knowledge.” ~Albert Einstein
John Jost
Hometown: Cincinnati
Education: A.B. in Psychology, Duke University; M.A. in Philosophy, University of Cincinnati; Ph.D. in Social/Political Psychology, Yale University
NYU Position: Professor of Psychology and Politics
Favorite Books: Fiction (Joyce, Kafka, Babel, Chekhov, Eliot, Borges, Mann, Zweig) and Poetry (Yevtushenko, Cavafy, Dickinson, Frost, Plath, Auden)
Favorite Leisure Activity: Music, sports, movies, modern art
Research Interests: Social justice, political psychology
Favorite Inspirational Quote: “Intelligence without ambition is like a bird without wings.” (Salvador Dali)
Daniel Juette
Hometown: Tel Aviv, Israel
Education: M.A., Ph.D in History, University of Heidelberg, Germany
NYU Position: Associate Professor, History Department
Favorite Books: Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain
Favorite Leisure Activities: Classical Music, especially opera; art and museums; exploring cities
Reserch Interests: Cultural History, Urban History, History of Knowledge, Jewish History, German History, History of Material Culture and Everyday Life
Demy (Dimitra) Kamboukos
Hometown: New York, NY (currently). Athens, Greece & Johannesburg, South Africa
Education: B.S. in Psychology and Sociology, University of La Verne, Athens Greece. M.A. Developmental Psychology, Teachers College, Columbia University. M.A. Clinical Psychology, University of South Florida. Ph.D. Clinical Psychology, University of South Florida.
NYU Position: Assistant Professor of Population Health and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Favorite Books: Pride & Prejudice and Mansfield Park (Jane Austen), The Portrait of a Lady (Henry James), The Great Gatsby (F Scott Fitzergald), Room with a View (E M Forster), Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte), Captain Correllis Mandolin....Biographies
Favorite Leisure Activities: Traveling, Concerts, Visiting Museums, Reading
Reserch Interests: Impact of early prevention, father's impact on child development, parenting and child outcomes
Marion Kaplan
Hometown: Newark, NJ
Education: B.A. in History and German at Douglass College of Rutgers University; M.A.,Ph.D.: History, Columbia University
NYU Position: Skirball Prof. of Modern Jewish History
Favorite Books: All kinds of history books
Favorite Leisure Activities: Reading, walking
Research Interests: Women's history, German history, European history
Margarita Kaplow
Hometown: New York
Education: PhD in Biology ( Neuroscience concentration) , Graduate Center CUNY
NYU Position: Clinical Associate Professor
Favorite Books: She has her mother's laugh
Craig Kapp
Hometown: Medford, NJ
Education: B.S. in Computer Science, Trenton State College; M.S. in Educational Technology, The College of New Jersey; M.P.S. in Interactive Design & Digital Media (ITP), New York University
NYU Position: Clinical Associate Professor, Computer Science Department
Karen Karbiener
Hometown: Brooklyn, New York
Education: B.A. in English and History, University of Virginia; M.A. in English Language and Literature, Bryn Mawr College; M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D in English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University
NYU Position: Clinical Professor
Favorite Books: Whitman, Leaves of Grass; Virgil, Aeneid; Austen, Pride and Prejudice; Woolf, To the Lighthouse; Bervin, Nets; Carson, Nox; Witthus, Look On This Wonder
Favorite Leisure Activity: Running; swimming; ice skating; opera; making and listening to music; traveling; exploring NYC
Research Interests: Walt Whitman; 19th century American literature and culture, with a focus on New York City; material culture
Manpreet Katari
Hometown: New York
Education: PhD in Genetics, SUNY Stony Brook, BS in Biochemistry, SUNY Buffalo
NYU Position: Clinical Associate Professor, Biology Department
Favorite Leisure Activity: Listening to music, former DJ, volleyball, coding
Research Interests: Computational biology, I love coding and using my coding skills to solve biological questions
First-Generation College Student? No
Friedrich Heinrich Kern
Hometown: Heidelberg, Germany
Education: Music, Diplom, Mannheim University of Music and Performing Arts - Composition & Theory, PhD, New York University
NYU Position: Adjunct Professor, CAS
Favorite Leisure Activity: Workout, Cycling, Tennis
Research Interests: Composition, Music Appreciation
Favorite Inspirational Quote: A tree says: A kernel is hidden in me, a spark, a thought, I am life from eternal life. - Hermann Hesse
Aisha Khan
Hometown: Los Angeles, CA
Education: B.A. in Anthropology, San Francisco State University; M.A. in Anthropology, San Francisco State University; PhD in Anthropology, City University of New York Graduate School
NYU Position: Associate Professor, Anthropology Department
Favorite Books: The Swerve (S.Greenblatt); The Empire of Necessity (G.Grandin); The Witches, Salem 1692 (S.Schiff); The Hare with Amber Eyes (E.deWaal); Cleopatra (S.Schiff); the Lost City of Z (D.Grann); Killers of the Flower Moon (D.Grann)
Favorite Leisure Activity: Museums, exploring new places
Research Interests: Social justice (race, religion, diaspora), Caribbean, Latin America
Favorite Inspirational Quote: Be yourself, everyone else is taken.
Manpreet Katari
Hometown: New York
Education: PhD in Genetics, SUNY Stony Brook, BS in Biochemistry, SUNY Buffalo
NYU Position: Clinical Associate Professor, Biology Department
Favorite Leisure Activity: Listening to music, former DJ, volleyball, coding
Research Interests: Computational biology, I love coding and using my coding skills to solve biological questions
First-Generation College Student? No
Dipti Khera
Hometown: Mumbai
Education: Ph.D. (2013) History of Art, Columbia University; M.A. (2003) Museum Anthropology, Columbia University; M.A. (2000) Practice, Research, and Advancement in South Asian Design and Architecture, De Montfort University; B. Architecture. (1998), University of Mumbai
NYU Position: Assistant Professor, Art History and Institute of Fine Arts
Favorite Leisure Activity: Walking among trees, Baking and Cooking, Watching movies, Spending time with friends. More recently I have fallen in love with Pilates.
Research Interests: Art and architecture of South Asia; Early modern visual and material culture; Vernacular and non-European accounts of aesthetics, affect and visual-spatial practices; Cartographic cultures, art, and urban topography; Global art histories, theory and methodology; Historiography of cross-cultural encounters; Colonial visions, design and decorative arts; Collecting, museums and contemporary heritage landscapes; Postcolonial studies, modern architecture and comparative urbanism
Roozbeh Kiani
Hometown: Amol, Iran
Education: PhD in Neural Science, University of Washington; Post-doc in Neurobiology, Stanford
NYU Position: Associate Professor, Neural Science
Favorite Books: Brothers Karamazov; Black Swan; Guns, Germs, and Steel; Deep Survival; Rationality and Reasoning
Favorite Leisure Activity: Drinking coffee and hiking
Research Interests: Neuroscience
Favorite Inspirational Quote: "Your value does not decrease based on someone's inability to see your worth." - Richard Feynman
Dongmin Kim
Hometown: Hawaii
Education: Ph.D in East Asian Language and Literature, University of Hawaii at Manoa
NYU Position: Language Lecturer, EAS Department
Favorite Books: Great Field by Pearl Buck
Favorite Leisure Activity: Swimming and walking
Research Interests: Language acquisition
Favorite Inspirational Quote: “Language is house of human being. The present is a present.”
Bruce Kleiner
Hometown: Seattle, WA
Education: A.B. Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley; PhD Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley
NYU Position: Professor of Mathematics
Research Interests: Mathematics and applications to computer science, physics, engineering, etc.
Ilya Kliger
Hometown: Moscow, USSR
Education: B.A. in Intellectual History, Cornell University, Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, Yale University
NYU Position: Associate Professor, Russian and Slavic Studies
Favorite Books: Sebald, Rings of Saturn; Coetzee, Disgrace; D.F. Wallace, Infinite Jest
Favorite Leisure Activity: Travel, outdoors.
Research Interests: 19th century European novel, literary theory, philosophy and literature, political theory
Eric Klinenberg
Hometown: Chicago
Education: PhD University of California, Berkeley
NYU Position: Professor, Sociology and the Institue for Public Knowledge
Favorite Books: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
Favorite Leisure Activity: Tennis, soccer
Reserch Interests: Cities, culture, media
Joanna Klukowska
Hometown: New York, NY
Education: B.A. in Computer Science, Hunter College, CUNY, Ph.D in Computer Science, Graduate Center, CUNY
NYU Position: Clinical Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department
Eric Knowles
Hometown: San Diego, CA
Education: Ph.D. in Psychology, University of California, Berkeley; B.A. in Psychology and Philosophy (double major), Cornell University
NYU Position: Associate Professor, Psychology Department
Favorite Books: Tenth of December by George Saunders, What is the What by Dave Eggers, White Teeth by Zadie Smith, The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
Favorite Leisure Activity: Dining out in New York
Research Interests: Political Psychology, Intergroup Relations
Favorite Inspirational Quote: “Our best destiny, as planetary cohabitants, is the development of what has been called 'species consciousness'—something over and above nationalisms, blocs, religions, ethnicities.” —Martin Amis
Peter Kolm
Hometown: New York City
Education: PhD in Mathematics, Yale University
NYU Position: Professor
Research Interests: Alternative data, data science, econometrics, financial mathematics, forecasting models, high frequency trading, machine learning, optimization, portfolio optimization w/ transaction costs and taxes, quantitative and systematic trading, risk management, robo-advisory and investing, smart beta strategies, stochastic optimal control, transaction costs, and tax-aware investing
Carol Krinsky
Hometown: Brooklyn, NY
Education: B.A. in Art History, Smith College, Northampton MA M.A. and Ph.D. in Art History, NYU Institute of Fine Arts
NYU Position: Professor of History
Favorite Books: Heidi, by Johanna Spyri, Little Bear, by Else Holmelund Minarik, Illustrated by Maurice Sendak and many grown-up books.
Favorite Leisure Activities: Traveling, Reading
Research Interests: Architecture and urban development, including their social aspects, Medieval art and architecture, Renaissance art and architecture
Favorite Inspirational Quote: Great works do not always lie in our way, but at every moment, we may do little ones excellently, that is, with great love. ~St. Francis de Sales
Kristy Lamb
Hometown: Salisbury, North Carolina
Education: BS, Microbiology, NC State University; BA, The Public Understanding of Science, NC State University; MPhil & PhD, Genetics, Yale University
NYU Position: Associate Director, Preprofessional Advising
Favorite Books: In microbiology, there's a concept called “too numerous to count”, which is a designation you use when there are so many bacterial colonies on a plate that you can't possibly accurately count them. That's the first thing that pops into my mind when I try to identify a favorite book...too numerous to count.
Favorite Leisure Activity: Visiting museums, knitting
Research Interests: My PhD and postdoc studies were on DNA repair in cancer. Since moving over to the administrative side, I have developed a deep interest in workforce development in the sciences.
Alexander Landfair
Hometown: Pensacola Beach, FL
Education: BA in Religion, University of Florida; MFA in Writing, Columbia University.
NYU Position: Language Lecturer, Expository Writing Program
Favorite Books: Moby dick; Lolita; Salinger
Favorite Leisure Activity: Reading, outdoor sports, music, hiking
Research Interests: Futures studies; writing studies; science policy interface
Favorite Inspirational Quote: “There are in nature neither rewards or punishments, only consequences.” Robert Ingersoll
Alexander Landfair
Hometown: Pensacola Beach, FL
Education: BA in Religion, University of Florida; MFA in Writing, Columbia University.
NYU Position: Language Lecturer, Expository Writing Program
Favorite Books: Moby dick; Lolita; Salinger
Favorite Leisure Activity: Reading, outdoor sports, music, hiking
Research Interests: Futures studies; writing studies; science policy interface
Favorite Inspirational Quote: “There are in nature neither rewards or punishments, only consequences.” Robert Ingersoll
Michael Landy
Hometown: Many
Education: B.S. EE/Comp Sci Columbia, Ph.D. Computer & Communications Sciences, Univ. of Michigan
NYU Position: Professor of Psychology and Neural Science
Favorite Books: Tent of Miracles, Jorge Amado
Favorite Leisure Activity: Squash, tennis, table tennis, skiing, choral singing, flute, guitar
Research Interests: Vision science, Sensory integration, Visuo-motor planning and control
First-Generation College Student? No
Yvonne Latty
Hometown: New York City
Education: BFA in Film/Television, New York University, MA in Journalism, New York University
NYU Position: Clinical Professor of Journalism
Favorite Books: In the Time of the Butterflies, Julia Alvarez
Favorite Leisure Activity: Crossfit
Research Interests: urban issues, underserved communities, poverty, documentary, audio, Alzheimer's disease, in communities of color,
Favorite Inspirational Quote: “Never, never, never give up” ~Winston Churchill
First-Generation College Student? Yes
Karen Lepri
Hometown: Westwood, MA
Education: BA.B., Harvard University, M.Ed. UMass Boston, M.F.A. in Literary Arts, Brown University, Ph.D. in English, The Graduate Center CUNY
NYU Position: Language Lecturer of Expository Writing
Favorite Books: Elena Ferrante's My Brilliant Friend, Moshin Hamid's Exit West, C.D. Wright's One With Others
Favorite Leisure Activity: Swimming
Research Interests: Queer and gender theory, bathrooms, magic, critical race theory
Favorite Inspirational Quote: “The academy is not paradise. But learning is a place where paradise can be created.” (bell hooks)
First-Generation College Student? No
David Levene
Hometown: London, England
Education: B.A. in Classics and Philosophy, Oxford University; D.Phil in Classics, Oxford University
NYU Position: Professor, Classics
Favorite Books: Aeschylus, The Oresteia; Conrad, Lord Jim; DeWitt, The Last Samurai; Dickens, Bleak House; Eco, The Name of the Rose; Eliot, Middlemarch; Faulkner, Absalom, Absalom!; Fuentes, Terra Nostra; Joyce, Ulysses; Mann, Doktor Faustus; Melville, Moby Dick; Milton, Paradise Lost; Rushdie, The Satanic Verses; Sterne, Tristram Shandy; Thucydides, The History of the Peloponnesian War; Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings; Virgil, The Aeneid; Zweig, Schachnovelle.
Favorite Leisure Activities: Classical music, cinema
Favorite Research Activities: Latin historiography, Roman religion, the history of the Roman Republic
Jessica Levin
Hometown: Atlanta, Georgia
Education: B.A.: Religion, Middlebury College; M.A.: Middle Eastern Studies, The Graduate Center, City University of New York
NYU Position: Study Away Advisor, Office of Global Programs
Favorite Books: The People of Paper, Salvador Plascencia; Half of a Yellow Sun, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie; Zadig ou la Destinée, Voltaire; El Olvido que Seremos, Hector Abad Faciolince; Books on Israeli and Palestinian nationalism, including authors Sayed Kashua, Baruch Kimmerling, Nadia Abu El Haj and David Grossman
Favorite Leisure Activities: Food and dance; walking new neighborhoods; planning a new trip, domestic or international, every year
Beata Lewis
Hometown: Poland
Education: BA Biology from Harvard and MD from Harvard Medical School
NYU Position: Clinical Assistant Professor, Child Mental Health
Favorite Books: Thoughts without a thinker
Favorite Leisure Activity: Dance
Research Interests: Integrative mental health
Tal Linzen
Hometown: Tel Aviv
Education: B.A. in Linguistics and Mathematics, Tel Aviv University; M.A. in Linguistics, Tel Aviv University; Ph.D. in Linguistics, NYU
NYU Position: Assistant Professor of Linguistics and Data Science
Research Interests: Human language comprehension, computational linguistics, artificial intelligence
Emily Stewart Long
Hometown: Asheville, North Carolina
Education: B.A. in History and B.S in Political Science, Appalachian State University; MPhil. in Political Thought and Intellectual History, University of Cambridge, PhD. in Modern European History, NYU
NYU Position: PhD Candidate, History
Favorite Books: Being and Time, The Birth of Tragedy, The Flowers of Evil
Favorite Leisure Activities: Messily making my way through Julia Child's, Mastering the Art of French Cooking
Research Interests: Modern Germany, Intellectual History, Hermeneutics, Musicology, Modern Russia, Political Theory, Military History, Poetics
Favorite Inspirational Quote: "The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone." - Goethe
William Long
(Proud to Be First Leadership Team)
Hometown: Brooklyn, NY; originally from Trenton, NJ
Education: B.A.: English, Boston College; M.A.: Counseling Psychology, The College of NJ; Ph.D: Higher Education Administration, New York University
NYU Position: Associate Dean, Advising and Student Services
Favorite Books: One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez; Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats; Native Son, Richard Wright; Trinity, Leon Uris; Living, Loving, Learning, Leo Buscaglia
Favorite Leisure Activities: Cycling, reading, travel
Research Interests: Access to higher education; First-generation college students
Favorite Inspirational Quote: “We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of our exploring will be to arrive where we started, and to know the place for the first time." ~T.S. Eliot
David Lopez
Hometown: Brooklyn, NY
Education: B.A. in Political Science, University of Florida, Ph.D. in Political Science, University of Washington
NYU Position: Assistant Professor/Faculty Fellow, Politics
Favorite Book: One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
Favorite Leisure Activities: I regularly enjoy watching art-house, independent, and international films, ideally in one of the city's wonderful locally-owned and operated cinemas.
Research Interests: I study the historical development of modern states, with a particular interest in the political, social, and economic foundations of public education systems. Broadly, I am interested in the relationship between inequality, ideology, and political-economic development from a comparative and historical perspective.
First-Generation College Student? Yes
Alyson Lounsbury
Hometown: Rock Hill, NY
Education: Interdisplinary Bachelor of Arts, SUNY Purchase College, MFA in Poetry, Sarah Lawrence College
NYU Position: Department Administrator, Department of Comparative Literature
Favorite Books: Argonauts, Maggie Nelson, The Body's Question, Tracy K. Smith, Kingdom Animalia, Aracelis Girmay, The Book of Promethea, Hélène Cixous, All About Love: New Visions, bell hooks,The Madness Vase, Andrea Gibson
Favorite Leisure Activities: Reading
Favorite Inspirational Quote: It's about progress, not perfection.
Trushant Majmudar
Hometown: New York
Education: Ph. D. in Physics, Duke University
NYU Position: Clinical Assistant Professor of Mathematics
Favorite Books: Cosmos, Foundation Series (Asimov)
Favorite Leisure Activities: Reading and baking
Research Interests: Physics of soft matter, granular physics, biological physics
First-Generation College Student? No
Laurence Maloney
Hometown: Woburn, MA
Education: Yale (Mathematics, BA), Stanford (Mathematical Statistics, MS), Stanford (Psychology, PhD)
NYU Position: Professor, Psychology
Favorite Leisure Activities: Crossfit, whitewater kayaking, language learning
Noelle Marchetta
Hometown: Princeton, NJ
Education: B.A.: Art History and Italian, Rutgers University; M.A.: in International Education, New York University
NYU Position: Director, Office of Summer and Study Abroad
Favorite Books: She's Come Undone, Wally Lamb; Undaunted Courage: The Pioneering First Mission to Explore America's Wild Frontier, Stephen Ambrose; The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, Daniel James Brown; Flight Behavior, Barbara Kingsolver; Cutting for Stone, Abraham Verghese
Favorite Leisure Activities: Travel, cooking with friends and family (ricotta cheese and zucchini bread are favorites), reading
Favorite Inspirational Quote: “The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.” ~St. Augustine
David Markus
Hometown: Santa Fe, New Mexico; Montréal, Quebec
Education: B.A. in English, Cornell University; MSt. in History of Art and Visual Studies, University of Oxford; PhD in Comparative Literature, University of Chicago
NYU Position: Language Lecturer
Esteban Mazzoni
Hometown: New York, NY
Education: PhD, Biology, NYU
NYU Position: Assistant Professor, Biology Department
Jordana Mendelson
Hometown: Hastings-on-Hudson, NY
Education: PhD Art History, Yale University; MPhil Art History, Yale University, MA Art History, Yale University, BA Art History (minor in Spanish), Boston University
NYU Position: Associate Professor, Spanish and Portuguese
Favorite Leisure Activity: Walking around the city; swimming; being with my family.
Research Interests: Spanish early twentieth-century visual culture, art and politics, print culture and propaganda
First-Generation College Student? No
Diana Mendez
Hometown: Bogota, Colombia
Education: M.A. in Mental Health and Wellness, NYU Steinhardt, BSW (with Psychology Minor), Rutgers University.
NYU Position: Senior Assistant Director
Favorite Inspirational Quote: “I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.” – Michael Jordan
First-Generation College Student? Yes
Ara Merjian
Hometown: Pomfret, CT
Education: B.A. History of Art, Yale University, M.A. History of Art, University of California, Berkeley, Ph.D. History of Art, University of California, Berkeley
NYU Position: Assistant Professor
Favorite books: Glenway Wescott, Apartment in Athens; Thomas Mann, Buddenbrooks; Flaubert, Madame Bovary
Favorite Leisure Activity: Hiking
Research Interests: Art and politics; European cultural history; art's relationship to philosophy; free indirect discourse; design history; film theory
Barry McCarron
Hometown: Monaghan, Ireland
Education: Ph.D. in History, Georgetown University
NYU Position: Assistant Professor of History and Faculty Fellow in Irish Studies
Research Interests: World history; U.S. history; Irish history
Favorite Inspirational Quote: “Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better” ~ Samuel Beckett
Shannon McHugh
Hometown: Apple Valley, CA
Education: B.A. in Italian, University of Southern California; M.A. and Ph.D.: Italian Studies, New York University
NYU Position: College Core Curriculum Core Postdoctoral Fellow
Gerald Mclntyre
Hometown: Huntington, New York
Education: B.A. Economics, University of Rochester; M.A. Economics, University of California, Santa Cruz; Ph.D. Economics, University of California, Santa Cruz.
NYU Position: Clinical Associate Professor
Favorite Books: One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
Favorite Leisure Activities: P90X, Exercise; the Metropolitan Opera
Research Interests: Economic Growth; Monetary Policy; Macroeconomics
Lawrence Mead
Hometown: Huntington, NY
Education: B.A. in political science, Amherst College. M.A. and Ph.D. in political science, Harvard University
NYU Position: Professor of Politics and Public Policy
Favorite Books: FSC Northop, The Meeting of East and West
Favorite Leisure Activity: Sailing
Research Interests: Poverty, welfare, American power
Favorite Inspirational Quote: "To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield." -Tennyson
Luciano Medina
Hometown: Brooklyn, NY
Education: B.S. in Electrical Engineering, Polytechnic University, M.S. in Mathematics, Polytechnic Institute of NYU, PhD in Mathematics, New York University
NYU Position: Lecturer, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
Favorite Books: The Alchemist
Favorite Leisure Activity: Running
Reserch Interests: Partial differential equations in mathematical physics
Favorite Inspirational Quote: Earned not given.
Prita Meier
Hometown: Hof, Germany
Education: B.A. in Art History, University of Florida; M.A. in Art History University of Iowa; PhD in art history Harvard University
NYU Position: Associate Professor, Art History
Favorite Book: The In-Between World of Vikram Lall
Favorite Leisure Activities: Traveling
Research Interests: African art history and architectural history; postcolonial criticism
First-Generation College Student? Yes
Peter Meineck
Hometown: Katonah, NY via London, England
Education: B.A.: (Hons) Ancient World Studies University College London, London University, Ph.D.: Classics University of Nottingham
NYU Position: Clinical Professor of Classics
Favorite Leisure Activities: Firefighter, EMT
Research Interests: Theatre cognitive theory Ancient Drama Combat Trauma in literature
Favorite Inspirational Quote: “The soul of the republic is the light and knowledge of its people” ~John Jay
Nate Mickelson
Hometown: Kemmerer, Wyoming
Education: B.A. in English, Yale University; M.A. in English, Hunter College, CUNY; Ph.D. in English, The Graduate Center, CUNY
NYU Position: Clinical Associate Professor of Expository Writing
Favorite Books: Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson; Death by Water by Kenzaburo Oe; Inferno by Eileen Myles; Interpretation Theory: Discourse and the Surplus of Meaning by Paul Ricoeur
Favorite Leisure Activities: Reading and running (not at the same time)
Research Interests: I study contemporary American poetry and poetics and theories of reading and interpretation. I'm particularly interested in what happens as folks encounter and read complex and unconventional texts.
Favorite Inspirational Quote: If it be not now, yet it will come--the readiness is all. (from Hamlet)
First-Generation College Student? No
Christopher Miles
Hometown: West Chester, Pennsylvania
Education: BS in Electrical Engineering, BS in Mathematics, Lafayette College. PhD in Mathematics, University of Utah.
NYU Position: Courant Instructor (Assistant Professor)
Favorite Books: Breakfast of Champions, Vonnegut; Post Office, Bukowski; Stories of Your Life and Others, Chiang.
Favorite Leisure Activities: Rock climbing, Dungeons & Dragons, video games
Research Interests: Mathematical modeling of biology
Somdeb Mitra
Hometown: New York City
Education: Ph.D in Biochemistry, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York
NYU Position: Professor, Chemistry Department
Favorite Books: Too extensive to list here but pretty much all writings of Ernest Hemingway, Hermann Hesse, Gabriel García Márquez, Oscar Wilde and Rabindranath Tagore, to name a few.
Favorite Leisure Activity: Watching Soccer, watching good movies and TV series, reading poems, short stories and novels, and playing harmonica.
Research Interests: Structure and function of RNA molecules that regulate gene expression.
Favorite Inspirational Quote: “Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man, but sooner or later the man who wins is the one who thinks he can.”
Maria Montoya
Hometown: Albuquerque, NM
Education: BA, MA, PhD, Yale University
NYU Position: Associate Professor of History, NYU and Dean of Arts and Sciences, NYU Shanghai
Favorite Leisure Activity: Hiking
Research Interests: History of the American West, Environmental History, U.S. History
Jennifer Morgan
Hometown: New York
Education: B.A.: Third World Studies, Oberlin College; Ph.D.: History, Duke University
Joan Morgan
Hometown: The Bronx, New York City
Education: B.A Wesleyan University Ph.D NYU in American Studies
NYU Position: Visiting Assistant Professor, Social and Cultural Analysis Department
Favorite Books: Anything by Toni Morrison, Isabelle Allende or Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Favorite Leisure Activity: Dancing especially salsa
Research Interests: Black Feminist Theory, Diaspora and Black Cultural Studies
Favorite Inspirational Quote: Visionaries don't get blueprints.
First-Generation College Student? Yes
Tony Movshon
Hometown: New York
Education: B.A. and PhD in Experimental Psychology, Cambridge University
NYU Positions: University Professor and Silver Professor
Favorite Leisure Activities: Music and opera
Research Interests: Brain mechanisms of visual perception and development
Favorite Inspirational Quote: I turned me to another thing, and I saw that under the sun, the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, nor bread to the wise, nor riches to the learned, nor favor to the skillful: but time and chance in all.
Sara Nadal-Melsió
Hometown: Barcelona
Education: PhD in Comparative Literature, NYU
NYU Position: Visiting Assistant Professor, Spanish and Portuguese
Favorite Book: Camera Lucida, Autobiography of Red, Poet in New York, Middlemarch.....I find this question difficult to answer!!
Favorite Leisure Activities: Film, Art, Music, Cooking, Long long walks with friends
Research Interests: Experimental film, literature, contemporary art, philosophy.
Favorite Inspirational Quote: Mikhail Bakhtin, "I cannot be the author of my own value, just as I cannot lift myself from my own hair."
First-Generation College Student? No
Komal Nayak
Hometown: Toronto & NY
Education: MD, Ross university; board certified in adult psychiatry, trained at Temple university; child and adolescent psychiatry, trained at NYU
NYU Position: Clinical instructor, CAMS
Favorite Leisure Activity: Tennis, playing board games, news junkie
Pamela Newkirk
Hometown: New York
Education: PhD, Comparative and International Education, Columbia University; MS. Journalism, Columbia University; B.A. Journalism, New York University
NYU Position: Professor, Journalism Department
Favorite Books: Destiny of the Republic; Devil in a White City; The Sun Also Rises; Their Eyes Were Watching God
Favorite Leisure Activity: Yoga, walking, visiting museums
Research Interests: Race in the media; media portrayals of marginalized groups; diversity
James Nolt
Hometown: Massillon, Ohio
Education: B.A. in Political Science and Economics, Ohio State University; M.A. in Economics, University of Massachusetts; graduate study in political science, Stanford University; graduate study in computer science equivalent to M.S., New Jersey Institute of Technology; Ph.D. in political science, University of Chicago; and post-doctoral fellowship, Center for International Affairs, Harvard University.
NYU Position: Adjunct Professor, International Relations
Favorite Books: "The Golden Rule," by Thomas Ferguson; "Debunking Economics," by Steve Keen; "Banks and Politics in America," by Bray Hammond
Favorite Leisure Activity: Writing, reading, kung fu, viewing films, travel
Research Interests: Business power and strategy; business influence on international relations
Favorite Inspirational Quote: "You are what you create, not what you consume."
First-Gen? yes
Ellen Noonan
Hometown: Manchester, Massachusetts
Education: BA in History, Harvard College; MA and PhD in History, New York University
NYU Position: Clinical Associate Professor of History and Director, Archives and Public History program
Favorite Leisure Activity: Going to the theater
Research Interests: African-American history, theater history, public history, digital history, history education
François Noudelmann
Hometown: Paris
Education: Ph.D. in Philosophy, Paris-Sorbonne
NYU Position: Professor of French Literature, Thought, and Culture
Favorite Book: Lord of the Rings
First-Generation College Student? Yes
Matthew Novack
Hometown: Wheaton, Illinois
Education: B.S. in mathematics with a minor in jazz guitar, University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign. Ph.D. in Mathematics, University of Texas-Austin
NYU Position: Assistant Professor / Courant Instructor, Mathematics
Favorite Book: Lord of the Rings
Favorite Leisure Activity: Playing and watching basketball
Research Interests: Fluid equations
First-Generation College Student? No
Ger M. O'Donoghue
Hometown: Borrisokane
Education: B.A. English Literature and Philosophy, Trinity College, Dublin. M.A. English Literature, University of Oxford. D.Phil English Language and Literature, University of Oxford.
NYU Position: Senior Language Lecturer
Yoel Ohayon
Hometown: Rabat (Morocco)
Education: B.A. in Biochemistry (New York University), MPhil in Chemistry (New York University), PhD in Chemistry (New York University)
NYU Position: Clinical Assistant Professor, Chemistry Department
Subrina Moorley
Hometown: Far Rockaway, NY
Education: M.A. in Higher Education Administration and Student Affairs, Steinhardt, NYU (anticipated graduation Spring 2017); B.F.A. in Dramatic Writing, Tisch School of the Arts, NYU
NYU Position: Administrative Aide
Favorite Books: The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams, The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, Americana by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Favorite Leisure Activities: Reading, theater-going, biking
Research Interests: Access and equity in higher ed., retention, globalized education
Favorite Inspirational Quote: “I think you travel to search and you come back home to find yourself there.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Mike O'Neil
Hometown: Oswego, NY
Education: B.A. Mathematics, Cornell University, Ph.D. Applied Mathematics, Yale University
NYU Position: Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Applied mathematics, scientific computing
Veronica Pacheco
Hometown: Tampa, FL
Education: B.A.: Accounting, University of South Florida; M.A.: International Education, New York University
NYU Position: Academic Advisor, Office of the Associate Dean for Students
Favorite Books: Paradise Lost, Eat Pray Love, Tuesdays With Morrie, The Help, and most of Mario Puzo's books
Favorite Leisure Activities: Watching cult/classic films and exploring new parts of the city
Favorite Inspirational Quote: “The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.” ~Mahatma Gandhi
Vince Passaro
Hometown: Great Neck, NY
Education: A.B. Columbia College, Columbia University; M.F.A.: Columbia University
NYU Position: Adjunct to the Freshman Seminar program
Favorite Books: Montauk; Sketchbooks 1946-49; Home Faber; Man in the Halocene Jones , Max Frisch The Known World, Lost in the City; All Aunt Hagar's Children; Didion, Play It as It Lays, The White Album; Raymond Chandler, all his novels Eliot (TS), Collected Essays, Collected Poem Nabakov, Lolita Orwell, novels and collected prose Beckett, Godot, The Lost Ones
Favorite Leisure Activities: Photography, Swimming, Talking
Research Interests: Contemporary literature in English
Favorite Inspirational Quote: Estragon: I can't go on. Vladimir: That's what you think.
Jigarkumar Patel
Hometown: Dallas, TX
Education: B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Pure Mathematics, B.Ed. in Math/Science Education, Gujarat University, M.S. and Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from University of Texas at Dallas
NYU Position: Clinical Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Math Education and Peer Assisted Learning Models
Tyson Patros
Hometown: La Crosse, WI
Education: B.A. in Middle East Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison; M.A. in Politics, New York University; PhD in Sociology, University of California, Irvine
NYU Position: Assistant Professor/Faculty Fellow, Social and Cultural Analysis Department
Favorite Books: The Dispossessed by Ursula Le Guin, The Clearing by Tim Gautreaux
Favorite Leisure Activity: Biking, reading fiction, walking around cities, cooking
Research Interests: Political Change, Social Movements, Democracy, Inequality
First-Generation College Student? Yes
Aurojit Panda
Hometown: New Delhi, India
Education: Sc.B. in Math-Computer Science, Brown University; PhD in Computer Science, University of California Berkeley
NYU Position: Assistant Professor
Favorite Books: Anything by Borges, The Terra Ignota series, pretty much any science fiction thing.
Research Interests: Systems and networking
Denis Pelli
Hometown: Los Angeles, California
Education: PhD Physiology of Vision Cambridge University UK, BA magna cum laude Applied Math Harvard University
NYU Position: Professor of Psychology and Neural Science
Favorite Book: Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
Favorite Leisure Activities: Seeing theater or drawing with oil pastel
Research Interests: 1. Computational modeling of visual object recognition, 2. Characterizing the experience of beauty.
Xavier Pickett
Hometown: Atlanta, Georgia
Education: B.B.A. in Marketing, Georgia State University; Ph.D. in Religion & Society, Princeton Theological Seminary
NYU Position: Visiting Assistant Professor
Gleb Pogudin
Hometown: Novosibirsk
Education: Diploma in Mathematics and Applied Mathematics - Moscow State University, Ph.D. in Mathematics - Moscow State University
NYU Position: Assistant Professor/Faculty Fellow, Courant Institute, Computer Science
Research Interests: Symbolic computation, algorithm for differential/difference equations
Benjamin Pollak
Hometown: Poughkeepsie, NY
Education: B.A.: Comparative Literature, Princeton University; M.A.: English Language & Literature, University of Michigan; Ph.D. in English Language & Literature, University of Michigan
NYU Position: Language Lecturer, Expository Writing Program
Research Interests: Multiethnic, Immigrant, and Leftwing American Literature
Sonya Posmentier
Hometown: New York, NY
Education: B.A. in English, Yale University, M.F.A. in Creative Writing, University of Oregon, Ph.D. in English, Princeton University
NYU Position: Assistant Professor of English
Favorite Books: Cane, by Jean Toomer, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston, The Bean Eaters, A Street in Bronzeville, and In the Mecca, by Gwendolyn Brooks, Omeros, by Derek Walcott, Death of a Naturalist, by Seamus Heaney
Favorite Leisure Activities: Making things (art, food, crafts) with my hands
Research Interests: African American and Caribbean Literature, Modern and Contemporary Poetry
Jeanne Proust
Hometown: La Rochelle
Education: PhD in Philosophy
NYU Position: First year seminar instructor, Philosophy
Favorite Books: Oblomov, Gontcharov
Favorite Leisure Activities: Speleology
Devon Pryor
Hometown: Rochester, NY
Education: B.A.: Sociology, Emory University; M.A.: Higher Education and Student Affairs, New York University
NYU Position: Assistant Dean, New Students
Favorite Leisure Activities: Playing and watching basketball and baseball, listening to and talking about music
Elizabeth Przybylinski
Hometown: Brick, NJ
Education: B.A.: Psychology, Barnard College; Ph.D.: Social Psychology, New York University
NYU Position: Adjunct Professor (Psychology Department, GSAS Master’s program and CAS undergraduate program)
Favorite Books: Ethan Frome, Edith Wharton; Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
Favorite Leisure Activities: I love running, bourbon, vintaging, & music, w/ a special affinity for the emo. I feel most at home on the beach
Research Interests: The goal of my research is to use methods from experimental social psychology and neuroscience to advance our understanding of the psychological processes that lead to the perpetuation of the relational past in the present, and importantly, how one may prevent this process when such influence may be troublesome or inappropriate.
Favorite Inspirational Quote: “It's so easy to laugh, it's so easy to hate... it takes guts to be gentle and kind.” ~The Smiths
Charles Puelz
Hometown: Dallas, Texas
Education: B.A. in Mathematics and B.A. in Physics, Wesleyan University; M.A. and Ph.D. in Computational and Applied Mathematics, Rice University
NYU Position: Assistant Professor/Courant Instructor