New Student ACADEMIC RESOURCE GUIDE 2013-2014

Gallatin Faculty
Gallatin faculty teach courses, serve as primary academic advisers, supervise independent studies, and sit on students’
senior colloquia.
Last Name First Name Title Email
Anker Peder Associate Professor pja7@nyu.edu
history of science, environmental affairs, ecology, and sustainable design
Antoon Sinan Associate Professor sinan.antoon@nyu.edu
pre-modern Arabo-Islamic culture; classical and modern Arabic poetry; the Arabic novel; gender and sexuality; postcolonial theory; contemporary Arab culture and politics
Cittadino Eugene Clinical Assistant Professor ec15@nyu.edu
history of science and medicine; environmental history; science, technology, and society; history of ecology and evolutionary biology
Cornyetz Nina Associate Professor nina.cornyetz@nyu.edu
critical, literary and filmic theory; intellectual history; gender and sexuality; cultural studies; psychoanalytic and materialist-feminist methodologies; specialization in Japan
Cruz Soto Marie Clinical Assistant Professor m.cruz@nyu.edu
Latin American and Caribbean cultural history; Puerto Rican diasporas; empire; gender and race; (post)memory and historical narrations; community formations
DaCosta Kimberly Associate Professor kad9@nyu.edu
concepts of race in different societies, consumption in comparative perspective, interracial intimacy, sociology of the family
Dinwiddie Michael Associate Professor mdd3@nyu.edu
African-American culture; theatre history and criticism; filmmaking; dramatic writing; ragtime music
Drakes Gail Associate Faculty gail.drakes@nyu.edu
American studies; 20th-century U.S. history, African diaspora studies; historical memory; legal studies; “heritage” and consumer culture
Duncombe Stephen Associate Professor sd47@nyu.edu
media and cultural studies; history of mass media; activist media and alternative culture; arts and politics
Erickson Gregory Clinical Associate Professor gte1@nyu.edu
20th-century American and European literature; 20th-century music; postmodernism; music and literature; Bible as literature; theology and atheism; cultural studies; television studies
Foley June Associate Faculty jaf3@nyu.edu
19th- and 20th-century literature; the novel; fiction writing; memoir writing; writing for young readers
Forman Valerie Associate Professor vf20@nyu.edu
literature and culture of early modern England; early modern European drama, esp. English and Spanish; early modern Caribbean; economic history; political theatre; political theory; and Marxist theory
Franks Hallie Assistant Professor hmf2@nyu.edu
material cultures (art and archaeology) of ancient Greece, Rome, and the Near East; cultural definition through art; and cultural exchange and interaction
Fredericks Rosalind Assistant Professor rcf2@nyu.edu
political economy of African development; African cities; youth and gender studies; cultural, political, and urban geography; political ecology; Senegal
Friedman Lise Part-time Faculty lef3@nyu.edu
performing and visual arts; translating performance experience into words and images; photography; graphic design; writing
Friedman Sharon Associate Professor sf2@nyu.edu
modern drama; literary interpretation; feminist criticism; critical writing; writing across the disciplines
Goldfarb Lisa Associate Professor lg3@nyu.edu
19th- and 20th-century European and American poetry and fiction; music and literature; questions of belief in literature; expository writing
Gregory A. J. Matthew Associate Faculty matthew.gregory@nyu.edu
theatrical design, performance, directing, history of theatre, devised work, social and economic justice, science and theatre, comic books and culture, Commedia dell’Arte, satire and censorship
Gurman Hannah Clinical Assistant Professor hrg2@nyu.edu
history and culture of U.S. foreign relations; the cold war; history and theory of international conflict; 20th-century American literature and film; political rhetoric
Hamid Rahul Associate Faculty rahul.hamid@nyu.edu
Iranian cinema; modernism in cinema; early film; narrative theory; politics and aesthetics; adaptation; film criticism
Harkness Ethan Assistant Professor eh82@nyu.edu
early Chinese cultural history and technical traditions (e.g. agriculture and medicine); history of science; pre-Buddhist history of religion; Chinese paleography and excavated manuscripts
Harpman Louise Clinical Associate Professor louise.harpman@nyu.edu
architecture, urban design, sustainability and mapping
Hornick Karen Clinical Associate Professor karen.hornick@nyu.edu
literature; cultural history and critical theory; feminism and gender studies; popular culture; television studies
Horton Kristin Clinical Assistant Professor kdh4@nyu.edu
directing; new play development; Shakespeare in performance; W. B. Yeats; Caryl Churchill; religion and theater; process drama; puppetry; theater for social change; cross-cultural dialogue
Huber A.B. Assistant Professor abh5@nyu.edu
20th-century American literature; literary theory and the novel; literature and culture of modernity; photography; critical theory; psychoanalysis; gender and queer theorye
Hutkins Steven Associate Professor ssh1@nyu.edu
literature; place; travel; utopia; writing
Jackson Myles Professor myles.jackson@nyu.edu
history and philosophy of science and technology; cultural history of physics in 19th-century Germany and Britain; music, physics, and technology, 1800 to present; the history of creativity; bioethics
Joachim Mitchell Clinical Associate Professor mj@terreform.org
architecture; urban design; ecological design and planning; media technology; transportation; environmental studies; urban studies; computation; fine and applied arts; contemporary art history and theory
Kaminsky Lauren Clinical Assistant Professor lauren.kaminsky@nyu.edu
modern world history; Western and Eastern European studies; gender and sexuality; state theory and socialism; reproductive justice and the family; film
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