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GALLATIN SCHOOL OF INDIVIDUALIZED STUDYcommissioned piece on violence and the visual with the artist MaryWalling Blackburn:“ThinkingThrough Images” will appear in triplecanopy. Huber taught and took part in the RadicalCitizenship Tutorials on Angel Island in San Francisco and Governors Island in NewYork inthe summer of 2010. In fall 2010 she was at the University of California Berkeley on a MellonFellowship in CriticalTheory.Steven HutkinsAssociate ProfessorB.A. 1975,Wisconsin; M.A. 1977, Ph.D. 1986, NewYorkSteven Hutkins received his Ph.D. in English Renaissance literature. His current teachingand research interests focus on place studies and travel literature. His courses include “A Senseof Place” (a study of how we experience places and how they shape us);“Travel Narratives”(nonfiction travel literature);“Travel Fictions” (novels and short stories about journeys);“TheTravel Habit” (about travel during the Great Depression); “Travel Classics” (a great bookscourse); and “The Art of Travel” (an online course for students studying abroad). He has alsotaught courses on Greek and Renaissance literature, postmodern fiction, utopian literatureand prose style. In 1998, he received NYU’s Distinguished Teaching Award. His Web site is:http://www.travel-studies.comMyles W. JacksonProfessorB.A. 1986, Cornell; M. Phil. 1988, Ph.D. 1991, CambridgeProfessor of the history of science at Gallatin, Myles Jackson is also Professor of History ofthe Faculty of Arts and Science. He was the inaugural Dibner Family Professor of the Historyand Philosophy of Science andTechnology of Polytechnic Institute of NYU from 2007-2012.He currently serves as the Director of Science and Society,a new inter-school minor at NYU.His research interests include molecular biology and intellectual property in Europe and theU.S., genetic privacy issues, and the history of 18th- and 19th-century German physics. ProfessorJackson received his Ph.D. in the history and philosophy of science from the Universityof Cambridge. Before coming to NYU, he taught at Harvard University, the University ofPennsylvania, and the University of Chicago. He has been a senior fellow of the Dibner Institutefor the History of Science andTechnology at MIT and the Max-Planck-Institute for theHistory of Science in Berlin. He has published more than 40 articles, book chapters, and encyclopediaentries on the history of science and technology from the Scientific Revolution tothe present.His first book,Spectrum of Belief: Joseph von Fraunhofer and the Craft of Precision Optics(MIT Press, 2000) received the Paul Bunge Prize from the German Chemical Society forthe Best Work on Instrument Makers and the Hans Sauer Prize for the Best Work on theNewYork University Bulletin 2012-2013 33