GALLATIN SCHOOL OF INDIVIDUALIZED STUDYLauren KaminskyClinical Assistant Pr<strong>of</strong>essorB.A. 2000, Illinois (Urbana-Champaign); Ph.D. 2011 <strong>New</strong><strong>York</strong>Lauren Kaminsky is a historian <strong>of</strong> modern Europe whose research and teaching interests includeRussian and Eastern European studies,gender and sexuality studies,socialism and communism,law and morality. She received a Fulbright-Hays award to conduct archival researchin Moscow for her dissertation, “Soviet Family Values,” an exploration <strong>of</strong> legal culture andcommunist morality in the Stalin-era Soviet Union.Bradley LewisAssociate Pr<strong>of</strong>essorB.A. 1978, M.D. 1982,Tennessee; Ph.D. 2002, George WashingtonBradley Lewis has interdisciplinary training in the humanities, psychiatry and continentalphilosophy. He writes and teaches at the interface <strong>of</strong> medicine, humanities, cultural studiesand disability studies, and he is associate editor for the Journal <strong>of</strong> Medical Humanities. He hasaffiliated appointments with the Department <strong>of</strong> Social and Cultural Analysis and the MedicalHumanities Division <strong>of</strong> the Department <strong>of</strong> Medicine. His most recent books are NarrativePsychiatry:How Stories Can Shape Clinical Encounters,and Depression:Integrating Science,Humanities,and Culture.His current book project is devoted to happiness,spirituality and cares<strong>of</strong> the self in postmodern times.Ritty LukoseAssociate Pr<strong>of</strong>essorB.A. 1989, Chicago; M.A. 1992, Pennsylvania; Ph.D. 2001, ChicagoRitty Lukose’s teaching and research interests explore politics, culture, gender, globalizationand nation within the context <strong>of</strong> colonial, postcolonial and diasporic modernities, especiallyas they impact South Asia.With a background in anthropology,she is particularly interested inthe relationship between politics and culture within the context <strong>of</strong> western, global and non-Western feminisms. Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Lukose’s research has been funded by the American Institute <strong>of</strong>Indian Studies,the Fulbright Program,the Spencer Foundation and the National Academy <strong>of</strong>Education, and she has published several book chapters and articles on this research in journalssuch as Cultural Anthropology, Social History, Social Analysis and Anthropology and EducationQuarterly. Her book, Liberalization’s Children: Gender,Youth and Consumer Citizenshipin India, was published by Duke <strong>University</strong> Press (2009) and co-published in India by OrientBlackswan in 2010. A co-edited book, South Asian Feminisms: Contemporary Interventions, is<strong>New</strong><strong>York</strong> <strong>University</strong> <strong>Bulletin</strong> 2012-2013 35
NEW YORK UNIVERSITYforthcoming from Duke <strong>University</strong> Press (2012) and Zubaan,a leading feminist press in India.She teaches courses on globalization, India/South Asia, nationalism and colonialism, diasporicstudies, gender and feminism and ethnography.Julie MalnigAssociate Pr<strong>of</strong>essorB.A. 1977, Douglass College; M.A. 1980, Ph.D. 1987, <strong>New</strong><strong>York</strong>Julie Malnig is a cultural historian <strong>of</strong> theater and dance performance. Her areas <strong>of</strong> interest includesocial and popular dance; the history <strong>of</strong> popular entertainments; performance art; feministperformance and criticism; and performance writing.Among her courses at <strong>Gallatin</strong> areWritingAbout Performance;Gender and Performance;Proseminar:Text and Performance;andMaster’sThesis Seminar:Visual and Performing Arts. She is the author <strong>of</strong> DancingTill Dawn:ACentury <strong>of</strong> Exhibition Ballroom Dance (NYU Press, 1995) and the editor <strong>of</strong> Ballroom, Boogie,Shimmy Sham,Shake:A Social and Popular Dance Reader (<strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Illinois Press,2009).Several<strong>of</strong> her publications,which examine dance in the early 20th century,have focused on socialdance and class; media, advertising and early dance publications; and the intersections <strong>of</strong> earlyfeminism, the female body and dance. She is currently preparing a manuscript on dance andyouth culture <strong>of</strong> the 1950s.One <strong>of</strong> her recent essays is“All Is Not Right in the House <strong>of</strong>Atreus:Feminist Theatrical Renderings <strong>of</strong> the Oresteia” in the collection Feminist Theatrical Revisions<strong>of</strong> Classic Works (McFarland, 2009). From 1999 to 2003, Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Malnig served as editor <strong>of</strong>Dance Research Journal, an international scholarly publication in dance studies published by theCongress on Research in Dance (CORD), and she also served as the editorial board chair <strong>of</strong>CORD from 2003 to 2006.She is currently chair <strong>of</strong> the <strong>Gallatin</strong> InterdisciplinaryArts Program.In 2010 she was awarded the <strong>Gallatin</strong> <strong>School</strong> Excellence inTeaching Award.Eve MeltzerAssistant Pr<strong>of</strong>essorB.A. 1993, Brown; M.A. 1998, Ph.D. 2003, California (Berkeley)Eve Meltzer is assistant pr<strong>of</strong>essor <strong>of</strong> visual studies with research and teaching interests in theareas <strong>of</strong> contemporary art history and criticism, the history and theory <strong>of</strong> photography, materialculture and a range <strong>of</strong> philosophical and theoretical discourses including psychoanalysis,structuralism, phenomenology, and affect theory. She received her M.A. and Ph.D. in rhetoricfrom the <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> California at Berkeley. From 2003 to 2006, she was a Stanford HumanitiesPostdoctoral Fellow in Stanford <strong>University</strong>’s Department <strong>of</strong> Art and Art History.Herfirst book,SystemsWe Have Loved: Conceptual Art,Affect, and the AntihumanistTurn will be publishedby <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Chicago Press in 2013.The book situates the conceptual art movement<strong>of</strong> the late 1960s and early 1970s in relation to the field <strong>of</strong> structuralist thought and, in effect,36 <strong>New</strong><strong>York</strong> <strong>University</strong> <strong>Bulletin</strong> 2012-2013