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Christopher Vitale

AssistAnt Professor

B.A., State University of New York Binghamton; Ph.D.,

New York University; His areas of specialization include

continental philosophy, comparative modernist literary

and cultural studies, psychoanalysis, queer studies,

theories of race and ethnicity, radical political thought,

and film and film theory. Currently, he is writing a book

about complexity studies and theories of networks. He

has taught at NYU, UC Berkeley, and Hunter College.

Elizabeth Williams

Adjunct AssociAte Professor

M.F.A., Columbia University; B.A., Middlebury College.

Thaddeus Ziolkowski

coordinAtor, the writing ProgrAM;

Professor

B.A., George Washington University; Ph.D., Yale

University. Professor Ziolkowski’s work is included in An

Anthology of (American) Poets (Talisman Books, 1998)

and Writing from the New Coast (O-blek Editions, 1993).

His book-length collection of poems, Our Son, the

Arson (What Books), was published in 1996. Ziolkowski

has also been a staff reviewer for Artforum magazine.

His book reviews, film reviews, cultural criticism, and

travel writing have appeared in Slate, Bookforum, Travel

& Leisure, and The Village Voice. An account of his surfer

boyhood in Melbourne Beach, Florida, On a Wave, was

a finalist for the PEN/Martha Albrand Award in 2003.

Ziolkowski’s novel, Wichita, has been selected by Alice

Sebold and Tonga Books, a new imprint of Europa

Editions. Forthcoming in 2012, Wichita will be issued in

Italian, U.K. and U.S. editions. Ziolkowski is the recipient

of a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2008 –2009.

Mathematics and Science

Damon Chaky

AssistAnt Professor

Ph.D., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; B.S., Rensselaer

Polytechnic Institute; Dr. Chaky’s research focuses on

the sources, transport and fate of pollutants in the urban

environment, particularly that of New York City. He

regularly teaches Ecology for Architects, Toxics and the

elective course Science and Society. Dr. Chaky is active

in Sustainable Pratt, a group of students, faculty and staff

that works to position Pratt as a leader in sustainable,

ecologically-aware design and architecture.

Barbara Charton

Adjunct instructor

B.A., Brooklyn College; M.S., Pratt Institute; M.L.S., Pratt

Institute; Adv. Cert., Pratt Institute; Barbara Charton is

still doing chemistry and extending it in several new

directions—into art conservation and environmental

studies.

Marvin Charton

Professor

Ph.D., Stevens Institute of Technology, 1962; M.A.,

Brooklyn College, 1956; B.S., College of the City of

New York, 1953

Eleonora Del Federico

AssociAte Professor

Ph.D., University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 2000;

Licenciada (equivalent to MS degree), University of

Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1991

Anatole Dolgoff

Adjunct Professor

Margaret Dy-So

AssistAnt to the chAir

Aman Gill

Visiting instructor

B.S., Integrative Biology and History, University of

California, Berkeley; Ph.D. candidate in Ecology and

Evolution, Stony Brook University.

Jon Hagen

Visiting AssociAte Professor

B.S., Physics, Stanford University; M.S., Physics,

University of Idaho; Ph.D., Electrical Engineering,

Cornell University.

Christopher Jensen

AssistAnt Professor

B.A., Pomona College; Ph.D., Stony Brook University;

he teaches courses in Ecology, Human Evolution, and

the Biology of Cooperation. He is active in Sustainable

Pratt’s efforts to bring ecologically-conscious practices

to our campus and beyond. Those activities are

complemented by his research, which focuses on the

stability of systems of interacting organisms.

Cindie Kehlet

AssistAnt Professor

Ph.D., M.S., University of Aarhus; Dr. Kehlet teaches

Introductory Science and the Chemistry of

Pigments. Her research interests are in the field of

Conservation Science.

Steve Kreis

Visiting AssociAte Professor

Richard Leigh

Visiting AssociAte Professor

B.A., Oberlin College; Ph.D., Columbia University; PE

(Mechanical), New York State LEED AP; Practiced laser

spectroscopy at City College of NY and l’Ecole Normale

Superieure (Paris); joined Brookhaven National

Laboratory and switched to energy analysis and

development of energy-efficient technologies; taught

full time at Pratt 1987–93; back to BNL, acquired NYS

Professional Engineering license; then into the non-

profit sector first as Senior Engineer at the Community

Environmental Center, making existing and new

buildings more energy efficient in the NYC metro area,

now as director of advocacy and research at the Urban

Green Council, (NY Chapter of the US Green Building

Council, managers of LEED), working to improve energy

efficiency in building codes and on worker education.