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Sal A. Westrich

Professor, history

B.A., City College of New York; M.A., University

of Wisconsin; M.A., Harvard University; Ph.D.,

Columbia University.

Justin Williams

Visiting instructor, history

B.A., Columbia College; A.B.D., SUNY-Stony Brook.

Rebecca Winkel

Visiting AssistAnt Professor, Psychology

M.A., Columbia University; M.A., Gordon-Conwell

Theological Seminary; Ph.D., The New School for

Social Research.

Iván Zatz Díaz

AssociAte Professor, globAlizAtion

B.A., State University of New York, Purchase; M.F.A.,

New York University; Ph.D., Graduate Center, City

University of New York.

Critical and Visual Studies

Jonathan Beller

Professor

B.A., Columbia University; Ph.D., Duke University;

Interests: Media Theory, Marxism, Critical Race Theory,

Cinema, Media Archaeology, Decolonization, Aesthetics

and Politics, Feminism, Third Cinema, Philippine Culture

and Politics.

B. Ricardo Brown

AssociAte Professor, culturAl studies

B.A. Simons Rock College of Bard; M.A., Syracuse

University; M.Phil., Ph.D., Graduate Center, City

University of New York.

David Goodman

AssistAnt Professor, history

B.A., Sarah Lawrence College; M.A., New School

University; Ph.D., Indiana University.

Nelson Hancock

Visiting AssistAnt Professor, AnthroPology

Ph.D., Columbia University; B.A., Princeton University.

May Joseph

Professor, globAl studies

B.A., M.A., Madras Christian College; M.A., Ph.D.,

University of California, Santa Barbara.

Peter Nekola

Adjunct AssociAte Professor, history

B.A., St. Olaf College; M.A., Ph.D. candidate,

New School University.

Ethan Spigland

AssociAte Professor

B.A., Yale University; M.F.A., New York University; Matrise,

University of Paris VIII; has made numerous films and

media works including: Luminosity Porosity, based

on the work of architect Steven Holl, Elevator Moods,

featured in the Sundance Film Festival, and The Strange

Case of Balthazar Hyppolite, which won the Gold Medal

in the Student Academy Awards.

Kumru Toktamis

Adjunct AssistAnt Professor, sociology

B.A., Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey;

M.A., Ph.D., The New School University.

Suzanne Verderber

AssociAte Professor, huMAnities

And MediA studies

B.A., Dartmouth College; Ph.D., Univ of Pennsylvania;

Suzanne Verderder’s teaching and research focus on

the relationship between subjectivity and power, and

on the relation between pre-modern periods (medieval,

Renaissance, Baroque) and contemporary concerns.

Specific fields of study include politics, literature, art,

critical theory, philosophy, religion, and psychoanalysis.

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.

Iván Zatz-Díaz

AssociAte Professor, globAlizAtion

B.A., State University of New York, Purchase; M.F.A., New

York University; Ph.D. Graduate Center, City University

of New York.

The Writing Program

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.

Katherine Baldwin

Visiting instructor

Priscilla Becker

Visiting instructor

M.F.A., Columbia University; Becker’s first book of

poems, Internal West, won The Paris Review book

prize, and was published in 2003. Her poems have

appeared in Fence, Open City, The Paris Review, Small

Spiral Notebook, Boston Review, Raritan, American

Poetry Review, Verse, and The Swallow Anthology of