Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Social Service

Community Engaged Courses: Bronx Exploration: History, Economy, and Culture (1 Credit)

Areas of Study: Immigrants and refugees, International social work, Latinos

Dr. Acevedo completed his externship in family therapy at the Philadelphia Child Guidance Clinic (1987-1988). He has professional practice experience in various children and family, and mental health agencies. He teaches in the Master’s and PhD programs in the areas of social welfare policy and human behavior and the social environment. His scholarly work focuses on the political, economic, and sociocultural circumstances of Puerto Ricans and other Hispanic/Latino groups in the United States Hispanic/ Latino groups in the United States, with an emphasis on the issues of immigration and globalization, and their implications for social work theory, research, and practice.

Assistant Professor in the History Department

Community Engaged Courses: Antisemitism & Racism

Areas of Study: Nineteenth-Century U.S History, Anti-slavery and Emancipation; American Civil War and Reconstruction Era; Transatlantic Abolitionism; Nineteenth Century Transnational U.S and Caribbean Histories; Black Atlantic and African Diaspora; Black Radicalism and Political Thought

Wes Alcenat is an historian of the nineteenth century U.S and Caribbean. His scholarship covers the shared histories of African-Americans, the African Diaspora and nations in the Atlantic World. His dissertation, titled “Revolutionary Transnationalism: Prince Saunders, Haitian Emigration, and the Problem of Citizenship in the Age of Atlantic Slavery, 1815-1865,” explores the radicalism and ideologies of African-American settlers who emigrated to Haiti in the nineteenth century. Wes’s academic interests have intersected with public history and equity in higher education to highlight histories of marginalized groups inside the university and provide critical policy recommendations. His professional experience includes working as a mentor to undergraduate students in the Graduate school’s Leadership Alliance Summer Research Program and as academic adviser for the American Studies Program at Columbia University. Since 2015, he has served as an Associate Academic Director in the Great Books Summer Reading Program at Amherst College.

Wes has taught undergraduate courses and seminars in various topics, including: Black Urban Political History, Merchants and Slaves in Atlantic Capitalism, the Radical Tradition in U.S History, and the Modern Caribbean. Wes is a past recipient of the Richard Hofstadter Fellowship from Columbia University. He has been awarded fellowships from the Library Company of Philadelphia, the Massachusetts Historical Society, the Hoover Institution’s Library and Archives, the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, the Social Science Research Council (SSRC)-Mellon Mays Graduate Initiative Grants, and most recently the Gilder Lehrman Institute Fellowship in American History. In 2015-‘16 he was a resident scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a visiting PhD candidate at the Weatherhead Initiative on Global History (WIGH) at Harvard University. Wes has written or provided commentary for The Jacobin Magazine, Theroot.com, and The Immanent Frame. Wes is a contributing guest writer for Black Perspectives, the blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS). Wes is also affiliated with Fordham University's American Studies and Urban Studies departments.

Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer & Information Science

Community Engaged Courses: n/a

Areas of Study: Thinking about how data can be used in interdisciplinary contexts to advance policy changes.

Ruhul Amin is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer and Information Science at Fordham University. His research interests lie at the intersection of big data, statistical methods, and artificial intelligence. His team develops computational methods to solve cutting edge problems in the area of public health, bioinformatics, natural language processing, computational social science, and accessibility. Recently, Ruhul has worked on multi-wheel input device for non-visual interaction with computing platforms for people with visual impairments, and stereotypical gender associations in language and their change over time. He is currently collaborating with research groups at the University of Toronto, University of British Columbia, University of Maryland, Pennsylvania State University, New York University, Columbia University, and Stony Brook University for solving several public health research problems.

Dean in the College of Rose Hill

Community Engaged Courses: The Mind-Body

Areas of Study: Transition to adulthood for medically-ill adolescents/ young adults; Health care management in adolescents with a medical illness; Medication adherence in pediatric patients; Quality of life for children with special health care needs; Intervention development to improve health care transitions and quality of life; Interactions between medical and psychiatric symptoms

Rachel A. Annunziato is a Professor of Psychology. She also directs a Pediatric Psychology externship at Mount Sinai Hospital that provides free consultation, intervention, and testing services to children with developmental and learning disabilities. In addition, her research program focuses on children and adults with special health care needs.

Adjunct Lecturer in the English Department

Community Engaged Courses: Writer's Workshop: Literature, Law & Justice

Areas of Study: Poetry

Diana Arterian is the author of the poetry collection Playing Monster :: Seiche, which received a starred review in Publishers Weekly and was the Editors’ Selection for the 1913 First Book Prize. She also penned the chapbooks With Lightness & Darkness and Other Brief Pieces (Essay Press), Death Centos (Ugly Duckling Presse), and co-edited Among Margins: Critical & Lyrical Writing on Aesthetics (Ricochet).

A Poetry Editor at Noemi Press, her creative work has been recognized with fellowships from the Banff Centre, Caldera, Millay, Vermont Studio Center, and Yaddo, and her poetry, criticism, conversations, and translations have been featured in BOMB, Brooklyn Rail, LitHub, Los Angeles Review of Books, NPR, The New York Times Book Review, and The Poetry Foundation website, among others.

Diana holds a PhD in Literature & Creative Writing at the University of Southern California, and an MFA in Poetry from CalArts. She has held teaching positions at CalArts, Fordham University, and Wichita State, and is currently a lecturer at Merrimack College.

Advanced Lecturer in the Gabelli School of Business

Community Engaged Courses: Business Communications

Areas of Study: Communications Theory, Corporate Communications, Regional Dialects, Corporate Posture, Minority Male Behavioral Learning, Boardroom Communication

Clarence Edward Ball III hails from Houston, Texas. He is an alumnus of Tennessee State University, where he received a bachelor’s degree in speech communication with a minor in Africana studies, and of Michigan State University, where he received his graduate degree in research journalism and qualitative methodology.

Chief among Professor Ball’s academic and professional accolades is an Emmy Award given by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences in the Historical Cultural Programming category. The award-winning documentary, produced with PBS, focuses on the African-American experience in the state of Tennessee during the antebellum and post-bellum periods in the South.

Professor Ball started his academic career at Tennessee State University as an assistant professor in the communications department. While there, he won the American Forensics Association’s Best New Coaches Award and worked as an associate producer/researcher for Nashville’s PBS affiliate, Nashville Public Television. He came to Fordham University as a clinical assistant professor in January 2014 and has made it his mission to enrich the educational experiences of Gabelli School of Business students. In addition to his teaching responsibilities, Professor Ball is the faculty liaison to minority males for Fordham’s office of STEP/CSTEP, a New York State program designed to prepare minority and economically disadvantaged students to advance in career fields where they are underrepresented. He also coached the winning team of the Gabelli School’s 2015 Consulting Cup, a public speaking competition for all members of the sophomore class.

In general, Professor Ball’s academic approach eschews the notion of minority academic inferiority and replaces it with the notion of pedagogical asymmetry. He developed his research agenda while in graduate school at Michigan State, extending a prior emphasis on research that has an impact on inner-city minority males and contributes positively to communities. Using qualitative methods, he conducted useful studies and engineered social interactions between minorities and majority students at Big Ten Institutions. His research at MSU was so well-respected that it was presented to the then-U.S. Secretary of Education, Margaret Spellings, to help the White House better understand the minds of African American students as they transition from the K-12 education system to large state universities. During his time at Michigan State, Professor Ball won two Michigan Broadcasters Association awards, worked with the Big Ten Network, covered Barack Obama’s visit to the university, and anchored MSU’s broadcast of the 2008 Presidential election.

As a competitive speaker and speech coach, Professor Ball has won 186 awards. He is a two-time national first-place champion in Aristotelian forensics and a three-time international first-place champion in public speaking and oral interpretation. He belongs to the New York chapter of Young Professionals and has been active in that organization since 2011, beginning in the Nashville chapter. He also has coached students at various universities to win a total of 364 local, regional, and national speaking awards.

Adjunct Professor in the Department of Communication & Media Studies

Community Engaged Courses: Data visualization and Communication

Areas of Study: Data Journalism, Visual Journalism, Storytelling, Editorial, Project Management, Interactive Design, Web Development, Web Design, Web Scraping, Data Visualization, Data Analysis

Frank Bi is a senior journalist, technologist, educator and nonprofit leader passionate about the intersection of media and technology. He has more than a decade of experience in newsrooms and on product teams where he has contributed to every medium from television to magazine and from radio to local print newspaper.

In addition to his work in newsrooms, Frank has trained thousands of journalists in offices, classrooms and at conferences across North America on leveraging technology to find and tell better stories. Since 2017, Frank has served as an adjunct professor at Fordham University where he teaches both undergraduate and graduate level courses on data literacy and communication.

Frank is a senior leader in the Asian American Journalists Association where he currently serves as the president of the New York chapter as well as the national Training Director. He was previously AAJA's Vice President of Journalism Programs where he set the strategy and oversaw the operations of the organization's student and professional programs with the goal of helping members access resources and experiences to advance their careers in the industry.

Associate Professor in the Department of Communication & Media Studies

Community Engaged Courses: Communication and the Food System, Introduction to Professional Writing

Areas of Study: Food justice; Animal rights; Community-based organizing

Prof. Broad's teaching and research focuses on strategic communication for social justice and environmental sustainability. He has published extensively on issues related to food justice, animal rights, and community-based organizing. He also actively engages in collaborative research projects with health and justice-focused advocacy groups.

Professor in the Department of Psychology

Community Engaged Courses: Infant and Child Development

Areas of Study: Contextual influences on the social, emotional and academic development of diverse, urban youth during middle childhood and adolescence; Influence of continuity/discontinuity in quality of instructional and non-instructional settings on youth development; School-based interventions to promote positive teacher/classroom and youth development

Interim Associate Director at the Center for Medieval Studies

Community Engaged Courses: Exploring Medieval New York

Areas of Study: Franciscan Order and Observance movements in the later medieval church and the teaching, uses, and popular dissemination of canon law in the mendicant orders

Assistant Professor in the Department of Theology

Community Engaged Courses: Spirituals, the Blues, and African-American Christianity

Areas of Study: Liberation Theologies, Decolonial Theologies, the theory of coloniality, Sound Studies, the Blues, and African American Studies.

Prof. Burnett is a native of Gulfport, MS. Burnett earned his PhD in Systematic Theology with honors from Duquesne University, and his master’s degree in Religious Studies from Loyola University New Orleans. He previously taught within the Africana Department and Balfour Scholars Program at the University of Notre Dame. His area of study focuses on the sonic, spatial, and embodied realities of the Christian imagination. His latest text, Decolonizing Revelation: A Spatial Reading of the Blues, takes up these realities with regards to the American music genre known as the Blues. Burnett's text exposes the blues as an epistemic/cosmological framework that works to delink the Christian imagination of revelation, which is God’s self-disclosure in history, from oppressive foreclosures within nationalism, Christian denominations, race, class, sexuality, and ethnocentrism. Burnett's constructive theological approach to systematics looks to expose the theological insight of people groups that respond to domination through the creative use of cultural production. He has shared his insights on panels organized for the World Forum for Liberation Theology, the American Academy of Religion, and the Ecumenical Association of Third World Theologies. His current course offerings are Faith and Critical Reason and Spirituals, the Blues, and African American Christianity.

Associate Clinical Professor in the Gabelli School of Business

Community Engaged Courses: Legal Framework of Business

Areas of Study: Law & Ethics Business Law, Trusts and Estates, Estate Planning, Elder Law, Guardianships, Real Property Law, Real Property Management, Taxation, Administrative Law, White-Collar Crime

Dennis Cappello is an associate professor of law and ethics at the Gabelli School of Business, as well as the pre-law advisor at the undergraduate Gabelli School of Business. Professor Cappello is a proud alumnus of the Gabelli School, earning his BS magna cum laude in accounting. He received his JD from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University.

Professor Cappello began his professional career upon graduation from law school in 1980 as an associate tax consultant at Deloitte & Touche LLP, where he worked extensively on tax returns and financial statements for private placement real estate limited partnerships. His practice areas also included federal and state taxation of clients in various fields, including nonprofit foundations, law, retail, manufacturing, oil and gas.

Professor Cappello served from 1983 to 1986 in the Office of the District Attorney of Queens County, New York, as an assistant district attorney assigned to the Arson and Economic Crimes Bureau, where he investigated and prosecuted white-collar crimes including credit-card fraud, automobile-insurance fraud, and arson for profit.

Since 1986, Professor Cappello has engaged in the private practice of law as a solo practitioner. His practice areas include trusts and estates, estate planning, elder law, guardianships and real estate. Professor Cappello also serves as an administrative law judge for the City of New York Office of Administrative Trials and Hearings, where he conducts hearings and renders decisions in cases involving violations of the city's fire, health and sanitation codes. He is admitted to practice in the states of New York and Florida, the U.S. District Courts for both the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, and the U.S. Supreme Court. He is also a certified public accountant in the state of New York.

Professor Cappello has taught law and ethics courses at the Gabelli School of Business since 2001, focusing on contract law, commercial transactions and employment law. As pre-law advisor, he advises students interested in legal careers and assists them in developing a realistic and aggressive plan for law school admission. He received the Dean's Award for Teaching Excellence in 2006, 2008 and 2010

In the College of Rose Hill

Community Engaged Courses: Community Service/Social Action

PhD Candidate in the English Department

Community Engaged Course: Composition, Nonprofit and Advocacy Writing

Areas of Study: 20th and 21st-Century American Literature

Maya Raquel Castellanos is currently an English PhD candidate at Fordham University, with a field of study including 20th and 21st-Century American Literature. Maya earned a B.A. New York University, and currently teaches English Composition II at Fordham.

Adjunct Professor in the Gabelli School of Business

Community Engaged Courses: ST: Leadership IP

Associate Professor in the English Department

Community Engaged Courses: Practicum in Writing Pedagogy, Introduction to Professional Writing, Colloquium: Pedagogy Theory/Practice 1, Composition

Areas of Study: First-year composition; Advanced composition; Professional, technical, and public writing; Community-engaged writing; Composition pedagogy; Rhetorical theory; writing in scholarly genres; Professional and technical writing pedagogy

Crystal Colombini’s research examines connections between theories of rhetoric and writing and ideas about the economy. Her projects explore how various rhetorical traditions, events, and situations—from public debates about markets, to political deliberation over policies, to the resistant acts of social movements—intersect with the pressures of neoliberal capitalism to push wealth upward, alienate individuals from social collectives, and maintain intersectional inequalities. Her monograph Constructing the Market, which explores the public rhetoric of American homeownership, is in process with Penn State University Press. Her articles have appeared in a range of journals including College English, Rhetoric Society Quarterly, Advances in the History of Rhetoric, and Technical Communication Quarterly.

Associate Professor in the Department of Curriculum & Teaching

Community Engaged Courses: Contemporary Thinking about Instruction

Areas of Study: Critical Literacy in Science Education; Science Teacher Beliefs; Science Teaching and Learning

"He has a broad set of experiences working with youth in such settings as Covenant House, the Peace Corps as a volunteer in Tunisia, the Memphis Pink Palace Museum as a K-12 science specialist, and a high school teacher in Kolbe Cathedral High School (Bridgeport, CT).

His science research background includes having served as a research assistant for a small team of leading scientists at the Center for Earthquake Research and Information (CERI) examining the paleoseismic record in the New Madrid seismic zone (central United States).

His current work in science education focuses on helping new science teachers develop understandings and skills for teaching the subject through inquiry in urban schools.

Dr. Craven is also Principal Investigator for the NSF-funded program, Fordham University/Wildlife Conservation Society Robert Noyce Scholarship Program. This program provides scholarships for qualified science majors and science professionals seeking a career change in education."

Associate Professor in the Department of Theology

Community Engaged Courses: Religion in NYC - Practice and Theory

Areas of Study: Medieval Christian Mysticism and Spirituality, Medieval Scholastic Theology, Hermeneutics and Biblical Interpretation, Gender and Sexuality, Theories of Affect and Emotion

A Tennessee native, Prof. Davis graduated from Rhodes College in Memphis in 2003 with a major in Religious Studies. After graduation he served as a residential volunteer coordinator for Appalachia Service Project in Jonesville, Virginia. He received his MDiv from Harvard Divinity School in 2007 and his PhD from Harvard University in 2012. As a student at HDS, Prof. Davis co-founded and served as editor of Cult/ure: The Graduate Journal of Harvard Divinity School, and served as a pastoral care intern at Cambridge Cares About AIDS. As a doctoral candidate, he studied the history of Christian thought and practice with an emphasis on medieval Neoplatonism and mystical theology. Prof. Davis has also studied and continues to pursue interests in philosophical hermeneutics and the development of the human sciences, psychoanalytic theory, and theories of affect and emotion.

Faculty in the Department of Theology

Community Engaged Courses: Church in Controversy, Scripture and Racial Justice

Areas of Study: Systematic Theology

David de la Fuente is a doctoral candidate in systematic theology and a Senior Teaching Fellow for the 2021-22 Academic Year. He is also a part-time lay pastoral associate at the Church of St. Paul the Apostle in New York City. He completed his undergraduate studies in political science and theology at Fordham University in 2010 with an honors concentration in American Catholic Studies, and a Master of Theological Studies degree at the Boston College School of Theology in 2012. Subsequently, Dave worked for four years as the patient advocate for the Institute for Head and Neck and Thyroid Cancer at Mount Sinai Beth Israel Medical Center in New York City. He has also served as a Campus Minister for Fordham's Retreat Ministry.

Dave's dissertation project, titled A Catholic Reception of Azusa Street’s Pentecostal Fire, engages Pentecostal historiography and theology of the Azusa Street Revival of 1906 in tandem with the philosophical hermeneutics of Paul Ricoeur and the theological hermeneutics of Willie James Jennings in order to develop an anti-racist pneumatology that crosses ecumenical borders. Dave also has research interests in Trinitarian theology; medicine and religion; philosophy of religion; and religion and racial justice. He has published articles in Christian Bioethics, The Other Journal, and DailyTheology.org.

Dave is the recipient of a Louisville Doctoral Fellowship in 2017 and an Excellence in Graduate Teaching Award in 2021. Among the courses he has taught are: Church In Controversy, Christ in World Cultures, and Scripture and the Struggle for Racial Justice. He has participated in the Fordham GSAS Jesuit Pedagogy Seminar, the Contemplative Leaders in Action program run by the Office of Ignatian Spirituality of the Jesuits East Province, and a Teaching Religious Studies intensive seminar funded by the Wabash Center. He serves in leadership and advisory positions with the Fordham Theology Graduate Student Association, the Graduate Student Association council, the Fordham University Arts and Sciences Anti-Racism Advisory Council, and as a co-chair of the Contemporary Theology Section of the Mid-Atlantic Region of the American Academy of Religion.

Dave and his wife Adrienne live in Harlem. Dave's hobbies include running, cooking, playing guitar, homebrew, and puns.

Associate Professor in the Department of Communication and Media Studies

Community Engaged Courses: Digital Media and Public Responsibility, Designing Smart Cities for Social Justice

Areas of Study: Place, culture, and media; Proprietary media; Smart urbanism and social justice; Social (re)production and digital youth; Participatory action research; Participatory design; Geopolitics of internet access; Geographies of surveillance; Data power.

Gregory Donovan is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication and Media Studies as well as Director of the New Media and Digital Design Program at Fordham University. He is also a founding coordinator of the Fordham Digital Scholarship Consortium and co-chair of the Mapping (In)Justice Symposium: Digital Theory and Praxis for Critical Scholarship.

Donovan’s research explores the mutual shaping of people, place, and proprietary media, and how to reorient such shaping toward more just and meaningful publics. He is the author of Canaries in the Data Mine: Understanding the Proprietary Design of Youth Environments, co-editor of Issue 5 of The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy: Media and Methods for Opening Education, and a founder of the OpenCUNY Academic Medium. He received his Ph.D. in Environmental Psychology with a doctoral certification in Interactive Technology and Pedagogy from the CUNY Graduate Center.

Assistant Professor in the Department of Modern Languages & Literature

Community Engaged Courses: Francophone African Communities in NYC

Areas of Study: Labor, Migration, Rural development, Civil Service, Life Cycle, Higher Education and Academic Freedom

Isaie Dougnon’s research examines migration, work, and lifecycle in West Africa. Before coming to Fordham, Isaie was a professor of Anthropology at the University of Bamako in Mali where he taught courses on the anthropology of development, migration, and local knowledge. After publishing his first book, Travail de Blanc, Travail de Noir (Karthala 2007), Dr. Dougnon published several articles contributing to current debates on child labor. His work uses historical and anthropological approaches to offer a local perspective on labor and migration in colonial and post-colonial Africa. From 2008-2012, he directed the UNESCO-University of Bamako research program Water and Migration. He is currently finishing a book manuscript, Crises of Passage, which examines how Malian civil servants engage in secret societies and ritual practices to overcome career impasses and moral crises. Dr. Dougnon has contributed to the debate on the Malian political and humanitarian crisis of 2012 by publishing essays in local and international newspapers and journals. His most recent research examines the crisis of academic freedom and higher education in Mali after the end of dictatorship. Hehas held several fellowships, including at the Humboldt Foundation, Re:Work (Humboldt University, Berlin), and the Fulbright Foundation. His work has appeared in many journals and edited collections, including Humanity, African Economic History, African Identities, and Hommes & Migrations.

Assistant Dean in the Gabelli School of Business

Community Engaged Courses: Service Learning Seminar

Brian Dunn is the Assistant Dean of Honors Opportunities and Dual Degree Programs at the Gabelli School of Business at Fordham University. He completed his B.A. in Business Administration and Marketing from the University of Massachusetts - Amherst and earned his M.A. in Higher Education Administration at New York University. He has previously worked as an Academic Advisor at the NYU Stern School of Business and as a Research Analyst at Carat.

Senior Lecturer in the Department of Modern Languages & Literatures

Kari Evanson's research focuses on juvenile delinquency and the press in Interwar France and specifically how the press contributes to the formation of social causes. She is also interested in literary journalism, reportage, and themes of imprisonment.

Lecturer in the Department of Biological Sciences

Community Engaged Courses: Ecology and Economics of Food Systems

Areas of Study: Ecology, Ornithology, Wildlife, Biology

Coming from a background in bird behavior and ecology, Dawn Fariello now works on bird microbes in urban and rural habitats. She utilizes a variety of molecular and visual methods in order to examine hemoparasite coinfections in passerines.

Associate Professor in the Gabelli School of Business

Community Engaged Courses: Marketing Principles, Global Marketing

Areas of Study: Global Marketing; Retailing; Consumer response to pro-social marketing

Marcia Flicker completed an MBA and PhD in marketing at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Her background — a blend of retail advertising experience, consulting for JCPenney and an insatiable love of shopping — led her to specialize in marketing science techniques and information-technology applications in retailing and e-business.

With colleagues in Fordham's marketing area, Dr. Flicker co-founded the Center for Positive Marketing, which promotes the message that marketing can be a force for good. By satisfying a variety of consumer needs that result in positive outcomes, from the immediate and concrete to the more abstract and future-oriented, each customer-marketer exchange has the potential to increase individual and societal welfare. Benefits can range from alleviating short-term boredom to improving long-term public health.

In addition to the Gabelli School of Business, Dr. Flicker has taught at the Wharton School, New York University and LaSalle College. She was instrumental in leading Fordham's undergraduate Honors Thesis Program and in launching the master of science in business enterprise degree for recently graduated liberal and fine arts majors. She received a distinguished educator award from the Direct Marketing Education Foundation in 2000 and served as a judge for the Direct Marketing Association's Echo Award competition from 1999 to 2002.

Dr. Flicker's research has been presented to or published by the American Marketing Association, the Direct Marketing Association, the Marketing College of INFORMS, the Association for Consumer Research and Cambridge University Press. She is a member of the Advertising Research Foundation, the Direct Marketing Association and the Retail Marketing Society.

Executive Director for the Center of Community Engaged Learning

Community Engaged Courses: Composition, Texts and Contexts: Brave New Word: Post-Pandemic Narrative

Julie Gafney holds a B.A. in English and Spanish from Tufts University, an M.A. in comparative literature from the University of Chicago, and a Ph.D. in English Literature from the CUNY Graduate Center. She comes to Fordham after spending nearly a decade teaching and working on student and faculty initiatives within the CUNY system, as well as experience working on public policy for Governor Andrew Cuomo. She also serves as an external evaluator on a number of NSF (National Science Foundation) and NIH (National Institutes of Health) grants supporting student support initiatives among underrepresented undergraduate student populations.

Assistant Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences

Community Engaged Courses: TBD

Assistant Professor in the Department of Modern Languages & Literatures

Community Engaged Courses: Spanish for Heritage Speakers

Areas of Study: Mexican Literature and Cinema, Twentieth Century; Representations of science and technology in Mexican culture; Mexican Science Fiction

Miguel García is a native of the Texas/Chihuahua border. His work focuses on twentieth century Mexican literature and film, with an emphasis in the cultural representation of science and technology. He has published articles on journals such as Chasqui and Revista Iberoamericana. His current interests are the intersections of eugenics and race in Mexican science fiction, the futuristic representation of space in film and literature, and critical posthumanism.

Visiting Assistant Professor at the Department of English; Visiting Assistant Director of the Writing Program and Centers

Community Engaged Courses: Introduction to Professional Writing

Areas of Study: History of Rhetoric; Composition Pedagogy; Early Modern Political Writing; Writing Center Studies

"James Donathan Garner completed his Ph.D. in Rhetoric and Writing at the University of Texas at Austin in August of 2020. At its broadest level, his research examines the intersections among rhetorical theory and political philosophy within debates about religious toleration in early modern prose and drama. He is currently revising his dissertation, Conversation and the Polemic Style of Life in Revolutionary England, into a book-length manuscript to be submitted for publication. That project explored how ideas and theories of conversation informed the rhetorical decisions that writers made in defense of religious toleration during England’s civil wars of 1642-1651. He is also revising two articles for publication based on excerpts of his dissertation: the first examines the debt that John Milton’s Areopagitica owes to Dutch humanist Desiderius Erasmus’s De conscribendis epistolis and another argues that rhetorical theory is a vital hermeneutic that has been too often ignored within historiographic accounts of the Leveller organizer William Walwyn.

As Visiting Assistant Director of the Writing Program and Centers, James brings to Fordham over ten years of experience in writing center work as a tutor and administrator, as well as managing editor of Praxis: A Writing Center Journal. An experienced teacher of composition and literary studies, James is invested in making the classroom accessible for students of all abilities, and his teaching philosophy is that with enough humility, curiosity, and tenacity on the part of both teacher and student, every student can learn to write. You can learn more about his research and teaching at www.jamesdgarner.org."

Assistant Professor in the Graduate School of Education

Community Engaged Courses: Partnering with Families and Communities

Areas of Study: Sociocultural context of Education, Diverse Families, Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students, Community Engaged Scholarship

Elizabeth Gil joined the faculty of the Educational Leadership, Administration, and Policy (ELAP) Division of the Fordham GSE in 2020. Prior to joining the GSE she was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Administrative and Instructional Leadership at St. John’s University. She holds a Ph.D. in K–12 Educational Administration from Michigan State University, where she was named a King-Chávez-Parks Future Faculty Fellow. A native New Yorker, Gil taught in New York City Public Schools for more than 10 years, where she worked with students, teachers, administrators, and families as a teacher, professional developer, mentor, and data specialist. She has also served as residential faculty and co-coordinator in the Institute for Recruitment of Teachers Summer Workshop, which helps prepare college students for the graduate school application process.

Gil has published articles and book chapters investigating leadership in community spaces, and how educational leaders can learn from effective practices in these spaces. Her work has examined environments that foster parental and youth empowerment, and culturally responsive leadership. She has also written about immigrant parents' experiences with school choice, as well as explored the role of co-constructed peer mentoring for early-career faculty. Gil’s work has been published in Journal of School Leadership, International Journal of Leadership in Education, and International Journal of Mentoring and Coaching in Education. Her latest book chapter will be published in Latinas Leading Schools, which will be released in the fall of 2020.

Clinical Professor in the College at Lincoln Center

Areas of Study: Dance, Improvisation, Drumming, and Graphic Design

Abby Goldstein (b. Chicago, IL ) received a BFA from Pratt Institute, NY and an MFA from the School of Visual Arts, NY. Ms. Goldstein is a Professor of Art and head of the Graphic Design concentration at Fordham University, NY. She is the collaborator and co-designer of “Revival Type”with Paul Shaw and the designer of the award-winning book, "Helvetica and the New York City Subway System". Ms. Goldstein has exhibited her art in the US and abroad. She has received fellowships to Sam and Adele Golden Foundation, Brush Creek Artist Residency, Hambidge Center for Creative Arts & Science, Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts, Vermont Studio Center, Virginia Center for Creative Arts, Yaddo, Willapa Bay Artist fellowship. Public commissions include Gateway Center, Brooklyn, NY, Manhattan Bridge Bicycle path, NYC Department of Transportation, and St. George Ferry Terminal, Staten Island, NY. Ms. Goldstein lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.

Faculty in the Department of Theology

Community Engaged Courses: Faith and Critical Reason, Catholic Social Teaching

Areas of Study: Postcolonial theory, Development ethics, Economic justice

Megan Gooley is a PhD candidate in the Theological and Social Ethics program at Fordham University. She received her Master of Theological Studies in moral theology from the University of Notre Dame. Her research interests include postcolonial theory, development ethics, and economic justice. Her theological work is informed by her experience as a Peace Corps volunteer in Tanzania from 2013-2015.

Professor in the English Department

Community Engaged Courses: Homelessness: Literary Representation and Historical Reality

Areas of Study: Eighteenth-century novel (including Jane Austen); gender studies; early modern epistemology; psychoanalytic theory

Susan Greenfield is the author of Mothering Daughters: Novels and the Politics of Family Romance, Frances Burney to Jane Austen (Wayne State, 2002; paperback 2003), and co-editor of Inventing Maternity: Politics, Science, and Literature, 1650-1865 (Kentucky, 1999). Her articles have appeared in numerous journals, including Eighteenth-Century Studies, PMLA, and ELH. Her current research focuses on perception, personhood, and property in the eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century novel.

Assistant Professor in the Department of Modern Languages & Literatures

Community Engaged Courses: Food for Thought

Areas of Study: Medieval Studies; Manuscript Studies; Gender Studies

Susanne Hafner holds a Dr. Phil. from the University of Hamburg and is an assistant professor of German and the director of Fordham’s Center for Medieval Studies. Her research interests focus on the vernacular literatures of Central Europe, the reception of classical literature in the Middle Ages, codicology, and gender studies. Much of her work is manuscript-based and looks at the way in which knowledge was transmitted and stories were told in the original codices rather than the modern editions. In her current book project, Virgilian Masculinities, she examines the glosses in medieval copies of the Aeneid and the way in which medieval readers were re-interpreting the information on the Aeneid’s male characters they found in the text. She is particularly interested in the cultural shifts that occurred over time and, more specifically, how changing or competing notions of masculinity were negotiated in the manuscripts’ margins.

Faculty in the English Department

Community Engaged Learning: Texts and Contexts: Tasting the City, Senior Values, Incarceration: History, Literature, Film.

Areas of Study: Psychoanalytic studies; Narratology; Gender studies; The late-nineteenth and early twentieth-century novel; modern Hebrew literature

Anne Golomb Hoffman’s research in recent years looks at representations of embodiment in literary and psychoanalytic writing, and the relationship between trauma and narrative. Her articles and reviews have appeared in psychoanalytic and literary journals. Professor Hoffman holds a research appointment in the Institute for the History of Psychiatry at Weill Medical College of Cornell University. From 2013 to 2017 she directed the Richardson Seminar in the History of Psychiatry at Weill Cornell. She is a special member of the Association for Psychoanalytic Medicine of the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, where in 2017 she delivered the Liebert Award Lecture in Psychoanalysis and the Arts. She has published extensively on the politics of gender in Israeli and European Jewish writing. Prof. Hoffman is also an accomplished painter.

Associate Professor in the Department of Theology

Community Engaged Courses: Honors Sacred Texts , Honors: Theology

Areas of Study: Theology Hebrew Bible and its early interpreters; Wisdom and apocalyptic literature; Ancient Jewish education; Maternal metaphors in the Bible and ancient Judaism

Karina Martin Hogan joined the Theology Department as an Assistant Professor of Old Testament in 2005 and has been Associate Professor at Lincoln Center since 2011. Her research focuses on ancient Judaism, especially its interaction with Greek and Roman culture in the Second Temple period. She teaches courses on the Hebrew Bible and its early Jewish and Christian interpreters. In addition to teaching in the Lincoln Center Honors Program, she is affiliated faculty with the Jewish Studies and Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies programs.

Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology

Community Engaged Courses: Participatory Action Research, Applied Dev Psy Prac II

Areas of Study: How biological processes, psychological experiences, and social contexts interact during youth to influence lifelong health trajectories; Developmental transitions from childhood to adolescence (puberty), and from adolescence to adulthood (emerging adulthood); Positive youth development; Civic engagement; Stress physiology; Health disparities and social determinants of health

Dr. Hoyt’s work is situated at the intersection of developmental psychology and population health. She investigates how biological processes, psychological experiences, and social contexts interact during youth to influence lifelong health trajectories and health disparities. Specifically, she studies these dynamic factors across two key developmental transitions: from childhood to adolescence (puberty), and from adolescence to adulthood (emerging adulthood). These transitions represent critical turning points in the life course, windows of opportunity to alter behaviors, attitudes, and environments, which could lead to long-term changes in health and well-being.

Assistant Professor in the Department of History

Community Engaged Courses: Popular Education, Social Change in the Americas

Areas of Study: Latin American and Latinx History, Community Organizing, Central American Revolution, Immigrant Activism

"Stephanie Huezo is a historian of twentieth and twenty-first century Latin American and Latinx History. Her research interest focuses on community organizing, Central American revolutions, and immigrant activism. Huezo is currently working on a manuscript that examines how Salvadoran community organizers in both El Salvador and the diaspora have used popular education to create spaces of belonging when state systems and narratives have neglected to do so. Drawing on more than thirty oral histories and archival resources, Huezo demonstrates how Salvadorans used popular education as a tool for resistance against state sanctioned violence that cut across national boundaries. The manuscript ultimately demonstrates how Salvadorans understood and rearticulated a repertoire of organizing tools from their homeland, based on religious and revolutionary values, to challenge hegemonic, racist, and xenophobic systemic structures that impede social justice. Huezo's work has been supported in part by Indiana University’s History Department, the University Graduate School at Indiana University, the American Historical Association, and the Conference of Latin American History. Huezo has also received various fellowships and grants including the Ford Dissertation Fellowship (declined), the Consortium for Faculty Diversity Fellowship, and the Andres Torres Paper Series Award.

In addition to academic scholarship, Huezo has also contributed to the advancement of public history. In 2017, Huezo took part in the Smithsonian’s Latino Museum Studies Program and contributed research to the first Molina Family Latino Gallery at the Smithsonian. Huezo is also a member of the National Day Laborer Organizing Network (NDLON)’s Popular Education Collective where they serve as advisors for the various activities and materials developed for day laborers and immigrant-serving organizations."

Adjunct Professor in the Department of Communication & Media Studies

Community Engaged Courses: Strategic Communication

Rechael graduated from George Washington in 2014. She received her Bachelor's degree in International Affairs with a double concentration in Africa as a region and International Development and minored in socio-cultural Anthropology. After college, Rechael served as a teaching assistant for a year in France where taught kids between the ages of six and ten in French public schools.

Adjunct Professor in the Department of Sociology & Anthropology

Community Engaged Courses: Urban Issues and Policies

Areas of Study: Affordable housing, the history of race and place in American cities, and strategies for community control of reinvestment

Gregory Jost is a researcher, facilitator and organizer with expertise in the history of redlining and the Bronx and 20 years of experience in community based research, development, organizing and advocacy. At University Neighborhood Housing Program, Gregory created the Building Indicator Project database to evaluate levels of physical and financial distress in 62,000 New York City apartment buildings and transform the ways banks, their regulators and City agencies interact with properties and their owners.

Currently he is a Partner at Designing the WE, a social impact design studio collaborating to 'undesign' structural racism and systemic inequality in cities such as Trenton, Baltimore, Atlanta and New York. He is the Board President for New Economy Project, co-founded a Community Supported Agriculture cooperative in his neighborhood, and served as a founding board member of a teacher-led progressive elementary school where his two children now attend. He is currently writing a book on how redlining defined the Bronx and America.

Associate Professor in the Gabelli School of Business

Community Engaged Courses: Research Methods

Areas of Study: Brand name construction; Price framing

Luke Kachersky became an assistant professor of marketing at Gabelli School of Business in 2008, after completing his PhD in marketing at Baruch College of the City University of New York. His research, which focuses on consumer behavior, including the psychology of pricing and the role of self-concept in consumer decision-making, has been published in journals such as the Journal of Marketing Management and the Journal of Product and Brand Management and highlighted at major academic conferences.

Professor Kachersky has taught graduate-level marketing management and undergraduate-level marketing research and consumer behavior, and he designed a mini-course for Fordham on consumer social responsibility. He has received recognition for his teaching, including the 2010 Gabelli School of Business Cura Personalis Award, given to the faculty member who embodies the Jesuit principle of ""care for the whole person"" by challenging students while giving them the support they need to excel. In 2011, Dr. Kachersky was also honored with the Academy of Marketing Science Outstanding Teacher Award.

Prior to pursuing his academic career, Dr. Kachersky worked in his family's retail operation, where he learned the value and nuances of creating long-term, profitable relationships with customers, thus beginning a lifelong passion for marketing and its ideals.

Lecturer in the Department of Communication & Media Studies

Community Engaged Courses: Communication Ethics and the Public Sphere

Areas of Study: Art; culture; media; ethics; images; museums; criminal justice

With a background in art history and curating contemporary art at the Whitney Museum of American Art, Diana Kamin received her PhD in Media, Culture, and Communication from New York University. Her broad research interests include the intersections of art, culture, and media history. She is currently working on a book project on the history of circulating image collections in American museums, libraries, and stock photography agencies, and how they lay the groundwork for today's image flows.

Associate Professor in the Department of Modern Languages & Literatures

Community Engaged Courses: Spanish Community Engaged Learning

Areas of Study: Latin American and Latino Studies; Comparative Literature

Carey Kasten specializes in contemporary Spanish culture. She is the author of The Cultural Politics of Twentieth-Century Spanish Theater: Representing the Auto Sacramental (Bucknell UP, 2012), which examines how 20th century artists used 17th century Eucharist plays to reassess the way politics and the arts interact in the Spanish nation's past and present, and to posit new ideas for future relations between the state and the national culture industry. She has published articles in Hispanic Review, Hecho Teatral, and the Bulletin of Spanish Studies. She also edited a special issue of the Bulletin of Spanish Studies on "The Baroque in the Construction of a National Culture in Francoist Spain." Her current research focuses on early fascism and the avant-garde in Spain.

Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology & Anthropology

Areas of Study: Migration, borders, urban studies, labor, race, infrastructure, social movements

Julie Kleinman is an urban anthropologist working in France and francophone West Africa. Her research examines how migration changes urban spaces and social relations. Her book, Adventure Capital: Migration and the Making of an African Hub in Paris (University of California Press, 2019 ) examines how West African migrants retool French urban infrastructures to create alternative pathways toward social and economic integration where state institutions have failed. Since 2013, she has been conducting fieldwork in Mali (Bamako and Kayes) for a second book project on everyday pan-Africanism as seen through African migrants’ experience in Mali, deportee rights activism, and return migrants’ novel approaches to political participation and development projects. Dr. Kleinman has also done research on the construction of cultural difference in French schools, French urban planning and “African” markets in Paris, social activism and humanitarian aid in Mali, and the transnational kinship practices of Malian migrants.

Dr. Kleinman’s work has been funded by the SSRC and the Mellon Foundation and has received prizes from the Society for the Anthropology of Europe and the Society for Urban, National, and Transnational/Global Anthropology. She was a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities at Oberlin College, and Assistant Professor at Penn State University before coming to Fordham. In the Spring of 2018, she held the McMillan-Stewart Fellowship at the Hutchins Center’s W.E.B. Du Bois Research Institute of Harvard University.

Associate Professor in the Department of Communication & Media Studies

Community Engaged Courses: Reporting the Bronx

Areas of Study: Journalism Studies; Watchdog Journalism; Television Production; Press, Politics and Public Policymaking; Political Communication; Russia

Beth Knobel had a 20-year long career as a journalist before joining Fordham University in 2007. She brings experience in all major areas of journalism—newspapers, magazines, television, radio and Internet--to her classes. From 1999 to 2006, she was the Moscow Bureau Chief for CBS News. In nine years at CBS, she worked as both an on-air correspondent as well as a producer. She is a recipient of an Emmy award for coverage of the 2002 Moscow theater siege, and Edward R. Murrow and Sigma Delta Chi awards for coverage of the 2004 Beslan school siege. She still works as a freelance producer for CBS News. Dr. Knobel spent 14 years total living in Moscow, where she worked for The Los Angeles Times, the television news agency Worldwide Television News, and the production company Feature Story before joining CBS News. Earlier in her career, she worked for The New York Times and Ladies‘ Home Journal magazine, and during her student days edited The Columbia Daily Spectator and Governance: The Harvard Journal of Public Policy. Dr. Knobel received masters and doctoral degrees in public policy from Harvard University, and her bachelors in political science from Barnard College, Columbia University.

Professor in the Department of Theology

Community Engaged Courses: The Ethics of Life, Honors Sacred Text

Areas of Study: Medieval Islam, Jewish, Christian, and Muslim encounters/exchanges, Method and Theory in the Study of Religions, Gender Studies

Kathryn Kueny is Professor of Theology at Fordham University, where she also serves as Director of the Middle East Studies and Religious Studies programs. She received her PhD from the University of Chicago in the History of Religions, working primarily under the mentorship of Jonathan Z. Smith. Over the past 20 years of her career, Professor Kueny has taught a number of courses that explore topics in Islam, method and theory in the study of religion, and Gender Studies. These interests are reflected in her two books, The Rhetoric of Sobriety: Wine in Early Islam, and Conceiving Identities: Maternity in Medieval Muslim Discourse and Practice, which probe more deeply the ethical, theological, practical and rhetorical struggles humans undergo to render comprehensible everyday life experiences and natural phenomena not readily or easily understood.

Professor Kueny is currently working on a new project, entitled Ecologies of Health and Disease in Medieval Muslim Medicine, Law, Practice and Belief. This work explores the variable interplay of body, mind, nature, time, moral disposition, social interaction and divine encounter that marks individuals (to both self and other) as healthy or ill.

Senior Lecturer in the Department of Modern Languages & Literatures

Community Engaged Courses: Italian Americans on Screen, Intermediate Italian I

Areas of Study: Italian culture since the unification and includes work on literature, film and oral history

Kathleen LaPenta teaches Italian language, literature and film at Fordham University. She is co-director of the Bronx Italian American History Initiative, an oral history project about Italians and Italian American residents of the Bronx. She completed her Ph.D. in Italian Studies at Rutgers University, where she was a recipient of the University Bevier Fellowship and the Fulbright Scholarship. Her research focuses on Italian culture since the unification and includes work on literature, film and oral history. Her publications have been featured in The Italianist¸The Italian American Review and Moderna: Semestrale di teoria e critica della letteratura. She is currently at work on a book about global Italian identities in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Professor in the Department of Modern Languages & Literatures

Community Engaged Courses: Manresa 3/Spanish Colonialism Through Film

Areas of Study: Colonial Spanish American Literature; Latin American and Latino Studies

Sara Lehman researches and teaches colonial literature, 17th century discourse, and the picaresque. Her courses in Spanish cover literature from the 15th to the 19th centuries, and focus on transatlantic and interdisciplinary perspectives. Her courses in English for Latin American and Latino Studies include surveys, literature in translation, and culture courses.

Her publications include the first critical edition of fray Antonio Vázquez de Espinosa's Tratado verdadero del viaje y navegación, a new critical edition of José Joaquí Frenández de Lizardi's Don Catrín de la Fachenda, multiple student editions of classic Spanish texts, and her monograph Sinful Business New World Commerce as Religious Transgression in Literature on and of the Spanish Colonies.

Professor in the Gabelli School of Business

Community Engaged Courses: Consumer Behavior

Areas of Study: The role of language in marketing and consumer behavior; Psycholinguistic, sociolinguistic and cultural approaches to branding, advertising, and the consumer experience; Bilingualism and cross-cultural aspects of language processing within a consumer context

Dawn Lerman focuses on the field of consumer behavior with particular emphasis on consumer language processing. Her work has been published in a variety of academic journals and books and has been presented at both academic and industry conferences. She is also a member of the editorial board for the Journal of Business Research andInternational Marketing Review.

Prior to joining Fordham, Dr. Lerman served as a press attaché in the public relations department of a major political lobby in Paris and as a marketing and business development analyst at The Ferolie Group, a leading New York-area food broker. While at Ferolie, Dr. Lerman managed a number of major brands manufactured by corporations such as Van Den Bergh Foods, Kraft, Apple & Eve, McCormick and the James River Corporation, and she played a key role in a variety of new product introductions.

More recently, Dr. Lerman has served as a consultant in areas related to market research, new product introductions, branding and marketing strategy development. She also conducts in-house seminars on topics ranging from linguistic considerations in brand communications to the branding of industrial products.

Adjunct Professor in the Institute of International Humanitarian Affairs

Community Engaged Courses: Contemporary Issues

Anna Levy is a freelance researcher and analyst focused on structural inequality, political transitions, and transnational accountability politics. Her work over the last eight years has been focused on environmental and social movements, the political economy of the international aid industry, the suspension of rights in border and migration crises, decolonization and development, and the pursuit of civil and political rights in the context of enduring historical legacies of discrimination, often with a focus on how the digital age shapes and is shaped by each. Anna teaches two courses on development and humanitarian politics at Fordham University, and has worked on related research and analysis at Princeton, American, and New York Universities as well as in management and advisory roles in small grassroots coalitions and large transnational non-profits alike. The regions that most influence her thought, work, and direction are the Levantine Middle East, Central America, and the United States. She holds a Master’s degree from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs focused on political and economic transitions, oral history and historical memory.

Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science

Community Engaged Courses: Intro to Politics, Conflict Analysis/Resolution (EP3)

Areas of Study: Civil wars, Post-war development, migration, international cooperation

Her research and teaching interests lie at the intersection of international relations and comparative politics, particularly in the areas of conflict and political economy. Her dissertation, entitled The Post- War Dilemma: War Outcomes, State Capabilities, and Economic Development after Civil War, examined the way in which civil war outcomes and state capacity affect the post-war strategies of important economic actors and how these strategies in turn affect post-war economic growth. In addition to her work on post-civil war development, she is currently working on a project examining international cooperation on migration policy.

Faculty in the Department of Theatre & Visual Arts

Community Engaged Courses: Art and Action on the Bronx River

Matthew López-Jensen is a Bronx-based interdisciplinary artist whose rigorous explorations of landscape combine walking, collecting, photography, video, mapping, and extensive research. His projects investigate the relationships between people and local landscapes. He was a recent artist-in-residence with the NYC Urban Field Station, is a Citizen Pruner, community gardener, and part of the New York City Urban Forest Task Force.López-Jensen teaches art and photography at Parsons School of Design at The New School and at Fordham University. He is a Guggenheim Fellow in photography and his work is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The National Gallery of Art and the Brooklyn Museum, among other institutions. He received his MFA from the University of Connecticut and BA from Rice University.

Professor in the Gabelli School of Business

Community Engaged Courses: Marketing Strategy

Areas of Study: Service Research, Loyalty, Customer Satisfaction, Employee Satisfaction, Commitment and Word-of-Mouth, Firm Performance, Share-of-Wallet, Customer Engagement, Innovation, Social Innovation, Social Responsibility

"Professor Lerzan Aksoy's research interests are in service research, including customer satisfaction, employee satisfaction, innovation and social innovation, its relationship to loyalty, firm performance and societal wellbeing.

A prolific writer, Professor Aksoy has co-authored or edited five books. Her most recent book, The Wallet Allocation Rule, is a New York Times and USA Today bestseller.

Professor Aksoy's research has received more than a dozen prestigious scientific awards, including the Marketing Science Institute/H. Paul Root Award from the Journal of Marketing, Citations of Excellence ""Top 50"" Award and Robert Johnston Outstanding Paper Award (3 times) from the Journal of Service Management. Her articles have been published in top tier journals in marketing (such as the Journal of Marketing, Journal of Marketing Research, Marketing Science, Journal of Academy of Marketing Science, Journal of Interactive Marketing), strategy (including Harvard Business Review, MIT Sloan Management Review) and service research (such as the Journal of Service Research and Journal of Service Management).

She is associate editor for the Journal of Service Research and serves on the editorial review boards of International Journal of Research in Marketing, Journal of Business Research, Journal of Public Policy and Marketing, Journal of Interactive Marketing, Journal of Service Management and Journal of Service Theory and Practice. She was selected ""Best Reviewer of the Year"" among the editorial review board members of both the Journal of Service Research and Journal of Service Management.

Professor Aksoy served as co-chair of AMA SERVSIG (American Marketing Association - Service Special Interest Group) from 2014 - 2018 and worked with Filene Research Institute from 2012 - 2016 doing research with credit unions. She currently serves on the Board of Trustees of Marketing Edge, is a member of the Academic Council of the AMA (American Marketing Association) and serves as the academic partner for the American Innovation Index.

She has also been featured in media including CNN, CNBC and publications such as The Wall Street Journal, BrandWeek and Harvard Business Online.

Professor Aksoy is a keynote speaker at academic and industry conferences and has presented in Belgium, China, Egypt, Greece, Jordan, Peru, Sweden, the Netherlands, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom and the United States. She has provided executive training and consulting to credit unions in the US, and companies including Sony, Ford, Pfizer, Nielsen and L'Oreal. Prior to joining Fordham, Professor Aksoy was an associate professor at Koç University in Istanbul, Turkey."

Dean in the College of Rose Hill

Community Engaged Courses: Mathematics and Democracy

Areas of Study: Differential Geometry

Maura B. Mast is an Irish-American mathematician, mathematics educator, and academic administrator, specializing in differential geometry and quantitative reasoning. With Ethan D. Bolker, she is the author of the textbook Common Sense Mathematics. Mast is dean of Fordham College at Rose Hill, part of Fordham University.

Senior Lecturer in the Gabelli School of Business

Community Engaged Courses: The Ground Floor

Areas of Study: Finance and budgeting, talent development and deployment, brand protection, communications

Mr. Michael McSherry brings 38 years of extensive executive management leadership and financial experience from EY. He received his Bachelor of Science in Accounting from the Gabelli School of Business at Fordham University and an Executive Management certificate from Northwestern University, Kellogg Graduate School of Business. Additionally, Mr. McSherry is a Certified Public Accountant and member of the AICPA and New York State Society of CPAs.

Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication & Media Studies

Community Engaged Courses: Media and Sexuality, Understanding Film

Area of Study: Media industries and production studies; Gender and sexuality studies; Film and television genres; Ecocriticism; Critical carceral studies; Experimental film and video; Queer theory; Political economy of pornography.

Jennifer Moorman earned her Ph.D. in Cinema and Media Studies from UCLA in 2014. Her research focuses on gender, sexuality, race, class, and dis/ability in film, television, and online media. Her research interests include media industries and production studies, gender and sexuality studies, film and television genres, ecocriticism, critical carceral studies, experimental film and video, queer theory, and the political economy of pornography. Her published work has touched on women directors of adult video and representations of queer women in U.S. television programming. She is currently working on a book manuscript, entitled The Softer Side of Hardcore? Women Filmmakers in Pornographic Production Cultures. Before joining the Communication & Media Studies faculty at Fordham, she was a Visiting Assistant Professor of Women's and Gender Studies at Loyola Marymount University, and has also lectured at UCLA, CSU Long Beach, Otis College, and Chapman University.

Assistant Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences

Community Engaged Courses: n/a

Areas of Study: Urban Evolutionary Biology, Urban Ecology, Population Genomics, Landscape Genetics

Faculty in the Institute of International Humanitarian Affairs

Community Engaged Courses: Contemporary Issues in Humanitarian Action

Nora Lester Murad is an adjunct professor of Humanitarian Affairs at Fordham University in the USA. She is also a writer and activist living in Palestine and her work currently focuses on promoting racial justice among communities in Palestine. She was the founding executive director of the Dalia Association, a Palestinian community foundation. Dr. Murad moved to Israeli-occupied East Jerusalem in 2004 from the United States and has since worked with Palestinian non-governmental organizations, international NGOs, and UN agencies doing participatory research, strategic planning, community development, organizational change, donor communications, organizational capacity assessments, impact evaluations, fundraising, and other projects. Before moving to Palestine, Dr. Murad was an assistant professor of cross-cultural understanding at Bentley College in Massachusetts, and she had a thriving consulting practice doing anti-racism, intercultural and organizational change work with community groups, hospitals, grant-makers, government agencies and corporations. She also worked as a corporate cultural competence strategist for Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates, and a diversity curriculum designer for J. Howard & Associates. During the first Intifada (Palestinian uprising), she was coordinator of the Cambridge-Ramallah/El-Bireh Sister City Campaign. Dr. Murad has spoken at numerous conferences, most recently at the annual conference of the Community Foundation Network in the UK, and at the Hiroshima University Partnership for Peace-building and Social Capacity conference on indigenous peace-building initiatives. Her research interests include dependence on international aid, participatory processes, and patriarchy. She had a fellowship from the Palestinian American Research Center (2005-2006) and was adjunct research fellow at the Middle East Center, Northeastern University (2004-2005).Dr. Murad has a PhD from Fielding Graduate Institute in Santa Barbara, California, focused on social change and structural inequality; a Master of Arts degree in Intercultural Relations from Lesley University, with an emphasis on conflict management and training; and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Middle East Studies from the University of California in Los Angeles during which she studied at the American University in Cairo (1983-4) and the Hebrew University in Jerusalem (1984-5).Dalia Association is the first Palestinian community foundation. It links people who have money, expertise, ideas and other resources with Palestinian community activists who need those resources to serve and mobilize their communities. It facilitates community-based grantmaking and provides other forms of support for sustainable civil society initiatives. Dalia Association involves people of all backgrounds in working together to build new traditions of philanthropy and volunteerism, thus strengthening the social fabric and increasing trust in community institutions. In the long-term, Dalia Association aims to reduce Palestinian civil society’s dependence on international aid.

Associate Professor in the Gabelli School of Business

Community Engaged Courses: Stat Methods and Comp I

Areas of Study: Time series; House price indices; Gini indices; Survey sampling

Chaitra H. Nagaraja is an associate professor of strategy and statistics at the Gabelli School of Business. She obtained her BS in mathematics at the University of Chicago and her PhD in statistics at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School. Before coming to Fordham, she taught statistics at the London School of Economics and was a research mathematical statistician at the U.S. Census Bureau in Washington, D.C. She is interested in macroeconomic applications of statistics, with a particular emphasis on house price indices.

Professor in the Department of African & African American Studies

Community Engaged Courses: From Rock and Roll to Hip Hop

Areas of Study: African American History 20th Century

Dr. Mark Naison , Professor of African American Studies and History at Fordham University,is the author of seven books and over 300 articles on African American politics, labor history, popular culture and education policy. His first book, Communists in Harlem in the Depression, published in 1983, is still in print, and is used in undergraduate and graduate courses around the nation.

He recently published a novel, Pure Bronx, co-written with his former student Melissa Castillo-Garsow, and a book of essays on educational policy and Bronx history, Badass Teachers Unite.

His seventh book, published by Fordham University Press in September 2016, is Before the Fires, An Oral History of African American Life in the Bronx from the 1930’s to the 1960’s. This book is one of the featured readings in a new course offered by Dr. Naison at Fordham entitled “The Bronx: Immigration, Race and Culture.”

Dr. Naison is the founder of the Bronx African American History Project, one of the largest community based oral history projects in the nation and has brought his research into more than 20 Bronx schools, as well as Bronx based cultural organizations and NGO’s. In recent years, the BAAHP’s research has led to granting landmark status to several streets and a housing complex with historic significance, as well as the founding of a cultural center honoring the Bronx’s musical heritage.

A co-founder of the Bronx Berlin Youth Exchange, Naison has published articles about Bronx music and Bronx culture in German, Spanish, Catalan, and Portuguese as well as English, and given talks about these subjects in Germany, Spain and Italy.

In addition to his scholarship, Dr Naison has done extensive news commentary on outlets as diverse as ABC, CNN, New York 1, Fox News, and Fox Business, has appeared on the O’Reilly Factor, and entered the world of comedy with a much publicized appearance on the Chappelle Show. His courses have been regularly covered on Bronx 12 News and were recently featured in a Daily News article on the most poplar college courses in New York City.

Professor in the Department of Theology

Community Engaged Courses: Sinners, Saints, and Stories

Areas of Study: The Book of Psalms; The Prophetic Literature; Biblical Theology; Biblical Ethics; History of Interpretation

"Harry Nasuti is professor of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament in the department of theology of Fordham University. His main research area has been the poetic books of the Bible, especially the book of Psalms, on which he has published two books and a number of articles. He also teaches and publishes in the areas of biblical theology and biblical ethics. At present he is working on two books, volume four in the forthcoming Illuminations commentary on the Psalms and a monograph exploring the relationship between poetics and ethics in the different sections of the Hebrew Bible.

During his time at Fordham, Professor Nasuti has also held a number of administrative positions, including a term as chair of the department of theology, fifteen years of service as the director of the Fordham College at Rose Hill Honors Program, and four years of service as the Fordham College prestigious fellowships advisor. He has been chosen as Teacher of the Year in the Humanities, elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and selected to give the annual Last Lecture by the honors senior class. He has also served for a number of years on the Faculty Senate and as the Faculty Representative to the Lilly Fellows Program in Humanities and the Arts.

Outside of Fordham, Professor Nasuti has been especially active in the Catholic Biblical Association of America. He served two terms as associate editor of the Catholic Biblical Quarterly and six years on the Program Committee for the annual meeting (including one as chair). He also served as the local arrangements chair when Fordham hosted the national meeting in 2008. He recently was a member of the Strategic Planning Committee that conducted a comprehensive review of the Association’s practices and constitution. He also served as a Consultor on the Executive Board of the Association. In 1987 he received the CBA Young Scholars Fellowship.

Professor Nasuti currently serves as an associate editor of the Biblical Theology Bulletin. He frequently gives lectures and workshops at churches and academic institutions."

Professor in the Gabelli School of Business

Area of Study: Managerial Accounting

Harry Newman, a professor of accounting and taxation, holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Toronto and a master's and PhD from Northwestern University. He has received fellowships from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and from both of his degree-awarding institutions.

Professor in the Department of Political Science

Areas of Study: Comparative Democratization; Social Movements; Public Opinion; Youth, with a regional focus on Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.

Olena Nikolayenko is a Professor of Political Science at Fordham University. She is also an Associate at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University. Her research interests include comparative democratization, social movements, political behavior, women’s activism, and youth, with a regional focus on Eastern Europe, Russia, and Central Asia. In her recent book, Youth Movements and Elections in Eastern Europe (Cambridge University Press, 2017), she examined interactions between nonviolent youth movements and incumbent governments during national elections in five post-communist states: Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Serbia, and Ukraine. Her current research focuses on (1) anti-government protests in contemporary Russia, (2) women’s engagement in high-risk activism in Ukraine, and (3) political consequences of remittances in Eastern Europe.

Professor in the College of Law

Areas of Study: Alternative Dispute Resolution; Catholic Perspectives on Conflict Resolution; International Dispute Resolution; Mediation

"Professor Jacqueline Nolan-Haley directs the ADR & Conflict Resolution Program and the Mediation Clinic at Fordham Law School where she teaches courses in ADR, International and Comparative Perspectives in Mediation, Catholic Perspectives in Conflict Resolution, International and Interethnic Conflict Resolution, and Mediation Theory and Practice.

Her scholarship examining matters related to informed consent in mediation has long constituted required reading for any law student. Her book, ADR in a Nutshell, now in its 4th edition, has educated several generations of practitioners regarding the fundamentals norms and challenges in ADR processes. Her international work, notably in Northern Ireland, and Ghana has encouraged mediation practitioners and dispute systems design specialists to broaden their perspectives regarding the multiple, valued ways in which persons can use the mediation process to enhance human understanding and dignity.

Professor Nolan-Haley is a member of the Ethics Committee of the ABA Section of Dispute Resolution and the AAA-ICDR Council. She chairs the Education Committee of the New York Bar Association’s Dispute Resolution Section and is the former Chair of the ADR Section of the Association of American Law Schools. She has taught dispute resolution courses at the University of Lorraine, France, McGill University, Boston University Law School, and University of Navarra School of Law, and has been a Visiting Scholar at the Harvard Program on Negotiation.

Throughout her professional career, Professor Nolan-Haley has focused her research on issues related to informed consent, access to justice, ethics and comparative perspectives in ADR. She has been recognized by multiple organizations for her contributions, including the Fordham Urban Law Journal’s Louis J. Lefkowitz Award given for “outstanding contributions to the law as it affects urban communities” and the 2013 CPR International Institute for Conflict Resolution and Prevention’s award for “Outstanding Original Professional Article” for her article, Mediation: The “New Arbitration,” (17 Harvard Negotiation Law Review 61 (2012).)

Professor Nolan-Haley’s recent publications include: Designing Systems for Achieving Justice after a Peace Agreement: The Case of Northern Ireland (2017); Does ADR’s Access to Justice Come at the Expense of Meaningful Consent? 33 Ohio St. J. Dispute Res. 373 (2018); Mediation, Self-Represented Parties and Access to Justice: Getting There from Here, 87 Fordham L. Rev. Online 1 (2019); Access to Justice and ADR: Comparative Perspectives, Missouri J Disp. Res. (2020).

Adjunct Professor in the English Department

Community Engaged Courses: Texts and Contexts

Areas of Study: 20th-Century American Literature

Associate Professor in the Gabelli School of Business

Community Engaged Courses: Consumer Behavior, Strategic Branding

Areas of Study: Services Marketing; Healthcare Market Strategies; Product and Brand Management; Consumer Behavior; Consumer Well-Being

Genevieve E. O'Connor is an associate professor of marketing at Gabelli School of Business, Fordham University. She earned her Ph.D. from Rutgers University. Her publications have appeared in the Journal of Business Research, Journal of Public Policy & Marketing, and Journal of Consumer Affairs. She has presented her research to organizations such as the American Marketing Association, Academy of Marketing Science, and Frontiers in Service.

Dr. O’Connor is a services marketing strategist who specializes in consumer well-being with a focus on healthcare and financial well-being. Drawing on more than a decade of industry experience with Fortune 500 companies, including 3M, U.S. Surgical and Boston Scientific, Dr. O’Connor conducts research and provides expert consultation for healthcare organizations.

Adjunct Professor in the School of Law

Jeffrey Oak is the principal at AnchorPoint Governance Risk and Compliance (GRC) Advisory LLC and senior adviser at the Ethics and Compliance Initiative. He recently served as the chief enterprise risk officer for Bon Secours Mercy Health (BSMH), one of the largest not-for-profit health systems in the U.S., and as chief corporate responsibility officer for Bon Secours Health System (BSHS), one of the predecessor organizations to BSMH. Under his leadership at BSHS, the ethics and compliance program was recognized nationally for innovation, and in 2017 it was recognized by Ethisphere Institute as one of the “world’s most ethical companies.”

Dr. Oak served as the first chief compliance and business integrity officer for the Veteran’s Health Administration, the nation’s largest public health safety net, at the conclusion of which he was recognized with VHA’s highest award for public service. With nearly 30 years of experience in the ethics and compliance field, he was previously lecturer and research assistant in ethics at Yale University, and senior vice president at the Council of Ethical Organizations and Compliance Resource Group.

He is an expert review panel member for Global Ethics and Integrity Benchmarks, advisory board member at the Hoffman Center for Business Ethics at Bentley University, advisory council member at the Cintas Center for Business Ethics at Xavier University, and independent member of the board’s Organizational Integrity and Audit Committee for Trinity Health.

He previously served as board chair for Blumont Inc., an NGO engaged in global development, and on the boards of directors of the Health Care Compliance Association and BSMH’s offshore captive insurance company. He is currently the board vice chair at Gettysburg College.

He holds a PhD in ethics from Yale University and a BA from Gettysburg College, which recognized him as a Distinguished Alumnus in 2013.

Associate Professor in the Department of Art History & Music

Areas of Study: Musical Composition

"Composer Daniel Ott's music has been described as ""haunting"" (The News Tribune), ""compelling"" (Dance Magazine), and ""of considerable artistic seriousness"" (MusicWeb International). His work has been heard all over the world, most notably at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center, Sadler's Wells, the Musée du Louvre, the Guggenheim Museum, and at the Fall for Dance Festival in New York's City Center. Recent commissions have come from the National Symphony, New York City Ballet, the Chiara Quartet, and Bargemusic, among others.

Noted for his work for dance, Ott has composed a number of ballet scores, most recently for the New York City Ballet Choreographic Institute's 10th Anniversary at Miller Theatre in New York. In a unique experiment, the resulting work, An Inflorescence, was set to dance by three of the world's leading choreographers--Larry Kiegwin, Alexei Ratmansky, and Christopher Wheeldon--and performed three times in one evening. Ott has also been a frequent collaborator with Benjamin Millepied, from whom he has received a number of commissions. Their Double Aria was described as the ""highlight of the night"" (The New York Times) at its NYCB premiere.

Other recent projects have included the premiere of Ott's String Quartet No. 2 by the Chiara Quartet, as part of their innovative Creator/Curator commissioning series, in which the composer selects the other works to appear alongside his music. Ott's Blue Water, a chamber concerto for violin, piano, and string quartet, whose music ""weaves together images of magnificence and terror"" (The New York Times), was commissioned for Bargemusic's 30th Anniversary and premiered by the Shanghai Quartet and guests.

Ott has been recognized numerous times for his work, in particular by the American Academy of Arts and Letters (Charles Ives Scholarship) and the ASCAP Foundation (Morton Gould Young Composer Award). He studied at the Curtis Institute of Music and the Juilliard School, where his teachers included Ned Rorem, John Corigliano, and Robert Beaser. Ott currently serves on the faculty of both Fordham and Juilliard.​"

Adjunct Professor in the Graduate School of Education

Areas of Study: Anxiety, Depression, Body Image and Disordered Eating, Trauma, Self-Injurious Behavior

Dr. Ott earned her PhD in Counseling Psychology from Fordham University, where she also earned her Master’s in Mental Health Counseling. She completed her pre-doctoral internship at Kings County Hospital, where she received extensive training in trauma-related disorders and serious mental illness. She has worked in diverse treatment settings including inpatient and outpatient hospitals, college counseling centers, primary care clinics, and eating disorder programs. Dr. Ott earned her undergraduate degree from Muhlenberg College where she studied psychology and gender studies.

In addition to her clinical practice at the Williamsburg Therapy Group, Dr. Ott works part-time in academia. She is an adjunct psychology professor at Fordham University, where she also conducts research on boys and men with eating disorders and the experiences of parents’ caring for a child with anorexia.

Adjunct Professor in the School of Law and the Gabelli School of Business.

Anthony M. Palma is an adjunct professor at the Fordham University School of Law and the Fordham University Gabelli School of Business, with subject matter expertise in corporate compliance, corporate governance, fiduciary oversight, business ethics, internal audit, business communications, and business writing.

He has held a variety of leadership roles within the financial services industry, overseeing global risk, compliance, and internal control business units at Citi, Morgan Stanley, Travelers Group, JPMorgan Chase, and Merrill Lynch, and continues to be a senior adviser to global banks.

Tony is a member of a number of boards and committees, including the Internal Audit Council of the Risk Management Association, the Board of Directors of the Fiduciary and Investment Risk Management Association (FIRMA), the Financial Services Committee of the American Chamber of Commerce office in Singapore, and Phylax Analytics. He is a former member of the Advisory Board of the Fordham University Gabelli School of Business. He is a contributor to textbooks on corporate compliance and corporate governance.

He is a frequent speaker at industry-sponsored conferences and is a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS), a Certified Financial Services Auditor (CFSA), and a Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE).

Tony received a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics from Fordham University and a master’s degree in accounting from the Gabelli School of Business. He has participated in postgraduate programs at New York University, The New School, and Monmouth University."

Professor in the English Department

Areas of Study: African American Literature; Caribbean Literature; Performance Studies; Slavery Studies; Black Feminisms

Sasha Ann Panaram’s research focuses on twentieth and twenty-first century African American and Caribbean literature and culture, with a particular interest in women’s and gender studies, as well as slavery studies and performance studies. Panaram’s current project examines rewritings of the Middle Passage in creative and critical works by African American and Caribbean women writers such as M. NourbeSe Philip, Paule Marshall, Octavia E. Butler, and Toni Morrison. Bringing together Caribbeanist philosophical writing on crossing with research by North American scholars on Black feminisms and geography, she argues that Black women writers craft their texts as pedagogy and praxis to reveal how Middle Passage movements inspire important forms of embodiment that are passed down through generations. Her research is published in The Black Scholar. Other public scholarship and interviews have appeared in The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Brooklyn Rail, Hyperallergic, and Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society. From 2018 to 2020, she served as a co-host of the weekly webcast Left of Black.

Professor in the English Department

Sujay Pandit is an instructional designer, content developer, and educational technologist based in New York City. Sujay has worked as a graphic designer and multimedia specialist for several media outlets including: Scientific American, Art:21, the NYU Afghan Digital Library, and various corporations and non-profit/educational institutions. Sujay has also taught classes at Harvard University, New York University, Fordham University, Emerson College, The Berklee College of Music and The School of Visual Arts in NYC.

Associate Professor in the Department of Psychological & Educational Services

Areas of Study: Identity development; Health Psychology

Jennie Park-Taylor is an Associate Professor of Counseling Psychology in the Division of Psychological and Educational Services (PES).

Park-Taylor teaches in the Master's programs in School and Mental Health Counseling as well as the Doctoral program in Counseling Psychology.

She works closely with doctoral students in PES on their research apprenticeship projects and dissertations. She lives in New Jersey with her husband and two young children. Outside of work, she enjoys running, skiing, golf, cooking and spending time with family and friends.

Dean in the College of Rose Hill

Community Engaged Courses: Lost Interlocutor: Philosophy of Human Nature

System Analyst

Community Engaged Courses: Structures of Computer Sciences

Experienced Senior Executive with demonstrated experience in planning, developing and implementing cutting edge solutions to address business opportunities.

Professor in the Graduate School of Education

Community Engaged Courses: Role and Function of the School Psychologist or Doctoral Internship, Emotional Disorders of Childhood and Adolescence

Areas of Study: Mental Health; Low-income; Racial/Ethnic Minority

Ridgard's clinical and research interests focus on evidence-based, culturally responsive service delivery for children and families from low socioeconomic backgrounds and racial/ethnic minority backgrounds. She is particularly interested in increased access to quality mental health services for families through integrated systems of care and two-generational parenting programs.

Ridgard completed her formal graduate training as a pre-doctoral intern at the Devereux Center for Effective Schools and went on to complete a post-doctoral fellowship in the Child Welfare Program at Westchester Institute for Human Development. She then served as a mental health provider in the Montefiore School Health Program. Throughout her career, Ridgard has provided assessment and intervention services for children from birth through adolescence in a variety of settings, including schools, school-based health clinics, outpatient mental health clinics, pediatric primary care centers, home visiting programs, and child welfare services.

Advanced Lecturer in the English Department

Community Engaged Courses: Composition II

Areas of Study: Renaissance, Medieval, Queer theory, Digital humanities

Kirk Quinsland's research uses phenomenology, theater history, performance studies, new media studies, and digital humanities to study the early modern theatrical experience. He is working on a book that investigates medieval and early modern metatheatricality, as well as articles on Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis and A Midsummer Night's Dream that explore the utility and the limits of queer theory as an analytical framework. He is also the creator of Digital Blackfriars, a digital humanities project that maps the Loseley Collection (1489-1682), a set of documents currently held by the Folger Shakespeare Library concerning the Offices of the Tents and of the Revels, to investigate the connections between site and text in plays written for London's Blackfriars Theatre.

Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology

Community Engaged Courses: Community Mental Health

Areas of Study: Youth, Stress, Socio-emotional development

In one line of work, Elizabeth Raposa examine the biological and interpersonal mechanisms that explain the mental health consequences of early stress exposure in marginalized communities of youth. Although some of this research examines the impact of a particular stressor, like maternal depression or poverty, most of her projects examine cumulative early life stress, given the frequent co-occurrence of stressors for at-risk youth.

In another line of work, she explore the ways in which supportive relationships can offset the risk associated with early adversities. She explore how close relationships with parents, mentors, and peers, or even fleeting positive interactions with strangers, can mitigate the negative effects of stress on youth. These projects are designed to illuminate the ways that prevention and intervention efforts can harness social behavior and close relationships in order to promote positive psychosocial development. Much of her recent work in this area has explored whether and how youth mentoring programs improve psychosocial and academic outcomes for youth growing up in risky environments, and how adjustments to mentoring programs could help to serve these youth more effectively. Her ultimate goal is to leverage this body of research to reduce health disparities in traditionally underserved populations of youth.

Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology

Areas of Study: Social-ecological effects of forced migration, Measurement of culturally-defined idioms of distress, Trauma and psychosocial stressors in humanitarian disasters, Immigrants' access to healthcare, Program evaluation

Andrew Rasmussen, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Psychology (tenured); head of the Culture, Migration, and Community research group; and the Director of the Master’s Program in Applied Psychological Methods. Dr. Rasmussen’s research focuses primarily on the psychosocial needs and assessment of forcedly displaced populations (e.g., refugees, asylum seekers). Although well versed in psychological trauma, Dr. Rasmussen’s more recent work focuses on other forms of stress experienced by forced migrants, how cultural features interact with service delivery to this population, and the wellbeing of low-income immigrant communities in general. Following his doctorate, Dr. Rasmussen worked at Bellevue Hospital’s Program for the Survivors of Torture before coming to Fordham in 2012. In addition to scholarly research, Dr. Rasmussen has been involved in policy development and program evaluation of psychosocial programs serving trauma-affected populations around the world.

Adjunct Professor at the Real Estate Institute

Community Engaged Courses: n/a

Serge Reda works in the acquisitions division of Cedar Realty Trust, a publicly traded REIT. Previously, he led the joint venture investment programs for Wellsford Real Properties, a real estate merchant bank, where he created, managed, and ultimately wound down (post-recession), numerous real estate investment programs. He has broad and deep experience in the real estate industry ranging from development and construction to finance and consulting, and has expertise in investment strategy and analytics. Reda is the chair of the real estate development curriculum committee and teaches Real Estate Development Process, Real Estate Development Feasibility Study, CRE Technology, and Real Estate Structures and Capital Markets for the Fordham Real Estate Institute. He also teaches Real Estate Capital Markets for the Fordham Graduate School of Business. He holds an M.B.A. from Fordham University as well as a Master of Architecture degree from the University of Colorado.

Professor in the Department of Communication & Media Studies

Community Engaged Courses: Films of Moral Struggle

Areas of Study: Film History, Star Studies, Italian Cinema, Italian American Cinema

Prof. Reich came to Fordham as a native New Yorker with a diverse academic background: a BA in Romance Languages from Dartmouth, a PhD in Italian from the University of California at Berkeley, and 18 years of teaching film at Stony Brook University. In Fall 2011 she had the honor of being awarded a mid-career fellowship from the Howard Foundation at Brown University.

Professor in the Sociology & Anthropology

Community Engaged Courses: Urban Poverty, Internship Seminar: Community Organizations

Areas of Study: Production process in cultural or creative industries; Inequalities in urban labor markets and the organization of work; Emerging forms of workers' mobilization for change

Chris Rhomberg works in the areas of urban and political sociology, race and ethnicity, labor and labor movements, and historical methods. His first book, No There There: Race, Class and Political Community in Oakland (University of California Press, 2004) received the 2006 Robert E. Park Award for best book in urban and community sociology from the American Sociological Association, and his second book, The Broken Table: The Detroit Newspaper Strike and the State of American Labor (Russell Sage, 2012), received the 2013 best book award from the ASA section on Labor and Labor Movements. Among his articles are “A Signal Juncture: The Detroit Newspaper Strike and Post-Accord Labor Relations in the United States” (American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 115, No. 6, May 2010: 1853–94), which received the 2010 Distinguished Scholarly Article Award from the ASA section on Labor and Labor Movements and was co-winner of the 2011 Distinguished Scholarly Contribution Award (Article) from the ASA section on Political Sociology.

His research has centered on issues of race, labor, and urban politics in American political development, and on workplace organization and labor relations in the United States. Methodologically, he is interested in narrative forms of sociological explanation and problems of representing collective agency, topics explored in his article “Class and Collective Action: Writing Stories about Actors and Events,” Sociología Histórica, Vol. 1, No. 3, 2013: 93-116 [also translated as “Clase y Acción Colectiva: Escribir Historias sobre Actores y Eventos,” in the same issue.]

Advanced Lecturer in the Department of Theatre & Visual Arts

Community Engaged Courses: Visual Thinking, Senior Seminar: Studio Art, Visual Justice

Casey Ruble is an Artist in Residence at Fordham University, where she teaches a range of courses and curates exhibitions for the university galleries. She is represented by Foley Gallery in New York and has received grants and fellowships from the Smithsonian Institution, the Warhol Foundation (through the arts residency Parse Nola), the New Jersey Council for the Humanities, and the New Jersey Council on the Arts, among others. Her work and curatorial projects have been reviewed in the New York Times, the New Yorker, Hyperallergic, the Wall Street Journal, and Sculpture Magazine. She has written for Art in America magazine and was an artist contributor to Rebecca Solnit and Rebecca Snedeker’s Unfathomable City: A New Orleans Atlas. Influenced by minimalist literature, true-crime television, and documentary photography of the 1970s, her work focuses on history, memory, place, and violence, often as they pertain to racial inequity.

Ruble received a BA from Smith College and an MFA from Hunter College CUNY. Raised on a ranch in eastern Montana, she currently resides in a New Jersey village overlooking the Delaware River.

Advanced Lecturer in the Department of Biological Sciences

Community Engaged Courses: Foundations of Community and Public Health

Areas of Study: Molecular Biology, Biotechnology, Cell Culture, Immunology, Air pollution

Usha Sankar is an Advanced Lecturer for the Department of Biological Sciences and the Academic Advisor to Bachelor of Science Students at Fordham University. She earned her Ph.D. from Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences. Dr. Sankar is currently a National Science Foundation QUBES HITS Fellow. Her field of interest includes Molecular Biology, Biotechnology, Cell Culture, and Immunology. These interests include air pollution and its impact on human health, namely, air quality and its effects in the Bronx.

Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology & Anthropology

Community Engaged Courses: Introduction to Cultural Anthropology, Internship, Culture and Culture Change

Areas of Study: Urban anthropology; Arts; Gender; Critical social theory; War and violence; Globalization

Aseel Sawalha is an Associate Professor of Anthropology and Associate Chair at Lincoln Center. She completed her BA and MA at Yarmouk University and her PhD at the City College of New York. Her research interests include urban anthropology, arts, gender, critical social theory, war and violence, and globalization. In addition to featured articles in publications such as the Toronto University Press and the Center for Migration Studies of New York, she is the author of the book Reconstructing Beirut: Memory and Space in a Postwar Arab City, published by the University of Texas Press, Austin. She also works with the Canary Mission, an organization dedicated to combating anti-Semitism on college campuses.

Senior Lecturer in the Department of Theology

Community Engaged Courses: Buddhist Meditation

Areas of Study: Religious Pedagogy. Teachers, Teaching, and Devotion to Teachers; Literature, Rhetoric and Persuasion; Ethics and Ethical Formation; Religious Aesthetics; Imagining Human Possibility

Prof. Schapiro studied comparative religion as an undergraduate at Columbia University before pursuing a degree in Buddhist Studies at Harvard University, where he earned a PhD in 2012. His scholarship has primarily focused on Tibetan Buddhist ideas about teachers and teaching, as well as on Tibetan forms of advice writing.

Schapiro teaches a range of courses on Asian Religions at Fordham, including classes on Buddhism, Hinduism, Chinese Religions and Japanese Religions. His classes incorporate semester-long reflections on a variety of themes, including Ethics & Responsibility (Hindu Literature and Ethics), Literary Rhetoric (Classic Buddhist Texts), Aesthetics (Japanese Religions), Becoming (more) Human (Chinese Religions), the Value of Knowledge (Buddhist Meditation), and American Identity (Buddhism in America).

Professor in the Department of Chemistry

Community Engaged Courses: Drug Discovery: From the Laboratory to the Clinic

Areas of Study: Physical Chemistry; Computational Chemistry; Machine learning for chemical experiments

Joshua A. Schrier comes to Fordham from Haverford College, where he has amassed an impressive record of research into the computational design of new materials for use in information and energy technology. He has authored 44 peer-reviewed papers, most of which were published with his undergraduate students. His research lies at the intersection of quantum mechanics, chemistry, and computational science, with bearing on low-cost electronics, photovoltaics, and batteries needed for the widespread adoption of renewable energy.

While at Haverford, he received a prestigious Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award, served as a Fulbright scholar at the Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society, and obtained more than $8.6 million in external funding. He earned his doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2005 and served as Luis W. Alvarez postdoctoral fellow at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory before joining Haverford College in 2008. In 2017, Professor Schrier published a textbook focused on applying modern computational techniques to the chemistry curriculum.

Lecturer in the Department of Modern Languages & Literatures

Community Engaged Courses: Spanish for the Arts Industry

Areas of Study: Comparative Literature, Cinema Studies, Literature and cinema, Latin American Studies

Creative writer, academic researcher, and university-level educator. He has taught several courses in Spanish, World Literature, and Film at different universities in the United States (Louisiana State University, New York University, Fordham University, and Lehman College) as well as having been a guest speaker at universities in Argentina and Bolivia. His research, which has been published in peer-reviewed journals, focuses on the body, sexualities, and nation in contemporary Latin American cinema and literature. His creative work (fiction and theater) has been published in journals in Chile, Puerto Rico, and Spain. Currently, he works as a full-time lecturer at Fordham University (Lincoln Center) in New York City.

Advanced Lecturer in the Department of Theatre & Visual Arts

Community Engaged Courses: Senior Seminar: Studio Art

Carleen Sheehan, artist-in-residence in the Department of Theatre and Visual Arts, is spending the month of June in the Arctic Circle. Sheehan received a residency fellowship that is allowing her to do infrared and other photographic processes on a tall ship in the northern latitudes, just off the coast of Svalbard, Norway. The residency, sponsored by The Farm Foundation, will bring Sheehan together with scholars, scientists, choreographers, composers, sound designers, a cinematographer, and a children’s book author to collaborate on projects relating to the environment and climate change. “So much of what we experience in contemporary life is filtered and fleeting,” said Sheehan. “I will use my camera as a drawing tool to look for patterns of light and ephemeral, spectacular moments in landscape,” she said. “I plan to work with micro lenses and infrared photography to show the environment in an engaging, and unfamiliar way”. For Sheehan, who views her artist’s methods in almost a scientific manner, and whose primary focus is the environment, the collaboration is a perfect fit. “When I start a project, I like to work in an experimental way with materials, opening the work to new outcomes,” she said. “I’m very excited to be in the arctic, where I’ll have time to push new ideas, collaborate, and collect visual data to use back in the studio.”

Sheehan said she primarily thinks of herself as “someone who draws” but she incorporates “all levels of visual information.” That includes photography, painting, charts, maps, and anything that helps convey “the collaged, compressed experience of contemporary life. ”Focusing on content that highlights the rapidly disappearing ice and snow, Sheehan said she’ll be using photo techniques in a “painterly way,” playing with light, color, and texture. The use of infrared can transform a landscape that is green to appear as if it is pink or white, thus returning a verdant landscape to the color of the ice and snow that once covered it. Aside from landscapes, Sheehan said she’ll also be making photograms of ice shadows using cyanotype, a blue-toned, early photographic printing process used frequently in the 20th century. As the process uses iron oxide, out of concern for the environment she won’t be developing the prints until she returns to her Brooklyn studio. As with the infrared, the cyanotype photos will also highlight global warming. “Rather than showing ice melting, they’ll show you absence,” she said. “There are lots of mythic stories of shadows being the soul of something.” Sheehan expects the overall theme of the work to be about “light, shadow, and ghosts,” themes which she says will allow her to play with the nearly 24 hours of light a day at the Arctic Circle this time of year.“ I use my camera as a drawing tool. I look for patterns of light and ephemeral moments in landscape,” she said. “I hope to bring that sensibility to the arctic.”"

Associate Professor in the Department of History

Community Engaged Courses: History of Chinese in the Americas

Areas of Study: Late imperial and modern Chinese history, History of East Asian science, Confucianism, History of modern physical sciences, cience/technology/environmental policy in contemporary China; science and religion

My research centers on questions of identity and aspirations of modernity, change and self-fulfillment in late 19th C to late 20th C China. The primary way that I have approached this is through the history of science, which I want to frame as a story of desire, identity formation, and values rather than just a story of development. In other words, I am interested in the complex (and often surprising) ways that interactions with ""modern science"" helped Chinese articulate what they wanted, how they saw themselves, who they wanted to be, and why. This was not just a process of self-exploration or self-actualization, but a constant negotiation between the socio-cultural and nature world, which speaks, not just to the Chinese experience, but to the malleability and resistances of the phenomenal world at a time when people are tempted to feel (or just act) invincible.

In this way, my research also extends into the history of religion and philosophy in modern China, and I pay special attention to how belief systems (scientism, Confucianism, Communism and everything in between) evolve as people try to grapple with new realities. For me, questions about science, belief, and identity also raise issues about historical trauma and the uses of adversity, and much of my work explores situations of ""crisis"" in which unexpected elements collide.

My first book addressed several of these elements through the lens of geology in modern China, and I am working on a project tentatively titled ""Fueling Progress: Science, Technology and the Pursuit of Energy for Modern China"", in which I take a very broad approach to the idea of energy.

As a side project that keeps on growing, I''m also interested in technologies of infant and child care, since the problems of identity, aspiration and nature that I'm focused on take on particular urgency for parents trying to shape future generations.

Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy

Community Engaged Courses: Healthcare Justice

Areas of Study: Biomedical Ethics, Normative Ethical Theory, Japanese Comparative Philosophy

Laura Specker Sulivan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Fordham University. Her research interests include autonomy, trust, and consent, the ethics of digital technology and neurotechnology, Buddhist and Japanese philosophy, and the ethicist's role in medicine, science, and technology. In recent years, Shes’s taught courses on culture & bioethics, neuroethics, and healthcare justice.

Sullivan is currently the category leader for philosophy/history for the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities and a member of the program and nominating committees for the International Neuroethics Society.

From 2018-2020, Sullivan was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the College of Charleston and the Director of Ethics at the Medical University of South Carolina.

From 2017-2018 Sullivan was a research fellow at Harvard Medical School's Center for Bioethics. From 2015-2017 she was a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Neurotechnology, University of Washington and at the National Core for Neuroethics, University of British Columbia.

Sullivan completed her dissertation as a visiting scholar at Kyoto University's Kokoro Research Center from 2013-2015, funded by a scholarship from the Crown Prince Akihito Foundation. She received my PhD in Philosophy from the University of Hawai'i.

Sullivan’s interest in cross-cultural ethics and neuroscience began at Williams College, where she received a grant to study the ethics of brain death and organ transplantation in Tokyo. This led her to teach English in Niigata, Japan from 2008-2009 with the JET Programme.

In her non-academic life, Sullivan raced half-ironman distance triathlons in the professional category in 2019. She is currently spending a lot of time in the woods training for ultramarathons.

Assistant Professor in the Department of Theatre & Visual Arts

Community Engaged Courses: Art Making in Hell’s Kitchen

Areas of Study: Film, Video

Mark Street is Associate Professor of Film and Video at Fordham University, where he teaches film and video production. He earned his BA from Bard College and his MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. His film work ranges from the abstract to improvised narrative feature films, and it has been shown at numerous venues including the New York Museum of Modern Art Cineprobe series, Anthology Film Archives, Millennium, and the San Francisco Cinematheque. His work has also been featured in Tribeca, Sundance, Rotterdam, New York, London, San Francisco, New York Underground, Sarajevo, and many other film festivals. Professor Street is the author of the piece Film is Dead: Long Live Film and Festival of Flight, as well as other personal essays.

Associate Professor in the Department of Art History & Music

Community Engaged Courses: Introduction to Music History: Latin America, Music of Latin America, World Music and Dance

Areas of Study: Latin American and Caribbean Music

Angelina Tallaj-García joined the faculty in 2020. Her research focuses on Dominican folk and popular music and their role in the construction of ethnic, racial, gender, and religious identities, particularly in the New York City Dominican diaspora. She is also a trained pianist who enjoys performing music from Latin America and the Caribbean, and has performed in major venues such as Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall.

Shvidler Chair in the College of Arts and Sciences

Community Engaged Courses: Antisemitism and Racism

Areas of Study: Modern history; Jewish history; Jewish-Christian relations; Cultural, legal, and social history; Transmission of historical knowledge

Magda Teter, Professor of History and the Shvidler Chair of Judaic Studies, is a scholar of early modern history, specializing in Jewish history, Jewish-Christian relations, cultural, legal, and social history, as well as the history of transmission of historical knowledge in the premodern and modern periods. Teter is a fellow of the American Academy for Jewish Research and the author of Jews and Heretics in Catholic Poland (Cambridge, 2005), Sinners on Trial (Harvard, 2011), Blood Libel: On the Trail of An Antisemitic Myth (Harvard, 2020) and two edited volumes, as well as numerous articles in English, Hebrew, Italian, and Polish. Teter’s work has been supported by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture, YIVO Institute, and the Yad Ha-Nadiv Foundation (Israel), among others. She has been a Harry Starr Fellow in Jewish Studies at Harvard University, an Emeline Bigelow Conland Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies also at Harvard University, and the Mellon Foundation fellow at the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library. In 2012-2016, she served as the co-editor of the AJS Review and in 2015-2017 as the Vice-President for Publications of the Association for Jewish Studies. And in 2020-2021, Teter is the NEH Senior Scholar at the Center for Jewish History.

Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry

Community Engaged Courses: TBD

Areas of Study: Physical/Biophysical chemistry

Many biochemical processes within the cell are carried out by multi-protein complexes. I am interested in understanding how these dynamic multi-protein machines are organized, how they are remodeled to perform different functions, and how their activity is regulated to ensure that they do not act in contexts that could be harmful to the cell. Although bulk biochemistry and genetics can identify proteins involved in these processes and provide insight into mechanism, these approaches lack the molecular resolution to visualize intermediate states or distinguish between heterogeneous pathways. Using single-molecule fluorescence microscopy, I will elucidate the molecular mechanisms of the multi-protein complexes that carry out DNA replication and repair in model bacterial species.

Assistant Professor at the Graduate School of Social Services

Community Engaged Courses: n/a

Areas of Study: Oppression and Resilience, Oppression and Health, Complementary Health Approaches, HIV/AIDS, LGBTQ+ Health

Derek Tice-Brown is an Assistant Professor at the Graduate School of Social Service (GSS) at Fordham University. Prior to joining GSS, Dr. Tice-Brown was an Assistant Professor and Director of the BSSW Program at Long Island University-Brooklyn Campus’s Department of Social Work. He also was an assistant professor of Social Work and Director of the BSW Program at Sacred Heart University’s Social Work Department and Assistant Dean and Director of Admissions at Fordham University’s Graduate School of Social Service. Dr. Tice-Brown completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Virginia. He completed his MSW with a concentration in macro practice at the University of Pennsylvania and his PhD at Fordham University’s Graduate School of Social Service.

Dr. Tice-Brown’s research projects have focused on discrimination, minority stress, HIV/AIDS, LGBTQ+ health, and coping and resilience. He teaches, lectures, and trains on oppression and its relationship to health, social work leadership, HIV/AIDS, and marginalized populations. Dr. Tice-Brown is a social worker with approximately twenty years of leadership, policy, community-based planning, research, and direct practice experience in the areas of domestic and international HIV/AIDS, LGBTQ+ health, and homelessness in social service and public health settings. Dr. Tice-Brown currently is serving his third elected term as a New York City (NYC) Delegate for the National Association of Social Workers’ (NASW’s) Delegate Assembly. He has been recognized as a Mid-Career Exemplary Leader by the National Association of Social Workers – New York City Chapter and received a Leadership Award from the Latino Social Work Task Force.

Faculty on Sustainability Marketing & Marketing

Community Engaged Courses: ST: Global Sustainability Marketing

Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication & Media Studies

Community Engaged Courses: User Experience Design: Design for Empowerment

Areas of Study: Digital Media; Emotional Wellbeing; The role of Culture and Data

Ralph Vacca is a culture, design, and technology studies scholar specializing in co-design methods to study cultural and racial marginalization in emotional health, and education. He is an Assistant Professor of Communication and Media Studies at Fordham University.

Ralph obtained his Ph.D. in Educational Communication and Technology at New York University. Examples of prior research projects include co-designing with Latinx teens mental health technology, co-designing with parents around feminist values, and co-designing with teachers data literacy curriculum that connects math to art. Before joining the Fordham faculty, Vacca co-founded and sold a technology company in NY that designs mental health training simulations. He currently serves as founder and faculty mentor of the Design for America (DFA) Fordham Studio that engages students in the use of design thinking to promote social innovation in a wide range of social issue areas.

Senior Lecturer in the Department of Modern Languages & Literatures

Community Engaged Courses: Italian Community Engaged Learning: Art and Society

Areas of Study: Italian, Language Pedagogy, Multilingual Literacy

After earning her MA at the University of Turin (Italy) and teaching in Italian public schools, Dr. Valfredini moved to New York and pursued a PhD in Language, Learning, and Literacy at the Graduate School of Education of Fordham University. Dr. Valfredini studies the sociocultural dimensions of language pedagogy and multilingual academic literacy. She also conducts program assessment.

What she likes the most about teaching is the collaborative interaction with her students. She values languages as a remarkable entry point to world-views and perspectives. She hopes that her courses will raise important questions and that the journey spent seeking answers will be transformative.

Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer & Information Science

Community Engaged Courses: Structures of Computer Science, Data Structures

Areas of Study: Machine Learning & Deep Learning, Mobile & Wearable Computing, Biometric Authentication, Healthcare Informatics, Internet of Things (IoT)

Dr. Vhaduri is an assistant professor in the Department of Computer and Information Technology at Purdue University. He received Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Notre Dame.

Adjunct Professor in the Department of Visual Arts

Community Engaged Courses: Art Design & Politics

With a keen interest in letterforms and language, Adriana Warner uses her work to articulate the realities of my existence as a Black American living in a country and under a system that continues to thrive on the oppression of non-white, particularly Black and Indigenous people. “Systems of oppression are durable and reinvent themselves” and so, she finds it appropriate to call out and challenge these systems, giving special attention to harmful hypocrisies and the deadly consequences of such.

Assistant Dean in the College of Rose Hill

Community Engaged Courses: Pre-Health Symposium

Professor in the Department of Computer & Information Science

Community Engaged Courses: Data Communications and Networks

Areas of Study: Parallel and Distributed Processing, Mobile Computing, Optical Networks

Professor David S.L. Wei received his PhD degree in Computer and Information Science from the University of Pennsylvania in 1991. He has authored and co-authored more than 60 technical papers in the areas of distributed and parallel processing, wireless networks and mobile computing, and optical networks in various archival journals and conference proceedings. His contributions have helped advance the frontier of knowledge in those areas. Dr. Wei served on the program committee and was a session chair for several reputed international conferences. He also served as a co-chair of Power Aware Communication and Software, Minitrack in the Software Track at the 34th Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences (HICSS-34). He is a lead guest editor of IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications for the special issue on Mobile Computing and Networking. Currently, Dr. Wei focuses his research effort on mobile computing and wireless networks.

Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology & Anthropology

Community Engaged Courses: Diversity in American Families

Areas of Study: Family; work; gender; life course; quantitative methodology

I am a family sociologist and a social demographer with special interest in the contemporary practice of fatherhood and in work-family issues. I have been a faculty member of the Fordham Sociology and Anthropology department since 2006. I am also a faculty affiliate of the Women's Studies program, on whose executive board I currently serve.

My past research has examined adolescents' expectations about parental employment and divisions of labor in their adult lives, the determinants of the United States' comparatively high child poverty rates, and the impact of becoming a first-time father on the employment hours of men of varying ages. My current research examines the impact of parents' employment at ""non-standard"" hours (e.g. evening, night, and rotating shifts) on family life.

Lecturer in the Department of Classical Languages & Civilization

Community Engaged Courses: T&C: Tragedy and Comedy

David Wright is a lecturer at Fordham University, where he teaches courses on literature, history, and language. Dr. Wright earned his PhD in Classics from Rutgers University. Dr. Wright’s research interests include Greco-Roman poetry (especially Augustan), Roman history (especially Late Republican), and reception studies. He currently is pursuing a book project that explores the Giants and Titans in the Greco-Roman world. He has published on topics ranging from Anna in the Aeneid and representations of sexual violence in ancient art. Forthcoming publications include chapters in edited volumes that examine the image of Scylla on the coins of Sextus Pompey, the significance of the Isthmus of Corinth in Imperial poetry, and representations of Thetis in popular culture. David is also passionate about using ancient texts and art to foster discussions about contemporary social issues, and is committed to making Classics more accessible.

Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication & Media Studies

Community Engaged Courses: Strategic Communication

Areas of Study: Promotional Culture, Corporate Political Advocacy, Theories of Transparency and Communicative Power, Fossil Fuels, Environmental Politics

Professor Wood researches promotional culture, corporate political advocacy, and theories of transparency and communicative power. He approaches much of his research and teaching through the lens of fossil fuels and environmental politics.

Professor in the Department of Theology

Areas of Study: Professor Traina’s research focuses on critical and constructive Christian feminist ethics, with a specialty in Catholic ethics. Areas of special expertise include sexuality, ethics of relationship, methodological questions, and moral agency, in particular children’s moral agency. She has additional interests in bioethics, migration, intersectionality, and economic and political justice.

In her current project, Children Out of Place and Moral Agency, she explores the implications for ethical conceptions of moral agency of children who are “out of place” according to Western liberal notions of childhood. Each instance demands a different revision of moral agency and of childhood, and each questions American assumptions about and practices of childrearing and education. They include children who work for pay; children who migrate unaccompanied; children who are recruited by armies and gangs; children active in labor movements and politics; and children who must decide how to respond to intersex or transgender identity.

Originally from Berkeley, California, Cristina Traina grew up in central Indiana and eastern Pennsylvania. She attended Princeton University, where she majored in Religion. She earned her M.A. in Religion and her Ph.D. in theology at the University of Chicago Divinity School, where she studied with Anne Carr, David Tracy, Robin Lovin, James Gustafson, and William Schweiker.

Traina came to Fordham in 2020 from Northwestern University, where she taught for nearly 30 years in the Department of Religious Studies. She has been active in the Society of Christian Ethics throughout her career, serving as Board member, as President, as member of the 21st Century Committee, and as co-chair of the 2018-2020 taskforce that conducted a nation-wide survey of tenure-line and contingent faculty in religious studies and theology. She has served on the editorial boards of various journals. She is an active member of the Catholic Theological Society of America, the America Academy of Religion, and Societas Ethica. A member of the advisory board for New Ways Ministry, she also writes occasionally for its blog, Bondings 2.0.

Professor Traina’s research focuses on critical and constructive Christian feminist ethics, with a specialty in Catholic ethics. Areas of special expertise include sexuality, ethics of relationship, methodological questions, and moral agency, in particular children’s moral agency. She has additional interests in bioethics, migration, intersectionality, and economic and political justice.

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