Jamie Skye Bianco, Assistant Director (English); is a 2005 graduate of the CUNY Doctoral Program in English. She also completed the Women’s Studies Certificate Program. She will be Assistant Director of Composition, a position for which she is well prepared, given her recent experience as a Graduate Teaching Fellow in the Queens English Department and her work in New Media and Technology Studies.

Eva Fernandez, Assistant Professor (Linguistics & Communication Disorders); received her B.A. from New York University and Ph.D. at the Ph.D. Program in Linguistics at the CUNY Graduate Center. She joined the faculty at Queens College in the fall of 2000, and directed the Queens Consortium on Languages Other Than English, but this year she moves to a position in Applied Linguistics, in the Department of Linguistics and Communication Disorders. Her primary research interest lies in the way human language is produced and perceived, with a special focus on whether there exist cross - linguistic differences in human language processing, and whether there exist differences based on the speaker/hearer's language history. Her work examines processing in speaker/hearers who have only been exposed to one language (monolinguals) to the performance of speaker/hearers who have been exposed to more than one language (bilinguals and polyglots).

Kurt Kauper, Assistant Professor (Art); received a B.F.A. from Boston University in 1988 and an M.F.A. in painting from UCLA in 1995. He has had solo shows at ACME Gallery in Los Angeles, and Deitch Projects in New York City. He has been included in numerous group exhibitions both in the United States and Europe, including the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, The Pompidou Center in Paris, and the Kunsthalle Vienna. He has received numerous awards, including two Elizabeth Greenshields grants, awarded to realist painters under the age of thirty-one; a Tiffany Foundation Grant in 1999, given to promising artists not having yet received widespread recognition; and a Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant in 2001, given to provide deserving artists with living and working expenses for one year. His work is included in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art, New York, The Oakland Museum of Art, the Weatherspoon Museum, and the Yale University Art Gallery. He has taught at Orange Coast College, the Museum School in Boston, and most recently Yale University.

Kurt Kauper’s paintings have, for the past ten years, been images of familiar cultural icons — Opera Divas, Cary Grant, and hockey players—seen in a variety of unfamiliar ways.

Jason Tougaw, Assistant Professor (English); is a 2000 graduate of the CUNY Doctoral Program in English, and will alternate as Director of the Writing Across the Curriculum program. For the past four years, he has been a Post-doctoral Lecturer in the Princeton Writing Program, where he has gained considerable experience in interdisciplinary writing. He has co-edited an essay collection entitled Extremities: Trauma, Testimony, and Community (U Illinois Presss) with Nancy K. Miller. His book, Strange Cases: The Medical Case History and the British Novel has recently been accepted for publication by Routledge.

Scott Walters, Assistant Professor (Linguistics & Communication Disorders); holds a Ph.D. in Educational Psychology, with a certificate in Second Language Acquisition and Teacher Education, from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; he also holds a Master of Arts degree in Teaching English as a Second Language from the University of Illinois. His research specialization is language testing and assessment, with interests in second-language sociopragmatics testing,conversation analysis, and the impact of testing on language instruction. He has worked with K-12 teachers of English as a second language (ESL) in Illinois and Michigan in various capacitites, including teacher-trainer and test developer. He has also consulted on bodies involved with State-level ESL test development in Illinois as well as in a multi-state, research-and-development assessment consortium spearheaded by the State of Wisconsin. In addition, he has taught in ESL for twenty years both abroad and in the Univeted States.

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Education

Nathalis Guy Wamba, Associate Professor (Educational & Community Programs); received his M.A.and Ph.D. from New York University School of Education. He was a Roothbert Fellow and the recipient of numerous awards including the Paul Lomax Doctoral Award for Scholarship and Leadership, the New York University Delta Pi Epsilon Recognition Award, the Teacher Appreciation Award from Brooklyn College, the Samuel Eshborn Service Award and the New York University Chancellor’s Award for Community Service.  He taught at New York University, Brooklyn College, Borough of Manhattan Community College and Kingsborough Community College. His scholarly work focuses on educational critical theory, urban education reform policy, schools and civic organizations, post modernity and schooling. His articles have appeared in  Education and Urban Society, Academic Exchange Quarterly, the Review, the Delaware Business Education Journal, the New Labor Forum, Teachers College Record and the Journal of Curriculum Studies.

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Mathematics and Natural Sciences
Nathalia Glickman, Assistant Professor (Biology); received a B.Sc. from the University of Toronto in 1995, a Ph.D. in Biology from the University of Oregon in 2000 This was followed by postdoctoral research at the NYU School of Medicine. As a Developmental Biologist, she is interested in understanding the cellular and molecular control of organ formation. Organogenesis requires the specification of diverse cell fates and a variety of coordinated cellular movements, cell shape changes, and cellular interactions. Very little is known about the cell behaviors that underlie organ formation. Her work utilizes the zebrafish as a model system to integrated cell biology, embryology, genetics, and computer-based analysis to address the question of how and why cells move during the formation of the embryonic heart. She has taught classes in Genetics, Embryology, Neurobiology, Marine Biology and Reproductive Biology.

Seogjoo Jang, Assistant Professor (Chemistry and Biochemistry); received his B.Sc./M.Sc. degrees from Seoul National University, Chemistry Department, in 1989/1993, and a Ph.D. degree in Theoretical Physical Chemistry from the University of Pennsylvania in 1999. He worked as a  postdoctoral research associate at Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1999 to 2002, and has been working as a Goldhaber Distinguished Fellow at Brookhaven National Laboratory since 2003. As a theoretical chemist, Seogjoo Jang has developed leading expertise in many areas encompassing path integral based simulation of condensed phase quantum reaction dynamics, theories of energy and electron transfer reaction processes, and theory of single molecule spectroscopy. He has published 22 research articles, most of which are frequently cited, and coauthored two book chapters, one in an ACS symposium series on quantum control and the other in an upcoming CRC handbook of Materials Modeling.  His current research is focused on theoretical understanding and modeling of energy and charge transfer reactions in various condensed phase chemical and biological processes. Systems of his particular interest are natural photosynthetic light harvesting complexes and organic nanoscale molecules that have potetntial applications for the development of new optoelectronic devices.

Andrea Mosenson, Assistant Professor (Family, Nutrition, and Exercise Sciences); received a B.S. from Penn State University in Horticulture, an M.S. from Queens College in Family and Consumer Sciences Education, and is currently finishing her Ph.D. at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in Educational Studies. For the past three years, Andrea has been the Family and Consumer Sciences Education Coordinator at Queens College supervising three teacher education programs and advising all new and prospective students. She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in methodology, assessment, differentiation, curriculum development, and educational theory and practice. Her research interests include teacher quality, teacher certification, the student teaching experience, teaching methodologies that lead to student achievement, and the use of technology in education. Andrea is active at the state and local levels in family and consumer sciences education in an effort to keep abreast of state education initiatives and present workshops for professional development to new and veteran teachers. Recently, Andrea was awarded Nassau County Teacher of the Year in family and consumer sciences.

Boojala Reddy, Assistant Professor (Computer Science); received Ph.D. from CCMB and University of Hyderabad, INDIA. Post Doc from University of London, UK. He worked as a bioinformatics scientist at the San Diego Supercomputer Center, University of California San Diego and at the Digital Technology Center, University of Minnesota. He has published over 25 scholarly research articles and book chapters in the area of bioinformatics, computational biology and In Silico Drug Design. He has taught bioinformatics courses such as “PERL for Bioinformatics”, “Sequence and structural data analysis of proteins”, “protocols and tools in Bioinformatics”, “Principles of protein structure and comparative modeling” to graduate, undergraduate students and industry professional.

Gillian Stewart, Assistant Professor (School of Earth and Environmental Sciences); received her B.A., magna cum laude in Biology, from Harvard University in 1994. She then taught at a New York City high school for two years before returning for her Ph.D. in Oceanography, which she received in 2005 from the Marine Sciences Research Center at Stony Brook University. Funded by fellowships from the Dept. of Defense, the SUNY Graduate Council, and the American Association of University Women, she has published several articles from her dissertation: " The cycling of polonium-210 by marine plankton and its biogeochemical implications." Her research links laboratory studies using plankton cultures with field observations. During her doctoral work, Gillian taught classes at both Stony Brook University and Suffolk County Community College in Oceanography, Limnology, and Marine Biology. She also contributed three chapters to an on-line Environmental Science textbook and has worked in academic and government laboratories in Monaco, France, and Spain.

Jun Zheng, Assistant Professor (Computer Science); received B.S and M.S degrees in Electrical Engineering from  Chongqing University in 1993, 1996, respectively, a M.S.E degree in Biomedical Engineering from Wright State University in 2001, and a Ph.D. degree in Computer Engineering from University of Nevada, Las Vegas in summer 2005. His current research interests are wireless networking and mobile computing, fault-tolerant computing, computer architectures, medical image processing, medical decision support systems etc. In these areas, he has published 26 papers in referred journals and conferences. 

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Social Sciences

Grace Davie, Assistant Professor (History); a specialist in African history received her B.A. with highest honors from Kenyon College in 1996 and her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 2005, where she wrote a dissertation entitled, “Poverty Knowledge in South Africa: The Everyday Life of Social Science Expertise in the Twentieth Century.”  She has been the recipient of fellowships from the National Science Foundation, the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Studies, and the Fulbright Program.  Her fields include Pre-colonial Africa; Africa Since 1800, and Science, Technology in the Colonial World.  She taught a course on “Race, Identity and Transnationalism in South Africa and the United States” at the University of Oregon and “Social Science: Methods, Objects, and Values”

Julie A. George, Assistant Professor (Political Science); received her B.A. in 1994 from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, an M.A. in International Relations and International Communications, and her Ph.D in Political Sciece from the University of Texas,Austin in May 2005.  A specialist in comparative politics, International Relations, and Political Economy, her dissertation  is “Separatism or federalism? Explaining federal bargaining and secessionist conflict among ethnic regions in Russia and Georgia”  and has published several articles on ethnic conflict and national consolidation in Russia and Georgia.  She has taught courses in Comparative Government, International Relations and U.S.-Eastern European Relations.

Keena Lipsitz, Assistant Professor (Political Science); received her B.A., cum laude, from Pomona College in 1994 and her Ph.D. in Political Science in May 2005 from the University of California, Berkeley. She won a prestigious National Science Foundation Fellowship. Her dissertation, “Campaigns and Competition: How to Enhance Voter Knowledge and Deliberation in a Mass Democracy,” which reflects her research and teaching interests campaigns and election, media, public opinion and politics, and democratic theory. In 2004 She published “Democratic Theory and Political Campaigns” in the Journal of Political Philosophy. She has taught courses in Media and Politics, Introduction to American Politics, and Modern Political Thought.

Karen Strassler, Assistant Professor (Anthropology); received B.A., magna cum laude in 1998 from Brown University, and her Ph.D. in 2003 in Anthropology from the University of Michigan. Her dissertation “Refracted Vision: Popular Photography and the Indonesian Culture of Documentation in Postcolonial Java,” was awarded the 2003 Distinguished Dissertation Prize. From 2003 to the present she has been a Hrdy Postdoctoral Fellow in Visual Anthropology, Harvard University Institute for Media and Material Culture, Peabody Museum.  Among other essays she has published “Gendered Visibilities and the Dream of Transparency: The Chinese Indonesian Rape Debate in Post-Suharto Indonesia” in Gender and History. Courses she has taught include “Media and Mediations: The Anthropology of Communications Technologies” (Harvard University) and “Anthroplogical Perspectives on Memory: the Politics and Poetics of Remembering” (New School University)