THE
FACULTY
VOICE
HUNTER
COLLEGE
FACULTY
NEWSLETTER
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Office of The General Faculty
& The Faculty Delegate Assembly
East 1414
Vol. XXVII
No. 1
September 2014
http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/fda
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FDA Meeting Schedule, Fall 2014
September 17
October 15
November 19
All meetings are held in room Hunter East,
room 1203, from 1:10 to 3:00. Coffee, tea,
and cookies served
September FDA Meeting
Our featured speakers will be Laura
Hertzog, Dean of Faculty and Staff
Relations, and Colleen Barry, chair of the
Student Disciplinary Committee. We hope
to see you there!
New University Faculty Senate
Committee on Academic Affairs
The University Faculty Senate (UFS) would
like the FDA to recommend a few of our
faculty to join a new committee ten-member
committee which will address curriculum
matters.
The UFS is looking for faculty who are
knowledgeable about academic affairs,
academic policy, academic program,
curriculum development, and related matters
at their college and, if possible, at CUNY
and nationally.
The committee will be chaired by Karen
Kaplowitz (John Jay), UFS Vice Chair, with
Phil Pecorino (Queensborough), UFS
Treasurer, serving as vice chair. The
committee with meet monthly.
If you are interested in nominating yourself
or a colleague, please email us at
fda@hunter.cuny.edu.
Executive Committee Vacancy
The FDA is seeking to fill an open seat
on its Executive Committee, preferably with
a tenured faculty member.
Duties: The FDA Executive Committee
meets for an hour once a month to plan FDA
events and to set FDA priorities. It also
meets occasionally with top Hunter
administrators. Serving on the Executive
Committee is a great opportunity to meet
and work with colleagues outside of your
department and to learn about an array of
campus and CUNY matters.
If you are interested in serving, please get in
touch with the FDA at
fda@hunter.cuny.edu.
Welcome to Our Newest Colleagues
The Executive Committee of the FDA
would like to extend a warm welcome to our
new faculty colleagues who have been
appointed full-time to Hunter, effective
August 1, 2014.
Leo Coleman, Anthropology
Catherine Raissiguier, Anthropology
Bing Ying Hu, Classical Studies
David Petrain, Classical Studies
Adina Mulliken, Library
Daniel Harris, Philosophy
Nicki Silberman, Physical Therapy
Rachel Schutte, Political Science
Nesha Burghardt, Psychology
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Amber Martin, Psychology
Stefan Schulussman, Psychology
Tyrel Starks, Psychology
Jacob Rosenthal, Roosevelt House
Laly Joseph, School of Nursing
Donna McCabe, School of Nursing
Colleen Henry, School of Social Work
Colleen Cary Katz, School of Social Work
Alexis Kuerbis, School of Social Work
Rufina Lee, School of Social Work
Kevin Mahoney, School of Social Work
Meredith Manze, School of Urban
Public Health
Brian Pavilonis, School of Urban and
Public Health
Jessica Hardle, Sociology
Katherine Furlong-Silverio, Special
Education
Stephen Hernandez, Special Education
Bonnie Keilty, Special Education
Tenure
The following colleagues have received
tenure.
Appointment with tenure effective
8/27/2014
Wendy Morrison-Cavendish, Associate
Professor, School of Education
Appointment with tenure effective
1/27/2014
Elizabeth A. Capezuti, Professor, School of
Nursing
Rein Vincent Ulijn, Professor, Chemistry,
School of Arts & Sciences
TENURE OR CCE EFFECTIVE
9/1/2014
School of Arts & Sciences
Humanities and Arts
Paul Ramirez Jonas, Associate Professor,
Art & Art History
Wei-Yi Cheng, Lecturer (CCE), Classical &
Oriental Studies
Mary Anne Cartelli, Assistant Professor
(Tenure), Classical & Oriental
Studies
Michael Dowdy, Assistant Professor
(Tenure), English
Sonali Perera, Assistant Professor (Early
Tenure), English
Amy Robbins, Assistant Professor (Tenure),
English
Dow Robbins, Doctoral Lecturer (CCE),
English
Stephen Wetta, Doctoral Lecturer (CCE),
English
Gustavo Mercado, Assistant Professor
(Tenure), Film & Media
Studies
Shanti Thakur, Assistant Professor (Tenure),
Film & Media Studies
Catherine Coppola, Doctoral Lecturer
(CCE), Music
Ryan Keberle, Lecturer (CCE), Music
Deepsikha Chatterjee, Lecturer (CCE),
Theatre
Sciences and Mathematics
Paul Feinstein, Associate Professor
(Tenure), Biological Sciences
Carmen Melendez-Vasquez, Assistant
Professor (Tenure), Biological
Sciences
Teodosia Manecan, Doctoral Lecturer
(CCE), Geography
Shahana Mahajan, Assistant Professor
(Tenure), Medical Lab Science
Social Sciences
Daniel Hurewitz, Assistant Professor
(Tenure), History
Jennifer Gaboury, Lecturer (CCE), Political
Science
Joseph Lao, Lecturer (CCE), Psychology
Mark Halling, Lecturer (CCE), Sociology
School of Education
Laura Baecher, Assistant Professor (Early
Tenure), Curriculum &
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Teaching
Ann Ebe, Assistant Professor (Early
Tenure), Curriculum &
Teaching
Rachael Welder, Assistant Professor
(Tenure), Curriculum &
Teaching
Markus Bidell, Associate Professor
(Tenure), Educational Foundations &
Counseling Programs
School of Health Professions
Giulia Bencini, Assistant Professor (Early
Tenure), Speech-Language
Pathology & Audiology
School of Urban Public Health
Shiro Horiuchi, Professor (Tenure), Urban
Public Health
School of Social Work
Samuel Aymer, Tenure and Promotion to
Associate Professor
Jonathan Prince, Early Tenure and
Promotion to Associate Professor
PROMOTIONS
School of Nursing
Kenya Beard, Nursing
School of Education
Laura Baecher, Curriculum and Teaching
Ann Ebe, Curriculum and Teaching
Rachael Welder, Curriculum and Teaching
TO FULL PROFESSOR
School of Arts and Sciences
Gabriele Evertz, Art & Art History
Lisa Corinne Davis, Art & Art History
Frida Kleima, Chemistry
Jan Heller Levi, English
Alan Vardy, English
Kelly Anderson, Film & Media Studies
Hongmian Gong, Geography
Peter Marcotullio, Geography
Wenge Ni-Meister, Geography
Marianna Pavlovskaya, Geography
Sarit Golub, Psychology
Rolando Perez, Romance Languages
Magdalena Perkowska, Romance Languages
School of Education
Karen Koellner, Curriculum & Teaching
TO ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
School of Arts & Sciences
Carmen Melendez-Vasquez, Biological
Sciences
Mary Anne Cartelli, Classical & Oriental
Studies
Michael Dowdy, English
Sonali Perera, English
Amy Robbins, English
Gustavo Mercado, Film & Media Studies
Shanti Thakur, Film & Media Studies
Daniel Hurewitz, History
Shahana Mahajan, Medical Lab Science
School of Health Professions
Giulia Bencini, Speech-Language Pathology
& Audiology
School of Nursing
David Keepnews, Nursing
PROMOTION TO SENIOR COLLEGE
LABORATORY TECHNICIAN
EFFECTIVE 8/27/2014
SCHOOL OF ARTS AND SCIENCES
James Kominski, Biological Sciences
Tomoko Hagane-Mullins, Chemistry
Fellowship Leave
Full Year
Sean Ahearn, Geography
Matthew John Baker, Economics
Marcus Bidell, Educational Foundations
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Sarah Bonner, Educational Foundations
Diana P. Bratu, Biological Sciences
Michele Cabrini, Music
Sheila Chase, Psychology
Barry M. Cherkas, Mathematics &
Statistics
Howard Chernick, Economics
John J. Chin, Urban Affairs & Planning
Darlene C. DeFour, Psychology
Jennifer Dowd, Urban Public Health
Alexander Elinson, Classical & Oriental
Studies
Randall K. Filer, Economics
Maria Luisa Fischer, Romance Languages
Allan Frei, Geography
Elaine Gale, Special Education
Tami Gold, Film & Media
Shiro Horiuchi, Urban Public Health
Nico Israel, English
Leigh A. Jones, English
Jonathan Kalb, Theatre
John J. Kim, Economics
Kimberly Kinsler, Educational Foundations
Eckhard K. Kuhn-Osius, German
Peter Kwong, Urban Affairs & Planning
Marnia Lazreg, Sociology
Milo Lipovac, Physical Therapy
Andrew Lund, Film & Media
William Milczarski, Urban Affairs &
Planning
Franklin Mirer, Urban Public Health
Magdalena Perkowska-Alvarez, Romance
Languages
Stacey B. Plichta, Urban Public Health
Tim Portlock, Film & Media
Sangeeta Pratap, Economics
Thomas Preuss, Psychology
Paul Ramirez, Art & Art History
Diana Reiss, Psychology
Ruth Rose, Educational Foundations
Elaine Rosen, Physical Therapy
Judith B. Rosenberger, Social Work
William Solecki, Geography
Pamela Stone, Sociology
Neal Tolchin, English
Donald Vogel, Speech-Language Pathology
and Audiology
Barbara J. Webb, English
William H. Williams, Mathematics &
Statistics
Half Year
Marcus Bidell, Educational Foundations
Mark Bobrow, English
Robert Jenkins, Political Science
Howard Lune, Sociology
Kursheed P. Navder, Urban Public Health
Shirley Raps, Biological Sciences
Charles Tien, Political Science
Campus Schools
Albert Batson, HCCS
Eugene Lim, HCCS
Denise Rohan-Jones, HCCS
Anne Rosenthal, HCCS
Retirees
Namby Krishnamachari, Chemistry
William Sweeney, Chemistry
Michael Schleifer, Economics
Marjorie Honig, Economics
Deborah Jensen, Curriculum & Teaching
Kathleen Nokes, School of Nursing
Michael Perna, Romance Languages
Roger Sherwood, School of Social Work
Claus Mueller, Sociology
Hunter Authors Honored at Library Day
The following Hunter book authors and
editors were honored at Library Day last
April. Congratulations!
Vishwa Adluri (Religion)
Philosophy and Salvation in Greek Religion
(editor)
De Gruyter 2012
Anna Akasoy (Classical and Oriental
Studies)
Renaissance Averroism and Its Aftermath:
Arabic Philosophy in Early Modern Europe
(editor with Guido Giglioni)
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Springer, 2013
Lily Alexander (Classical and Oriental
Studies)
Fictional Worlds: Traditions in Narrative
and the Age of Visual Culture
CreateSpace, 2013
Ronnie Ancona (Classical and Oriental
Studies)
Writing Passion: A Catullus Reader
Bolchazy-Carducci, 2013
Michael Dowdy (English)
Broken Souths: Latina/o Poetic Responses
to Neoliberalism and Globalization
University of Arizona Press, 2013
Robert Eidelberg (Curriculum and
Teaching)
So You Think You Might Like to Teach: 23
Fictional Teachers (for Real!) Model how to
Become and Remain a Successful Teacher
Xlibris, 2013
Writing Passion Plus
Bolchazy-Carducci, 2013
Good Thinking: A Self-Improvement
Approach to Getting Your Mind to Go from
“Huh” to “Hmm” and “Aha!”
Xlibris, 2013
Nebahat Avcioglu (Art)
Architecture, Art and Identity in Venice and
its Territories, 1450-1750: Essays in
Honour of Deborah Howard (editor with
Emma Jones)
Ashgate, 2014
Nancy Foner (Sociology)
New York and Amsterdam: Immigration and
the New Urban Landscape (editor)
NYU, 2014
Janos Bergou (Physics)
Introduction to the Theory of Quantum
Information Processing, with Mark Hillery
Springer, 2013
Emily Braun (Art)
De Chirico: The Song of Love
Museum of Modern Art, 2013
Irene Chung (Social Work)
Contemporary Clinical Practice with Asian
Immigrants, with Tazuko Shibusawa
Routledge 2013
David Connor (Special Education)
Disability and Teaching, with Susan Gabel
Routledge 2013
Omar Dahbour (Philosophy)
Self-Determination without Nationalism: A
Theory of Postnational Sovereignty
Temple Univ. Press, 2012
NYU Press, 2014
One Out of Three: Immigrants in New York
in the Twenty-first Century
Columbia, 2013
Mark Hauber (Psychology)
The Book of Eggs
Ivy Press, 2014
William Herbert (National Center for the
Study of Collective Bargaining in Higher
Education and the Professions, reporting
to the Office of the Provost)
Labor Law and Workers’ Compensation
Law, with Jerome Lefkowitz and Martin
Minkowitz
New York State Bar Association, 2014
Mark Hillery (Physics)
Introduction to the Theory of Quantum
Information Processing, with Janos Bergou
Springer, 2013
Robert Koehl (Classical and Oriental
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Studies)
AMILLA: The Quest for Excellence. Studies
Presented to Guenter Kopke in Celebration
of His 75th Birthday (editor)
INSTAP Academic Press, 2013
Ludomir Lozny (Anthropology)
Prestate Societies of the North Central
European Plains 600-900 CE
Springer, 2013
Thomas McIntyre (Special Education)
The Survival Guide for Kids with Behavior
Challenges: How to Make Good Choices
and Stay Out of Trouble
Free Spirit Publishing 2013
Harper Montgomery (Art)
Beyond the Aesthetic and the Anti-aesthetic,
with James Elkins
Pennsylvania State University Press, 2013
Katie Murray (Art)
All the Queen’s Men, edited by Maria
Antonella Pellazzari
Daylight Books, 2013
Elizabeth Nunez (English)
Not for Everyday Use: A Memoir
Akashic, 2014
Lisa Paisley-Cleveland (Sociology)
Black Middle-Class Women and Pregnancy
Loss: a Qualitative Inquiry
Lexington Press, 2013
Maria Antonella Pellazzari (Art)
All the Queen’s Men (photographs by Katie
Murray; editor)
Daylight Books
Sonali Perera (English)
No Country: Working-class Writing in the
Age of Globalization
Columbia University Press, 2014
Magdelana Perkowska (Romance
Languages)
Pliegues Visuales Narrativa y Fotografia en
la Novela Latinoamericana Contemporanea
Iberoamericana/Vervuert 2013
Joachim Pissarro (Art)
Wild Art, with David Carrier
Phaidon 2013
Herman Pontzer (Anthropology)
Reconstructing Human Origins: a Modern
Synthesis, 3rd ed., with Glenn C. Conroy
Norton, 2012
Judith Rosenberger (Social Work)
Relational Social Work Practice with
Diverse Populations
Springer, 2014
Laura Schor (History)
The Best School in Jerusalem: Annie
Landau’s School for Girls, 1900-1960
Brandeis University Press, 2013
Jillian Schwedler (Political Science)
Policing and Prisons in the Middle East:
Formations of Coercion (editor with Laleh
Khalili)
Hurst and Company, 2010
Understanding the Contemporary Middle
East, 4th (editor)
Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2013
Robert Seltzer (History)
Simon Dubnow’s “New Judaism” Diaspora
Nationalism and the World History of the
Jews
Brill, 2013
Katy Siegel (Art)
Wols: Retrospective
Hirmer Verlag 20123
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Deborah Tolman (Social Work)
APA Handbook of Sexuality and Psychology
(editor with Lisa M. Diamon)
APA, 2014
Laura Victoir (History)
Harbin to Hanoi: Colonial Built
Environment in Asia, 1840 to 1940 (editor)
Hong Kong University Press, 2013
Joseph Viteritti (Urban Affairs and
Planning)
Summer in the City: John Lindsay, New
York and the American Dream
Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 2014
Weintraub, Max (Art)
William Anastasi: Sound Works 1963-2013
(curator)
Hunter College, 2013
Sandra Wilde (Curriculum and
Teaching)
Quantity and Quality: Increasing the
Volume and Complexity of Students’
Reading
Heinemann 2013
Kip Zegers (Hunter High School)
The Poet of Schools
Dos Madres, 2013
Back issues of The Faculty Voice
This summer FDA assistants Shemeika
McLaren and James Regan have scanned in
and posted scores of back issues of The
Voice. The archive now goes back to 1988.
Access is at
http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/fda/fdaresources/newsletter. The FDA thanks Ms.
McLaren and Mr. Regan for their hard work.
Get in touch
We seek input from all faculty. The best
way to get in touch is to call us at 212-7724123 or to email us at fda@hunter.cuny.edu.
Please don’t hesitate to send your concerns,
complaints, or suggestions along. We will
address them promptly.
FDA Spaces
Faculty/Staff Lounge, 8th Floor, Hunter West
The space is available to book most times
during the summer. To see when the lounge
is available go to
http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/fda/fdaresources/meeting-event-rooms/the-facultylounge. To book contact Ms. Shemeika
McLaren or Mr. James Regan at
fda@hunter.cuny.edu, 212-772-4123, or in
HE 1414.
1413 Hunter East
The Faculty Conference Room, located at
1413 Hunter East, has wireless internet and
is available for use, first come, first served.
To see when the space is available go to
http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/fda/fdaresources/meeting-event-rooms/thesolarium. To book contact Ms. Shemeika
McLaren or Mr. James Regan at
fda@hunter.cuny.edu, 212-772-4123, or in
HE 1414.
The FDA Executive Committee:
Bernadette McCauley (History), President
(through 2015)
Tony Doyle (Library), Vice President
(through 2015)
John Toth (Curriculum and Teaching),
Treasurer (through 2015)
Debbie Sonu (Curriculum and Teaching),
Secretary (through 2015)
Siochain Hughes (Art). Part Time
Representative (through 2015)
Ann Gaba (Urban Public Health) Daytime
Representative (through 2015)
Evening Representative: Vacant
Administrative Assistants:
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Shemeika McLaren and James Regan