BHSEC Queens Faculty

BHSEC Queens teachers are active in their fields of expertise and are dedicated to fostering adolescent learning. Some come from New York public high schools while others are experienced college professors with a special interest in working with younger students.

Most hold a Ph.D. degree, and all full-time BHSEC Queens faculty are certified by New York State. Some college electives are taught by adjunct faculty. In total, BHSEC Queens has 40 full-time and two part-time faculty. Approximately two thirds of the full-time faculty hold Ph.D. degrees in their fields.

Faculty can be contacted by email or by calling the campus at which they teach. Email addresses for faculty members are the first intial of their first name followed by the first7 letters of their last name followed by @bhsec.bard.edu. If their last name is fewer than 7 letters the email address will contain their entire last name. For example to contact Jane Doe email jdoe@bhsec.bard.edu.

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Our Faculty:

Adrian Agredo
Bard Early College Academy (BECA) Coordinator, BHSEC Manhattan and Queens
M.A.T., Bennington College; B.A. Bennington College. Teacher, Bard Early College Academy, Middle School Humanities, 2008-present; Teacher/Student Teacher, Burr and Burton Academy, Manchester, Vt; Student Teacher, The Beacon School, New York, NY. Specializes in curricular development, mediation, and inter-disciplinary design. Interests include poetry, painting, and running.
Phone: 212-995-8479 x2223

Jenna Feltey Alden
Social Studies Faculty, BHSEC Queens
BA, American Studies, Wesleyan Univerity; MA and MPhil, US History, Columbia University. Currently completing doctoral dissertation, "Behind the Executive Mask: Participative Management Theory and Corporate Sensitive Training, 1945-1975." BHSECQ courses include "Conformity and Its Critics in the 1950s" and "Revolution! Society and Politics of the 1960s." Research interests include popular psychology, 20th-century religion, and consumer culture. Other interests include knitting and mandolin.
E-mail: jalden@bhsec.bard.edu
Phone: 718-361-3133 x7706

Haroula Argiros
Science Faculty, BHSEC Queens
B.S., Nutrition and Food Science, University of Vermont; M.A., Biology; Ph.D., Cell and Organismal Biology, New Mexico State University. Friday Harbor Laboratory Alan J. Kohn Endowed Fellow at University of Washington. Teaching assistant, assistant lecturer, and Preparing for Future Faculty Fellow at NMSU. Publications have appeared in the Journal of Molecular Recognition. Research interests include understanding how the regulation of cell division is coordinated in large embryonic cells and how the characteristics of large cells influence the signaling events of the spindle mitotic checkpoint.
E-mail: hargiros@bhsec.bard.edu
Phone: 718-361-3133 x8725

Ian Bickford
E-mail: ibickford@bhsec.bard.edu
Phone: 718-361-3133 x7025

Kevin J. Bisceglia
Science Faculty, BHSEC Queens
B.S., M.E., Environmental Engineering, Manhattan College; Ph.D., Environmental Engineering and Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University. Chemist, National Institute of Standards and Technology, 2008-2009; EPA STAR Graduate Fellow, 2005-2008. Research interests: environmental chemistry, chemical fate and transport, analytical chemistry, water quality. Publications have appeared in Environmental Science and Technology, Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry, and Journal of Chromatography A.
E-mail: kbisceglia@bhsec.bard.edu
Phone: 718-361-3133

Leslie Boyce
Dance Faculty, BHSEC Queens
As a specialist in Dunham-based technique, has performed in Africa, Europe, and throughout the United States. Appeared in Q&A, a film by Sidney Lumet; The Mermaid Wakes by Elizabeth Swados; The Last Supper at Uncle Tom's Cabin/The Promised Land by Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane and Company. Director and choreographer, Flying Fables and The Life and Legacy of Madam Zora, both at Apollo Theater, New York City; choreographed I Ain't Yo' Uncle (Hartford Stage Company), Loves Fire (Berkshire Theatre Festival), and an Afro-Cuban samba for Dance in Athens. Created original sound scores and performed as percussionist for movement project at Dance Theatre Workshop, PS 122, and Dia Center for the Arts; assistant director for Broadway musical workshop production of Comfortable Shoes. Her photographs are included in the permanent collection of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
E-mail: boyce@bard.edu
Phone: 718-361-3133

Holly Kashin Brown
Language and Literature Faculty, BHSEC Queens
B.A., Wellesley College; M.A., Middlebury College; Ph.D. candidate, The Graduate School and University Center, City University of New York (Hispanic Languages). Has taught language and short story at Princeton University and Hunter College; Bilingual Education and Spanish pedagogy at The City College of New York; and College Preparedness and ESL at LaGuardia Community College. Publications include At the Crossroads of Modernity: Fernando Pessoa's Intersectionist Poetry. Interests include medieval and early modern Spanish and Portuguese literature.
E-mail: hbrown@bhsec.bard.edu
Phone: 718-361-3133

Matthew Carlberg
Mathematics & Computer Science Faculty, BHSEC Queens
B.S., Electrical Engineering, Columbia University; M.S., Electrical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley; M.A., Teaching Secondary Mathematics, Bard College; 2010 Math for America Fellow. Previous teaching experience at International Community High School in the Bronx, East Side Community High School in Manhattan, and at University of California, Berkeley, as a graduate student instructor. Publications on 3D modeling of indoor and outdoor environments using camera and laser data have appeared in IEEE conferences, including 3D Processing, Visualization, and Transmission and International Conference on Image Processing. Co-inventor on a pending patent for asynchronous digital circuits, including arbitration and routing primitives.
E-mail: mcarlberg@bhsec.bard.edu
E-mail: mc1451@bard.edu
Phone: 718-361-3133 x7719

Michael Cetrangol
Music Faculty, BHSEC Queens
B.M., Music Education, Piano and Voice, University of Dayton; M.M., Jazz Studies, Purchase College SUNY, Conservatory of Music. Teaching appointments include the New York City public school system; University of Dayton; and The Miami Valley School. Courses taught include Choir; Music Theory; Jazz Ensemble; Music Fundamentals; Improvisation; Piano; and Voice.
E-mail: mcetrangol@bhsec.bard.edu
Phone: 718-361-3133

Matthew Leonard Cohen
Social Studies Faculty, BHSEC Queens
B.A., Bard College at Simon's Rock; M.A., Ph.D. Government, The University of Texas. Professor Cohen's research focuses on international conflict, international political economy, the relationship between domestic and international politics, political methodology and econometrics, and game theory. His dissertation uses statistical analysis and formal models to explore the role of US and Iraqi domestic politics in the current war in Iraq. Professor Cohen served in the Peace Corps in Kazakhstan from 2000 to 2002.
E-mail: mcohen@bhsec.bard.edu
Phone: 718-361-3133 x7706

David Copenhafer
Language and Literature Faculty, BHSEC Queens
B.A., University of Virginia; Ph.D., Comparative Literature, University of California Berkeley. Held a postdoctoral position in the Music Department at the University of Pennsylvania; received a DAAD grant to conduct research in Berlin, Germany. Publications include "Invisible Music (Ellison)" in Sonic Interventions (Rodopi, 2008); and "Mourning and Music in Blue Velvet" in Camera Obscura 69 (Duke). Research interests include 19^th and 20^th century European and American Literature; Continental Philosophy; Music; and Film.
E-mail: dcopenhafer@bhsec.bard.edu
Phone: 718-361-3133

Anales Debhaumik
Mathematics Faculty, BHSEC Queens
B.Sc, Mathematics, Calcutta University; M.Sc, Applied Mathematics, Calcutta University; Ph.D., Mathematics, [University of Florida. Teaching Assistant at University of Florida 2003-2010; Research/interests include Finite Group Theory and Quantum Computation (Hidden Subgroup Problem).
E-mail: adebhaumik@bhsec.bard.edu
Phone: 718-361-3133

Heather Duffy-Stone
Guidance Counselor and English Faculty, BHSEC Queens
B.A., Literature and Gender Studies, Bard College; M.A., School Counseling, Goddard College. Taught English in the International Baccalaureate program at St. Stephen's School in Rome, and the American Overseas School of Rome. Was a counselor within the Los Angeles Unified School District; and Manhattan Comprehensive Night & Day High School. Program Director at international writing organization PEN USA. Developed and implemented creative writing courses and mentoring programs for Los Angeles high schools.
E-mail: hduffystone@bhsec.bard.edu
Phone: 718-361-3133

Aris Efting
Biology Faculty, BHSEC Queens
Ph.D. Natural Resources 2005, University of Nebraska (UNL). Assistant Professor at UNL from 2005-2010. Consultant to EPA and National Council for Science and the Environment regarding issues on water pollution and the effects of climate change on water quality. Research emphasis includes algae ecology, algae toxins, and the identification of water quality standards for lakes and streams. Has published in The Journal of Paleolimnology, Journal of the American Water Resources Association, and Ecological Modeling. Courses taught include Biology, Zoology, Parasitology, Limnology, and Research Methods.
E-mail: aefting@bhsec.bard.edu
Phone: 718-361-3133

D. Kent Freeman
Mathematics Faculty, BHSEC Queens
B.S., Electrical Engineering, University of Cincinnati; S.M. & Ph.D., Applied Mathematics, Harvard University; M.A., Mathematics Education, New York University; Chartered Financial Analyst; 2009 Math for America Fellow. Worked for 15 years in the financial industry. Taught mathematics at Ohio University. Research interests include applications of mathematics to finance and electromagnetic phenomena.
E-mail: kfreeman@bhsec.bard.edu
Phone: 718-361-3133

Jess deCourcy Hinds
Librarian, BHSEC Queens
A.A., Bard College at Simon's Rock; B.A., English, Smith College; M.F.A., Fiction Writing, Brooklyn College; M.S.L.I.S, Educational Library Science, Pratt Institute. Taught at Brooklyn College; Lehman College; Mount Holyoke College's Summer Math program; and Barnard College's Girl Scout Scholars program. Fiction and essays have appeared (or are forthcoming) in Newsweek; The New York Times; Ms. Magazine; Seventeen; Teachers & Writers; Small Spiral Notebook; and Saltgrass. Awarded a Twining Tea Fellowship for research and writing in Italy.
E-mail: jhinds@bhsec.bard.edu
Phone: 718-361-3133

William H. Hinrichs
Language and Literature Faculty, BHSEC Queens
A.B., Comparative Literature, Princeton University; Ph.D., Spanish and Portuguese, Yale University. Taught at St. Mark's School, 1997-2000, the Taft School, 2000-2001, and Yale University, 2005-2007. Member of American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese (AATSP); and the Modern Language Association (MLA). Research interests include literature and culture of Early Modern Spain, 1500-1700; concepts of authorial property, artistic rivalry and literary continuation in narrative prose.
E-mail: whinrichs@bhsec.bard.edu
Phone: 718-361-3133

Laura A. Hymson
Social Studies Faculty, BHSEC Queens
B.A., Wesleyan University; M.A., Gender/Cultural Studies, Simmons College; Ph.D., American Culture, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. Taught at Rutgers University-Newark, Hunter College, and University of Hartford. Areas of research include 20th century U.S. cultural history; with a particular focus on the historical constructions of race and gender; globalization; and the manifold challenges of macro-branding in an increasingly segmented collection of global markets.
E-mail: lhymson@bhsec.bard.edu
Phone: 718-361-3133 x7706

June Morrison Jones
Science Faculty BHSEC Queens
BSc, Chemistry, MA, Science Education (Chemistry), Brooklyn College; MPH, UNT Health Science School of Public Health, EdM, Organization and Leadership from Teachers College, Columbia University, and PHD Health Studies (ABD). Administrative Intern at Teachers College; Columbia University. Worked as academic team leader and served on the curriculum and oral defense committee at Middle College High School at LaGuardia Community College; served as department chair and lead teacher in Dallas Independent School; served as coach for students preparing for national and international science competition. Presented papers at International Aids (Bangok, Thailand ); and Infectious disease (Argentina) conferences. Publications include The Role of Geographic Information System in Syphilis Prevention and Elimination (Journal of Urban Health. Volume 79, 4, 2002); Geographic Information System and Case Studies in Health. Interactive Teaching and Learning across Disciplines and Cultures (Volume XIV, 578-581, 2001). Research interests include health disparities; social determinants of health; and geographic information system and disease.
E-mail: jjones@bhsec.bard.edu
Phone: 718-361-3133

Stephanie Kadison
Science Faculty, BHSEC Queens
B.S., Neuroscience, Brandeis University; Ph.D., Neuroscience, Albert Einstein College of Medicine; Hartwell Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Michigan; Postdoctoral Associate at Weill Cornell Medical College. Mentored and supervised three students in the Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (UROP) at the University of Michigan, mentored graduate students at Weill Cornell, and taught genetics curriculum as part of the NYAS STEM afterschool and summer program to middle school students. Publications have appeared in the Journal of Comparative Neurology, Journal of Neuroscience, Developmental Biology, and a chapter in the textbook Principles of Developmental Genetics. Research interests include neural crest specification, axon guidance, and neuromuscular junction formation.
E-mail: skadison@bhsec.bard.edu
Phone: 718-361-3133 x8725

Jennifer Kaplan
Literature Faculty, BHSEC Queens
B.A., Near Eastern Studies (Arabic language and literature concentration), University of California, Berkeley; MA and Ph.D., Comparative Literature, NYU. Taught Arabic at Columbia University and Comparative Literature at NYU. Editor, Arab Studies Journal, 2002-2007. From 2007-2008, on fellowship at the American Research Center in Egypt, researching the history of children's literature in Egypt. Research interests in contemporary Arabic literature, immigrant literature in France, and representations of childhood.
E-mail: jkaplan@bhsec.bard.edu
Phone: 718-361-3133 x7615

Katharina F. Kempf
Spanish faculty, BHSEC Queens
B.A., Law, Politics, & Society and Cross-Cultural Relations, Simon's Rock at Bard College. Spanish faculty at Bard High School Early College, Spring Semester 2010; taught English as a foreign language at Maple Academy in Oaxaca, Mexico, November 2007- May 2010. Awarded the Academic Prize in Interdivisional Studies at Commencement at Simon's Rock, May 2007. Speaker at the Berkshires UNIFEM-Chapter International Women's Day Conference, March 2007. Regularly contributes articles on Mexican politics to the Spanish-language magazine La Voz. Her interests include the study of foreign languages, traveling, photography, and vegetarian cooking.
E-mail: kkempf@bhsec.bard.edu
Phone: 718-361-3133

Toi Yuk (Irene) Lam
Chinese Instructor and Student Activities Coordinator, BHSEC Queens
B.A., Hunter College (American Literature and Psychology); M.S., City College (Education); M.S., East China Normal University in Shanghai (Chinese Linguistics). Research interests: Social linguistic research and analysis on the signs in New York City and Chinese modern literature. Taught in New York public schools for a number of years. Chinese calligraphy writings were shown at numerous exhibitions in New York City and Canada. The most recent exhibition was held in Flushing, NY from January 30 to 31, 2010. Member: The Association of Chinese Calligraphy in America, Hua Xia Chinese Calligraphy, and Oversea Chinese Instrumentalist Orchestra.
E-mail: ilam@bhsec.bard.edu
Phone: 718-361-3133

Danielle M. LaSusa
Social Studies Faculty, BHSEC Queens
B.A., Philosophy and Spanish, Millikin University; Ph.D., Philosophy, Temple University. Taught at Temple University and Southwest Minnesota State University. Publications include "Eiffel Tower Key Chains and Other Pieces of Reality: The Philosophy of Souvenirs" in The Philosophical Forum. Areas of research include Continental philosophy--in particular the work of Jean-Paul Sartre--social philosophy, tourism studies, and aesthetics.
E-mail: dlasusa@bhsec.bard.edu
Phone: 718-361-3133 x7706

Catherine Lee
Mathematics Faculty
B.A., Mathematics, minor Modern Dance, UC Berkeley; Ph.D., Mathematics, UCLA; M.S. Biostatistics, UCLA. Data manager and statistician at the Easton Center for Alzheimer's Disease Research at UCLA, 2009-2010; adjunct lecturer at UCLA, 2006-2010; taught at California State University, Channel Islands, 2007-2008. Research interests include algebraic topology (Nielsen fixed point theory) and biostatistics.
E-mail: clee@bhsec.bard.edu
Phone: 718-361-3133

Jon Leizman
Athletic Director, Physical Education and Philosophy Faculty, BHSEC Queens
B.A., St. John's College in Annapolis; M.A., University of Pennsylvania, Ph.D., Union Graduate School. Bacon Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania. Coached college basketball, soccer, and tennis in California, Florida, and Connecticut. Coached high school basketball, soccer, baseball, and tennis in California and New York. Taught public and independent high school physical education; English; and philosophy in California and New York. Taught philosophy as a fellow at the University of Pennsylvania. Author of Let's Kill 'Em: Understanding and Controlling Violence in Sports (University Press of America, 1999); and Short Term Trading (McGraw-Hill, 2002).
E-mail: jleizman@bhsec.bard.edu
Phone: 718-361-3133

Shannon Leslie
Language and Literature Faculty, BHSEC Queens
B.A., Letters, University of Oklahoma; M.A., Classical Philology, University of Cincinnati. Graduate student instructor at the University of Cincinnati; adjunct instructor at Xavier University; taught Latin 1-4 at Nottingham and Hamilton West High Schools, Hamilton, NJ. Member of the American Classical League; President of the New Jersey Classical Association. Interests include Lucretius; didactic poetry; and Aristophanes.
E-mail: sleslie@bhsec.bard.edu
Phone: 718-361-3133

Sara Machleder
Science Faculty, BHSEC Queens
B.A., Goucher College; Ph.D., Biophysics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Articles published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Science; and the Journal of Physical Chemistry A. Research interests include the role of dynamics in catalysis; and finding new methods for identification for the reaction coordinate.
E-mail: smachleder@bhsec.bard.edu
Phone: 718-361-3133

Michael W. Magee
Psychology Faculty, BHSEC Queens
B.A., Acting, Central School of Speech and Drama, London, England; Ph.D., Cognition, Brain, and Behavior, CUNY Graduate Center. Teaching experience includes five years at Brooklyn College and, as a National Science Foundation GK12 teaching fellow, two years as a visiting science lecturer at two New York City Public High Schools: the It Takes a Village Academy (ITAVA) and the Brooklyn Academy of Science and the Environment (BASE). Michael is an experimental social psychologist whose core research explores the impact of parental relationships on the regulation of personal religious experience, including anti-atheist prejudice. Additional interests include superstitious belief, stereotypes, existentialism, attitudes toward science, and academic achievement. His research has been published in the international journal Social Cognition.
E-mail: mmagee@bhsec.bard.edu
Phone: 718-361-3133 x6917

Bruce Matthews
Bard High School Early College Exchange Fellow
B.A., University of Virginia; M.A.R., Yale Divinity School; Ph.D., New School University. Founding faculty member, Bard High School Early College. Specializes in German idealism and romanticism, philosophical theology, intercultural philosophy. Author, Life as the Schema of Freedom: Schelling’s Organic Form of Philosophy; translator, Schelling’s The Berlin Lectures: The Grounding of Positive Philosophy; articles on Kant and Schelling in various journals. Recipient, Hans Jonas Memorial Award; NEH Award; University of Chicago Teaching Award; Fulbright Senior Scholar, University of Tübingen
E-mail: bmatthew@bard.edu
Phone: 845-758-6822

Theresa M. Mawn
Mathematics Faculty, BHSEC Queens
B.S., Electrical Engineering, Manhattan College; Ph.D., Bioengineering, University of Pennsylvania; M.A., Mathematics Education, New York University; 2009 Math for America Fellow. Previously taught math at University Neighborhood High School, Mott Hall II, and inquiry-based physics at Pan American International High School at Monroe in New York; developed and taught a bioengineering outreach course at University City High School in Philadelphia and assistant taught a molecular imaging lab course at University of Pennsylvania. Research interests include the development of non-invasive molecular imaging methods for early detection and diagnosis of cancer. Publications have appeared in Journal of Biomedical Optics and Bioconjugate Chemistry. Co-inventor on a pending patent for a method of in vivo detection of phospholipase activation.
E-mail: tmawn@bhsec.bard.edu
Phone: 718-361-3133 x7619

Peter Mazur
Language and Literature Faculty, BHSEC Queens
B.A., Greek and Latin, Catholic University of America; M.Phil., Comparative Philology, University of Oxford; Ph.D., Classical Philology, Yale University. Served as Visiting Assistant Professor at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut from 2006-2009. His article, "Formulaic and Thematic Allusions in Iliad 9 and Odyssey 14" is forthcoming in Classical World. Research interests include epic poetry; daily life in Greece and Rome; and historical linguistics.
E-mail: pmazur@bhsec.bard.edu
Phone: 718-361-3133

Kristy McMorris
Language and Literature Faculty, BHSEC Queens
B.A., English, Howard University; M.A., Comparative Literature, New York University; Ph.D. candidate, Comparative Literature, New York University. Taught at New York University; and Hunter College. Areas of research include African-American and Caribbean Literature; and postcolonial and feminist critical approaches to texts.
Phone: 718-361-3133

Isaac Miller
Social Studies Faculty, BHSEC Queens
B.A., San Francisco State; M.A., Ph.D., History, University of California at Berkeley. Taught at Stanford University; Oberlin College; and the University of Melbourne, Australia. Areas of research include European intellectual history; with a special fondness for medieval theology and the recurrence of Aristotelianism.
E-mail: imiller@bhsec.bard.edu
Phone: 718-361-3133

Sean Mills
English Faculty, BHSEC Queens
B.A., Knox College; MFA, Fiction, Sarah Lawrence College. Taught at Hofstra University and Knox College; Copy Chief at Random House and Senior Production Editor at Doubleday and Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Published in Growing Up Gay/Growing Up Lesbian: A Literary Anthology, and in several journals, most recently Hobart and the Emerging Writer's Network. At work on a novel and a collection of essays.
E-mail: smills@bhsec.bard.edu
Phone: 718-361-3133 x7615

Hayes Moore
Language and Literature Faculty, BHSEC Queens
B.A., New York University; M.A., Ph.D., Modern Chinese Literature, Columbia University. Fulbright Fellow; Harvard Fellow; Foreign Languages and Area Studies Fellow. Taught at University of Massachusetts, Boston; and Lesley College. Areas of research include modern Chinese fiction and film; literary theory; comparative poetics; classical Chinese poetics; and modern Chinese history.
E-mail: hmoore@bhsec.bard.edu
Phone: 718-361-3133

Arup Mukherjee
Mathematics Faculty, BHSEC Queens
B.A., Mathematics, Hunter College; M.A., Mathematics Education, Hunter College. Taught Mathematics at Brooklyn Technical High School. Interests include Table Tennis and Chess.
E-mail: amukherjee@bhsec.bard.edu
Phone: 718-361-3133

Scott Neagle
Mathematics and Music Faculty, BHSEC Queens
B.A., Mathematics and Music, Bennington College; M.S., Adolescent Teaching, Pace University. Taught outdoor education, math, and music in New York City public schools. Released a self-titled, full-length album with band Big Bang TV which made the CMJ top 200 and the Deli Magazine top 20; worked with Family Opera Initiative; the Fringe theater festival; and Brooklyn-based rap groups. Co-created hip-hop entity "Heavy Jamal" which 'rapifies' Henry James's novels and Sufi poetry. Wrote chamber works incorporating turntables hailed as "brilliant to the point of clairvoyance" by leaders in the downtown new music scene.
E-mail: sneagle@bhsec.bard.edu
Phone: 718-361-3133

Ezra Nielsen
English Faculty, BHSEC Queens
A.A., Simon's Rock College; B.A., Sarah Lawrence College; M.A., Rutgers University; Ph.D., Rutgers University. Taught at Rutgers University and Sarah Lawrence College. Research interests include Henry James; 19th century American literature; the history and theory of the novel.
E-mail: enielsen@bhsec.bard.edu
Phone: 718-361-3133 x7615

Jessica Nordell
English Faculty, BHSEC Queens
A.B., Physics, Harvard University; M.F.A., Creative Writing, University of Wisconsin. Essays and poetry have been published in the New York Times; Slate; Salon; and FIELD. Worked for three years as a sketch comedy writer for A Prairie Home Companion; produced the nationally broadcast series Literary Friendships with Garrison Keillor. 2006 Gracie Award from American Women in Radio and Television.
Phone: 718-361-3133

Zachariah Pickard
Language and Literature Faculty, BHSEC Queens
B.A., University of King's College; M.A., Ph.D., English, University of Toronto. Taught at Tufts; New York University; The New School; and The Cooper Union. Expertise in twentieth-century poetry. Has been published in Twentieth-Century Literature; American Literature; and American Literary History. Authored a scholarly study of the poet Elizabeth Bishop, released in May of 2009.
E-mail: zpickard@bhsec.bard.edu
Phone: 718-361-3133

Jennifer Renee Caden Merdjan
Visual Arts Faculty, BHSEC Queens
B.A., Interdisciplinary Applied Arts, Communications Arts & Media, Education, Queens College; Post Graduate Certificate, Graphic Design and Advertising, Parsons School of Design; M.S., Art Education, Queens College. Grants and scholarships received for additional study at Harvard University; Stanford University; New York University; Academia de Firenze (Italy); and summer-study tours in China and Germany. Licensed in both NY Fine Arts and Commercial Art. Taught at Brooklyn Technical High School, 2004-2008. Recipient of several BTHS Faculty Alumni Grants which funded additional class projects and supplies for art students. Artwork sold at The American Craft Museum Gift Shop (presently the Museum of Arts & Design); Henri Bendel; the Consulate General of Argentina; Local Project Gallery (NY); and the Joyce Robins Gallery (NM). Artwork exhibited at The Urban Center; Barnes & Noble; Makor Gallery; Starbucks; 92YTribeca; Lever House; and the Gallery at Pathways Women's Health. Published/wrote artist book If Shoes Could Talk. Graphic designs published in Bridal Guide Magazine; The Wall Street Transcript; and for Simon and Schuster. Featured Artist on Univision Television Network's Control show. Member of the International Society for Education Through Art; New York State Art Teachers Association; and National Art Education Association.
Phone: 718-361-3133

Julia M. Robinson-Surry
Science Faculty, BHSEC Queens
B.A., Chemistry, Reed College; Ph.D., Organic Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow, MIT, 2007-2010. Coordinated the Chemistry Outreach Program at MIT, 2007-2009; teaching assistant at MIT; mentored undergraduate research at MIT. Publications have appeared in The Journal of the American Chemical Society, The Journal of Organic Chemistry, and Tetrahedron. Research interests include environmentally-friendly organic synthesis.
E-mail: jrobinson-surry@bhsec.bard.edu
Phone: 718-361-3133 x8825

Laura Saltman
Science Faculty and Business Manager, BHSEC Queens
B.S., University of Rochester; M.A., M.Ph., Ph.D., Columbia University. Involved in Molecular Biology as an instructor at the University of Massachusetts Medical School studying osteoclast biology, 2003-2006; and the State University of New York at Stony Brook, 2000-2002, studying cutaneous gene therapy. Research articles published in The Journal of Cell Physiology; The Journal of Biological Chemistry; The Journal of Molecular Biology; The Journal of Bacteriology; and Molecular Microbiology.
E-mail: lsaltman@bhsec.bard.edu
Phone: 718-361-3133

Valerie Sarris
Mathematics Faculty, BHSEC Queens
B.A., Smith College; M.Ph., Ph.D., Economics, Yale University; M.A., Math Education, Hunter College. Taught Economics at Boston University; taught mathematics at the High School of Economics & Finance in NYC. Worked more than 12 years at AT&T and AT&T Bell Laboratories, doing mathematical and economic modeling in support of telecommunications pricing.
E-mail: vsarris@bhsec.bard.edu
Phone: 718-361-3133

Jonathan Schwartz
Social Studies Faculty, BHSEC Queens
PhD, Cultural Anthropology, University of Virginia; BA, Cultural Anthropology, St. Lawrence University. Senior Analyst, National Association of County and City Health Officials, 1997-2009; taught Anthropology and Sociology at Montgomery College, 1993-1997; Mount Vernon College, 1995-1996; member of American Association of Anthropologists. Awarded a Research Grant from the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, 1994-1995. Dupont Fellowship from the University of Virginia, 1993. Co-developer of Protocol for Assessing Community Excellence in Environmental Health (PACE EH), a guidebook for local health officials designed to support community-based environmental health assessment. Co-author of Tuuram (Deakin University Press 1995), a book detailing the ecological, aboriginal and colonial history of the Hopkins River Estuary near Warrnambool, Victoria, in Australia. Research interests include the maintenance and re-construction of aboriginal land relations among relatively "urbanized" indigenous communities and widely accepted notions about the constitution of "aboriginality" and the role "traditional practices" play in contemporary aboriginal political contexts.
E-mail: jschwartz@bhsec.bard.edu
Phone: 718-361-3133

Jordan Shapiro
Social Studies Faculty, BHSEC Queens
B.A., Columbia College; M.P.A., Princeton University; Ph.D., African History, University of Michigan. Taught history at the University of Michigan; University of Oregon; University of California, San Marcos; Queens College (CUNY); and Yeshiva University High School for Boys.
E-mail: jshapiro@bhsec.bard.edu
Phone: 718-361-3133

Daisy Sharaf
Physics Faculty, BHSEC Queens
B.A. St. John's College, Santa Fe. M.S. University of Chicago, Physics. Graduate Study, University of California, Santa Cruz, Physics. New York City Teaching Fellow, 2005-2008. Physics teacher at DeWitt Clinton High School from 2005 to 2010. Interests include non-linear dynamics and the history of science.
E-mail: dsharaf@bhsec.bard.edu
Phone: 718-361-3133

Patricia Sharpe
Dean of Studies, Literature Faculty, BHSEC Queens and Elizabeth Blodgett Hall Chair in Literature, Bard College at Simon's Rock
B.A., Barnard College; Ph.D., The University of Texas. Dean of Academic Affairs at Simon's Rock, 1993-2005; helped found Bard High School Early College in Manhattan, 2001-03; associate of Bard's Institute for Writing and Thinking; faculty member in English, The University of Michigan, 1972-1983, where she earned the class of 1923 Award for Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching. Grants from the American Council of Learned Societies; National Endowment for the Humanities; and the Fulbright Program. Her writing is included in Time for Change: New Visions for High School (2006); Anthropology and Literature (University of Illinois Press, 1993); Gender and Scientific Authority (University of Chicago Press, 1996); Making Worlds: Gender, Metaphor, Materiality (University of Arizona, 1998);International Studies: Meeting the Challenge of Globalization (Greenwood Publishing Group, 1998); and Tattoo, Torture, Mutilation and Adornment: The Denaturalization of the Body in Culture and Text (State University of New York Press, 1992, co-edited with Frances E. Mascia-Lees). Co-author, with Frances E. Mascia-Lees , Taking a Stand in a Post-Feminist World: Toward an Engaged Cultural Criticism (SUNY Press, 2000).
Phone: 718-361-3133

Valeri Thomson
Founding Principal, BHSEC Queens
B.A., Bard College; M.A., Ed.M., M.Ph., Ph.D., Columbia University. Director of Immediate Science Research Opportunity Program at Bard College, 1998-2007; research scientist at Rockefeller University; visiting faculty in Bard's Master of Arts in Teaching Program; associate of Bard's Institute for Thinking and Writing. Articles published in Journal of Bacteriology, Journal of Molecular Biology, and Plasmid. Primary research interests include factors underlying pathogenesis of Mycobacterium tuberculosis; and development expression of the neuronal NMDA receptor in zebrafish.
E-mail: thomson@bard.edu
Phone: 718-361-3133

Meng-Ping Tu
Science Faculty, BHSEC Queens
B.S., and M.S. Entomology, National Taiwan University; Ph.D., Entomology, University of Massachusetts-Amherst. Associate Research Scientist at Columbia University Medical Center from 2007-2009. Taught at UMass-Amherst; mentored undergraduate research at UMass, Brown University, and Columbia University. Publications include Nature, Science, Aging Cell, General and Comparative Endocrinology, BioEssays, Journal of Morphology, and Journal of Insect Physiology. Primary research interests focus on nutrition sensing pathways, and effects of these pathways on developmental and aging processes in animals.
E-mail: mtu@bhsec.bard.edu
E-mail: tu@bard.edu
Phone: 718-361-3133

Anne Turyn
Visual Arts Faculty, BHSEC Queens
B.F.A. Antioch College, Fine Arts; M.F.A. S.U.N.Y. Buffalo in Fine Arts/Photography; M.A. C.U.N.Y. Graduate Center in Linguistics. Exhibitions include Museum of Modern Art, NY; Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC; Denver Art Museum; Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston; George Eastman House, Rochester, NY; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Los Angeles County Museum; the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; and The New Museum, NY. Has written/published Missives, Alfred van der Marck Editions, 1985, Top Top Stories, City Lights Publishers, 1991. Publisher and editor of Top Stories, a prose periodical (1979-1991). Taught at Pratt Institute, School of Visual Arts, Cooper Union, Bard College, California Institute of the Arts, S.U.N.Y Purchase. Awards include 1994 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, 1991; Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation Fellowship, 1990; Art Matters, Inc. Grant, 1988; New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, 1986; and the New Face in Fine Art Photography Award from American Photographer magazine. Interests include photography, artists' books, language.
E-mail: aturyn@bhsec.bard.edu
Phone: 718-361-3133

Stefan Weisman
Music Faculty, BHSEC Queens
B.A., Bard College; M.M, Music, Yale University; Ph.D., Music, Princeton University. Taught at Princeton University, The Juilliard School's Music Advancement Program, and The City College of New York. Music released by Albany Records and New Amsterdam Records. Resident Artist at the HERE Arts Center, where he is developing an evening length chamber opera. For more see: www.stefanweisman.com
E-mail: sweisman@bhsec.bard.edu
Phone: 718-361-3133 x6636

Marina Woronzoff
Faculty in Literature and Learning Commons Coordinator, BHSEC Queens
B.A., French and Russian, Smith College; Ph.D. Russian Literature, Yale University, M.A. Slavic Languages and Literatures (specializing in linguistics); recipient of Giles Whiting Fellowship in the Humanities and Edward H. Butler Fellowship; taught Russian language at Sarah Lawrence College, Russian language and literature at Yale University; published on Anna Akhmatova, worked as editor and writer for edf.org and non-profit foundations preserving Russian culture and history; translator and contributor for New York Review of Books Blog; research interests include feminist criticism, gender theory, Russian women poets.
E-mail: mworonzoff@bhsec.bard.edu
Phone: 718-361-3133 x6942

Pirronne Yousefzadeh
Theatre Faculty, BHSEC Queens
B.A., English & Theatre, Washington University in St. Louis; M.F.A., Directing, Columbia University School of the Arts. A director of new and devised plays, Yousefzadeh's work has been seen at Playwrights Horizons (Samuel French Festival), The Public/Joe's Pub, Soho Rep, Ars Nova, The Cherry Pit, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Milwaukee Repertory Theater, Hangar Theatre, Walnut Street Theatre, and Power Plant Productions. Assistantships with directors including Anne Bogart, Tina Landau, Leigh Silverman, Anne Kauffman, Aaron Posner, Kip Fagan, and Eleanor Holdridge. 2006-2007 Shubert Presidential Fellow, Columbia University; 2006 Drama League Directing Fellow; Alumna, Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab; Recipient, 2010-2011 New York Theatre Workshop Emerging Artist of Color Fellowship; and Member, Old Vic/New Voices Network. Continues to train in Suzuki and Viewpoints with SITI Company. Please visit her website at www.pirronne.com.
E-mail: pyousefzadeh@bhsec.bard.edu
Phone: 718-361-3133