Our Faculty

Adrian Agredo

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B.A., Bennington College; M.A.T., Bennington College. Has designed and taught extracurricular programming in poetry for At-Risk students as a resident teaching artist in seven NYC public schools; Coordinated the Bard Early College Academy (2010-2016); Fellow of The Academy For Teachers. Teaching and academic interests include 20th century American poetry, gender in literature, semiotics and street art as cultural signifier.
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Nasim Almuntaser

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Carly Arpaio

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B.S., Physical Education, CUNY Queens College. M.A. in Adapted Physical Education, Adelphi University. Physical Education Teacher at BHSEC, 2013-present.
Phone: 212-995-8479 x2222

Ayse B. Aydemir

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B.S., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University, Biological Sciences. Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Columbia University; Adjunct Assistant Professor, Fordham University; Assistant Professor of Biology, Bard High School Early College. Awarded Alice L. Jee Memorial Young Investigator Award from the International Bone Mineral Society for research on bone cell differentiation. Has published peer-reviewed scientific articles in theJournal of Biological Chemistry, Journal of Cellular Biochemistry, BONE and a book chapter in the Biomedical Engineering Handbook (CRC Press, 2006). Research interests include bone cell differentiation, bone mechanotransduction, and inflammatory bone loss.
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Stewart Bachan

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B.S., University of The West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad. M.Phil., The Graduate Center, CUNY. Ph.D., The Graduate Center and Hunter College, CUNY, Chemistry (Organic Chemistry sub-discipline). Postdoctoral Research Associate, Research Foundation, CUNY; Adjunct Assistant Professor, Hunter College, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York City College of Technology and New York Institute of Technology. Has published peer-reviewed research articles in the following journals: Organic Letters, Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, and Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry.
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Kyung Cho

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B.A., Vassar College; M.F.A., University of Iowa. Has taught literature and creative writing at University of Iowa; Borough of Manhattan Community College; and School of Visual Arts.
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Rachel Cho

B.A. St. John’s University; M.A. St. John’s University. Undergraduate research included Neural Plasticity for Speech Processing and A Treatment Study of Children with ASD Using Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation. Obtained her bilingual extension in Korean and has previously worked with multilingual individuals in a number of settings including clinic, elementary, middle, and high school. Has experience with pediatrics and adults diagnosed with a variety of disorders including Autism Spectrum Disorder, Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, as well as Articulation/Phonological and Receptive/Expressive Language Disorders and Delays.

Lydia Crouse

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Lydia received her B.F.A from Herron School of Design in 2018 and her M.F.A from Parsons School of Design in 2020 where she was the receiver of the Oscar Kolin MFA Fellowship. Her visual art practice focuses on painting fictional narratives. She explores topics from her everyday utilizing painting, drawing, and writing to render scenes of fiction in hopes of eliciting the critical imagination of viewers. Lydia has taught at The School of Mindful Education at Springboard Network Inc, The Wheeler Mission, and assisted at Parsons School of Design. Her work has been previously exhibited at Susan Eley Fine Art, and Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen galleries in NYC. She has also exhibited in Brooklyn with ZXY Gallery, Medium Rare Art, and Bushwick Open Studios. She is published in OyeDrum Magazine, Not Real Art online, and Studio Visit Magazine Volume 52.

Edward Curran

Language Faculty, BHSEC Manhattan
B.A., Winthrop University; M.A., University of North Carolina at Charlotte; Ph.D., Cornell University. Has taught at Cornell University and the University of Evansville. Research and teaching interests include 20th century Spanish film, photography, literature, and culture; photography theory and visual literacy; feminist, gender, and sexuality studies. Is deeply invested in project-based learning. While at Cornell, was awarded the Buttrick-Crippen Fellowship from the Knight Institute for developing an object-based writing seminar at the Johnson Museum of Art, which culminated in a student-curated photography exhibition of works from the collection. Served as the Director for the Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies program at the University of Evansville, where he designed a course on queer theory and activism in which students utilized critical frameworks to identify, evaluate, and address disparities affecting the LGBTQ+ community on campus through student-led improvement projects.
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Chance Dean

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Arts Faculty

B.A., University of Southern California; M.F.A., Acting, Temple University. Assistant Professor of Acting and Directing/Technical Director at Riverside City College. As a director and fight choreographer, Chance has collaborated on projects with South Coast Repertory, Segerstrom Center for the Arts, The Chance Theatre, Pomona College, Norco College, Azuka Theatre Collective, Mauckingbird Theatre, among others. He has appeared regionally in productions at The Old Globe, South Coast Rep, The Arden Theater, Actors Theater Phoenix, Philadelphia Shakespeare Company, Hedgerow Theatre, Oval Theater London and Edinburgh Fringe. As an educator he is focused on bringing contemporary, socially responsible theatrical productions to life.

Nisha Dhariwal

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BS, Punjabi University Patiala India, MS (Physics), Punjabi University, Patiala India; MTech (Nanoscience and Nanotechnology), Panjab University, Chandigarh, India; Ph.D. (Molecular Science and Nanotechnology), Louisiana Tech University, US. Peer- reviewed publications in Applied Surface Science, Materials & Design, Journal of Luminescence and a book chapter in Nanotechnology: Novel Perspectives and Prospects, McGraw Hill Education India, 2015. Lecturer of Chemistry at Grambling State University (2022-2024). Research Focus on Synthesis and Characterization of organic nanomaterials, Molecular Modeling and simulation, Computational chemistry, Density Functional Theory

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Alayna Dorobek

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B.A. with Honors, Case Western Reserve University, Biology; M.S. The Ohio State University, Fisheries and Wildlife Science; M.A., Teachers College, Columbia University, Science Education. Prior to teaching, worked as a research and teaching assistant at The Ohio State University. Research focused on the impacts of human disturbances on freshwater ecosystems using a variety of field and lab techniques including fish and invertebrate identification, water quality sampling, and stable isotope analysis. Has published and presented results on the impacts of urban dam removal on riverine food webs. Has worked with undergraduate students in courses like natural resource management, fish biology, religion and the environment, and supported students to design and conduct their research capstone projects. High school teaching experience includes Regents Living Environment and Earth & Space Science as well as supporting students in the IB program

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Ursula N. Embola

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B.A., University of Buea; M.A., Manhattanville College; M.Phil., Drew University; Ph.D., Drew University. Has taught at Bard College, Manhattanville College, Mercy College, Montclair State University, and Westchester Community College. Recognized with Excellence in Adjunct Instruction Award by Mercy College. Teaching and research interests include Literatures of the African Diaspora, as well as English Composition.
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Jake Fernberg

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Ohio State University, Majored in English with Minors in History and Professional Writing. MScEd, Long Island University: Teaching Urban Adolescents w/ Disabilities (Secondary). Graduate studies focused on leveraging open-ended discussion in the math classroom. Former special education faculty at James Madison High School and City Polytechnic High School of Engineering, Architecture and Technology.

Daniel Freund

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B.A., Reed College; Ph.D., Columbia University. Instructor and Writing Center Fellow at Columbia University, 2001-2007. Academic and research interests include urban, public health; and environmental history.
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Fang Fu

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A.A., Fuzhou Teachers College, China; B.A., M.A., M.Ed., Columbia University; Ed.D. candidate, Columbia University. Teaching associate at Chinese Language Program at Columbia University; adjunct lecturer at City College and Baruch College, CUNY. Specializes in bilingual/bicultural education and international educational development. Areas of interest include modern Chinese literature and language.
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Denice Gamper

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B.S., St. Joseph’s College; M.S., St. John’s University. Instructor of science at Bishop Kearney High School, Brooklyn, 1980-2001. Awards include research fellowship for high school science teachers in medicinal chemistry, St. John’s University; research fellowship for high school science teachers in neurobiology, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University.
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Jesse Garcés Kiley

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B.A. University of Wisconsin-Madison; M.F.A. in Poetry/Creative Writing from Columbia University. Has taught Creative Writing and Composition at Columbia University, and as a bilingual elementary teacher in various schools across the country. Poetry has appeared in Oranges and Sardines.
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Ferzileta Gjika

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Joseph E. Gubbay

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B.A., Tufts University; J.D., New York University. Appointed to the New York Criminal Court in 1999. Appointed to the Supreme Court, Criminal Term 2004. Presiding Judge, Screening Treatment Enhancement Part for chemically dependent and dually diagnosed defendants charged with non-violent felonies (2004-2012); Presiding Judge Adolescent Diversion Part (2012); Presiding Judge Brooklyn Treatment Court (2016-present).

Julia Guerra

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B.A. American University; M.A. University of Maryland.  Has worked in higher education administration and teaching for University of Maryland, University of Phoenix, Maryland College of Art and Design, Berkeley College and has taught Spanish at BHSEC Manhattan since 2006. Teaching and research interests include Pre-Columbian mythology and religion, gang warfare modern in Latin America and race and ethnicity in Colonial Latin America. Fellow of The Academy for Teachers,  Bard Early College Fellow and Inaugural Chair of the Spanish program for the Early College Network.
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Arturo Hale

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B.Sc., Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Mexico City, Chemical Engineering; Ph.D., University of Minnesota, Chemical Engineering; M.A.,Teachers College, Columbia University, Science Education. Worked many years as a research scientist at Bell Laboratories and OFS Labs in the areas of polymers science, fiber optics, holographic data storage and microelectronics. Involved in science mentoring programs for high school and college students. Holds twenty-four U.S. patents; published three invited book chapters and over thirty scientific articles. Awards include R&D 100 Award for the development of Tapestry Holographic Recording Media. Courses taught include Thermal Analysis of Thermosetting Polymers, Physics with Calculus, Conceptual Physics, 9th-Grade Physics, High School Chemistry, Science of Light and Color, and Physics of Sound and Music.
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William H. Hinrichs

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A.B., Princeton University; Ph.D., Yale University. Has taught at St. Mark’s School, the Taft School, Yale University and BHSEC Queens. Publications include The Invention of the Sequel: Expanding Prose Fiction in Early Modern Spain (2011). Teaching and research interests include literature and culture of 16th- and 17th-century Spain, flash fiction, and concepts of authorship and authorial property.
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Zachary Holbrook

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B.A., Bard College; Ph.D., New York University; Post-doctoral Lecturer, New York University; Peterson Visiting Professor, BHSEC Manhattan. Research interests include British Romanticism, pastoral poetry, and fantasy.
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Adeodat W. Ilboudo

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B.S. in Cellular Biology and Physiology, University of Western Brittany (France), M.Sc in Fundamental and Applied Microbiology, University of Western Brittany (France). PhD in Biology and Health Sciences, University of Rennes 1 (France). Adjunct lecturer, University of Rennes 1. Postdoctoral researcher, Hunter College, New York. Academic and research interests include cancer health disparities, especially in prostate cancer, the mechanisms of metastasis in solid tumors, and Hepatitis B among first generation immigrants in the USA.
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Lee D. Johnson

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B.A., University of California, Berkeley; Doctoral Candidate, Yale University. Program supervisor at Smolny College, St. Petersburg, Russia, 2003; visiting assistant professor at Bard College, 2002-03; teaching assistant at Yale, 1995, 1998, 2000-01. Specializes in Slavic languages and literature.
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Michael Karelis

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B.A. Communications, Goucher College. M.S.Ed. Physical Education, Brooklyn College. PhysEd Partner Teacher, NYC Teaching Collaborative. Professional affiliations: Society of Health and Physical Educators and NYS Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance. Prior media production experience: Dir. of Video Production, National Video Editor, Video Producer, and Video Journalist. Personal and professional interests: physical literacy, adaptive physical education, media arts, ASL, travel, biking, frisbee, volleyball, and music.

Maureen Kelly

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B.A. Cornell University, M.A. University of Colorado at Boulder, Ph.D. University of Chicago. Taught at the University of Chicago in the Divinity School and the College. Awards include the George Lurcy Research Fellowship (BnF Paris), Anthony Yu Dissertation Fellowship, FLAS Fellowship, and Alma Wilson Teaching Fellowship. Publications appear in Theory Now and postmedieval. Current research projects are monograph Truth Games: the Confessions of Augustine and Rousseau, and Martyr: Economies of Pain, Power, and Truth-telling in Early Christianity. Research interests are Foucault, epistemology, political history of truth, history of Western thought, religion, secularism, continental philosophy, gender and sexuality studies, rhetoric, autobiography and self-writing. Courses include Pain, Truth, and Justice; History of Sexuality and Sin; Religion, Writing, and Revolution; Genealogy of Confession; and Enlightenment Philosophy and the French Revolution.

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Michael Lerner

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B.A., Columbia University; Ph.D., New York University. Has taught at Barnard College, NYU; New School University; and Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota. Awards include Best Dissertation in Urban History, Urban History Association. Publications include Dry Manhattan: Prohibition in New York City (2007). Teaching and research interests include 20th-century United States society and politics, American reform movements, popular culture, and U.S.-Pacific relations.
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Cindy Li

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B.A., New York University; M.A., New York University; MSED Hunter College.
Undergraduate research included South Korean popular culture, ecocities, and E-sports. Graduate studies focused on Black and Asian American masculinities in hip hop, and special education services for diverse adolescent populations. Previous editorial work for Generasian, a side of rice, West 10th, The Social and Cultural Analysis Journal, Asian American Writers’ Workshop, and Thieme Medical Publishers.
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Eva Li

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Steven V. Mazie

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Social Studies Faculty

Steven Mazie received his A.B. (magna cum laude) from Harvard College (Government) and Ph.D. from the University of Michigan (Political Science); and completed postgraduate work at Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He has taught at Bard College, New York University, and the University of Michigan. Honors include American Political Science Association Best Paper Award in Religion and Politics; Charlotte C. Newcombe Fellowship; National Science Foundation research grant; Raoul Wallenberg Scholarship and three awards for teaching excellence. He is the author of American Justice 2015: The Dramatic Tenth Term of the Roberts Court (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015) and Israel’s Higher Law: Religion and Liberal Democracy in the Jewish State (Rowman & Littlefield/Lexington Books, 2006). He is the Supreme Court correspondent for The Economist (2013-present) and has published op-eds in the New York Times, Washington Post, Boston Globe, SCOTUSblog, Slate, Time Magazine and The Atlantic. He has appeared on radio, television (CBS News, MSNBC, C-SPAN) and podcasts including The Intelligence, Checks and Balance, Apple News Today, Supreme Myths, Strict Scrutiny and Passing Judgment.

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Drew Miller

B.S. Health Education and Physical Education, East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania; M.Ed. Human Sexuality Education Candidate, Widener University. Has experience teaching physical education and health education in both rural and urban settings. His teaching and research interests include K-12 sexuality education, affective learning, LGBTQ safety and inclusivity, and holistic health education. As a part of BHSEC, Mr. Miller and the ninth grade class of 2018 were the first school in the country to pilot “Safety First: Real Drug Education for High School Students”, a harm-reduction curriculum.

Julie Mirwis

B.S. University of Maryland, College Park; MSED Brooklyn College. Undergraduate degree in Family Studies. Graduate focus in adolescent special education. Previously taught special education at the High School of Economics and Finance.

Clare Nolan

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B.A., Bard College. M.S.L.I.S., LMS Concentration, Pratt Institute. Services Librarian at the Gottesman Libraries at Teachers College, Columbia University, 2015-2017. Research interests include information literacy, media literacy, speculative fiction, and comics.
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Kinga Novak

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B.A., University of Washington; M.A., New York University; Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley. Lecturer in History at UC Berkeley and Cal State East Bay; Instructor in Spanish at NYU. Awards include a Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Award (Mexico, 2008-2009) and a Fulbright-García Robles Student Grant (Mexico, 2000-2001). Manuscript-in-progress is entitled Of Gratitude and Sorrow: A Visual History of Everyday Mexican Spirituality. Teaching and research interests include Latin American history, religion, popular culture, and social movements.
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Brian Pew

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Melanie Pflaum

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A.B., Bryn Mawr College; M.A. and M.Ed., Columbia Teachers College. Has taught at Brooklyn Friends School, John Jay High School, Costa Rica Academy, Middle College High School at LaGuardia, Hunter College High School, Academy for Young Writers, LaGuardia High School of the Arts.  Awards include the Sarah D. Barder Fellowship for teaching from Johns Hopkins University. Interests include the intersection of math and social justice and the use of challenging or open ended problems to discover every student’s mathematical strengths.
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Heidi Reich

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A.B., Russian language and literature, Dartmouth College; A.M., Russian language and literature, Stanford University; A.M., Slavic languages and literatures, Columbia University; Ph.D., mathematics education, Teachers College, Columbia University.
Math for America (MFA) Master Teacher Fellowship Grant, 2005 – present. Taught mathematics at LaGuardia High School and Center for Talented Youth and mathematics education at Steinhardt School of Education, NYU. Research interests include the relationship between mathematics content and classroom discourse, alternative assessment and its effect on traditionally underrepresented groups in mathematics, providing equitable access to education to all NYC public school students, and the development of a rigorous definition of “rigor.”
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Linnea Reyes-LaMon

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A.A. Bard High School Early College; B.A. Carnegie Mellon University, Global Studies; B.S. Carnegie Mellon University, Mathematical Sciences; M.A.T. Bard College, Mathematics. Math for America (MƒA) Early Career Fellow, 2014 – 2018; MƒA Master Teacher Fellowship, 2018 – present. Taught mathematics at Beacon High School and El Puente Academy for Peace and Justice. Research and teaching interests include discrete mathematics, geometry of musical rhythms, ethnomathematics, alternative assessments and grading systems.

Petra Riviere

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B.A., Haverford College. M.A., New York University. Education Program Associate, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, 2001-2006. Member (2003 – 2006) & workshop co-presenter (2006), New York City Museum Educator’s Roundtable. Published articles in The Bronx Museum’s permanent collection catalog, Collection Remixed (2005). Board member, Riverview Lighthouse Charter School (2005 – 2006). NEH Summer Institute participant, 2008 & 2010. Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History Teacher Seminar participant, 2009. Taught at Urban Assembly Academy of History & Citizenship for Young Men, an all-boys public high school (2006 – 2011).
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Zangwill (Sam) Rosenbaum

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B.S., M.A., Brooklyn College; M.A., Pennsylvania State University; Ph.D., Rutgers University. Publications have appeared in Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications; Discrete Applied Mathematics; Mathematical Social Sciences; IEEE Transactions on Education; and Aequationes Mathematicae. Research interests include discrete mathematics; mathematical modeling in the social sciences; and Computerized Adaptive Testing (CAT).
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Gabriel Rosenberg

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B.A., Rice University; Ph.D., Columbia University. Served as NSF/Gibbs Instructor at Yale University. Has given invited talks at Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Brown; Rutgers; and Harvard; as well as the Albany Group Theory Conference. Research has focused on the subject of group actions on trees.
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Brahim Rouabah

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B.A. Middlesex University; MSc. London School of Economics and Political Science, MPhil and Ph.D. Candidacy, The Graduate Center, The Graduate Center, City University of New York. Taught at Brooklyn College and Guttman College, CUNY. Teaching and Research interests include Middle Eastern Studies and Arabic literature; Decolonial Theory; social movements; colonialism, capitalism and Middle East and North African politics. Publications have appeared in such publications as The Journal of Middle East Law and Governance, The Review of African Political Economy, Jadaliyya, and Africa is a Country.

Alex Seoh

Science Faculty, BHSEC Manhattan
B.A., Mathematical Physics, Brown University; M.A.T., Science Education, Relay Graduate School of Education. Previously taught AP Physics 1, AP Physics C, and AP Art History at the Bronx High School of Science before joining BHSEC in 2022. Awards include: Math for America (MfA) Master Teacher grant, 2021-present; MfA Early Career grant, 2017-2021. Interests include the philosophy of science, metaphysics, and the history of American liberalism and its influence on public education.

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Joseph Stern

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B.A., summa cum laude, Philosophy and Mathematics, Queens College CUNY;
M.A. with Distinction, Pure Mathematics, Queens College CUNY; Completed
coursework toward Mathematics PhD, Columbia University; non-degree
coursework in mathematics and finance at Imperial College London. British
Marshall Scholar, 1999. Math for America Master Teacher Fellow, 2005-2009
and 2014-2022. Edyth May Sliffe Award for Distinguished High School
Mathematics Teaching, Mathematical Association of America, 2004 and 2008.
Stuyvesant High School Department of Mathematics, 2003-2009 and 2013-
2024. Journal articles appear in the American Mathematical Monthly, Graph
Theory Notes of New York, Forum Geometricorum. Main area of study:
complex geometry, global analysis. Other academic interests: quantum
mechanics, quantum field theory, C*-algebras, relativity, quantum logic,
alternative logics, foundations of mathematics, modern triangle geometry,
philosophy, linguistics. Lives in New Jersey with his wife and two children.

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Christine Szeto

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B.A., University of California, Berkeley; MSEd, Long Island University. Undergraduate degree in Mass Communications and Political Science. Graduate focus in urban adolescents with disabilities and social studies. Previously taught special education and social studies at High School of Graphic Communication Arts, High School of Economics and Finance, It Takes a Village Academy from 2010-2018. Returning to New York after teaching Language and Literature at Fundación Colegio Americano Quito, an International Baccalaureate Programme school in Ecuador.

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Melissa S. Turoff

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B.A. Vassar College; M.A. University of California, Berkeley; finishing her Ph.D. in History at the University of California, Berkeley.  Has been part-time faculty at the Gallatin School of Individualized Study (NYU), at Rutgers University, has taught at LaGuardia Community College and was the Outreach Associate and Guest Lecturer at Columbia University’s South Asia Institute. Her teaching and research interests focus on the history of British Empire, modern South Asia, comparative imperialism in South Asia and the Middle East, and postcolonial theory.
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Verónica Vallejo

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B.A., University of Scranton; M.A. Georgetown University; Doctoral Candidate, Georgetown University. Instructor at Georgetown University, 2007-2010. Research interests include the history of Latin America, New Spain in the eighteenth century and the social history of medicine. Member of the American Historical Association, Latin American Studies Association and the Canadian Association of Latin American and Caribbean Studies.
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Ryan Vera

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Audrey Wallace

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B.A. Oberlin College; M.A. and Ph.D., Bryn Mawr College. Worked with students studying ancient languages, Athenian philosophy and history, and tracing aesthetic ideals from early sculpture to modern architecture. Research interests include female agency, authorial voice and rhetoric, Ovidian love poetry, Plato’s characterization of Socrates and the sophists, and reinterpretations of myth.
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Nicholas Weber

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B.B.A., Management Baruch College; M.A. Criminal Justice, University of Cincinnati; MS.e.D. Special Education, City College of New York; M.A. Forensic Psychology, John Jay College of Criminal Justice; M.S. Educational Administration, Mercy College; MPA John Jay College of Criminal Justice. He holds a doctorate from Johns Hopkins University where he specialized in research involving the intersection of K-12 education, queer theory, and transgender studies. Prior to his teaching at Bard, he taught at Murry Bergtraum for six years, and at over three dozen public schools on the Kindergarten through 12th grade levels as an Ambassador Teacher on Rotation. His current research interests involve economics, queer studies, educational access in New York City, and cultural anthropology. He has consulted for a variety of Fortune 500 corporations, multinational non-profits, research universities, and several G20 nations.

Peter Weinberg

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BA Bard College, PhD Columbia University. Has taught both undergraduate and graduate level biology courses at Columbia University during predoctoral training, and has worked in the biotech and technology industries, most recently as a computational biologist working on questions of drug targeting. Research interests include the evolution of consciousness, the genetic regulation of neural development, and artificial intelligence. Publications appear in Genetics, Current Biology and eLife.

Samantha White

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B.A. Lafayette College; MSED Hunter College. Undergraduate degree in Psychology and Women & Gender Studies. Graduate focus in adolescent special education in all core content areas. Previously taught general and special education mathematics at Belmont Preparatory High School in the Bronx from 2011-2017.

Pablo Pérez Wilson

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B.A. Universidad ARCIS; M.A. and Ph.D. Cornell University. Has taught at Duke University, Cornell University, Columbia University, City University of New York – Baruch College, and Speyer Legacy School. His teaching and research focus on modern Latin American and Iberian literature, intellectual history, and critical social theory, and address questions of secularization and capitalism.

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Yuri Zavlanov

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M.A., Chemistry, Queens College (CUNY); B.A., Chemistry, Queens College (CUNY).

Email: [email protected]

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Matthew Zimbelmann

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B.A., Anthropology, Binghamton University and Universidad de Sevilla; B.A. Music, City College of New York; M.A. Composition of Music, The Aaron Copland School of Music, Queens College. Has songs in the network TV series Friday Night Lights and Hart of Dixie,the feature film The Watch, the documentary film Beyond Laughter and Tears, among others. Songwriting and production credits on The Old Nationals (2005) and The Concentrics’ Before All This (2015). Composed a series of chamber works, View from the Bluff (2001-2009). Performance credit on the Sony Pictures Classics feature Manny and Lo score written by John Lurie, conducted by Steven Bernstein. Studied with David Del Tredici, Hubert Howe, David Tronzo, David Fuiczynski, Captain Rich, and Black Diamond. Interests include nature, history, highbrow/lowbrow, strange sounds, and the pursuit of the perfect song.