Abby Anderton
Abby Anderton is an Associate Professor of Music at Baruch College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Her work centers on performance and Holocaust testimony, female composers, and post-catastrophic music making. Anderton’s publications have appeared in the German Studies Review, Journal of Musicological Research, Twentieth-Century Music, and Music and Politics. Her research has received support from the Fulbright Commission, the Holocaust Educational Foundation, the Eugene Lang Foundation, the American Musicological Society, and the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). Her current book project, Audible Testimonies, explores the music of female Holocaust survivors in postwar Germany.
Isolina Ballesteros
Isolina Ballesteros is Professor at the Department of Modern Languages and Comparative Literature and the Film Studies Program of Baruch College, and the Latin American, Iberian and Latino Cultures Program of the Graduate Center of CUNY. Her teaching focuses on Iberian cultural studies (19th and 20th century literature and film), comparative literature, migration cinema, and Spanish and European cinema. She has published extensively about Spanish and Latin American women writers, the image of women in the post-Franco literature, the cultural memory of the Spanish Civil War, and Spanish and European cinema. She is the author of three books: Escritura femenina y discurso autobiográfico en la nueva novela española (1994), Cine (Ins)Urgente: textos fílmicos y contextos culturales de la España postfranquista (2001), and Immigration Cinema in the New Europe (2015). She is currently working on a book titled Europe’s Migration Crisis, Visual and Performing Art, and Activism.
Katherine Behar
Katherine Behar is an interdisciplinary artist and critical theorist of new media. Mixing low and high technologies, she makes hybrid forms that embody intersections of gender, race, and class in contemporary digital labor. Behar’s artwork is exhibited throughout North America and Europe and held in private collections. Behar writes and lectures widely on her work and object-oriented feminism, decelerationist aesthetics, and artificial ignorance (terms she coined in 2010, 2012, and 2018, respectively). She is the editor of Object-Oriented Feminism (University of Minnesota Press, 2016), coeditor of And Another Thing: Nonanthropocentrism and Art (Punctum Books, 2016), and author of Bigger than You: Big Data and Obesity (Punctum Books, 2016). Her writing has been translated into Turkish, Portuguese, Russian, Lithuanian, and Spanish. She is Associate Professor of New Media Arts at Baruch College and the CUNY Graduate Center.
Sarah Bengston
I am a behavioral ecologist and evolutionary biologist, generally interested in how repeatable behavioral variation between individuals, colonies, populations and species affect evolutionary processes. I am particularly interested in the evolution of new life history strategies and ecological speciation. Prior to joining the faculty at CUNY Baruch College, I was a Huxley Faculty Fellow at Rice University, and a NSF Postdoctoral Fellow (2015-2017) in the lab of Christian Rabeling at the University of Rochester (now at Arizona State University). I received my PhD in EEB and Entomology from the University of Arizona (2010-2015) under the guidance of Anna Dornhaus. I earned my BcS in EEB from the University of Tennessee where I was also a member of Susan Riechert‘s lab.
Karanja Carroll
Karanja Keita Carroll, Ph.D. is currently a faculty member in the Department of Black & Latinx Studies at Baruch College (CUNY). His teaching and research interests revolve around African-centered theory & methodology, with an emphasis on social, political and psychological theory. Dr. Carroll considers himself an African-centered social theorist who is thoroughly committed to the African-centered imperative, one that is grounded in the creation and utilization of culturally-specific frameworks in order to understand and create solutions for humanity. As an advocate of Prison Education, Dr. Carroll has also taught, held workshops and/or lectured in SCI-Chester, Shawangunk (NYSDOC), Sullivan (NYDOC) and Brookwood Secure Center (NYSDJJOY). Dr. Carroll is an organizer with the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement, North East Political Prisoner Coalition and Black Alliance for Peace. Dr. Carroll is fundamentally committed to “academic excellence and social responsibility” as originally articulated by the National Council for Black Studies. You can follow him on Twitter @KaranjaKeita.
David Cruz De Jesus
David Cruz de Jesús is Deputy Chair and an Associate Professor of Spanish Language and Linguistics. He holds a B.A. in Spanish and Portuguese, an M.A. in Spanish and a Ph.D. in Hispanic Linguistics from The University at Albany, SUNY. He also received additional graduate training from the Instituto de Cooperación Iberoamericana and its Escuela de Investigación Lingüística y Literaria in Madrid, Spain. His areas of research, interests and publications are in the fields of Hispanic Linguistics, General Linguistics, Puerto Rican Dialectology and Lexicology, Heritage Language Education, Foreign Language Pedagogy, and Second Language Acquisition.
Adrian Dumitru
Adrian Dumitru received his PhD in physics from the Institute for Theoretical Physics at Frankfurt University, Germany, in fall of 1997. He was a postdoctoral research scientist at Yale University from 04/1998 to 09/1999. This was followed by two postdoc positions at Columbia University in New York (1999-2001) and at Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long Island (2001-2002). From 01/2003 until 07/2008 he held a position as Assistant Professor at the ITP, Frankfurt University before joining the Department of Natural Sciences at Baruch in august 2008. Until Aug. 2013 he was simultaneously appointed Associate Professor at Baruch College and a fellow of the RIKEN/BNL research center. He is since a Professor of Physics at Baruch College.
Elizabeth Edenberg
Elizabeth Edenberg is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Baruch College. She specializes in political philosophy, political epistemology, and the ethics of technology. Her teaching and research seek to leverage philosophical tools to navigate contemporary moral challenges and injustices we face as a society today. Her research in political philosophy and political epistemology focuses on adapting Rawlsian political liberalism to better secure justice for marginalized populations, while navigating the deep disagreements that characterize politics today. Her research in the ethics of technology investigates questions of justice, fairness, and discrimination in algorithmic systems. Prior to joining Baruch College, Elizabeth was Senior Ethicist at Georgetown University’s Ethics Lab where she led efforts to integrate ethics into courses across the university and partnered with public impact projects seeking to make practical progress on complex moral issues.
Benjamin Gillespie
Benjamin Gillespie (he/him) is Lecturer in the Department of Communication Studies at Baruch College where he teaches professional communication, gender and media studies, and performance studies. He received his PhD in Theatre & Performance from The Graduate Center CUNY. His dissertation focused on the later works of the lesbian-feminist company Split Britches and was awarded the 2022 Monette-Horwitz Prize from CLAGS: Center for LGBTQ Studies. His broader research explores the intersection of aging, gender, and sexual identity in modern and contemporary theatre, drama, and performance. He is especially interested in expanding scholarly discourse on intergenerational LGBTQ community exchange and challenging heteronormative assumptions of aging and the life course. Before joining the Communication Studies department, Benjamin was a Communication Fellow at the Bernard L. Schwartz Communication Institute where he focused on developing resources in Inclusive Pedagogy and Writing-Across-the-Curriculum focused on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at Baruch College. As a fellow, he supported the facilitation of the faculty Inclusive Pedagogy seminar and trained incoming fellows in WAC pedagogy and principles. He is a current member of the Weissman DEI Alliance.
George González
George González is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Anthropology (Religion and Culture) at Baruch College-CUNY. Within religious studies, he specializes in religion and economy, secularism studies, theories and methods in the study of religion, and religion and society (Modern West). He is the author of several peer-reviewed and scholarly articles as well as a single-authored monograph entitled Shape-Shifting Capital—Spiritual Management, Critical Theory, and the Ethnographic Project. This first book is a critical analysis of the ‘spiritual’ turn in organizational theory and workplace practice.
Most broadly, Professor González’ research interests lay in the sociocultural legislation of Western metaphysics and the concrete and specific form of power that has attached to neoliberalism, as a historically specific kind of cosmology. In this, he pays special attention to cybernetic theory as a cultural dominant. He remains especially interested in approaching the study and criticism of what he calls post-secular capitalism through the framework of religious social change. Professor González’ has special interests in the work ethnography can do at the intersections of religion, science, and global capitalism and as a complement and corrective to critical theory.
Ken Guest
Ken Guest is Professor of Anthropology at Baruch College, CUNY and author of Cultural Anthropology: A Toolkit for a Global Age; Essentials of Cultural Anthropology: A Toolkit for a Global Age; Cultural Anthropology Fieldwork Journal; Cultural Anthropology: A Reader for a Global Age; and God in Chinatown: Religion and Survival in New York’s Evolving Religious Community, along with many other articles and chapters in scholarly and popular publications. His research focuses on immigration, religion, globalization, ethnicity, entrepreneurship, China and New York’s Chinatown and has been featured in The New York Times, National Public Radio, the BBC and other media venues.
Professor Guest’s research in China and the United States traces the immigrant journeys of recent Chinese immigrants from Fuzhou, southeast China, who, drawn by jobs in restaurant, construction and garment trades and facilitated by a vast human smuggling network, have revitalized New York’s Chinatown.
Allison Hahn
Allison Hailey Hahn is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Baruch College, CUNY. She earned a B.A. in Africana Studies, Anthropology, and Political Science at the University of Pittsburgh. She was then a Fulbright Research Fellow at the National University of Mongolia, Department of Political Science. After returning to the United States, she earned a Masters of International Development (MID) in Development Planning and Environmental Sustainability and a PhD in Communication from the University of Pittsburgh.
Professor Hahn’s research investigates the argumentation and protest strategies used in environmental controversies by pastoral-nomadic communities in Kenya, Tanzania, Mongolia and China. Before coming to Baruch, Professor Hahn directed the University of Pittsburgh Mongolian Field Studies Program, which took students through China, Russia, and Mongolia. She also coached for the Mongolian National Debate Team, the William Pitt Debating Union, and the Soros Foundation Youth Forum.
David Jones
David R. Jones is Professor of Political Science at Baruch College and the Graduate Center, CUNY. He received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles. His research on Congress, political parties, and elections has been published in several scholarly journals, including the American Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Politics, Legislative Studies Quarterly, and Public Opinion Quarterly. He is the author of Political Parties and Policy Gridlock in American Government (2001) and coauthor of Americans, Congress, and Democratic Responsiveness: Public Evaluations of Congress and Electoral Consequences (2009). He has regularly served as an exit poll analyst for CBS News and the New York Times. As an instructor at CUNY for over two decades, as a former chair of Baruch’s Political Science Department (2015-2021), and as a member of the Weissman DEI Alliance (2022-), he has worked to promote the values of diversity, equity, and inclusion at CUNY.
Elena Kosygina
Elena Kosygina is a Professor of Mathematics at Baruch College and a member of the Doctoral Faculty at the CUNY Graduate Center. She studies mathematical models which describe processes involving randomness. Her publications on interacting particle systems, self-interacting random walks and random walks in random media, and homogenization of viscous Hamilton-Jacobi equations appeared in top-tier journals in probability and mathematical physics. She enjoys teaching stochastic calculus at Baruch’s MFE program and a wide variety of undergraduate courses at Baruch’s Mathematics Department, which she joined as an Assistant Professor in 2002.
Dr. Kosygina is a recipient of a Simons Foundation Fellowship in Mathematics (2014-2015) and Simons Collaboration Grants for Mathematicians (2011-2016, 2017-2022). She holds a Candidate Degree in Physics and Mathematics from Moscow State University and a Ph.D. from Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, NYU.
David Milch
David Milch is a Distinguished Lecturer and Director of the MA in Arts Administration at Baruch. Prior to this, David was the Director of NYIT’s graduate program in Leadership in the Arts and Entertainment Industries (LAEI) in association with Nederlander Worldwide Entertainment. David comes to teaching and higher education administration after many years as a theater and dance maker.
During his nine-year tenure at Columbia University, David led a wide range of performing arts programs for undergraduates, including creating a residency program that hosted artists including Young Jean Lee’s Theater Company, Daniel Fish, Okwui Okpokwasili and The Assembly Theater.
David has presented on supporting artists’ identities at the NYU Student Affairs Conference and on Advancing Pedagogy Through Available Technology at the Association of Arts Administration Educators annual conference. He is a facilitator of the Inclusive Pedagogy Workshop and holds a BA in from Wesleyan University and an MFA from UCLA.
Katherine Pence
Katherine Pence began teaching in the History Department at Baruch College in the Fall of 2002.
Originally from Oakland, California, she got a B.A. in history from Pomona College in Claremont, California. She then received her Ph.D. in 1999 from the University of Michigan where she studied German gender history with advisors Geoff Eley and Kathleen Canning. Her courses reflect her areas of specialty in German and European history, history of the Cold War, gender history, the history of consumption, and other themes in cultural history.
Professor Pence has written widely on the history of consumer culture in both East and West Germany. Her current research and writing focuses on cultural aspects of East and West German trade relations with decolonizing countries in Africa in the 1950s and 1960s.
Pablo Peixoto
As an Associate Professor in the Department of Natural Sciences, I am here along with my colleagues to help accelerate student and faculty success through DEI initiatives. I serve as Dean’s Fellow for DEI along with David Milch and Gisele Regatão, and as campus coordinator of the NSF-LSAMP program.
Commencement and graduation are my two favorite days of the year.
Harold Ramdas
Harold is a Lecturer in English at Baruch College, CUNY specializing in First-Year Writing and in Literature. With a B.A. in English/Honors from Baruch College and a Ph.D. from Princeton University, his twenty-year teaching history includes Composition, Caribbean Literature, World Literature, The Fairy Tale, Chaucer, Shakespeare and extensive writing-center experience. A proponent of anti-oppressive pedagogies, his current research explores the ways that increased college enrollments of immigrants and their children should inform anti-racist first-year writing courses. An advocate of greater equity for adjuncts, in 2022 he proposed and co-created a professional development resource and mentoring program for English Department adjuncts negotiating the job market. He also serves as an active mentor in the program. With co-creators Timothy Aubry and Molly Mosher, and fellow lecturer Constantin Schreiber, he presented on this initiative at CUNY’s 2022 Professional Development Program. He is grateful to be part of the WSAS DEI Alliance.
Gisele Regatão
I am a Brazilian immigrant who has worked in the US media for more than 20 years, mostly in public radio. I have often been the only person of color in management meetings, and now as an assistant professor at Baruch I am one out of two POC in the journalism department. Just as I believe the media should be as diverse as the community it represents, I think Baruch’s faculty, staff and curriculum should reflect the student population that we serve. I hope I can help the Alliance achieve that goal.
Erica Richardson
Erica Richardson is an assistant professor in the English Department at Baruch College. Her teaching and research interests include: Black 19th and 20th-century print culture; black women’s writing; African American drama; the formation of discourses on black social life. Her work has been featured in American Studies (AMSJ). She is the recent recipient of the Institute for Citizens and Scholars Career Enhancement Fellowship (formerly the Woodrow Wilson Fellowship). In her advanced Harlem Renaissance course, she will develop pedagogy and assignments centered around using digital archives to respond to Harlem Renaissance public writing and print culture.
Adam Sheffer
Adam Sheffer is a mathematics professor and the director of Baruch’s new Computer Science program. He dedicates a large portion of his career to supporting students who did not have opportunities to demonstrate their abilities and potential in math or computer science. Sheffer runs two summer programs that provide college students from all over the world opportunities to do research work and to be mentored by experts. He also regularly works with high school students and advocates for a more inclusive and diverse STEM world.
Cheryl Smith
Cheryl C. Smith is Interim Associate Dean of the Weissman School and Professor of English at Baruch College. As Associate Dean, Cheryl oversees curriculum and instruction, academic affairs, course scheduling and enrollment, student academic appeals, and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.
Since 2011, Cheryl has been co-editor of the Journal of Basic Writing (JBW), launched in the 1970s in response to educational turmoil surrounding the implementation of open admissions at CUNY. Her tenure with JBW inspired her current book project, Poetic Justice: Poetry, Protest, and Democracy in Public Higher Education. The book looks at the value of poetry in the classroom, connecting it to the advancement of expression, social liberation, and democracy in two periods of civic struggle that targeted educational opportunity and equity: the late 1960s and 70s, and today
Pablo Soberón-Bravo
Pablo Soberón was born and raised in Cuernavaca, Mexico. He was a contestant in the Mexican Mathematical Olympiad. During his participation in international competitions, he was the first person to obtain a gold medal at the International Mathematical Olympiad for Mexico. He earned his BS in Mathematics at the National Autonomous University in Mexico (commonly known as UNAM). He earned his Ph.D. in Mathematics at University College London advised by Imre Bárány and Keith Ball,with support from CONACyT. Soberón has held two postdoctoral positions, the first at the University of Michigan (2013-2015), with Alexander Barvinok as mentor, and the second at Northeastern University (2015-2018), with Egon Schulte as mentor. He is now joining Baruch College of the City University of New York as an Assistant Professor and has recently been awarded his first NSF grant as principal investigator to support his research. In addition to his research, Soberón enjoys working with students seeking to improve their problem-solving skills. While he was in Mexico, he was part of the organizing committee of the Mexican Mathematical Olympiad. His combinatorics coaching notes were published as a book in English and Spanish. More recently, he has worked with PUTNAM training for Northeastern University.
Rebecca Spokony
Rebecca Spokony is an Associate Professor of Biology and the Deputy Chair of Biology in the Natural Sciences Department. She studies hormonal regulation of metamorphosis in fruit flies. She built and shared 100s of fly stocks with fluorescently labelled proteins to help the genetics community study gene regulation. She is a member of the Genomics Education Partnership, a consortium generating curriculum materials to incorporate novel research project into laboratory classes across the United States and Puerto Rico, so that students can participate in scientific research while completing their course requirements. She also developed a CURE at Baruch; Bio 4015 students performed a Genome-wide Association Study on hormone sensitivity in flies. Additionally, NYC high school students participating in the CUNY STEM Research Academy have worked as research assistants in her laboratory for the past six summers.
Christopher Stults
Dr. Stults earned a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from the University of Miami, a Master’s degree in Counseling Psychology from Florida International University, and a PhD in Counseling Psychology from New York University. He also completed the APA-accredited predoctoral internship program at Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine.
The mission of Dr. Stults’s program of research is to improve the lives of sexual and gender minority populations, particularly emerging adult LGBTQ+ people. His work is comprised of four foci: intimate partner violence, consensual non-monogamy, health-risk behaviors, and trauma. Dr. Stults leads the Sexual and Gender Minority Health Lab at Baruch College. For more information, please visit: https://blogs.baruch.cuny.edu/sgmhlab/ and https://www.christopherstults.com
Rianne Subijanto
Rianne Subijanto is an assistant professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Baruch College, City University of New York. Her research interests include communication infrastructures, universal emancipation, social and environmental justice, and the history of colonialism and imperialism in Indonesia and Southeast Asia. Her book project currently under review, “Communication against Capital: Enlightenment at the Dawn of Indonesia,” examines the communicative sociotechnical systems of resistance produced by ordinary lower-class people in the early communist anticolonial struggles in the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia) in 1920s. She is a Junior Fellow of the Andrew W. Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography and has received grants and fellowships, among others, from Fulbright, the American Association of University Women (AAUW), and CUNY Research Award Program. She works closely with Southeast Asian activists and scholars in her involvement as an editor of Indoprogress.com, Indonesia-based alternative media for progressive thought and politics.
Orrette Wauchope
I am an Assistant Professor of Chemistry in the Natural Sciences Department at Baruch and I am an organic chemist by training. Broadly, my research focuses on understanding bacterial communication from a chemical perspective. Specifically, I’m interested in the synthesis and evaluation of chemical agents that might mitigate bacterial communication-induced biofilm formation. Another area of my work aims at understanding the role of DNA damage in biofilm formation.
As a member of the Weissman DEI Alliance, I am committed to the mentorship of students from underrepresented groups and enhancing their exposure to research in the sciences. As an underrepresented faculty, I am well aware of the challenges faced by underrepresented studentsin the pursuit of education in STEM. In my research lab, I endeavor to create a respectful and positive environment that aims to reduce systemic disadvantages and enhance equal opportunity for all students.
Zhiqing Zhou
Dr. Zhiqing Zhou is an associate professor of Industrial and Organizational Psychology at Baruch College and The Graduate Center, CUNY. His research mainly focuses on the following four areas: workplace mistreatment (e.g., workplace aggression, workplace incivility, abusive supervision, and counterproductive work behavior), employee health and well-being, work-nonwork interface, and illegitimate tasks. His work has appeared in peer-reviewed journals such as Journal of Organizational Behavior, Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, Human Relations, and Work & Stress. He is an Associate Editor of Group & Organization Management and Stress & Health, and is on the editorial board of Journal of Organizational Behavior, Journal of Business and Psychology, Applied Psychology: An International Review, and Occupational Health Science. Dr. Zhou currently teaches Master’s Applied Statistics Analysis class and PhD seminars Occupational Health Psychology and Work-Life Interface.