H&S Faculty Directory: A-Z

Silvia Abbiati

Lecturer, World Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

Jonathan Ablard

Professor and Latin American Studies Coordinator, History

Specialty: Latin American History

Derek Adams

Associate Professor, Literatures in English

Specialty: 20th-21st Century African American Literature, Blackness, Feminism, and Intersectionality

Barbara Adams

Associate Professor, Writing

Specialty: Feature Journalism

Susan Allen

Professor, Department of the Environment

Specialty: Environmental Toxicology

Juan Arroyo

Assistant Professor, Politics

Specialty: Comparative Politics

Sumru Atuk

Assistant Professor, Politics

Specialty: Political Theory, Feminist Theory, Public Policy

Jamaica Baldwin

Assistant Professor, Writing

Specialty: Poetry Writing

John Barr

Professor, Computer Science

Specialty: Computer Science Pedagogy, Global Software Engineering, Programming for Social Good, Mobile Dev (iOS, Android, React Native), Web Services

Kasia Bartoszynska

Assistant Professor and Women's Gender Sexuality Studies Coordinator, Literatures in English

Specialty: Theories of the Novel; 18th Century Literature; Gender and Sexuality

Donald Beachler

Associate Professor, Politics

Specialty: U.S. Politics (Parties and Elections, Public Policy )/ Holocaust and Genocide Studies

Alexis Becker

Assistant Professor, Literatures in English

Specialty: Old and Middle English literature; medieval British multilingualism; political ecology; climate and literature; labor; history of reading and the book; literacy; history of English

Brandy Bessette-Symons

Associate Professor and Neuroscience Minor Coordinator, Psychology

Specialty: Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience

Rebecca Brady

Assistant Professor, Biology

Specialty: Cell Biology, Developmental Biology

Dan Breen

Associate Professor and Global Premodern Studies Coordinator, Literatures in English

Specialty: Late Medieval and Renaissance Literature

Jake Brenner

Professor and Chair and ICNL Chair and Reserve Manager, Department of the Environment

Specialty: Geography, Land Use, Forests, Political Ecology

Joslyn Brenton

Associate Professor, Sociology

Specialty: Health & Illness; Intersectionality; Family; Qualitative Methods

Karin Breuer

Associate Professor, History

Specialty: Modern Europe, Germany

David Brown

Associate Dean, Curriculum and Admissions, Humanities and Sciences

Specialty: Complex Dynamics, Fractals

Katlyn Brumfield

Lecturer, Art, Art History, Architecture

Sergio Cabrera

Assistant Professor, Sociology

Specialty: Economic Sociology; Culture; Consumerism; Inequality; Sociological Theory; Methods

Patti Capaldi

Associate Professor, Art, Art History, Architecture

Specialty: Two-Dimensional Design, Graphic Design

Elijah Carter

Assistant Professor, Biology

Specialty: Science Education

Caroline Charles

Diversity Scholars Fellow, Humanities and Sciences

Samah Choudhury

Assistant Professor, Philosophy and Religion

Specialty: Islamic Studies, Humor and Comedy, Race, Gender

Beth Ellen Clark Joseph

Professor, Physics and Astronomy

Specialty: Astronomy, Planetary Science, Asteroids, Spectroscopy, Photometry

Edward Cluett

Associate Professor, Biology

Specialty: Cell Biology, Science Education Coordinator

Jessye Cohen-Filipic

Associate Professor and Exploratory Pathways Co-Director and Counseling Mino, Psychology

Specialty: Counseling Psychology

Katherine Cohen-Filipic

Associate Professor, Sociology

Specialty: Clinical Social Work, Direct Practice with Children and Families, Community Mental Health

Jeane Copenhaver-Johnson

Associate Professor, Department of Education

Specialty: Language and Literacy, Social Contexts of Schooling, Children's Inquiry About Race, Qualitative and Practitioner Research

Lisa Corewyn

Assistant Professor and Coordinator of Anthropology, Biology

Specialty: Biological anthropology, Primate behavioral ecology, Molecular primatology, Primate conservation

Nandadevi Cortes Rodriguez

Assistant Professor, Biology

Specialty: Evolutionary Biology and Phylogeography

Colleen Countryman

Assistant Professor, Physics and Astronomy

Specialty: Physics Education Research, Development and Assessment of Smartphone Apps and Simulations, Active Learning Techniques, Educational Technologies, Instructional Videos, Introductory Physics for Life Sci

Julia Cozzarelli

Professor, World Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

Specialty: Italian Medieval, Renaissance and Modern Literature

Becky Craig

Assistant Professor, Chemistry

Specialty: Physical Chemistry, Environmental Chemistry

Alida Dean

Lecturer, Writing

Specialty: Fiction Writing

Susan Adams Delaney

Associate Professor and Chair, Writing

Specialty: Academic Writing

Mary Turner DePalma

Professor, Psychology

Specialty: Social Motivation/Health Psychology

Maria DiFrancesco

Professor, World Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

Specialty: Contemporary Spanish Literature; Exile; Migration in Spanish Literature and Culture

Anthony DiRenzo

Professor, Writing

Specialty: Professional and Technical Writing (PTW)

Suellen Dragon

Lecturer, Biology

Specialty: Evolutionary Biology and Biotechnology

Toby Dragon

Associate Professor and Assesment Coordinator, Computer Science

Specialty: Artificial Intelligence (AI), Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS), Computer Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL)

Craig Duncan

Professor, Philosophy and Religion

Specialty: Political Philosophy, Ethics, Philosophy of Religion

Jessica Dunning-Lozano

Associate Professor, Sociology

Specialty: Sociology

Sandy Dutkowsky

Lecturer, Writing

Hugh Egan

Professor, Literatures in English

Specialty: American literature, especially 19th century prose and poetry

Dara Engler

Associate Professor and Associate Chair, Art, Art History, Architecture

Specialty: Painting and Drawing

Ali Erkan

Associate Professor and Chair, Computer Science

Specialty: Computer networks, algorithms.

Sean Eversley Bradwell

Assistant Professor and Chair of CSCRE, Department of Education

Specialty: Educational policy, pedagogy, and social change

Augusto Luiz Facchini

Lecturer, Writing

Amanda Faherty

Assistant Professor, Psychology

Specialty: Developmental Psychology, Emerging Adulthood, Culture, Parent-Child Relationships

Marella Feltrin-Morris

Professor and Chair, World Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

Specialty: Modern and Contemporary Italian Literature, Translation Studies

Carlos Figueroa

Associate Professor, Politics

Specialty: U.S. Politics & Policy; Race, Religion, & Class politics; U.S. Quakerism; Afro American Politics; US-Puerto Rico policy; Public Leadership

Akiko Fillinger

Professor, Chemistry

Specialty: Analytical chemistry (alternative energy & fuels)

Ty Finck

Lecturer, Art, Art History, Architecture

Specialty: Graphic Design, Typography

Mat Fournier

Associate Professor, World Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

Specialty: XXth Century French Literature; Transgender Studies; Continental Philosophy

Jason Freitag

Associate Professor, History

Specialty: South Asia, Middle East, British Empire

Julie Fromer

Lecturer, Literatures in English

Specialty: Nineteenth-Century British Literature

Ellie Fulmer

Associate Professor, Department of Education

Specialty: Disciplinary (Content) Literacies, Antiracist Pedagogies, Practitioner Inquiry, Sociocultural Literacies

Jerome Fung

Assistant Professor, Physics and Astronomy

Specialty: Soft condensed matter/Optics

Chip Gagnon

Professor and Chair, Politics

Specialty: International Relations/Comparative Politics

Ted Galanthay

Associate Professor, Mathematics

Specialty: Mathematical Ecology, Mathematical Modeling, Dynamical Systems

Seren Gates Amador

Lecturer, Philosophy and Religion

Joash Geteregechi

Assistant Professor, Mathematics

Specialty: Mathematics Education

Claire Gleitman

Dean, Humanities and Sciences

Specialty: Dramatic Literature: Modern and Contemporary American, Irish and World Drama

David Gondek

Associate Professor, Biology

Specialty: Microbiology & Immunology

Belisa Gonzalez

Dean of Faculty Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging, Provost and Academic Affairs

Specialty: Race and Ethnicity & Social Inequality

Enrique Gonzalez-Conty

Associate Professor, World Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

Specialty: Latin American Literature and Film

Megan Graham

Assistant Professor, Writing

Specialty: Nonfiction; Grammar and Usage

Serge Grigoriev

Associate Professor, Philosophy and Religion

Mike Haaf

Professor, Chemistry

Specialty: Organic Chemistry

Jason Hamilton

Professor, Department of the Environment

Specialty: Education for Sustainability, Integrative Education, Non-Timber Forest Products, Plant Ecophysiology, Global Change Biology

Paul Hansom

Assistant Professor, Literatures in English

Jean Hardwick

Professor and Chair, Biology

Specialty: Neuroscience

Bill Hastings

Assistant Professor, Art, Art History, Architecture

Specialty: Coordinator of the Creative Space Gallery, Introductory, Intermediate and Advanced Sculpture, Theories of Art Practice, Introduction to Drawing, Three-Dimensional Design

Rajpreet Heir

Assistant Professor, Writing

Specialty: Creative Nonfiction and Professional Writing

Eleanor Henderson

Professor, Writing

Specialty: Fiction Writing

Chris Holmes

Associate Professor and Chair, Literatures in English

Specialty: Postcolonial and Anglophone Literature; Theories of Translation and World Literature

Jeff Holmes

Professor, Psychology

Specialty: Counseling and General Psychology

M. Nicole Horsley

Assistant Professor, Center for Study of Culture, Race and Ethnicity

Specialty: African American and African Diaspora Studies, Black Feminism, Black Queer Theory, Black Music Videos, Black Female Sexuality, Visual and Sonic Culture, Taste Culture, Film and Media Studies

Christopher House

Associate Professor, Philosophy and Religion

Specialty: Black Pentecostal Rhetoric & Social Action, Critical Rhetoric, Race & Religion; African American Rhetoric; Rhetorical Theology; Digital Media Studies; Black Church Studies

Kaleb Hunkele

Lecturer, Art, Art History, Architecture

Specialty: Printmaking & 2-D Design

Julianne Hunter

Lecturer, Art, Art History, Architecture

Janet Hunting

Associate Professor, Chemistry

Specialty: Solid State Chemistry, Materials Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry

Evgenia Ilieva

Associate Professor, Politics

Maki Inada

Associate Professor, Biology

Specialty: Molecular Biology

Neil Infalvi

Lecturer, Art, Art History, Architecture

Laura Johnsen

Lecturer, Anthropology

Jennifer Jolly

Dana Professor, Art, Art History, Architecture

Specialty: Latin American, Latinx & Pre-Columbian Art, Race and Representation

Elia Kacapyr

Professor, Economics

Specialty: Macroeconomics, Econometrics, Forecasting

Elizabeth Kaletski

Associate Professor, Economics

Specialty: Labor and Development Economics

Leann Kanda

Associate Professor, Biology

Specialty: Animal Ecology

Luke Keller

Professor, Physics and Astronomy

Specialty: Astrophysics, spectroscopy, art-science connections and collaborations, natural science general education

Mika Kennedy

Assistant Professor, Center for Study of Culture, Race and Ethnicity

Katharine Kittredge

Professor, Literatures in English

Matt Klemm

Associate Professor and Chair and Global PRemodern Studies Minor Coordinator, History

Specialty: Medieval and Ancient History, Medieval Intellectual History, History of Science and Medicine

William Kolberg

Associate Professor, Economics

Specialty: MicroEconomics, Natural Resource and Environmental Economics, Experimental Economics

Nick Kowalczyk

Associate Professor, Writing

Specialty: Creative Nonfiction, the Essay, & Literary Journalism

Anna Larsen

Professor, Chemistry

Specialty: Inorganic/Organometallic Chemistry/Ionic liquids

Adam Lee

Instructor, Computer Science

Specialty: Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Access

Eric Leibensperger

Assistant Professor, Physics and Astronomy

Specialty: Environmental Physics, Climate Change, Air Quality

Rebecca Lesses

Associate Professor, Philosophy and Religion

Specialty: Jewish Studies

Annette Levine

Professor and Jewish Studies Coordinator, World Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

Specialty: Latin American and Latino/a Literature and Theatre; Translation Studies

Sara Levy

Associate Professor and Chairperson, Department of Education

Shuzhan Li

Assistant Professor, Department of Education

Hong Li

Lecturer, World Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

Amber Lia-Kloppel

Lecturer, Art, Art History, Architecture

Specialty: Painting and Drawing

Carla Liesching

Lecturer, Art, Art History, Architecture

Te-Wen Lo

Associate Professor, Biology

Specialty: Genetics

Peter Maceli

Assistant Professor, Mathematics

Specialty: Graph theory, algorithms, operations research, and data science.

Katharyn Machan

Professor, Writing

Specialty: Creative Writing

Risham Majeed

Associate Professor, Art, Art History, Architecture

Camilo Malagon

Assistant Professor and Latin American Studies Coordinator, World Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

Specialty: 20th and 21st Century Latin American Literature and Film

Joan Marcus

Assistant Professor, Writing

Specialty: Memoir, Fiction, Children's Literature

Katie Marks

Assistant Professor and Exploratory Pathways Co-Director, Writing

Peter Martin

Associate Professor and Graduate Program Chair, Department of Education

Specialty: Inclusion Special Education, Second Language Acquisition and Bilingual Education, Social Emotional Learning for Teachers

Megan Martinez

Associate Professor, Mathematics

Specialty: Enumerative Combinatorics, Permutation Patterns

Holli Mast

Instructor, Mathematics

Christopher Matusiak

Associate Professor, Literatures in English

Specialty: Shakespeare, Early English Theater History, Renaissance Literature

Peter Melcher

Professor, Biology

Specialty: Plant Physiology

Brooks Miner

Associate Professor, Biology

Specialty: Evolutionary Ecology

Jerry Mirskin

Retired Professor, Writing

Specialty: Poetry. Composition Theory

Sayanti Mondal

Assistant Professor, Writing

Specialty: Postcolonial studies, Translingual and Multimodal Composition, Global South Studies, Literary Theory and Culture Studies

Teresa Moore

Professor, Mathematics

Specialty: Geometry and Topology

Nia Nunn

Associate Professor, Department of Education

Specialty: Black Girl Empowerment ~ Anti-Racist Feminist Pedagogy, Elementary Classroom Management/Community Development, Prevention, and Intervention

Lauren O'Connell

Professor and H&S Curriculum Committee Chair, Art, Art History, Architecture

Specialty: History of Architecture and Urbanism

Shaianne Osterreich

Professor and Chair, Economics

Specialty: Globalization, Feminist Economics, Heterodox Economics, Indonesia, South East Asia, Decent Work, Global Value Chains, Care Economy, Poverty

Raul Palma

Associate Dean, Humanities and Sciences

Specialty: Creative Writing Studies, Fiction Writing

Tatiana Patrone

Associate Professor, Philosophy and Religion

Specialty: History of philosophy (esp. Kant), political philosophy, bioethics

Jonathan Peeters

Assistant Professor, Philosophy and Religion

Specialty: Early Modern Philosophy, Contemporary Metaphysics

Judith Pena-Shaff

Professor and Chair, Psychology

Specialty: Program evaluation; teaching and learning, curriculum and instruction, qualitative research methodologist

Jeff Perry

Lecturer, Department of Education

Thomas Pfaff

Professor and Chair, Mathematics

Specialty: Data Science, Sustainability, Applied Math, Probability & Statistics

Pearl Ponce

Professor, History

Specialty: American Political and Diplomatic History

Matthew Price

Associate Professor, Physics and Astronomy

Specialty: Physics and Astronomy Education, Small Ground-Based Telescope Observations

Amy Quan

Assistant Professor and Ithaca Seminar Program Coordinator, Writing

Michael Richardson

Professor and Director of the Screen Cultures Program, World Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

Specialty: 20th and 21st century German literature and cinema, Holocaust Studies, Screen Studies

DJ Robinson

Assistant Professor, Chemistry

Specialty: Organic Synthesis

Amy Rothschild

Assistant Professor, Politics

Specialty: Human Rights/Transitional Justice; Genocide; Law & Society; Collective Memory; Timor-Leste; Nationalism; Race; Trauma

David Salomon

Associate Professor, Art, Art History, Architecture

Specialty: Architectural Design, Architectural History, Architectural Theory, Patterns

Cyndy Scheibe

Dana Professor and Project Look Sharp Coordinator, Psychology

Specialty: developmental psychology, media literacy

Pamela Sertzen

Assistant Professor, Center for Study of Culture, Race and Ethnicity

Mary Lourdes Silva

Associate Professor and Writing First Year Composition Director, Writing

Specialty: Writing Studies and Multimodal Composition

Priya Sirohi

Assistant Professor and Writing Center Director, Writing

Specialty: Colonialism/Postcolonialism, Rhetorical Theory & History, Public Rhetoric, Digital Literacy, Argument, Globalization,

Andrew Smith

Professor, Biology

Specialty: Animal Physiology, Biomechanics

Michael Smith

Professor, History

Specialty: Environmental History, Environmental Humanities, U.S. History

Zohreh Soltani

Assistant Professor, Art, Art History, Architecture

Specialty: Architectural History, Theory, and Design; Modern Architecture of the Islamic World; Public Space and Power Relations

Peyi Soyinka-Airewele

Professor, Politics

Specialty: International and African Politics, The Politics of Memory, Critical Studies in Democratic Development, Politics of Popular African Cinema

Jennifer Spitzer

Associate Professor, Literatures in English

Specialty: Late 19th and 20th-Century Literature; Transatlantic Modernism; Gender and Sexuality

Jim Stafford

Assistant Professor, Writing

Specialty: Composition, Professional Writing and Rhetoric

Sharon Stansfield

Associate Professor, Computer Science

Specialty: Virtual Reality, Robotics

Eric Steinschneider

Assistant Professor, Philosophy and Religion

Hugh Stephenson

Associate Professor, Psychology

Specialty: Clinical Psychology

Anne Stork

Assistant Professor, Department of the Environment

Scott Stull

Lecturer, Anthropology

Specialty: Archaeology; experimental, medieval, built environment, ceramics, food

Robert Sullivan

Professor, Literatures in English

Specialty: Rhetoric, Argumentation, Communication Ethics

Kelley Sullivan

Associate Professor, Physics and Astronomy

Specialty: Fluorescence Microscopy And Physics Education

Matthew C. Sullivan

Dana Professor and Chair, Physics and Astronomy

Specialty: Solid State Physics and Pedagogical Physics

Stephen Sweet

Professor, Sociology

Specialty: Work, Family, and the Life Course

Alicia Swords

Professor and Chair, Sociology

Specialty: Public Sociology, Social Movements and Social Change

Andrew Torelli

Associate Professor and Chair, Chemistry

Michael Trotti

Professor and Legal Studies Coordinator, History

Specialty: United States, Social and Cultural History

Paula Turkon

Assistant Professor, Department of the Environment

Specialty: dendrochronology, aquaponics, food systems, paleoethnobotany, Mesoamerican archaeology

Doug Turnbull

Associate Professor, Computer Science

Specialty: Music Information Retrieval, Computer Audition, Machine Learning, and Human Computation

Scott Ulrich

Associate Professor, Chemistry

Specialty: Medicinal Chemistry

Gladys M. Varona-Lacey

Professor, World Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

Specialty: Latin American Literature

Leigh Ann Vaughn

Professor, Psychology

Specialty: Social Psychology

Paulina Velázquez Solís

Lecturer, Art, Art History, Architecture

Daniel Visscher

Associate Professor, Mathematics

Specialty: Dynamical Systems, Geometry

Rachel Wagner

Professor and Chair, Philosophy and Religion

Specialty: religion and media; religion and gaming; religion and culture; religion and film; religion and gender; interdisciplinary theories and methods in religious studies; Abrahamic religions; New Testament.