New Gallatin Faculty
Ritty Lukose joins Gallatin’s faculty as an associate professor with a focus on globalization and South Asia. She received her Ph.D. in anthropology from The University of Chicago, and is particularly interested in issues of youth, development, consumption, citizenship, politics, gender, and feminism. Lukose’s research has been funded by the American Institute of Indian Studies, the Fulbright Program, the Spencer Foundation, and the National Academy of Education. Her first book, Liberalization’s Children: Gender, Youth and Consumer Citizenship in India is forthcoming from Duke University Press. She has taught at the University of Pennsylvania, The University of Chicago, Stanford University, and DePaul University. This fall, she teaches two Gallatin courses, Nationalism in South Asia and Globalization: Promises and Discontents.
Matthew Stanley is an associate professor with a specialization in the history of science. He comes to Gallatin from Michigan State University, where he held joint appointments in the department of history and in the Lyman Briggs College of Science. Stanley has both an M.A. in astronomy and a Ph.D. in the history of science from Harvard University. He is the author of Practical Mystic: Religion, Science, and A.S. Eddington (University of Chicago Press, 2007), which examines how scientists reconcile their religious beliefs and scientific theories. He has held fellowships at the Institute for Advanced Study, the British Academy, and the Max Planck Institute, and is part of a nationwide effort to use the humanities to improve science education in the college classroom. This fall, he teaches the Gallatin courses Science and Religion and Understanding the Universe.
Gene Cittadino joins Gallatin as a full-time teacher, after having worked at the School for many years in a part-time capacity. Cittadino received his Ph.D. in the history of science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and was also trained in philosophy, history, and the natural sciences, especially ecology and evolutionary biology. He is the author of Nature as the Laboratory: Darwinian Plant Ecology in the German Empire, 1880-1900 (Cambridge University Press, 1990), and he has received fellowships and grants from such organizations as the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Science Foundation. Before coming to NYU, he taught or held research positions at Harvard University; Brandeis University; University of California, Berkeley; University of Wisconsin; MIT; and SUNY Potsdam. His current Gallatin courses include the first-year seminar Science and Society and the seminar Ecology and Environmental Thought.
Sara Murphy also joins the School as a full-time teacher after having taught at Gallatin for several years as a part-time faculty member—during which time she won the Gallatin Adviser of Distinction Award. Her teaching interests include literature and philosophy, critical theory, feminist and gender studies, and 19th-century literary cultures. She received her Ph.D. in comparative literature from NYU, and is the author of a forthcoming book entitled Figured Experiences: Women’s Autobiographical Practice and the Problem of Experience in 19th-Century England and France. Her research, which has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, has focused on the interconnections between law and literature, philosophy, psychoanalysis and theory, and she has written many articles on these topics. Murphy has taught at Rutgers University, SUNY Albany, York College at the City University of New York, and NYU’s General Studies Program. This fall, she teaches the undergraduate course Guilty Subjects: Guilt in Literature, Law and Psychoanalysis; and the Master’s Thesis Seminar.
Steven Fraser is an historian, writer, and editor who comes to the Gallatin School as a visiting associate professor of economic history. A distinguished figure in the field of economic history, he is a consultant and editor-at-large for the New Labor Forum at the Joseph S. Murphy Institute of Labor and Community Studies (CUNY). Fraser’s first book, Labor Will Rule: Sidney Hillman and the Rise of American Labor (Free Press, 1991) won the Phillip Taft Prize for the best book in labor history, and he is also the author of Every Man a Speculator: A History of Wall Street in American Life (Harper Collins, 2005) and Wall Street: America’s Dream Palace (Yale University Press, 2008). Fraser completed his Ph.D. in American history at Rutgers University. In recent years, he has worked as a senior lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania. Fraser teaches the Gallatin courses Our Gilded Age and Theirs: A Comparative History; and New Deal Liberalism: Its Rise and Fall.
Marie Cruz Soto is the recipient of one of the first NYU Postdoctoral Fellowships for Academic Diversity, a fellowship that she will hold at the Gallatin School for a two-year residency. Her research and teaching interests center on the cultural history of the peoples of the Caribbean, Latin America, and the United States. She is currently working on a book manuscript delving into the five-century struggle of peoples to inhabit the Caribbean island of Vieques and the struggle of empires to control it. Cruz Soto received her Ph.D. in history from the University of
Michigan, and she has taught courses on U.S. and Latin American history in both Puerto Rico and the U.S. She is currently teaching the Gallatin courses Daughters of Caliban: Gender, Feminism and the Caribbean; and Feminism, Empire, and the Postcolonial World.
