Faculty

Seth Borenstein was part of an AP Gulf of Mexico oil spill reporting team that won the 2010 George Polk Award for Environment Reporting and a special merit award as part of the 2011 Grantham environment reporting prizes. He was part of a team of finalists for the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the Columbia space shuttle disaster. A science and environmental journalist for more than 20 years, covering everything from hurricanes to space shuttle launches, Borenstein has also worked for Knight Ridder Newspapers' Washington Bureau, The Orlando Sentinel, and the Sun-Sentinel in Fort Lauderdale. He is the co-author of three long out-of-print books, two on hurricanes and one on popular science. He lives in Kensington, Maryland, with his wife, Anne Marie, and two of his three sons (his third son is at Fordham University), where he coaches youth basketball and is a retired cub scout leader. He has flown in zero gravity and once tried out for Florida Marlins (unsuccessfully). And yes, he is related to the Eliot Borenstein, who is chairman of Russian and Slavic Studies at NYU. They're brothers.

Tad has also worked on dozens of winning races for the U.S. House of Representatives and local elected officials. He has extensive experience at the highest levels of U.S. presidential campaigns and has worked on ten winning campaigns for president or prime minister outside the United States. Devine has taught courses on campaigns and media at Boston University, The George Washington University Graduate School of Political Management, and The Institute of Politics at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. In October 2010, Tad Devine was recognized as one of “the most respected media consultants” in the nation by USA Today.

Prof. Fisher is an invited member of Govermark, a network of international scholars engaged in research on market actors as policy actors, based out of the Stockholm Center for Organizational Research at the University of Stockholm. She has taught at Columbia University, New York University, and Georgetown University. In addition, Prof. Fisher has worked as a business anthropologist and consultant for a range of corporate and not-for-profit organizations, including the National Council for Research on Women (NCRW), BBDO Worldwide Advertising, and Batten and Company. She has also been the keynote speaker at both business and academic venues, including the Critical Finance Conferences at the University of Amsterdam. Her current ethnographic work focuses on the creation and implimentation of the Gender Equality Principles Initiative by Calvert Investments, a socially responsible investment firm headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland. Fisher earned her Ph.D. in cultural anthropology from Columbia University and BA from Barnard College.

msf4@nyu.edu

Recently, she helped design and deliver the Negotiation Leadership Workshop as a key component of USAID's Governance Enhancement Project and Civil Society Enhancement Initiative (CSEI) in Guyana. Dr. Fridl is also Associate in the Department of International Health at the Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University where she teaches a class in the area of health policy. She is also a visiting lecturer at Cornell University where she teaches a course in economic growth and development. Daniella has worked for a number of international organizations including the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund and has done consulting work in the private sector. She is an expert on the Balkans and has worked and conducted research in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia and Kosovo.

Dr. Fridl holds a B.A. in Political Science, International Relations and German Language from Drake University. She received her Masters Degree in International Economics and Conflict Management and PhD in International Relations from Johns Hopkins SAIS University. She is a recipient of a number of interdependent research grants from the International Research Exchanges Board (IREX) sponsored by the U.S. State Department. Dr. Fridl received the American Academy of Sciences fellowship for the post-doctoral work, which she completed at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in Laxemburg, Austria. She is fluent in Croatian and German.

Wendy has lectured internationally, curated exhibitions on these topics, and taught in the University of Maryland overseas program in Vienna, Austria, and at various universities in the Washington D.C. metropolitan area. She was also a visiting professor at Middlebury College, Middlebury Vermont. In addition to several museum internships, her curatorial experience includes two years at The Art Gallery at the University of Maryland, College Park and serving as an independent curator for a number of exhibition projects. She is currently organizing an exhibition for the Phillips titled “Man Ray: Mathematical Objects and Shakespearean Equations.” Dr. Grossman is the author of numerous publications including the award-winning catalogue, Man Ray, African Art and the Modernist Lens. Her articles and essays have been widely published in international journals and edited volumes. After studying at the Freie Universität in Berlin, Germany, she completed her MA and PhD degrees at the University of Maryland, College Park.

At Cadmus, Vicky has worked for the US Green Building Council to develop and support the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Rating Systems; advises the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) ENERGY STAR commercial and industrial branch; leads consulting and review teams for buildings seeking LEED certification; and manages sustainability initiatives for clients as diverse as the Smithsonian Institution and state and local governments. She is project manager and technical lead for the 2012 redevelopment of ENERGY STAR for Buildings training resources. Her Cadmus research work includes her roles as primary author of Planning and Financing Energy Efficient Infrastructure in Appalachia, for the Appalachian Regional Commission (released March, 2012), and co-Principal Investigator of Cadmus’ Water Management and Green Building Rating Systems 2009-2010 study for the Electric Power Research Institute. Her architectural design work focuses on small-to-medium scale residential and institutional projects. For the Washington, DC Capitol Hill School Libraries Project, she designed the library for Maury Elementary School. Victoria Kiechel, AIA and LEED AP ND, BD+C, O+M, ID+C, Homes

Dorothy Kosinski feels fortunate to have the opportunity to build on Duncan Phillips’s legacy as we work to renew and invigorate that spirit of open-minded, interdisciplinary, and collaborative inquiry into modern and contemporary art. Dr. Kosinski has written and published widely in numerous catalogues and books, as well as many art magazines. She regularly participates in scholarly lectures and has extensive teaching experience at the university level. She recived her MA and PhD degrees from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, and her BA from Yale University

Lori Maynard presented over 60 lectures at colleges, conferences and in Thailand on various topics such as ASL storytelling, linguistics, non-manual signals/features/role shift/eye gazes, classifiers and jargon.

Steve McMahon is the co-founder of Purple Strategies (www.purplestrategies.com), one of Washington's leading public affairs firms and the publisher of the "Purple Poll," a monthly look at the 12 key presidential battleground states. He appears regularly as a political commentator on MSNBC and other television networks. Steve began his career on the Senate staff of United States Senator Edward M. Kennedy and is an attorney by training.

At Treasury, he also served as the Director of Investments for TARP, where he helped execute and oversee emergency financial programs that were implemented during the financial crisis. Mike was previously a Vice President in investment banking at Merrill Lynch's Financial Institutions Group. Mike also worked at McKinsey & Co as a consultant for several years and prior to that, researched development economics in Korea as a Fulbright Scholar. He has an MBA from Columbia Business School and a BA from Williams College.

Michael Ulrich received a Ph.D. in Molecular Genetics from Washington University and graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Iowa with a BA in biology. Michael was the author of an instructor’s manual for the biology textbook “Asking about Life” and has presented numerous times at regional, national and international conferences on his teaching and study abroad experiences.

Dan Vergano won the 2011 Gene Stuart Award from the Society for American Archeology, for a story and video series on Maya archeology, and the 2006 David Perlman Award for Excellence in Science Journalism from the American Geophysical Union, for a USA Today cover story on climate change. Dan was a 2007-08 Nieman Fellow at Harvard, where he studied and spoke about the intersection of science and politics. He has about 9,000 followers on Twitter for @dvergano, and he would be more than happy to see you there as well.

He has worked as a litigator at the Center for Constitutional Litigation, a firm specializing in challenging the constitutionality of restrictions on access to courts, and as a researcher in religion and law at the Pew Forum, where he wrote about various areas of First Amendment law.

Gabriela Mundaca’s advisory experience was acquired during her 12 years affiliation with the Central Bank of Norway. There, she worked at the Research Department, and some of her duties, in addition to her research, were to advise the Bank’s Policy Divisions on a range of policy issues related to exchange rate policies; monetary policy; financial sector stability and its importance for the economy; and asset markets volatility. She was closely involved in the design of Norway’s monetary-fiscal policy response to (and management of) its oil wealth (Norway is the world 3rd largest exporter of oil). Norway’s practices in this area are regarded as a best practice at the international level. She has recently served as a consultant to the IMF and the World Bank.