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fall 2003 | The Culture Issue

Contributors

Jacqueline Abrams is pursuing her Master’s degree from the Draper Program (GSAS). Her interests include intellectual history from the Enlightenment through the critique of postmodernity. Currently, she is writing about the juridico-political question posed by the crisis of refugees and modern forms of slavery.

Dan Bursztyn is a Ph.D. candidate in Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Literatures (GSAS) who expects to graduate. He is interested in contemporary Peninsular and Latin American poetry and philosophy as well as issues of political and social concern. Currently he is working to publish a translation of the anthology, Poemas a D.K. by Francisco Brines.

Allison Butler is a doctoral candidate and instructor in the Department of Culture and Communication (Steinhardt School of Education). Her dissertation is on how young people tell the stories of their developing identities through their sports participation and connections with their media choices.

Aliki Caloyeras has a Master’s of Fine Arts degree from the University of Houston and has had poems and translations published in Natural Bridge, Poetry Greece, and Peregrine. She teaches at NYU in the Expository Writing Program, and expects to receive her Master’s from the Draper Program with an Advanced Certificate in Poetics & Theory in May 2004.

Brian DiFeo is finishing his Master’s Project on Guatemala’s human rights movement this semester with the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS) (GSAS). His interests include social movements, transnational human rights, and Latin American history.

Cindy Maguire taught art in the Los Angeles City Schools for nine years prior to enrolling at NYU to pursue her doctorate in Art Education (Steinhardt). Her current focus is on exploring art as a language for cross cultural communication and conflict resolution.

Urayoán Noel is a doctoral candidate in the department of Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Literatures (GSAS, Ph.D. expected 2007). Born and raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico, he is the author of two books of poetry: Las flores del mall (2000) and Kool Logic (forthcoming, Bilingual Press).

Lauren Rosenblum expects to earn her Master’s degree from the Draper Program in August 2004. Lauren is working on a series of short stories inspired by the American experience.

Sema Sgaier is a Ph.D. candidate in Cell Biology (Sackler School of Biomedical Sciences).

Amy E. Shaw, a fifth year Draper student, has been taking the scenic route through her graduate studies, but will be finally graduating in May 2004. Her writing and scholarship deal with ideas about place, memory, and identity, and her thesis is a phenomenology of 19th century barns in her hometown, Northwood, New Hampshire.

Jessica Shimmin will complete her Master’s degree in Media Ecology in May 2004 (Steinhardt). Her interests include symbolic representation in social and political communication. She would like to thank Kristin Shimmin and Sundeep Suchdev for never ending critiques and encouragement.

Cjadwick T. Smith is a student in the Draper Program and expects to receive his Master’s degree in 2004. His work deals primarily with philosophies of science and humanism, focusing on information and communications technologies and their impact on ethical and political spheres.

Iris Smyles is a first semester graduate student in the Draper program studying twentieth century American literature and history.

Leanne Trapedo Sims received her Master’s degree and completed her Ph.D. coursework in the Department of Performance Studies (Tisch School of the Arts). Her poetry has appeared in Oyez Poetry Review, Midland Poetry Review, and is forthcoming in Bridges Literary Journal.

Francesca Varda is a Master’s candidate at CLACS, expecting to graduate in December 2003. Concentrating in anthropology, her thesis is on the Peruvian Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

Andrew Whitworth-Smith graduated with an Master’s degree in 2003 from CLACS with a concentration in cultural studies. He has done fieldwork among migrant workers in Mexico and New York, and is interested in culture as a viable means of sustainable economic development in third world countries.