Bradley Lewis, MD, PhD is an assistant professor at NYU’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study with affiliated appointments in the Department of Psychiatry and the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis. He has dual training in humanities and medicine (with a psychiatric specialty), and he writes and teaches at the interface of medicine, humanities, and cultural studies. Lewis is the author of Moving Beyond Prozac, DSM, and the New Psychiatry: Birth of Postpsychiatry and associate editor for the Journal of Medical Humanities.

Brad, Jo (and Benny) treat Broome Street students as extended family. Jo has a PhD in English with a background in AIDS Poetry, and she has recently turned her attention to novel writing. Brad and Jo run regular Faculty in Residence programs that expose students to contemporary topics in culture, politics, and the arts. And on Sunday mornings they frequently host a “Broome Street Cafe” in their apartment with free bagels, coffee, newspapers, and conversation!! Just look for flyers and emails announcing the events and come join us!!    

Bryan Waterman has taught in NYU's English department since 2001. He teaches courses in American literature and the literary history of New York City. His publications include Republic of Intellect: The Friendly Club of New York City and the Making of American Literature (Johns Hopkins, 2007) and The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of New York City (forthcoming in 2010), which he co-edited with NYU professor Cyrus R. K. Patell. He is currently at work on two book projects: the history of a late-eighteenth-century New England sex scandal and a book on the 1977 album Marquee Moon, by the band Television, to be part of Continuum Publishing Company's 33 1/3 series.

Stephanie Smith-Waterman holds graduate degrees in Social Work and Public Policy from NYU. She teaches graduate courses in the School of Social Work and manages Human Services Evaluation and Development Associates, a private research and consulting firm.

Bryan and Stephanie have been Faculty Fellows in Residence since 2004 and have lived with their family at Broome Street since 2007. Bryan's programs aim to engage residents with the cultural history of the city -- especially the downtown neighborhoods surrounding the residence hall -- as well as with New York's present-day arts scenes. He also coordinates the Downtown Book Club. Stephanie serves as Faculty Affiliate for the Broome Community Group, the Residential College's service organization. Together they host Salon 712, an opportunity for residents to perform for an audience of peers and professionals in their fields.

Dr. Reynolds teaches a range of interdisciplinary humanities courses in the General Studies Program of NYU. His academic interests include rhetoric, poetics, literary theory, psychoanalysis, pragmatism, and Romanticism. He is currently completing a book entitled Pragrammatology: Articulations of Deconstruction and American Pragmatism.

In addition to his various academic interests, he is also deeply committed to nutrition and physical fitness, and is currently learning Portuguese and exploring all aspects of Brazilian culture.

Robert is a lawyer by training, a sports agent by profession and a professor of sports business and law by passion. Robert has served as a full-time professor in NYU’s Preston Robert Tisch Center for Sports Management for the last four years.  To quote Robert, “it has been the best experience of my entire professional life.”

Robert and his wife, Semone, who is an acting a VP of a major insurance company, live in Coral Tower as of Fall 2007 – along with their cat, Spencer.

Rogan Kersh
Goddard Residential College

Rogan Kersh is the new associate dean of academic affairs at NYU's Wagner School, among the nation's top-ranked public policy schools, where he is also a professor of public service. Prior to coming to NYU, Rogan taught at Yale and Syracuse universities. His expertise is in American politics, especially at the federal level (Congress, presidency, interest groups) and U.S. political history. He's currently writing a book on the politics of obesity--asking questions like 'should the government regulate the food we eat?'--and publishes both in scholarly journals and more popular outlets like the New York Times. Rogan frequently comments on TV, radio, and print outlets, so you might see him on CNN or Bloomberg soon. He's a native of the West Village (12th Street), though has also lived on a Greek island, in the mountains of North Carolina, and in Tokyo, London, Venice (Italy), and several U.S. cities. He's a lifelong Mets fan and plays saxophone, piano, and clarinet.

Invited speakers: Sen. Joe Lieberman (depends on Senate scheduling), Irshad Manji ("The Trouble With Islam"), Brookings Institution president (and international-security expert) Strobe Talbott, and Yale Law professor Peter Schuck, an expert on diversity and education. Likely others as well!

And be on the lookout for: political-theater series (from obscure Off- Broadway to Kevin Kline in King Lear), "Organization Kid" reading group, and Washington Career Consultations for seniors and underclassmen interested in D.C. internships.

Michael Dinwiddie is a playwright and associate professor at the Gallatin School of Individualized Study.  His teaching interests include cultural studies, African American theatre history, dramatic writing, filmmaking, and ragtime music.  A Gallatin graduate, Michael earned his M.F.A. in Dramatic Writing from the Tisch School of the Arts at NYU.  His course offerings include Migration and American Culture; Dramatizing History I & II; Poets in Protest: Footsteps to Hip Hop; James Reese Europe and American Music; Sissle, Blake, and the Minstrel Tradition; and Buenos Aires: Art, Culture & Politics.  Michael received NYU’s Distinguished Teaching Award in 2004.  “We will be visiting lots of museums, taking walking tours of New York’s ethnic neighborhoods, and integrating the city into the life of the dorm.”  

Professor John Moran (john.moran@nyu.edu) teaches courses in language, literature, and linguisitics for the Department of French.  He also oversees the department's language program. 
His principle interests lie in the fields of language teaching, the history of language, and sociolinguistics.  He has long been fascinated with all aspects of human communication, and New York City is the ideal place to observe and participate in all types of interaction.

Last year John was the Faculty Affiliate for the Gotham Explorations Community, an experience that proved to be one of the highlights of his first year as an NYU faculty member.  He is excited about being a Faculty Fellow in Residence in Hayden Hall this year.  He looks forward to another year of working with students to envision and create exciting activities that will allow the members of his community to get to know each other, to get to know NYU, and to develop a unique relationship with New York City.

Hello all.  Hopelessly in love with New York City, but a relative newcomer to NYU, I am very excited by the honor and opportunity to fill in David Scicchitano's shoes as a Faculty Fellow for Palladium, as well as Fellow for the Science and Technology floor.  A big believer that knowledge matters when you can see how it matters, I take seriously NYU's commitment to extend the classroom and use the city and residences to deepen the answer to your individual questions as to "what is this college experience for?"  I look forward to a great year for all of you, and to make living here make a meaningful difference to each of you. 

I am a psychiatrist and an Associate Professor in the NYU School of Medicine, and spend my days as Deputy Director, Psychiatry, Bellevue Hospital.  Also having earned a doctorate in history, my day job in making a large public mental health operation work, fits well with my academic interest in the social and historical context of medicine and public health so as to spur a range of projects in the School of Medicine.  These include exploring new ways to impact mental health both in US urban, and international developing country contexts, and trying to at the same time take some useful historical takes on all of that. 

I look forward to getting to know all of you, and you me, as well as my family, here at Palladium.  Again, Welcome!, and congratulations on being part of a great learning community.

Professor Renée Blake holds a BSc in Biology, and MA & PhD in Linguistics from Stanford University. Her research focuses on issues of language contact, race, ethnicity and class in several U.S. communities and the Caribbean.  She has published on the role of language in social interactions & relations, and has lectured across the country on African American English, Language & Communication, Language & Politics, Race, Class & Language Ideology and Diasporic Migration. This Fall she is teaching “Languages of America’s Ethnic Minorities”.  At the Palladium and in her class, she will explore social and cultural issues pertaining to new European immigrants as well as African Americans, Asian Americans, Latinos and Native Americans in the downtown area. She is curious to learn about the social and ethnic identities of the Palladium residents.

Ken Saunders is Vice-President for Academic Student Services at Nassau Community College and has a long and satisfying career working in student affairs at various institutions across the country. He loves listening to jazz, cooking & biking, and he is looking forward to an engaging year with the students doing his many favorite things.

Heidi White (heidi.white@nyu.edu) teaches philosophy in the Liberal Studies Program. This fall semester, she is teaching “Existentialism in Philosophy, Literature, and Film.”  Heidi, an avid traveler, has studied French in Bordeaux, German in Dresden and Spanish in Tapachula, Mexico.  As a Peace Corps volunteer, she served in Zielona Gora, Poland, and she has also taught English as a volunteer in rural Thailand and rural Mexico.  She has been twice recipient of the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst for graduate studies at the University of Leipzig and at the Karls-Eberhard University in Tubingen.  She holds a Ph.D. and a M.A. in Philosophy (New School), a M.A. in Humanities (University of Texas at Dallas) and a B.A. in Philosophy (Texas A & M University).  She is currently working on a book on William James.

“As a Faculty-Fellow-in-Residence, I have the opportunity to live and learn with my students while exploring with them the intellectual and cultural life of New York City.  Last year, for example, we presented a black-tie performance and art festival (‘The Annual Rubin Performs’) and we organized field trips for children from a nearby homeless shelter to the Museum of Natural History and the Central Park Zoo (‘Rubin Volunteers for Children’).  We toured the United Nations, learned to sail aboard a schooner at the South Street Seaport, attended an award-winning Broadway show "Doubt" (‘Rubin Night on the Town’) and listened to the stories of an Amazonian tribal leader from Ecuador (‘Study Abroad at Rubin’).  Not only has the city become our classroom, Rubin Hall has become my home and the students my neighbors.”       

Last year, Heidi received "Community Service Program of the Year" and "Faculty of the Year" Awards from The Torch Chapter of the National Residence Hall Honorary at NYU.

Chat Gunter has been at Tisch for over 15 years, teaching Production Sound for film and television.  In addition to his academic role, Chat maintains an active professional life.  He is currently the production sound mixer for the series Portraits of Performing Artists (PBS) and The Theatre on Film and Tape Archive at the Library at Lincoln Center.  He is also a sailor, a guitar player (of sorts), and a speaker of French.

Selma Thompson is a Tisch School of Arts (MFA) and Princeton University (AB) alumna.  She teaches the Gallatin graduate seminar, Dramatizing History, as well as Feature Screenwriting at Tisch.  Selma is an accomplished playwright and screenwriter.  Her works include: Perfect Crime (USA Network), Beauty, Music from the Heart, The Absolute Truth, Men Don’t Tell (all CBS), and A Modest Proposal.  Selma is a lifetime member of the Writers Guild of America, East and has been honored with a Cine Golden Eagle (1998) and Prism Award (1998).

Patsy Cooper is an Assistant Professor in the Steinhardt School of Education’s Department of Teaching and Learning. Her scholarly interests and teaching responsibilities center on early childhood education and issues related to teaching in urban schools. Professor Cooper writes on the role of race in education, early literacy acquisition, and narrative development.

As a Faculty Fellow in Residence, she focuses on extending undergraduate learning opportunities beyond the university classroom buildings. Whether teaching a course in the residence hall or leading a group to the theater or museum, her goal is to help undergraduates discover the cultural riches of both New York University and New York City. Professor Cooper also believes residential faculty can play a unique role in helping undergraduates see themselves as life long learners in partnership with community on all levels.

I am Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Honors in the English Department at NYU. My research and teaching interests include U.S. Literature, with an emphasis on emergent (minority) traditions; cultural studies, with an emphasis on popular culture; and intersections of literature and political theory. This year I’ll be teaching the MAP course Conversations of the West, the interdisciplinary lecture course Writing New York (with Bryan Waterman) and undergraduate and graduate seminars on Melville’s Moby-Dick. My Con West course has a linked Explorations floor at U-Hall, which will be focusing on the idea of Faustian bargains in literature, culture, and politics.

My wife, Deborah Lindsay Williams, shares Faculty Fellow duties with me at University Hall. She is Director of College Honors and Associate Professor of English at Iona College, and also Adjunct Associate Professor of English at NYU. This fall at NYU she is teaching a Freshman Seminar on women writers of the Harlem Renaissance and Greenwich Village Bohemia, which is also linked to an Explorations floor in our building.

Much of our free time is spent enjoying the company of our two sons, Liam (age 6) and Caleb (age 2). I also enjoy watching baseball and hockey; playing squash and tennis; going to the opera and theater; hacking around on the electric guitar; and tinkering with my various personal computers.

Our Faculty Fellow programming at University Hall has been oriented around the theme of cosmopolitanism, an idea that is central to Deborah’s and my scholarship and teaching. Originating in the idea of the world-citizen and conceived in contradistinction to nationalism, cosmopolitanism can be understood as a way of building community by embracing rather than avoiding difference. Unlike philosophical universalism, which seeks to link individuals and peoples together by finding the lowest common denominator, cosmopolitanism sees difference as an opportunity to be sought rather than a problem to be solved.

Bridging but not eliminating the gaps created by cultural difference, cosmopolitanism becomes a way for cultures to engage in dialogues with one another, fostering both the respect for another’s culture that is the lesson of multiculturalism and the sense that cultures have the ability to influence and interact with one another. In the aftermath of the tragic events of September 11, which took place just a few days after we began our appointment at University Hall, a commitment to cosmopolitan perspectives seems more valuable than ever.

William Crow holds an M.F.A in Painting and an M. S. Ed. in Leadership in Museum Education. He is currently completing his Ph. D. in Cognitive Studies while working as Associate Museum Educator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. William has lectured on art and museum education around the world. Most recently he was invited to speak at the Thyssen-Bornemisza in Madrid and the Centro Cultural Recoleta in Buenos Aires. As an artist William has exhibited his paintings at galleries in New York and has had solo and group shows around the country. 

Philip Kain is currently the curriculum chair for writing in the Global Liberal Studies. As a dancer and performance artist Philip’s work has been seen at Lincoln Center, The Kennedy Center, City Center, The Joyce, and Dance Theater Workshop among others. His cultural reviews and freelance writing have appeared in regional and national publications. He has written screenplays and for television but is currently focused on writing books for tweens. His most recent series, “The Social Experiments of Dorie Dilts” was published by Simon & Schuster and a new series of books, “The Go-See Chronicles” is scheduled to be released by S&S in 2011.

Philip and William enjoy traveling to Spain and Latin America when they can and consider Buenos Aires to be their favorite destination. They frequently camp in the Catskills and Adirondacks but can often be found bicycling on the greenways that encircle Manhattan or gardening on their terrace.

Lisa Stulberg
Founders Residence Hall

Professor Lisa M. Stulberg (lisa.stulberg@nyu.edu) teaches in the Sociology of Education program in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at NYU’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development. She received her Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of California at Berkeley and is originally from Chicago. She has been at NYU since the fall of 2002. Her research focuses on African American school politics and history since the 1950s and on school choice (e.g., charter schools and vouchers). She is completing a book (to be published by Teachers College Press in the spring of 2008) on African American participation in and politics of school choice. She teaches courses on education policy and social and cultural theory. She just moved to Water Street with her husband, Evan Rudall, and their three year-old daughter, Avery, and one year-old son, Eli. As a Faculty Fellow in 2007-2008, Lisa’s programming will focus on education and politics – particularly taking advantage of the 2008 presidential elections.

Matt Mayhew
Lafayette Street Residence Hall

Meet Matt, Sarah, and Eli Mayhew, the new Faculty Family in Residence for Lafayette Hall. Matt (matt.mayhew@nyu.edu) is an assistant professor of higher education the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development. He holds a BA in Psychology from Wheaton College, a MA in Social and Developmental Psychology from Brandies University and a PhD in Higher Education Administration from the University of Michigan, the institution with the unequivocally best football program in the history of the
nation. On the contrary, Sarah (mayhew.sarah@hotmail.com), his wife, received her BA in Psychology from Michigan State University, the institution with one of the worst football programs in the country. (Can you guess who wrote the
bios?) After surviving her Spartan experience, she moved to Virginia where she received her MSW from Virginia Commonwealth University. She is currently a licensed clinical social worker providing treatment to clients struggling with alcohol and drug addiction.

The uniting force in this divided household is our twelve month old (as of August 8th), Eli, who enjoys eating, playing, playing drums on/with his high chair, and being the center of attention wherever he goes. A future Wolverine fan, Eli is sensitive to his mother’s ailing alma mater and consoles her with kisses and cuddles whenever he can.

Olivia Birdsall
Gramercy Green Residence Hall

Olivia Birdsall has been teaching writing at NYU since 2002. A Language Lecturer in the Expository Writing Program, Olivia has taught creative and expository writing at NYU, NYU’s London Summer Study Abroad program, and as an artist-in-residence at NYC public schools.

In addition to teaching and writing, Olivia enjoys being outdoors, eating delicious food, talking about interesting things, looking at compelling art (of all kinds), listening to good stories and music, hanging out with brilliant people and reading mind-blowing writing. As the FFIR at Gramercy Green (the newest item on her list of things she enjoys), most of the events she’ll sponsor will likely involve one or more of those things.

She also asks that you make her aware of any wonders or pastimes that should be added to her list.