DEANS TO INCLUDE ROBERT GLICKMAN, FACULTY TO INCLUDE STEPHEN COHEN,VISITING FACULTY TO INCLUDE COOPER, DERRIDA, GOULD AND VOLKER New York University today announced a number of newly appointed deans, senior faculty and visiting faculty for the 1998-1999 academic year. They include:

NEW DEANS

Michael C. Alfano, D.M.D, Ph.D. – previously vice president for research and technology at Block Drug Company and an adjunct professor of periodontics at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey – has been named Dean of the NYU College of Dentistry

Robert M. Glickman, M.D. – previously the Henry L. Blumgart Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Physician-in-Chief and Chairman of the Department of Medicine at Boston’s Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center – has been named Dean of the NYU School of Medicine

Peter Lennie – a neuroscientist and previously the chair of the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at the University of Rochester – has been named Dean for Science in NYU’s Faculty of Arts and Science

E. Frances White – previously Dean of Faculty at Hampshire College in Massachusetts – has been named Dean of NYU’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study

PERMANENT APPOINTMENTS

Edward Berenson– an historian of modern French society and culture, a contributor to state and national curricular standards in history, and previously the chairman of general education in the College of Letters and Science at UCLA – will join NYU’s Faculty of Arts and Science in the History Department

Robert Cohen – previously a professor at the University of Georgia – will join NYU’s School of Education in the Department of Teaching and Learning

Stephen Cohen – an historian of the politics and foreign policy of Russia and the Soviet Union and previously a professor of politics and Russian studies at Princeton University – will join NYU’s Faculty of Arts and Science in the Department of Russian and Slavic Studies

George W. Downs – previously the Class of 1942 Professor of Peace and War at Princeton University – will join NYU’s Faculty of Arts and Science as chairman of the Politics Department

Troy Duster – previously a professor of sociology and director of the Institute for the Study of Social Change at the University of California-Berkeley – will join NYU’s Faculty of Arts and Science in the Sociology Department

Glennys Farrar – previously a professor in the high energy theory group at Rutgers University – will join NYU’s Faculty of Arts and Science as chair of the Physics Department

Michael Keane – an economist and previously a professor at the University of Minnesota – will join NYU’s Faculty of Arts and Science in the Economics Department

Judith Miller – a scholar of contemporary French drama and previously the chair of the French Department at the University of Wisconsin – has been named director of the “NYU in Paris” program

James Ohlson – previously the George O. May Professor at the Columbia University School of Business – has been named the Stern Professor of Business at NYU’s Stern School of Busines

Arvind Rajagopal – a member of the Institute for Advanced Study and previously a professor at Purdue University’s Department of Communications – will join NYU’s School of Education in the Department of Culture and Communications

Paul Thompson – a writer, director and actor who was previously head of Film and Television at the Australian Film, Television and Radio School and a lecturer at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art – will join NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts

Eitan Zemel – previously the Harold L. Stuart Professor of Management at Northwestern’s Kellogg School – has been named the W. Edwards Deming Professor of Quality and Productivity at NYU’s Stern School of Business

VISITING PROFESSORSHIPS

Robert Brawer - former president and CEO of Maidenform Worldwide and author of “Fictions of Business: Insights on Management from Great Literature” – will lecture on business and literature as an adjunct associate professor of social sciences in NYU’s School of Continuing and Professional Studies

Suzanne Carothers – previously a professor of education at City College of New York – will be a visiting professor at NYU’s School of Education in the Department of Teaching and Learning

Frederick Cooper – a leading scholar on Africa, slavery and emancipation, labor and colonialism who is on leave from the University of Michigan’s History Department – will be a visiting professor in NYU’s History Department

Jacques Derrida – the French literary theorist – will teach in NYU’s English Department and deliver several public lectures

Stephen Jay Gould – the Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology and professor of geology at Harvard University – will be the Vincent Astor Research Professor of Biology and be teaching in NYU’s Biology Department.

Paul Volcker – former chairman of the Federal Reserve – will be the Henry Kaufman Visiting Professor at NYU’s Stern School of Business

Thomas Woll - President of Cross River Publishing Consultants and author of “Principles of Profitability in Book Publishing”, will be a Visiting Professor of Publishing teaching in the Masters Program in publishing at NYU’s School of Continuing and Professional Studies.

Lester Wunderman - founding partner of Wunderman Cato Johnson, a leading direct marketing firm – will be a Visiting Clinical Professor of Direct Marketing in NYU’s School of Continuing and Professional Studies’ Center for Direct Marketing Management.

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