Site and Program Leadership

Chiké Frankie Edozien, Clinical Associate Professor, Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute, in the Faculty of Arts and Science, is NYU Accra’s Site Director. Frankie’s relationship with NYU Accra goes back many years: Since joining NYU’s faculty in 2008, he has directed Journalism’s  Accra-based ‘Reporting Africa’ program, a unique summer intensive and immersion program.

He is a journalist who honed his skills writing about government, health and cultural issues for a variety of publications. He is the author of the 2017 book Lives of Great Men, a Lambda Literary Award winner. ‘Lives’ is an exploration of the lives of contemporary LGBTQ men and women on the African continent and in the diaspora. “Shea Prince” was shortlisted for the 2018 Gerald Kraak Human Rights Award and his “Last Night in Asaba” was shortlisted again in 2019 for the Gerald Kraak and was part of the book ‘As You Like It’ earning him a second Lambda award in 2019. His “Forgetting Lamido” was also anthologized in Safe House. His work has appeared in The Times (UK), Vibe magazine, Time Magazine, Transitions Magazine, Out Traveler, Blackaids.org, The Advocate, Quartz, New York Times, Jalada, Atlas Obscura and more. Edozien was awarded New York University’s Martin Luther King, Jr Faculty Award in 2017 for excellence in teaching, community building, social justice advocacy and leadership.

As Director of NYU Berlin since 2010, Gabriella oversees its academic and administrative activities and develops relationships with local and international Universities and research institutions. Before joining NYU she taught subjects in Modern European History in universities in the U.S., Europe, and in Australia. She is a founding member of the National Peace Academy and committed to reshaping higher education, especially Global education, so that it becomes a central driver in creating a more humane and sustainable world. She is also continuing her research and writing on the Holocaust in Greece and on narratives of self-victimization in present-day Germany. 

Anna-Kazumi Stahl is a fiction writer and PhD (Comparative Literature, University of California Berkeley). As from 2013, she directs New York University’s academic program in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Born and educated in the USA, Anna-Kazumi Stahl has lived in Buenos Aires for 20 years having established herself as a published fiction writer in the Spanish language. Her fiction doctoral dissertation – treating the South American, USA and German traditions – focused on literature influenced by transnational migration and multi-cultural encounters, a topic that informs her fiction writing as well as her current research interests.

Perri Klass, MD, is co-director of NYU Florence and Professor of Journalism and Pediatrics at New York University; she practices pediatrics at Bellevue Hospital. Dr. Klass writes the weekly column, “The Checkup,” for the New York Times. Her nonfiction books include Every Mother is a Daughter, coauthored with her mother, and Quirky Kids: Understanding and Helping Your Child Who Doesn’t Fit In, coauthored with Eileen Costello, M.D., A Not Entirely Benign Procedure: Four Years as a Medical Student, and Baby Doctor: A Pediatrician’s Training. Her most recent books are The Mercy Rule, a novel, and Treatment Kind and Fair: Letters to a Young Doctor.  Dr. Klass is the National Medical Director of Reach Out and Read, which works through pediatric primary care to promote reading aloud to young children.

Lary Wolff is the Silver Professor of History at New York University, Director of the NYU Center for European and Mediterranean Studies, Executive Director of the NYU Remarque Institute, and Co-Director of NYU-Florence. His most recent book is The Singing Turk: Ottoman Power and Operatic Emotions on the European Stage from the Siege of Vienna to the Age of Napoleon (2016).  He is also the author ofPaolina’s Innocence: Child Abuse in Casanova’s Venice (2012); TheIdea of Galicia: History and Fantasy in Habsburg Political Culture (2010), Venice and the Slavs: The Discovery of Dalmatia in the Age of Enlightenment (2001), Inventing Eastern Europe: The Map ofCivilization on the Mind of the Enlightenment (1994), The Vatican and Poland in the Age of the Partitions (1988); and Postcards From the End of the World: Child Abuse in Freud’s Vienna (1988).  He has received Fulbright, American Council of Learned Societies, and Guggenheim fellowships, and he is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Catherine Robson, directs NYU London and is a professor in the English Department at New York University. She specializes in nineteenth-century British cultural and literary studies; Robson is also a long-time faculty member of the Santa Cruz-based Dickens Project. She is the author of Men in Wonderland: The Lost Girlhood of the Victorian Gentleman (2001) and Heart Beats: Everyday Life and the Memorized Poem(2012), and co-editor of The Victorian Age for the Norton Anthology of English Literature. She is currently at work on a new book about the recording of the voices of British prisoners-of-war during the First World War.

Nina R. Sadowsky is the program director at NYU Los Angeles. As an educator, author, and filmmaker, Sadowsky brings extensive and wide-ranging experience in the entertainment and media industries to NYU. Since 2008, she has taught at the University of Southern California’s School of Cinematic Arts, teaching both undergraduate and MFA courses. Her courses have covered creative collaboration in film and television production, short film development, producing, and graduate thesis development and she currently serves as MFA thesis adviser to student filmmakers.

Jim Fernández, of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Literatures, is the Site Director at NYU Madrid, as of Fall 2019, succeeding Rob Lubar. Jim is no stranger to NYU Madrid, having served as Interim Director in Spring and Summer, 2014. Jim joined NYU's faculty in 1995, and was the inaugural Director of NYU's King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center from 1995-2007.  He has also served as Chair of his department. A native of Brooklyn, Jim's paternal grandparents immigrated to New York from Spain in the early twentieth century.

Alfred Galichon is a professor of economics (Arts & Science) and of mathematics (Courant Institute) at New York University, an affiliated faculty of NYU’s Center for Data Science, and the director of NYU Paris. His research interests span widely across theoretical, computational and empirical questions and include econometrics, microeconomic theory, and data science. Among his research contributions, he has co-invented vector quantile regression, a multivariate statistical regression technique; affinity estimation, a method for inferring preferences in matching markets; and the mass transport approach to demand inversion, a class of methods to invert multinomial choice models. He is the author of close to forty research articles and is a co-editor of Economic Theory. He has served as the principal investigator of grants under the European Research Council (ERC) and the National Science Foundation (NSF).

The Director of NYU Prague since 1998, Jiří Pehe was the Director of the Political Department of Czech President Václav Havel from 1997 to 1999. He serves as Chairman of the Program Committee of the Forum 2000 Foundation that organizes annual international conferences under Havel’s auspices.

From 1995 to 1997, Pehe was Director of Analysis and Research Department at the Open Media Research Institute in Prague. Between 1988 and 1995, he first worked as an analyst of Central European affairs and later as Director of Central European Research at the Research Institute of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty in Munich, Germany. From 1985 to 1988, Pehe was Director of East European Studies at Freedom House in New York.

Benjamin Hary assumed the directorship of NYU Tel Aviv 2014 and is also a Professor at the Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies at NYU. Up until 2014 Hary was the Director of the Program in Linguistics and a Professor at Emory University. Hary is the author of Multiglossia in Judeo-Arabic (1992), Translating Religion (2009) and Daily Life in Israel (2012, with R. Adler). He is also the editor and co-editor of Judaism and Islam (2000), Corpus Linguistics and Modern Hebrew (2003), and Esoteric and Exoteric Aspects in Judeo-Arabic Culture in 2006. He also published over 50 articles and book reviews on Judeo-Arabic, as well as Arabic and Hebrew linguistics, and has lectured widely in Europe, Israel, Egypt and North America. His research interests include Jewish languages in general and Judeo-Arabic in particular, Jews in the Islamic world, the politics of Arabic language use in Israeli society, corpus linguistics, Language and Religion, dialectology, and sociolinguistics.

Kari Miller assumed the Directorship of NYU Washington, D.C. on September 1, 2021. Kari’s depth of higher education experience expands over 20 years. She has managed study abroad programs for DC-based universities in Cape Town, Paris, and Madrid. Most recently, she served as the Director of Honors and Scholar Development in the Office of Undergraduate Studies at Howard University; Kari also served as an affiliated faculty member in the Department of African Studies, teaching South African History in Literature and Film. Kari’s extensive international experience also includes her work with the Fulbright Scholar Program at the Institute of International Education (IIE), from 2010 to 2013. At IIE, she supported the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs Africa Branch in the administration of Fulbright teaching and research grant programs for U.S. and visiting international faculty. Kari is also a member of the National Association of Fellowship Advisors, and serves annually on the Finalist Selection Committee of the Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation. Kari received a B.A. in English from Spelman College, an M.S. in Higher Education from Florida State University. Her Ph.D. is in African Studies from Howard University, where she completed her doctoral research on Representations of Black South African Women in the Plays of Athol Fugard and Zakes Mda.

Dr. Matthew S. Santirocco is Professor of Classics and Angelo J. Ranieri Director of Ancient Studies; he also serves as Academic Director of NYU-Washington, DC. From 2011 to 2017 he was Senior Vice Provost for Academic Affairs, and from 1994 to 2011 he served as the Seryl Kushner Dean of the College of Arts and Science at NYU. Before that, he was College dean at the University of Pennsylvania, and had also taught at Pittsburgh, Columbia, Emory, and Brown.

Dr. Santirocco's scholarly interests focus on Greek and Latin literature and thought. He is the author or editor of several books, including Unity and Design in Horace's Odes; Latinitas: The Tradition and Teaching of Latin; and What’s New about the Old (a special issue of “Daedalus” on new approaches to the Greco-Roman world), as well as numerous articles. He is currently working on a book about the poetics of patronage in Augustan Rome.