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Recent Appointments to Doctoral Faculty

Ph.D. Program in Anthropology

Colleen Elizabeth Batey, University of Glasgow: Archaeology of the Vikings and Late Norse in Scotland and the North Atlantic Region (8th century A.D.-15th century A.D.).

Au.D. Program in Audiology

Michael Bergen, Brooklyn College: Hearing aids, diagnostic audiology; clinical education.

Rochelle Cherry, Brooklyn College: Auditory processing disorders; aural habilitation; aural rehabilitation; pediatric audiology.

Genevieve Davitt, Brooklyn College: pediatric audiology; central auditory processing disorder, testing procedures and therapy strategies.

Michelle B. Emmer, Brooklyn College: Hearing science; pediatric diagnostic audiology; acoustics; otitis media; auditory deprivation.

Stanley A. Gelfand, Queens College: Audiology; hearing science; linguistics and communication disorders.

Glenis R. Long, The Graduate Center: Otoacoustic emissions; psychoacoustics.

Adrienne Rubinstein, Brooklyn College: Hearing aid assessment; aural rehabilitation.

Shlomo Silman, Brooklyn College: Speech and hearing science; audiology; electrophysiology; otitis media; auditory deprivation.

Carol Silverman, Hunter College: Medical audiology; auditory deprivation and acclimatization; acoustic immittance.

Donald A. Vogel, Hunter College: Pediatric audiology; vestibular assessment and rehabilitation; business and ethics.

Barbara E. Weinstein, Lehman College: Geriatric audiology; audiologic rehabilitation; counseling; hearing assessment; hearing health promotion.

Susan E. Wortsman, Hunter College: Diagnostic audiology; pediatric audiology; counseling.

Ph.D. Program in Economics

Clive Belfield, Queens College: Economics of education, labor economics, industrial organization.

Akinori Tomohara, Queens College: Public economics, international economics, development economics, multinational companies, foreign direct investment, environmental regulation.

Mark Douglas White, College of Staten Island: Economics and philosophy, law and economics, applying the ethics of Kant to economic modeling in law and economics.

Ph.D. Program in History

Michael S. Foley, College of Staten Island: American history, war and peace, post-World War II.

Thomas R. Heinrich, Baruch College: United States history, history of business and technology.

Dina Le Gall, Lehman College: Middle Eastern history, Islamic history, Sufism.

Julia E. Sneeringer, Queens College: 20th Century Germany, women's and gender history.

Ph.D. Program in Mathematics

Elena Kosygina, Baruch College: Probability, stochastic processes, and partial differential equations (in particular, scaling limits of interacting particle systems, homogenization of stochastic Hamilton-Jacobi equations).

Ph.D. Program in Music

Adrienne Fried Block, The Graduate Center: American Music, Amy Beach, women composers, Theodore Thomas. (Adjunct Faculty)

Ph.D. Program in Political Science

Vincent G. Boudreau, City College: Contentious politics, state repression, regime transitions, Southeast Asia.

Ph.D. Program in Sociology

Robert Courtney Smith, Baruch College: Immigration, education, Mexico and Mexican New York, transnational cultures, race, ethnicity, and gender.

Victoria Pitts, Queens College: Sociology of the body, sociology of culture, sociology of medicine, and gender.

Ph.D. Program in Business

Gwendolyn Web, Baruch College: Unbiased measures of market return; empirical analysis of short- and long-term market responses to new-listings events; market measures of trading volume and volatility.

Ph.D. Program in English

Richard A. Kaye, Hunter College: Victorian, modernist, and contemporary literature and art; the novel; masculinity; Oscar Wilde; representations of Salome; representations of St. Sebastian; World War I literature.

Alan Douglas Vardy, Hunter College: Romanticism; John Clare; Samuel Taylor Coleridge; laboring-class poets, aesthetics, and politics.

Nancy Yousef, Baruch College: Romanticism and Enlightenment philosophers.

Ph.D. Program in Social Welfare

Bernadette R. Hadden, Hunter College: HIV/AIDS prevention interventions with women and the elderly; controlled trials and longitudinal study of drug users, STI/SID clinic attendees, persons with HIV, and persons with severe mental illnesses; depression and anxiety in the elderly.

Darrell P. Wheeler, Hunter College: Sociocultural factors contributing to health; mental health well-being in urban populations; HIV/AIDS prevention and intervention targeted to African-Americans.

Ph.D. Program in Urban Education

David Goode, College of Staten Island: History of disability, quality of life, phenomenological research, animal studies, ethnomethodology.

Judith Summerfield, Queens College: Rhetoric and composition, narrative studies, higher education, English education, faculty development.

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