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The Bachelor of Professional Studies in Human Services
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Meet the Faculty of the Audrey Cohen School for Human Services and EducationJoanne Ardovini (BS, Marist College; MA, State University of New York, College at Brockport; PhD, Western Michigan University) ext. 2433 Associate Professor, Dr. Ardovini, joined Metropolitan College of New York after teaching at Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas. While at Houston State, she served as an Assistant Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Sociology. Dr. Ardovini teaches a variety of classes, ranging from Principles of Sociology, Gender & Society, Ethnic Relations, Deviance, to the Sociology of Sport. Dr. Ardovini has taught at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. She specializes in Feminist Theory, Methodology, Pedagogy, as well as Social Problems, Deviance, Race and Ethnic Relations, and Criminology. Dr. Ardovini has published in the areas of Feminist Pedagogy, Methods, Inequalities in Education, Juvenile Boot Camps, Media Portrayal of Rape, Victimization and Sexual Harassment. Her book, It is Cold and Lonely Here at the Middle: Discrimination Against Female Graduate Teaching Instructors, discusses the marginalization of women in higher education. Fahamisha P. Brown (AB and MA, Loyola University in Chicago; PhD, Boston College; Research Fellow in English and African American Studies at Fordham University and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture) Dr. Brown is a resident of Staten Island, New York, and a native of Chicago, Illinois. She has taught literature, theater and communications at the College of Staten Island, CUNY. Dr. Brown has been affiliated with Austin Peay State University in Tennessee, Boston College and at other Boston area colleges and universities including: the University of Massachusetts, Harvard University, Tufts University and MIT. Her doctoral dissertation, “Black Poetry, A Vernacular Art,” explores the intersections of Black folk and popular cultural expression and Black poetry. An expansion of this study, Performing the Word: African American Poetry as Vernacular Culture, was published by Rutgers University Press in 1999. Dr. Brown’s major research interests include poetry of the African world, with an emphasis on poetry as an expression of vernacular culture, literature in performance, and Black women writers. She joins Metropolitan College of New York as an associate professor. Steven Cresap (BA, Cornell University; PhD, Cornell University) ext. 2409 For over two decades Dr. Steven Cresap served as faculty and administrator at MCNY. As an assistant professor, his concentrations include values clarification, critical thinking, rhetoric, ethics, and introductory world civilization. Dr. Cresap also leads master's seminars in philosophy. Prior to coming to MCNY, Dr. Cresap served as a researcher and role player at the South Street Seaport Museum in New York City, where he created and performed the character "Jonah Fidd", a 19th-century sailor. He has written for numerous publications, specializing in the interaction between aesthetic experience and moral behavior. Recent publications include: "Is Lookism Unjust?" for The Journal of Libertarian Studies (2005) and "Hegemonic Visualism" for Radical Pedagogy (2005), both in collaboration with Prof. Louis Tietje. In 1999 Dr. Cresap received an N.E.H. Fellowship for the New Media Classroom ("Crossing Urban Borders") at the Borough of Manhattan Community College. He is currently working on a monograph about the aesthetic value of terror. Theodor Damian (BA, Bucharest University; PhD, Fordham University; PhD, Bucharest University; Th.M., Princeton Theological Seminary) ext. 2401Dr. Damian serves as professor of philosophy, ethics and sociology in both the undergraduate and graduate programs levels at Metropolitan College of New York. In addition to teaching at MCNY since 1992, Dr. Damian has taught courses at St. Vladimir's Theological Seminary and the College of New Rochelle. He has served as a priest in Rumania, as Dean of Dorohoi District and as a magazine editor. He has also been the recipient of prestigious awards for his work in academics, poetry and theology. Dr. Damian has published several books, as well as hundreds of articles and poems in both Romanian and English, in the United States and Europe. His most recent books are The One Who Rises From On High (Christian Life, Bucharest: 2006), The Implications of the Theology of Icon (Eikon, Cluj: 2003), and The Icons: Theological and Spiritual Dimensions According to St. Theodore of Studion (The Edwin Mellen Press: 2002). Richard Grallo (BA, Boston College; MA, New York University; MS, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; PhD Educational Psychology, New York University) ext.2407 Dr. Grallo is currently an associate professor of applied psychology in the Audrey Cohen School for Human Services and Education at Metropolitan College of New York. Dr. Grallo began teaching at the College in 1983. He currently teaches a number of courses in applied psychology in the undergraduate program, and a course on research methods in the Master's Program in administration. Dr. Grallo is a former Chair of the Faculty Council at Metropolitan College of New York and he currently serves on a number of college committees. He is a Fellow at the Albert Ellis Institute, and a member of the American Psychological Society. His current research interests include problem solving and decision making and the application of mathematical models and multivariate methods to social science problems. Charles Gray (BA, Syracuse University; MSW, New York University; DSW Yeshiva University) ext. 2405 Dr. Gray is an associate professor of sociology and psychology at MCNY and serves as Chair of the Faculty Council. He has held numerous academic positions at Columbia University, Yeshiva University, and New York City Technical College. In addition, Dr. Gray has served as Acting Associate Director for the New York City Department for the Aging. His research interests include cultural and ethnic diversity, group dynamics, counseling, systems theory, leadership and decision-making. Theodore Hamm (BA, Rutgers University; MA University of California; Ph.D. University of California) Prior to joining the Metropolitan College faculty in the fall of 2006 as an associate professor, Dr. Hamm taught undergraduate and graduate courses in urban studies, history and journalism at NYU, and urban studies courses at Eugene Lang College of The New School. Dr. Hamm is the founding editor of The Brooklyn Rail, an award-winning monthly paper covering the arts and urban issues across New York City. His first book, Rebel and a Cause: Caryl Chessman and the Politics of the Death Penalty in Postwar California, 1948-1974, was published by the University of California Press in 2001. His next book, The New Blue Media: Progressive Popular Culture in the Bush Years, was published by New Press in the fall of 2007. Dr. Hamm has also worked in city politics, most recently serving as press representative for Norman Siegel in his 2005 bid to become New York City’s Public Advocate. Jaya Kannan ( BS, University of Mysore, India; MA., University of Madras, India; Master of Philosophy, University of Madras, India; PhD, Anna University, India) ext. 7039 Dr. Kannan has a Ph.D. in Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) from Anna University in India. She has taught in India, Singapore and the United States. Currently, she works as an assistant professor at Metropolitan College of New York. Her teaching and research have involved the integration of learning technologies in the areas of English as a second language, business communication and general education studies. Dr. Kannan’s most recent research interest involves studying the development of learner autonomy in the online environment. In addition to her teaching duties, she is also the Coordinator of the Learning Enhancement Center (based on a Title V Grant), where she plays a leadership role in the management of the Center, specifically with regard to matters related to academic learning, integration of technology for teaching and learning and collaboration with faculty in developing assessment instruments. Roberta Newton (BA, University of California-Santa Barbara; Ed.M, Teachers College, Columbia University) ext. 1232 Dr. Newton began her teaching career as a certified bilingual elementary school teacher in southern California. She received a B.A. from the University of California-Santa Barbara, an Ed.M. in Curriculum and Teaching at California Lutheran University, and an Ed.D. from Teachers College Columbia University for her dissertation titled, The Racialized Experiences of Pre-service Teachers of Color at a Predominantly White University. She previously served as an adjunct instructor of various teacher education courses at Teachers College, York College, Mercy College, as well as an online course instructor for Cambridge College. Currently, she is also a curriculum grant consultant for New York City, Newark, Clifton and Patterson, NJ school districts. Dr. Newton is joining the full-time faculty as an assistant professor in the Master of Science in Education program. Grace ("Jinx") Roosevelt (BA, Barnard College; MA and Ed.D, Teachers College, Columbia University) ext. 2422 For the past 30 years, Dr. Roosevelt’s research interests have spanned the fields of educational philosophy and political theory. Her doctoral dissertation was published as a book, Reading Rousseau in the Nuclear Age (1990), and she has published articles in The Journal of Aesthetic Education, History of Education Quarterly, Pensee Libre, History of Political Thought, Imprints Academic, European Journal of Political Theory, Teachers College Record, Encounter: Education for Meaning and Social Justice and the Encyclopedia of Philosophy Supplement. At MCNY, she has taught both in the undergraduate Human Services program and in the Masters in Childhood Education program, focusing on Values Dimension courses and on first semester and fourth semester Purpose seminars. In addition to being an associate professor, Dr. Roosevelt’s service to the college includes initiating and coordinating the Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence program of Dr. Tuntufye Mwamwenda (2000-2001), chairing the Curriculum Committee of the Audrey Cohen School for Human Services and Education (2005-2006), and helping to launch the new Title V Learning Enhancement Center (2006). Lynn Sally (BA, University of California at Berkeley; MA, New School University for Social Research; PhD, New York University) Dr. Sally received her Ph.D. in Performance Studies from New York University in 2004 and began teaching the humanities and writing and working with the Learning Enhancement Center at MCNY in 2005. Before joining MCNY, assistant professor Sally taught at New York University and was the Assistant Director of the Center for Writing and Language Arts at Cooper Union. Her primary area of expertise is nineteenth century popular culture and entertainment. Dr. Sally has published articles and book reviews in The Journal of Popular Culture, Senses & Society, the Encyclopedia of American Material Culture. Her book, Fighting the Flames: The Spectacular Performance of Fire at Coney Island, was published by Routledge Press in 2006. Doru Tsaganea (MA, University of Bucharest, Academy of Economic Studies; MA, City University of New York, Graduate Center; PhD, University of Bucharest, Academy of Economic Studies; PhD, City University of New York, Graduate Center) Dr. Tsaganea has taught the two courses in mathematics and the social sciences since 2004, and three courses on applied statistics offered by the Audrey Cohen School. Prior to joining the faculty as an associate professor, he taught a wide variety of courses in two areas: mathematical modeling in economics; and international relations and security. In the first area, he taught advanced mathematical theories and mathematical models of optimal economic growth. In the second area, he taught: international relations theories; globalization; geo-politics and geo-strategy; international political economy; and contemporary international conflicts. Dr. Tsaganea’s research is interdisciplinary. He uses high level mathematical theories and models for explaining complex political, strategic and economic problems. Two of his articles were published by the Journal of the World Organization of Systems and Cybernetics. He is a member of the International Studies Association, and has presented a significant number of his research papers at its conventions. Dr. Tsaganea received two successive one year Fulbright grants at the senior level for developing courses in the area of international relations and international security in Romanian universities. He was also the recipient of a one year Civic Education Project/Soros Foundation grant for consolidating what he had initiated as a Fulbright professor. Vanda Wark (BA, Shepherd College, West Virginia; MA, Teachers College, Columbia University; EdM, Teachers College, Columbia University EdD, Teachers College, Columbia University) ext. 2423 Dr. Wark has worked in the human service field as a counselor and licensed psychologist for nearly twenty years. Associate Professor Wark joined the full-time faculty of The Audrey Cohen School for Human Services and Education in September 2001 after serving over seven years as an adjunct at New York University, York College and MCNY. She is a published author, as well as an award winning playwright. Her first full-length play, "An Appearance of Desire," was a finalist in The Eugene O'Neill National Playwriting Conference, as well as a finalist for a Jerome Foundation Grant. Additional plays include: "You Can't Get Uptown on the Downtown Train," "Our Lady of Stone," "Kvetching with the Virgin Mary," and "Screaming in the Wilderness"(for which she won an Edward Albee Fellowship). Her most recent plays, "Why D’Ya Make Me Wear This, Joe?" and "Vile Affections" have been recipients of a number of awards and grants. Dr. Wark is presently working on a novel entitled "The Violence of Gentle People." Adele Weiner (BA, SUNY Binghamton; MSW, Adelphi University; PhD, State University of New Jersey, Rutgers) After many years as an associate dean of the Wurzweiler School of Social Work, Yeshiva University, Dr. Adele Weiner is returning to the classroom as a professor in Human Services. Her previous teaching experience has included undergraduate, graduate and doctoral programs, including teaching at a maximum security prison and for the military. Since 1990, Dr. Weiner has been a research consultant for one of the oldest and largest HIV prevention outreach projects for streetwalking sex workers and other marginalized populations. Her research with this population has led to several publications, including a chapter in The Encyclopedia of Social Work and numerous presentations at national and international conferences. After seeing AIDS first hand in South Africa, Dr. Weiner and a colleague began working with collectives of weavers to market their crafts in the United States to help them become financially independent. This project expanded to Thailand following participation at the International World AIDS Conference in Bangkok. Loren Weybright (BS, Manchester College; M.Ed. University of Illinois; EdD University of Illinois) ext. 2436 Dr. Weybright joined the MCNY faculty in 2004 as assistant professor in the M.S. in Childhood Education Program. Previously, he held faculty positions at Montclair State University, City College of New York, CUNY, and Fordham University at Lincoln Center. He taught in elementary schools in Brooklyn and in Illinois. His current research is on developing critical thinking and reflective practice among graduate education students, and in the assessment of college teaching. His publications and conference presentations are in the areas of critical thinking, helping caregivers and children cope with trauma and grief, and children’s play and development. Dr. Weybright is a member of both national and international professional associations involved in elementary and early childhood, as well as science education. Meet the Adjunct Faculty of the Audrey Cohen School for Human Services and EducationAlwan, Yasmine (M.A., New York University; M.F.A., Bard College) |
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