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Program Faculty

Philip M. Hosay (Director)
Professor, International Education
Director, Multinational Institute of American Studies
Ph.D. (history), University of Michigan, 1969
Among his publications are The Challenge of Urban Poverty, The Dictionary of American Biography, Outline Series in American Studies for the United States Information Agency.  He has served as a consultant for the U.S. State Department in Norway, Portugal, Sweden, Italy, Egypt, Armenia, Belarus, Russia, Japan, Korea and Thailand, and has lectured at a number of foreign universities, including the Institute d'Études Politiques, Université Strasbourg, St. Petersburg University, Thammasat University and Chonnam National University.   Most recently, he gave the keynote address at the annual meeting of the American Studies Association of Thailand and the American Studies Association of Korea, and he was a Senior Fullbright Specialist in Turkey.

Specialization in public diplomacy, international educational and cultural exchange, study of the United States in other countries.

René Arcilla
Associate Professor, Philosophy of Education
Chair, Department of Humanities and the Social Sciences
Ph.D. (education and philosophy), University of Chicago, 1990
Among his publications are For the Love of Perfection: Richard Rorty and Liberal Education, A Life in Classrooms: Philip W. Jackson and the Practice of Education, and Mediumism: A Philosophical Reconstruction of Modernism,  “Generation and the Postmodernist Anxiety of Influence,”  in Erziehungsphilosophie im Umbruch: Beiträge zur Neufassung des Erziehungsbegriffs, “The Questions of Liberal Education.”  Liberal Education, and "Modernising Media or Modernist Medium? The Struggle for Liberal Learning in Our Information Age."  Journal of Philosophy of Education.  He has been a Visiting Professor at the University of Tokyo, and serves on the Editorial Board of  Jahrbuch für Bildungs- und Erziehungsphilosophie, and the ReviewBoard of Educational Theory.

 Specialization in philosophy of education, and the relationship of a liberal education to humanism.

 Richard Arum
Professor, Educational Sociology and Sociology
Ph.D. (sociology), University of California, Berkeley, 1996
Among his publications are The Reemergence of Self-Employment: A Comparative Study of Self-Employment Dynamics and Social Inequality, Judging School Discipline: The Crisis of Moral, The Structure of Schooling: Readings in the Sociology of Education, and "Schools and Communities: Ecological and Institutional Dimensions," Annual Review of Sociology.  His most recent book, which he co-edited, is Stratification in Higher Education: A Comparative Study. He is the Program Director of Education Research at the Social Science Research Council, and recently received a Fulbright Institute New Century Scholar Fellowship

Specialization in cross-national evaluation, legal and institutional environments of schools, comparative study of social stratification and self-employment.

Jack  Buckley
Associate Professor, Applied Statistics
Ph.D. (political science), SUNY Stony Brook 2003
Recent publications include Charter Schools: Hope or Hype, “School Choice in Chile: Is it Class, or the Classroom?,” Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, and “Are Charter School Students Harder to Educate?,” Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis. He is currently conducting research on school choice under Chile’s universal voucher system and on cross-national comparability of survey data in the major international educational assessments (PISA, TIMSS, PIRLS). He is affiliated with Steinhardt’s Applied Psychology department and also with the National Center for Research on the Privatization of Education at Teachers College and he is the former Deputy Commissioner of the National Center for Education Statistics at the U.S. Department of Education.

Specialization in education policy, applied statistics, privatization of education

Dana Burde
Assistant Professor, International Education
Ph.D. (comparative and international education), Columbia University, 2001
Befor coming to NYU she was an Associate Research Scholar at the Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies in the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. Recent publications include: Save the Children's Afghan Refugee Education Program in Balochistan, Pakistan 1995-2005 , Education in Crisis Situations: Mapping the Field , and "International NGOs and best practices: The art of educational lending," in G. Steiner-Khamsi , Global Politics of Educational Borrowing and Lending . Her current research in Afghanistan focuses on whether and how education may protect children from violence in post-conflict societies and improve their life chances. The research is supported by grants from the Spencer Foundation, the US Institute of Peace, the Weikart Family Foundation, and the National Science Foundation

Specialization in education in emergencies, NGOs, social movements, and education as a tool for social reconstruction in post-conflict regions. 

Sean Patrick Corcoran
Assistant Professor, Educational Economics
Ph.D (economics), University of Maryland 2003
Recent publications include "The Political Economy of School Choice: Support for Charter Schools Across States and School Districts" in the Journal of Urban Economics , and "Women, the Labor Market, and the Declining Relative Quality of Teachers" in the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management . He is an affiliated faculty member of the Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, a research associate of the Economic Policy Institute, and an Education Policy Research Unit fellow.

Specialization in state and local public finance, the economics of education, and applied econometrics.
 

Cynthia Miller-Idriss
Assistant Professor, International Education and Educational Sociology
Ph.D. (sociology), University of Michigan, 2003
Among her publications are "Challenge and Change in the German Vocational Education System since 1990." Oxford Review of Education, "Dismantling the Nation, Debunking Pride: Discourse and Practice in German Civics Classrooms," Perspectives on Citizenship Education: Theory - Research – Practice, "Citizenship Education and Political Extremism in Germany: An Ethnographic Account," Political and Citizenship Education: International Perspectives , and "Rethinking Citizenship Frameworks: Education for Citizenship Practice, not Citizenship Status," Education in Russia, the Independent States and Eastern Europe. She is also the author of a new book on Blood and Culture: Race, Citizenship and National Belonging in a Re-imagined Germany.

Specialization in citizenship and national identity, youth and ethnic conflict, political and ideological extremism, and civic and vocational education in international and comparative contexts.

Gabriel Moran
Professor, Humanities and Social Sciences, Director, Philosophy of Education
Ph.D. (religious education), Catholic University of America, 1965
He is the author of 19 books and numerous essays in edited collections, among which are Experiences in Community, Religious Education Development, No Ladder to the Sky: Morality and Education, Uniqueness: Problem or Paradox in Jewish and Christian Traditions, A Grammar of Responsibility, "Is a Workable Ethic of Non-violence Possible?" International Seminar on Religious and Values, "Religion and International Ethics," Association of Professors and Researchers in Religious Education. He has also published 200 articles in such publications as Commonweal, America, Theological Studies, Cross Currents, and Education Week.

Specialization in international ethics and human rights, philosophy of education, and religion in education.

 

Erin Murphy-Graham 
Assistant Professor, International Education 
Ed.D. (International Education),  Harvard University, 2005 
Prior to joining the faculty at NYU, she was a faculty member at University of California, Berkeley, where she taught courses on globalization and international education and gender and education. Her research and teaching focus on three areas: the role education in promoting gender equality and women’s empowerment, the expansion and reform of secondary education in Latin America, and the connection between research and policy. Her current research project, funded by a grant from the Hewlett Foundation ($1.2 million), is a mixed-methods impact evaluation of the alternative secondary education program Sistema de Aprendizaje Tutorial (Tutorial Learning System) in Honduras. Her research appears in journals including Gender and Education, Prospects Journal of International Education, and the American Journal of Evaluation.  

Specialization in gender and education, education in Latin America, alternative secondary education, program evaluation, and the relationship between research and policy. 

Elizabeth M. Norman
Professor, Humanities and Social Sciences
Ph.D. NYU, 1986.
Recent books include NYU Times best seller, Tears in Darkness, and We Band of Angels: The Untold Story of American Nurses Trapped on Bataan by the Japanese, Women at War: The Story of Fifty Military Nurses Who Served in Vietnam, and a new book, co-written with Michael Norman, Tears in the Darkness. She has worked in archives and conducted research interviews in Japan and the Philippine Islands, and studied the impact of poverty on health care in Togo and Lesotho in Africa . She recently spoke at Arlington National Cemetery,and appeared on the History Channel, FOX Network News and CNN doing on-air commentary about war.

 

Specialization in the immediate and long term impact of war on military personnel and civilians, including children; poverty and health care in developing countries.

Marcelo M. Suárez-Orosco
Courtney Sale Ross University Professor of Globalization and Education
Ph.D. (anthropology) University of California, Berkeley, 1986
Among his publications are Globalization: Culture and Education in the New Millennium, Latinos: Remaking America, the six-volume Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the New Immigration, Children of Immigration, Cultures Under Siege: Collective Violence and Trauma, Transformations: Immigration, Family Life, and Achievement Motivation Among Latino Adolescents, and over 100 scholarly papers appearing in such journals as Ethos, International Migration, Anthropology and Education Quarterly, Harvard Educational Review, and The Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Specialization in immigration and globalization, psychological anthropology, and culture and education.

Jonathan Zimmerman
Professor, Educational History and History
Ph.D.(history) Johns Hopkins University, 1993
Among his publications are Small Wonder: The Little Red Schoolhouse in History and Memory, Whose America? Culture Wars in the Public Schools, Distilling Democracy: Alcohol Education in America's Public Schools, 1880-1925, "Ethnics Against Ethnicity: European Immigrants and Foreign-Language Instruction, 1890-1940," Journal of American History, and "Beyond Double Consciousness: Black Peace Corps Volunteers in Africa, 1961-1971," Journal of American History. A former Peace Corps volunteer in Nepal, his most recent book is  Innocents Abroad: American Teachers in the American Century. 

Specialization in multicultural education, immigration history, the influence of schools on development, democratic community and education.

 

Adjunct Faculty

David Austell
Director, Office of International Students and Scholars, NYU
Ph.D. (higher education), University of North Carolina, 1990
Before coming to NYU, Austell was the Executive Director of the Office of International Programs at Wayne State University.  Among his publications are "The New Proselytes," International Educator, “A Protocol for Repatriation.” The Compass ,“Lessons from the Railsplitter: Observations on Leadership.”  International Educator,and H-1BVisa Handbook for Higher Education.

Specialization is study abroad, student exchange, and international programs in higher education.

Lynda Spielman
Director of Deployment, Global Human Resources, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu
Ph.D. (Latin American history) Indian University, 1975
Before joining the Deloitte organization, Spielman worked on global economic development issues for international organizations such as the United Nations and the Carnegie Endowment. At Deloitte for 25 years, she has developed innovative programs in cross-cultural learning and communications for multinational business settings.

Specialization in cross-cultural education for the global economy.

Steven C. Wheatley
Vice President, American Council of Learned Societies
Ph.D. (history), University of Chicago, 1982
Before joining the ACLS in 1986 as Director of the American Studies Program, Wheatley taught history at the University of Chicago. Among his publications are The Politics of Philanthropy: Abraham Flexner and Medical Education, and Constitutionalism and Democracy: Transitions in the Contemporary World. The senior staff member responsible for the oversight of ACLS activities, he has worked extensively with international programs.

Specialization in international educational and cultural exchange.

Affiliated Faculty

Edward Berenson
Professor, History and French Studies, Director, Institute of French Studies, Faculty of Arts and Science
Ph.D. (history), University of Rochester, 1981

Specialization in modern France, history of popular journalism,comparative study of the popular culture of imperialism in England and France.

David B.H. Denoon
Professor, Politics and Economics, Faculty of Arts and Science
Ph.D. (political science), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1975

Specialization in political economy, national security, and East Asian affairs.

Richard W. Hull
Professor, History, Faculty of Arts and Science
Ph.D. (African history), Columbia University, 1969
Specialization in history of Americans and American enterprise in Africa, urbanizationin sub-Saharan Africa, African studies.

Farhad Kazemi
Professor, Politics and Middle Eastern Studies, Director, Kervorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies, Faculty of Arts and Science
Ph.D. (political science), University of Michigan, 1973

Specialization in comparative and international politics, civil society in the Middle East, Middle Eastern politics.

Christopher Mitchell
Professor, Politics, former Director, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Faculty of Arts and Science
Ph.D. (political science), Harvard University, 1971
Specialization in comparative politics, international relations, Latin American politics.

Arvind Rajagopal
Associate Professor, Culture and Communications, Steinhardt School of Education
Ph.D. (sociology), University of California, Berkeley, 1992
Specialization in political economy of culture, globalization, contemporary South Asia.

Martin A. Schain
Professor, Politics, former Director, Center for European Studies, Faculty of Arts and Science
Ph.D. (political science), Cornell University, 1971

Specialization in European politics, comparative politics, center-periphery relations.

Paul Smoke
Associate Professor, Public Finance and Planning, Robert F. Wagner School of Public Service
Ph.D. (international development planning), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1988

Specialization in international urban and regional development, fiscal reform, public sector decentralization.

Frank Tang
Clinical Professor and Director, Multilingual Multicultural Studies, Steinhardt School of Education
Ph.D. (education), New York University, 1984

Specialization in culture and second/foreign language acquisition, comparative education, East Asian studies.

 Faculty Emeritus

Donald Johnson
Professor Emeritus, International Education

Graduate and Teaching Assistants                    

Jennifer Auerbach
B.A. (philosophy and art), New York University, 2001; M.A. (internationaleducation), New York University, 2007

Christian Bracho
B.A. (English and comparative literature), University of Rochester, 1999; M.S. (secondary education), University of Rochester, 2000

Elizabeth Hanauer
B.A. (French), Wellesley College, 2001; M.A. (French), Middlebury College, 2002

Amy Kapit
B.A. (religion, peace and conflict studies), Swarthmore College, 2006

Karleigh Koster -Graduate Assistant
B.A. (French and history), Butler University, 2001; M.A. (French studies), NewYork University, 2002

Martha McGivern
B.A. (English), Trinity College, 2002; M.A. (international education), New York University, 2007

Athena Maikish
B.A. (economics), Dartmouth College, 2000; M.A. (educational leadership), Columbia University, 2003

Naomi Moland
B.A. (anthropology), Tufts University, 2001; M.A. (education), Arizona State University, 2003

Carolyn Sattin Bajaj
B.A. (public policy), Duke University, 2002

Lauren Sinclair
B.S. (geography), University of Oregon, 2002; M.A. (TESOL), New York University, 2007

Rachel Wahl
B.A. (theater and social science), Marymount Manhattan College, 2002

Alexandra Wood
B.A. (Japanese and interdisciplinary studies), University of Pittsburgh, 2000; M.A. (public and international affairs), University of Pittsburgh, 2002

Ashleigh White
B.A. (English), University of Florida, 2001; M.A. (English education), Harvard University, 2002