At the first faculty meeting, Dean Mary Brabeck announced tenure and promotion decisions. Below are faculty members who excel in teaching and research and contribute in important ways to their professions, NYU, and the Steinhardt community, as well as our local and global society.

Promoted to Associate Professor with Tenure

Alisha Ali (Applied Psychology) is a psychologist whose research on depression has been funded by the National Institute of Mental Health, the Eli Lilly Foundation, the Center for Addiction and Mental Health, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. In 2000, she was the recipient of the national Lundbeck Fellow Award for psychiatric research. She is the co-editor of Cultural Perspectives on Women’s Depression: Self-Silencing, Psychological Distress, and Recovery, which will soon be published by Oxford University Press.

Susan Murray (Media, Culture, and Communication) is a scholar of media studies and the author of Hitch Your Antenna to the Stars: Early Television and Broadcast Stardom (Routledge, 2005), and the co-editor of Reality TV: Remaking Television Culture (NYU Press, 2004). Her work has appeared in numerous anthologies and journals such as Television and New Media and Cinema Journal.

Awarded Tenure

Allen Feldman (Media, Culture, and Communication) is a political and medical anthropologist who conducts ethnographic and social historical research in the visual culture of violence and political terror, the politics of the senses and embodiment, practice-led media research, media archeology, and the philosophy of media. He has conducted field research and published on the civil war in Northern Ireland, the South African Truth Commission, and homelessness and AIDS in New York City. He is currently writing a book for Duke University Press on the Political Theory of Virtuality and Animality.

Promoted to Professor

Sharron Dalton (Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health) is the author of Our Overweight Children: What Parents, Schools, and Communities Can Do to Control the Fatness Epidemic (University of California Press, 2004). She studies food choice behavior, the dynamics of body weight management, and international nutrition. Dalton is a member of the School Food Plus Coalition, an advisory group to the NYC Department of Education Office of Food Services. Her publication, “Nutrition Education by Teachers Promotes Fruit and Vegetable Consumption in Italian Students,” is a report on a two-year collaboration with elementary schools in a southern Italy health district.

Helen Nissenbaum (Media, Culture, and Communication) is a faculty fellow of the Information Law Institute. She studies ethical and political issues related to information technology and new media, particularly privacy, politics of search engines, and values embodied in technology design. Research grants from the U.S. National Science Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security have supported her research. She regularly participates in multi-disciplinary appraisals of technology, and has served as a member of the National Research Council Committee on Privacy and the Information Age. She is the author of Emotion and Focus (Cambridge University Press, 1985), Computers, Ethics and Social Values (Prentice Hall, 1995), and co-editor of The Internet and the Academy (Peter Lang, 2004). She is a cofounding editor of the journal Ethics and Information Technology.

Promoted to Clinical Associate Professor

Maris Krasnow (Teaching and Learning) is a teacher, mentor, and advocate for children and their families. She is the co-author of Inquiring Into Teaching and Learning: Explorations and Discoveries for Prospective Teachers (Kendall/ Hunt, 2006). Actively involved in school reform, she participated in the design and implementation of an NYU Partnership school in New York City’s Lower East Side and coordinated professional development and evaluation of Head Start Programs through a five-year grant from the Robin Hood Foundation.

Mary Leou (Teaching and Learning) is a national leader in environmental education and the director of Steinhardt’s Wallerstein Collaborative for Urban Environmental Education. She is the author of Readings in Environmental Education: An Urban Model (Kendall Hunt, 2005). She serves on many boards and statewide committees including the Environmental Education Advisory Council, the NYC Science Education Taskforce, and the High School of Environmental Studies. In 2007 she received an Environmental Quality Award from the Environmental Protection Agency for her work in environmental education and conservation.

Catherine Moore (Music and Performing Arts Professions) is a scholar, critic, and music industry consultant, and has served as director of Steinhardt’s music business graduate program since 1997. Titles of recent papers include: “Can Music Quality Be Measured In Business Terms?”; “International Music Marketing as Translation;” “Cultural Variety as Music Business Strategy: Enriching the Repertoire or Pandering for Profit?” and The Composer Michelangelo Rossi: A “Diligent Fantasy Maker” in Seventeenth-Century Rome (Taylor & Francis, 1993).

Lisa Sasson (Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health) directs the graduate clinical master’s program, the dietetic internship, and NYU’s study abroad program in Tuscany, Italy. She was the co-recipient of an NYU Curriculum Challenge Grant, Establishment of a Problem-Based Learning (PBL) Module in the Clinical Nutrition Curriculum. She has collaborated with NYU Dental School to create a two-week rotation in the pediatric dental clinic where dentists and dietetic interns work together to improve children’s nutrition and oral health.

Promoted to Clinical Assistant Professor

Jennifer Schiff Berg (Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health) serves as the director of Steinhardt’s graduate program in Food Studies. Recent and forthcoming publications include: Questione di Gusti: A Matter of Taste, for Gambero Rosso (co-editor), a book chapter for The Encyclopedia of Jews in American Culture, and a forthcoming essay on New York City’s iconic foods for Gastropolis: Food and New York City. She co-chairs Days of Taste, a yearly farm-to-table food exploration program for New York City public school students.

David Schroeder (Music and Performing Arts Professions) serves as director of Steinhardt’s Jazz Studies Program. Since 2003, he has worked to build a world-renowned jazz program in Greenwich Village, the world’s jazz mecca. Schroeder leads the eclectic New York Citybased ensemble, Combo Nuvo, where he displays his musical composition skills on multiple woodwinds and brass. As a music producer, he has created the Jazz Master's Series at the Blue Note Jazz Club, and the NYU Jazz Masterclass DVD Series featuring legendary performers including Hank Jones, Clark Terry, Toots Thielemans, Barry Harris, Jimmy and Percy Heath, Cecil Taylor, and Phil Woods.