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Abdur-Rahman, Aliyyah
Adams, Jamele
Adler, Mark
Art, Bob
Bellin, Eva
Blocker, Craig
Brown, Tara
Bui, Linda
Burt, John
Campbell, Mary
Canella, Alfonso
Charney, Ruth
Chasalow, Eric
Chase, Kerry
Cleary, Jennifer
Cohen, Jacob (Jerry)
Coiner, Michael
Dogic, Zvonimir
Dolnik, Milos
Dore, Justin
Dubinina, Irina
Dupont, Joseph
Engerman, David
Farrelly, Maura
Feiman-Nemser, Sharon
Fell, Richard
Fellman, Gordon
Ferry, Elizabeth
Flesch, William
Fraleigh, Matthew
Freeze, Gregory
Garcia-Rios, Gerardo
Garrity, Paul
Gelles,  Paul
Gessel, Ira
Gisholt, Alfredo
Godsoe, Kimberly
Golden, Charles
Goldin, Laura
Gonzalez-Rios, Elena
Gordon, Joshua
Greenlee, Jill
Gutchess, Angela
Habibi, Nader
Hall, George
Hampton, Neal
Hang, Xing
Hansen, Karen
Hollie, Harder
Hayes, Kenneth
Holmberg, Arthur
Hong, Pengyu
Hose, John
Hulliung, Mark
Jankowski, Paul
Jefferson, Gary
Kapelle, William
Kaplan, Edward
Kelikian, Alice
Kellman, Ellen
Kimelman, Reuven
Kondev, Jane
Kosinski-Collins, Melissa
Krauss, Isaac
Krstansky, Adrianne
Lachman, Margie
Lau, Nelson
Lawrence, Albion
Levin, Martin
Lisman, John
Liu, Xiaodong
Lu, XiWen
Mairson, Harry
Malamud, Sophia
Marr, Michael
Mayer, Alan
McClendon, Charles
McFarlane, Keenyn
Meyer, Robert
Miller, Christopher
Miller, Laura
Morris, Jim
Morrison, Janet
Nieske, Robert
Novack, Claudia
Oprian, Daniel
Papaemmanouil, Olga
Paradis, Suzanne
Perlman, Daniel
Petsko, Gregory
Pochapsky, Thomas
Pontrello, Jason
Press, Joan
Quinney, Laura
Reimer, Joseph
Rodal, Avital
Rohleder, Nicolas
Ruberman, Daniel
Samet, Jerry
Sarna, Jonathan
Schattschneider, Ellen
Schoenle, Raphael
Sekino, Hiroko
Sekuler, Robert
Simister, Neil
Skorczewski, Dawn
Smiley, Marion
Smith, Ellen
Smith, Erika
Smith, Faith
Suderow, Detlev
Targoff, Ramie
Teuber, Andreas
Tovar, Patricia
Turrigiano, Gina
Urcid, Javier
Van Hooser, Stephen
Veiga, Alessandra
Villalobos, Ana
Walker, Cheryl
Wang, Xin
Wangh, Lawrence
Wardle, John
Wardwell, Joseph
Whelan, Michaele
Whitfield, Steven
Wilson, Elena
Wolf, Jutta
Woll, Peter
Wong, Elaine
Wright, Ellen
Yack, Bernard
Yoshida, Satoshi
Zebrowitz, Leslie
Zimmerman, Grace

Abdur-Rahman, Aliyyah
Professor Abdur-Rahman attended SUNY at Stony Brook and received her Masters and Ph.D. from New York University.  A member of the English and American Literature department, her research interests include 19th and 20th-century African American literature and culture; gender and sexuality studies; critical race theory and multiethnic feminisms.  She has received numerous honors and awards including the Shortell-Holzer Fellowship and Alice Richardson Award from New York University, and the Ford Foundation Fellowship.  She teaches a diverse catalog of courses such as The Postmodern African American Novel; American Encounters: Faulkner, Baldwin, Roth, Morrison; Sex and Race in the American Novel; and U.S. Slavery and the Popular Imagination. (aliabdur@brandeis.edu)

Adams, Jamele
Jamele Adams oversees Student Activities, the Intercultural Center, Community Service and the Chaplaincy. He works with campus groups to promote and enhance opportunities to celebrate diversity in our daily lives at Brandeis. Dean Adams develops programs and activities to support involvement in the larger community and afford Brandeis students the opportunity to practice social justice and change in the real world, in support of the lessons provided in our classrooms. In addition to this he teaches a First-Year Experience course and oversees the Community Predjudice Response Taskforce. Dean Adams completed his undergraduate studies at Penn State and completed his master's degree at Bowling Green State University. He is also a celebrated poet. (jadams22@brandeis.edu)

Adler, Mark
Dr. Mark Adler is a Professor of Mathematics.  Having received his Ph.D. from NYU, Dr. Adler has won grants and awards from the National Science Foundation and Cooper Union, and is also a past recipient of the Sloan Fellowship.  With expertise in Analysis, Differential equations, and Completely integrable systems, Professor Adler teaches such courses as Introduction to Probability and Statistics, Advanced Calculus, and Geometric Analysis. (adler@brandeis.edu)

Art, Bob
Professor Robert J. Art, has taught at Brandeis since 1967.  He sits on the faculty of the Politics department and his areas of expertise are international relations, U.S. foreign policy and national security policy.  He holds a B.A. from Columbia University and a Ph.D. from Harvard University.  Among his many honors are two United States Institute of Peace Grants, which he was awarded first in 1991 and then again from 2003 to 2005.  He won the Distinguished Scholar Award from the International Security Studies Section of the International Studies Association in 2006.  He has twice been awarded a Ford Foundation Grant, has held the Guggenheim Fellowship and the Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellowship.  His publications include A Grand Strategy for America; Democracy and Counterterrorism: Lessons from the Past (coeditor and contributor); and The United States and Coercive Diplomacy (coeditor and contributor).  His courses include Problems of National Security and American Foreign Policy. (art@brandeis.edu)

Bellin, Eva
Eva Bellin is a Myra and Robert Kraft Professor of Arab Politics in the Department of Politics and the Crown Center for Middle East Studies.  Professor Bellin received her B.A. from Harvard University and both her M.A. and Ph.D. from Princeton University.  She specializes in Comparative Politics, Politics of the Middle East and North Africa, Democratization, Political Economy and Development, and Religion and Politics. (ebellin@brandeis.edu)

Blocker, Craig
Craig Blocker is a Professor of Physics.  He received his B.S. from the University of Nebraska and his and M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkley.  His expertise is in Experimental high-energy physics.  In addition to his basic and advanced physics courses, some of his other courses include Particle Physics, Mathematical Physics and Particle Phenomenology. (blocker@brandeis.edu)

Brown, Tara
Tara Brown is an Assistant Professor in the Education Program and an affiliated faculty member in the African and Afro-American Studies and Womens' and Gender Studies Departments, and the Heller School for Social Policy and Management.  Professor Brown received a B.A. and M.A. from Lesley College and an M.Ed. and Ed.D. from Harvard University.  Her areas of teaching are urban education and race, class, and gender and schooling and qualitative and participatory research methods.  Her research focuses on the schooling experiences of historically marginalized adolescents and young adults. (tmbrown@brandeis.edu)

Bui, Linda
Linda Bui is an associate e Professor of Economics and is also affiliated with the International Business School.  Professor Bui earned her Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and her areas of expertise include environmental economics, industrial organization, and public economics.  Professor Bui's research focuses on the effect of public disclosure laws on firm behavior, and her articles include "Regulation and Capitalization of Environmental Amenities: Evidence from the Toxics Release Inventory" in the Review of Economics and Statistics.  Professor Bui teaches courses such as Statistics for Economic Analysis. (ltbui@brandeis.edu)

Burt, John
Professor John Burt received his Ph.D. from Yale University.  His expertise is in American literature, romanticism, poetry, and literature of the American South.  He is particularly interested in American poetry, and in the way it faces questions of transcendence and value, identity and morality.  He has received many honors and awards and published numerous books and articles including his most recent book of poetry Victory by Turning Point Press.  Some of his course offerings include American Gothic & American Romance; Fiction of the American South; American Realism & Naturalism; and Romanticism II: Byron, Shelley & Keats.  (burt@brandeis.edu)

Campbell, Mary
Mary Baine Campbell is a poet and Professor of English and American Literature.  Her B.A. is from Bennington College and she received her Ph.D. from Boston University.  A recipient of the Fulbright Distinguished Scholar Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a Research Fellowship at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Professor Campbell received the James Russell Lowell Prize of the Modern Languages Association for the best work of literary criticism in 2000, and the 1988 Barnard New Women Poets Prize.  She teaches such courses as Arthurian Literature, Chaucer, Dream Visions: Genre, History and the Mysterious, as well as Creative Writing. (campbell@brandeis.edu)

Canella, Alfonso
Alfonso Canella is a Senior Lecturer in the Brandeis University International Business School.  He received a B.S. in Chemical Engineering, a B.S. in Political Science, and an M.S. in economics from M.I.T.  Also, he holds an M.B.A. from B.U.  He has won International Business School teaching awards in 2004, 2005, and 2010.  His work experience includes: consulting, investment banking, high tech finance, health care finance, and higher education finance.  He also works with students in the Career Planning office with career planning, interview preparation, and resume building.  He has two teaching assistants: Jasper and Teddy. (canella@brandeis.edu)

Charney, Ruth
Professor Charney is an undergraduate alumna of Brandeis and attended Princeton University for her Ph.D. A member of the Mathematics faculty, her primary research interests are geometric group theory and topology.  She publishes regularly in mathematics journals and gives frequent talks at international conferences. She has served as Vice President of the American Mathematical Society and was recently nominated for President of the Association of Women in Mathematics. She teaches a variety of classes including Introduction to Proofs and Math for Elementary and Middle School Teachers. (charney@brandeis.edu)

Chasalow, Eric
Eric Chasalow is an Irving Fine Professor of Music who specializes in music composition and electronic and computer music.  Professor Chasalow is on the Executive Committee for the Film, Television, and Interactive Media Studies Program. He attended Bates College as an undergraduate and Columbia University for his M.A. and D.M.A.  Professor Chasalow is interested in expanding the legacy of electronic music. (chasalow@brandeis.edu)

Chase, Kerry
Kerry Chase is an Assistant Professor of Politics with expertise in International Relations and International Political Economy and an affiliated faculty member with the International and Global  Studies department. Professor Chase earned his Bachelor's degree from Cornell University and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles.  Professor Chase has published numerous articles including "Moving Hollywood Abroad: Divided Labor Markets and the New Politics of Trade in Services" and "Economic Interests and Regional Trading Arrangements: The Case of NAFTA."  Presently he is writing a book on international trade in movies and television programs, entitled Theater of Conflict: Commerce, Culture, and Competition in Global Entertainment.  His first book, Trading Blocs: States, Firms, and Regions in the World Economy, was published in 2005. Professor Chase teaches courses such as Introduction to International Relations, International Political Economy, and U.S. Foreign Economic Policy.  (chase@brandeis.edu)

Cleary, Jennifer
Jennifer A. Cleary is a senior lecturer in the Theater Arts Department and she is affiliated with the Brandeis Education Program as a field supervisor and instructor for student teachers in theater arts.  Her areas of expertise include stage management, public speaking/oral communication, and theater education.  Ms. Cleary has stage-managed professionally with the New Repertory Theatre, Worcester Foothills Theatre, Fredericksburg Theatre Company, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Encompass New Opera Theatre, and Gloucester Stage. She also worked as the Chorus Manager for Opera Boston for two years.  She received her B. A. from Mary Washington College and her Ed.M. in Arts-in-Education from Harvard University.  She is entering her 12th year of teaching at Brandeis, where she will be teaching new courses in theatre for social change and creative pedagogy, in addition to her staples in stage management and public speaking.  Outside of Brandeis, Senior Lecturer Cleary enjoys spending time with friends, family, and her 12 year-old Bichon-Shih tzu named Zooey. (jacleary@brandeis.edu)

Cohen, Jacob (Jerry)
Jacob Cohen has taught at Brandeis University since 1961.  He is an Associate Professor of American Studies and serves as the undergraduate advising head for the department.  Professor Cohen's scholarly and teaching interests are wide-ranging, with published articles on such topics as the Kennedy assassination, violence in American history, civil rights and anti-Semitism and sport in American culture.  In 2003, he received the History 180 Award.  Professor Cohen's popular courses include The Sixties: Continuity and Change in American Culture, The Idea of Conspiracy in American Culture, Violence (and Nonviolence) in American Culture, and Sports and American Culture. (jcohen@brandeis.ed)

Coiner, Michael
Professor Coiner attended Princeton University as an undergraduate and received his Ph.D. from Yale University.   A member of the Economics department faculty, his research interests include international economics and the economics of higher education. Professor Coiner is the recipient of the Louis Dembitz Brandeis Prize for Excellence in Teaching.  He teaches courses such as Introduction to Economics and The Economics of Education. (coiner@brandeis.edu)

Dogic, Zvonimir
Zvonimir Dogic is an Associate Professor of Physics whose expertise focuses on complex fluids and biological physics.  He received both his Undergraduate Degree and Ph. D from Brandeis University.  After graduating from Brandeis he was a research fellow at Rowland Institute at Harvard. In 2007 he moved back to Brandeis where he has been a faculty member ever since. He is a 2010 recipient of the National Science Foundation CAREER Award.  Professor Dogic’s course offerings include Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics, Condensed Matter Seminars, and Quantitative Biology Instrumentation Laboratory and Introductory Physics Laboratory.  (zdogic@brandeis.edu)

Dolnik, Milos
Professor Dolnik received both a MS and a PhD from the Prague Institute of Chemical Technology. A member of the Chemistry department, his areas of expertise include experimental and numerical studies of oscillating chemical reactions,   modeling and analysis of biological systems (including gene networks and cell cycle dynamics). Professor Dolnik teaches both the general chemistry laboratory course (Chem 18) and the honors general chemistry lab course (Chem 19). (dolnik@brandeis.edu)

Dore, Justin
Justin Dore is a lecturer in Biology.  As an undergraduate, Dore attended U. Mass. Amherst then went on to the University of Colorado at Boulder for his M.S.  Receiving his Ph.D. at Brandeis, Dore specializes in Developmental Biology of the Nervous System as well as signaling pathways influencing cell fate decisions. He received the University Prize Instructorship at Brandeis in 2006 as well as a Kirschstein 2-year NRSA from the National Institutes of Health in 2005. (jdore@brandeis.edu)

Dubinina, Irina
Irina Dubinina is a Russian Language Lecturer and the Director of the Russian Language Program within the German, Russian, and Asian Languages and Literatures Department.  She received her B.A. from the University of Alaska, Anchorage and her M.A. from Bryn Mawr College.  Besides her areas of expertise include bilingualism, bilingual code-switching, heritage languages; second language acquisition general and language specific; and language policies in the former Soviet Republics, Professor Dubinina is conducting research on the pragmatic skills of heritage speakers of Russian, specifically on how heritage speakers differ or are similar to native speakers in the production and understanding of requests.  In 2007, she was rewarded the Doris Carland Prize for Outstanding Teaching.  Professor Dubinina's courses of instruction, among others, include Beginning Russian I and II, Intermediate Russian I and II, Advanced Russian Language Through Film, and Russian Language for Russian Speakers.  (idubinin@brandeis.edu)

Dupont, Joseph
Joe Du Pont manages the Hiatt Career Center which provides a wide array of career development services to the Brandeis undergraduate community.  Joe works closely with Academic Services to ensure that career programs complement the Brandeis academic experience, and he also sits on various university-wide committees that involve experiential learning and assessment of learning outcomes.  Joe received his B.A. from Duke University, his law degree from the Georgetown University Law Center and his masters in higher education administration from New York University where he also served as an academic advisor. In previous lives Joe ran the career office for Teach For America, practiced corporate law and taught high school.  He makes his own cheese and he loves to bake so you never know what treats he might have waiting for you. (dupont@brandeis.edu)

Engerman, David
David Engerman is a Professor in the History Department and specializes in the history of American foreign policy, American intellectual and cultural history, and international and American history in transnational contexts.  He received his undergraduate degree from Swarthmore College, his M.A. from Rutgers University, and his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley.  Professor Engerman teaches courses in modern American diplomatic and intellectual history as well as historiography.  Some of the Brandeis courses he teaches include Thought and Culture in Modern America, Colloquium in Modern World History, and A Global History of the Vietnam Wars.  His research focuses on Russia in American life, including politics, culture, and foreign policy. (engerman@brandeis.edu)

Farrelly, Maura
Maura Jane Farrelly is Assistant Professor of American Studies and Director of the Journalism Program at Brandeis. She holds a Ph.D. in History from Emory University, with an emphasis on the colonial and early American periods and on American religious history. She has taught previously at Emory, the University of Georgia, and Fordham University. Additionally, Professor Farrelly worked as a full-time journalist for seven years, first for Georgia Public Radio in Atlanta, and then for the Voice of America in Washington, DC, and New York. She has also freelanced for NPR, PRI, and the BBC. Professor Farrelly's scholarly research focuses on Catholics in the South in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and on Methodist attempts to reconcile science with revealed religion in the nineteenth century.  Her courses include Advertising and the Media;  International Affairs and the American Media; as well as The Culture of Journalism. (farrelly@brandeis.edu)

Feiman-Nemser, Sharon
Sharon Feiman-Nemser is the Mandel Professor of Jewish Education with a joint appointment in the Near Eastern and Judaic Studies Department and the Education Program. She is also affiliated with the Hornstein Program in Jewish Professional Leadership. Professor Feiman-Nemser directs the Mandel Center for Studies in Jewish Education. She received her B.A. from the University of Michigan, her M.A. from the University of Chicago and her Ed.D. from Columbia University.  Professor Feiman-Nemser was given the Distinguished Faculty Award at Michigan State University and the Margaret Lindsey Award for Outstanding Research in 1996.  She has expertise in teacher education, Jewish education, and the professional development of teachers.  (snemser@brandeis.edu)

Fell, Richard
Professor Fell is on the faculty in the Physics department. He holds a B.S. from Boston College and a Ph.D. from Brandeis University. His expertise is in theoretical quantum electrodynamics. His articles include "Cosmological Perturbations on Local Systems" which appeared in the journal, _Physical Review_. He has taught Physics Laboratory I & II, Introduction to Modern Physics, Quantum Mechanics, Classical Mechanics, Mathematical Physics, Graduate Electromagnetic Theory and General Relativity. An avid tennis player, he was also an occasional practice partner for Chris Evert, three time Wimbledon Champion. (fell@brandeis.edu)

Fellman, Gordon
Gordie Fellman is a Professor of Sociology.  He specializes in the subjects of Marx and Freud; social class; peace, conflict, and coexistence studies; Israeli-Palestinian conflict; empowerment; and psychoanalytic sociology.  He received his undergraduate degree from Antioch College, and his Ph.D. from Harvard University.  In 2009, he was a Distinguished Interdisciplinary Lecturer at Case Western Reserve University Law School; and was awarded the Brandeis Student Union Best Teaching Award in 2007.  Professor Fellman seeks to understand how liberating social change is impeded by structures and psychological forces, and how social change is furthered by structures and psychological forces.  Some of the Brandeis courses he teaches include Social Class and Social Change, Masculinities, Sociology of Empowerment, and War and Possibilities of Peace. (fellman@brandeis.edu)

Ferry, Elizabeth
Professor Ferry attended Columbia University as an undergraduate and The Johns Hopkins University for her Ph.D.  A member of the Anthropology department faculty, she is also teaches in the Latin American Studies and Latino Studies program and in the International and Global Studies program.  Her research interests include economic anthropology, property and value, Latin America, and Mexico. She teaches courses such as Feast and Famine: Food and Social Relations; Production, Consumption, and Exchange; and Power and Violence: The Anthropology of Political Systems. (ferry@brandeis.edu)

Flesch, William
William Flesch is a Professor of English and American Literature, with expertise in medieval and renaissance studies, poetry, and theory.  Professor Flesh received his Bachelor of Arts from Yale University and his Masters and Ph.D. from Cornell University.  He has received a National Endowment for Humanities Fellowship, as well as two teaching awards, the Michael L. Walzer Award for Excellence in Teaching and the Lerman-Neubauer Prize for Excellence in Teaching and Mentoring.  His publications include Generosity and the Limits of Authority: Shakespeare.  Professor Flesch teaches classes such as Romanticism:  Byron, Shelley and Keats, Shakespeare, Film Noir and Hitchcock's Movies. (flesch@brandeis.edu)

Fraleigh, Matthew
Matthew Fraleigh is an Assistant Professor of East Asian Literature and Culture. He is on the executive committee for the Film, Television and Interactive Media Committee and is an affiliated faculty member for East Asian Studies, as well as German, Russian, and Asian Languages and Literature Departments.  He attended Stanford University for his B.A.S. and Harvard for his A.M. and Ph.D.  Professor Fraleigh has expertise on classical and modern Japanese literature and language, cultural and literary exchange between Japan and China, and the Literature of Travel. (fraleigh@brandeis.edu)

Freeze, Gregory
Gregory Freeze is a Victor and Gwendolyn Beinfield Professor of History and is also involved with the German, Russian, and Asian Languages and Literature Department.  Professor Freeze received his B.A. from DePauw University and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Columbia University.  Freeze has received the Ford Foundation, Guggenheim, and American Council for Learned Society Fellowships and has expertise on Modern Russian, Soviet, and post-Soviet history. (freeze@brandeis.edu)

Garcia-Rios, Gerardo
Mr. Garcia-Rios serves as the Director of Student Support Services (SSSP).  As the Director of this federally funded TRiO program, he provides students with academic advice such as selecting classes, choosing a major, and exploring post-Brandeis options. He serves on the Pre-Med Board of advisors and offers advice on how to apply to medical school. He is very interested in learning about your academic, personal, and social goals and helping you craft an academic plan of action. Mr. Garcia-Rios enjoys students dropping by to talk about their education and personal interest in and outside of Brandeis. He looks forward to meeting you in person and working together during your journey at Brandeis. (grios@brandeis.edu)

Garrity, Paul
Paul Garrity is an Associate Professor of Biology whose expertise is in molecular genetics of neural development and behavior. He is also a faculty member in Neuroscience.  Professor Garrity received his B.A at Swarthmore College and his Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology.  He has received several awards and honors, including the 8th Annual Alberta Gotthardt and Henry Strage Award for Aspiring Youth Science Faculty.  He teaches “Genetics and Molecular Biology” and oversees undergraduates in their Senior Research.  (pgarrity@brandeis.edu)

Gelles, Jeff
Jeff Gelles is the Aron and Imre Tauber Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology and co-Director of the Brandeis Quantitative Biology Program. Gelles attended Harvard University as an undergraduate and received his Ph.D. from California Institute of Technology.  A recipient of the MERIT Award from the National Institutes of Health, Professor Gelles'  has developed novel single-molecule light microscopy techniques and applied these to understanding the workings of the macromolecular machines that execute a variety of essential ellular processes. (gelles@brandeis.edu)

Gessel, Ira
Dr. Ira Gessel is a Professor of Mathematics with an expertise in Combinatorics and is currently the chair of the mathematics department  He studied at Harvard University as an undergraduate and received his Ph.D. from MIT. Published in such scholarly journals as The Electronic Journal of Combinatorics and The Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Professor Gessel teaches such courses as Introduction to Proofs, Introduction to Combinatorics, and Topics in Combinatorics.  (gessel@brandeis.edu)

Gisholt, Alfredo
Alfredo Gisholt is an Assistant Professor in the Fine Arts Department.  He attended Academia de San Carlos in Mexico and Florida International University as an undergraduate, and then earned his M.F.A. from Boston University.  As the recipient of the Blanche E. Colman Foundation Award for Painting in 2009, he specializes in painting and printmaking.  Other awards received for his painting include the Brandeis University Norman Award, the George and Helen Segal Foundation Fellowship, the Guggenheim Fellowship and the Dedalus Foundation Fellowship.  He recently had two solo exhibitions, Barrancos de escaleras at Recinto Project Room in Mexico City and Ceremonies of Mud at the University of Maine Museum of Art in Bangor and a group exhibition at Denise Bibro Fine Art in New York City.  Professor Gisholt's course offerings include Introduction and Intermediate Drawing, Introduction to Printmaking:  Intaglio and Woodcut and Relief, and Intermediate Painting I and II.  (gisholt@brandeis.edu)

Godsoe, Kimberly
Kim Godsoe serves as the Dean of Academic Services.  Dean Godsoe oversees staff based academic advising, Brandeis undergraduate group study, study abroad,  pre-health advising, support for students with disabilities, pre-health advising, merit scholars advising, academic fellowships, the Transitional Year Program, Student Support Services Posse, and administrative support for the Justice Brandeis Semester.  Dean Godsoe received a BA from Bryn Mawr College, an MFA from Columbia University, and she is currently pursuing her Ph.D at the Heller School for Social Policy and Management.  Her research interests include assessment and educational access.  (godsoe@brandeis.edu)

Golden, Charles
Charles Golden is an Associate Professor of Anthropology with expertise on the archaeology of complex societies, modern contexts of archaeological research, Mesoamerica, and the Maya.  He received his B.A. from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania.  Current director of the Sierra del Lacandon Regional Archaeology Project, Professor Golden teaches many classes in the Anthropology Department at Brandeis University. (cgolden@brandeis.edu)

Goldin, Laura
Laura Goldin is Associate Professor of the Practice of Environmental Studies, Chair of the Environmental Studies Program and Director of the Environmental Internship Program.  Professor Goldin is also an affiliated faculty member with the International and Global Studies, Social Justice and Social Policy and Health: Science, Society and Policy departments.   Her classes, including Greening the Ivory Tower, Environmental Law and Policy, and Environment, Social Justice and the Role of Women, provide hands-on learning that engage students directly with the local community in tqckling issues from toxic exposure to access to fresh food, safe and affordable housing and open space. As an environmental attorney with nearly 30 years’ experience, Professor Goldin has been a Jonathan Guberman Legal Studies Fellow, Davis Experiential Learning and Community Engaged Learning Fellow, and has won a series of awards from the National Wildlife Federation and other organizations and foundations for her initiatives with students.  She received her B.A. from Yale University, and her J.D. from Cornell and Harvard Law Schools. (goldin@brandeis.edu)

Gonzalez-Rios, Elena
Professor Gonzalez Ros attended the Universidad de Oviedo in Spain as an undergraduate and Liverpool John Moores University for her M.Phil.  A member of the Romance and Comparative Literature department faculty, her research interests include Spanish language and language pedagogy and the use of new technologies for language acquisition.  She teaches all levels of Spanish Language classes and other courses including Peoples, Ideas,and Language of the Hispanic World and the USEM, For Our Own Protection? The Power of Censorship. (elenag@brandeis.edu)

Gordon, Joshua
Professor Gordon attended the Juilliard School as both an undergraduate and for his Master's degree. A member of the Music Department faculty and the Lydian String Quartet, he is also principal cellist of the New England String Ensemble, resident cellist at the Wellesley Composers Conference, and a frequent guest player with area ensembles and festivals. Among his many honors, his latest recording, "Leo Ornstein: Complete Works for Cello and Piano," received an Aaron Copland Fund recording grant and was cited as one of 2007's 10 best classical recordings by the All Music Guide. Professor Gordon teaches Fundamentals of Music (MUS 5A - 1 and 2), cello and chamber music.  (gordon@brandeis.edu)

Greenlee, Jill
Jill Greenlee is an Assistant Professor of Politics with a focus on American politics, political behavior, political socialization, public opinion, women and politics, and research methods.  Professor Greenlee's current scholarship investigates how individuals change politically as they move through the life course.  She received her B.A. from the University of Michigan and her M.A. and Ph.D. from University of California, Berkeley.  Professor Greenlee’s courses include Introduction to American Government, Political Science Methods: Research, Design, and Modes of Analysis, Political Psychology, and Women in American Politics.  She also is the director of the Honors Program in the Politics Department.  (greenlee@brandeis.edu)

Gutchess, Angela
Angela Gutchess is an Assistant Professor of Psychology, Neuroscience, and the Volen National Center for Complex Systems. Using a combination of behavioral and neuroimaging (fMRI) methods, Professor Gutchess’ research explores the effects of age and culture on memory and social cognition. A recent recipient of research grants from the American Federation of Aging Research and the National Institute on Aging, she has also received the APA Dissertation Research Award and the APA Division of Adult Development and Aging Award for Outstanding Doctoral Research. Professor Gutchess is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Boston University, and holds her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. A sampling of Professor Gutchess’ classes includes Human Memory, Introduction to Psychology, and Social Neuroscience and Culture.  (gutchess@brandeis.edu)

Habibi, Nader
Nader Habibi is the Henry J. Leir Professor of the Economics of the Middle East in the Crown Center for Middle East Studies and a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Economics.  He attended Michigan State University for his graduate and doctoral work where he received his M.S. and Ph.D.  His research interest is Economics in the Middle East, and he has many publications surrounding this subject.  Brandeis courses Professor Habibi teaches include Microeconomic Theory, Statistics for Economic Analysis, and The Economics of the Middle East.  (nhabibi@brandeis.edu)

Hall, George
Professor Hall earned a B.A. from Oberlin College and a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. A member of the Economics department and International Business School, his research focuses on the microeconomic underpinnings of macroeconomics. In recent work, Professor Hall has developed optimal pricing and production strategies in the automobile and steel industries. Prior to joining Brandeis in 2006, he served on the faculty at Yale University and the research staff at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. He teaches Macroeconomic Theory.  (ghall@brandeis.edu)

Hampton, Neal
Professor Hampton is the Conductor of the Brandeis-Wellesley Orchestra. He has a Bachelors Degree in Composition from the Eastman School of Music and a Masters degree in Orchestra Conducting from Boston University. He is a composer of songs and of musical theater and has written music for ballet and stage productions throughout the U.S. and Canada. He teaches courses in Music Theater Composition and Jazz History. (hampton@brandeis.edu)

Hang, Xing
Xing Hang is an Assistant Professor of History who specializes in early modern China, the Ming-Qing transition, the Dutch, Spanish, Zheng Taiwan, and East Asian world order, and Eurasian comparative history.  Professor Hang received his B.B.A. and B.A. from the University of Georgia and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley.  Professor Hang was awarded the National Central Library Center for Chinese Studies Grant in 2009 and was a Li Ka-shing Program in Modern Chinese History Fellow in 2008. (xinghang@brandeis.edu)

Hansen, Karen
Karen Hansen is a Professor of Sociology and Women's and Gender Studies and is also affiliated with the History Department.  Professor Hansen received her B.A. and M.A. from the University of California at Santa Barbara and her Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley.  She was awarded the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in 2009 and the National Endowment for Humanities Fellowship in 1999.  Professor Hansen specializes in historical sociology, feminist theory, the sociology of gender, class and race/ethnicity, and community studies. (khansen@brandeis.edu)

Hollie, Harder
Professor Harder attended the University of Kansas as an undergraduate and Boston University  for her Ph.D in French Literature. A member of the Department of Romance Studies, she serves as Director of Language Programs in Romance Studies at Brandeis. Her scholarly interests include the works of Marcel Proust and the nineteenth-century French novel. She teaches courses in French on such topics as French culture and cuisine, and the French art of conversation. (harder@brandeis.edu)

Hayes, Kenneth
Professor Hayes attended Wesleyan University as an undergraduate, Cornell University for his D.V.M., and the University of Connecticut for his Ph.D. in nutritional pathology.   A member of the Biology department faculty, he serves as Director of the Foster Biomedical Research Laboratories and Brandeis animal facility.  His Brandeis website describes his research interests, which also include the impact of diet on disorders of lipid metabolism with a primary current focus on obesity, diabetes, and  associated chronic diseases.  He teaches courses such as Diet and Health and Human Physiology. (kchayes@brandeis.edu)

Holmberg, Arthur
Arthur Holmberg is a Professor of Theater Arts and specializes in dramatic literature, theater history, and performance theory.  He received his Ph.D. from Harvard in comparative literature.  He has published several books including The Theatre of Robert Wilson, David Mamet and American Macho, and The Lively ART.  He served as United States editor for The World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre.  His articles have appeared in the International Herald Tribune, the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, and the Washington Post as well as in American Theater and Opera News.  He is the literary director of the American Repertory Theatre, where he has worked with many distinguished artists like Robert Wilson, Philip Glass, and David Mamet.  He wrote the notes for Leonard Bernstein’s recording of Tristan und Isolde.  His scholarly articles have appeared in Comparative Literature, Modern Drama, Eugene O'Neill Review, Theatre Journal, Shakespeare Quarterly, The Hispanic Review, The French Review, The Antioch Review, and Cahiers Francois Mauriac.  Professor Holmberg was featured in the documentary film "Absolute Wilson" as both theater scholar and professional dramaturg.  The Metropolitan Museum of Art invited him to deliver lectures on the Sicilian puppet theater, and he is the recipient of an NEH Fellowship.  (holmberg@brandeis.edu)

Hong, Pengyu
Professor Hong attended Tsinghua University, Beijing, China as an undergraduate and graduate. He completed his Ph.D in Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His current research focuses on Computational Systems Biology. His recent scholarship includes publications in several prestigious journals, such as Nature Neuroscience, Journal of Oncology Practice, Neuroinformatics, Journal of Neuroscience, Molecular Cell, PLoS Genetics, Nature Methods, and so on. Professor Hong teaches courses such as Statistical Machine Learning and Computational Biology.  (hongpeng@brandeis.edu)

Hose, John
Dr. John Hose is as the Associate Vice President for University Affairs.  He serves on the Fulbright and Gates Nominating Committee and the Rhodes, Marshall, and Mitchell Scholarship Selection Committee.  He is also the University's representative to the University Press of New England, the publishing consortium of which Brandeis University Press is a member.  Dr. Hose is repeatedly praised by students for his skill and care as an advisor.  (hose@brandeis.edu)

Hulliung, Mark
Professor Hulliung attended the University of Illinois as an undergraduate and then went on to Harvard University, where he earned his Ph.D.  His formal title is Richard Koret Professor of the History of Ideas, and his research interests include intellectual, cultural, and political history, American and European.  Professor Hulliung’s courses include Red Flags/Black Flags: Marxism vs. Anarchism; 1845-1968, American Political Thought: From the Revolution to the Civil War; and Rights and Revolutions: History of Natural Rights. He is the author of seven books. (hulliung@brandeis.edu)

Jankowski, Paul
Paul Jankowski is the Raymond Ginger Professor of History.  He received both his Masters and PhD from Oxford University.  A recipient of the Marver and Sheva Bernstein Faculty Fellowship, the Camargo Foundation Fellowship to France, and a Research Fellowship for the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Professor Jankowski also received grants from the American Council of Learned Societies and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Professor Jankowski teaches courses such as Cultures in Conflict and War in European History.  He has published several books on French history and his forthcoming book is about the battle of Verdun (1916).  (jankowski@brandeis.edu)

Jefferson, Gary
Professor Gary H. Jefferson attended Dartmouth College for his B.A., The London School of Economics for a M.S., Tufts Professor Gary H. Jefferson attended Dartmouth College for his B.A., The London School of Economics for a M.S., Tufts University for a M.A., and earned a Ph.D. from Yale University.  As the Carl Marks Professor of International Trade and Finance and a member of the Economics Department, his research interests include Chinese Economy, Economic Development, Industrial Organization, Technical Change, and Transition Economics.  Professor Jefferson is also a faculty member in the East Asian Studies Program.  In addition to his many publications, he was awarded the position of Honorary Professor at Wuhan University’s Center for Economic Development Research and School of Economics and Management.  Some of Professor Jefferson’s courses include The Economy of China, Economics of Innovation , Comparative Institutional Economics, The Economy of China, and Development Economics.  (jefferso@brandeis.edu)

Kapelle, William
Professor Kapelle attended the University of Kansas for his B.A. as well as his M.A. and Ph.D.  He is an Associate Professor of History and also teaches courses in Italian Studies and Medieval and Renaissance Studies.  His focus is on medieval history.  He teaches courses such as The Crusades and the Expansion of Medieval Europe; The Civilization of the Early Middle Ages; and The Renaissance.  (wkapelle@brandeis.edu)

Kaplan, Edward
Edward Kaplan is Kaiserman Professor in the Humanities and teaches courses in French, Comparative Literature, and Religious Studies. He is also a faculty member in the European Cultural Studies program.  He has published books on Jules Michelet, the French historian, the poet Charles Baudelaire, and Abraham Joshua Heschel, Jewish philosopher and social activist. He has received the Jewish National Book Award, a prize from the American Translators Association, and grants. His courses include Poetic Voices of Protest, The Outsider as Artist and Lover, Mysticism and the Moral Life, French Existentialism, French Fiction, Baudelaire and His World, and first-year seminars, Journeys to Enlightenment. (edkaplan@brandeis.edu)

Kelikian, Alice
Alice Kelikian is an Associate Professor of History who is also on the executive committee for the Film, Television and Interactive Media Program.  She attended Princeton University as an undergraduate and Oxford University for her D. Phil.  Professor Kelikian specializes in modern history, social institutional history, and Italian Cinema. (kelikian@brandeis.edu)

Kellman, Ellen
Professor Kellman attended Goddard College as an undergraduate and  received an MA from the University of Michigan and an MA and Ph.D. from Columbia University. A member of the Near Eastern and Judaic Studies faculty, she researches and writes about the history of modern Yiddish literature. Her book-in-progress is entitled Reading the New Country: Abraham Cahan and the Making of American Yiddish Fiction. She teaches courses Yiddish language and literature, as well as a course entitled Modern Jewish Literatures: Text, Image and Context. (kellman@brandeis.edu)

Kimelman, Reuven
Professor Kimelman received his bachelor degree from Columbia University, his masters from the Jewish Theological Seminary, and his Ph.D. from Yale University.  A member of the Near Eastern and Judaic Studies faculty, Professor Kimmelman is also affiliated with the Peace, Conflict and Coexistence Studies Program.  His research interests include Talmud, Midrash, liturgy, ethics, and conflict resolution studies. He is the author of the Hebrew book, The Mystical Meaning of ‘Lekhah Dodi' and ‘Kabbalat Shabbat,' and three audio books, two entitled The Moral Meaning of the Bible - The What, How, and Why of Biblical Ethics, and one entitled The Hidden Poetry of The Jewish Prayerbook: The What, How, and Why of Jewish Liturgy. His book, The Rhetoric of Jewish Prayer: A Historical and Literary Commentary on the Prayerbook, is soon to be published.  (kimelman@brandeis.edu)

Kondev, Jane
Jane Kondev is a Professor of Physics whose expertise focuses on theoretical physics and physical biology. A recipient of awards such as the National Science Foundation CAREER Award and the HHMI-NIBIB Interfaces Award, he has also been a Cottrell Scholar and a Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. Serving as co-director of the Graduate Program in Quantitative Biology, Professor Kondev teaches such courses as Seminar in Biological Physics, Maps of Hidden Worlds: From the Cosmos to the Human Genome, Quantum Mechanics, and Statistical Physics and Thermodynamics. (kondev@brandeis.edu)

Kosinski-Collins, Melissa
Professor Kosinski-Collins attended the University of Massachusetts at Amherst as an undergraduate and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for her Ph.D in Biochemistry. A member of the Biology department faculty, her primary research interests are protein folding and aggregation and biology education. She teaches classes such as General Biology Laboratory and Molecular  Biotechnology. (kosinski@brandeis.edu)

Krauss, Isaac
Isaac Krauss is an Assistant Professor of Chemistry.  He received his undergraduate degree from Stanford University and an M.Phil, M.A, and his Ph.D. from Columbia University.  His research interests involve organic synthesis and its interface with other areas of chemical science, including organometallics and chemical biology.  Professor Krauss' courses include Organic Chemistry and Advanced Organic Chemistry.  (kraussi@brandeis.edu)

Krstansky, Adrianne
Professor Krstansky attended Beloit College as an undergraduate and University of California, San Diego for her M.F.A. in Acting.  A member of the  Theater Arts department, Professor Krstansky currently teaches  courses such as Acting and Collaborative Process.  Professor Krstansky has  won a Walzer Prize for Excellence in Teaching, and her production of Thom Pain at the New Repertory  Theater was named the Best Theater Production of 2006 by  the Boston Globe. Ms. Krstansky has performed in 356 days/365 plays  at The Public Theater in New York City and in Britannicus at The American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, MA. (krstansk@brandeis.edu)

Lachman, Margie
Margie Lachman is the Minnie and Harold Fierman Professor of Psychology and specializes in adult development and aging, health-promoting behaviors, and intervention research to improve cognitive and physical functioning. She is also an affiliated faculty member for Health: Science, Society and Policy.  Lachman received her B.A. from Boston University and her M.S. and Ph.D. from Pennsylvania State University.  Professor Lachman received the Distinguished Research Achievement Award in 2003 from the American Psychological Association, Divison 20. She is editor of the Handbook of Midlife Development and is Co-Investigator on the National Study of Midlife in the United States. (lachman@brandeis.edu)

Lau, Nelson
Nelson Lau is an Assistant Professor in the Biology Department.  He attended State University of New York, Albany as an undergraduate and received his Ph.D. at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.  His areas of expertise include gene expression, RNA interference, Molecular Biology, gene and genome regulation by RNAi and small RNAs.  He has been awarded the National Institute of Health's NICHD K99/R00 Career Transition Award, the Helen Hay Whitney Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship, and the AAAS Newcomb Cleveland Award.  Professor Lau's course offerings include Topics in Molecular Genetics and Development.   (nlau@brandeis.edu)

Lawrence, Albion
Albion Lawrence joined Brandeis in 2002 as an assistant professor in the Physics Department, and has been an Associate Professor since 2009.  He attended UC Berkeley for his A.B, and The University of Chicago for his  Ph.D. He was a Department of Energy Outstanding Junior Investigator Award from 2004-2009, and has been a member of the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics in 2003,2006,and 2009.  His interests include string theory, cosmology, particle  physics, and quantum gravity, and their interactions with mathematics  and condensed matter physics. His current focus is on inflationary cosmology and on spacetime singuarities in string theory.  He is also interested in international outreach, and was the co-organizer of a series of string theory schools in Iran from 2003-2009.  Professor Lawrence’s past course offerings include graduate-level Quantum Mechanics (Physics 162a-b), Quantum Field Theory (Physics 202a), and undergraduate-level  Quantum Mechanics (now 31a). This year he is teaching Advanced Introductory Physics (Physics 15a) and General Relativity (Physics 102a).  (albion@brandeis.edu)

Levin, Martin
Martin A. Levin is a Professor of Politics who specializes in American politics and public policy. He was educated at Michigan, Cornell, and Harvard. He is the founding director of the Gordon Public Policy
Center and author of nine books including "Making Government Work" and "After the Cure: Managing AIDS and Other Public Health Crises". He has been President of both the Association for Policy Analysis and Management and the Policy Studies Organization. He has also taught at the Public Policy School at Berkley and the University of California, Irvine.   (levin@brandeis.edu)

Lisman, John
John Lisman is the Zalman Abraham Kekst Chair in Neuroscience and Professor of Biology and of the Volen National Center for Complex Systems. He received his undergraduate degree from Brandeis and then went on to MIT for his Ph.D.  He has received the National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression Investigator Award and the Javits Neuroscience Investigator Award.  Lisman's expertise is in the molecular mechanism of memory storage.  His courses include "Cellular Neuroscience," "Systems Neuroscience," and "Introduction to Neuroscience."  (lisman@brandeis.edu)

Liu, Xiaodong
Xiaodong Liu is an Assistant Professor in the Psychology Department.  He attended Harvard University for his Doctors of Education Degree.  His areas of expertise include applied statistics as well as child development, and he has published articles on subjects ranging from child psychological well-being in rural China to the effects of gender and race-ethnicity gaps in mathematics proficiency in childhood.  Some of Professor Liu's course offerings include Advanced Psychological Statistics I and II, Statistical Analysis Software Applications, and Multivariate Statistics I and ii.  His hometown is a rural village within the Chinese province of Sichuan, (which is known for its deliciously hot-spicy food and panda bears).  Professor Liu enjoys hiking and bicycling.  (xliu0806@brandeis.edu)

Lu, XiWen
Xiwen Lu is a lecturer in Chinese in the East Asian Studies and the German, Russian, and Asian Languages and Literature Departments.  She attended the PLA Institute of Foreign Language and received her Masters Degree from Beijing Language and Culture University.  The Brandeis courses she instructs include Beginning Chinese I, Intermediate Chinese, Advanced Intermediate Chinese, and Advanced Conversation and Composition I and II.  (xiwenlu@brandeis.edu)

Mairson, Harry
Harry Mairson has been Professor of Computer Science at Brandeis since 1987.  He is interested in logic in computer science, and its relationship to the design and analysis of programming languages.  After studying for a B.A. in Mathematics from Yale University in 1978, he received the Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University in 1984.  His courses include "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs", "Semantics of Programming Languages", "Computational Logic", "Discrete Mathematics", and a freshman seminar, "Where the Idea of the Computer Came From."  He's currently working on a book about the conception of programming languages, and its relation to ideas in analytic philosophy and the philosophy of language.  Harry is also an amateur musical instrument maker, and is spending the summer building a cello, based on a famous 1740 model by the Venetian luthier Domenico Montagnana, while listening to Red Sox games on the radio.  (mairson@brandeis.edu)

Malamud, Sophia
Sophia Malamud specializes in the study of language meaning and is a faculty member in the Language and Linguistics Program.  After earning a BA from University of Pennsylvania in mathematics and linguistics, she stayed on for graduate studies, earning her M.A. in mathematics and Ph.D. in linguistics.  The courses she teaches at Brandeis include Introduction to Linguistics; Formal Semantics; Language Acquisition, and Pragmatics and Discourse.  (smalamud@brandeis.edu)

Marr, Michael
Michael Marr joined the Brandeis faculty as an Assistant Professor in Biology in August 2007.  He attended Bucknell University as an undergraduate and received his Ph.D. from Cornell University.  His research interest and expertise is in ‘Mechanisms Controlling Gene Expression'.  His lab focuses on how metazoan cells respond to developmental and environmental signals and how this response is manifest in changes in gene expression.  He has contributed to numerous research articles, including most recently, "The genome of the choanoflagellate Monosiga brevicollis and the origin of metazoans", and "Characterization of the Drosophila insulin receptor promoter".  (mmarr@brandeis.edu)

Mayer, Alan
With an expertise in classical algebraic geometry and related topics in mathematical physics, Professor of Mathematics, Dr. Alan Mayer, is also a winner of the NATO Fellowship.  He studied at Columbia University as an undergraduate and received his Ph.D. from Princeton.  Professor Mayer teaches courses such as Linear Algebra, Differential Equations, and Complex Analysis.   (mayer@brandeis.edu)

McClendon, Charles
Professor McClendon is the Sidney and Ellen Wien Professor of the History of Art and is a faculty member in Religious Studies.  He attended Indiana University as an Undergraduate and received his Ph.D. from New York University.  Professor McClendon is a member of the Fine Arts faculty, as well as the Medieval and Renaissance Studies program, the Religious Studies program, and the Italian Studies program.  His research interests include medieval art and architecture, cultural production, and Italian studies.  His honors include receiving a J. Paul Getty Trust Grant and a Guggenheim Fellowship.  He recently published The Origins of Medieval Architecture:Building in Europe A.D. 600-900 with Yale University Press, which won two major book awards.    Professor McClendon teaches classes such as History of Art I:  Antiquity to the Middle Ages; The Formation of Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Art; The Age of Cathedrals; and St. Peter’s and the Vatican. (mcclendon@brandeis.edu)

McFarlane, Keenyn
Mr. McFarlane serves as the Vice President for Enrollment within the Division of Students and Enrollment.  He is focused on financial and administrative support for the student college experience outside the classroom including oversight of division-wide budget issues, administration of the student activity fees, and management of the enrollment drivers that impact University tuition revenue.Mr. McFarlane has returned to Brandeis after a three-year hiatus during which he worked as the Deputy Chief Financial Officer for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and as the Deputy Chief Financial Officer for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco Firearms and Explosives (ATF) in Washington, D.C.  His professional career also includes service as the Finance Officer for the United States Attorney in the District of Massachusetts and experience in state government as the Assistant Budget Director for the Massachusetts Department of Education and the Deputy Director of Financial Management for the Massachusetts Department of Social Services. Mr. McFarlane has lectured in Economics and Management as a member of the Adjunct Faculty at Emmanuel College in Boston. Mr. McFarlane attended Brown University and earned a B.A. in Economics from the University of Massachusetts and later a MBA from Bentley College.  He is a native New Yorker, born in East Flatbush and raised in the East New York section of Brooklyn.  (mcfarlan@brandeis.edu)

Meyer, Robert
Professor Meyer is a faculty member in the department of Physics and the Volen National Center for Complex Systems.  He holds a B.A. and a Ph.D. from Harvard University. His area of expertise is in the study of liquid crystals, colloids and polymers.  Listed among his honors are a National Science Foundation Integrative Graduate Education and Research Training Grant, the Oliver Buckley Prize from the American Physical Society, and The Benjamin Franklin Medal in Physics, awarded by the Franklin Institute of Philadelphia.  His publications include "Unwinding of a Strained Cholesteric Elastomer by Disclination Loop Nucleation" and "Textural Transformations in Islands on Free Standing Smectic-C* Liquid Crystal Films," both appearing in the journal Physical Review.  He teaches Advanced Introductory Physics I and Liquid Crystals. (meyer@brandeis.edu)

Miller, Christopher
Chris Miller is a Professor of Biochemistry, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, and a member of the National Academy of Sciences.  He is also a faculty member in the Neuroscience department.  He received his undergraduate degree in Physics from Swarthmore College his Ph.D. in Molecular Biology from University of Pennsylvania.  Professor Miller is an expert on the structure and function of ion channel proteins and membrane transport and mechanisms of electrical excitation.  Professor Miller was the president of the Biophysical Society in 2000 and received the K.S. Cole Award in Membrane Biophysics in 1986.  (cmiller@brandeis.edu)

Miller, Laura
Laura Miller is an Associate Professor of Sociology and a faculty member in the Journalism program. She received her B.A and M.L.I.S. from the University of California, Berkeley and her M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of California, San Diego. Professor Miller teaches courses in the sociology of culture, the mass media, and urban sociology. She has authored numerous articles on these subjects and her book, “Reluctant Capitalists: Bookselling and the Culture of Consumption,” was awarded the Sociology of Culture Section Book Award in 2007 by the American Sociological Association.  She is currently writing a book on the relationship between the natural foods industry and natural foods as a social movement.  (lamiller@brandeis.edu)

Morris, Jim
An Associate Professor of Biology, Professor Morris attended Harvard University as an undergraduate and received both an MD and a PhD from Harvard University.  He is also an affiliated faculty member with Health: Science, Society and Policy. Professor Morris has broad interests in genetics and epigenetics, organismal and evolutionary biology, and medicine.   One of his biology courses examines the biology, sociology, and language of the deaf.  He also teaches Evolutionary Biology.  (jmorris@brandeis.edu)

Morrison, Janet
Janet Morrison is an Associate Professor of Theater Arts.  She earned her M.F.A. in Acting from Temple University. Professor Morrison received a Dramalogue Critics Award for Off-Broadway's Last Summer at Bluefish Cove.  Boston-area acting credits include King John (Actor’s Shakespeare Project) and The Clean House (Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theatre). She has directed several productions for The Nora Theatre Company, Cambridge. Professor Morrison teaches acting in both the MFA-Acting and the BA-Theater Arts programs at Brandeis.  Her current research is on the Michael Chekhov technique of acting. She is presently working with the Great Lakes Michael Chekhov Consortium on a production of Brian Friel's AFTERPLAY. (morrison@brandeis.edu)

Nieske, Robert
Professor Nieske attended the New England Conservatory for both undergraduate and for his Master's degree.  An acclaimed bassist and jazz composer, his current projects include a quartet featuring slide guitar virtuoso Dave Tronzo and a 10 piece little big band, The Big Wolf Project. He directs the Jazz Ensemble and teaches classes in jazz composition and arranging, and introductory improvisation. His awards include being named the winner of the Jazz Composition Contest sponsored by the Jazz Composers Alliance and being named an "outstanding bassist" by the Boston Music Awards. His quintet recording "My Desire" being named one of the top jazz records of 1996 by Jazz Hot Magazine.  (nieske@brandeis.edu)

Novack, Claudia
Professor Novack received her M.A. and Ph.D. in Slavic Languages from Brown University and currently serves as the General Chemistry Laboratory Instructor in the Department of Chemistry.  Having completed the required pre-medical courses at Brandeis University, Professor Novak has expertise in both Slavic Linguistics and the sciences.  She is the recipient of the Presidential Award for Excellence in Teaching from Brown University.    (novack@brandeis.edu)

Oprian, Daniel
Daniel Oprian is a Louis and Bessie Rosenfield Professor of Biochemistry and is a faculty member in Neuroscience.  He received his B.A., his M.S., and his Ph.D. all from the University of Michigan.  Awarded the Louis and Bessie Rosenfield Chair in Biochemistry in 1996, Professor Oprian is an expert on structure-function studies of visual pigments and other cell surface receptors.  (oprian@brandeis.edu)

Papaemmanouil, Olga
Olga Papaemmanouil has been an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Brandeis University since January 2009. She received her undergraduate degree in Computer Science and Informatics at the University of Patras, Greece in 1999. In 2001, she received her Sc.M. in Information Systems at the University of Economics and Business, Athens, Greece. She then joined the Computer Science Department at Brown University, where she completed her Ph.D in Computer Science at Brown University in 2008. Her research interests are in networked data management and distributed systems. She is the recipient of the Paris Kanellakis Fellowship.  (papaemmanouil@brandeis.edu)

Paradis, Suzanne
Suzanne Paradis is an Assistant Professor of Biology who directs an active research laboratory that focuses on understanding how synapses form between neurons in the mammalian central nervous system.  She is also a faculty member in Neuroscience.  She teaches classes in Developmental Biology, Developmental Neurobiology, Neurogenetics, and Topics in Neurobiology.  Having earned her PhD from Harvard University, Professor Paradis has received many accolades, including the Society for Neuroscience Career Development Award, the Smith Family Award for Excellence in Biomedical Research, and the Basil O’Connor Starter Scholar Research Award. Professor Paradis is also an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow.  (paradis@brandeis.edu)

Perlman, Daniel
Dan Perlman is an Associate Professor of Biology who specializes in ecology, animal behavior, and conservation biology, and he recently took on the position of Associate Provost for Assessment of Student Learning.  Professor Perlman attended Yale as an undergraduate and Harvard for his Ph.D.  A 1987 Fulbright Scholar, Perlman received the Louis Dembitz Brandeis Prize for Excellence in Teaching, in 2006, and the Student Union Teaching Award in 2004 and 2005.  Professor Perlman’s recent research has focused on creating new methods for setting priorities in the practice of conservation biology.  He recently launched a Web site from which he freely distributes teaching materials he has developed for ecology and environmental studies (www.EcoLibrary.org). (perlman@brandeis.edu)

Petsko, Gregory
Professor Petsko attended Princeton University as an undergraduate and received a D. Phil. from Oxford University, which he attended as a Rhodes Scholar.  A member of the Biochemistry faculty, his research interests include protein crystallography and research on neurodegenerative diseases, especially Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s.  His honors include serving as an Adjunct Professor of Neurology at Brigham & Women's Hospital, which is allied with Harvard Medical School; being named a Fellow by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; election to the National Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Medicine, and the American Philosophical Society; and receiving a Guggenheim Fellowship and an honorary Doctor of Laws from Dalhousie University. He teaches classes such as Introductory Biochemistry and Protein X-ray Crystallography. (petsko@brandeis.edu)

Pochapsky, Thomas
Thomas Pochapsky is a Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry and affiliated with the Rosenstiel BasicMedical Sciences Research Center.  He received his B.Sc. at the University of Pittsburgh and his Ph.D. at theUniversity of Illinois.  He has several fields of expertise including self-assembly of chemical and biological systems, transient interactions in solution by NMR, NMR of soluble proteins, protein stability and folding by NMR and mutagenesis, structure and function of metal-containing enzymes and proteins.  He has published numerous journal articles and recently published the book,"NMR for Physical and Biological Scientists".  Professor Pochapsky has served as the Chair of the National Institutes of Health Study Section for High Field NMR Spectrometers.  In addition to overseeing research for undergraduates in Biochemistry and senior research in Chemistry, he also teaches "Directed Studies in Chemistry".  (pochapsk@brandeis.edu)

Pontrello, Jason
Jason Pontrello is an Assistant Professor in the Chemistry Department.  He specializes in organic chemistry, chemical biology, and chemical education.  He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.  Professor Pontrello regularly instructs Organic and General Chemistry Lecture and Laboratory courses.  His undergraduate research lab involves new solid phase synthetic strategies, synthetic inducers/inhibitors of huntingtin protein aggregation, and the design of selective metalloprotease inhibitors. (pontrell@brandeis.edu)

Press, Joan
Professor Press attended Pennsylvania State University as an undergraduate and received her Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania.  A member of the Biology department, her areas of expertise are developmental immunology and immunogenetics.  Her courses include Immunology and Pathogens and Human Disease.  Professor Press is also the Undergraduate Advising Head for the Biology Department. (press@brandeis.edu)

Quinney, Laura
Professor Laura Quinney attended Yale University as an undergraduate before attending Cornell University for her Masters and Doctoral work.  She specializes in Romanticism, poetry, and literature and philosophy. She is currently working on the representation of the inner life in poetry and philosophy.  She was a Fellow of Wellesley College's Newhouse Humanities Center in 2009, and has many publications to her name, including her recent book, William Blake on Self and Soul.  Some of Profressor Quinney's course offerings include Contemporary Poetry, Blake and Shelley, and Me, Myself, and I:  TheTheme of Self-Conflict.  She has two sons and a budgie. (quinney@brandeis.edu)

Reimer, Joseph
Joe Reimer is an Associate Professor of Jewish Education in the Education Program and the Hornstein Program for Jewish Professional Leadership.  He earned his B.A at City College of New York, his M.A. at Brandeis, and his M.Ed. and Ed.D. at Harvard.  His areas of expertise include Jewish education, camping, and life cycle.  He has published various articles on Jewish education including several books: “Succeeding at Jewish Education: How One Synagogue Made It Work”, “To Build a Profession: Careers in Jewish Education” and “Promoting Moral Growth: From Piaget to Kohlberg”.  He received the National Jewish Book Award in Education in 1997 for his book, “Succeeding at Jewish Education: How One Synagogue Made It Work”, and the Human Development Research Award in 1988 for research on moral development of kibbutz adolescents and young adults.  (reimer@brandeis.edu)

Rodal, Avital
Doctor Avital Rodal is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biology.  She was born and raised in Ottawa, Canada, and received her Bachelor of Science Degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and her Ph.D from the University of California, Berkeley. Her lab studies how neurons receive and interpret growth signals, using genetics, microscopy,and biochemistry in fruit flies.   (arodal@brandeis.edu)

Rohleder, Nicolas
Nicolas Rohleder is an Assistant Professor in the Psychology Department and the Volen National Center for Complex Systems, and teaches courses in Neuroscience.  He is an affiliated faculty member for Health: Science, Society and Policy and a faculty member in Neuroscience.  Professor Rohleder received his Ph.D. from the University of Trier.  In 2009 he received the American Federation for Aging Research Young Investigator Award, and has many publications in international journals such as Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews or the Journal of Clinical Oncology. Some of Professor Rohleder’s course offerings include Stress, Physiology, and Health and Health Psychology.  (rohleder@brandeis.edu)

Ruberman, Daniel
Daniel Ruberman is a professor of Mathematics whose areas of expertise include geometric topology and gauge theory.  He received his B.A and M.A. from Wesleyan University and his Ph.D. at the University of California, Berkeley.  He has received several honors and grants - including a Slovenian-US Grant, supporting visits to University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.  He has published numerous articles, the most recent of which is "Algebraic and Heegaard-Floer invariants of knots with slice Bing doubles," published in the Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society.   In addition to overseeing independent research in Mathematics, he also teaches courses such as "Introduction to Topology" and "Differential Geometry".  (ruberman@brandeis.edu)

Samet, Jerry
Chair of the Philosophy Department, Jerry Samet is and an Associate Professor of Philosophy whose areas of expertise includes philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychology, cognitive science, history of philosophy, and the philosophy of science.  Professor Samet is a faculty member in Religious Studies and European Cultural Studies.  He attended Yeshiva University for his B.A. and earned his Ph.D. at City College of New York.  He became a member of the Philosophy Department in 1983, after a post-doctoral fellowship at the Yale University Cognitive Science Program and teaching stints at the University of Pennsylvania, Wellesley, and Bentley College.  He is currently completing work on a book on the role of the innate ideas controversy in Plato, Locke, and Leibniz.  His course offerings include “Introduction to Symbolic Logic”, “Philosophy of Mind”, “Consciousness, Brain, and Self", and “Nature or Nurture: The Innateness Controversy.”  (samet@brandeis.edu)

Sarna, Jonathan
Professor Sarna is the Joseph H. & Belle R. Braun Professor of American Jewish History at Brandeis University and Director of its Hornstein Jewish Professional Leadership Program. Dubbed by the Forward newspaper as one of America's fifty most influential American Jews, he was Chief Historian for the 350th commemoration of the American Jewish community, and is recognized as a leading commentator on American Jewish history, religion and life. Born in Philadelphia, and raised in New York and Boston, Dr. Sarna attended Brandeis University, the Boston Hebrew College, Merkaz HaRav Kook in Jerusalem, and Yale University, where he obtained his doctorate in 1979. From 1979-1990, Dr. Sarna taught at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Cincinnati, where he rose to become Professor of American Jewish history and Director of the Center for the Study of the American Jewish Experience. He has also taught at Yale University, the University of Cincinnati, and at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Dr. Sarna came back to Brandeis in 1990 to teach American Jewish history in its Department of Near Eastern & Judaic Studies. He served two terms as chair of that department, and now chairs the Academic Advisory and Editorial Board of the Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives. In addition, he serves as chief historian of the National Museum of American Jewish History in Philadelphia. Dr. Sarna has written, edited, or co-edited more than twenty books, including the acclaimed ‘American Judaism: A History’. Winner of the Jewish Book Council's "Jewish Book of the Year Award" in 2004, it has been praised as being "the single best description of American Judaism during its 350 years on American soil."  His forthcoming book is titled ‘When General Grant Expelled the Jews’.  He is married to Professor Ruth Langer, and they have two children, Aaron and Leah.  (sarna@brandeis.edu)

Schattschneider, Ellen
Ellen Schattschneider is a sociocultural anthropologist specializing in psychoanalytic, phenomenological and practice approaches to culture.  She is a core faculty member in the Women’s and Gender Studies department and an affiliated faculty member for International and Global Studies, East Asian Studies and Religious Studies.  She has strong ethnographic interests in East Asia, especially Japan.  Dr. Schattschneider is deeply committed to interdisciplinary conversations among those working in anthropology, gender and sexuality studies, religious studies, psychoanalytic studies and the arts.  Her recent work is especially concerned with traumatic memories of war in Japan and the Pacific. She received undergraduate training in philosophy, psychology and anthropology at Sarah Lawrence College, and graduate training in anthropology at the University of Chicago.  Some of her course offerings include Culture and Mental Illness, Myth and Ritual, Visuality and Culture; and The Anthropology of Gender.  (eschatt@brandeis.edu)

Schoenle, Raphael
Raphael Schoenle is an Assistant Professor of Economics who received an A.B. in economics and A.M. in statistics from Harvard University and an M.A. and Ph.D. in economics from Princeton University. Professor Schoenle specializes in International Macroeconomics, Macro- and Monetary Economics, and International Trade.  Professor Schoenle's research uses micro price data from the Bureau of labor Statistics to study how firms set prices and the implications for macro-economic modeling and policy.   (schoenle@brandeis.edu)

Sekino, Hiroko
Hiroko Sekino is a Senior Lecturer in Japanese and is involved with the East Asian Studies and German, Russian, and Asian Languages and Literature Departments.  Professor Sekino received her B.A. from Tsuda College and her M.Ed. from Boston University.  She teaches beginning to advanced Japanese language and literature at Brandeis.  (sekino@brandeis.edu)

Sekuler, Robert
Robert Sekuler is a Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, a Louis and Frances Salvage Professor of Psychology, and a member of the Volen National Center for Complex Systems.  He received his B.A at Brandeis and his M.S. and Ph.D. at Brown University, and was a post-doctoral fellow at M.I.T.   His areas of interest are psychophysical and electrophysiological studies of human visual cognition, including visual memory, navigation of complex environments, and age-related changes in cognitive function. Professor Sekuler heads the Visual Cognition Laboratory located in the Volen Center.  The lab's focus is on visual memory and imitation. He teaches courses such as Perception and Introduction to Cognitive Neuroscience. (sekuler@brandeis.edu)

Simister, Neil
Professor Simister attended Oxford University as an undergraduate, and he also received his D.Phil. from Oxford.  He did his postdoctoral training at the Whitehead Institute at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.  A member of the Biology faculty, his research interests include molecular immunology and antibody transport. His honors include receiving grants from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and receiving the Michael. L. Walzer Award for Teaching. He has received patents for inventions involving receptor specific transepithelial transport of therapeutics and immunogens.  Professor Simister teaches classes such as Cell Structure and Function and Biology: Its Human Implications.  (simister@brandeis.edu)

Skorczewski, Dawn
Professor Skorczewski attended Boston College as an undergraduate and Rutgers University for her Ph.D.  A member of the English and American Literature faculty, she serves as the Director of University Writing.  She will publish An Accident of Hope: Anne Sexton's Therapy Tapes in March 2012.  Her courses include Trauma and Memory in the Literary  Imagination and American Women Poets. She is interested in literature and psychoanalysis as well as theories of teaching and learning.  (dawnskor@brandeis.edu)

Smiley, Marion
Marion Smiley is a Professor of Philosophy, a faculty member in Social Justice and Social Policy and a core faculty member in Women’s and Gender Studies.  She received her Ph. D in 1984 from Princeton University and joined the Brandeis faculty in the Spring of 2002 after having taught at Wellesley, Wesleyan, and the University of Wisconsin/Madison. She is the author of Moral Responsibility and the Boundaries of Community. Accountability and Power From a Pragmatic Point of View and Falling Through Tap Doors. The Philosophy and Politics of Group Identification (forthcoming), as well as numerous articles on free will and determinism, moral agency, collective responsibility, feminist social and political thought, autonomy and paternalism, John Dewey and the philosophy of pragmatism, democratic theory, multiculturalism, and the practice of rights. She is currently at work on two book length projects: Dependence, Autonomy and the Welfare State and Democracy and Paternalism. Professor Smiley is the recipient of several teaching awards, as well as research fellowships from Princeton University, the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, the American Association of University Women, the Harvard University Ethics Program, and the Swedish Institute for Advanced Study.  She teaches courses such as Introduction to Ethics, Philosophy and Gender, and What is Justice?  (smiley@brandeis.edu)

Smith, Ellen
Ellen Smith is Director of the Hornstein Jewish Professional Leadership Program at Brandeis University, Associate Professor in Hornstein, and an affiliate faculty member in the Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies. She also co-directs advanced training programs at Brandeis for Jewish professionals and organizations (including the Gralla Fellows Program for Religion Journalists that ran from 1998-2009).  Ellen is principal of Museumsmith, a firm specializing in museum exhibitions and historic site interpretations throughout the nation. Trained as both an academic historian and a museum curator, Ellen has published more than three dozen books, articles, and catalogs including The Jews of Boston, co-edited with Jonathan D. Sarna.  At Brandeis, she has developed a series of new courses in visual and material culture, and museum studies. Ellen is the former Curator of the American Jewish Historical Society and the National Museum of American Jewish History, and has taught courses in American Jewish Women's History, American Jewish Material Culture, Jewish Museum Studies, and American Jewish History at Brandeis, Boston, and Northeastern Universities. In 2005 she toured the country as one of the United Jewish Community's key speakers during the 350th anniversary celebration of Jews in America.  A popular speaker locally and throughout the country, Ellen sits on numerous academic and civic advisory boards, and is past president of Boston’s Leventhal-Sidman Jewish Community Center. She has won numerous honors and awards for her leadership in the Jewish community as both a volunteer and a professional.  Ellen and her husband have a grown daughter and son, and live in Newton with Ellen’s father and probably too many pets.  (esmith2@brandeis.edu)

Smith, Erika
Since 2004, Erika Smith has served as the Director of the Transitional Year Program. Ms. Smith holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Lehigh University, where she matriculated as a Posse scholar, an EdM in Education Policy and Management from Harvard University, and is currently pursuing her PhD in Social Policy at Brandeis University. On the program's staff since 2000, Ms. Smith has also held posts as the TYP Program Coordinator, and as a math instructor in the program.  (esmith@brandeis.edu)

Smith, Faith
Faith Smith, an Associate Professor, chairs the Department of African and Afro-American Studies, and is a member of the Department of English and American Literature, the core faculty of the Women's and Gender Studies Program, and the Latin American and Latino Studies Program. Professor Smith attended the University of the West Indies-Mona as an undergraduate, received her M.A. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and her Ph.D. from Duke University.  Professor Smith was a National Humanities Center Fellow in 2002, National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow in 2005, and Sheila Biddle Ford Foundation Residential Fellow at the  W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard University in 2008.  At Brandeis, she is a recent recipient of a Course Development grant from the Center for German and European Studies, a Jane's Faculty Development award from the Latin American and Latino Studies Program, and the Theodore and Jane Norman Grant.  (fsmith@brandeis.edu)

Suderow, Detlev
Detlev Suderow is a Senior Lecturer in the Brandeis University International Business School and a retired Senior Vice President of Human Resources for several international technology companies.  He received his B.A. from Brandeis University and his M.A. from Tufts University and he specializes in International Strategic Human Resource Management, Organizational Behavior, Executive Coaching, and Leadership Traits.  Detlev is also the career advisor for the undergraduate business program, counsels graduate students at the International Business School, and serves on numerous Brandeis University committees and boards. (suderow@brandeis.edu)

Targoff, Ramie
Ramie Targoff is Professor of English and American Literature, and Director of the Mandel Center for the Humanities.   She received her B.A. at Yale and her Ph.D.  at the University of California, Berkeley.  Professor Targoff teaches and studies Renaissance literature, with an emphasis on the relationship between literature and religion. She is the author of two books: Common Prayer (2001) and John Donne, Body and Soul; and she is currently finishing a new book, Posthumous Love: Erotic Verse in the Renaissance.", and she is now writing.  She teaches courses such as “English Literature in the Age of Shakespeare”, ”Witchcraft and Magic in Renaissance Europe," and "Love Poetry from Sappho to Neruda."  (targoff@brandeis.edu)

Teuber, Andreas
Andreas Teuber is Chair of the Philosophy Department, an Associate Professor of Philosophy and a faculty member in Social Justice and Social Policy. He received his B.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard University.  Professor Teuber has received two Brandeis teaching awards: The Michael Laban Walzer Award for Excellence in Teaching and  The Kermit H. Perlmutter Fellowship Award for Teaching Excellence.  He  is the contributor to two books: AMERICAN JOURNEY: The Times of Robert  Kennedy, (1970) and RISK: Public Health and Risk Assessment, (1994)  and the author of a number of articles in philosophy, politics and  law. His course offerings include "Philosophy of Law," "Human Rights,"  "Introduction to Philosophy" and a course in Philosophy of Art:  "Painting, Photography and Film."  (teuber@brandeis.edu)q

Tovar, Patricia
Patricia Tovar is an Assistant Professor of Economics and the  International Business School. Her areas of expertise include  International Trade, Political Economy, Development and Behavioral  Economics. Prior to receiving her PhD from the University of Maryland,  she received her B.S. from the Catholic University of Peru and worked  as an economist at the Central Bank of Peru for 3 years.  Professor  Tovar's primary research interest is in international trade, with  emphasis on political economy and trade policy.  The courses she  teaches at Brandeis include The Global Economy, Latin America?s  Economy (undergraduate level), and International Trade Theory (PhD  level).  (tovar@brandeis.edu)

Turrigiano, Gina
Gina Turrigiano is a Professor of Biology and of the Volen National Center for Complex Systems.   She teaches in the Biology and Neuroscience Departments and her expertise is in experience-dependent plascity of cortical synapses and circuits. She is also a faculty member in the Health: Science, Society and Policy department. She earned her B.A. at Reed College in Portland, Oregon and her Ph.D.  at the University of California, San Diego.  Professor Turrigiano has received numerous awards and honors – including the distinguished MacArthur Fellowship for her work in furthering our understanding of the development of complicated neural networks.  She teaches Cellular and Systems Neuroscience as well as oversees Biology and Neuroscience Senior Research Projects.  (turrigia@brandeis.edu)

Urcid, Javier
Javier Urcid is chair and associate professor of anthropology and teaches courses in archaeology.  He received his B.A. at Universidad de las Americas (Mexico), and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Yale University.  His interests include Archaeology, Bioarchaeology, complex societies, writing systems, material culture, comparative aesthetics, and Mesoamerica.  He specializes in the study of ancient scripts from Southwestern Mesoamerica.  He has received awards from the National Science Foundation, the National Gallery of Art, Dumbarton Oaks, the Social Science Research Council, the Foundation for the Advancement of Mesoamerican Studies, the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, the Marver and Sheva Bernstein Faculty Fellowship, and the Jane's Faculty improvement grant. Professor Urcid teaches several courses in the Anthropology Department including Human Origins, Human Osteology, Archaeological Field Techniques, Meaning and Material Culture, Writing Systems and Scribal Traditions, Directions and issues in Archaeology and Cross-Cultural Art and Aesthetics.  (urcid@brandeis.edu)

Van Hooser, Stephen
Stephen Van Hooser is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biology.  He received his Bachelors of Science from the California Institute of Technology, his Doctoral degree from Brandeis University, and performed postdoctoral research at Duke University.  His research focuses on understanding the development and function of cortical circuits.  Some of the courses Professor Van Hooser teaches include Neuroscience Proseminar and Data Analysis and Statistics Workshop.  (vanhoosr@brandeis.edu)

Veiga, Alessandra
Alessandra Veiga began working at Brandeis in September 2009. Alessandra holds a bachelor's degree in Political Science and a master's degree in Higher Education Administration. As the Program Coordinator for SSSP, Alessandra organizes the Peer Mentoring Program, First Year Learning Community, and advises a case load of students. Alessandra loves to travel and is an avid dancer who has practiced many different forms of dance over the past 16 years.  (aveiga@brandeis.edu)

Villalobos, Ana
Ana Villalobos is in the Sociology Department at Brandeis and specializes in sociology of the family, sociology of gender, and sociology of education.  She received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. Villalobos' research and teaching focus on motherhood, and attempt to bring to light the often hidden connections between large-scale social forces and personal experience.  (anavilla@brandeis.edu)

Walker, Cheryl
Cheryl Walker is an Associate Professor of Classical Studies whose expertise is in Roman and Greek history.  She received her B.A at the University of Chicago and her M.A. and Ph.D. at the University of North Carolina.  Some of the courses she has taught are "Survey of Greek History: Bronze Age to 323 B.C.E.", "The Greekness of Alexander", "Imperialism in Antiquity", "Intermediate Ancient Greek (Literature)", "Intermediate Latin (Literature)", "Metamorphosis", and "Going to Hell: Journeys to the Underworld".  She also oversees Directed Readings and Senior Research Projects in the Classical Studies Department.  Professor Walker is a recipient of the highest teaching honor at Brandeis - the Louis Dembitz Brandeis Prize for Excellence in Teaching. (cwalker@brandeis.edu)

Wang, Xin
Xin Wang is Assistant Professor of Marketing at Brandeis International Business School.  She received her PhD and Master’s degrees in Marketing from Carnegie Mellon University.  Her research interests include E-Commerce, consumer learning and service quality. Her research has been published in top-tier academic journals such as Marketing Science, Quantitative Marketing and Economics, Economic Journal, Marketing Letters and Journal of Retailing. At Brandeis University, she teaches Marketing Management, Marketing Research and Global Marketing. Professor Wang's prior professional experience includes working as an Assistant Professor of Marketing at Krannert School of Management, Purdue University, a research fellow and instructor at the Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University, as well as a research associate at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.  Professor Wang has received several awards such as William Larimer Fellowship from Carnegie Mellon University, Doctoral Consortium Fellowships of American Marketing Association and the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences, and a Faculty Research Grant from the Center for International Business Education and Research.  (xinwang@brandeis.edu)

Wangh, Lawrence
Professor Larry Wangh attended Brandeis as an undergraduate and received his Ph.D from Rockefeller University.  A member of the Biology department faculty, he directs the Laboratory of Molecular Diagnostics and Global Health, in which he and a team of about fifteen scientists and students invent and apply new technologies for detection and analysis of infectious disease, cancer, and many other targets. He is also a faculty member in the Health: Science, Society and Policy department. He teaches a course entitled "Genes and the Human Story" which discusses human evolution, migration, genetic variation and demography.  He recently received the 2009-2011 Sigma Xi Society Distinguished Lecturer award.  (wangh@brandeis.edu)

Wardle, John
Professor Wardle is a Professor of Astrophysics. His expertise is in radio astronomy and observational cosmology. He holds a B.A. and an M.A. from the University of Cambridge and an M.S. and a Ph.D. from the University of Manchester. He is a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society and has received a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship. Among his numerous publications, he is the author of  "Deceleration from Entrainment in the Jet of the Quasar 1136-135" and "Structure and Magnetic Fields in the Precessing Jet System SS 433," both published in the Astrophysical Journal. His courses include Introductory Astronomy; Modern Physics; and Astrophysics.  (wardle@brandeis.edu)

Wardwell, Joseph
Professor Wardwell received his B.A. and B.F.A. from University of Washington and his M.F.A. at Boston University.  A member of the Fine Arts department, Professor Wardwell's expertise is in drawing and painting.  His courses include Basic Visual Concepts in Painting and Life Painting.  He was awarded the AICA, Best Show in an Alternative Space at Green Street Gallery and participated in the "Sex, Drugs, and Rock and Roll Group Show" at the Gescheidle Gallery in Chicago.  (wardwell@brandeis.edu)

Whelan, Michaele
Professor Whelan attended Cornell University as an undergraduate and Harvard University for her Master's and Ph.D.  A member of the English and American Literature department  and the Vice Provost for Academic Affairs, her research interests include contemporary Anglophone literature, American literature, and narrative theory.  She has received teaching awards from both The Pennsylvania State University and Harvard University.  She teaches courses such as Detection and Analysis: Deciphering Theories of Madness and the USEM, A Haunted America: American Dreamers as Wanderers, Visionaries, Isolates. (mwhelan@brandeis.edu)

Whitfield, Steven
Professor Stephen Whitfield earned his B.A. at Tulane University, his  M.A. at Yale and his Ph.D. at Brandeis. He has taught in the  Department of American Studies since 1972, and holds the Max Richter  Chair in American Civilization. He serves as chairperson of the  Department of American Studies and also teaches in the Journalism Department.  His particular field of interest is  politics and culture in the 20th century. Professor Whitfield is the  author of eight books, including most recently The Culture of the Cold  War and In Search of American Jewish Culture. Professor Whitfield is  also the editor of A Companion to 20th-Century America. In 1993 he won  the Louis D. Brandeis Award for Excellence in Teaching, and in 2008  the Student Union Award for teaching excellence. His courses include  American Individualism; Journalism in Twentieth-Century America; and The Culture of the Cold War.  (swhitfie@brandeis.edu)

Wilson, Elena
Elena began working at Brandeis in June of 2004. For the past nine years she has worked in Higher Education. She currently serves as the Assistant Director for the Student Support Services Program within Academic Services.  Before her arrival to Brandeis, she served as the Counseling Coordinator and Critical Thinking Instructor at her Alma Mater Westfield State College where she earned her undergraduate degree in Mass Communications. Her Master's Degree in Sociology at Brandeis focuses on gender, race, and class inequality and reconciliatory efforts to promote equity. Her passion for helping students makes coming to work every day worthwhile.  (ewilson@brandeis.edu)

Wolf, Jutta
Jutta M. Wolf is an Assistant Professor for Health Psychology in the Department of Psychology and an affiliated faculty member in Health: Science, Society and Policy.  She is also a faculty member in Neuroscience.  She attended the Dresden University of Technology for her doctoral studies.  Among her many accolades, she E136was awarded the Trainee Award from the Psychoneuroimmunology Research Society in 2008 and the American Psychosomatic Society Scholar Award in 2007.  Professor Wolf’s course offerings include Health Psychology and Research Methods and Laboratory in Psychology. Her research interests include the molecular pathways connecting stress and immune processes in depression, PTSD, and eating disorder.  (jmw@brandeis.edu)

Woll, Peter
Peter Woll is a Professor of Politics whose expertise is in American politics and government, administrative law and congress.  He received his B.A at Haverford College and his Ph.D. at Cornell.  Professor Woll has published a number of books including American Government: Readings and Cases, American Government: The Core, Debating American Government, and Behind the Scenes in American Government.  He teaches courses in "Administrative Law" and "Constitutional Law" as well as supervising students who are pursuing Independent Studies and Senior Research Honors Thesis programs.  (woll@brandeis.edu)

Wong, Elaine
Elaine Wong serves as the Senior Associate Dean of Arts and Sciences for Undergraduate Education.  Her responsibilities include the undergraduate curriculum and support for teaching, and staff members reporting to her coordinate experiential  and community-engaged learning, academic internships, the Brandeis Pluralism Alliance and the Undergraduate Departmental Representatives (UDRs).  She aims to support faculty and student community-building initiatives. (ewong@brandeis.edu)

Wright, Ellen
Professor Wright attended the University of Colorado as an undergraduate and the University of Iowa to earn her Master's and a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology, specializing in children and adolescents.  Her research focuses on developmental psychopathology and emotion regulation, particularly in the area of depression. She teaches Introduction to Psychology, Research Methods, Abnormal Psychology Adolescent Development, Theories of Personality, and an upper-level seminar in Research in Sex Differences. (ejwright@brandeis.edu)

Yack, Bernard
Chair of the Politics Department, Bernard Yack is a Lerman Neubauer Professor of Democracy and Public Policy affiliated with the History of Ideas and Politics Departments.  Professor Yack specializes in political theory, the history of political thought, nationalism, and cultural pluralism.  He received his B.A. from the University of Toronto and his Ph.D. from Harvard University. (yack@brandeis.edu)

Yoshida, Satoshi
Satoshi Yoshida is an Assistant Professor in the Biology Department.  His possesses the research interests on cell division and cellular stress response.  His research focuses on the molecular mechanism of Rho signaling in yeast.  He attended the University of Tokyo for his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. before coming to the United States.  In addition to his many publications, Professor Yoshida was awarded the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center Young Investigator Award (2009) and the IUBMB Young Scientists’ Award (2006); among others.  Professor Yoshida’s courses include Advanced Cell Biology, Mechanisms of Cell Functions, and Topics in Molecular Genetics and Development.   (satoshi@brandeis.edu)

Zebrowitz, Leslie
Leslie Zebrowitz is the Manuel Yellen Professor of Social Relations in the department of Psychology. Professor Zebrowitz’s expertise focuses on social psychology, face perception, and facial stereotypes. Having earned a PhD from Yale University, Professor Zebrowitz’s dissertation was identified by the Social Citation Index as one of the most cited works in the field, and she has since authored many publications in scholarly journals as well as three books. A recipient of a research grant from the National Institute on Aging, Professor Zebrowitz also received an NIH Career Development Award to study social neuroscience. She is a fellow in the Association for Psychological Science, the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, and the Society for Experimental Social Psychology. She teaches several classes in the department of Psychology, including Seminar in Nonverbal Communication and Advanced Research Methods.  (zebrowit@brandeis.edu)

Zimmerman, Grace
Grace Zimmerman is a Senior Lecturer in the Brandeis University International Business School and Adjunct Lecturer in the Heller School for Social Management.  Zimmerman received her B.S. from Ohio State University and her M.B.A. from Harvard University and has expertise in business planning, international entrepreneurship, and strategic marketing.  Ms. Zimmerman received Brandeis' Excellence in Teaching Award in 2007.  Professor Zimmerman is an experienced entrepreneur, in both the high tech and health care industries, with a long, successful track record of launching new companies and products in nascent, undeveloped markets requiring innovative marketing and sales approaches. Companies Ms. Zimmerman has helped to launch, have gone public, or been acquired and are still employing thousands of skilled professionals. The innovative approach to marketing long-term care insurance that Zimmerman pioneered in 1995 at CalPERS is still in use there and has been implemented in a national program for federal employees.  (gzimmerm@brandeis.edu)