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James Marcus
Deputy Editor
Editor-in-Chief of Harper's Magazine; edited 'Second Read: Writers Look Back at Classic Works of...
Literature & Writing
Jasper St. Bernard
Visiting Assistant Professor, History
Creative & Performin
Creative & Performing Arts
Jessica Tyler
Professor, Department of Epigenetics and Molecular Carcinogenesis
Biology & Medicine
Biology & Medicine
John McQuaid
Journalist and Author
Three Pulitzer Prizes at the New Orleans Times-Picayune; awards from the American Association for...
Literature & Writing
Leora Kahn
Founder and Executive Director
Founded PROOF: Media for Social Justice (2006); author of 'Darfur: 20 Years of War and Genocide'...
Journalism & Media
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Lisa Cataldo
Associate Professor of Pastoral Mental Health Counseling
Co-chair of the Psychology, Culture, and Religion unit of the American Academy of Religion; faculty...
Psychology & Psychoanalysis
Michael Klein
Poet and Faculty Member, English Department
Two-time Lambda Literary Award winner (1990 for 'Poets for Life: 76 Poets Respond to AIDS'; 1993...
Technology & Engineering
Patricia Olynyk
Artist; former Chair of the Leonardo Education and Art Forum; Co-Director of the NY LASER program
Other/Interdisciplin
Creative & Performing Arts
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Susan Engel
Senior Lecturer in Psychology and Founding Director of the Program in Teaching
Author of seven books including 'The Hungry Mind,' 'The Stories Children Tell,' 'The End of the...
Psychology & Psychoanalysis
Sushma Subramanian
Science Writer & Journalist; Associate Professor of Journalism
Literature & Writing
Literature & Writing
Anne-Marie Levine
Poet, Performer, and Visual Artist
New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry; finalist for the Paterson Poetry Prize for...
Creative & Performing Arts
Allen Fein
Professor Emeritus
Internationally recognized for discoveries about inositol trisphosphate in cellular signaling;...
Biology & Medicine
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Brigitte Kahl
Professor of New Testament
Author of 'Galatians Re-Imagined: Reading with the Eyes of the Vanquished' (2010), redefining...
Philosophy & Ethics
Daniel Grushkin
Executive Director and Co-founder
Co-founded Genspace, a pioneering nonprofit community biology laboratory; founded the Biodesign...
Journalism & Media
David Hanson
Founder and CEO
Creator of Sophia, the world's most famous humanoid robot and first robot granted citizenship;...
Technology & Engineering
David Russell
Associate Professor, English
Other/Interdisciplin
Literature & Writing
Enrico Fonda
Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Applied Physics
Research in cryogenic fluid mechanics in classical and quantum fluids; co-author of 'Creative...
Physics & Cosmology
François Quiviger
Curator of Digital Resources, Assistant Librarian
Other/Interdisciplin
History & Cultural Studies
Gilbert Rose
Member of the Muriel Gardiner Program in Psychoanalysis and the Humanities
Literature & Writing
Literature & Writing
Jesse Harris
Songwriter, Producer, and Guitarist
Grammy Award for Song of the Year for 'Don't Know Why' (2003); wrote five songs on Norah Jones's...
Literature & Writing
John Schaefer
Host and producer of WNYC's "New Sounds" and "Soundcheck"; creator of "The Furthermore" on WQXR
Other/Interdisciplin
Journalism & Media
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Joseph Cambray
Past-President and CEO
Past-President of the International Association for Analytical Psychology; author of...
Psychology & Psychoanalysis
Laura Edelson
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Co-lead of the Cybersecurity for Democracy research project at NYU; developed methods to detect...
Technology & Engineering
Michael Waldholz
Medical Science Writer and Media Consultant
Journalism & Media
Journalism & Media
Mustafa Menai
Lecturer of Urdu
Research in Hindi-Urdu education history, curriculum development, and teacher training; expertise...
Biology & Medicine
Patricia Carlin
Faculty, Literature and Poetry Writing
University Distinguished Teaching Award from The New School; PhD from Princeton University...
Literature & Writing
Phil Zabriskie
Author and Journalist
Journalism & Media
Journalism & Media
Simon Deng
Human Rights Activist
Led the 'Sudan Freedom Walk,' a nearly 300-mile journey from New York City to Washington, D.C. to...
Other/Interdisciplinary
Theodore Dimon
Adjunct Professor of Clinical Psychology and Education; Director, The Dimon Institute
Co-founded the American Society for the Alexander Technique (AmSAT) in 1987; Ed.D. from Harvard...
Literature & Writing
Victoria Loustalot
Author and Editor
Published essay in The New York Times 'Modern Love' column at age 21; Nonfiction Writing Fellow at...
Literature & Writing
Wendy Sloan
Poet, Translator, Essayist; Retired Attorney
Literature & Writing
Literature & Writing
Wynn Schwartz
Clinical psychologist and research psychoanalyst
Literature & Writing
Literature & Writing
Carl Cofield
Director and Chair of Graduate Acting, NYU Tisch; Associate Artistic Director, Classical Theatre of Harlem
Other/Interdisciplin
Creative & Performing Arts
Marc Kissel
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Co-author of Emergent Warfare in Our Evolutionary Past (2018); contributed to National Geographic...
Social Sciences
Nathan M. Szajnberg
Wallerstein Research Fellow in Psychoanalysis
Biology & Medicine
Biology & Medicine
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Noah Giansiracusa
Associate Professor of Mathematics; Faculty Associate at Harvard
2026 recipient of a national communication award for bringing mathematical ideas to nonmathematical...
Mathematics & Computer Science
Tarah Rhoda
Bio Artist and Bio Lab Manager, School of Visual Arts
Other/Interdisciplin
Other/Interdisciplinary
Tim McHenry
Deputy Executive Director and Chief Programmatic Officer
Created the Brainwave series featuring figures like Questlove, Steven Pinker, and David Eagleman;...
Other/Interdisciplinary
Marina Korsakova-Kreyn
Assistant Professor, Behavioral and Social Sciences
Author of The Universe of Music; teaches courses in Music Cognition, Music Therapy, Human...
Creative & Performing Arts
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Edward Nersessian
Director, The Helix Center; Clinical Professor of Psychiatry; Training & Supervising Psychoanalyst
Psychology & Psychoa
Psychology & Psychoanalysis
Peter Malinowski
Senior Lecturer in Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience; Honorary Lecturer, University of Liverpool
Founding director of the LJMU Meditation and Mindfulness Research Group; Associate Editor of...
Neuroscience & Cognition
Viviane Silvera
Artist & Filmmaker
Creative & Performin
Creative & Performing Arts
Elissa Aminoff
Associate Professor of Psychology; Associate Chair for Undergraduate Studies
Over 5,600 citations on Google Scholar; PhD from Harvard University; ScB in Cognitive Neuroscience...
Neuroscience & Cognition
Jeffrey Kephart
Research Scientist
Co-authored the most cited paper in autonomic computing (9,000+ citations); co-founded the...
Neuroscience & Cognition
Kenneth T. Kishida
Inaugural Boswell Presidential Chair of Neuroscience and Society; Associate Professor of Translational Neuroscience
Named inaugural Boswell Presidential Chair of Neuroscience and Society at Wake Forest (2025); Wells...
Biology & Medicine
Lisa DeBenedittis
Assistant Professor of Design Research; Former Vice Provost of The New School and Associate Dean at Parsons
PhD, Licensed Psychoanalyst (LP); International Association of Analytical Psychology (IAAP) member;...
Other/Interdisciplinary
Mark Rosin
Director of Guerilla Science; Assistant Professor of Math & Science
Other/Interdisciplin
Other/Interdisciplinary
Nacho Arimany
Faculty, Sound and Music Institute; Musician and Composer
Created inTime (2014), a 9-CD rhythm-based music-listening therapeutic method to improve brain...
Creative & Performing Arts
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