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PRE-COLLEGE FACULTY
JULIE BLEHA
Theater in the City
Instructor for the Young Women's Leadership Institute
She is a Ph.D. candidate in English/comparative literature and theatre at Columbia University. She has taught at Columbia University, Fordham University and Kings College in London.
JAMES ETHAN BOURKE
Human Rights in Practice and Theory.
He is a Ph.D. candidate in political science at Duke University. James is the recipient of numerous fellowships such as the Earhart Fellowship and James B. Endowment Fellowship, and has taught at Indiana University.
JENNIFER BUCKLEY
NYC on Stage and Screen.
She is a Ph.D. candidate in English/comparative literature at Columbia University. Jennifer is a recipient of the Marjorie Hope Nicholson Fellowship and is currently a teaching assistant at Columbia University.
EDUARDO CANEDO
Patriotism, Protest, and Propaganda in Wartime America.
He is a Ph.D. candidate in history at Columbia University. He has taught courses at Northeastern University and has served as a teaching fellow at Columbia and a teaching assistant at Harvard University.
JOHANNA DEVANEY
Sounding Off: Music and Counterculture in NYC.
She holds a M. Phil in music technology from Columbia University, and is currently working on her Ph.D. in music technology at McGill University in Montréal. Johanna has taught a variety of music courses at both Columbia and McGill University.
MELANIE FALLON
Creating Fantastic Fabulist Fiction
She holds a M.F.A. in fiction from Washington University in St. Louis and a B.A. in women studies and French from Barnard College. She has served as a teaching fellow and mentored M.F.A. students at the University of Washington in St. Louis.
JESS FENN
Mysteries of New York
She is a Ph.D. candidate in English at Columbia University. She has served as a teaching assistant in the English Department at Columbia and is currently a University Writing Instructor at Columbia.
JAMIE GIGLIO
Psychology of Media
She holds an M.A.
in developmental psychology from Teachers College,
DANIELLE HAAS
Introduction to Journalism
She is an adjunct faculty member at Columbia Graduate School of Journalism,
where she is working on a Ph.D. in communications. A graduate of
Oxford University and Columbia University, she has been an Israel
Correspondent for the San Francisco Chronicle, Reuters wire service and
other recognized media outlets. She has reported from Iraq, Jordan,
the West Bank and Gaza Strip, and currently co-authors a column in the
Columbia Journalism Review, America's oldest media-focused publication.
HELEN KAPLAN
Filmmaking: From Script to Screen
She holds an M.F.A. from Columbia University in film, directing. She has produced numerous narrative fiction and documentary films. Helen teaches at Hunter College and has taught a variety of workshops in filmmaking.
ARI LAURA KREITH
Acting: Process and Performance
Ari holds a B.A. with distinction in theater from Yale University and an
M.F.A. in acting from UC Davis. She is a professional theater director and
acting coach. Her credits include productions in New York, Scotland, and
regional theater. Favorite projects include two national tours and the NYC
premieres of new plays and musicals.
SARAH LABARGE
Introduction to Fiction Writing: How to Find Your Story. She holds an M.F.A. in creative writing from Columbia University and holds her B.A. in English from Northwestern University. She has taught at Columbia University and Rutgers University.
ANDREA LAWLOR
Introduction to Fiction Writing: Transforming the Ordinary
She is an M.A. candidate in creative writing at Temple University and holds her B.A. in English from the University of Iowa. She currently teaches at Temple University.
TAMARA MANN
Religions of New York
She holds an M.A. in theology: world religions from Harvard University and is currently working on her Ph.D. at Columbia University. Tamara has taught at Duke University and is currently an advisor and teaching assistant at Columbia.
E'METT McCASKILL
Pediatric and Adolescent Health Psychology
She holds a Ph.D. from Northeastern University in experimental psychology and is a faculty member at Barnard College. She has published articles and won numerous awards in her field.
JOHN McMILLIAN
From Reform to Revolution: Youth Culture in the 1960s
He holds a Ph.D. in history from Columbia University and an M.A. in history from Michigan State University. He teaches American history at Harvard.
KENT MINTURN
Masterpieces of Western Art
He received his Ph.D. in art history from Columbia University, and earned his M.S. in art history at the University of Chicago. He has taught at Columbia University and worked in museums and galleries in New York and Chicago.
VICTORIA OLSEN
From Little Women to Mean Girls: Growing Up in Fiction and Film.
A Barnard alumna, she holds a Ph. D. in English from Stanford University. She has taught at New York University, Barnard College and Stanford University. Victoria has also published numerous works in her field.
ELIZABETH PILLSBURY
Exploring New York Landscapes
She is a Ph.D. candidate in history at Columbia University. She teaches at Columbia University and also conducts historic walking tours of New York. Elizabeth is passionate about protecting the environment and has worked on numerous campaigns as such.
FRANCES RICHARD
Poetry in New York
She received a B.A. in English from Oberlin College and a M.A. from New York University. She is an associate professor of English at Barnard College. In addition, she is a staff writer at The New Yorker, an editor for Cabinet Magazine, and a reviewer for Artforum Magazine.
CARLOS RIOBO
The Experience of Latin American Culture Through Short Fiction
He is a professor of Spanish and Latin American Culture at Barnard College. He received his Ph.D. from Yale University.
ZOHAR KADMON SELLA
American Media, American Life
She holds an M.A. in communications from Stanford University and is currently working on her Ph.D. in communications at Columbia University. Zohar has published numerous works in her field and is currently an instructor and teaching assistant at the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia
PAUL STEINBECK
The NY Music Scene
Paul received his B.A. with honors in music at the University of Chicago. He holds a
M.Phil. and M.A. in music theory from Columbia University. He has taught various music courses at Columbia University and provides private bass lessons. Paul has co-authored Exercises for the Creative Musician, 2002 and he has recorded various albums.
PENNY VLAGOPOULOS
The New York Experience in Literature
She holds an M.A. in English from Columbia University and is a Ph.D. candidate in English at Columbia. She has taught composition courses at Columbia and expository writing for high school students at Penn State University.
MAXINE WEISGRAU
Young Women's Leadership Institute
She holds a Ph.D. in anthropology from Columbia University. She is a cultural anthropologist with a geographic specialization in South Asia, and a professor of women's studies and anthropology at Barnard College.
JON WILLIAMS
Reading the Manhattan Landscape
He is a Ph.D. candidate in English/comparative literature at Columbia University. He has published work in his field and teaches university writing at Columbia.
"The second course which was my afternoon class was Adolescent and Pediatric Health Psychology taught by Professor E'mett McCaskill. [This] was my favorite class in the program. Professor McCaskill was a brilliant teacher, who explained every lesson with care to her students. In this class, we were taught the many different reactions of children and adolescents with different diseases and how their families reacted towards them. We learned of children and adolescents with diseases of HIV/AIDS, diabetes, obesity, and drug addiction. We were all put into about four groups of five or six that would imagine being a family with different problems and once a week with a child that had a disease in which we studied beforehand." — Anginese Phillips, PCP'05
