Joyce Apsel, Ph.D., J.D., teaches in the Global Studies and Liberal Studies programs at New York University and was a recipient of the NYU Distinguished Teaching Award (2009). Her research focuses on issues of comparative genocide, human rights and peace studies. She is also president of the Institute for Study of Genocide and former president of the International Association of Genocide Scholars.
Peter Diamond is a member of the Liberal Studies faculty at New York University and is coordinator of its core program. He has taught courses on American political thought, liberal theory, nationalism and globalization, cultural membership, democratization, and the ethics of war and peace. He received a Ph.D. in the history of political thought from Johns Hopkins University.
Sean Eve teaches at New York University in the Liberal Studies program. After graduating from Cornell University and doing his graduate work at the Institute of Film and Television at NYU, he spent a decade as a playwright and screenwriter. His productions in London and New York include American Heart, By Land, Paint, and Cecile Had Won a Million Dollars.
Brendan Hogan is a master teacher in New York University’s Liberal Studies program. Trained in philosophy, he has published a variety of articles on the pragmatism, philosophy of social science, and political philosophy.
Stephanie Kiceluk teaches humanities in the Liberal Studies program at New York University. She earned a Ph.D. at Columbia University and has trained with the New York Freudian Society. Her work on the narrative construction of the self, the study of trauma, and psychoanalysis and the nature of stories has won numerous awards including ACLS and NEH grants.
Farzad Mahootian teaches in the Global Liberal Studies program at New York University. He has an interdisciplinary background, with a Ph.D. in philosophy (Fordham) and an MS in chemistry (Georgetown). His research focus is the relevance of myth and metaphor to the history of philosophy and the sciences.
Afrodesia E. McCannon teaches global humanities in Liberal Studies at New York University. She received a Ph.D. from the University of California–Berkeley in comparative literature. Her research interests are in medieval memoir, particularly The Life of Saint Louis by Jean de Joinville.
Joseph J. Portanova received a Ph.D. in Byzantine and Hellenistic history from Columbia University. He has taught in the Liberal Studies program (formerly General Studies Program) at New York University since 1984. He is the author of several introductory texts for students in liberal studies.
Martin F. Reichert received a Ph.D. in comparative literature from New York University. He has taught in the Liberal Studies program for more than two decades. He also taught in Würzburg, Germany, and Florence, Italy. Recent courses explored religious violence, cultural foundations, sensory studies, and global identity.
J. Ward Regan has a Ph.D. in U.S. labor and cultural history (SUNY Stony Brook). He has been teaching in NYU’s Liberal Studies and Global Liberal Studies programs for more than 20 years.
Tilottama Tharoor is a master teacher in the Liberal Studies program at New York University. She received a Ph.D. in English from New York University in 1998. Areas of interest and research include nineteenth and twentieth century literature, post-colonial studies and feminist theory and literature.
Peter C. Valenti is a master teacher in New York University’s Liberal Studies program. His academic background is in history and Middle Eastern and Islamic studies. He has specialized in the social and political history of Saudi Arabia and the Persian Gulf, as well as pursuing research in state-formation in Iraq, Islamist movements, and Arabic literature.
Phil Washburn is a master teacher in the Liberal Studies program at New York University. He is the author of Philosophical Dilemmas: A Pro and Con Introduction to the Major Questions and Philosophers, 4th ed. (Oxford, 2014), The Vocabulary of Critical Thinking (Oxford, 2010), and the editor of The Many Faces of Wisdom: Great Philosophers’ Visions of Philosophy (Prentice-Hall, 2003).
Heidi White teaches philosophy and intellectual history in the Global Liberal Studies program at New York University and she serves as the chair of the Politics, Rights, and Development concentration. She has a doctorate in philosophy from the New School for Social Research She has been an N.E.H. fellow and has twice received the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst for study in Germany.
Rolf Wolfswinkel is a professor of modern history in the Liberal Studies program at New York University. He studied modern history and literature in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He is interested in topics related to the Second World War and the Holocaust.