Ira J. Cohen, Ph.D.

Title: Associate Professor

Department: Sociology and Anthropology

Office: 621 Hill Hall

Phone: 973/353-5422

E-Mail: icohen@rci.rutgers.edu

Ira J. Cohen received his Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (1980).  Prof. Cohen is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Rutgers-Newark.  Prof Cohen also is a Member of the Graduate Program in Sociology at Rutgers-New Brunswick/. He is a social theorist with research and teaching interests classical and contemporary theory and the history of social thought. He has published a book on structuration theory and numerous essays on topics ranging from the sociology of action to the place of narrative voice in social theory.  He currently is completing a book on the sociology of solitude in which solitude is conceived as a realm of social activities. Prof Cohen is the General Editor a series entitled Modernity and Society and a member of the Editorial Board of the Cambridge University Press Dictionary of Sociology.

Fall 2006 Course Offering: The Modern Mind

Barbara Foley, Ph.D.

Title: Professor II

Department: English

Office: 514 Hill

Phone: 973/353-5279 x514

Email: bfoley@andromeda.rutgers.edu

Barbara Foley received her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago.  Prof. Foley is currently a Professor of English at Rutgers-Newark and a leading authority on post-World War I American writers of the Left.  She is the author of Telling the Truth: The Theory and Practice of Documentary Fiction (1986), Radical Representations: Politics and Form in U.S. Proletaria n Fiction, 1929-1941 (1993), Spectres of 1919: Class and Nation in the Making of the New Negro (2003), and numerous articles on Marxist theory, African-American literature, and U. S. literary radicalism.  She is currently at work on two books, both dealing with African-American writers and the left: one on Jean Toomer and one on Ralph Ellison.

Fall 2006 Course Offering: Topics in Literature: American Literature as Social Class

Eva D. Giloi, Ph.D.

Title: Assistant Professor

Department: History

Office: 308 Conklin Hall

Phone: 973/353-5410 x38

Email: evagiloi@andromeda.rutgers.edu

Eva D. Giloi received her Ph.D. from Princeton University. Prof. Giloi is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Rutgers-Newark. Her research and teaching interests include 19^th and 20^th century European history, modern Germany, cultural history, and European women's history.

Fall 2006 Course Offering: Twentieth Century Europe

Jim Goodman, Ph.D.

Title: Professor

Department: History

Office: Conklin Hall, Room 307

Phone: 973/353-5410 x35

Email: goodmanj@andromeda.rutgers.edu

James Goodman attended Hobart College and did graduate work at Columbia, N.Y.U, and Princeton. He teaches a wide range of courses, all of which are writing intensive and many of which explore the historical dimensions of literature and the literary dimensions of history. His own writing includes Stories of Scottsboro (Pantheon, 1994), Blackout (Northpoint Press, 2003), and most recently "Fictional History," a short story published in a small journal called Rethinking History.

Fall 2006 Course Offering: The History and Literature of Fact

George Kelling, Ph.D.

Title: Professor

Department: Criminal Justice

Office: 1110 Center for Law and Justice

Phone: 973/353-5923

Email: gkelling@andromeda.rutgers.edu

Dr. Kelling received his B.A. degree in philosophy from St. Olaf College, an M.S.W. degree from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and a Ph.D. in social welfare from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is currently faculty-chair of the Police Institute, a professor in the School of Criminal Justice at Rutgers University and a Fellow in the Program of Criminal Justice Policy and Management, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. Prof. Kelling’s research and teaching interests are the police, the relationships among fear, crime, and disorder, community crime control, and the evolution of policing strategies and tactics. Prof. Kelling is best known for his book “Broken Windows,” which he co-authored with James Q. Wilson. This book formed the basis of the order maintenance policies in the New York City subway that ultimately led to radical crime reductions. His most recent major publication is Fixing Broken Windows: Restoring Order and Reducing Crime in Our Communities. 

Fall 2006 Course Offering: Policing in Democracy

Thomas La Pointe

Title: Assistant Instructor

Department: English

Office: 628 Hill Hall

Phone: 201/459-9006

Email: tel@andromeda.rutgers.edu

Thomas La Pointe received his ABD (Comparative Literature), MA (Comparative Literature), and BA in English from Rutgers-New Brunswick.He has been a faculty member at the Shanghai International Studies University, China, and a researcher at the Institute for Central American Studies, Costa Rica. He is currently as Assistant Instructor in the department of English at Rutgers-Newark.

Fall 2006 Course Offering: American Literature of the 19th Century

Jan Lewis, Ph.D.

Title: Professor

Department: History

Office: 315 Conklin Hall

Phone: Phone: 973/353-1469 x15

Email: janlewis@andromeda.rutgers.edu

Jan Lewis is Professor and Chair of the Department of History at Rutgers University, Newark, where she has taught American history since 1977.  She teaches in the History Ph.D. program at Rutgers, New Brunswick, as well, and has been a Visiting Professor at Princeton University.  She received her Ph.D. and M.A. degrees in both History and American Studies from the University of Michigan and her A.B. from Bryn Mawr College.  A specialist in colonial and early national history, she is the author of The Pursuit of Happiness: Family and Values in Jefferson’s Virginia (Cambridge University Press, 1983) and the co-editor (with Peter N. Stearns) of  An Emotional History of the United States (N.Y.U. Press, 1998); (with Peter S. Onuf) Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson: History, Memory, and Civic Culture (Virginia, 1999); The Revolution of 1800: Democracy, Race, & the New Republic. and (with James Horn and Peter S. Onuf)  (Virginia 2002).  She has co-authored a college-level American history textbook, Making a Nation (Prentice Hall), and she is currently completing two projects, one an examination of the way the Founding generation grappled with the challenge presented by women and slaves to their egalitarian ideology, to be published by Cambridge University Press, and the other, the second volume of the Penguin History of the United States, covering the years 1760-1830.  Lewis has held fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Philadelphia Center for Early American Studies, Center for the History of Freedom at Washington University, and the International Center for Jefferson Studies.  She is currently a member of the editorial board of The American Historical Review.  She has served as Chair of the New Jersey Historical Commission and the American Historical Association’s Committee on Women Historians.  She has also served as a member of the Advisory Board of the International Center for Jefferson Studies.  She has lectured widely and served as a consultant to a number of organizations and institutions.  Lewis and her husband, Barry Bienstock, the Chair of the History Department at the Horace Mann School, live in Maplewood, New Jersey.

Fall 2006 Course Offering: History of Race and Ethnicity

Tim Raphael, Ph.D.

Title: Assistant Professor

Department: Visual and Performing Arts

Office: 317 Bradley

Phone: 973/353-5119 x19

Email: traphael@andromeda.rutgers.edu

Dr. Raphael is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Visual and Performing Arts at Rutgers-Newark where he teaches courses in theater history, theory, and practice. He is a theater director and performance historian who as a director, producer, dramaturge, and adapter, has developed over forty new American plays. He holds a doctorate in Performance Studies from Northwestern University, and has taught at Wesleyan University, Dartmouth College, Northwestern University, Ursinus College, and the Universidade Aberta in Lisbon, Portugal. He is currently working on a book entitled, The Education of Ronald Reagan: Performance, Politics, and Media in the Twentieth Century. In collaboration with students at Rutgers-Newark he recently developed and directed Something to Declare: Tales of Immigration, an oral history based performance piece in collaboration with videographer Edin Velez, and composer Guillermo E. Brown.  He was recently featured in Diversity Web’s on-line digest at  http://www.diversityweb.org/Digest/vol9no2/rafael.cfm.

Fall 2006 Course Offering: Oral History & Performance

Denise Sinclair

Title: Visiting Instructor

Department: Honors College

Fax: 973/353-5861

Email: dsinclair@nyc.rr.com

Denise Sinclair is a native New Yorker who has lived in England, France and Brazil. A global high tech entrepreneur, as CEO she built and operated two pioneering Europe-based IT companies and served as Director of Mergers and Acquisitions for AT&T worldwide. Among her accomplishments, Denise was Bear, Stearns’ first woman Investment Banking Associate and helped launch Coca-Cola into post-Mao China. Denise is a founding trustee of the Needham Research Institute at Cambridge University, which supports the legacy of Dr. Joseph Needham and his monumental work Science and Civilization in China. She is a graduate of Mount Holyoke College and Columbia Business School.

Dr. John J. Gunkel, Director, FAS/N Honors College

Dr. Gunkel, the Director of our program, brings a valuable combination of scholarship, administrative experience, and international perspective to the Honors College.  In addition to his post as Director, Dr. Gunkel also teaches one of our freshman colloquia, Justice and Equality.  Dr. Gunkel graduated Magna Cum Laude from  Washington and Lee University with B.A. in Philosophy and went on to receive his M.A. and Doctorate in Philosophy from Georgetown University.  He is the recipient of numerous academic honors including Phi Beta Kappa, National Merit Scholarship, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship, and a graduate fellowship while attending Georgetown.  His international expertise comes from his previous position in Germany where he taught philosophy and government, while directing both the university's academic tutoring program and its honors program.  

Seth J. Mann, Coordinator, FAS/N Honors College

Mr. Mann, the Program Coordinator of the program, has been involved with the 4-year Honors College since its inception.  As a alumnus of the Honors Program, he is extremely knowledgeable of its organization, curricular requirements, and how to navigate the larger university system.  Mr. Mann's full-time responsibilities are to help students locate and secure internships, academic advisement, locate and secure scholarships, resume and cover letter development, and programming social and professional events for the college.   

Aura Holguin, Administrative Assistant, FAS/N Honors College

Ms. Holguin was previously the undergraduate programs coordinator for the Summer Student & Minority Fellowship Programs, and the year-round Guest Student Program at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. She holds a B.A. in English from CUNY, Hunter College.  She is responsible for the day-to day operations of the Honors College and has daily contact with many of our 400 plus students. Her commitment and dedication to the college and its students is invaluable and contributes to the enjoyable and stress free undergraduate career of which many of our students boast.