Presenters

Adedamola Osinulu

NYU Liberal Studies

Adedamola Osinulu is a clinical associate professor at NYU Liberal Studies, where he also serves as the Associate Dean of Academic Affairs and teaches about African cultural production. His current research, based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted at religious sites in Nigeria, Ghana, and South Africa, examines how African Pentecostals think about space. He also investigates how African artists draw on ideas from beyond their borders to create a transnational African identity. Osinulu earned his PhD from UCLA’s Department of World Arts and Cultures and has held a fellowship with the Michigan Society of Fellows, University of Michigan. He is a recipient of the NYU Center for Multicultural Education and Programs’ 2023 Nia Award: Teaching for Social Change Faculty Award.

Afrodesia McCannon

NYU Liberal Studies

I have been a professor in Liberal Studies at NYU since 2008. By training, I am a medievalist, focusing on medieval memoir and expression of medieval subjectivity. Although my education, career, and travel have taken me all over the world, I am a native New Yorker from four generations of New Yorkers. I come from a family of artists and consider the arts an essential part of one’s education and one’s formation as a full person. In the Arts and Cultures Sequence at NYU, I teach all aspects of the global ancient and pre-modern world. My essential goal in any course I teach is to have the students think critically about the topics of the class. As an educator, I know that the topics of the class stay with students to varying degrees, but the patterns of thought ingrained through a liberal arts education are enduring.

Cammie Kim Lin

NYU Liberal Studies

Dr. Cammie Kim Lin is a Clinical Associate Professor of Writing at NYU Liberal Studies, where she teaches critical service learning, first-year writing, food writing, and food studies. A recipient of the NYU Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Faculty Award, she is the faculty advisor for the Liberal Studies Service Ambassadors and The Violet Pantry, a student-run food pantry—a student-driven initiative that grew out of her critical service learning seminar. Her research on education and pedagogy has been widely published in scholarly journals and edited volumes. She is also a food writer and the co-author of the IACP Award-winning young adult cookbook, Serious New Cook: Recipes, Tips, and Techniques.

Carley Moore

NYU Liberal Studies

Carley Moore is an essayist, novelist, and poet. 16 Pills is her first collection of essays (Tinderbox Editions, 2018). Her debut novel, The Not Wives, is forthcoming from the Feminist Press in the fall of 2019. In 2017, she published her first poetry chapbook, Portal Poem (Dancing Girl Press) and in 2012, she published a young adult novel, The Stalker Chronicles (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux). Her work has appeared in The American Poetry Review, Brainchild, The Brooklyn Rail, The Establishment, GUTS, The Journal of Popular Culture, The Nervous Breakdown, Public Books, and VIDA: Women in Literary Arts. She is a Clinical Professor of Writing and Contemporary Culture and Creative Production in the Global Liberal Studies Program at New York University and a Senior Associate at Bard College’s Institute for Writing and Thinking. She lives in New York City. Visit her website or follow her on Twitter.

Carol Lo

NYU Liberal Studies

Carol Lo is Clinical Assistant Professor of Multilingual Education and Writing. She received an M.A. and Ed.D in Applied Linguistics from Teachers College, Columbia University.

Carol specializes in conversation analysis, discourse analysis, and second language pedagogy. Her work examines talk and social interaction in both institutional and everyday settings through a microanalytic lens. Her first line of research focuses on examining and documenting teachers’ (effective) discursive practices when working with language learners with low to intermediate proficiency. Her current and second line of work explores how multilingual, transnational families maintain kinship and intimacy through video-calls. Her work has appeared in academic journals such as Classroom Discourse and edited volumes. She served as the President of the Language and Social Interaction Working Group (LANSI) from 2019 to 2022.

Cristina-Ioana Dragomir

NYU Liberal Studies

Dr. Dragomir's research examines global injustice, gender, and human rights, with emphasis on migration and mobility. Before NYU, she held positions at Columbia University, University of Pennsylvania, and Queen Mary University of London, and consults with international organizations.

She authored two books: "Power on the Move: Adivasi and Roma Accessing Social Justice" (Bloomsbury, 2022), based on extensive fieldwork in Romania and India, and "Making the Immigrant Soldier" (University of Illinois Press, 2023), exploring immigrants' integration in the US military.

Her work appears in outlets like Al Jazeera and The Hindu, and has been translated into multiple languages. Her current research focuses on mobility, gender, and environment. https://liberalstudies.nyu.edu/about/faculty-listing/Cristina-Ioana-Dragomir.html

Dina M. Siddiqi

NYU Liberal Studies

Dina M. Siddiqi is Clinical Professor, Liberal Studies, New York University. A cultural anthropologist by training, her research joins critical development studies, transnational feminist theory, and the anthropology of Islam and labor. She has published extensively on women in global garment supply chains, non-state justice systems, and the cultural politics of religion and nationalism in Bangladesh. Professor Siddiqi sits on the editorial boards of Contemporary South Asia, Dialectical Anthropology, Asian Anthropology, and the Journal of Bangladesh Studies. She is also on the board of Sakhi for South Asian Survivors. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and a BA from Wellesley College. 

Eduardo Matos-Martin

NYU Liberal Studies

Eduardo Matos-Martín is a Clinical Associate Professor in Liberal Studies, where he teaches global topics courses and Arts and Cultures in the Core Program. His areas of interest and research include contemporary Spanish and Latin American literatures and film, political theory, cultural history and the culture of memory. He has published articles in various peer-reviewed journals, and he is the author of the book Biopolítica y franquismo. Disonancias y rupturas en la narrativa y cine de la España contemporánea [Biopolitics and Francoism: Dissonances and Ruptures in Contemporary Spanish Literature and Cinema].

Emily Bauman

NYU Liberal Studies

Emily Bauman is a Clinical Associate Professor of Liberal Studies at NYU.  She has published articles on humanitarian narrative, intelligent design, political iconography, and postcolonial studies and is currently at work on a book on religion and media.

Erin Morrison

NYU Liberal Studies

Erin Morrison is a clinical assistant professor in Liberal Studies at New York University. She has a BA in Biology from Amherst College and received her PhD in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from the University of Arizona. Erin is an evolutionary biologist studying the mechanisms of diversification of avian carotenoid coloration and the evolution of metabolic networks. Her courses at NYU cover topics in biology, research methods, and the Bridgerton romance series.

Ethan Fortuna

NYU Liberal Studies

Ethan Fortuna (he/him) is a trans writer, visual artist, and educator. He received his PhD in Literature and Creative Writing, with an emphasis in Poetry and Poetics, from the University of Houston as a Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts Interdisciplinary Fellow. Drawing from the fields of poetics, philosophy, and psychoanalytic theory, his creative texts and research explore aesthetic and ethical links between pain-related phenomena and experimental modes of representation.

Eugene Ostashevsky

NYU Liberal Studies

Eugene Ostashevsky is a poet and translator. He is the author of, most recently, The Feeling Sonnets, a book of poems that examine the effects of speaking a non-native language on emotions, parenting, and identity. He is also the author of The Pirate Who Does Not Know the Value of Pi, which discusses communication difficulties between pirates and parrots. He has published many editions of Russian avant-garde and experimental poetry in translation.

Eugenia (Genia) Naro-Maciel

NYU Liberal Studies

Dr. Eugenia (Genia) Naro-Maciel is a Clinical Professor in the Sustainability, Environmental Justice, and Health, Concentration in Global Liberal Studies. She is a graduate of Yale University (B.S., Cum Laude, Distinction in Biology) and earned her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology from Columbia University, with an Advanced Certificate in Environmental Policy. Genia is a sea turtle biologist whose research focuses on genetic approaches for aquatic biodiversity and conservation, with environmental justice and educational applications. She is a committed practitioner of evidence-based teaching and learning strategies, and has co-authored numerous educational materials as well as opinion pieces on protected areas, biodiversity conservation, environmental justice, and sustainability.

Farzad Mahootian

NYU Liberal Studies

Farzad Mahootian is a Clinical Associate Professor of Global Liberal Studies at NYU (since 2010). He has an interdisciplinary background (PhD Philosophy, Fordham; MS Chemistry, Georgetown). His research focuses on interactions of philosophy and science in digital humanities, process philosophy, Islamic philosophy, speculative fiction, biomimicry, artificial intelligence, and the mythological imagination of technoscience. Recent publications: “Ideals of Human Perfection in Sufism and Transhumanism: A Comparison,” in Tirosh-Samuelson, H., et al, Building a Better Human; “Whitehead on Intuition,” in Desmet, R., (Ed.) Intuition in Mathematics and Physics; “Metaphor in chemistry: an examination of chemical metaphor”; in Scerri, E., L. McIntyre, (Eds.) Philosophy of Chemistry.

Garnet Kindervater

NYU Liberal Studies

Garnet Kindervater is a critical theorist and Clinical Assistant Professor of Global Liberal Studies, NYU. He is currently completing a book theorizing the cultural and political implications of imagining future catastrophes. His writing was published or is forthcoming on the problem of “catastrophic thought” and future temporalities; ontologies of life; power and emergency politics; and the philosophers Baruch Spinoza and Gilles Deleuze.

Heather Masri

NYU Liberal Studies

Heather Masri's  academic specialty is eighteenth century English literature, but she is a generalist with broad, interdisciplinary interests whose courses include literature, art, music, and film. She has taught writing intensive courses on literature and critical theory, including courses on representations of technology and the history and themes of science fiction. She is a member of the Science Fiction Research Association, and has been teaching science fiction at New York University since 1990.

Heidi White

NYU Liberal Studies

Heidi White has a master's degree and a doctorate in philosophy from the New School for Social Research. She teaches the “Global Works and Society” sequence and courses on global justice theory at Global Liberal Studies in New York. She is the current chair of the “Politics, Rights, & Development” concentration. She is the co-author of If A, Then B: How the World Discovered Logic, with Michael Shenefelt (Columbia University Press).

Ian W. N. Jones

NYU Liberal Studies

Ian W. N. Jones is Clinical Assistant Professor of Liberal Studies. He earned his M.A. and Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of California San Diego.

Jones is an archaeologist whose work focuses on political economy and human-environment interactions, especially extractive and agricultural economies, in the 1st and 2nd millennium AD Eastern Mediterranean. He is currently writing a book on the 13th century AD copper industry in the Faynan region of southern Jordan and its connection to the Levantine sugar industry. In his role as Field Director of the Islamic Village Excavations of the Balu‘a Regional Archaeology Project, he investigates shifting patterns of settlement, agriculture, and movement at Khirbat al-Balu‘a, an archaeological site on the northern Karak Plateau in central Jordan. 

Ida Chavoshan

NYU Liberal Studies

Ida Chavoshan holds a PhD in Instruction and Learning, with a concentration in Language, Literacy, and Culture. She is Clinical Associate Professor in Liberal Studies at New York University where she is a member of the writing faculty and heads the academic support program for international students. She has been working in language education for over 17 years as a language teacher and teacher educator in a variety of contexts. Her teaching and research interests include academic writing, classroom pedagogy, cognitive linguistics, global Englishes , and multimodalities.

Ifeona Fulani

NYU Liberal Studies

Ifeona Fulani's research interests include Caribbean, African, and Black British literatures and cultures. Her recent scholarly publications include an edited volume of essays, Archipelagos of Sound: Transnational Caribbeanities, Women and Music (University of West Indies Press, 2012) as well as articles published in Atlantic Studies, Caribbean Quarterly, Frontiers: A Journal of Women’s Studies, Small Axe and Anthurium, and a chapter in the three-volume series, Caribbean Literature in Transition, 1800 – 2020 (Cambridge UP, 2020).

James McBride

NYU Liberal Studies

James McBride is Clinical Professor of Liberal Studies.  He took his B.A. and M.A. from Johns Hopkins and the University of Chicago, respectively, and received his Ph.D. in social ethics from Berkeley.  He earned his J.D. from Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law and practiced securities law in New York City for a decade.  He is the author of over 50 published articles on law, ethics, finance, and social justice.  He recently published articles on the Dobbs decision (overturning Roe), Walter Benjamin’s Critique of Violence and Black Lives Matter, and criminal and civil liability for ecocide.  Currently he is working on French literary origins of contemporary American xenophobia. 

Jared Simard

NYU Liberal Studies

Jared Simard is a Clinical Associate Professor of World Cultures, Arts, and Literatures at New York University-Liberal Studies, where he teaches ancient and pre-modern literature and art from a global perspective. He holds a Ph.D. in Classics from The Graduate Center, The City University of New York. His publications have traced the reception of ancient mythology in the art and architecture of New York City combining classics, history, art history, archival studies, and biographical approaches. Subsequently, his research touches upon theories of reception, American studies, and empire, as well as space and material culture. He is also a co-editor for the Ancient Leadership series of SAGE Business Cases. 

Jeannine Chandler

NYU Liberal Studies

Jeannine Chandler is a Clinical Associate Professor of Global Liberal Studies at New York University, where she specializes in the teaching of East Asian cultures and global history. Her research interests focus on the intersections of identity, historical memory, contemporary politics, and popular culture in East Asia. Chandler has published research on the manifestations of Tibetan Buddhist sectarianism in the West, and the rise of self-immolations among Tibetan Buddhist monks. She presented papers at both the first and second iterations of BTS: A Global Interdisciplinary Conference. Her research on BTS reflects her interest in contemporary East Asian relations, and how they have been impacted by nationalism, historical memory and cultural disputes.

Kaia Shivers

NYU Liberal Studies

Taking from Paolo Freire, “knowledge emerges only through invention and re-invention” with pedagogies that resist hegemonic regimes of knowing when those who are learning are as empowered and humanized as those who are teaching. 

My philosophy is to offer a safe space for students to cultivate intellect, understand and develop personal and collective agency, connect with peers, and actively participate in their own learning. The two main objectives in teaching is to facilitate learning by helping students to gain the necessary skills to take control of their own learning—and eventually use their intellectual growth and skills as productive global citizens. 

Kevin Bonney

NYU Liberal Studies

Kevin Bonney is Assistant Dean of Faculty Development and Program Advancement and Clinical Associate Professor in Liberal Studies. He earned his Ph.D. in Microbiology and Immunology from Northwestern University, where his research focused on Chagas disease. Since then his primary scholarly focus has shifted to biology education research and the scholarship of teaching and learning, and has led to publication of a book and numerous peer-reviewed journal articles.

Linnéa Hussein

NYU Liberal Studies

Linnéa J. Hussein is a Clinical Assistant Professor in Liberal Studies at New York University, where she chairs the Art, Text, Media concentration in Global Liberal Studies. Her current research project, The Cinematic Straitjacket, examines discourses on mental illness, race, and disability in fiction, documentary, and news media, to reframe censorship as acts of restriction that privilege comfort and protection over the right to self-represent. Her articles and reviews have appeared in Film Quarterly, Studies in Documentary Film, Social Text, and Film & History.

Mahnaz Yousefzadeh

NYU Liberal Studies

Mahnaz Yousefzadeh is a historian of Modern Italy and Early Modern Mediterranean. She is the author of City and Nation in Italian Unification (Palgrave Macmillan 2011) and Florence’s Embassy to Sultan of Egypt (Palgrave, 2018), as well as articles on the relation of Italy and Persia in the Early Modern Period, and aesthetics and politics in European nation-building. Her current projects—one academic and the other a creative non-fiction—trace encounters between traditions through the movement of people, artifacts, and images. 

Michael Datcher

NYU Liberal Studies

Dr. Michael Datcher did his undergraduate work at UC Berkeley, his Masters at UCLA and his Ph.D. at UC Riverside in English Literature. He is the author the Ferguson-area historical novel Americus (Third World Press) and the critically-acclaimed New York Times Bestseller Raising Fences (Penguin Putnam/Riverhead)—a Today Show Book Club Book of the Month pick. The film rights were originally optioned by actor Will Smith’s Overbrook Productions, who hired Datcher to write the screenplay. Datcher has made many other media appearances including Oprah, The Today Show and Dateline. Datcher is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Writing at New York University.

Mitra Rastegar

NYU Liberal Studies

Mitra Rastegar is Clinical Associate Professor in Liberal Studies at New York University, with a Ph.D. in sociology from the Graduate Center of City University of New York. Her book Tolerance and Risk: How US Liberalism Racializes Muslims (University of Minnesota Press, 2021) examines the circulation of discourses about Muslims and Muslim Americans as objects of tolerance and sympathy. Rastegar’s research and teaching interests include cultural studies, secularism & religion, race and racialization, and transnational feminism & politics of care. She has published in GLQ: Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, WSQ: Women’s Studies Quarterly, and International Feminist Journal of Politics. 

Montana Ray

NYU Liberal Studies

Montana Ray (she/her) is a writer, translator, and film photographer. Her work explores cohorts and cadres in New York and Southern family and history via archival scholarship, memoir, concrete poetry, and collaborative portraiture on film. She also translates from Spanish and Portuguese, especially feminist, fat, queer, Black, and Southern texts, most recently the works of Brazilian artist Yhuri Cruz. Before joining NYU’s Liberal Studies faculty, Ray taught writing at Columbia University, where she completed a PhD in comparative literature and an MFA in poetry and translation. www.montanaray.com

Patricio Navia

NYU Liberal Studies

Patricio Navia holds a Ph.D. in politics from NYU (2003) and an M.A. in political science from the University of Chicago (1994). He has published extensively on public opinion, elections, political parties, legislative politics, institutions and democratization in Latin America. He joined LS in 2005 and is currently a clinical professor. He is also an adjunct professor in the Center and Latin American and Caribbean Studies at NYU and a professor of politcial science at Universidad Diego Portales in Chile. 

Peter Valenti

NYU Liberal Studies

Peter C. Valenti has been teaching Global Studies and Middle Eastern & Islamic Studies for over two decades.  His focus on curriculum has extended into secondary education, including teaching graduate courses on how to teach the Middle East & Islam in high school for the Social Studies Education program in NYU's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, running NYU's Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies' annual summer institute for K-12 teachers, and participating in various teaching workshops at NYU and high schools in the NY-NJ metro area. His academic specialization is in the socioeconomic and political history of Saudi Arabia and the Persian Gulf, as well as research in sociocultural dynamics in the Arab-Israeli conflict, Islamist movements, and Islamic and Arabic literature. In addition to his academic work and publications, Valenti has worked in a variety of editorial and media positions, consulting for and contributing to the New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, NPR, and World Press Review.

Philip Kain

NYU Liberal Studies

Philip Kain serves as the Director of Academic Engagement and Experiential Learning for Global Liberal studies. His essays and reviews have appeared in Newsday, The Forward, The Atlanta Journal Constitution, The Houston Chronicle, The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and other national publications. He has published two series for tweens with Simon & Schuster and was the launch author for HarperCollins/Harlequin’s gay romance line. 

Regina Gramer

NYU Liberal Studies

Regina Gramer is a Clinical Associate Professor in Liberal Studies at New York University. She received her Ph.D. in History from Rutgers University. Her research is focused on German and United States comparative, international, and transnational history, with a particular focus on World War II and 20th-century political economy. She teaches in the "Global Works and Society" sequence in the Core, in the "Law/Ethics/History/Religion" Concentration in Global Liberal Studies, and manages the undergraduate research journal The Interdependent.

Robert Squillace

NYU Liberal Studies

Robert Squillace is a Clinical Professor in Arts, Text, and Media and Educational Technology Liaison at New York University’s School of Liberal Studies.  He has published extensively on the Edwardian novelist Arnold Bennett, including the book Modernism, Modernity, and Arnold Bennett (Bucknell UP, 1997).  He is the co-editor with Angela Jane Weisl of Medievalisms in a Global Age and co-author of the forthcoming Contested Spaces in Global Medievalism (Routledge).  He has been the recipient of an NEH Digital Humanities grant and an NYU Global Institute for Advanced Study grant on the topic of Global Studies and the Humanities.

Robin Nagle

NYU Liberal Studies

Robin Nagle’s research considers the category of material culture known generically as “garbage.” She is interested in the many forms of labor and infrastructure that waste requires, the spatial demands it imposes on urban areas, the organizational responses it inspires, and the cultural practices and attitudes that adhere to it. These variables, among others, reflect perpetually shifting definitions of value and worthlessness, which in turn hold the power to determine the daily and future well-being of things, places, and people. A clinical professor in Liberal Studies and in GSAS, she teaches environmental studies, discard studies, anthropology and oral history. 

Sabyn Javeri

NYU Abu Dhabi

Sabyn Javeri is a Senior Lecturer of Writing, Literature, and Creative Writing. . She holds a Masters of Studies from Oxford University and a doctorate from the University of Leicester. She is an essayist, translator,  short story writer, and novelist:  ‘Nobody Killed Her’, (Harper Collins, 2017) and ‘Hijabistan’ (Harper Collins, 2019). Her texts on creative writing have been widely published, and she  has edited two multilingual anthologies titled, ‘Arzu Anthology of Student Voices, Vol I & II'. Her research explores  feminist literature of the subcontinent and decolonizing pedagogies.

Sean Eve

NYU Liberal Studies

I try to bring adventure based education into the University curriculum, promote writing that is consistent with the cognitive and expressive practices we employ throughout our lives, and believe the work we do should engage the spirit and understanding of our time. I also believe that through writing we can more fully realize who we wish to be and find where we have the most transformative potential as individuals and thinkers.I foster independent, lateral thinking; radical theoretical and formal engagement, creative self-invention, and institutional critique. Don't just answer the question, create it.

Statia Cook

NYU Liberal Studies

Statia Luszcz Cook is a Clinical Associate Professor in Liberal Studies (NYU), and a Research Associate in the Astrophysics Department at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH). She observes the atmospheres of planets and moons using ground-based and space-based telescopes, and develops models to determine atmospheric characteristics from her data. Statia’s research interests include the global circulation and weather on Uranus and Neptune; the interactions between Io's active volcanoes and its tenuous atmosphere; and the influence of cometary impacts on the Solar System's giant planets. 

Susanna Horng

NYU Liberal Studies

Susanna Horng (pronounced soo-SAN-na HONG, she/her) is a Clinical Professor at New York University in Liberal Studies. Her stories and poems have appeared in Bennington Review, Minerva Rising, Global City Review, and The Rumpus, among others. Her work has been supported by residencies at Catwalk Institute and Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, as well as fellowships from The New York Foundation for the Arts and The Jerome Foundation.

Suzanne Maria Menghraj

NYU Liberal Studies

Suzanne Maria Menghraj is an essayist whose work focuses on art, wilderness, and identity. A former contributing writer for Guernica: A Magazine of Global Arts and Politics, Suzanne's recent writing has appeared in  Languages of Discrimination and Racism in Twentieth Century Italy (Palgrave Macmillan 2022), Writing on the Edge, and Flyway: A Journal of Writing and Environment. Suzanne was a 2020 Brooklyn Public Library creative-in-residence and the 2019 recipient of New York University’s W.E.B. Du Bois/Angela Davis faculty award. She teaches writing and critical creative production in NYU’s Liberal Studies Core and Global Liberal Studies. Her current research and writing focuses on the history of global migration to Trinidad and identity formation among the multicultural island’s emigrants.

Tilottama (Minu) Tharoor

NYU Liberal Studies

Tilottama Tharoor completed her M.A from Delhi University and PhD from New York University (NYU). She is currently Clinical Associate Professor at NYU and teaches World Literatures, Arts and Cultures, Global Women’s Writings and Rights, South Asian Cultures, Postcolonial Theories and Writings, British and World Fiction.

Tim Tomlinson

NYU Liberal Studies

Tim Tomlinson’s most recent publication, Listening to Fish: Meditations from the Wet World, is a hybrid text of poetry and prose concerned with the splendors of the world’s coral reefs and the perils they face. He’s also the author of the chapbook Yolanda: An Oral History in Verse, the poetry collection Requiem for the Tree Fort I Set on Fire, and the collection of short fiction, This Is Not Happening to You. He’s a certified yoga instructor, an avid scuba diver, the director of New York Writers Workshop and co-author of its popular text, The Portable MFA in Creative Writing. https://www.timtomlinson.org/

Timothy Schaffer

NYU Liberal Studies

Timothy Schaffer is a Senior Educational Technologist for the Arts & Science Office of Teaching Excellence & Innovation at NYU. He supports Liberal Studies faculty in instructional design and educational technology, and has collaborated on a range of projects involving digital humanities, podcasting, virtual reality, ArcGIS, StoryMaps, and the Global Image Gallery. He also works with faculty researchers across Arts & Science on Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) initiatives, and is the co-author of the recent College Teaching article, “How Does the Use of Contract Grading Affect the Quality of Student Writing?: A Comparative Study of Essays from First-Year Writing Courses.”

Vivek Bhatt

NYU Liberal Studies

Dr Vivek Bhatt is a Clinical Assistant Professor specializing in international and comparative law, human rights, and global legal issues. Dr Bhatt holds a PhD in Law from the University of Edinburgh, where he was an Edinburgh Global Research Scholar and held the Edinburgh College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences Research Scholarship. Dr Bhatt's research focuses on international law and policy responses to terrorism, health crises, and food insecurity. Dr Bhatt has been a university teacher since 2016. He holds an Associate Fellowship of the UK's Higher Education Academy, was a finalist for the Utrecht University Lecturer Talent of the Year prize, and previously won the University of Edinburgh award for Best Tutor in Politics and International Relations.