Eva Badowska is Associate Professor of English and Co-Director of Fordham’s Literary Studies Program. Her teaching and research span two disparate fields: 19th-century British literature and contemporary Eastern European fiction and film.

 

Dominic Balestra is Professor of Philosophy, former Department Chair and Dean of Faculty. His teaching and research are in early modern philosophy, and the history and rationality of science, an interest born of reading Plato’s dialogue, the Meno while an undergraduate major in mathematics.

Michael Baur, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Adjunct Professor of Law, specializes in the areas of German philosophy, the philosophy of law, and the philosophy of popular culture. He recently co-edited a book entitled, The Beatles and Philosophy: Nothing You Can Think That Can't Be Thunk.

 

Martin Chase, S. J. is Assistant Professor of English. His academic specialty is medieval English and Old Norse language and literature.

Mary Beth Combs is an Associate Professor of Economics. Her teaching and research interests are in economic history, the history of economic thought, and the economics of social problems.  

 

Jeannine Hill Fletcher, Assistant Professor of Theology, specializes in contemporary Roman Catholic theology with an interest in interreligious dialogue and global Christianity.

 

Dr. Jones is an Assistant Professor of Applied Developmental Psychology. Her research is focused on tracking the longitudinal impact of ecological risks, such as poverty and exposure to community violence, on social-emotional problems and competencies in early childhood and adolescence. She also conducts evaluation studies of preschool and school-based programs targeting emotional and behavioral problems of children at risk.

 

Michael E. Latham is an Associate Professor of History. His teaching and research center on twentieth-century American history, the history of U.S. foreign relations, and the international history of the Cold War. 

 

Barbara E. Mundy is an Associate Professor of Art History. As a teacher, she covers much of the indigenous New World, offering courses on Pre-Columbian art, Aztec art, Native American art, and Latin American art. Her research focuses on the Spanish colonial period, especially Mexico in the 16th century. She is the author of The Mapping of New Spain: Indigenous Cartography and the Relaciones Geográficas (University of Chicago, 1996).

 

Francesca Parmeggiani is an Assistant Professor of Italian and Comparative Literature.   Her teaching and research focus on contemporary Italian culture, women’s writing, and cinema.