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FACULTY NEWS
Professor Colin Cathcart was recently interviewed by the New York Times  about his perspectives on urban farming and his participation on a panel titled, "The Jane Jacobs Forum: Re-Imagining New york - Designing Urban Farms to Feed the City."  Cathcart is currently designing a rooftop greenhouse on Manhattan's Upper West Side. Read the article, "Food Advocates Envision Rooftop Gardens and Vertical Farms." 
Rosemary Wakeman,  Director Urban Studies
Associate Professor of History
Urban History, History of Architecture and Planning, Modern France, Twentieth Century History
rwakeman@fordham.edu


John Van Buren, Associate Director Urban Studies
Professor of Philosophy, Director of Environmental Policy 
Urban Ecology, Social and Political Philosophy, Ethics
evanburen@fordham.edu


Mark Naison, Professor of History, African & African American Studies
African-American History, Twentieth Century Social and Labor History
naison@fordham.edu


Bruce Berg, Associate Professor of Political Science
New York City politics, U.S. health and social policy, federal-state-local relations
berg@fordham.edu


Colin Cathcart, Associate Professor, Architecture & Theatre Visual Arts
Pre-Architecture Program, Green Projects including: Stuyvesant Cove Environmental Learning Center, Art Gallery Aljira, Glassroots glass blowing studio in Newark, NJ, New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York, feasibility and urban planning studies for the Regional Plan Association
c.cathcart@kisscathcart.com


Mark Caldwell, Professor of English
Cultural studies and criticisms, Early Modern Literature
caldwell@fordham.edu


Ayala Fader, Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Jewish Ethnography, Language and Culture, Urban Anthropology, Religious Movements, Gender
fadar@fordham.edu


Norma Fuentes-Mayorga, Assistant Professor Sociology
Immigration, Urban problems, Inequalities, Mental health
fuentesmayo@fordham.edu


Greta Gilbertson, Associate Professor of Sociology
Immigration, gender, race and ethnicity, citizenship
gilbertson@fordham.edu


Christina Greer, Assistant Professor Political Science
American Politics, Black Ethnic Politics, Urban Politics, Quantitative Methods, and Public Opinon
greer@fordham.edu


Paul Kantor, Professor of Political Science
American Politics and Public Policy, Urban Politics in the United States and Western Europe, and Urban Political Economy.
kantor@fordham.edu


Michael Marme, Assistant Professor of History
Socio-Economic History of Late Imperial China, Cities, Local Elites, and State-Local Relations
Recent Publication: Suzhou: Where the Goods of All the Provinces Converge (Stanford University Press, 2005)
marme@fordham.edu


Clara Rodriguez , Professor of Sociology
Race and Ethnicity, Media Studies, Latino Studies, Labor Markets, Migration, Urban and Regional Studies
Recent Publication: Heroes, Lovers, Others: The Story of Latinos in Hollywood (Oxford University Press, 2007)
crodriguez@fordham.edu


Emily Rosenbaum , Associate Professor of Sociology
Urban demography, inequality, immigration, housing policy, family/household demography
Recent Publication: The Housing Divide: How Generations of Immigrants Fare in New York's Housing Market (NYU Press, 2006)
rosenbaum@fordham.edu


Daniel Soyer , Associate Professor of History
New York City, American Ethnic Identities, Immigrant Communities, Jewish Immigrant Radicalism
Recent Publications: (with Ruth Abram) A Coat of Many Colors: Immigrants, Globalization, and Reform in New York City's Garment Industry (Fordham University Press, 2005)
(with Jocelyn Cohen) My Future is in America: Autobiographies of Eastern European Jewish Immigrants (NYU Press, 2005) 
soyer@fordham.edu


Mark Street, Assistant Professor, Visual Arts
mstreet@fordham.edu


Harold Takooshian, Professor of Psychology 
Applied social/personality; Industrial Psychology; Applied Psychometrics; Attitude Survey Research Methods; Urban Psychology; Ethnicity and Feminism; Cross Cultural Psychology
takooshian@fordham.edu

              
Troy Tassier, Assistant Professor of Economics
Microeconomics, Social Networks, Public Policy, Complex Systems
tassier@fordham.edu


Ebru Turan, Assistant Professor of History
Sixteenth century political, cultural and intellectual Ottoman, Islamic, and Mediterranean history.
turan@fordham.edu 
 


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