November is CUNY Month: Meet Our New Faculty Pt. 1
Nov. 18, 2014
More than 30 full-time faculty members from a broad range of disciplines joined Brooklyn College in Fall 2014.
November is CUNY Month! Visit the Brooklyn College calendar to see the exciting cultural and educational activities on campus this month. In this first installment of a three-part series, we highlight some of the new faculty who have joined the college this semester, with disciplines ranging from American Revolutionary era history to childhood language disorders, to the study of the effect of antioxidants on diabetes and heart disease.
H. Anthony Crossman
H. Anthony Crossman brings more than 20 years of public service experience to the classroom as an accounting professor. He served in various professional and management capacities with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), the nation’s top bank regulator and depository insurer. His experience includes developing and implementing financial information systems, managing high profile disbursement and receivable operations, and directing professional staff, including high level financial systems consultants. Crossman owned and operated a restaurant for ten years. He possesses valuable management and entrepreneurial expertise and solid experience in the classroom teaching corporate financial professionals and college students at the graduate and undergraduate levels.
Madeline Fox, Assistant Professor, Sociology
Madeline Fox
Madeline Fox, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of children and youth studies and sociology. She received her doctorate from the Critical Social-Personality Psychology program at the Graduate Center, CUNY. Fox’s research examines the everyday lived experience of public policy for adolescents, the overlap between art, embodiment, and participatory knowledge production, and research methodologies for provoking political solidarity. Fox is a founding member of the Public Science Project at the graduate center and assistant directs the Critical Participatory Action Research Institutes. She has been published in the Journal of Social Issues, Children & Society, the Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy and she co-edited the volume Telling Stories to Change the World: Global Voices on the Power of Narrative to Build Community and Make Social Justice Claims with Rickie Solinger and Kayhan Irani.
Lee Ann Fullington, Assistant Professor, Library
Lee Ann Fullington
Lee Ann Fullington, health and environmental sciences librarian, is the newest faculty member to join the library. She is a reference and instruction librarian and is also the bibliographer for the Departments of Health and Nutrition Sciences, Kinesiology, Earth and Environmental Sciences, and Mathematics. Fullington comes to Brooklyn College from New York University, where she provided reference and instruction services for public health, nutrition, and other sciences as part of Bobst Library’s Coles Science Center. She holds an MSLIS from Pratt Institute, as well as an M.Phil. in popular music studies from the University of Liverpool in England. Her master’s thesis is an ethnographic exploration of the role and significance of independent record shops in local music scenes. Her research interests include scenes and subcultures, library outreach initiatives, and the lived experiences of transfer students.
Melissa Garcia-Sherman, Assistant Professor, Biology
Melissa Garcia-Sherman
Melissa Garcia-Sherman earned her Ph.D. from the Graduate Center, CUNY, where she identified and characterized a cytoskeletal regulatory protein critical for visual system axon adhesion and de-adhesion events during development. Subsequently, she joined the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) as a post-doctoral fellow as part of Director Emeritus Ken Olden’s group, where she shifted her research focus to inflammatory mediators derived from omega-6 dietary fatty acids and their signaling cascades that promote cancer cell adhesion. Subsequently, she enhanced her research interest in cell adhesion as a research associate in Professor Peter Lipke’s lab at Brooklyn College. There she studied amyloids as a mechanism for Candida albicans adhesion, biofilm formation, and interactions with the host. Melissa Garcia-Sherman joined the Department of Biology as a research assistant professor where her group focuses on inflammatory mediators derived from dietary fatty acids and their role in microbe-microbe adhesion, biofilm formation, and host interactions.
Elaine Geller, Professor, Speech Communication Arts and Sciences
Elaine Geller
Speech Communication Arts and Sciences
Elaine Geller, PhD, will be serving as the Program Director in the Department of Speech, Communication Arts and Sciences. Prior to coming to Brooklyn College, she served as the Graduate Program Director in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders at Long Island University/Brooklyn Campus. She is one of the co-founders of the LIU bilingual/multicultural graduate program. Her expertise is in the area of child language acquisition, childhood language disorders, language-learning disabilities, infancy and mental health, and clinical education and supervision. She completed a two-year certificate program in infancy and mental health. She has written articles and chapters on Reflective Supervision and Practice in professional journals within her discipline and also in mental health journals. She has presented her work at local, state, and national conferences.
Mina Glambosky, Asst. Professor, Finance and Business Management
Mina Glambosky
Finance and Business Management
Mina Glambosky received a Ph.D. in Philosophy in Finance, from Florida Atlantic University in 2009. She also holds bachelor of science degrees in Finance and Information Systems from New York University. Prior to returning to academia to pursue her doctorate, she worked in the insurance and finance industries. Former employers include Marsh Inc., a large insurance brokerage firm, Oppenheimer, a financial brokerage firm, and OpenLink a trading and risk management software firm. Glambosky has published in the Journal of Financial and Economic Practice, the International Journal of Managerial Finance, and Financial Review.
Serene J. Khader
Serene J. Khader holds the Jay Newman Chair in Philosophy of Culture. Her research focuses on the normative dimensions of cross-cultural feminist praxis. Her 2011 book, Adaptive Preferences and Women’s Empowerment (Oxford University Press), presents a normative framework for development interventions designed to help people overcome the effects of oppressive socialization. Her articles in global and development ethics cover topics such as the role of autonomy in empowerment discourse, the ethics of transnational commercial surrogacy, and unjust intrahousehold food distributions. She is currently writing a book on the role of universalist moral ideals in transnational feminist coalition building. Khader has published in the fields of ethics, political philosophy, and feminist philosophy, and more broadly on topics such as reproductive justice and end-of-life decision-making. She is currently co-editing, with Ann Garry and Alison Stone, a new Routledge Companion to Feminist Philosophy.
Katherine Lindberg, Asst. Professor, Film
Katherine Lindberg
Following Katherine Lindberg’s directorial début at the 2001 Venice International Film Festival with her feature film, Rain (with executive producer, Martin Scorsese), She began tackling a wide variety of independent and studio-driven projects, including several for television (notably Auction House for Sarah Jessica Parker/HBO and MindShock for Rosen-Obst Productions/Paramount). In 2012, Lindberg was hired by Appian Way (founded by Leonardo DiCaprio) to develop the feature script Crossers and by Georgeville Entertainment/CBS Television for the series Tomorrow Man. Lindberg has taught a wide variety of screenwriting and directing courses in both the United States and Asia.
Christopher Masterjohn, Asst. Professor, Health and Nutrition Sciences
Christopher Masterjohn
Christopher Masterjohn received his Ph.D. in nutritional sciences from the University of Connecticut at Storrs in August of 2012, where he studied the role of vitamin E and other antioxidants in protecting against the accumulation of methylglyoxal, a potentially toxic byproduct of energy metabolism that is believed to play a role in diabetes and cardiovascular disease. He conducted his postdoctoral research at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign between September 2012 and August 2014, where he studied the ability of vitamins A and K to protect against pathological soft tissue calcification otherwise caused by high doses of vitamin D. Masterjohn joined Brooklyn College in August 2014 as assistant professor of health and nutrition sciences. He will be expanding his research on the fat-soluble vitamins, teaching undergraduate courses in nutritional chemistry, and mentoring graduate students who are interested in pursuing experimental research related to nutrition.
Sunil K. Mohanty, Professor and Chairperson, Finance and Business Management
Sunil K. Mohanty
Finance and Business Management
Sunil K. Mohanty joined Brooklyn College in fall 2014 as professor and the chair of the Department of Finance and Business Management. Before joining Brooklyn College, Mohanty taught at Hofstra University in Long Island, New York, and at the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota. He taught corporate finance and financial markets and institutions in undergraduate and graduate programs.
As a visiting professor he taught at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics in Hungary, and at the Polytechnic Institute of Vienna de Castelo in Portugal. Mohanty has been a Fulbright scholar, visiting research scholar, and a University Scholar at the University of St. Thomas. He has published numerous articles in scholarly journals including the Journal of Business, Journal of Financial Research, Financial Review, and Financial Markets and Institutions. Mohanty received his doctorate in business administration from Cleveland State University in Ohio, his M.B.A. from the Minnesota State University, Mankato, and his Bachelor of Science degree in civil engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology in India.
