Geeti Das, Political Science
&
Johann Jaeckel, Economics

The Last Free Student in Corportate Academia (TLFSICA)
(fall 08)

Geeti and Johann were born in a class on the political economy of development about two years ago.  Ever since, they keep learning about all kinds of things from each other, such as useless vocabulary, the deeper meaning of the Big Mac Index, and the riven-ness of the field. What field? All fields. They like gin & tonic. They don't like Bob Kerrey – with or without the lime.

Eric Eingold, Political Science

When It Went International:
Pan-Africanism, Black Freedom Struggle,
and The African Liberation Support Committee
(spring 09)

Eric Eingold is a first year MA student in the Politics Department.  His interests include American history, transnationalism, Latin American studies, Immigration, Pan-Africanism, diasporic studies, and the sociology of sport.

 

Fatuma Emmad, Political Science

The Agricultural Frontier and the
Construction of Truth:
BT Maize in Kenya
(spring 09)

Fatuma Emmad recently graduated from the Politics department's masters program.

Abbe Faria, Psychology

The History of Christianity (spring 09)

J. Alberto Fernández, Political Science

EDITOR'S PICK
Ten Months That Shook My World
(spring 09)

J. Alberto Fernández is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Politics. After graduating from the UNAM and completing his term as Student Senator, he found shelter in a small anarcho-syndicalist union federation, the Frente Auténtico del Trabajo. His job was helping Mexico City gas station workers reach the proletarian “class-for-itself” nirvana before he succumbed to the grad-school calling.

Carlos Figueroa, Political Science

PULSE
Cobwebs
(fall 08)

Carlos Figueroa is writing his Ph.D. dissertation in Political Science at the New School for Social Research as fast as humanly possible.  His scholarly interests range from U.S. political history, comparative religion, and legal theory to literary criticism, and the history of ideas.  But he finds reading and writing poetry, fiction and philosophical meditations his 'closet' passions.  Enjoys experimenting with cooking, drinking wine, and is a life-long NY Mets and NY Giants fan! Dedicates his recent meditations and poetry to his beautiful wife Lucía, and his always caring mother Virginia.

Eric M. Friedman, Sociology

Journal Square and the Old Loew's Theatre:
Grassroots Resistance in a City Center
(spring 09)

Eric Friedman, a sociology student, is writing his dissertation on Journal Square in JerseyCity, which is a fieldwork study of an urban center in transition.  He also works at Hudson County Community College and teaches sociology courses at Drew University. Previously, Eric authored two other ethnographic works: Back of the House, about students at a culinary school, and Men and Markets, a study about suppliers in the restaurant industry.  He considers himself a ‘civic entrepreneur,’ one who creates meaningful community programs that make a difference in urban lives.  He has no dogs. 

 

Justin Humphreys, canon editor,
Philosophy

Marika Josephson, Philosophy

If You're Reading This, There is a Shred of Freedom
Left in the University (fall 08)

Marika Josephson is $60,000 in debt and waited in a mob for ten minutes yesterday to use one of two working elevators at 79 Fifth Avenue.  At the suggestion of an anonymous professor at the New School, she advocates that students calculate the class time they lose by waiting for the elevators and subtract it from their annual tuition.

Rafael Khachaturian, Political Science

Understanding Power (spring 09)

Rafael Khachaturian is graduating in Spring '09 with an MA degree in Political Science. He currently lives in Brooklyn, studies political theory, and has moments of existential angst about being objectified in the form of a short bio.

Theresa Morris, Philosophy

Stony Point
Justice
(fall 08)

Theresa has a (newly minted) Ph.D in Philosophy, and her research has been on the philosophy of Hans Jonas, on the topic of the relation of the human being to nature and the role of ethics in that relation.  She has been a writer of poetry for close to 30 years.  She loves the word, and how it can bring the truth to light. Some of her work can be viewed at www.poetryfish.com

Shaun Nanavati, Psychology

A Delicate Resistance (fall 08)

Shaun Nanavati has been telling stories all his life. He was formerly the editor of The Catalyst while an undergraduate at Bucknell, where he was influenced profoundly by the beats Ginsberg, Kerouac, Gary Snyder, and Paul Bowles. Chasing the ghost of Jack Kerouac, he spent five psychonautically-inspired years in Boulder where he was a journalist for The Boulder Weekly. He is now a graduate student in Psychology at the New School and can be occasionally found sharing adventures from his youth at coffee shops and pubs throughout the West Village.

Jeff Purchla, Sociology

Nowhere
Vulnerability or Excavation
(fall 08)

Jeff Purchla received a Masters in Arts from the Department of Sociology, where he identified with the discipline’s interactionist tradition.  His writing orchestrates the living depths of experience,and has examined processes of control, norms, exclusion, and gender roles in music subcultures. These are his first published poems. He may be contacted at jeff.purchla@gmail.com

 

Rachel Signer, canon editor
Anthropology

Evolution of a Rhizomatic Network:
The New School in Exile
(spring 09)

On the Materiality and Spirituality of Academic Work
(fall 08)

Rachel is an MA student in anthropology and the editor of Canon Magazine. Her passions lie in the intersections between arts and activism, and she hopes to follow these interests in the pursuit of a Ph.D. project that combines research, practice, and intervention. Meanwhile, she continues to engage with the multiplicitous multitude, in search of a way out of (a way through? beyond? between?) the structure-agency dilemma.

Ted Strauss, Psychology

Mentor Song (fall 08)

Ted Strauss grew up in Winnipeg, one of the coldest places in the world.  His writing is often accompanied by music. He's in the Psychology Department at the NSSR.  Ted is based in Brooklyn, and basted in bourbon.

Eric Taylor, Anthropology

EDITOR'S PICK
The Freedom in Academic Freedom
(fall 08)

Eric Taylor is a Master's student in the Anthropology Department at the New School for Social Research.

Brett Warnke, Liberal Studies

Solipsism in the Streets (spring 09)

What He Didn't Say... (fall 08)

Brett Warnke graduated from Indiana University in 2005.  He then joined Teach for America in the Greater New Orleans Corps as a secondary English teacher.  He is currently in the NSSR.

Glenn W. Wekony, Global Finance

Bacon & Espresso: The Moneyness of Money
(fall 08)

Glenn Wekony is a first-year graduate student in the Department of Global Finance. He is a member of the Federalist Society, and his personal hero is Gordon Gekko.