Aug 4, 2010 By: yunews
New Appointments Have Been Made at Stern, YC, Cardozo, Ferkauf and Sy Syms
Twenty undergraduate and graduate faculty members will join Yeshiva University’s diverse roster of scholars this fall.
Four professors—Drs. Douglas Burgess, Alessandro Citanna, Andreas Hamel and Yuxi Zheng—will be teaching at both Yeshiva College and Stern College for Women. Burgess joins the University’s history department after positions as a postdoctoral fellow at Eugene Lang College at The New School for Social Research and New York Historical Society. He obtained his JD from Cornell University and PhD from Brown University.
Citanna brings experience as a visiting professor of economics and finance at Columbia University and as a professor of economics and finance at HEC Paris to YU’s economics department. Citanna earned a PhD in economics from the University of Pennsylvania.
Hamel and Zheng are additions to the mathematics department. Hamel, who earned his PhD summa cum laude from Germany’s Martin Luther University, has lectured in operations research and financial engineering at Princeton University. Zheng has served as professor and associate head of the mathematics department at Penn State University. He obtained a PhD in mathematics from the University of California, Berkeley.
Susan Crawford, who earned a BA summa cum laude and JD from Yale University, comes to Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law as a professor specializing communications, cyber, privacy and property law, and Brett Frischmann joins Cardozo after a stretch as associate professor of law at Loyola University School of Law. His educational background includes a BA in astrophysics and an MS in Earth resources engineering and applied sciences from Columbia University, along with a JD magna cum laude from Georgetown University Law Center.
Other new faculty, listed by school, include:
Stern College
Omer Acikgoz, assistant professor of economics (will also teach at Yeshiva College)
Yael Leibowitz, instructor of Bible
Shoshana Schechter, instructor of Bible
Yeshiva College
Fabiola Barrios-Landeros, assistant professor of chemistry
Van Kelly, visiting assistant professor of computer science
Amish Khalfan, visiting assistant professor of physics
David Lavinsky, assistant professor of English
Yakov Lowinger, visiting assistant professor of sociology
Yair Shahak, instructor of Hebrew
Sigal Shalom, instructor of Hebrew
Shlomo Wadler, instructor of Hebrew
Sy Syms School of Business
Yasar Kocaga, assistant professor of operations management
Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology
Catherine Eubanks-Carter, assistant professor of psychology
Melanie Moretz, assistant professor of psychology