Tag: faculty
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Meet Dr. Yan Xiao, ARAD’s Adjunct Assistant Professor
ARAD is delighted to welcome a new faculty member, Dr. Yan Xiao! Learn more about Dr. Xiao, what brings her to our program, and what she does outside her work at Teachers College! Tell us a bit about yourself. Where are you from? What is your educational background? I grew up in China and got…
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Faculty Spotlight: Dr. Dubin
ARAD’s own Dr. Dubin took a moment to share with us what he’s been up to while on sabbatical this past year. Dr. Dubin spent time in South Africa, completed a one-month residency at Ucross (an artist/writer retreat in Clearmont, Wyoming), spent 5 weeks in Italy, and completed another one-month residency at the Rockefeller Foundation…
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Faculty News: Prof. Jennifer Lena on US Cultural Engagement with Global Muslim Communities
ARAD’s own Dr. Jennifer Lena recently published an article titled “US Cultural Engagement with Global Muslim Communities: Contours and Connections in an Emerging Field” with co-author Erin Johnston. The article, released in the Winter 2015 edition of GIA Reader, looks at the challenges Muslim artists experience when producing art to engage US audiences. In addition to surveying the difficulties the field faces,…
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Faculty News: Prof. Steven Dubin talks “Global Contamination” at TEDxCaserta
“By dredging toxins up to the surface, artists playing in the dirt may cleanse the body politic and allow us to view the world afresh.” -Dr. Steven Dubin In early February, ARAD program coordinator and professor Dr. Steven Dubin was able to take a break from the cold and dreary New York weather to take part in…
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New book series on Culture and Economic Life at Stanford University Press, co-edited by ARAD Professor Jennifer Lena!
The ARAD program congratulates our faculty member, Dr. Jennifer Lena, on a new book series she will be co-editing! The series, Culture and Economic Life, acts as a forum for discussing the evolution, creation, and consequences of commerce and culture. Current theoretical and empirical debates span a wide variety of topics, and this series seeks to advance and…
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Backtracking with Dr. Lena
On this episode of the Pitch podcast, Alex explores just how much of live music is truly live and whether that even matters, and ARAD professor Dr. Lena helps him to sort it out. http://www.prx.org/pieces/116350-4-backtracking
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New Faculty: Jennifer Lena
By Alyssa Foster Current ARAD Student, Arts & Humanities Writer Dr. Jennifer Lena: Scholarly Muse At the start of the Fall semester, Teachers College proudly welcomed Dr. Jennifer Lena as Associate Professor of Arts Administration. After receiving both her Masters and Ph.D. of Sociology at Columbia University, Dr. Lena ventured beyond New York for…
