Dr. Resto
Angel
D.
Resto-Gallardo
Ph.D.
Adjunct Instructor
Social Work
College of Arts and Sciences
(773) 442-4760
Courses Taught
SWK 310: Research Practicum I
SWK 311: Research Practicum II
Research Interests
I am research-oriented professional in Management. Areas of interest include: Entrepreneurship; Identifying critical needs and areas for improvement in the handling of knowledge and technology; Defining and integrating best practices in sustainable businesses; Leveraging corporate wide knowledge; Integrating Knowledge Management needs and approaches with the strategic planning process in technology driven businesses; Fostering a culture that reinforces the creation, retrieval, sharing, and use of knowledge; and Building social and human networks that foster the sharing of knowledge in global perspective.
Education

Ph.D. in Applied Management and Decision Sciences, Walden University, Minessota

MBA in Finance, Inter American University, Rio Piedras Campus, San Juan, Territory of Puerto Rico, USA.

BA in Economics, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus, Mayaguez, Territory of Puerto Rico, USA.

LWH 3077
5500 North St. Louis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60625
United States

(773) 442-4760
Office Hours
By appointment
Main Campus
Nathan Jamel Riemer
Nathan
Jamel
Riemer
Instructor
Sociology
College of Arts and Sciences
(773) 442-4770
Courses Taught
SOC 100: Introduction to Sociology
SOC 309: Sociology of Racism
SOC 314: Urban Sociology
SOC 349: Black Social Movements
Research Interests
Race, Culture, Social Movements, Urban Sociology and Qualitative Methods
Education

Ph.D., Sociology, expected 2022, The University of Chicago

M.A., Sociology, 2011, The University of Chicago

M.A., Social Sciences, 2008, The University of Chicago

B.A., Aurora University, 2006, Aurora University

 

Northeastern Iliinois University
5500 North St. Louis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60625
United States

(773) 442-4770
Office Hours
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Kayla Rihani
Kayla
Rihani
Senior Instructor
Biology
College of Arts and Sciences
Courses Taught
Introduction to Biology (BIO 100)
Changing Natural Environment (BIO 104)
General Microbiology (BIO 341)
Pathogenic Microbiology (BIO 342)
Research Interests
Microbiology and Immunology
Education

M.S. in Microbiology and Immunology, University of Illinois at Chicago

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Office Hours
Please email kdrihani@neiu.edu to arrange to meet or speak with Kayla Rihani.
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Robert Ritsema looks into the camera in front of a plain background.
Robert
Ritsema
Senior Instructor
Communication, Media and Theatre
College of Arts and Sciences
(773) 442-5951
Courses Taught
CMTM 390: NEIU Cinematheque
CMTM 374: Studies in Film - Film Genre
CMTM 374: Studies in Film - Film Authorship
CMTM 374: Studies in Film - Director: Kathryn Bigelow
CMTM 374: Studies in Film - Director: Quentin Tarantino
CMTM 374A: The American Horror Film
CMTM 372: American Cinema (1950-Present)
CMTM 371: American Cinema (Origins-1950)
CMTC 305: Writing in CMT (WIP)
CMTM 265: Mass Media and Society
CMTC 213: Interpersonal Communication
CMTM 160: Introduction to Cinema
Research Interests
Popular culture, cinema history, and the relationship between media and social change.
Education

M.A. Boston University (1986)

Room FA 238
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Chicago, IL 60625
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(773) 442-5951
Office Hours
Tuesday and Thursday: 12:30-1:30 p.m. and 3:00-4:00 p.m.
Main Campus
Patricio Rizzo-Vast
Patricio
Rizzo-Vast
Ph.D.
Instructor of Spanish
World Languages and Cultures
College of Arts and Sciences
(773) 442-4293
Expertise
Spanish and Portuguese language, Latin American literature and culture translation
Courses Taught
SPAN 201 Intermediate Spanish I
SPAN 202 Intermediate Spanish II
SPAN 225 Composition I
LLAS 101 Introduction to Latin American Studies
Research Interests
At present my work focuses on the representation of space in the poetry and prose of Oliverio Girondo and Jorge Luis Borges The representation of nature in the work of Octavio Paz Rewriting a book on Oliverio Girondo and the Legacy of the Avant-Gardes
Education

Ph.D. in Spanish, University of California, Davis, Dissertation: “El lugar de Girondo” Major Field: Latin American Literature
M.A. in Spanish, San Francisco State University
Teaching Credential in Spanish, 1992, Spanish-English Bilingual Certificate of Competence for the State of California, 1993
B.A. in Latin American Studies, University of California, Berkeley
Universidad Nacional de Buenos Aires, School of Law

Selected Publications

Books:

Ser libre. Evanston: Studio Mosaid, 2013

Luz vital. Buenos Aires: Bibliografika, 2011

Ananda naranja. Buenos Aires: Dunken, 2007

Jardín en Playa Unión. Buenos Aires: Ediciones Corregidor, 2005

El lugar de Girondo.  Buenos Aires: Ediciones Corregidor, 2001

Deuda externa: condicionalidades y desarrollo infraestructural en la Argentina, Buenos Aires: Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, 1993

Desde el océano. From the Ocean.  Oakland: Inkworks, 1981

Articles:

“Paisaje e ideología en Campo nuestro de Oliverio Girondo,” Revista Iberoamericana, Pittsburgh, Vol. LXVII,  Num. 194-195, January-June 2001, pp. 105-120

“Paisaje e ideología en Los pasos perdidos de Alejo Carpentier,” La Torre, Puerto Rico, Año 5, 17, Julio-Sept. 2000, pp. 463-477

“Mercedes Sosa: voz de América,” Canto, San Francisco State University, Fall 1994-Spring 1995, Vol. 2, Num. 2, pp. 36-41

Selected Exhibitions

Presentation “’Interlunio’ y la actitud contestataria de  Oliverio Girondo  (1937-1940)” Co-Chair, Critical Dialogues on the Latin American Avant Gardes. Latin American Studies Association, San Francisco, May 2012

Presentation “Recepción crítica a la obra de Borges en España en la década de 1920” Radboud Universiteit, Nijmegen, Holland, October 2011

Presentation “El español en la cultura global” 91Porn, March 2009

Conference, “Images of Globalization in Jose Saramago's La caverna" Latin American Studies Association, Montreal, September 2007

Conference, “Aspectos del panorama orillero borgiano (1936-1948)" University of Iowa, May 2007

Conference, “An Exploration of the Catholic Nationalist "Dialect" in Argentina 1976-1983." 91Porn, November 2006

Conference, “Mecanización y Globalización en La caverna de José Saramago,” XXVIIII Simposio Internacional de Literatura. Literatura y Globalización, Montevideo, August 2006

Conference, “The Desert in the Poetry of Jacobo  Fijman,” Latin American Studies Association, Puerto Rico, March 2006
American Studies Association, Puerto Rico, March 2006

Conference, “El Martín Fierro y la nación argentina,” California State University, Fullerton, December 2003

Conference, “Paisaje e ideología en Campo nuestro de Oliverio Girondo,”  Columbia University, New York City, April 2000

Conference, “Ética y estética en ‘Estival’ de Rubén Darío.” Octavo Congreso Internacional de Lit. Centroamericana, Guatemala City, March 2000

Presenter, UC Davis Summer Sessions Film Series: “Four Days in September,” September, 1998 and “The
Star Maker,” August 1997

Conference, “Lenguaje e ideología: aspectos del  dialecto nacionalista-católico en la Argentina.”
UC Davis, May 1998

Conference, “Landscape and Ideology: The Figure of the Desert in Argentine  Literature.” University
of California, Davis, July 1997

Conference, “Ideología modernista en ‘Estival’ de Rubén Darío.” University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, May 1997

Conference, “La pasión de los tigres: cultura y violencia en ‘Estival’ de Rubén Darío.” UC Davis, December 1996

Background

Lecturer in 91Porn, Chicago, August 2004 to the present
Instructor of Spanish, Wright College, Chicago, August 2005 to the present
Instructor of Spanish, Solano Community College, Solano-Suisun, California September 2002 to June 2004
Spanish Teacher in Woodland Unified School District, Woodland, California, 2002 to 2004
Lecturer in the University of California, Davis, September 2000 to June 2002
Teaching Assistant for the University of California, Davis, 1995 to 1998
Spanish Teacher in the Oakland Unified School District, Oakland, California, 1990-1995
Translator for Current Anthropology, a publication of the University of Chicago and the Dept. of Anthropology of UC Davis, 2002 to present
Translator for the Department of Public Health, San Francisco, 1993
Researcher for Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1991-1992
Copyeditor for Houghton and Mifflin for Spanish bilingual texts for the State of Texas, 1984-86
Interpreter for A.M.S. Associates, San Francisco, working with injured immigrant field workers in California, 1980-1984

Lech Walesa Hall 2033
5500 North St. Louis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60625
United States

(773) 442-4293
Office Hours
MW 7:05 - 9:05 pm and by appt
Main Campus
Curriculum Vitae
Judith Rocha
Judith
Rocha
Ph.D., MSW
MSW Director of Field Education and Associate Professor
Social Work
College of Arts and Sciences
(773) 442-4763
Expertise
Dementia family caregiver well-being; Alzheimer’s disease in the Latinx/a/o community; Art benefits in the elder population; Social Work Field Education.
Courses Taught
SWK 415: Foundation Field Practicum I
SWK 416: Foundation Field Practicum II
SWK 495: Advanced Field Practicum I
SWK 496: Advanced Field Practicum II
Research Interests
Culturally responsive practices & interventions; the Chicago-based Mexican experience
Education

Ph.D., Social Work, University of Illinois at Chicago

MSW, Social Work, University of Illinois at Chicago

BSW, Social Work, University of Illinois at Chicago

Selected Publications

Jaldin, M.A., Balbim, G.M., Colin, S.J., Marques, I.G., Mejia, J., Magallanes, M., Rocha, J.S., & Marquez, D.X. (In Press). The influence of Latino cultural values on the perceived caregiver role of family members with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias. Ethnicity & Health. DOI: 10.1080/13557858.2022.2115018.

Balbim, G.M., Marques, I.G., Cortez, C., Magallanes, M., Rocha, J., Marquez, D.X. (2019). Coping strategies utilized by middle-aged and older Latino caregivers of loved ones with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementia. Journal of Cross Cultural Gerontology 34(4) 355-371. .

Magaña, S. M., & Rocha, J. S. (2016, March 1). Aging in a Latino World [Review of the book Latinos in an Aging World: Social, Psychological and Economic Perspectives, by R. J. Angel & J. L. Angel]. The Gerontologist, 56(2), 372-374. doi:10.1093/geront/gnw041

O’Grady, C., & Rocha, J. S. (2016). Social work practice with Latinos: A review of the literature. TS Cuadernos de Trabajo Social No 15. Retrieved from  

Selected Exhibitions

Rocha, J. S. (2019). ¡Oh! ¿Y ahora quien podrá ayudarnos? An aging society and its reliance on caregiving. Invited keynote presentation at the Latino Social Worker Organization Conference, Chicago, IL.

Rocha, J. S. (2017). By Caring for Myself: A Promotora Intervention for Latino Families of Children with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities. In R. Shaffert (Chair), Family support spotlight: Supporting caregivers, expressive art and parents with disabilities. Oral presentation at The Arc National Convention, San Diego, CA.

Rocha, J. S. (2017). Caring of Caregivers Organically (CoCO): Health Education for Latina Family Caregivers of Persons with Alzheimer’s Disease or Dementia – Phase I Findings. Oral presentation at the Latin American Studies Association Conference, Lima, Peru.

Rocha, J. S. (2016). Predictors of Depression in Latina Mothers of Youth and Adults with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities: An Overview of Baseline Data for a Health Promotion Intervention. Poster presentation at the Society of Social Work and Research Annual Conference, Washington, DC.

Background

is an assistant professor of Social Work and currently serves as the Interim Program Director of the Master's of Social Work program at NEIU. As a proud Chicago Public Schools alumna, she is a strong believer and advocate for quality public education. All her social work degrees were completed at the University of Illinois at Chicago's Jane Addams College of Social Work. As a Mexicana born in Chicago and raised in the Little Village and Gage Park neighborhoods (both Chicago working class ethnic enclaves), by a hard-working single mother and loving older siblings, all Mexican-born; Dra. Rocha has always been interested in helping Latinx/a/o families navigate systems in order to have full access to a more just and prosperous life. 

Her work in the last 25+ years has included parenting education and counseling for children and families on the Southwest and Southeast sides of Chicago, where resources are oftentimes few and opportunities for a higher quality of life can be challenging to reach. With input from dementia family caregivers, content area experts, service providers and other stakeholders, she developed Caring of Caregivers Organically (CoCO), a culturally responsive health education program for Latinas that are caring for a family member with dementia. The intervention aims to address the higher risk of developing health conditions such as depression and reduced overall health in this population. As a former caregiver herself, providing care for her mother who lived with diagnosed Alzheimer’s disease for 16 years, there is a personal passion and commitment to this work. She is invested in finding practical ways for family members to provide care to someone with this complex disease, to stay healthy. Included in her service to the community is a program called La BROCHA which she co-founded, that carries out free art workshops and activities for the Latinx community with a focus on elders 60 years of age and older. More recently, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, she began co-facilitating the support group ANCLA for Spanish-speaking individuals that provide care to a loved one living with dementia. 

Social work is not only a career for her but a way of life. She started as an aviation flight major at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale in 1995, never imagining the heights she would reach in the Social Work field as a Ph.D., a couple decades later, in her beloved city of Chicago.

Social work is not only a career for her but a way of life. She started as an aviation flight major at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale in 1995, never imagining the heights she would reach in the Social Work field as a Ph.D., a couple decades later, in her beloved city of Chicago.

Additional Information

Licensed Clinical Social Work – Illinois

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Office Hours
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Kimberly Rocks
Kimberly
Rocks
Instructor: Instrumental Music Education, University Supervisor to Instrumental Music Education Students
Music and Dance
College of Arts and Sciences
Courses Taught
Methods and Techniques of Teaching Music in Secondary Schools: Instrumental
SCED 305N: Student Teaching Seminar
Research Interests
Music Education
Education

Master of Music Education, Teaching Artistry, Bowling Green State University

Bachelor of Science, Music Education, Xavier University 

Background

Kimberly Rocks currently serves as the Band Director at Our Lady of Perpetual Help School in Glenview, Illinois. She has eight years of experience as a band director, primarily in Chicago. Kimberly has worked in many settings including public, private and charter schools, teaching marching band, pep band, concert band, guitar, general music, percussion, and piano to students in grades K-12. While teaching in the Noble Network, Kimberly organized an honor band and choir festival to provide students with a high quality clinic and performance opportunity at no cost. Her students have been selected for honor bands and earned Superior ratings at adjudicated events. Her interest in mentoring pre-service music teachers developed while working with clinical and student teachers from Northeastern. Kimberly is passionate about music education, equitable access to music, and culturally responsive teaching.

Office Hours
tbd
Main Campus
Dr. Mark Rockwell
Mark
Rockwell
Ph.D.
Instructor
Philosophy
College of Arts and Sciences
Expertise
Philosophy of Education, Ethics, Argument and Reasoning
Courses Taught
Comparative Religion, Introduction to Philosophy, Ethics, Argument and Reasoning
Research Interests
Philosophy of Education
Education

Ph.D., Philosophy of Education, Loyola University Chicago

Office Hours
Monday and Wednesday: 1:00-2:15 p.m.
Tuesday and Thursday: 2:30-4:00 p.m.
Main Campus
Dr. Elizabeth Rodriguez
Elizabeth
Rodriguez
Coordinator of Learning Innovations
Center for Teaching and Learning
English
College of Arts and Sciences
(773) 442-5810
Expertise
British literature, 1500-1650
Courses Taught
ENGL 203 World of Fiction
ENGL 221 English Literature, Beginnings-1750
ENGL 331 Shakespeare: Tragedies
Research Interests
Early Modern literature; gender and sexuality; discourses of sexual and political consent; reading law as literature
Education

Ph.D. Northwestern University
B.A. 91Porn

 

Selected Publications

TBA

Producer, host:

 

91Porn
5500 North St. Louis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60625-4699
United States

(773) 442-5810
Office Hours
Fall 2023

Monday and Wednesday: 10:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m.
Main Campus
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John
Rodriguez
Communication, Media and Theatre
College of Arts and Sciences
(773) 442-5935
Courses Taught
CMTT 130: Introduction to Theatre
CMTT 139: Theatre Practicum 1
CMTT 239: Theatre Practicum 2
CMTT 349: Lighting Design
Research Interests
Theatre
Education

M.F.A. Northwestern University

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Chicago, IL 60625
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(773) 442-5935
Office Hours
Tuesday and Thursday: 11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Main Campus
Nancy Rosenheim
Nancy Lu
Rosenheim
Instructor, Graphic Design and Foundations
Art + Design
College of Arts and Sciences
Expertise
Rosenheim facilitated public art projects in social justice for 12 years. She has been a college art professor for 16 years, with expertise in painting, drawing, sculpture, design and illustration.
Courses Taught
Image
Research Interests
Rosenheim fashions beasts out of features borrowed from animal, human and mythological creatures to embody environmental peril and the psyche. She explores the feminist assertion that the personal is political, proposing aging as both intimate experience and social stereotype. Rosenheim’s practice is steeped in material exploration. She uses labor-intensive practices to build form and embellish surfaces. Her mediums range from 14 karat gold to papier mâché, traditional paints and raw pigments as she responds to the expressive demands.
Education

Master of Fine Arts, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

Bachelor of Fine Arts, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY

Selected Exhibitions

Swallow City, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL

Driftless: Can’t See the Forest for the Trees, Fine Arts Center Gallery, 91Porn, Chicago, IL

Not Just Another Pretty Face, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL

Vivarium, Slow Gallery, Chicago, IL

Do Ostriches Really Bury their Heads in the Sand?, Dickson Window Art Project Space, Sugar Grove, IL

The Art of Being Dangerous, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL

Painting at Night Collar Works Gallery, Troy, NY

Sculpture Invasion, Koehnline Museum, Des Plaines, IL

Collectively Shifting, Bridgeport Art Center, Chicago, IL

Additional Information

Artist Residency, Ragdale Foundation, Lake Forest, IL

Center Program, Hyde park Art Center, Chicago, IL

Artist Residency: Atelier Neo Medici, Monflaquin, France

Director/Curator, The Bike Room Gallery, Chicago, IL

91Porn
5500 North St. Louis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60625
United States

Office Hours
By appointment.
Main Campus
John Ross smiles into the camera while standing outdoors in front of a tree.
John
Ross
Senior Instructor
Communication, Media and Theatre
College of Arts and Sciences
(773) 442-5959
Courses Taught
CMTC 319: Conflict Communication
CMTC 316: Family Communication
CMTC 315: Leadership Communication
CMTC 306: Special Topics in Communication - Science, Religion, and Communication
CMTC 306: Special Topics in Communication - Argumentation and Debate
CMTC 214: Business and Professional Communication
CMTC 202: Voice and Diction
CMTC 100: Introduction to Communication
CMTC 101: Public Speaking
Research Interests
Theatre, Poetry, Theology, Science
Education

A.L.M. Harvard  (Dramatic Arts)

S.T.M. Boston University (Systematic Theology)

M.P.S. Loyola University Chicago (Pastoral Theology, focus in Religious Communication)

M.A. University of Illinois (Theater) 

Selected Publications

iSpeak! uSpeak! weSpeak!: An Introduction to Contemporary Public Speaking (2012) 

Goat Troubles and Other Chicago Poems (2010)

Ode To Boston Neighborhoods: The Emerald Necklace, Bunker on the Hill, and other Tanka-Cantos (2011)

Where the Designer Came From (2011)

Tao-Te-Ching: The Way of Virtue in Leadership and Life (2012)

American Haiku (2012)

Cosmotrinity (2013) 

Background

John Ross Jr. has been a faculty member in the Department of Communication, Media and Theatre since 2000. He teaches courses in public speaking, voice and diction, and human communication, and he holds a graduate degree in dramatic arts from Harvard University.

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Office Hours
Monday and Wednesday: 11:30 a.m.-1:00 p.m.
Or by appointment
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Edie
Rubinowitz
Professor and Internship Coordinator
Communication, Media and Theatre
College of Arts and Sciences
(773) 442-5976
Courses Taught
CMTC 386: Professional Experience Seminar
CMTM 367: News Writing
CMTM 366: Multimedia Storytelling
CMTM 364A: Solutions Journalism
CMTM 350: Podcasting and Audio Documentary
CMTC 305: Writing in Communication, Media, and Theatre (WIP)
CMTM 265: Mass Media and Society
CMTM 250: Introduction to Audio Production
CMTM 205: Fundamentals of Media Writing
CMTM 105: Introduction to Journalism
Research Interests
Journalism, Radio broadcasting, Media writing
Education

M.P.A. Harvard University

Additional Information

Professor Edie Rubinowitz teaches a variety of media and journalism courses, including Multimedia Storytelling, Mass Media and Society and News Writing. She is a freelance journalist and worked as news reporter for several years with NPR-affiliate Chicago Public Radio where she covered urban issues such as poverty, immigration, and housing. Her work has appeared on All Things Considered, Morning Edition, Marketplace, and Latino USA. On the academic side, she has presented at the National Communication Association and has written for the online Journal of Media Education.

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(773) 442-5976
Office Hours
Tuesday: 12:30-2:30 p.m. (Room FA 244)
Wednesday: 11:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m. (Online Only)
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Linda Rueckert
Linda
Rueckert
Professor
Psychology
College of Arts and Sciences
(773) 442-5841
Expertise
Cognitive Neuropsychology
Courses Taught
General Psychology
Statistics and Research II
Theories of Learning
Cognitive Psychology
Social Neuroscience
Cognitive Lab
Research Interests
My recent research has focused on the neuropsychology of empathy and embodied cognition. I’ve also conducted research into how students learn about and understand statistics.
Education

Ph.D. and M.A. - University of Chicago

B.S. - University of Michigan

Selected Publications

Jaimes, G., Diaz, R., Portillo, M., & Rueckert, L. (2021). The evaluation of facial expressions and emotions. Presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Psychological Science (online, May, 2021).

Rueckert, L., Church, R. B., Avila, A., & Trejo, T. (2017). Gesture enhances learning of a complex statistical concept, Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 2, 1-6. DOI: 10.1186/s41235-016-0036-1

Campos, K. & Rueckert, L. (2017). Facial mimicry and attractiveness. Presented at the annual meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL, April, 2017.

Rueckert, L., Branch, B., & Doan, T. (2011). Are gender differences in empathy due to differences in emotional reactivity? Psychology, 2, 574-578.

Rueckert, L. (2011). Gender differences in empathy. In D. J. Scapaletti (Ed.) Psychology of Empathy, Hauppauge, NY: Nova Science Publishers.

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(773) 442-5841
Office Hours
Vary by semester
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Juan Pablo Ruiz wearing a black shirt standing in front of works of art
Juan
Pablo
Ruiz
Instructor, Drawing and Painting
Art + Design
College of Arts and Sciences
Expertise
Juan Pablo Ruiz is a draftsman and painter born in Guadalajara, Mexico and raised in Chicago. He has an almost obsessive interest in the materials and techniques in traditional representational drawing and painting.
Courses Taught
Studio Experiences: Painting
Drawing II
Research Interests
Juan Pablo’s paintings are informed by his interest in narrative archetypes; the portrayal of violence and politics in the visual arts; Ancient history and philosophy; Renaissance and Enlightenment political thought; and the Uncanny & Absurd in contemporary society.
Education

Master of Fine Arts, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA

Bachelor of Art, 91Porn, Chicago, IL

Bachelor of History, 91Porn, Chicago, IL

Selected Exhibitions

City on Fire: Chicago 1871, permanent exhibition, Chicago History Museum, Chicago, IL

Bridgeport Art Center’s 9th Annual Juried Art Competition, Bridgeport Art Center, Chicago, IL

The Journey, solo exhibition, The Gallery @ A+C Architects, Skokie, IL

Bridgeport Art Center’s Sixth Annual Juried Art Competition, Chicago, IL

2018 National Wet Paint MFA Biennial, Zhao B Art Center, Chicago, IL

The Persistence of Memory, group show, 33 Orchard Gallery, New York, NY

Additional Information

The Burning City, painting commissioned by the Chicago History Museum, Chicago, IL

Fine Arts Venture Fund Grant, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA

Justine Cretella Memorial Scholarship, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA

Grad Grant Award, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA

International Scholarship, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA

MFA Merit Award, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA

Room FA 252
91Porn
5500 North St. Louis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60625
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Office Hours
By appointment.
Main Campus
Dr. Emily Rumschlag Booms
Emily
A.
Rumschlag Booms
Associate Professor
Biology
College of Arts and Sciences
(773) 442-5725
Expertise
Microbiology
Courses Taught
Essential Skills for Biologists (BIO 150)
General Biology I (BIO 201)
General Microbiology (BIO 341)
Pathogenic Microbiology (BIO 342)
Emerging Infectious Diseases (BIO 345)
Advanced Immunology (BIO 475)
Advance Topics In Biology: Applied & Environmental Microbiology (BIO 485L)
Research Interests
Viral attachment and entry, Antiviral therapeutic development
Education

Bachelor’s Degree, Indiana University

Ph.D., University of Illinois, College of Medicine

Selected Publications

Rumschlag-Booms, E. and Rong, L. Influenza A Virus Entry: Implications in Virulence and Future Therapeutics. Advances in Virology. January 2013.

Ahmet Dirim Arslan, Xiaolong He, Minxiu Wang, Emily Rumschlag-Booms, Lijun Rong, and William T. Beck. A High-Throughput Assay to Identify Small-Molecule Modulators of Alternative Pre-mRNA Splicing. (2013).

Rumschlag-Booms E, , , , . One-stone-two-birds, an antiviral screening protocol. (2011), .

Rumschlag-Booms E, Guo Y, Wang J, Caffrey M, Rong L., 2009. . Virology Journal 2009, 6:76; June 10.

Guo Y, Rumschlag-Booms E*, Wang J, Xiao H, Yu J, Wang J, Guo L, Gao GF, Cao Y, Caffrey M, Rong L., 2009. Virology Journal, 6:39; April 2. *Co-first author

Manicassamy B, Wang J, Rumschlag E, Tymen S, Volchkova V, Volchkov V, Rong L, 2007. Characterization of Marburg virus glycoprotein in viral entry. Virology, 358:79-88.

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(773) 442-5725
Office Hours
Please email e-booms@neiu.edu to arrange to meet or speak with Dr. Rumschlag Booms.

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William Russell
William
Russell
Applied Tuba
Music and Dance
College of Arts and Sciences
773-442-5900
Courses Taught
Applied Tuba
Research Interests
Tuba/Euphonium Performance and Pedagogy
Education

B.M., Arizona State University

M.M. DePaul University

Additional Information

William is currently the tuba player of the world-renowned, internationally-touring ensemble Boston Brass. The band’s unique and entertaining blend of chamber music, jazz, and educational outreach is a perfect fit for a tuba player that is equally at home with Bach and bebop. Prior to joining Boston Brass, William was a co-founder of the Chicago-based quintet Alliance Brass and is an alumnus of the Civic Orchestra of Chicago. His principal private teachers have included Steven Layman, Kevin Stees, Sam Pilafian, Mike Roylance, Floyd Cooley, jazz trumpeter John D’earth, and bassist Peter Spaar.

As a classical, jazz, and pop instrumentalist, William has performed across the United States in venues from the Corn Palace to Carnegie Hall, and he has toured in Europe with both the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia. William can be heard on the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s Grammy-winning 2008 recording of Shostakovich’s 4th Symphony, and if you look hard enough you might spot him acting as a background musician in the episode “Slave to Memory” from 20th Century Fox’s television show Empire.

Fine Arts
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Lisa Rzany
Elisa
Rzany
English
College of Arts and Sciences
(773) 442-5819
Courses Taught
ENGL 101 Writing I
ENGL 102 Writing II
Research Interests
Composition especially as it applies to ESL students and to first year writing students
Education

MA Rhetoric, 91Porn
BA English/Secondary Education from 91Porn

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Vida
čć
Professor, Graphic Design
Art + Design
College of Arts and Sciences
Expertise
Typography and the history of letterforms, taught using both digital and analog methods.
Courses Taught
Typography
Typography 2
Letterpress
Graphic Design 1
Graphic Design (survey)
Contemporary Design
Studio in Graphic Design
Special Topics in Graphic Design
Print Production
Writing Intensive Program: Professional Practices In GD
Writing Intensive Program: Professional Practices In Art
Senior exhibition in Graphic Design
Research Interests
Working with wood and metal type in letterpress printing to explore gender, immigration, and labor via the printed word.
Education

Master of Fine Arts, Graphic Design, Indiana University Bloomington, Indiana

Selected Publications

Ruggie Saunders, Cathie and Chiplis, Martha, For the Love of Letterpress: A Printing Handbook for Instructors and Students, published by Bloomsbury

Chen Design Associates, Fingerprint No. 2: The Evolution of Handmade Elements in Graphic Design, published by HOW Book

Selected Exhibitions

Typeforce 12, Chicago, IL

Press & Clay, Robert F. DiCaprio Art Gallery 
at Moraine Valley Community College, Palos Hills, IL (solo)

Acute Accents, Catich Gallery, St. Ambrose University, Davenport, IA (solo)

Letters Home, Kerredge Gallery, Copper County Community Arts Center, Hancock, MI (solo)

Correlation Matrix: Vida čć and David Wolske, DeVos Art Museum, Marquette, MI

Type as Image: Lynne Avadenka, Purgatory Pie Press and Vida čć, Art Mora Gallery, New York City, NY

New Impressions in Letterpress, Hamilton Wood Type Museum, Two Rivers, WI

Stay Golden: works by Darren Oberto, Monica Kass Rogers, Vida čć, and Ryan Segedi, 50,000 ft, Chicago, IL

Žene? – Žene!, City Museum, Varaždin, Croatia

Animation + Printmaking, The Center for Book Arts, New York City, NY

Graphic Content: works by Alex Jovanovich, Nicole Pérez, Coco Picard and Vida čć, The Bike Room, Chicago, IL

Additional Information

Residency, Artists Print, Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), Rochester, NY

Panel presentation, ATypI International Typographic Conference (online)

Presentation, The Silent People Print: A Glance at the Printing History of Croatia, Makeready: A Letterpress Symposium for Educators (online)

Illinois Individual Artist Grant, Chicago, IL

Residency, Penland School of Craft, Penland, NC

Panel presentation, Letterpress Printing in Chicago: Its Current State, History, and Legacy, CAA conference, Chicago, IL

Presentation, A Tool for Understanding: Giving Voice to Diverse, Non-traditional, and Low-income Students Through Teaching Letterpress Printing, TypeCon, Minneapolis, MN

Presentation, A Tool for Understanding, Makeready: A Letterpress Symposium for Educators, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD

Panel presentation, Unconventional Conventional: Letterpress Printing in Design Education, The University & College Designers Association (UCDA) Design Education Summit, Kutztown, PA

Presentation, Traveling Home, Makeready: A Letterpress Symposium for Educators, Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum, Two Rivers, WI

Residency, Copper County Community Arts Center, Hancock, MI

Windgate Residency Project, Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum, Two Rivers, WI

Residency, Center for Book and Paper Arts, Columbia College, Chicago, IL

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Office Hours
Tuesday and Thursday: 2:30-3:00 p.m. and 4:30-6:30 p.m.
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Matthew
Sage
Instructor
Communication, Media and Theatre
College of Arts and Sciences
(773) 442-5957
Courses Taught
CMTM 381: Video Games & Interactive Media Studies
CMTM 377: Gender and Media
CMTM 366: Multimedia Storytelling
CMTM 364A: Writing the Sitcom
CMTC 305: Writing in CMT (WIP)
CMTM 250: Introduction to Audio Production
CMTM 160: Introduction to Cinema
Research Interests
New Media, Digital Media, and Intermedia Arts. Storytelling. Publishing, Self-Publishing, Small Press and DIY Culture. Counter-Cultural and Subcultural Studies.
Education

M.F.A. Writing, School of the Art Institute of Chicago

B.A. Creative Writing (Poetry), Colorado State University

Background

Matthew Sage has been active in counter-culture and subculture as a musician, artist, writer, publisher, and distributor for nearly 15 years. His autoethnographic research and experience in these fields has tied into his academic research interests involving intermedia arts, physical and digital media, and mediated narrative.

He operated Patient Sounds, an internationally acclaimed record label that published more than 140 cassettes, vinyl records, and books produced by artists from around the world in its 10 years of operation. He now operates Cached.Media, a platform sharing music, art objects, and web broadcasts exploring collaborative works made through digital mediation. He has published/shown music, writing, poetry, and visual art with many record labels, small press publishers and independent galleries. He has also performed, produced, recorded, and collaborated on works shown at The Art Institute of Chicago, The MOMA, MOMA PS1, the Whitney Museum.

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Curriculum Vitae
Dr. Joshua Salzmann
Joshua
Salzmann
Professor and Associate Chair
History
College of Arts and Sciences
(773) 442-5632
Expertise
Joshua Salzmann teaches classes on the history of cities, the environment, and crime and violence in the United States. His book "Liquid Capital: Making the Chicago Waterfront" examines how policymakers and business leaders forged public-private partnerships to create a landscape conducive to capital accumulation — and, in the process, set powerful precedents for environmental protection and regulation of industry. Salzmann has published articles in academic journals including: LABOR; Enterprise and Society; and the Journal of Illinois History. His writings have also appeared in the Chicago Tribune, Crain’s Chicago Business, In These Times, and Smithsonian Magazine. His current research is about the history of gun control in Chicago and Washington D.C. since the 1960s.
Courses Taught
FYE 109: History of Chicago
Hist 214: American History, 1607 - 1877
Hist 215: United States History, 1877-Present
Hist 300W: Writing and Methods for History Majors
Hist 334: History of American Sports
Hist 335: History of Crime and Violence
Hist 342: The City in American History
Hist 346: Environmental History
Hist 393: Capstone Research Seminar
Hist 434: Graduate Readings in 20th Century U.S. History
Hist 435: American Cultural and Intellectual History
Hist 439: Graduate Readings in 20th Century U.S Social History
Hist 444: Graduate Research Seminar
Research Interests
The History of Cities, Capitalism, and Natural and Built Environments
Education

University of Illinois at Chicago

History, Ph.D., 2008

Selected Publications

Book:

“Liquid Capital: Making the Chicago Waterfront” (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018).

Winner of 2018 Superior Achievement Award, Illinois State Historical Society

Honorable Mention in 2019 Jon Gjerde Prize competition, Midwest History Association

Peer-Reviewed Articles and Book Chapters:

“Blood on the Tracks: Accidental Death and the Built Environment,” in City of Lake and Prairie: Chicago’s Environmental History, eds. William C. Barnett, Kathleen A. Brosnan, and Ann Durkin Keating (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020).

“Bionic Ballplayers: Risk, Profit, and the Body as Commodity, 1964-2007,” (co-authored with Sarah Rose) LABOR: Studies in the Working-Class History of the Americas 11 (Spring 2014): 47-75.

Winner of 2016 biennial “Best Article Prize,” Labor and Working Class History Association

“The Creative Destruction of the Chicago River Harbor: Spatial and Environmental Dimensions of Industrial Capitalism, 1881-1909,” Enterprise and Society: The International Journal of Business History 13 (June 2012): 235-275.

“The Lakefront’s Last Frontier: The Turnerian Mythology of Streeterville, 1886-1961,” The Journal of Illinois History 9 (Fall 2006): 201-214.

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Curriculum Vitae
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Esther
Santana
Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Spanish
World Languages and Cultures
College of Arts and Sciences
(773) 442-4749
Courses Taught
SPAN 101 Beginning Spanish I
SPAN 201 Intermediate Spanish I
SPAN 220 Intermediate Conversation I
SPAN 225 Composition I
SPAN 252 Literary Genres
SPAN 314 Latin American Culture
SPAN 321 Latin American Literature I
SPAN 354 Spanish American Literature To 1888
SPAN 365T Spanish-American Seminar: Latin American Testimonial Narrative
SPAN 379 Latin American Theatre
SPAN 400 Visión De América I
SPAN 401A Spanish-American Literature Seminar: Los Cronistas
SPAN 407 Latin American Baroque Literature And Culture
SPAN 420 Visión De América II
Research Interests
Latin American and Spanish literature and culture, Spanish language and composition
Education

B.A. Dominican University, Spanish and Elementary Education

M.A. Loyola University Chicago, Hispanic Literature

Ph.D. University of Chicago, Spanish

Lech Walesa Hall 2043
5500 N Saint Louis Ave
Chicago, IL 60625
United States

(773) 442-4749
Office Hours
S 12-2 PM; W 2-4PM or by appointment
Main Campus
Greg Sarchet
Greg
Sarchet
Applied Double Bass
Music and Dance
College of Arts and Sciences
(773) 442-5900
Courses Taught
Applied Double Bass
Research Interests
Double bass pedagogy and performance
Education

M.M., The Juilliard School

Background

Greg Sarchet considers himself fortunate to have had an array of musical experiences and training, from studying with his first teacher, jazz luminary Rufus Reid, to receiving degrees from the Juilliard School (where he was a student of Michael Morgan), to hundreds of television/radio commercial recordings. His strong interest in researching the double bass and ongoing international exchange efforts were recognized by a 1996 Chicago Artists International Program award which sent him to the Czech Republic, Germany, and Austria for performances, masterclasses, and archival research. These and other exchange activities have allowed him to build an extensive library of unpublished, out-of-print, and contemporary double bass works, as well as a first-hand understanding of Europe's leading teaching methods.

Since 1986, he has been a member of the Lyric Opera of Chicago Orchestra. Additionally, he frequently serves as Principal Bass with Chicago Opera Theater and the Chicago Chamber Orchestra. He maintains a limited private studio for high school and adult pupils.

Briefly, his musical foundation was laid by his first double bass teachers, Rufus Reid and Todd Coolman. The musical values and priorities they, among others, instilled in him have led him to a wide variety of professional opportunities ranging from recordings with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Mannheim Steamroller, Smashing Pumpkins, and hundreds of television and radio commercials.

By choosing to attend Northeastern and studying with Greg Sarchet, you can expect to acquire similar musical values and priorities through his proven training techniques that stress musical skills to enhance both the jazz and classical player, leading, ultimately, to the discovery and development of your own musical voice.

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Saszik
Shannon
Saszik
Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Psychology
College of Arts and Sciences
(773) 442-5839
Expertise
Neuropsychology, Physiological Psychology, Sensation and Perception, Animal Research
Courses Taught
Survey of Psychology
Human Perception
Visual Neuroscience
Physiological Psychology
Physiological Lab
Social Neuroscience
Neuropsychology
Research Interests
My research interests focus on examination of the processing of information in the brain through parallel pathways, and ultimately how that processing impacts behavior and choice. Using both studies that examine the bottom up, data signals that are coded by the sensory receptors and top down, knowledge signals that are based on prior experience, projects in the Neuropsychology Lab address questions related to the interaction between these two systems. My long-term goal is to understand the relationship between data and knowledge to determine how the dependence on one over the other can be altered given changes to both internal (physiological) and external (environmental) cues.
Education

M.A. Experimental Psychology

Ph.D. Neuroscience

 

Selected Publications

Saszik, S. M., & Smith, C. M. (2018). The impact of stress on social behavior in adult zebrafish (Danio rerio). Behavioural pharmacology, 29(1), 53–59.

Saszik, S., & DeVries, S. H. (2012). A mammalian retinal bipolar cell uses both graded changes in membrane voltage and all-or-nothing Na+ spikes to encode light. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 32(1), 297–307. 

Bilotta, J., Barnett, J. A., Hancock, L., & Saszik, S. (2004). Ethanol exposure alters zebrafish development: a novel model of fetal alcohol syndrome. Neurotoxicology and teratology, 26(6), 737–743. 

Saszik, S., Alexander, A., Lawrence, T., & Bilotta, J. (2002). APB differentially affects the cone contributions to the zebrafish ERG. Visual neuroscience, 19(4), 521–529. 

Saszik, S. M., Robson, J. G., & Frishman, L. J. (2002). The scotopic threshold response of the dark-adapted electroretinogram of the mouse. The Journal of physiology, 543(Pt 3), 899–916.

 

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Andreas
Savas Kourvetaris
Associate Professor
Sociology
College of Arts and Sciences
(773) 442-4774
Courses Taught
SOC 100: Introduction to Sociology
SOC 205: Contemporary Social Issues
SOC 211: Sociological Research Methods
SOC 245: WIP: Social Inequalities
SOC 324: Political Sociology
SOC 351: Senior Seminar in Sociology
SOC 362: Becoming "American"
Research Interests
My current work centers on the intersection of culture, politics, inequalities, and storytelling. Looking especially at immigrant and ethnic politics in urban communities, it asks how culture figures in competition for public office and in the unequal distribution of resources across cultural groups, neighborhoods, communities, and broader social geographies. Currently, I am exploring the processes of “becoming ‘American’” by examining identity construction, public policy, and social inequalities via stories on citizenship, immigration, education, race, class, and ethnicity.
Education

Ph.D., Sociology, 2005, Columbia University

M.Phil., Sociology, 1999, Columbia University

M.A., Social Sciences, 1994, University of Chicago

B.A., History, 1992, Northwestern University

Selected Publications

Savas Kourvetaris, Andreas Y. 2011. "Ethnicity, Electoral Districts, and Candidate Narratives: The 2001 New York City Elections." International Review of Modern Sociology 37(1):127-145.

Kourvetaris, Andrew G. 2009. “Perspectives on Ethnicity, Gender, and Race and their Empirical Referents: A Four-Sided Paradigm and Critical Review.” International Review of Sociology 19(1):127-146.

Kourvetaris, Andrew G. 2008. “Ethnonational Minorities.” Pp. 467-470 in Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity, and Society, edited by R. T. Schaefer. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc.

Kourvetaris, Andrew G. 2008. "In Memoriam: Charles Tilly.” In TG02 2008: Newsletter of the International Sociological Association’s Thematic Group # 02 on Historical and Comparative Sociology, Vol. 2.

Kourvetaris, George A. and Andrew G. Kourvetaris. 2007. <<E fese tou ethnotikou ethnikismou kai touupoethnikismou: e periptosi tis Yugoslavias>> [“The Nature of Ethnonationalism and Subnationalism: The Case of Yugoslavia”], in Τα Nέα Βαλκάνια: Η Γεωπολιτική της Διεθνούς Aσφάλειας και η Eυρωπαϊκή Oλοκλήρωση [The New Balkans: The Geopolitics of International Security and European Integration]. Revised and Expanded Greek Edition, edited by Petros P. Siousiouras, translated from the English by Ioannis A. Papademos. Athens: Erodotos.

Kourvetaris, Andrew G. 2007. “American Ethnicity and Ethnic Identity: A Research Note.” International Journal of Contemporary Sociology 44:131-142.

Kourvetaris, Andrew G. 2006. “‘Trying to Kick It Open’: A Synthesis of Narrative Politics and Campaign Strategies in the 2001 New York City Council Elections.” Journal of Political and Military Sociology 34:339-357.

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