Faculty in the Honors College are scholars that represent the broad range of disciplines on the UAlbany campus. Rather than a few instructors teaching many of the honors courses, at UAlbany a professor chooses to teach an honors course every few years. This provides a wide range of courses for our students.
Actively Involved
All faculty teaching Honors College courses have a history of strong undergraduate teaching and active involvement with undergraduates. Many have won awards for their teaching and for their service to the university. All are active researchers and scholars who create knowledge as well as impart it to their studies.
Following are lists of the faculty members who have taught or are currently teaching courses in the Honors College.
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Previous Academic Years
2008-09 Academic Year
Heidi Andrade
Assistant Professor, Educational Psychology and Methodology
Professor Andrade's work focuses on the relationships between thinking, learning, and assessment, with an emphasis on student self-assessment.
Brad Armour-Garb
Associate Professor, Philosophy
Professor Armour-Garb's research interests include the philosophy of language, the philosophy of logic, and metaphysics, though he also has interests in epistemology.
Victor Asal
Assistant Professor, Political Science
Professor Asal's research interest is the interaction of international relations and domestic politics, particularly how this interaction influences ethnic conflict and ethnic terrorism.
Thomas Bass
Professor, English Department
Professor Bass' areas of interests include creative nonfiction writing.
George Berg
Associate Professor, Computer Science Department
Professor Berg's research interests include machine learning, computational biology, and natural language processing.
Iris Berger
Professor, History Department
Professor Berger's research interests include gender, social policy and popular culture in 20th century South Africa.
Ronald Berger
Professor, History Department
Ronald Berger, an economic and social historian, received an MFA in creative writing in 2004. Since that time, he has been studying the role of narrative and story in
historical writing. He is working on three projects at the moment: a personal memoir, a study of risk-taking in the social construction of manhood, and a social
history of Warren County, New York [the Adirondacks].
George Broadwell
Professor, Anthropology Department
Professor Broadwell's primary research interests are syntactic theory, language, and cognition. His area specialization is American Indian languages, with research in Choctaw, Timucua, Trique, and Zapotec.
Jennifer Burell
Assistant Professor, Anthropology Department
Professor Burrell's areas of interest include political economy, structural and political violence, human rights, forensic anthropology, transitional states, migration, development, gender, neoliberalization.
Donald Byrd
Professor, English Department
Professor Byrd's interests include nineteenth century American literature and philosophy, modernisms, postmodernism, literature and technology, and hyper/multimedia.
Rachel Cohon
Associate Professor, Philosophy
Professor Cohon teaches graduate courses in moral theory, including such topics as consequentialism vs. deontology vs. virtue ethics, moral realism, the normativity of ethics, and eighteenth century moral philosophy
Susan Gauss
Assistant Professor, History Department (joint with Department Latin American and Caribbean Studies)
Professor Gauss is currently working on a book manuscript that examines the political and social origins of rising industrialism in postrevolutionary Mexico. Also, she is researching issues of gender, class, and violence in the textile industry in Mexico in the 1940's.
Robert Gluck
Assistant Professor, Music Department
Professor Gluck's recent work includes the design of live electronic musical systems for performance and installation.
Annis Golden
Assistant Professor, Communication Department
Richard Hamm
Professor and Chair, History Department
Professor Hamm's research interests are focused on the interaction of law and society in the American past. His teaching interests are mostly public policy at the graduate level and legal history and society at the undergraduate level.
William Hammond
Professor, Mathematics and Statistics Department
Professor Hammond's academic interests include number theory and algebraic geometry, theta functions, Hilbert modular surfaces
David Hochfelder
Assistant Professor, School of Social Welfare
Professor Hochfelder's areas of interest include: History of U.S. business and technology; public history; history of information technology; history of the telegraph; Thomas Edison; electric power; savings and investment. Richard Lachman
William Lanford
Professor, Physics Department
Professor Landford's interests include: materials physics; applied physics; glasses; thin films; ion beam analysis.
Antun Milas
Professor, Mathematics annd Statistics Department
Professor Milas' areas of interest include vertex operator algebras, conformal field theory and representation theory.
Ineke Murakami
Assistant Professor, English Department
Professor Murakami's interests include renaissance British literature and culture, early drama, Shakespeare, early modern economics, religion, and Marxist theory.
Joan Newman
Associate Professor, Division of Educational Psychology and Methodology
Professor Newman's research and publications concern sibling relationships, task attitudes and intrinsic motivation, topics in adolescence and cross cultural differences in children’s free time usage. For 11 years she has been co-investigator on a grant from NIEHS, studying the impact of environmental toxicants on the cognitive and psycho-social development of Mohawk adolescents.
Nancy Roberts
Professor, Communication Department
Professor Roberts' teaching and research interests include communication and journalism history, especially of alternative periodicals, literary aspects of journalism, and magazine writing and editing.
Lotfi Sayahi
Associate Professor, Languages, Literatures, & Cultures
Professor Sayahi's research interests include sociolinguistics, contact linguistics, language variation and change, and variation in L2.
Christopher Smith
Professor, Geography and Planning Department
Professor Smith's interests include urban social geography, East Asian and especially Chinese cities.
Lawrence Snyder
Professor, Department of Chemistry
Professor Snyder's research interests include chemical physics, and quantum chemical studies of the chemistry and physics of crystalline silicon and its defects, particularly those containing hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, and sulfur; related research is conducted on other wide-gap semiconductors.
Bonnie Steinbock
Professor, Philosophy Department
Professor Steinbock teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in ethics, bioethics, and philosophy of law, graduate courses in public policy and public health, and is the director of the interdisciplinary minor in bioethics.
Alexandre Tchernev
Professor, Mathematics and Statistics Department
Professor Tchernev's interests include commutative algebra, homological algebra, algebraic geometry.
Mary Beth Winn
Professor, French Studies
Professor Winn's areas of interest lie in late medieval and early Renaissance France, focusing particularly on the relations between literature and other arts, the history of the book, and patronage, especially by women.
Alissa Pollitz Worden
Associate Professor, School of Criminal Justice
Professor Worden's research interests include the study of decision making in criminal courts, particularly decision making under conditions of high discretion; exploration of the attitudes and values of criminal court actors; and modeling the links between public opinion on crime and justice issues, on the one hand, and formal policy and local criminal justice practices, on the other.
Gerald Zahavi
Professor, History Department
Professor Zahavi's research and teaching interests include modern U.S. labor, business, and social history, U.S. local and regional history, digital history, quantitative methods in history, oral and videohistory, media and history, documentary studies (film, radio, photography, hypermedia, text/narrative), and New York State history.
Richard Zitomer
Professor, Biological Sciences
Professor Zitomer's areas of interest include yeast genetics and molecular biology, regulation of gene expression by hypoxia and stress, and mechanisms of transcriptional repression.
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