2004 Faculty Hires

Senem Güney's primary home is the Department of Communication. She received her Ph.D. in Organizational Communication from The University of Texas at Austin and has been conducting a fieldwork study with the IBM Hardware Systems Development team since 2001. Her research interests are organizational identity, collaborative practices, and leadership modalities in technology development organizations. She is also interested in research on computer simulation tools that use qualitative data to provide models of complexity.

Yvette Mattern has a dual appointment in Art and Music. She is a screenwriter, editor, producer, director, video designer, film juror, location scout, and teacher. She has an MFA from the Film Division of Columbia University, and has studied at Harvard University, the School of Visual Arts, Georgia State University, and Florida State University. She was a Visiting Assistant Professor at Oberlin College and Resident Artist at the Hochschule für Musik (Graduate School of Music) in Karlsruhe, Germany. She has also taught at Bunker Hill Community College, Worcester State College, Becker College, and Greenfield Community College.

Peter Shea has a joint appointment with the School of Information Science and Policy (SISP), and the Department of Educational Theory and Practice, which is his primary home. He was the Director of the SUNY Learning Network, and also served as the Director of the SUNY Teaching, Learning, and Technology Program, and manager for SUNY's participation in the MERLOT Project (Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching), a national consortium for the collection and peer review of online teaching and learning materials. He is the author of articles and book chapters on the topic of online learning and is co-author of The Successful Distance Learning Student.

Monika P. Calef ’s primary home is the Department of Geography and Planning in the College of Arts and Sciences, with a joint appointment in the IT Commons. Her research interest is in vegetation dynamics in the boreal forest of Interior Alaska. Her focus is on large-scale modeling using GIS (Geographic Information Systems), modeling, and statistics. She has a Ph.D. in Environmental Sciences (Ecology) from the University of Virginia. She was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Institute of Arctic Biology at the University of Alaska. She also served as a Data & GIS Specialist at the Institute for Local Government Administration and Rural Development (ILGARD) at Ohio University and was an Independent Consultant at UNEP/GRID, EROS Data Center in Sioux Falls, SD.

Kevin Knuth’s primary home is in the Physics and Biology Departments of the College of Arts and Sciences. His research mainly consists of designing automated machine learning systems for data analysis, with the focus on deriving the algebra and calculus of questions, and understanding their relation to information theory. He is interested in applications including intelligent instruments, information-theoretic analysis of earth climate data, modeling planetary nebula, blind source separation of mixed signals, and estimation of evoked responses in EEG signals. He is also interested in the foundations of probability theory, order theory (lattice theory), nonlinear dynamics and differential geometry.

Rey Koslowski’s primary home is in the Political Science Department of Rockefeller College, with a joint appointment in the Center for Technology in Government and the IT Commons. He will come to Albany in September, teach the Fall semester, and then take a one-year leave on a MacArthur Research Fellowship, returning to Albany in January 2007. He was previously Associate Professor of Political Science, Political Science Graduate Program Director, Faculty Fellow of the Center for Global Change and Governance (CGCG) faculty member of the Center for Information Management, Integration and Connectivity CIMIC) and Director of the CGCG Research Program on Border Control and Homeland Security at Rutgers University. He received his PhD from the University of Pennsylvania in 1994. His primary teaching and research interests are in the field of international relations dealing with international organization, European integration, migration, information technology, and homeland security. During 2003-2004, he was a Resident Fellow of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. He has also held Fellowships at the Center of International Studies at Princeton University (1999-2000) and the Center for German and European Studies at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service.

Janet Stamatel is an Assistant Professor in the School of Criminal Justice, with a joint appointment in the IT Commons. She received her Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Chicago. Her research focuses on the relationship between social change and social problems. Her recent research has examined how regime changes affect crime rates in post-communist societies. She is also interested in data utilization and measurement problems in crime research. She worked for several years at the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) at the University of Michigan, where she specialized in issues related to data collection, management, sharing, and analysis.

Toni Naccarato is an Assistant Professor in the School of Social Welfare, with a joint appointment in the IT Commons. She received her M.S.W. from San Jose State University and her Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. Her research focuses on emancipation, welfare, and human capital accumulation of adolescents; social and economic policies and reforms; and, research methods for increasing social and political changes in the Social Work arena. Dr. Naccarato has direct practice experiences in California and New York, and applied research experiences at the policy level in Georgia, California, New York and Washington, DC. Dr. Naccarato is currently collaborating with the New York State Office of Children and Family Services, to better integrate research and data management emphasizing child welfare practitioners.