NYU Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development - Human Rights Faculty and Staff

Clinical Assistant Professor

Media, Culture, and Communication | NYU Steinhardt

Isra Ali is a feminist media scholar. Her current research interests are concerned with the ways that feminism is mobilized in the public discourse on the war on terror, and how this impacts the project of enacting transnational/cross-cultural feminist alliances with women in the “Muslim world.”

Assistant Professor

Psychology and Social Innovation | NYU Steinhardt

Rezarta's research focuses on understanding psychological underpinnings of mass violence, and devising and examining interventions (e.g., media-based interventions) to promote peaceful relations in the aftermath of violence. Dr. Bilali has conducted studies in numerous countries including Bangladesh, Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda, Turkey, and the U.S.

Associate Professor; Director of International Education

Applied Statistics, Social Science, and Humanities | NYU Steinhardt

Dana Burde focuses her research on the effects of conflict on education, the efforts of humanitarian organizations to mitigate these effects, and the relationship between education and political violence or peace. She is particularly interested in research that can be used to inform policy and that has the potential to help state and non-state actors create positive social change.

Co-Director; Associate Professor

NYU Tandon School of Engineering ; Music and Performing Arts Professions | NYU Steinhardt;  ITP | NYU Tisch

R. Luke DuBois is an artist, composer, and software engineer, who explores the temporal, verbal, and visual structures of cultural and personal ephemera. He has taught worldwide on interactive sound and video performance, and has contributed to a number of software packages for creative computing, including Max/MSP/Jitter and P5.js. He co-directs NYU’s programs in Integrated Digital Media and the NYU Ability Project.

Professor

NYU GallatinMedia, Culture, and Communication | NYU Steinhardt

Stephen Duncombe teaches and writes on the history of mass and alternative media and the intersection of culture and politics. A life-long political activist, he is presently the co-founder and co-director of the Center for Artistic Activism, a research and training institute that helps activists create more like artists and artists strategize more like activists.

Professor Emerita; Senior Technical Advisor

Nutrition and Food Studies | NYU SteinhardtHealthRight International | College of Global Public Health

Professor Guttmacher's research interests include policy and prevention of chronic and infectious diseases; poverty and public health; women's health and evaluation. Much of her research in the past severalyears has been in the Cape Town Metro area of South Africa. 

Associate Professor

Applied Statistics, Social Science, and Humanities | NYU Steinhardt

Elisabeth King is a political scientist working on issues related to conflict, peacebuilding, and development in sub-Saharan Africa. Her recent projects examine how education, youth programs, and community-driven development interventions work, or don't work, for people in the global South.

Associate Professor

Applied Statistics, Social Sciences, and Humanities | NYU Steinhardt

Carol Anne Spreen’s scholarship brings together interdisciplinary and comparative approaches to examining education policy and practice. Her research centers on political and socio-cultural studies of educational change, particularly the influences of globalization and corporate privatization on teaching and learning.