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Faculty

58

Dr. Arthur Donovan

Professor Emeritus, Department of HumanitiesYear Started

1988

EducationPh.D. PrincetonM.S. WisconsinB.A. HarvardPublicationsThe Box That Changed the World: Fifty Years of Container Shipping - An Illustrated History with Joseph BonneyThe Abandoned Ocean: A History of United States Maritime...

Dr. Jane Pacht Brickman

Professor, HumanitiesYear Started

1983

EducationPh.D. American History, City University of NY, Graduate CenterMA History Queens College, City University of NYBA History Queens CollegeTeaching InterestsModern American HistoryHistory of PhilosophyEthical StudiesResearch InterestsMedical...

Dr. Charles F. Weber

Professor Emeritus, Math and ScienceYear Started1972EducationPhD Mathematics NYUMS Mathematics NYUBS Mathematics Manhattan CollegeTeaching InterestsCalculusDifferential EquationsComplex VariablesResearch InterestsPartial differential equationsHydrodynamicsWater wavesNumerical analysis 

Dr. David Shinn

Associate Professor, Math and ScienceYear Started

2010

EducationPhD Physical Chemistry Emory UniversityMS Analytical Chemistry w/Marine Mining Emphasis University of Hawai'iBS Chemistry University of South CarolinaTeaching InterestsGeneral ChemistryAnalytical ChemistryInstrumental...

Dr. Paul Serafino

Assistant Professor, Math and ScienceYear Started

2004

EducationPhD Physics Yale UniversityBS Physics Trinity College (Connecticut)Teaching InterestsGeneral PhysicsAtomic PhysicsResearch InterestsAtomic structure and spectra theoryAtomic and molecular collision theory

Applications for the Class of 2030 open on 1 May 2025