GRADUATE FACULTY
Carol Breckenridge has been appointed associate professor of history at the Graduate Faculty. She comes to New School University from Yale University, where she was director of the South Asia program and adjunct associate professor of history. Her research is on colonialism and the political economy of ritual; state, polity and religion in south India; society and aesthetics in India since 1850; cultural theory; and cosmopolitan cultural forms. The editor of two books, she also co-founded with Arjun Appadurai the journal
Public Culture. She is currently writing a book entitled
Religion and Sumptuary Politics: The Transformation of the Social in Colonial India. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a B.A. from Houghton College.
Sherry Brennan was appointed director of development at the Graduate Faculty. Ms. Brennan comes to the Graduate Faculty from Penn State University. Ms. Brennan will focus primarily on broadening and deepening major gift support. She also will assist in foundation initiatives and contribute to strengthening alumni gifts. She holds an M.A. from Loyola University in Chicago and a B.A. from Youngstown State University in Ohio.
Simon Critchley was appointed professor of philosophy at the Graduate Faculty. Previously, he was professor and head of philosophy at the University of Essex. Specializing in modern continental philosophy, phenomenology, philosophy and literature, psychoanalysis and the ethical and the political, Mr. Critchley has written extensively on Blanchot, Badiou, Beckett, Cavell, Derrida, Freud, Heidegger and Levinas. The author of five books, Mr. Critchley received his Ph.D. from the University of Essex.
Joan Miller joined the psychology department at the Graduate Faculty as an associate professor of psychology. Prior to coming to New School University, she was an associate research scientist at the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan. Ms. Miller is recognized for her studies of cultural influences on social cognition and social development. She has taught at Yale University, the University of Michigan and the University of Chicago. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago.
Howard Steele has been appointed associate professor in psychology at the Graduate Faculty. He is currently a senior lecturer in psychology at University College London, where he is director of the Attachment Research unit. Mr. Steele is founding and senior editor of the journal
Attachment and Human Development. He holds a Ph.D. from University College London, an M.A. from Columbia University’s Teachers College, an M.A. in religious studies from the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, and a B.A. in History from UBC, Vancouver.
Miriam Steele has been appointed associate professor in psychology and assistant director of clinical studies. She has been a lecturer in psychology at University College London since 1994, dividing her time between there and the Anna Freud Centre in London. She holds a Ph.D. in psychology from University College London, an M.A. from Columbia University’s Teachers College and a B.A. in psychology from the University of British Columbia.
Ann Stoler has been appointed distinguished professor with tenure in the department of
anthropology at the Graduate Faculty. Ms. Stoler has earned an international reputation as one of the outstanding anthropologists of her generation. Although her prominence developed as a result of strong, traditional anthropological fieldwork, with a focus on Dutch colonialism, her work is avidly read and discussed by historians, philosophers, social theorists and scholars in gender studies, critical race studies and colonial and postcolonial studies. She is a remarkably productive and creative researcher. Ms. Stoler has been teaching at the University of Michigan since 1989. She also has been a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University. She has received special honors and awards including a Guggenheim Fellowship and an Excellence in Teaching award. Ms. Stoler has published four books with two more forthcoming, and has published numerous articles and book reviews in refereed journals. She holds a Ph.D. from Columbia University.
Loïc Wacquant has been appointed distinguished professor with tenure in the department of sociology
at the Graduate Faculty. Mr. Wacquant is a sociologist with uncommonly broad international interests and experience. As an engaged public intellectual, he has been exceptionally visible regarding contemporary social problems like race and poverty, exploring the macrosociology of urban marginality in the cities of so-called advanced societies. He has published extensively and widely in both French and English. Not including those monographs in press, he has written 12 books, including his co-authorship with Pierre Bordieu of
An Invitation to Reflexive Sociology, which has been published in 18 languages. Recognizing his prodigious record, Mr. Wacquant’s awards include a MacArthur prize and being named to the Society of Fellows at Harvard University. He has taught at several institutions, including the University of California, Berkeley and l’Université de Paris. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago.
