THE NEW SCHOOL
Sumita Chakravarty was appointed a member of the core faculty in The New School’s media studies program and a
faculty member at Eugene Lang College in the cultural studies and media concentration. Ms. Chakravarty’s areas of specialization include media studies; cultural studies; film history, theory and criticism; ethnography; and popular culture. Her first book,
National Identity in Indian Popular Cinema, 1947-1987, has been described as “a trendsetter in the field.” Ms. Chakravarty holds an M.A. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and two Ph.D.’s: one in communications from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and one in English from Lucknow University, India.
Stephen J. Collier joins The New School as a member of the core faculty in the graduate program in international affairs. Mr. Collier received his Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley, and has since been a postdoctoral fellow at the Harriman Institute at Columbia University and a visiting lecturer in the department of anthropology at Columbia. His current projects include a book on post-Soviet transformation in Russia and a co-edited volume,
Global Assemblages: Technology, Politics, and Ethics as Anthropological Problems, as well as a comparative project on welfare state transformation in Russia, Georgia and Ukraine.
Elizabeth Ellsworth joins The New School as a full-time faculty member in the media studies graduate program. Ms. Ellsworth received her Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin, where she was professor of educational communication and technology. She has produced documentary films on questions of cultural and social difference and writes widely on media and pedagogy. Her books include
Teaching Positions: Difference, Pedagogy, and the Power of Address and the forthcoming
Places of Learning: Between Architecture and Pedagogy.
Linda Herritt has been appointed chair of the visual and performing arts department. Ms. Herritt has been at The New School since 2001 and was previously a professor in the department of fine arts at the University of Colorado, Boulder. She is an artist with a long list of solo and group exhibitions to her credit. Ms. Herritt holds a B.F.A. from Ohio State University and an M.F.A. from the University of Montana.
Noah Isenberg joins The New School as chair of humanities and member of the core faculty of the B.A. program. Mr. Isenberg previously was an associate professor at Wesleyan University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, and is the recipient of numerous awards, including fellowships from the Fulbright Program and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Mr. Isenberg is the author of
Between Redemption and Doom: The Strains of German-Jewish Modernism.
David Turnley has been appointed visiting artist in media studies. Mr. Turnley was the recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for photography in 1990 and of the Overseas Press Club’s Robert Capa Gold Medal Award. His work, produced over the past 20 years in 75 countries, documents some of the most important events of our time. His 1997 documentary
Dalai Lama: At Home in Exile was nominated for an Emmy Award. He most recently covered the northern front in the Iraq war as a photographer-correspondent for CNN.
Line Lillevik joins the dean’s office as coordinator of special projects. She has an M.A. from Johns Hopkins University and a Ph.D. in history from Yale University. Ms. Lillevik has worked with policy makers at the Brookings Institute and the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C.
