Josh Rabinowitz, SVP and director of music of Grey Group, was once called a “New Music mogul” by Fast Company; has produced more than 1,000 tracks for commercials internationally; “With the Brand ” columnist for Billboard and recognized voice in music branding; working bandleader and trombonist; has also taught at NYU.

Nahid Rachlin, author of Persian Girls, Jumping over Fire, Foreigner, Married to a Stranger, The Heart's Desire, and a short story collection, Veils; stories also published in Shenandoah, Confrontation, Literary Review, and anthologies; reviews in New York Times Book Review and Newsday; recipient, NEA grant, Wallace Stegner Fellowship, and PEN Syndicated Fiction Project Award.

Wendy S. Raver, PhD, NYU; lectures on ancient history, religion, and 19th-century travel and exploration; contributor to Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt and Encyclopedia of Travel and Literature; has written for KMT and the Bulletin of the Egyptological Seminar.

John Reed, MFA, Columbia U.; author of the novels A Still Small Voice, The Whole, and Snowball's Chance; work has appeared in venues such as TimeOut New York, Artforum, BOMB, New York Press, Brooklyn Rail, Playboy, and Paper Magazine; writer for award-winning television and film.

Thomas Reed, MPA, Princeton U.; has developed educational and promotional materials for NYC Dept. of Health; member of and trainer for NY Mac User Group.

Rebecca Reilly, MFA, The New School; editor-at-large, LIT magazine, the literary journal of the New School Writing Program.

Ira Robbins, BFA, Pratt Inst.; partner, Start Studios; designer of print materials for New York City Ballet, Cunningham Dance Co., Intl. YMCA, Osborne Assn., Con Ed, The Kitchen, Lincoln Center, New Victory Theater, and Pressman Toys; has taught graphic design at the graduate and undergraduate levels for more than 15 years.

Martin Roberts, PhD, Cambridge U.; has taught at NYU, MIT, and Harvard U.; research centers on media and cultural studies, globalization, and popular culture; articles on ethnography and surrealism, world music, and the role of media in formation of national and transnational identities.

Justus Rosenberg, PhD, U. of Cincinnati; Russian Studies Research Fellow, Columbia U.; African Studies Research Scholar, Syracuse U.; chairman of Languages & Literature Div., Bard College; author of Constant Factors in Translation, Russia: Past and Present, and Brecht in Mandarin.

Cristina Ross, MA in Spanish, U. of Rhode Island; has taught Spanish and German at Berlitz Language School in Mexico City and NYC.

Randi Ross, BA, NYU; public relations writer whose work has been on radio and in print media; designer of a college-level writing curriculum; teaches at the Inst. of Design and Construction and CUNY.

Andrew Rubenfeld, PhD, NYU; has written on Walt Whitman for NJ Audubon Magazine; prepared text for Mark Twain & Huck Finn, a Natl. Geographic Society exhibit; does special projects editorial work for the Library of America.

Sanjay Ruparelia, PhD, Cambridge U.; Commonwealth Scholar; research published in Comparative Politics and Economic and Political Weekly and edited volumes; advisory board member, India China Institute and Constellations; U.N. consultant; media commentator; previously taught at Columbia U.