Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences

Omar Williams currently teaches at Shaker Junior High School in Latham, NY where he directs band, jazz ensemble, and teaches general music. He is also an adjunct trumpet professor at RPI since 2019. Williams holds a Master of Music Education and a Bachelor of Trumpet Performance and Music Education from Ithaca College.   An active freelancer, he has performed with many local ensembles including the Silver Arrow Band, New York Players, Schenectady Symphony, Glens Falls Symphony, and Sage City Orchestras.

Jarah Moesch is a multi-disciplinary designer artist-scholar whose work explores issues of justice through the design, production, and acquisition of embodied knowledges. Jarah’s research incorporates queer, crip theories, media & cultural studies, art, and design practices to develop new models for justice and to imagine new worlds. As a scholar, artist, designer, and multi-modal educator, Jarah’s research and pedagogy focuses on how knowledge is produced, distributed, acquired, and managed.

Rush’s career has lead him to several game studios such as Guerilla, Square Enix and Telltale. With a strong belief that games can be art, he wrote an essay for the “Art of Video Games” exhibition at the Smithsonian Institution’s American Art Museum on ambiguity’s role in the game “Limbo.” He has also worked in motion capture for film, concept art, board games, anime, and traditional media.He taught at Indiana University for many years before joining RPI. 

Audrey Peterson-McCann, Ph.D. specializes in British literature of the long-Nineteenth Century. She also has expertise in teaching college writing. Her dissertation, awarded with distinction, centers around the conceptualization of the child and the animal in the Victorian era and the ways that literary narratives both formed these conceptions and responded to them, playing both discursive and pedagogical functions in relation to subject formation.

Dr. William Gibbons joined RPI as Dean of the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences and Professor in 2024.

I am an applied microeconomist with research interests in environmental, energy, and natural resource economics.

Dr. Rivero is an applied econometrician currently investigating novel approaches to causal inference while facing challenging settings of unobserved heterogeneity. Examples include household-level consumption data of addictive goods and historical data on larger units such as nations. More generally, he is interested in panel/longitudinal data analysis on economic agent behavior. He is also interested in the joint measurement of inequality of several economic indicators.As part of his agenda, Dr.