Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences

I am a microeconomic theorist. My research focuses on auctions, mechanism design, and dynamic games. Currently I work on designing dynamic mechanisms that are immune to collusion among participants and on auction problems with asymmetric bidders.

Leslie is a game developer, educator, and creative coder. Appointed as a lecturer, she currently teaches in the Games and Simulation Arts and Sciences Program at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Her artistic work explores animals, gender, and cultural stereotypes as they convey the feelings and emotions of repressed members of society, those that are silenced by the people in power.

Dr. Nkuiya joined the Rensselaer faculty as an Assistant Professor of Economics in Fall 2023. He obtained his PhD in Economics  from the University of Montreal and worked for several institutions including University of California Santa Barbara and University of Alberta. His research specializes in understanding how natural resource users respond to changes in environmental and political conditions and mechanisms to promote conservation and recovery.

I joined the Department of STS as an Assistant Professor of Sociology of Public Health and Medicine. I am an interdisciplinary scholar whose research is situated at the intersections of Public/Global Health, Medical Sociology/Anthropology, Social Epidemiology, and Queer Health Activism. In addition to master’s degrees in Gender Studies and Sociology, I hold a PhD in Feminist Studies & Anthropology. My current book project looks at the socio-epidemiological dimensions of the highly politicized HIV epidemic in Turkey where public health has become a pathogenic technology.

After receiving a PhD in philosophy from the City University of New York, I spent several years in industry working on the Cyc artificial intelligence project before moving to the data firm Dun & Bradstreet as their principal ontologist. After postdoctoral positions at the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation at the University of Amsterdam, the University of St.

Mitch R. Murray is a Lecturer in the Department of Communication and Media. He specializes in contemporary literature, science fiction, multiethnic literatures of the United States and Canada, and comics studies. His teaching focuses on how the creative practices of reading and writing make us better interpreters and creators of our shared social reality.Murray’s recent publications include the collection William Gibson and the Futures of Contemporary Culture, co-edited with Mathias Nilges, for the University of Iowa Press’s New American Canon series.

Brandi Brace is a lecturer in the Arts Department and teaches in the Games and Simulation Arts and Sciences Program. An interdisciplinary educator, Brandi has a Bachelor’s in English from Misericordia University (Dallas, PA), a Master’s degree in Internet and Game Studies from Tampere University (Tampere, Finland), and experience in game design through her work with Atlantic Divide Games.Brandi is interested in analyzing character design and the player experience of characters within digital games.