Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences

Adam Biggs is a historian of race, medicine, and civil rights. His research explores how early-twentieth century Black doctors used professional medicine to advocate for racial justice and examines how understandings of academic and professional merit are shaped by racial politics.

Matthew Wolf-Meyer is an anthropologist and historian of science and medicine in the U.S. Wolf-Meyer marries ethnographic research with patients, their families, and patient support networks, participant-observation of scientists, clinicians, and health care workers, and archival analysis of scientific monographs and public policies to show how thorny, contemporary problems have developed out of longstanding ideas about health and disease, disability and normalcy, and nature and civilization.

Phil Vanderhyden is a multi-disciplinary artist, with work that ranges across painting, sculpture, curation, writing, forensic art-making, animation and performance.Vanderhyden’s work across disciplines emerges from an interest in contrasting modes of attention.Originally trained as a painter, Vanderhyden’s early work evoked motifs from 20th-century color field painting and reimagined them with processes that expressed a gap in time and technology, creating works that felt familiar, yet meaningfully voided.A similar approach can be seen in his curatorial work.  In 2011, Vanderhyden began

Corinne Jones studies digital rhetoric, digital communication, technical and professional communication, and social media. Corinne is particularly interested in digital activism. Corinne has published twice in First Monday, twice in the Special Interest Group on Design of Communication (SIGDOC), as well as in Computers and Composition Online, Computers and Composition; Media, Culture, and Society; Information, Communication, and Society.

Benj is an artist, art director and graphic designer who has worked in various creative capacities for the last 25 years. Benj’s artwork, which combines texture, painting, drawing, collage and typography, has been shown in more than thirty group and solo shows and his photography has been published in Thrasher Magazine and Adirondack Life. He has worked as a designer and art director at large and small companies, as a freelancer, and has focused much of his design work on regional non-profits and art-based organizations.

Yingrui Yang is an Associate Professor in the Department of Cognitive Science, with a joint appointment in the Lally School of Management & Technology.  Dr. Yang received his doctorate in Experimental Psychology from New York University in 1995.  Since 1974, he also studied or worked at Beijing Normal University, Peking University, the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (Beijing), the University of Tennessee (Knoxville), New York University, Princeton University, Educational Testing Service, the United States Air Force Information Laboratory, and Tsinghua University. Dr.

Dr. Ghosal is Professor and Department Head of Economics, and Virginia and Lloyd W. Rittenhouse Chaired Professor of Humanities and Social Sciences. He was the Acting Dean, School of Humanities Arts and Social Sciences, from January-July 2023.

Prof. Tomek Strzalkowski research interests span a wide spectrum of human language technology including computational linguistics and sociolinguistics, socio-behavioral computing, interactive information retrieval, question-answering, human-computer dialogue, serious games, social media analytics, formal semantics, and reversible grammars. He has directed research sponsored by IARPA, DARPA, ARL, AFRL, NSF, the European Commission, NSERC, as well as a number of industry-funded projects. He was involved in IBM’s Jeopardy! Challenge in advanced question answering. Dr.

Tom Gerbino holds degrees from Mansfield University and Ithaca College and is the founder of the successful “A Touch of Woodwinds” Chamber Ensemble.  A Woodwind instructor at SUNY Schenectady, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Union College, Tom previously had been an instructor at Russell Sage College, Ithaca College, The College of Saint Rose, Skidmore College, and SUNY Cortland.  Performing with the Schenectady Symphony Orchestra as Principal Clarinet, he frequently appears with the Catskill, Utica and Clinton Symphony Orchestra.  His various ensembles (Classical and Jazz)