M.S. in Microbiology and Immunology, University of Illinois at Chicago
Room BBH 352B
Northeastern Illinois University
5500 North St. Louis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60625
United States
M.A. Boston University (1986)
Room FA 238
Northeastern Illinois University
5500 North St. Louis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60625
United States
Wednesday: 3:30-4:00 p.m. and 5:30-6:00 p.m.
Ph.D. in Spanish, University of California, Davis, Dissertation: “El lugar de Girondo” Major Field: Latin American Literature
M.A. in Spanish, San Francisco State University
Teaching Credential in Spanish, 1992, Spanish-English Bilingual Certificate of Competence for the State of California, 1993
B.A. in Latin American Studies, University of California, Berkeley
Universidad Nacional de Buenos Aires, School of Law
Books:
Ser libre. Evanston: Studio Mosaid, 2013
Luz vital. Buenos Aires: Bibliografika, 2011
Ananda naranja. Buenos Aires: Dunken, 2007
Jardín en Playa Unión. Buenos Aires: Ediciones Corregidor, 2005
El lugar de Girondo. Buenos Aires: Ediciones Corregidor, 2001
Deuda externa: condicionalidades y desarrollo infraestructural en la Argentina, Buenos Aires: Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, 1993
Desde el océano. From the Ocean. Oakland: Inkworks, 1981
Articles:
“Paisaje e ideología en Campo nuestro de Oliverio Girondo,” Revista Iberoamericana, Pittsburgh, Vol. LXVII, Num. 194-195, January-June 2001, pp. 105-120
“Paisaje e ideología en Los pasos perdidos de Alejo Carpentier,” La Torre, Puerto Rico, Año 5, 17, Julio-Sept. 2000, pp. 463-477
“Mercedes Sosa: voz de América,” Canto, San Francisco State University, Fall 1994-Spring 1995, Vol. 2, Num. 2, pp. 36-41
Presentation “’Interlunio’ y la actitud contestataria de Oliverio Girondo (1937-1940)” Co-Chair, Critical Dialogues on the Latin American Avant Gardes. Latin American Studies Association, San Francisco, May 2012
Presentation “Recepción crítica a la obra de Borges en España en la década de 1920” Radboud Universiteit, Nijmegen, Holland, October 2011
Presentation “El español en la cultura global” Northeastern Illinois University, March 2009
Conference, “Images of Globalization in Jose Saramago's La caverna" Latin American Studies Association, Montreal, September 2007
Conference, “Aspectos del panorama orillero borgiano (1936-1948)" University of Iowa, May 2007
Conference, “An Exploration of the Catholic Nationalist "Dialect" in Argentina 1976-1983." Northeastern Illinois University, November 2006
Conference, “Mecanización y Globalización en La caverna de José Saramago,” XXVIIII Simposio Internacional de Literatura. Literatura y Globalización, Montevideo, August 2006
Conference, “The Desert in the Poetry of Jacobo Fijman,” Latin American Studies Association, Puerto Rico, March 2006
American Studies Association, Puerto Rico, March 2006
Conference, “El Martín Fierro y la nación argentina,” California State University, Fullerton, December 2003
Conference, “Paisaje e ideología en Campo nuestro de Oliverio Girondo,” Columbia University, New York City, April 2000
Conference, “Ética y estética en ‘Estival’ de Rubén Darío.” Octavo Congreso Internacional de Lit. Centroamericana, Guatemala City, March 2000
Presenter, UC Davis Summer Sessions Film Series: “Four Days in September,” September, 1998 and “The
Star Maker,” August 1997
Conference, “Lenguaje e ideología: aspectos del dialecto nacionalista-católico en la Argentina.”
UC Davis, May 1998
Conference, “Landscape and Ideology: The Figure of the Desert in Argentine Literature.” University
of California, Davis, July 1997
Conference, “Ideología modernista en ‘Estival’ de Rubén Darío.” University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, May 1997
Conference, “La pasión de los tigres: cultura y violencia en ‘Estival’ de Rubén Darío.” UC Davis, December 1996
Lecturer in Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, August 2004 to the present
Instructor of Spanish, Wright College, Chicago, August 2005 to the present
Instructor of Spanish, Solano Community College, Solano-Suisun, California September 2002 to June 2004
Spanish Teacher in Woodland Unified School District, Woodland, California, 2002 to 2004
Lecturer in the University of California, Davis, September 2000 to June 2002
Teaching Assistant for the University of California, Davis, 1995 to 1998
Spanish Teacher in the Oakland Unified School District, Oakland, California, 1990-1995
Translator for Current Anthropology, a publication of the University of Chicago and the Dept. of Anthropology of UC Davis, 2002 to present
Translator for the Department of Public Health, San Francisco, 1993
Researcher for Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1991-1992
Copyeditor for Houghton and Mifflin for Spanish bilingual texts for the State of Texas, 1984-86
Interpreter for A.M.S. Associates, San Francisco, working with injured immigrant field workers in California, 1980-1984
Lech Walesa Hall 2033
5500 North St. Louis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60625
United States
Ph.D., Social Work, University of Illinois at Chicago
MSW, Social Work, University of Illinois at Chicago
BSW, Social Work, University of Illinois at Chicago
Jaldin, M.A., Balbim, G.M., Colin, S.J., Marques, I.G., Mejia, J., Magallanes, M., Rocha, J.S., & Marquez, D.X. (In Press). The influence of Latino cultural values on the perceived caregiver role of family members with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias. Ethnicity & Health. DOI: 10.1080/13557858.2022.2115018.
Balbim, G.M., Marques, I.G., Cortez, C., Magallanes, M., Rocha, J., Marquez, D.X. (2019). Coping strategies utilized by middle-aged and older Latino caregivers of loved ones with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementia. Journal of Cross Cultural Gerontology 34(4) 355-371. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10823-019-09390-8.
Magaña, S. M., & Rocha, J. S. (2016, March 1). Aging in a Latino World [Review of the book Latinos in an Aging World: Social, Psychological and Economic Perspectives, by R. J. Angel & J. L. Angel]. The Gerontologist, 56(2), 372-374. doi:10.1093/geront/gnw041
O’Grady, C., & Rocha, J. S. (2016). Social work practice with Latinos: A review of the literature. TS Cuadernos de Trabajo Social No 15. Retrieved from http://www.tscuadernosdetrabajosocial.cl/index.php/TS/article/view/95
Rocha, J. S. (2019). ¡Oh! ¿Y ahora quien podrá ayudarnos? An aging society and its reliance on caregiving. Invited keynote presentation at the Latino Social Worker Organization Conference, Chicago, IL.
Rocha, J. S. (2017). By Caring for Myself: A Promotora Intervention for Latino Families of Children with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities. In R. Shaffert (Chair), Family support spotlight: Supporting caregivers, expressive art and parents with disabilities. Oral presentation at The Arc National Convention, San Diego, CA.
Rocha, J. S. (2017). Caring of Caregivers Organically (CoCO): Health Education for Latina Family Caregivers of Persons with Alzheimer’s Disease or Dementia – Phase I Findings. Oral presentation at the Latin American Studies Association Conference, Lima, Peru.
Rocha, J. S. (2016). Predictors of Depression in Latina Mothers of Youth and Adults with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities: An Overview of Baseline Data for a Health Promotion Intervention. Poster presentation at the Society of Social Work and Research Annual Conference, Washington, DC.
Dra. Judith Susan Rocha is an assistant professor of Social Work and currently serves as the Interim Program Director of the Master's of Social Work program at NEIU. As a proud Chicago Public Schools alumna, she is a strong believer and advocate for quality public education. All her social work degrees were completed at the University of Illinois at Chicago's Jane Addams College of Social Work. As a Mexicana born in Chicago and raised in the Little Village and Gage Park neighborhoods (both Chicago working class ethnic enclaves), by a hard-working single mother and loving older siblings, all Mexican-born; Dra. Rocha has always been interested in helping Latinx/a/o families navigate systems in order to have full access to a more just and prosperous life.
Her work in the last 25+ years has included parenting education and counseling for children and families on the Southwest and Southeast sides of Chicago, where resources are oftentimes few and opportunities for a higher quality of life can be challenging to reach. With input from dementia family caregivers, content area experts, service providers and other stakeholders, she developed Caring of Caregivers Organically (CoCO), a culturally responsive health education program for Latinas that are caring for a family member with dementia. The intervention aims to address the higher risk of developing health conditions such as depression and reduced overall health in this population. As a former caregiver herself, providing care for her mother who lived with diagnosed Alzheimer’s disease for 16 years, there is a personal passion and commitment to this work. She is invested in finding practical ways for family members to provide care to someone with this complex disease, to stay healthy. Included in her service to the community is a program called La BROCHA which she co-founded, that carries out free art workshops and activities for the Latinx community with a focus on elders 60 years of age and older. More recently, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, she began co-facilitating the support group ANCLA for Spanish-speaking individuals that provide care to a loved one living with dementia.
Social work is not only a career for her but a way of life. She started as an aviation flight major at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale in 1995, never imagining the heights she would reach in the Social Work field as a Ph.D., a couple decades later, in her beloved city of Chicago.
Social work is not only a career for her but a way of life. She started as an aviation flight major at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale in 1995, never imagining the heights she would reach in the Social Work field as a Ph.D., a couple decades later, in her beloved city of Chicago.
Licensed Clinical Social Work – Illinois
Master of Music Education, Teaching Artistry, Bowling Green State University
Bachelor of Science, Music Education, Xavier University
Kimberly Rocks currently serves as the Band Director at Our Lady of Perpetual Help School in Glenview, Illinois. She has eight years of experience as a band director, primarily in Chicago. Kimberly has worked in many settings including public, private and charter schools, teaching marching band, pep band, concert band, guitar, general music, percussion, and piano to students in grades K-12. While teaching in the Noble Network, Kimberly organized an honor band and choir festival to provide students with a high quality clinic and performance opportunity at no cost. Her students have been selected for honor bands and earned Superior ratings at adjudicated events. Her interest in mentoring pre-service music teachers developed while working with clinical and student teachers from Northeastern. Kimberly is passionate about music education, equitable access to music, and culturally responsive teaching.
Ph.D., Philosophy of Education, Loyola University Chicago
TR 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Ph.D. Northwestern University
B.A. Northeastern Illinois University
Northeastern Illinois University
5500 North St. Louis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60625-4699
United States
Monday and Wednesday: 10:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m.
M.F.A. Northwestern University
F 113
5500 N. Saint Louis Ave
Chicago, IL 60625
United States
Master of Fine Arts, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Bachelor of Fine Arts, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
Swallow City, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL
Driftless: Can’t See the Forest for the Trees, Fine Arts Center Gallery, Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, IL
Not Just Another Pretty Face, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL
Vivarium, Slow Gallery, Chicago, IL
Do Ostriches Really Bury their Heads in the Sand?, Dickson Window Art Project Space, Sugar Grove, IL
The Art of Being Dangerous, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL
Painting at Night Collar Works Gallery, Troy, NY
Sculpture Invasion, Koehnline Museum, Des Plaines, IL
Collectively Shifting, Bridgeport Art Center, Chicago, IL
Artist Residency, Ragdale Foundation, Lake Forest, IL
Center Program, Hyde park Art Center, Chicago, IL
Artist Residency: Atelier Neo Medici, Monflaquin, France
Director/Curator, The Bike Room Gallery, Chicago, IL
Northeastern Illinois University
5500 North St. Louis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60625
United States
A.L.M. Harvard (Dramatic Arts)
S.T.M. Boston University (Systematic Theology)
M.P.S. Loyola University Chicago (Pastoral Theology, focus in Religious Communication)
M.A. University of Illinois (Theater)
iSpeak! uSpeak! weSpeak!: An Introduction to Contemporary Public Speaking (2012)
Goat Troubles and Other Chicago Poems (2010)
Ode To Boston Neighborhoods: The Emerald Necklace, Bunker on the Hill, and other Tanka-Cantos (2011)
Where the Designer Came From (2011)
Tao-Te-Ching: The Way of Virtue in Leadership and Life (2012)
American Haiku (2012)
Cosmotrinity (2013)
John Ross Jr. has been a faculty member in the Department of Communication, Media and Theatre since 2000. He teaches courses in public speaking, voice and diction, and human communication, and he holds a graduate degree in dramatic arts from Harvard University.
Room FA 241
Northeastern Illinois University
5500 North St. Louis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60625
United States
Friday: Noon-1:00 p.m.
M.P.A. Harvard University
Professor Edie Rubinowitz teaches a variety of media and journalism courses, including Multimedia Storytelling, Mass Media and Society and News Writing. She is a freelance journalist and worked as news reporter for several years with NPR-affiliate Chicago Public Radio where she covered urban issues such as poverty, immigration, and housing. Her work has appeared on All Things Considered, Morning Edition, Marketplace, and Latino USA. On the academic side, she has presented at the National Communication Association and has written for the online Journal of Media Education.
Room FA 244
Northeastern Illinois University
5500 North St. Louis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60625
United States
Thursday: 10:30 a.m.-1:00 p.m. (Room FA 244)
Ph.D. and M.A. - University of Chicago
B.S. - University of Michigan
Jaimes, G., Diaz, R., Portillo, M., & Rueckert, L. (2021). The evaluation of facial expressions and emotions. Presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Psychological Science (online, May, 2021).
Rueckert, L., Church, R. B., Avila, A., & Trejo, T. (2017). Gesture enhances learning of a complex statistical concept, Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 2, 1-6. DOI: 10.1186/s41235-016-0036-1
Campos, K. & Rueckert, L. (2017). Facial mimicry and attractiveness. Presented at the annual meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL, April, 2017.
Rueckert, L., Branch, B., & Doan, T. (2011). Are gender differences in empathy due to differences in emotional reactivity? Psychology, 2, 574-578.
Rueckert, L. (2011). Gender differences in empathy. In D. J. Scapaletti (Ed.) Psychology of Empathy, Hauppauge, NY: Nova Science Publishers.
Room BBH 307 C
Northeastern Illinois University
5500 North St. Louis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60625
United States
Main Campus
Master of Fine Arts, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Bachelor of Art, Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, IL
Bachelor of History, Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, IL
City on Fire: Chicago 1871, permanent exhibition, Chicago History Museum, Chicago, IL
Bridgeport Art Center’s 9th Annual Juried Art Competition, Bridgeport Art Center, Chicago, IL
The Journey, solo exhibition, The Gallery @ A+C Architects, Skokie, IL
Bridgeport Art Center’s Sixth Annual Juried Art Competition, Chicago, IL
2018 National Wet Paint MFA Biennial, Zhao B Art Center, Chicago, IL
The Persistence of Memory, group show, 33 Orchard Gallery, New York, NY
The Burning City, painting commissioned by the Chicago History Museum, Chicago, IL
Fine Arts Venture Fund Grant, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Justine Cretella Memorial Scholarship, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Grad Grant Award, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
International Scholarship, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
MFA Merit Award, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Room FA 252
Northeastern Illinois University
5500 North St. Louis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60625
United States
Bachelor’s Degree, Indiana University
Ph.D., University of Illinois, College of Medicine
Rumschlag-Booms, E. and Rong, L. Influenza A Virus Entry: Implications in Virulence and Future Therapeutics. Advances in Virology. January 2013.
Ahmet Dirim Arslan, Xiaolong He, Minxiu Wang, Emily Rumschlag-Booms, Lijun Rong, and William T. Beck. A High-Throughput Assay to Identify Small-Molecule Modulators of Alternative Pre-mRNA Splicing. J Biomol Screen 18(2):180-90 (2013).
Rumschlag-Booms E, Hongjie Zhang, D Doel Soejarto, Harry H S Fong, Lijun Rong. One-stone-two-birds, an antiviral screening protocol. J Antiviral Antiretroviral (2011), PMID 22140608.
Rumschlag-Booms E, Guo Y, Wang J, Caffrey M, Rong L., 2009. Comparative analysis between a low pathogenic and a high pathogenic influenza H5 hemagglutinin in cell entry. Virology Journal 2009, 6:76; June 10.
Guo Y, Rumschlag-Booms E*, Wang J, Xiao H, Yu J, Wang J, Guo L, Gao GF, Cao Y, Caffrey M, Rong L., 2009. Analysis of hemagglutinin-mediated entry tropism of H5N1 avian influenza. Virology Journal, 6:39; April 2. *Co-first author
Manicassamy B, Wang J, Rumschlag E, Tymen S, Volchkova V, Volchkov V, Rong L, 2007. Characterization of Marburg virus glycoprotein in viral entry. Virology, 358:79-88.
Room BBH 352D
Northeastern Illinois University
5500 North St. Louis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60625
United States
B.M., Arizona State University
M.M. DePaul University
William is currently the tuba player of the world-renowned, internationally-touring ensemble Boston Brass. The band’s unique and entertaining blend of chamber music, jazz, and educational outreach is a perfect fit for a tuba player that is equally at home with Bach and bebop. Prior to joining Boston Brass, William was a co-founder of the Chicago-based quintet Alliance Brass and is an alumnus of the Civic Orchestra of Chicago. His principal private teachers have included Steven Layman, Kevin Stees, Sam Pilafian, Mike Roylance, Floyd Cooley, jazz trumpeter John D’earth, and bassist Peter Spaar.
As a classical, jazz, and pop instrumentalist, William has performed across the United States in venues from the Corn Palace to Carnegie Hall, and he has toured in Europe with both the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia. William can be heard on the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s Grammy-winning 2008 recording of Shostakovich’s 4th Symphony, and if you look hard enough you might spot him acting as a background musician in the episode “Slave to Memory” from 20th Century Fox’s television show Empire.
Fine Arts
5500 N. St. Louis Ave
Chicago, IL 60625
United States
MA Rhetoric, Northeastern Illinois University
BA English/Secondary Education from Northeastern Illinois University
Leach Walesa Hall 2050
5500 North St. Louis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60625-4699
United States
Master of Fine Arts, Graphic Design, Indiana University Bloomington, Indiana
Ruggie Saunders, Cathie and Chiplis, Martha, For the Love of Letterpress: A Printing Handbook for Instructors and Students, published by Bloomsbury
Chen Design Associates, Fingerprint No. 2: The Evolution of Handmade Elements in Graphic Design, published by HOW Book
Typeforce 12, Chicago, IL
Press & Clay, Robert F. DiCaprio Art Gallery at Moraine Valley Community College, Palos Hills, IL (solo)
Acute Accents, Catich Gallery, St. Ambrose University, Davenport, IA (solo)
Letters Home, Kerredge Gallery, Copper County Community Arts Center, Hancock, MI (solo)
Correlation Matrix: Vida Sačić and David Wolske, DeVos Art Museum, Marquette, MI
Type as Image: Lynne Avadenka, Purgatory Pie Press and Vida Sačić, Art Mora Gallery, New York City, NY
New Impressions in Letterpress, Hamilton Wood Type Museum, Two Rivers, WI
Stay Golden: works by Darren Oberto, Monica Kass Rogers, Vida Sačić, and Ryan Segedi, 50,000 ft, Chicago, IL
Žene? – Žene!, City Museum, Varaždin, Croatia
Animation + Printmaking, The Center for Book Arts, New York City, NY
Graphic Content: works by Alex Jovanovich, Nicole Pérez, Coco Picard and Vida Sačić, The Bike Room, Chicago, IL
Residency, Artists Print, Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), Rochester, NY
Panel presentation, ATypI International Typographic Conference (online)
Presentation, The Silent People Print: A Glance at the Printing History of Croatia, Makeready: A Letterpress Symposium for Educators (online)
Illinois Individual Artist Grant, Chicago, IL
Residency, Penland School of Craft, Penland, NC
Panel presentation, Letterpress Printing in Chicago: Its Current State, History, and Legacy, CAA conference, Chicago, IL
Presentation, A Tool for Understanding: Giving Voice to Diverse, Non-traditional, and Low-income Students Through Teaching Letterpress Printing, TypeCon, Minneapolis, MN
Presentation, A Tool for Understanding, Makeready: A Letterpress Symposium for Educators, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
Panel presentation, Unconventional Conventional: Letterpress Printing in Design Education, The University & College Designers Association (UCDA) Design Education Summit, Kutztown, PA
Presentation, Traveling Home, Makeready: A Letterpress Symposium for Educators, Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum, Two Rivers, WI
Residency, Copper County Community Arts Center, Hancock, MI
Windgate Residency Project, Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum, Two Rivers, WI
Residency, Center for Book and Paper Arts, Columbia College, Chicago, IL
Room FA 226C
Northeastern Illinois University
5500 North St. Louis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60625
United States
M.F.A. Writing, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
B.A. Creative Writing (Poetry), Colorado State University
Matthew Sage has been active in counter-culture and subculture as a musician, artist, writer, publisher, and distributor for nearly 15 years. His autoethnographic research and experience in these fields has tied into his academic research interests involving intermedia arts, physical and digital media, and mediated narrative.
He operated Patient Sounds, an internationally acclaimed record label that published more than 140 cassettes, vinyl records, and books produced by artists from around the world in its 10 years of operation. He now operates Cached.Media, a platform sharing music, art objects, and web broadcasts exploring collaborative works made through digital mediation. He has published/shown music, writing, poetry, and visual art with many record labels, small press publishers and independent galleries. He has also performed, produced, recorded, and collaborated on works shown at The Art Institute of Chicago, The MOMA, MOMA PS1, the Whitney Museum.
Room FA 234
Northeastern Illinois University
5500 North St. Louis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60625
United States
University of Illinois at Chicago
History, Ph.D., 2008
Book:
“Liquid Capital: Making the Chicago Waterfront” (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018).
Winner of 2018 Superior Achievement Award, Illinois State Historical Society
Honorable Mention in 2019 Jon Gjerde Prize competition, Midwest History Association
Peer-Reviewed Articles and Book Chapters:
“Blood on the Tracks: Accidental Death and the Built Environment,” in City of Lake and Prairie: Chicago’s Environmental History, eds. William C. Barnett, Kathleen A. Brosnan, and Ann Durkin Keating (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020).
“Bionic Ballplayers: Risk, Profit, and the Body as Commodity, 1964-2007,” (co-authored with Sarah Rose) LABOR: Studies in the Working-Class History of the Americas 11 (Spring 2014): 47-75.
Winner of 2016 biennial “Best Article Prize,” Labor and Working Class History Association
“The Creative Destruction of the Chicago River Harbor: Spatial and Environmental Dimensions of Industrial Capitalism, 1881-1909,” Enterprise and Society: The International Journal of Business History 13 (June 2012): 235-275.
“The Lakefront’s Last Frontier: The Turnerian Mythology of Streeterville, 1886-1961,” The Journal of Illinois History 9 (Fall 2006): 201-214.
Room LWH 4094
Northeastern Illinois University
5500 North St. Louis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60625
United States
B.A. Dominican University, Spanish and Elementary Education
M.A. Loyola University Chicago, Hispanic Literature
Ph.D. University of Chicago, Spanish
Lech Walesa Hall 2043
5500 N Saint Louis Ave
Chicago, IL 60625
United States
M.M., The Juilliard School
Greg Sarchet considers himself fortunate to have had an array of musical experiences and training, from studying with his first teacher, jazz luminary Rufus Reid, to receiving degrees from the Juilliard School (where he was a student of Michael Morgan), to hundreds of television/radio commercial recordings. His strong interest in researching the double bass and ongoing international exchange efforts were recognized by a 1996 Chicago Artists International Program award which sent him to the Czech Republic, Germany, and Austria for performances, masterclasses, and archival research. These and other exchange activities have allowed him to build an extensive library of unpublished, out-of-print, and contemporary double bass works, as well as a first-hand understanding of Europe's leading teaching methods.
Since 1986, he has been a member of the Lyric Opera of Chicago Orchestra. Additionally, he frequently serves as Principal Bass with Chicago Opera Theater and the Chicago Chamber Orchestra. He maintains a limited private studio for high school and adult pupils.
Briefly, his musical foundation was laid by his first double bass teachers, Rufus Reid and Todd Coolman. The musical values and priorities they, among others, instilled in him have led him to a wide variety of professional opportunities ranging from recordings with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Mannheim Steamroller, Smashing Pumpkins, and hundreds of television and radio commercials.
By choosing to attend Northeastern and studying with Greg Sarchet, you can expect to acquire similar musical values and priorities through his proven training techniques that stress musical skills to enhance both the jazz and classical player, leading, ultimately, to the discovery and development of your own musical voice.
Room FA 132
Northeastern Illinois University
5500 North St. Louis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60625
United States
M.A. Experimental Psychology
Ph.D. Neuroscience
Saszik, S. M., & Smith, C. M. (2018). The impact of stress on social behavior in adult zebrafish (Danio rerio). Behavioural pharmacology, 29(1), 53–59.
Saszik, S., & DeVries, S. H. (2012). A mammalian retinal bipolar cell uses both graded changes in membrane voltage and all-or-nothing Na+ spikes to encode light. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 32(1), 297–307.
Bilotta, J., Barnett, J. A., Hancock, L., & Saszik, S. (2004). Ethanol exposure alters zebrafish development: a novel model of fetal alcohol syndrome. Neurotoxicology and teratology, 26(6), 737–743.
Saszik, S., Alexander, A., Lawrence, T., & Bilotta, J. (2002). APB differentially affects the cone contributions to the zebrafish ERG. Visual neuroscience, 19(4), 521–529.
Saszik, S. M., Robson, J. G., & Frishman, L. J. (2002). The scotopic threshold response of the dark-adapted electroretinogram of the mouse. The Journal of physiology, 543(Pt 3), 899–916.
Room BBH 307 B
Northeastern Illinois University
5500 North St. Louis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60625
United States
Ph.D., Sociology, 2005, Columbia University
M.Phil., Sociology, 1999, Columbia University
M.A., Social Sciences, 1994, University of Chicago
B.A., History, 1992, Northwestern University
Savas Kourvetaris, Andreas Y. 2011. "Ethnicity, Electoral Districts, and Candidate Narratives: The 2001 New York City Elections." International Review of Modern Sociology 37(1):127-145.
Kourvetaris, Andrew G. 2009. “Perspectives on Ethnicity, Gender, and Race and their Empirical Referents: A Four-Sided Paradigm and Critical Review.” International Review of Sociology 19(1):127-146.
Kourvetaris, Andrew G. 2008. “Ethnonational Minorities.” Pp. 467-470 in Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity, and Society, edited by R. T. Schaefer. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc.
Kourvetaris, Andrew G. 2008. "In Memoriam: Charles Tilly.” In TG02 2008: Newsletter of the International Sociological Association’s Thematic Group # 02 on Historical and Comparative Sociology, Vol. 2.
Kourvetaris, George A. and Andrew G. Kourvetaris. 2007. <<E fese tou ethnotikou ethnikismou kai touupoethnikismou: e periptosi tis Yugoslavias>> [“The Nature of Ethnonationalism and Subnationalism: The Case of Yugoslavia”], in Τα Nέα Βαλκάνια: Η Γεωπολιτική της Διεθνούς Aσφάλειας και η Eυρωπαϊκή Oλοκλήρωση [The New Balkans: The Geopolitics of International Security and European Integration]. Revised and Expanded Greek Edition, edited by Petros P. Siousiouras, translated from the English by Ioannis A. Papademos. Athens: Erodotos.
Kourvetaris, Andrew G. 2007. “American Ethnicity and Ethnic Identity: A Research Note.” International Journal of Contemporary Sociology 44:131-142.
Kourvetaris, Andrew G. 2006. “‘Trying to Kick It Open’: A Synthesis of Narrative Politics and Campaign Strategies in the 2001 New York City Council Elections.” Journal of Political and Military Sociology 34:339-357.
LWH 2097
Northeastern Illinois University
5500 North St. Louis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60625
United States
Ph.D. (American Literature) Duke University
The Selected Works of Elizabeth Oakes Smith, edited and annotated, with an introduction, 3 vols (forthcoming, Mercer Press, 2023-2024)
2020 section editor and author, “Elizabeth Oakes Smith 1806-1893—American novelist essayist, lecturer, poet and short-story writer,” Nineteenth Century Literature Criticism vol 387, Layman Poupard Publishing, LLC: 95-177.
2020 “Poe, Pandemic and Underlying Conditions,” PopMatters, May 26, 2020: https://www.popmatters.com/poe-pandemic-and-underlying-conditions- 2646000879.html
2017 “Eluding the Authorities: Tom Waits in Postmodern Context,” PopMatters, January 9, 2017: https://www.popmatters.com/feature/tom-waits-eluding-the-authorities/
1993 "The Authority Effect: Poe and the Politics of Reputation in the Pre-Industry of American Publishing," Arizona Quarterly 49/3 (Fall 1993): 1-21.
1992 "Translating From Memory: Patrick Modiano in Postmodern Context," Studies inTwentieth-Century Literature 16/2 (summer 1992): 289-303.
Scherman is the founder and current president of The Elizabeth Oakes Smith Society (501(c)3).
Northeastern Illinois University
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Or by appointment. Email the day before to schedule at t-scherman@neiu.edu.
University of Chicago
History, Ph.D., 1980
Birth of the Past (Johns Hopkins, 2011)
Humanism and the Renaissance (Houghton Milfflin, 2002)
Information Ages: Leteracy, Numeracy, and the Computer Revolution, with Michael E. Hobart (Johns Hopkins, 1998)
On the Threshold of Modernity: Relativism in the French Renaissance (Johns Hopkins, 1991)
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