MFA, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Critical Writing
on Madison McCartha's Freakophone World
https://tskymag.com/2022/11/madison-mccartha-2/
"Vision as palimpsest: on Johannes Göransson’s translations of Ann Jäderlund"
http://criticalflame.org/
on Andra Rotaru's Lemur
https://www.therupturemag.com/
"I Cannot Resist the Terror"
https://tskymag.com/2019/09/
Poetry Collections
Womonster, 2020, Tarpaulin Sky
https://tarpaulinsky.com/
Louise and Louise and Louise, 2016, The Lettered Streets Press
https://lettered-streets-
Skin Horse, 2012, Action Books
https://actionbooks.org/
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Bachelor of Music Education, Northwestern University
Master of Performance, Northwestern University
Gail Crosson earned a Bachelor of Music Education and a Master of Music Performance from Northwestern University. After working as a middle school band director for the Wheeling-Buffalo Grove school district, she became an associate professor at Elmhurst University where she taught applied clarinet, music education courses and was chair of the woodwinds program.
Gail is also an active freelance musician having performed with the Chicago Chamber Orchestra, Chicago Philharmonic, Grant Park Symphony, Elgin Symphony, Music Theater Works and Milwaukee Symphony. She has toured Europe with the Chicago Chamber Orchestra and toured the United States with Andrea Bocelli. She has played over 250 Nutcracker performances with both the Joffrey Ballet and the Ruth Page Ballet Company.
As a reed player specializing in flute, clarinet and saxophone, she has performed in more than 300 musical theater productions in the Chicago area with artists including Robert Goulet, Marie Osmond, Georgia Engel and Bea Arthur. As an orchestral player, Gail has worked with The Three Tenors, Mel Torme, Clark Terry, Sheri Lewis and Lambchop! Gail can also be heard in numerous commercial jingles for United Air Lines, Phillip Morris and Sears.
M.A. University of Chicago, 2009
B.A. Northeastern Illinois University, 2006
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B.S., Business Administration/Economics – Pennsylvania State University
M.A., Economics – Pennsylvania State University
M.P.H., Health Policy Analysis – University of Illinois Chicago
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M.A. University of Illinois at Chicago
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Master’s of Social Work from the University of Illinois at Chicago
Kim is currently a full-time professor of Social Work. She also has 15 years of direct service experience within the homelessness services system. She previously spent seven years as the Clinical Services Director of Deborah’s Place, and has also provided oversight to supportive housing and drop-in services. In addition, she provided leadership to the Service Providers Commission and other committees/workgroups within the Chicago Continuum of Care.
Northeastern Illinois University
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M.A. in Latin American Literatures and Cultures, Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, IL. 2013
B.A. in Interdisciplinary Studies. Major in A&S-Spanish Language and Literature, Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, IL. 2010, Graduated Summa Cum Laude
University Colegio de México (COLMEX), Mexico City, 2000
Advanced Studies in Translation (PFT).
CCC-IFAL French Embassy’s Cultural Center of Cooperation for Professional Training, French Institute of Latin America, Mexico City. 2000.
Diploma: Dip. Trans. in Literary and Humanistic Translation.
Berlitz, Interpreters and Translators Training Center, Mexico City, 1996
Interpreter –Translator Certification: English-Spanish / French –Spanish.
Instituto Italiano di Cultura, Italo Calvino. Mexico City, 1996
Diploma: Translation Italian-Spanish.
UNAM National University of Mexico, Mexico City, 1991
Teacher Certification in Foreign Language Instruction.
Stendhal University, Grenoble 3, Grenoble, France.
Certificate in French FLE. 1989
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Ph.D. Anthropology, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale, 2002
M.A. Anthropology, Arizona State University, 1987
B.A. Anthropology, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale, 1984
Davis LC, Walker SE. 2013. Functional morphology and positional behaviour in the Pitheciini. In: LM Veiga AA Barnett, SF Ferrari, and MA Norconk (Eds). Evolutionary Biology and Conservation of Titis, Sakis and Uacaris Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 84-96.
Ford SM, Porter LM, Davis LC. 2009. The Smallest Anthropoids: The Marmoset/Callimico Radiation. 508 pgs. New York: Springer.
Ford SM, Davis LC. 2009. The skeleton of Callibella humilis, a new species of marmoset. In: SM Ford, LM Porter, and Davis LC. (Eds.): The Smallest Anthropoids: The Marmoset/Callimico Radiation. New York: Springer.
Walker SE, Davis LC. 2007. Postcranial features of Cacajao with comparisons to Chiropotes and Pithecia.
Davis LC, Walker SE, Ford, SM. 2006. Locomotion and skeletal differentiation within the Pitheciini.
Davis LC, Fitton LJ, Nickels MK. 2005. The introductory course in physical anthropology: a status report on its current nature and role. American Association of Physical Anthropology Newsletter.
2005 Davis LC. Anatomical correlates for trunk-to-trunk leaping in the forelimb and hindlimb of Callimico goeldii. Am J Phys Anthropol, Suppl. 40:115-116.
Ford SM, Davis LC. 2005. The skeleton of Callibella humilis: functional and phylogenetic implications. Am J Phys Anthropol, Suppl. 40:128.
Davis LC, Ford SM. 2003. Comparative postcranial morphology of the marmosets. Am J Phys Anthrop Suppl. 36: 84.
Davis LC. 2002. Functional anatomy of the callitrichid forelimb and long bones. Neotropical Primates 10 (2):98.
1996 Davis LC. Functional and phylogenetic implications of ankle morphology in Callimico goeldii. In MA Norconk, AL Rosenberger, PA Garber (Eds.): Adaptive Radiations of Neotropical Primatess, New York: Plenum Press, pp. 133-156.
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Ph.D. University of Illinois at Chicago
M.A.H. Louisiana State University
B.A. Tulane University
Greeks in Chicago. Chicago: Arcadia Publishing, 2009.
“The Maze: A Historical Novel.” Review of The Maze. By Panos Karnezis. The National Herald. 15 February 2009.
“A Greek Stylist: History Contests with Progress and Loses.” Review of Little Infamies. By Panos Karnezis. The National Herald. 15 February 2009.
“A Sense of Sacred Space.” Review of Ecclesia: Greek Orthodox Churches of the Chicago Metropolis. By Panos Fiorentinos. The National Herald. 15 February 2009.
“Loss and Transformation on the Road in Jeffrey Eugenides’s Middlesex and Don DeLillo’s Underworld.” The Image of the Road in Literature, Media and Society. Ed. Will Wright and Steven Kaplan. Pueblo, Co: The Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Social Imagery. August 2005. 148-153.
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2:15-3:15 p.m. Monday and Wednesday, in person
10:40 a.m.-12:00 p.m. Tuesday and Thursday, in person
Zoom meetings available by appointment
Email the day before to schedule Zoom meetings at m-davros@neiu.edu
Ph.D. Purdue University
MA. Leiden University (The Netherlands)
BA. Leiden University (The Netherlands)
“Japan, the European Union, and the Elusive Global Human Security Partnership,” in Bae and Maruyama (eds.) Human Security, Changing States and Global Responses: Institutions and Practices (London and New York: Routledge Press, 2015).
Book Review in EUSA Review, 2013. Lorena Ruano (ed.) The Europeanization of National Foreign Policies Towards Latin America (London and New York: Routledge, 2013).
"The Irish Referendums on Lisbon: Did the Recession Help Lisbon?" Journal of Contemporary European Studies 20 (1) March (2012): 91-101.
"Inter-Korean Cooperation in the Fisheries Industry: Modeling Trust and Peace Building on the ECSC," Asia Europe Journal 9 (1) (2011): 1-11.
"European Integration in the Post-Constitutional Era: Federalism and the Role of National Parliaments," Contemporary Political Society (Summer 2011).
“An Institutional Approach to Peace and Prosperity: Towards a Korean Fisheries Community,” in Werner Pascha and Bernhard Seliger (eds.), In Towards a Northeast Asian Security Community? Implications for Korea’s Growth and Economic Development (Berlin: Springer 2011).
Book Review in East Asian Integration Studies, 2011. Finn Laursen (ed.) Comparative Regional Integration: Europe and Beyond. (Farnham, UK, Ashgate Publishing Company, 2010).
Book Review in North Korea Review, 2011. Rüdiger Frank and Sabine Burghart (eds.). Driving Forces of Socialist Transformation: North Korea and the Experience of Europe and East Asia (Wien: Praesens Verlag, 2009).
"From Laeken to Lisbon: Europe’s Experiment with Constitutional Federalism,” in Ann Ward and Lee Ward (eds.), Research Companion to Federalism (Aldershot, UK: Ashgate 2009).
“Trust Building through Institutions: European Lessons for Korean Unification,” On Korea: The Korea Economic Institute (KEI) Academic Paper Series 4(1) (2009) (With Sangmin Bae).
Martyn de Bruyn specializes in the study of comparative regional integration and institutional reform of the European Union (EU). He has written on federalism and constitutionalization in the European Union, direct democracy and the use of referendums to ratify EU treaties. Another strain of his research focuses on EU external relations with a focus on East Asia. He has written on European confidence and trust-building experiences and the implications for the inter-Korean relations, inter regionalism and the EU as global player.
His work has been published in Asia Europe Journal, Contemporary Political Society, The Journal of Contemporary European Studies, and On Korea. He serves as an international editorial board member of Contemporary Political Society. His current research, titled “The European Union, Japan, and the Elusive Global Human Security Partnership,” is included in an edited volume, Human Security, Changing States and Global Responses: Institutions and Practices.
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• Ph.D., Sociology, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, 2009
• M.S., Sociology, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, 2001
• B.A., Sociology, University of Guadalajara, Guadalajara, Jalisco, México, 1998
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M.A. Northeastern Illinois University
M.F.A. Murray State University
B.G.S. University of Michigan
Frequently Asked Questions. Salmon Poetry - forthcoming
Muse, Um. Finishing Line Press (2022)
Activities of Daily Living. Salmon Poetry (2017)
Even the Daybreak: 35 Years of Salmon Poetry. Salmon Poetry (2016)
Language Lessons, Vol 1. Third Man Books (2014)
Brief Nudity. Salmon Poetry (2013)
Basic Cable Couplets. Silkworms Ink (2012)
abbrev. Beard of Bees (2011)
About the Author. Mindmade Books (2011)
I Am Spam. Fractal Edge Press (2004)
Identity Theft for Dummies. Zenith Beast Books (2003)
AWP, The Art Institute of Chicago, Bucktown Arts Festival, Chicago Poetry Festival, Chicago Poetry Invasion, Poets Against the War, Poetry Cram, Midwest Literary Festival, Printers Row Lit Fest, Looptopia, Pilcrow Lit Fest, Creative Writing Institute, Series A, Orange Alert Reading Series, Writers Block, Wordeater, Revolving Door, Ipsento Reading Series, Chicago Book Expo, Excited Utterance, GCHS Writers Week, Wit Rabbit and Poetry Foundation, Typewriter Factory, Haymarket House, Sunday Salon
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M.M. Duquesne University
Grammy award-winning bassist Christian Dillingham is equally at home in two musical worlds. His parents spun jazz records around the house, while his mother was an avid pianist who loved to play Chopin and Debussy. Dillingham is that rare musician who excels in an orchestral setting, yet has an intuitive feel for nuance and the improvisational skills necessary to play jazz.
After graduating from Youngstown State University with a Bachelor’s of Music degree in Music Performance with an Emphasis on Jazz, Dillingham’s education continued at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, where he worked with Jeffrey Turner, principal bass of the Pittsburgh Symphony, and subsequently received a Master’s of Music degree in Music Performance. He also attended the National Repertory Orchestra Festival in Breckenridge, Colorado, and the School for Improvisational Music in New York.
Upon graduation, Dillingham was invited to play in the Civic Orchestra of Chicago, and since then has made frequent appearances in Chicago’s vibrant classical scene, playing with the Lyric Opera, the Grant Park Symphony, Fulcrum Point New Music Project and the Chicago Opera Theatre. Dillingham is also a member of the Chicago Sinfonietta and the Chicago Philharmonic. He appears on albums by the Chicago Sinfonietta and Camerata Chicago.
At the same time, he became a regular presence in Chicago’s rich jazz community, performing at Fred Anderson’s iconic Velvet Lounge, the Green Mill, the Jazz Showcase, Constellation Chicago, Andy’s Jazz Club, Elastic Arts and other Chicago venues as well as at the Chicago Jazz Festival. Dillingham has played and recorded with dozens of musicians, including Melvin Butler, Kevin Mahogany, the late piano master Willie Pickens, Dee Alexander, Victor Goines, Bobby Broom, Sean Jones, Jim Gailloreto, Nick Mazzarella, Greg Ward and Mike Reed. He is a collaborator with violinist James Sanders in the Dark Matter String Band.
He currently performs with a number of diverse projects crossing genres from jazz, classical and roots to the avant-garde. He leads the Christian Dillingham Quintet, which draws from all of his experiences to explore Western classical music and American folk traditions in an improvised jazz context. He is currently on the faculty at Indiana University teaching jazz bass and joined the Music Faculty at NEIU in the Fall of 2020.
M.M. University of Louisville
B.M. University of Michigan
Claire DiVizio (they/them) is a multi-disciplinary artist, administrator, and educator whose body of work includes stage direction, theatrical design, performance, poetry and prose, visual art, and music composition, along with administrative leadership and arts education. Claire founded Thompson Street Opera Company with the desire to create a space where singers, composers, and production personnel could take risks on truly new operas in a safe, supportive, joyful environment. Using their background as a classically-trained singer, Claire approaches productions with a respect for the skills and needs of performers, and encourages all artists to take ownership of the act of creation. Their writing has been set to music in both art song and opera, and their long history with contemporary vocal music has expanded in the last few years to include music composition. Their first complete opera (Requiem for Five: a comedy), co-written with composer Jasmine Thomasian, was premiered at Chicago Opera On Tap’s Halloween Spooktacular in 2021. In the fall of 2022, Claire will be joining the faculty of Northeastern Illinois University’s School of Music, directing their opera workshop program.
Ph.D. (physics), Dartmouth College, 1984.
A.B. (physics), Bowdoin College, 1978.
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Andy completed his M.A. in Geography & Environmental Studies, as well as a graduate certificate in Geographic Information Systems, from NEIU in 2014. He has worked with a number of organizations in the Chicago region, including Friends of the Chicago River, the Cook County Forest Preserves, and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. His research focuses on urban planning, sustainable urban development, and the intersection of the urbanized and natural worlds
M.A. Latin American Literatures and Cultures, Northeastern Illinois University
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M.F.A. Dance University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
B.A. Dance and Sociology/Anthropology Denison University
Emma Draves is a dance artist and educator navigating intertextual spaces of identity. She draws from trainings in modern, bharatanatyam, ballet, jazz, and ethnography, to weave work of kinesthetic narrative - derived through colliding multiplicities of physical effort, idiosyncrasy, and emotional landscape.
Emma’s choreographic work has been shown internationally in Edinburgh (UK) and Vancouver (BC), as well as at NYU, Hamlin Park, High Concept Labs, Links Hall, Chicago Cultural Center, Columbia College Chicago, and Comfort Station; and commissioned by Danceworks Company and UW-Milwaukee. Scholarly works has been presented through Dance Studies Associate, World Dance Alliance, and Dance Across the Boards.
As a performer, Emma has worked with several companies and as an independent artists. Notable experiences include Mordine & Company, Hedwig Dances, Jonathan Meyer, and Archana Kumar; and theatrical productions at Victory Gardens and Lookingglass Theatre.
Trained in bharatanatyam under Smt. Hema Rajagopalan, Emma has enjoyed a long association with Natya Dance Theatre as a performing artist - participating in several national tours and international collaborations with Yo-Yo Ma & Silk Road Project, NanJombang (Indonesia), and Astad Deboo (India) - grant-writer, archivist, and Executive Director.
Emma holds a GLCMA & MFA - and has served on faculty at Columbia College Chicago, Northwestern University, Northeastern Illinois University, and OK State University.
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Ph.D. Northwestern University
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Email at k-duchaj@neiu.edu
Davidson College, B.A.
Northwestern University, M.M.
Originally from southern Florida, Steven Duncan first came to Illinois to study trombone performance and music theory at Northwestern University. After graduating, he spent the better part of a decade traveling with various big bands and Broadway tours, playing venues from Seattle's Benaroya Hall to New York's Lincoln Center, and many more in between. Having settled more permanently in Chicago now, Steven very much appreciates the existence of seasons and still finds shoveling snow to be an enjoyable novelty.
Steven currently plays with many local groups and in a wide variety of styles as a low brass doubler, including classical chamber music, commercial jingles, pit work, big bands and jazz ensembles. He maintains an active teaching studio, works as a composer and arranger, and is still growing musically through meeting the many opportunities and challenges Chicago's freelancing scene presents. Steven resides in Albany Park with his wife, Katie, and his rescue dog, Wompus.
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M.A. and Ph.D. - Loyola University, Chicago
B.S. - Grand Valley State University
Sánchez-Johnsen, L., Dykema-Engblade, A., Rosas, C., Calderon, L.,Rademaker, A., Nava, M., & Hassan, C. (2022). Mexican and Puerto Rican Men’s Preferences Regarding a Healthy Eating, Physical Activity and Body Image Intervention, Nutrients (Special Issue: Cardiometabolic Health in Relation to Diet and Physical Activity: Experimental and Clinical Evidence), 14(21).
Sánchez-Johnsen, L., Dykema-Engblade, A., Nava, M., Rademaker, A., & Xie, H. (2019). Body Image, Physical Activity and Cultural Variables among Latino Men. Progress in Community Health Partnerships: Research, Education, and Action.
Craven, M., Keefer, L., Rademaker, A., Dykema-Engblade, A., & Sánchez-Johnsen, L. (2018). Social Support for Exercise as a Predictor of Weight and Physical Activity Status among Puerto Rican and Mexican Men: Results from the Latino Men’s Health Initiative. American Journal of Men’s Health.
Sanchez-Johnson, L., Craven, M., Nava, M., Alonso, A. Dykema-Engblade, A., Rademaker, A., & Xie, H. (2017). Cultural Variables Underlying Obesity in Latino Men: Design, Rational, and Participant Characteristics from the Latino Men’s Health Initiative. Journal of Community Health (pg 1-13).
Tindale, R.S., Smith, C.M., Dykema-Engblade, A., Kluwe, K. (2012). Good and bad group performance: Same process - different outcomes. Submitted to Group Processes and Intergroup Relations (GPIR): Special Issue in Tribute to Jim Davis.
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NEIU
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University of Washingtion
History, Ph.D., 1991
" Emperor Gaozong and the Rise of Wu Zetian," Tang Studies 30: 2012, 45-69.
Kingship in Early Medieval China, Brill Press, 2008.
Duke University
History, Ph.D.
“‘Moral Madness’: Representations of Prodigality, Disability, and Competence in German History,” in Disability in German-Speaking Europe: History, Memory, and Culture, ed., Linda Leskau, Tanja Nusser, and Katherine Sorrels (under contract with Camden House, 2022).
“Denouncing the Spendthrift: Debating Social Identity in the Court of Law and Public Opinion,” in Names and Naming in Early Modern Germany, edited by Beth Plummer and Joel Harrington. Berghahn Publishers (Oxford, UK), May 2019.
Awards & Honors:
- National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Institute “Global Histories of Disability,” 2018
- Andrew W. Mellon Foundation & Council for European Studies, Dissertation Completion Fellowship, 2016-2017
- German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), Research Scholarship, 2013-2014
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M.A. and Ph.D. University of North Carolina at Greensboro
B.A. University of Hawaii
Erber, R., & Erber, M.W. (2024). Intimate Relationships: Issues, theories, and research, 4th ed., Routledge.
Erber, R., Erber, M.W., & Poe, J.R. (2004). Mood regulation and decision making: Is irrational exuberance really a problem? In J. Carillo & I. Brocas (Eds.) Psychology and Economics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Erber, M.W. & Erber, R. (2001). The role of motivated social cognition in the regulation of affective states. In J.P. Forgas, Handbook of Affect and Social Cognition. Mahwah, N.J.: Erlbaum.
Erber, M. W. & Erber, R. (July 2017). Mate Choice Copying in Humans. Poster presented at the 18th General Meeting of the European Association of Social Psychology. Granada, España.
Erber, M., Rueckert, L., Dykema-Engblade, A., Merchant, C., & Cuevas, L. (2015). Collaborative and active learning strategies promote critical thinking across psychology curriculum. Symposium presented to the Society for the Teaching of Psychology Division at the Midwestern Psychological Association 87th Annual Meeting. Chicago, IL.
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