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STUDENT PROFILES
Rodino F. Anderson
Rodino F. Anderson is currently teaching in the Education Department at
as a Pre-dissertation Fellow (2006-2007) and is a Ph.D. student in the
program. He is interested in the appropriation of German Romanticism by
early American pragmatic educational thinkers. He joined the Philosophy
and Education Program after three years as a high school mathematics
teacher.
Ken Baxer
Ken Baxer
is an Ed.M. student in the program. Before attending Teachers College, he
graduated from Soka University of America with a B.A. in Liberal Arts. He is interested in the role philosophy has in
the educational experience, specifically regarding how value is learned to be
created by the student.
Holly Brewster
Forthcoming Stephanie A. Burdick-Shepherd
Stephanie A. Burdick-Shepherd is a Ph.D. student in the program. She is interested in the phenomenology of educational experience. Before coming to TeachersCollege, Stephanie graduated with a M.Ed. from MontclairStateUniversity in Philosophy for Children and a BA in Philosophy from TransylvaniaUniversity. Cristina Cammarano
Cristina Cammarano is a Ph.D. student in the program. She is interested in teaching philosophy to adolescents. Currently she is working on the relationship between thinking, dialogue and education. Before coming to Teachers College, Cristina taught High School Philosophy for five years in Milan, Italy. Before that she received a M.Ed. in Philosophy, History and Education and a BA in Philosophy from the Universita Catolica Milano, Italy.
Roberto Cavallari-Filho
Roberto Cavallari-Filho is a PhD Student in the Program. He is interested in the remaining possibilities for educative experience in XXI Century society, but also in the creation of new ones. Before coming to Teachers College, he attained a Baccalaureate and Specialization Degree in Business Administration at Universidade Euripides, and a Master's Degree in Education at Universidade Estadual Paulista, both in Brazil. He is a Fulbright/CAPES scholarship Grant recipient. He is the founder of Poiesis Publishing House, an organization interested in promulgating American Philosophy in Brazil.
Martha Crowley
Martha Crowley is a Ph.D. student in the program. She is interested in the relationship between aesthetics and epistemology and how both relate to a concept of personal and political conscience. She has a particular interest in what American philosophers bring to this focus. Martha earned a M.A. in Philosophy and Education from Teachers College before entering the Ph.D. program. In the past she had a career in finance and worked on a Board level at a variety of local educational organizations.
Astrid Cruz
Forthcoming
Charlie Doar
Charlie
Doar is currently a teacher and coach at an independent school in He is interested in how best to engage and
prepare students through merging traditional and progressive educational
approaches. He graduated from the
University of Notre Dame in 2007 with a B.A. in American Studies.
Tracy Finnegan
Forthcoming
Erin Forman
Erin Forman is an M.A. student in the program. She is interested in educational psychology and studying how educational policies and teacher-student dynamics propel or impede learning systems. Before coming to Teachers College, she earned her B.A. from Washington University in St. Louis.
Cara Furman
Forthcoming
Jeff Frank
Jeff Frank is currently the Managing Editor of the Teachers College Record and a Ph.D. student in the program. He is interested in the relationship between philosophy, literature and moral education. His dissertation project is on the work of Robert Frost. Before coming to Teachers College, Jeff taught English at the New York Military Academy (NYMA), and coached football, wrestling and track. He received a B.A. in Philosophy from Middlebury College.
Ana Cecilia Galindo Diego
Ana Cecilia is an international student from Mexico who is currently an M.A. student in the program. After teaching ESL to seven- and eight-year-olds in her home country, she grew very interested in radical ways of considering "the abstract," "inquiry," and "immaturity" as related to children.
Dennis Graham
Forthcoming
Matthew Hayden
Matthew Hayden is a Ph.D. student in the program. He is interested in cosmopolitan education, education as ethics, and conceptions of international/transnational education. He is also interested in political manipulation of education and the ethical issues that result, and the deliberate ignorance seen in conscious choices to NOT learn in both schools and in daily life (largely through a socially and individually cultivated incuriosity) and the resulting civic and moral implications.
Daniel Hendrickson
Daniel Hendrickson is a member of the Jesuits, an adjunct instructor in the Department of Philosophy at Fordham University, and a Ph.D. student in the program. Before coming to Teachers College, Daniel taught philosophy at Creighton University in Omaha, NE, and at the Institute of Philosophy and Theology in Tanzania, East Africa. He has a B.A. in psychology and theology from Marquette University, a M.A. in philosophy from Fordham University, and a M.Div. from Berkeley's Graduate Theological Union. He has either lived in or traveled extensively through Africa, the Caribbean, Central and South America, and India.
Jessica Hochman
Jessica Hochman is currently an assistant professor at the Pratt Institute and a Ph.D. student in the program. She is interested in cultural studies, aesthetics, graffiti and street art, gender studies, race and ethnicity. Currently, she is using interdisciplinary research to explore the ways in which the cultural production of youth helps to create meaningful spaces where identity is transformed. Before coming to Teachers College, Jessica worked on Encarta Africana, an encyclopaedia of the African Diaspora at the W.E.B. DuBois Institute at HarvardUniversity. While at TC, she has worked for HarlemLive, an afterschool program that publishes a youth-created online journal.
Timothy Ignaffo
Timothy Ignaffo is currently the Program Manager/Field Coordinator for the Early Childhood Education program at Teachers College, as well as a PhD student in the program. He is also involved in the Columbia University Philosophy Outreach. Before coming to TC, he taught English Language Arts at a small high school in East Harlem, NY. He earned his B.A. from the University of Scranton.
Givanni M. Ildefonso
Givanni M. Ildefonso is a Ph.D. student in the Program. She is interested in conceptions of the learning experience. She is currently working with the concept of time in education as well as its implications for objectivity and subjectivity in the process of learning. Before coming to Teachers College, Givanni received a BA and was completing her final examinations towards an M.A. in Philosophy at the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras.
Carmen James
Carmen
James is a M.A. student in the program. She
is interested in the philosophy of aesthetics and
the relationship between urban centers, art, culture, the individual and
society. She is interested in how these
ideas can be taught both in schools and cultural centers like museums. Before coming to Teachers College she received
her A.B. from
Harvard where she
concentrated in Comparative Literature.
Dana Johnson
Forthcoming
Dan Kramarsky
Dan Kramasky is currently Dean of Students at the Lycee Francais de New York and an Ed.D. student in the program. He is interested in the ethical foundations of schooling and how those foundations have slowly evolved into the current set of purposes which inform K-12 education. Before coming to Teachers College, Dan was a middle school teacher and Dean at the DaltonSchool and a high school teacher and Dean at BrooklynFriendsSchool, both in New York City.
Krishna Kumud
Forthcoming
Jung Kyung Hwa
Kyung Hwa (Alice) is a Ph.D. student in the program. She is interested in moral education and the formation of educational community. Before coming to Teachers College, Kyung Hwa obtained a B.A. in Mathematics Education, from KoreaUniversity, a B.A. in Education, Sookmyung Women's University, and a M.A. in Philosophy of Education and Curriculum Studies, Sookmyung Women's University. She was a volunteer teacher in Youndong Night School and a peace education teacher of Okedongmu Children.
Ori Livneh
Ori
Livneh is a Ph.D. student in the program. Before coming to Teachers College, he
completed an interdisciplinary BA with a focus on philosophy and literature at
the University of
British Columbia. He is
interested in the libertarian tradition of education, originating in the
Enlightenment and continuing through anarchism and the free school movement. He
is also interested in Dewey's writings on democracy.
Guillermo Marini
Guillermo Marini is a Ph.D. student in the Program and co-chair person of the Graduate Student Committee. He is interested in researching the role of the arts in education. Before coming to Teachers College, Guillermo completed an M.A. in Arts and Education at HarvardUniversity. He has a B.A. in Philosophy from the Catholic University of Argentina.
Ruaridh MacLeod
Ruaridh MacLeod is a PhD student in the program. He is interested in the technologies operant in the formation of the self, with a particular emphasis on Foucault's analyses of the ancient Greek practices related to the care of the self as found in the Stoic and Epicurean academies. Before coming to the US, Ruaridh taught Philosophy and English Literature in the UK, studied Psychoanalytic Developmental Psychology at University College London, and worked as a mentor to vulnerable adults in the London Borough of Southwark. He has a BA (Hons) in Philosophy from the University of Durham, and an MA (Distinction) in Continental Philosophy from the University of Warwick, UK. He intends eventually to train as a psychoanalyst.
Chris Moffett
Chris Moffett currently teaches Philosophy and Graduate Urban & Multicultural Education at the College of Mount Saint Vincent and is a Ph.D. student in the program. He is interested in the embodied nature of pedagogic practices. Currently, he is researching the figures of the City and the body in relation to interior pedagogic spaces, as this relationship is put to use within philosophies of education.Before coming to Teachers College, Chris completed an MA from DePaulUniversity in Philosophy, and maintains a private practice in the Feldenkrais Method of movement education.
Susan Mary Morris
Susan Mary Morris is a M.A. student who is interested in aesthetics and creative thinking. Her studies in aesthetics have included a ten year span with Lincoln Center Institute. She is greatly influenced by Maxine Greene. She is very interested in the role of the arts in education, specifically, the illuminations released through the creative process. Her teaching experience spans forty years of service, and includes both public and private school experiences, in grades, Pre-K through grade 5, self-contained, as well as small group tutorials with middle and high school students. Her teaching style and classroom design were part of Howard Gardner’s research at Project Zero, HarvardUniversity.
Yoshi Nakazawa
Forthcoming
Kiera Nieuwejaar
Kiera Nieuwejaar is a Ph.D. student in the Program. She is interested in the psychological aspects of educational philosophy, and in the role that educational philosophy can play beyond formal schooling. Currently, she is researching the educational theory of Jane Addams. Before coming to Teachers College, Kiera was a preschool teacher; she has also worked as a behavioral therapist with autistic children.
Gonzalo Obelleiro
Gonzalo Obelleiro is graphic and web designer for EdLab, a research, design, and development unit at Teachers College, ColumbiaUniversity and a Ph.D. student in the program. He is interested in liberal education as human education, particularly as that concept developed within the Buddhist tradition of moral education. Before coming to Teachers College, Gonzalo attended the School of Architecture, Design and Urban Planning of the University of Buenos Aires where he studied graphic design; later he moved to California to join the first graduating class of Soka University of America, Aliso Viejo, where he obtained his B.A. in Liberal Arts.
Lea Oksman
Lea Oksman obtained a B.A. in Biology and Philosophy from Yale University. She is interested in the non-practical, non-applied knowledge in the development of a child and in the school system. Further interests include how can a philosophical dimension be introduced into teaching science to children.
Dror Post
Dror Post is currently a facilitator at "Project Tolerance", a dialogue group on topics of the Middle East and Cross Cultural understanding at ColumbiaUniversity, and a Ph.D. student in the program. He is interested in Philosophy of Education and Ancient Philosophy. Currently, he is working on the concept of hope and its role in education, and on the internal link between love and competition and its implications for education. Before coming to Teachers College, Dror received his B.A. and M.A. (summa cum laude) in Philosophy from TelAvivUniversity, where he taught undergraduate philosophy courses.
Alyssa Samson
Alyssa Samson is an M.A. student in the program. She graduated from the University of Vermont with a B.A. in English and a B.S. in Secondary Education. Her undergraduate thesis work focused on reader's displacement within a literary experience, focusing on contemporary author Paul Aster. She hopes to apply this concept of displacement to current policy as it affects both students and educators. She has participated on various panels and judged the Vermont Competition for Excellence in Writing. Currently she is work with a UVM professor on a publication pertaining to Emanuel Levinas and the Hebraic Bible. She has also worked as a residential counselor, working working with children who have both emotional and behavioral disturbance as a result of trauma history. Michael Schapira
Michael Schapira is a Ph.D. student in the program.He is interested in the relationship between moral and civic education, and the school setting conditioned by urbanization and technological advances.Before coming to Teachers College, Michael received a B.A. in Philosophy from the University of Oregon and a M.A. in Culture, Values and Education from McGill University.
Demetrios Spyridakis
Demetrios Spyridakis is an EdM student in the program. He earned hs B.A. from the University of California at Davis (Phi Betta Kappa) in history and his Master of Arts in Education from Davis. He is interested in ancient philosophy, especially the Socratic Method (which he employed as a pedigogical device while working at a T.A. at Davis in Native American Studies and Chicano/a Studies). He is also fascinated by John Dewey's idea of experience/democracy in education and Paolo Friere's philosophy of praxis. Demetrios studied classical Greek and Latin at the university level. He was also an intern fpr the United States Senate committee on the Judiciary.
Gregory Stegeman
Forthcoming
Ariana Stokas
Ariana Gonzalez Stokas comes to the program with a background in Aesthetics, Art and technology. She has experience as a secondary school teacher, a youth media instructor and an artist. Her research interests include but are not limited to the aesthetic approach to subject matter and teacher education. She is currently in the Ph.D. program.
Winston Charles Thompson
Winston Thompson is currently an adjunct instructor in the Department of Foundations, Leadership and Policy Studies at Hofstra University; as well as an Assistant Resident Life Coordinator at Columbia University and a Ph.D. student in the program. He is interested in the quest for educational equity in higher education, as well as problems of epistemology, ethics, power and policy. Currently, he is exploring college access through a lens of distributive justice, while analyzing higher educational policies which attempt to combat social disadvantage. Before coming to Teachers College, Winston attended the University of Florida in his home state.
Adam Valenstein
Adam Valenstein is an EdM student in the program. His interests include: ethics and knowledge with respect to teacher authority and the teaching of philosophy at all age levels. Before arriviing at Teachers College, Adam earned a B.A. in Philosophy and an M.A. in Liberal Studies from ColumbiaUniversity.
Brian Veprek
Brian Veprek is a Ph.D. student in the program. He is interested in the nature of human autonomy and what, if anything, a teacher can do to help students attain it. Before coming to Teachers College, Brian taught theatre arts, English, history, and Latin in in public and private schools both in America and abroad. He earned a B.A. in Theatre Arts from Boston College and an Ed.M. in Learning and Teaching from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
Oriel Whyte
Forthcoming Terri S. Wilson
Terri S. Wilson is a Ph.D. student in the program. She is interested in how charter school reform is organized and reconfigured by the intersections between schools, parents, teachers, students and community members. Currently she is working on concepts of public and private in the work of John Dewey, Hannah Arendt and others.
Sean Woolsey
Forthcoming
Kazuaki Yoda
Kazuaki Yoda is a Ph.D. student in the program and co-chair person of the Graduate Student Committee. He is interested in Ancient Philosophy. Before coming to Teachers College, Kazuaki graduated with a M.A. in Philosophy from BostonUniversity. He has a B.A. and M.A. in Physics from the InternationalChristianUniversity in Japan.
Brian Zimmerman
Brian
Zimmerman is an Ed.M. student in the program.
He is interested in the intersection between education and the new field
of social epistemology. Currently, he is
attempting to determine if epistemic theories of justification can be proven by
empirical observations in the classroom.
Before coming to the Teachers College, Brian received a B.A. in
Philosophy and English from
