Faculty & Staff Accomplishments
We are excited to share recent accomplishments from faculty and staff members at our campuses around the world.
Accomplishments are listed by date of achievement in reverse chronological order, with the most recent first.
Amanda Golden
College of Arts and SciencesAmanda Golden, Ph.D., associate professor of English in the Department of Humanities, presented the paper, “'Words into the web-threads': Sylvia Plath’s Revisions,” at the American Literature Association Conference in Boston, Mass., May 22, 2025.
Lissi Athanasiou-Krikelis
College of Arts and SciencesLissi Athanasiou-Krikelis, Ph.D., associate professor of English, published a co-authored paper, Bookishness and Metafictionality in the Material Picturebook" in the peer-reviewed journal, Children's Literature in Education, on May 21, 2025. The article explores picturebooks that combine metafiction—elements that draw attention to their own fictionality—with materiality—the physical existence of books.
Robert Alexander
College of Arts and SciencesRobert G. Alexander, Ph.D., assistant professor of psychology and counseling, was elected as a Fellow of the Psychonomic Society on May 16, 2025. This honor is awarded to scholars who “demonstrate clear evidence of independent scholarship, active engagement in methodologically rigorous and theoretically interesting high-level research, and indications of an imminent national/international reputation for excellence in the psychological sciences.”
Amanda Golden
College of Arts and SciencesAmanda Golden, Ph.D., associate professor of English in the Department of Humanities, moderated a conversation. “The Greatness of Sylvia Plath,” at a Library of America event, with panelists Sarah Ruden, Heather Clark, and Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Diane Seuss. The event was held on April 17, 2025.
Cameka Hazel
College of Arts and SciencesCameka Hazel, Ed.D., assistant professor of psychology and counseling in the College of Arts and Sciences, led and offered the welcoming address at the ACA-NY Annual Conference, The Use of AI in Counseling, on April 5, 2025, at Molloy University in Rockville Centre, N.Y.
Cameka Hazel
College of Arts and SciencesCameka Hazel, Ed.D., assistant professor of psychology and counseling in the College of Arts and Sciences, has published a paper, "Highly Skilled Caribbean Immigrants Career-Related Transition Issues: Mental Health Implication," in the International Journal for the Advancement of Counselling, a peer-reviewed academic publication. The research article was published on March 5, 2025.
\n\nClaude Gagna
College of Arts and SciencesClaude E. Gagna, Ph.D., professor of biological and chemical sciences, was honored with the 2025 Long Island Business News Health Care Heroes Award, in the individual category of Health Care Innovation, on February 28, 2025. The award recognizes Gagna's biomedical research involving the structure and function of exotic DNAs, novel DNA-based methods towards improving cancer research, and teaching undergraduate and medical students.
Amanda Golden
College of Arts and SciencesAmanda Golden, Ph.D., associate professor of English in the Department of Humanities, published "Anne Sexton," for a bibliography for Oxford University Press, with Linda-Wagner-Martin, on February 19, 2025.
Lynn Rogoff
College of Arts and SciencesLynn Rogoff, M.F.A., adjunct associate professor of English, Department of Humanities, and her team of New York Tech interns were awarded an Emerging Technology Grant for Leveraging AI in Education in February 2025. Partnering with D-id.com, they have been developing and testing AI-powered facially expressive agents and a dynamic knowledge base.
\n\nJonathan Ezra Goldman
College of Arts and SciencesJonathan Ezra Goldman, Ph.D., professor of English, Department of Humanities, contributed a chapter to the volume Elgar Concise Encyclopedia of Law and Literature, edited by Robert Spoo and Simon Stern and published on January 21, 2025. Goldman's chapter, "Trademark," traces the interaction of trademark and branding with the literary culture over the 19th and 20th Centuries.