TC Welcomes New Faculty
In the last issue, Inside TC introduced several new faculty members. In this issue we will cover 10 more new professors.
RANDALL ALLSUP, who received his Ed.D. in Music and
Music Education from Teachers College, has been appointed as an
Assistant Professor of Music Education. Allsup has served Teachers
College as an adjunct instructor in the Music Education Department
teaching a multicultural course designed to help teachers create and
implement musical strategies into their subject area. Allsup was also a
director of bands for Columbia University and directed the marching
band, pep band, and wind symphony. Allsup comes from Hartwick
College where he was an Assistant Professor of Music and Director of
both the Music Education Program and the wind ensemble. Allsup worked
for Our Children's Foundation, while obtaining his master's of
education at Teachers College. At Our Children's Foundation, Allsup
created and implemented comprehensive curriculum in instrumental and
general music for children in Harlem. He also served as an instructor
for the New York City Board of Education. LYNNE BEJOIAN
has been appointed as an Assistant Professor of Education in the
Learning Disabilities Program. Bejoian received her Ph.D. from the
University of Southern California in the Higher and Postsecondary
Education Department. Bejoian is joining Teachers College after
serving as the President of the Disability Education Empowerment
Management Corporation. She has also served as an Adjunct Assistant
Professor in the Department of Education at Manhattan College and as an
Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Health and Nutrition
and Behavior Studies at Teachers College. Bejoian also is
founding President of Disability Education Empowerment Management
Corporation, a not-for-profit organization established to promote and
advance the abilities, participation, and accessibility of children and
adults with disabilities within all aspects of human endeavors.
Bejoian's areas of professional expertise include university and
administration management, diverse student issues and involvement,
disability services administration and management, women's issues,
human resources services and development, teaching and research and
consulting around issues concerning disability and leadership. RENEE CHEROW-O'LEARY
is also a newly appointed Assistant Professor of English Education in
the English Education program. Cherow-O'Leary has been a Professor of
Communications in the Television Program of the Divisions of Visual and
Performing Arts at Rutgers University as well as a consultant to media
and corporate clients looking to do research and focus groups. She is
also President of Education for the 21st Century, a consulting company
that does market research, writing, strategic planning and trend
analysis from numerous companies and organizations.
Cherow-O'Leary also worked for Children's Television Workshop
supervising the editorial and market research for five magazines, was
an Adjunct Associate Professor of Communications at New York
University, an Associate Professor of English, Communications and
Public Policy at City College, and a tenured Assistant Professor of
English, Education and Communications at Ramapo College of New Jersey.
She received her B.A. at Barnard in English and Philosophy, an M.A.T.
at University of Chicago in English and Education, and her Ph.D. at New
York University in Culture and Communications. MIN HONG
has been appointed Assistant Professor of Education in the Early
Childhood Program. Hong received her doctorate from Teachers College
and has been teaching in Public School 11 in District 2 since 1990.
Hong has taught Kindergarten, first grade and second grade. She has
also been a mentor teacher where she was responsible for leading
support groups for early childhood teachers in the district.
Among her other professional experience, Hong served as a staff
developer for District 2, where she helped develop and implement the
Balance literacy program. She has also acted as an educational
consultant in Missouri, where she implemented school reform,
specifically focusing on literacy initiatives. Among her
publications, Hong is the author of a children's book entitled,
Friends, and is also the author of a handbook for first grade teachers
entitled, Teaching First Grade. OLGA HUBARD is
Assistant Professor of Art Education. Hubard comes to Teachers College
from the Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum in New York, where she served as
the Head of Education. Hubard has also previously taught a course here
at Teachers College entitled, Museum Issues: Objects and Meanings,
which concerned the relationship of viewers with works of art and with
practical and philosophical question that shape teaching and learning
in art museums. Hubard is also a lecturer at the Museum of
Modern Art, where she designs and implements museum education programs
that engage young people with works of art and enrich K-12 curricula.
Hubard received her doctorate at Teachers College in the Art Education
Department. Some of her special interests include the role of art
reproductions and original art objects in education, the impact of
aesthetics of museum education programs and art programs in schools. VALERIE KINLOCH
has joined the English Education Department as an Assistant Professor
of English Education. Kinloch received her Ph.D. from Wayne State
University in the Department of English. Kinloch has extensive teaching
experience in both the middle school and high school, where she taught
Upward Bound and Bridge programs as well as teaching writing in
schools. She also taught various courses at the higher education level.
Some of these courses include Research Methods, Literacy and Advanced
Composition, American Studies, and History of Rhetoric and Rhetorical
Theory. Among her many honors, Kinloch is an invited member of
the National Council of Teachers of English, is an advisor for the
Annenberg Grant/Maryland Public TV "To Write" Professional Writing
Series and is an award recipient of the Miles Davis Annual Poetry
Competition. Kinloch's fields of interests include urban studies
and community literacy, creative writing, African-American Literature,
and Multicultural Studies. ANAND MARRI has been
appointed as an Assistant Professor of Social Studies and Education.
Marri received a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where
he studied Curriculum and Instruction in Social Studies Education,
Technology in Education and Multicultural Education. His specialization
is in theories of multicultural democracy and how language arts and
social studies concepts can be used together in the classroom.
Marri was a co-instructor and university supervisor for teaching
history and other social sciences in the Department of Curriculum and
Instruction at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He also was an
instructor for academic skills, academic reading and academic writing
courses in the Program in English as a Second Language of the
Department of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Marri has
also taught high school as a social studies teacher for several years.
Among several professional memberships, Marri is a member of the
National Council for Social Studies, as well as the American
Educational Research Association. ANN RIVET is
a newly appointed Assistant Professor of Science Education. Rivet comes
from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, where she received her
Ph.D. in Science Education. Rivet was also a postdoctoral fellow at
Northwestern University where she was the lead developer of teacher
instructional materials for Looking at The Environment (LATE), an
inquiry-based science curriculum for high school. While working
towards her M.S. degree in Science Education, Rivet served as a
Research Assistant working on the professional development of teachers
and curriculum development. While obtaining her doctorate Rivet created
curriculum and professional development materials such as a sixth grade
physical science unit as part of the Center for Learning Technologies
in Urban Schools. She also developed general and unit-specific
professional workshop materials for elementary mathematics curriculum.
Rivet's special interests include how to implement learning
technologies in the classroom, the role of digital photographs in
education, and the integration of curriculum and technology. ANA SERRANO
has joined the Social Studies Department as an Assistant Professor of
Social Studies and Education. Serrano comes from California State
University at Northridge, where she was an Assistant Professor in the
Elementary Education Department. She instructed programs such as
Education Leadership and Policy Studies and the Integrated Teacher
Education Program in Liberal Studies. Serrano received her Ph.D. from
the University of California, Los Angeles, in Curriculum and
Instruction. As well as teaching in the higher education level,
Serrano is also certified in the state of California as a Bilingual
Crosscultural Specialist and has multiple subject teaching credentials
in preschool, K-12, and adult. Some of her credential courses include
Teaching Spanish Reading in the Elementary School, Urban Education in
American Society, Fundamentals of Teaching, and Equity and Diversity.
Her special interests include children's development of strategies
through mathematical explanations through a sociocultural lens,
teaching history in elementary school and middle school, and the impact
of collaborative learning in the classroom. MIKKI SHAW,who
received her Ed.D. from Teachers College and who has been a Visiting
Assistant Professor, lecturer and adjunct instructor in the English
Education Program starting in 1992, has been appointed as an Assistant
Professor of English Education in that program. After receiving
her B.A. from the State University College at New Paltz, Shaw began
teaching English in Poughkeepsie, New York, before going to Berkeley
High School in California to work at an alternative high school for
at-risk students. Shaw taught English at Ketcham High School in
Wappingers Falls, New York, from 1973 to 1992. While there, she was
instrumental in the design and implementation of an alternative high
school for at-risk students called the P.M. School. She also taught
English and was a counselor at a Detention for Youth facility in
Rhinecliff, New York.
Published Monday, Oct. 6, 2003
