Interdisciplinary:
New Media Faculty (Board of Study)
Jon Esser
Associate Dean, School of the Arts
B.F.A., Purchase College; M.F.A., Brooklyn College. SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Creativity and Academic Achievement.
jon.esser@purchase.edu
Carrie Dashow
Lecturer in New Media (part-time)
School of Natural and Social Sciences
B.F.A., San Francisco Art Institute; M.F.A., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. An award-winning performance, video, media, and public space artist with an international exhibition record.
carrie.dashow@purchase.edu | www.dashow.net
Elizabeth Guffey
Professor of Art History
School of Humanities
B.A., University of California, Santa Barbara; M.A., Ph.D., Stanford University. 19th- and 20th-century art, architecture, and design in Europe and America; Asian art.
elizabeth.guffey@purchase.edu
Greg Lock
Assistant Professor of Sculpture
School of the Arts: School of Art+Design
B.A., Bretton Hall College of the University of Leeds, UK; M.A., University of Salford, UK; M.F.A., Parsons School of Design. Works with sculpture and virtual reality.
greg.lock@purchase.edu
John Mastracchio
Instructional Support Specialist
School of the Arts: School of Art+Design
B.F.A., SUNY New Paltz. Technical consultant: Cornell University, New York University, Cooper Union, and SUNY New Paltz. Sound designer for Tommy Boy Records. Beta tester, music/multimedia software, Voyetra Technologies.
john.mastracchio@purchase.edu
James McElwaine
Professor of Music
School of the Arts: Conservatory of Music
B.Mus., University of North Texas; M.Mus., Yale University. Multiple Grammy and Tony
nominations, gold and platinum recordings, Drama Desk Award for Best Orchestration. Founding chair of the Studio Composition Program.
jim.mcelwaine@purchase.edu
Jeanine Meyer
Professor of Mathematics/Computer Science and New Media
School of Natural and Social Sciences
S.B., University of Chicago; M.A., Columbia University; Ph.D., New York University. Multimedia applications; educational uses of technology; pedagogical patterns; origami; robotics; manufacturing systems.
jeanine.meyer@purchase.edu
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Peter Ohring
Associate Professor of Mathematics/Computer Science and New Media
School of Natural and Social Sciences
B.S., Hebrew University (Jerusalem); Ph.D., University of Colorado, Boulder. Founding coordinator of the New Media Program. SUNY Chancellor’s Research Recognition Award.
peter.ohring@purchase.edu
Jon Rubin
Associate Professor of Film
School of the Arts: Conservatory of Theatre Arts & Film
B.A., Yale University. Director of the SUNY Center for Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL).
jon.rubin@purchase.edu
Brooke Singer
Assistant Professor of New Media
School of Natural and Social Sciences
B.A., Wesleyan University; M.F.A., Carnegie Mellon University.
brooke.singer@purchase.edu | www.bsing.net
Robert Spahr
Lecturer in New Media (part-time)
School of Natural and Social Sciences
B.A., Art Academy of Cincinnati; M.F.A., Parsons School of Design. Digital media; generative art programs; multimedia performance and sculpture.
robert.spahr@purchase.edu | www.robertspahr.com
Updated June 25, 2008
