Faculty
Our faculty is made up of innovative scholars, artists, composers, performers, and researchers at the top of their fields, including winners of the Pulitzer Prize; Grammy, Emmy, Obie, Bessie, Tony, ASCAP, and Drama Desk Awards; National Science Foundation grants; and Guggenheim, NEA, and NEH fellowships.
Our proximity to New York City allows some Purchase faculty, especially in our conservatory programs, to maintain their professional careers, which enhances the classroom with real-life perspective (in real time). It also provides students with a wealth of connections that can benefit them during their time here as well as after graduation.
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- Shemeem Burney Abbas
- Athar Abdul-Quader
- Richard Abramowitz
- Elliott Abrams
- Evan Adamson
- Ennis Addison
- Ndukwe Daniel Agwu
- Lily Akerman
- Alan Anderson
- Aryana Alexis Anderson
- Chris Anderson
- Joel Neville Anderson
- Graham Ashton
- Janis Astor del Valle
- Troy Atkinson
- Christian Bailey
- Thomas Baird
- Gail Baldoni
- Carol Bankerd
- Michi Barall
- Nicholas Barbato
- Kimberly Bartosik
- David Bassuk
- Maria Bauman
- A. Dean Bell
- Michael Bell-Smith
- Frank Bellevue
- Leandro Benmergui
- James Bergesen
- Lawrence A. Berglas
- Sue Bernhard
- Denise Bessette
- Trazana Beverley
- Adam Birnbaum
- Christopher Bisignano
- Billy Blanken
- Sonya Blesofsky
- Tony Bluestone
- Emily Blumenfeld
- Matthew Bollinger
- Bina Bora
- Margot Bordelon
- Nancy Bowen
- Virginia Breen
- Timothy Briner
- Julie Broglin
- Ellen Brooks
- Bradley Brookshire
- Leon Addison Brown
- Silas Brown
- Stephanie Brown
- Deborah Buck
- Stephen Buck
- Tom Burckhardt
- Lenka Pichlíková Burke
- Esteban Cabeza de Baca
- Iris Cahn
- Noel Capozzalo
- Naydu Carmona
- Jessica J. Carnevale
- Darrah Carr
- Karen Carroll-Ogunka
- Diana Cassells
- Carolyn B. Cates
- Cédric Ceulemans
- Wells Chandler
- Sabrina Charney Hull
- Dual Rivet, Chelsea Ainsworth and Jessica Smith
- Iuliia Chikish
- Laura M. Chmielewski
- Tracy Christensen
- Simona Cipriani
- Jakub Ciupiński
- Larry Clark
- Jason Clarke
- Timothy Cobb
- Jaffe Cohen
- Alexis Cole
- Stephen A. Cooke
- Deborah Cooper
- Sara Cooper
- Donna Cornachio
- Alex Correia
- Lindsey Crane
- Natalie Cruz
- Carissa Cunningham
- Meagan Curtis
- James G. Daly
- Ross A. Daly
- Annette Courniotes Davies
- Damien Davis
- Malachi Davis
- Jennifer Dawson
- Corinne De Palma
- Eric De Sena
- Peter Dearing
- Bill Deere
- Benjamin Degen
- David DeJesus
- John Delate
- Peter Denenberg
- Kim Detterbeck
- Emiliano Diaz
- Rachel Dickstein
- Alexia Toskos Dils
- Alexander Dodge
- Anthony Paul Domestico
- Joe Dotts
- Colleen Duffy
- James Dunn
- Katherine Dye
- Erika Ebbs
- Stella Ebner
- Jill Echo
- Monika L. Eckenberg
- Bradley Teal Ellis
- Chantal Emond-Bourhis
- Shinelle Espaillat
- Victoria Estok
- Murielle Etienne
- Maruti Evans
- Rachel Fabian
- Jan Robert Factor
- Jon Faddis
- Oren Fader
- Travis Fairclough
- Joshua Falcon
- Andy Farber
- Patrizia Farina
- Gene Fein
- Monica Ferrell
- Stephen Ferri
- Scott Fisher
- Emily FitzGerald
- Stephen Flusberg
- Ivan Forde
- Melissa Forstrom
- Paul Francis
- Jean Freebury
- Lisa Frey
- Brandalyn Fulton
- David Gallo
- Samuel Galloway
- Maria Luisa Gambale
- Mtume Gant
- Michael Garber
- Alfredo Garcia-Pardo
- Hannah Garner
- Shawn Garnier
- Rudolf Gaudio
- Marcel Gbeffa
- Linda Gelman
- Darcy Gervasio
- Amanda Giampaolo
- Patrice Giasson
- Dawn Gibson-Brehon
- Kate Gilmore
- Kristyan Gilmore
- Linda Gironda
- Steve Gomer
- Charles Gomez
- Lupita Gonzalez
- Christopher Graham
- Pasquale Grasso
- Christopher Greco
- Russell Greenberg
- David Grill
- Roni Gross
- Elizabeth Guffey
- Maria Guralnik
- Andy Hall
- Robert T. Hall
- Rachel Hallote
- Paula Halperin
- Bonnie Hamilton
- Dan Hanessian
- John Brian Hansbury
- Alysa Hantgan
- Lauren Harburger
- Stephen Harris
- Casey Haskins
- Rebecca Haviland
- David Hazeltine
- Gerard Hecht
- Kristen Heinrich
- Ursula Heinrich
- Amina Henry
- Alison Hublard Hershman
- Yanine Hess
- Henry Hey
- Knoelle Higginson
- Faye Hirsch
- Carlie Hoffman
- Nathan Holmes
- Patrick Holt
- Cassandra Hooper
- Mara T. Horowitz
- Sharon Horvath
- Gareth Hougham
- Sarah Hughes
- Titia Hulst
- Sanford Ikeda
- Matthew Immergut
- Chrys Ingraham
- A. Dean Irby
- Allyson K. Jackson
- David H. Jameson
- Camilla Jantke-Chiappari
- Kemp Jernigan
- Jonathan Jetter
- Alexandra Johnson
- Phil Joly
- Mark Jonas
- CJ Jones
- Jennifer Jones
- Myna Joseph
- Liam Joynt
- Le’Asha Julius
- Anthony Kadleck
- Liat Kadosh
- Allison Kahn
- Laura Kaminsky
- Daniel Kang
- Morris B. Kaplan
- Paul Kaplan
- Kristen Karlberg
- Lisa Keller
- Howard Kenty
- Howie Kenty
- Anne M. Kern
- George Keteku
- David J. Kim
- Mina Kim
- Yong Hee Kim
- Suzannah Kincannon
- Mariana Carreño King
- Jared Kirby
- Ted T. Kivitt
- Bryan Korn
- Marin Kosut
- Susan Kouguell
- Tatiana Kouguell-Hoell
- Robert Kozma
- Aaron Krach
- George P. Kraemer
- Julian Kreimer
- Katie Kresek
- Jane Kromm
- Jeffrey Kushner
- Gari Laguardia
- Ralph Lalama
- Steven Lambert
- Keith Landa
- Lorraine LaPrade
- Andy LaVerne
- Lora LaVon
- Stephen Lee
- Yoon Lee
- Elise Lemire
- Maria Leon Hurtarte
- Arnold Levine
- Francesca Levine
- Jessica Levy
- Catherine Lewis
- Judy Lieff
- Esther Lim
- Cynthia Lin
- Sherry Llauger
- Dianey Lujan
- Joshua Lutz
- Robin Lynch
- Martin Løfsnes
- Tim Mackabee
- James Madejski
- Sara Magenheimer
- Stephen Maine
- Joseph Malbrough
- Pete Malinverni
- Ed Malone
- Eric Mandelbaum
- Sarah Mantell
- Kerry Manzo
- Ana Margineanu
- Carrie Marten
- Beatriz Martin-Ruiz
- Edwin Martinez
- Donnie Mather
- Gloria Maximo
- Ina Mayhew
- Christopher McCann
- Mitchell McCoy
- Scott McCrea
- Maryann McEnroe
- Shaka McGlotten
- Lauren McIntyre
- Joseph McKay
- Barbara E. McMullen
- Katherine McQuillen
- Paul Megna
- James Mehiel
- Deborah Mesa-Pelly
- Andreas Messis
- Elizabeth Rose Middleton
- Johnny Milani
- William Bryant Miles
- Genevieve Mills
- Cecilia Minchala
- Phil Moffa
- Patrick Mohundro
- Lisa Jean Moore
- Adrian Morejon
- Roberta Morell
- Noah Mullette-Gillman
- Gustavo Murillo Fernandez-Valdes
- Hugh Murphy
- Katie Murray
- Gaura Narayan
- Heidi Neilson
- Djordje Nesic
- Jaime Neudecker
- Rosalind Newman
- Mona Nicoara
- Melanie Noblit-Gambino
- Kayle Nochomovitz
- Mehdi Tavana Okasi
- Ugonna Okegwo
- Rebecca Albrecht Oling
- Matthew Olmos
- Hochi Ortega-Asiatico
- Ayako Oshima Neidich
- Paul Ostrovsky
- Matt Otto
- Sherry Overholt
- Rachel Owens
- Anna Ozbek
- Tara Helen O’Connor
- Caili O’Doherty
- Lawrence O’Neil
- Michael O’Shea
- Brian Paccione
- Nancy Palmatier
- Adam Pape
- Dennis Parichy
- Dylan Paul
- Dan Peck
- Margaret Peot
- Rebecca Peretz-Lange
- Krystal Perkins
- Sarah Peters
- Sarah Petersiel
- Liz Phillips
- Jason A. Pine
- Lorraine Plourde
- Janine Polak
- Nicolette Polek
- Jesse Edward Poleshuck
- Peter Polinski
- Daphne Pollon
- Edward Pomerantz
- Jessica Pozzuoli
- Naicy Pretill
- Milton Primer
- Cathryn Prince
- Gavin Pritchard
- TJ Proechel
- Richard Quigley
- Andoveloniaina Rasolofo
- David Recca
- Ben Recher
- Chris Reineck
- Peter Reit
- Adam Resnick
- Laura Ricciardi
- Jonathan Riedel
- Patricia Rind
- Albert Rivera
- Christopher Robbins
- Kristen Robinson
- Mariel Rodney
- Jason Rodriguez
- Melissa Rodriguez
- Ligaiya Romero
- Megan Rossman
- Charles Routhier
- Rachel Rumore
- Joseph Russo
- Naomi Safran-Hon
- Andrew Saito
- Peter James Saleh
- Andrew Salomon
- Sara Saltzman
- Timothy Samara
- Kamala Sankaram
- Alana Sanko
- Joseph Sannicandro
- Zachary Santamaria
- Benjamin Santiago
- Corinne Santiago
- Kaori Sato
- Emily Sausen
- Mica Scalin
- Jack Schatz
- Marisa Scheinfeld
- Jordan Schildcrout
- Elisa Schreiber
- Jennifer Schriever
- Jenna Schultz
- Mark Schwartz
- Kate Scorza Ingram
- Jeana Scotti
- Olga Seham
- Rosanna Seravalli
- Irina Shablinsky
- Susan Shopmaker
- Jordan Shue
- Paul Siegel
- Bettijane Sills
- Alexis M. Silver
- Charly Simpson
- Linda Celeste Sims
- Brooke Singer
- Joseph Skrivanek
- Alan McIntyre Smith
- Gary Smulyan
- Celine Snippe
- Tova Snyder
- Darren Solomon
- Gregory Spears
- Samuel Spillman
- James Spione
- Peter Sprague
- David Srebnik
- Peggy Stafford
- Haralabos (Harry) Stafylakis
- Courtney Stephens
- Howard Stern
- Matthew Stern
- Ronni Stewart
- Emily Stout
- Maggie Surovell
- Simon Surowicz
- Rob Swainston
- Joe Swatski
- Jack Tamburri
- Sayaka Tanikawa
- Aviva Taubenfeld
- Gregory Taylor
- Ryan W. Taylor
- Alina Tenser
- Amanda J. Thackray
- Paul Thayer
- Lamine Thiam
- Andrea Thome
- Joshua Tonsfeldt
- Stephanie Tooman
- Hakan Topal
- Alba Torremocha
- Jacque Trussel
- Connie Tsang
- Knarik Tunyan
- Mark Turner
- Lee Tusman
- Noriko Ueda
- Jennifer K. Uleman
- Michelle Thompson Ulerich
- Michael Umile
- Jennifer Undercofler
- Kristin Uscinski
- Ragnhild Utheim
- Caren Valente
- Nelly van Bommel
- Caleb van der Swaagh
- Doug Varone
- Lunia Vera
- Margaret Vignola
- Mark Viola
- Bridget Visser
- Carina Vocisano-Bruel
- Michelle Wagner
- Sarah Walker
- Mary Waller
- Jo Ann Walters
- Sarah Warren
- Kenny Washington
- Robert Watson
- Sam Wear
- Michelle Weinberg
- Sean Weiner
- Lori R. Wekselblatt
- Les Wertheim
- Jonah Westerman
- Gregory Wharmby
- Hilary Whitham Sánchez
- Grant Wilcoxen
- Christopher Williams
- Megan Williams
- Rosalyn Coleman Williams
- David Wilson
- Matthew Wilson
- Drew Wimmer
- David Wong
- Kit Yi Wong
- David Woolard
- Lachell Workman
- Lachell Workman
- Amy Beth Wright
- Cong Wu
- Anita Yavich
- John G. Young
- David Yozzo
- Renqiu Yu
- Agustín Zarzosa
- Leo Zausen
- Sharon Zechowski
- J.D. Zeik
- Chen Zhang
- Ling Zhang
- William Zimmerman
- Alexander Zlatsin
- Raphael Zollinger
- Carmit Rinehart Zori
Faculty Emeriti
- Miriam Arsham
- Karen L. Baird
- Linda Bastone
- Peter F. Bell
- Allyson Bellink
- Judith Bernstein
- Naomi Block
- Shirley Neilsen Blum
- Richard Cameron-Wolfe
- Marcia Cavell
- Michael J. Cesario
- Lenora Champagne
- Taina Chao
- Bell Chevigny
- Kimberly E. Christensen
- James Cookman
- Todd Coolman
- Elysse Craddock
- Nancy Davidson
- Donna Dennis
- Raymond Des Roches
- Jed Devine
- Leigh Dillon
- Dominic Donato
- Kenley R. Dove
- Thomas E. Dow Jr.
- Lee Ehrman
- Frank B. Farrell
- Joseph Fashing
- Joe Ferry
- Robert Fertitta
- Geoffrey G. Field
- Nancy Foner
- John Forrest
- Albert Fried
- Lana Fritz
- Maria Gagliardo
- Elaine Galen
- Hal Galper
- John S. Gitlitz
- Ronnie Halperin
- Frederic Hand
- John Handron
- Dennis Helmrich
- Naomi Holoch
- John R. Howard
- Alfred Hunt
- Thomasenia M. Hutchins
- Suzanne Kessler
- Marianna Khazanova-Salzman
- Lawrence Kornfeld
- Warren Lehrer
- Martin Lewinter
- Julia Lichten
- Philip Listengart
- Connie Lobur
- Steven Lubin
- Humbert Lucarelli
- Donald MacCourt
- Kathleen McCormick
- James McElwaine
- Wendy McKenna
- Jeanine Meyer
- Marjorie Miller
- Sandra Miller
- Doug Munro
- William Needham
- Anthony Newman
- Esther Newton
- Eulalie Noble
- Julius Novick
- David F. Ostwald
- Séamus O’Cléireacáin
- Ted Piltzecker
- Pamela Prather
- Gregorio Rosenblum
- Jon Rubin
- Ronnie Scharfman
- Lee Schlesinger
- Peter Schwab
- Leonard Seastone
- Nathaniel H. Siegel
- Renneth Sorhaindo
- Mette Spaniardi
- Daphne Spottiswoode
- Richard Stack
- Sarah Stackhouse
- Leonard Stokes
- Nina Pelikan Straus
- Ken Strickland
- Wayne te Brake
- Joel Tenenbaum
- Joanne Kivela Tillotson
- Michael Torlen
- James Utter
- David Villecco
- Carol K. Walker
- Gary Waller
- Kalin Wang
- Philippa Wehle
- Lynn Winters
- Kevin Wynn
- Louise Yelin
- Murray Zimiles
- Philip Zimmermann