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  • Inside Hofstra Admission
    Inside Hofstra Admission
    Admission
    Hear from Hofstra's Admission counselors and current Pride Guides to get insight into the admission process and the student experience.
    administration
  • Dr. Herman A. BerlinerHerman Berliner
    Provost
    Dr. Herman A. Berliner, Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs, is in his 40th year at Hofstra University, having joined the faculty in 1970 after receiving his PhD in economics from the City University of New York. Dr. Berliner’s areas of specialty as an economist include the economics of higher education. He presently also serves as a TIAA/CREF Institute Fellow, a Trustee of the North Shore School District, and Secretary of the Project GRAD Long Island Board of Directors. He is a regular blogger for Insidehighered.com, for which he writes about his experiences in and insights about higher education.
    administration
  • Barry Berman
    Barry Berman
    Professor of Marketing and International Business
    Faculty
  • Suzanne Berman
    Suzanne Berman
    Journalism, Media Studies, and Public Relations
    Faculty
  • Computer Science Faculty
    Computer Science
    department
  • Evan Cornog
    Evan Cornog
    Dean, School of Communication
    administration
  • Arthur Dobrin
    Arthur Dobrin
    University Studies
    faculty
  • Joel Evans
    Joel Evans
    Professor of Marketing and International Business
    faculty
  • Laurie Fendrich
    Laurie Fendrich
    Fine Arts/Art History/CAAC
    Laurie Fendrich is a painter and professor of fine arts at Hofstra University. A retrospective of her work, featuring 30 painting and 30 drawings dating back to 1992, is scheduled to hope in the fall of 2010 at the Williamson Art Gallery at Scripps College in Claremont, California. She is a regular columnist for The Chronicle of Higher Education’s Brainstorm blog in which she writes about education and the arts in higher education.
    faculty
  • Xiang Fu
    Xiang Fu
    Computer Science
    faculty
  • Cliff Jernigan Cliff Jernigan
    Vice Dean, School of Communications
    administration
  • Martha McPhee
    Martha McPhee
    English
    Martha McPhee teaches in Hofstra’s Creative Writing Program. She is the author of the novels Bright Angel Time, Gorgeous Lies, L’America and the forthcoming Dear Money. She is the recipient of grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation.
    faculty
  • Marc Oppenheim
    Marc Oppenheim
    Associate Dean, School of Communications
    administration
  • Bob PapperBob Papper 
    Journalism, Media Studies, and Public Relations
    faculty
  • Alan Singer
    Alan Singer
    Curriculum and Teaching
    Alan Singer has a weekly column on Huffington Post discussing national, state, and local educational issues and political concerns in the New York metropolitan area. His column frequently tweaks those in power and includes testimony from local teachers and students. In Hofstra University School of Education, he is a professor of secondary education and the director of social studies education. Singer is a former New York City high school social studies teacher and is editor of Social Science Docket, a joint publication of the New York State and New Jersey Councils for the Social Studies. He is also the author of Social Studies for Secondary Schools (Lawrence Erlbaum and Associates, 2nd edition, 2003) and editor of a 268-page secondary school curriculum guide, New York and Slavery: Complicity and Resistance.
    faculty
  • Alan Singer
    Daniel M. Varisco
    Anthropology
    Dr. Varisco is an anthropologist, historian and Arabist with extensive research and consulting experience in the Middle East. He conducted ethnographic fieldwork in a highland agricultural community in Yemen in 1978-79 and has returned to Yemen more than 15 times for research and as a development expert. During the 1980s he received four post-doctoral grants for research on Arabic texts in Egypt, Yemen, Qatar and Turkey.
    faculty
  • Frank G. Zarb School of Business
    Zarb School of Business
    department