Michael Basinski

Curator, Poetry/Rare Books Collection, University Libraries

Basinski is an author as well as the Curator of the Poetry/Rare Books Collection as well as an author.  He received his Ph.D. from the University at Buffalo in English. Details>>

Barbara Bono

Associate Professor, Department of English

Bono teaches and publishes in the areas of Early Modern British literature, especially Sidney, Spenser, and the dramatic literature of Shakespeare and his contemporaries; feminist and cultural materialist theory and history. She received her Ph.D. from Brown University in English Literature. Details>>

Thomas Burkman

Director, Asian Studies Program

Burkman is Director of the UB Asian Studies Program and holds an adjunct faculty appointment in the Department of History. His focus is twentieth century Japanese history. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. Details>>

Tom Burrows

Director, UB Center for the Arts

Burrows has been director of the Center for the Arts since 1996. He has implemented numerous programs, including those which support underserved art forms in the community. He began a dance residency program whereby visiting companies work with UB students as well as children in local primary and secondary schools and has introduced thousands of local children to the performing arts through the Center's "School Time Adventure Series." Visit http://www.ubcfa.org/ or see Details>>

Joan Copjec

UB Distinguished Professor, Department of English

Director, Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Culture

Copjec's primary fields of research are psychoanalysis, film and film theory, feminism, and art and architecture. The Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Culture brings together faculty and graduate students interested in investigating the clinical and nonclinical implications of Freudian theory. She received in cinema studies her Ph.D.from New York University. Details>> 

Andreas Daum

Professor, Department of History

Daum specializes in German history from the late 18th to the 20th century (intellectual, cultural and social history; history of nationalism; history of science, and civil society); transatlantic and German-American relations; the future, society and politics in the Cold War; history of Berlin and of capital cities; theoretical and methodological questions of national and transnational history, symbolic politics, and the relations between cultural and political history. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Munich. Details>>

Carolyn Korsmeyer

Professor and Department Chair, Department of Philosophy

Korsmeyer's chief research areas are aesthetics and emotion theory. She is presently at work on a study of disgust as an aesthetic response. Her book Making Sense of Taste: Food and Philosophy (1999) explores the neglected gustatory sense of taste and its claims for aesthetic status. She also works in the area of feminist philosophy, and her recent book on this subject is Gender in Aesthetics: An Introduction. She received her Ph.D. from Brown University. Details>>

Isabel Marcus

Professor, UB Law School

Marcus is a professor of law and one of the founders of the Institute for Research and Education on Women and Gender at the University. Her longstanding research interests have been in the area of family law, domestic violence, and international women's human rights. Her current research project is a comparative analysis of the implementation of criminal code provisions regarding domestic violence in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. She received her Ph.D. and J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley.  Details>>

Lynn Mather

Director, Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy

Professor, UB Law School and Department of Political Science

Mather is a leading scholar in the field of law and society, having published over thirty articles and chapters on lawyers, legal professionalism, women in the legal profession, courts in popular culture, litigation against tobacco, trial courts and public policy, divorce mediation, plea bargaining, and the transformation of disputes. Her most recent book (co-authored), Divorce Lawyers at Work: Varieties of Professionalism in Practice (2001) published by Oxford University Press, received the C. Herman Pritchett Award from the American Political Science Association for the best book in the field of law and courts. She received her Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California, Irvine. Details>>

Jolene Rickard

Associate Professor, Department of Visual Studies

Rickard is a Tuscaroran photographer, art historian, theorist and essayist. Her scholarly work focuses on the aesthetic practice of First Nations and indigenous peoples in a global context. It spans a broad range of issues in historical and contemporary art, including the examination of Native-American iconography, the "trickster" in art, Iroquoian women's beadwork, and the relationship between Native-American and African-American art.  Details>> 

Barbara H. Tedlock

U.B. Distinguished Professor, Department of Anthropology

Tedlock is an initiated shaman practicing within the ancient Mayan subtle energy system of highland Guatemala. She is also a U.B. Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at UB and a Research Associate at the School of American Research. She is the granddaughter of an Ojibwe woman shaman and an international speaker on shamanism and healing. At UB and various other venues worldwide she teaches courses and conducts workshops on the feminine dimensions of shamanism as well as Mayan shamanic teachings. She received her Ph.D. from the State University of New York at Albany. Details>> 

Margarita Vargas

Associate Professor, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures

Co-Director, UB Institute for Research and Education on Women and Gender

Vargas' research interests include Spanish-American theatre, Mexican Literature, and contemporary theory. A UB faculty member since 1985, Her work has been published in major literary journals here and abroad, and she has translated a number of works, including The House on the Beach and The Night, both by Juan Garcia Ponce, and fictional works by Ines Arrodondo. She received her Ph.D. in Spanish from the University of Kansas. Details>>

Lillian Williams

Associate Professor and Department Chair, Department of African American Studies

Williams is an award-winning specialist in U.S. social and urban history, She is the author of Strangers in the Land of Paradise: The Creation of an African American Community, Buffalo, New York, 1900-1940, and conducts research in the fields of institutional development, ethnicity, biography and women's history. Details>>