Tonda Hughes
Henrik H. Bendixin Professor of International Nursing, Director of Global Health Research, School of Nursing at Columbia University
Tonda Hughes, RN, PhD, FAAN is the Henrik H. Bendixin Professor of International Nursing, and Director of Global Health Research, in the School of Nursing at Columbia University; she has an interdisciplinary appointment as Professor in the Department of Psychiatry.
Tonda Hughes
Henrik H. Bendixin Professor of International Nursing, Director of Global Health Research, School of Nursing at Columbia University
Tonda Hughes, RN, PhD, FAAN is the Henrik H. Bendixin Professor of International Nursing, and Director of Global Health Research, in the School of Nursing at Columbia University; she has an interdisciplinary appointment as Professor in the Department of Psychiatry. Dr. Hughes holds the title of Professor Emerita at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) where she was Collegiate Professor and Associate Dean for Global Health in the College of Nursing, and adjunct Professor in the School of Public Health. She holds/has held honorary or visiting professorships in England (Oxford Brookes University), Australia (University of Melbourne, Deakin University, University of Technology-Sydney) and the U.S. (University of Pennsylvania). Professor Hughes has a distinguished career in substance use research. She is well known for her ground breaking work focusing on sexual minority women’s health and she is an internationally recognized expert in the area of substance use and mental health among lesbian and bisexual women.
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Marsha Hurst
Lecturer, Program in Narrative Medicine, School of Professional Studies, Columbia University
Marsha Hurst is on the faculty team of Columbia’s Program in Narrative Medicine and is a research scholar at Columbia University’s Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy, where she is coordinating a faculty seminar on narrative genetics. She is also a consultant on health advocacy programs, issues, and education with particular interest in women’s health and aging. She has consulted for the Medicare Rights Center and is adviser to their advocacy programs, and works with the women’s health reform coalition, Raising Women’s Voices.
Marsha Hurst
Lecturer, Program in Narrative Medicine, School of Professional Studies, Columbia University
Marsha Hurst is on the faculty team of Columbia’s Program in Narrative Medicine and is a research scholar at Columbia University’s Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy, where she is coordinating a faculty seminar on narrative genetics. She is also a consultant on health advocacy programs, issues, and education with particular interest in women’s health and aging. She has consulted for the Medicare Rights Center and is adviser to their advocacy programs, and works with the women’s health reform coalition, Raising Women’s Voices. From 1998 through 2007, Hurst was the director of the graduate program in health advocacy at Sarah Lawrence College. The author of numerous publications, Hurst co-edited, with Sayantani DasGupta, Stories of Illness and Healing: Women Write Their Bodies, an anthology of women’s illness narratives (Kent State University Press, 2007). She is also cofounder and vice president of the Westchester End-of-Life Coalition, and is a member of the New York State Palliative Care Education and Training Council. Hurst earned a bachelor’s degree from Brown University, a Ph.D. in political science from Columbia University, and completed a National Institute of Mental Health post-doctoral fellowship in community medicine and medical sociology at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City.
Andreas Huyssen
Villard Professor of German and Comparative Literature, Columbia University
Andreas Huyssen served as founding director of the Center for Comparative Literature and Society (1998-2003) and chaired the Department of Germanic Languages from 1986-1992 and again from 2005-2008. His research and teaching focus on 18th-20th-century German literature and culture, international modernism, Frankfurt School critical theory, postmodernism, cultural memory of historical trauma in transnational contexts, and, most recently, urban culture and globalization. He is one of the founding editors of New German Critique (1974-).
Andreas Huyssen
Villard Professor of German and Comparative Literature, Columbia University
Andreas Huyssen served as founding director of the Center for Comparative Literature and Society (1998-2003) and chaired the Department of Germanic Languages from 1986-1992 and again from 2005-2008. His research and teaching focus on 18th-20th-century German literature and culture, international modernism, Frankfurt School critical theory, postmodernism, cultural memory of historical trauma in transnational contexts, and, most recently, urban culture and globalization. He is one of the founding editors of New German Critique (1974-), and he serves on the editorial boards of October, Constellations, Germanic Review, Transit, Key Words (UK), Critical Space (Tokyo), Memory Studies (UK), Lumina (Brazil), Comunicação & Cultura(Portugal). In 2005, he won Columbia's coveted Mark van Doren teaching award.
Huyssen has published widely in German and English and his work has been translated into Spanish, Portuguese, French, Swedish, Danish, Slovenian, Hungarian, Polish, Turkish, Japanese, and Chinese. His books include Die frühromantische Konzeption von Übersetzung und Aneignung. Studien zur frühromantischen Utopie einer deutschen Weltliteratur (1969), Friedrich Schlegel. "Athenäums"-Fragmente und andere Schriften (1978, latest reprint 2005), Drama des Sturm und Drang (1980), The Technological Imagination: Theories and Fictions (ed. with Teresa de Lauretis and Kathleen Woodward, 1980), After the Great Divide: Modernism, Mass Culture, Postmodernism (1986), Postmoderne: Zeichen eines kulturellen Wandels (ed. with Klaus Scherpe, 1986), Modernity and the Text: Revisions of German Modernism (ed. with David Bathrick, 1989), Twilight Memories: Marking Time in a Culture of Amnesia (1995), Present Pasts: Urban Palimpsests and the Politics of Memory (2003), and the edited volume on the culture of non-Western cities entitled Other Cities, Other Worlds: Urban Imaginaries in a Globalizing World (2008). His most recent collection of essays, so far only published in Spanish, is Modernismo después de la posmodernidad (2010). Other recent titles include William Kentridge and Nalini Malani: The Shadowplay as Medium of Memory (2013) and Miniature Metropolis: Literature in an Age of Photography and Film (2015).
He currently continues work on two projects: a study of modernist miniatures, an experimental form of modernist writing, widespread in French and German modernism from Baudelaire to Rilke, Benn, Kafka, Kracauer, Jünger, Musil, Benjamin, and Adorno. And a consideration of the overlaps and tensions between the contemporary discourses of memory and human rights.
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