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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- Athar Abdul-Quader
- Elliott Abrams
- Evan Adamson
- T. Adamson
- Ennis Addison
- Ndukwe Daniel Agwu
- Lily Akerman
- Carlos Amado
- Alan Anderson
- Aryana Alexis Anderson
- Chris Anderson
- Joel Neville Anderson
- Robert Anderson
- Graham Ashton
- Janis Astor del Valle
- Troy Atkinson
- Christian Bailey
- Jane Bailey
- Thomas Baird
- Gail Baldoni
- Anthony Banua-Simon
- Michi Barall
- Nicholas Barbato
- Marcy Barbeau
- Beanie Barnes
- Kimberly Bartosik
- David Bassuk
- Billy Bataille
- Maria Bauman
- A. Dean Bell
- Michael Bell-Smith
- Frank Bellevue
- Leandro Benmergui
- James Bergesen
- Jeffrey Berner
- Sue Bernhard
- Trazana Beverley
- Adam Birnbaum
- Christopher Bisignano
- Billy Blanken
- Sonya Blesofsky
- Emily Blumenfeld
- Bina Bora
- Christine Botta
- Nancy Bowen
- Virginia Breen
- Timothy Briner
- Ellen Brooks
- Bradley Brookshire
- Leon Addison Brown
- Silas Brown
- Stephanie Brown
- Tymon Brown
- Deborah Buck
- Stephen Buck
- Tom Burckhardt
- Lenka Pichlíková Burke
- Tom Burkhardt
- James Burton
- Esteban Cabeza de Baca
- Julian Caldwell
- Noel Capozzalo
- Naydu Carmona
- Jessica J. Carnevale
- Darrah Carr
- Karen Carroll-Ogunka
- Diana Cassells
- Carolyn B. Cates
- Cédric Ceulemans
- Wells Chandler
- Sabrina Charney Hull
- Tania Chelnov- Snitow
- Dual Rivet, Chelsea Ainsworth, Quaba Earnest, and Jessica Smith
- Iuliia Chikish
- Laura M. Chmielewski
- Tracy Christensen
- Simona Cipriani
- Larry Clark
- Timothy Cobb
- Jaffe Cohen
- Ernesto Menedez Conde
- Stephen A. Cooke
- Deborah Cooper
- Sara Cooper
- Caroline Copeland- Nizam
- Donna Cornachio
- Alex Correia
- Michael Costa
- Lindsey Crane
- Natalie Cruz
- Carissa Cunningham
- Meagan Curtis
- James G. Daly
- Ross A. Daly
- Maxilmilien Darché
- Annette Courniotes Davies
- Damien Davis
- Malachi Davis
- 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
- Alexandra Dos Santos
- Jay Duckworth
- Colleen Duffy
- James Dunn
- Katherine Dye
- Erika Ebbs
- Stella Ebner
- Jill Echo
- Monika L. Eckenberg
- Adar Eisenbruch
- Bradley Teal Ellis
- Matthew Ember
- 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
- Janene Fetky
- Colyn Fiendel
- RJ Figueroa
- Scott Fisher
- Emily FitzGerald
- Tracy Schpero Fitzpatrick
- Elizabeth Flood
- Melissa Forstrom
- Jean Freebury
- Lisa Frey
- Brandalyn Fulton
- Janice Fung
- Samuel Galloway
- Maria Luisa Gambale
- Mtume Gant
- Hannah Garner
- Shawn Garnier
- Domenick Gasparro
- Rudolf Gaudio
- Linda Gelman
- Darcy Gervasio
- Patrice Giasson
- Dawn Gibson-Brehon
- Kate Gilmore
- Kristyan Gilmore
- Steve Gomer
- Charles Gomez
- Daniela Gomez Paz
- Lupita Gonzalez
- Christopher Graham
- Pasquale Grasso
- Christopher Greco
- Russell Greenberg
- David Grill
- Roni Gross
- Elizabeth Guffey
- Vanessa Gully Santiago
- Maria Guralnik
- Andy Hall
- Rachel Hallote
- Paula Halperin
- Bonnie Hamilton
- Keavy Handley-Byrne
- David Handschuh
- Dan Hanessian
- Alysa Hantgan
- Lauren Harburger
- Dana Michelle Harris
- Stephen Harris
- Casey Haskins
- Rebecca Haviland
- David Hazeltine
- Xiang He
- Amber Heaton
- Gerard Hecht
- Kristen Heinrich
- Amber Hennes
- Amina Henry
- Alison Hublard Hershman
- Yanine Hess
- Henry Hey
- Knoelle Higginson
- Faye Hirsch
- Carlie Hoffman
- Nattie + Hollis
- Nathan Holmes
- Cassandra Hooper
- Mara T. Horowitz
- Sharon Horvath
- Gareth Hougham
- Bonnie J. Howland
- Titia Hulst
- Matthew Immergut
- A. Dean Irby
- Allyson K. Jackson
- David H. Jameson
- Camilla Jantke-Chiappari
- Kemp Jernigan
- Jonathan Jetter
- Phil Joly
- Mark Jonas
- 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
- Adiya Katseff
- Lisa Keller
- Howie Kenty
- Anne M. Kern
- George Keteku
- Sun Hee Kil
- David J. Kim
- Janet S. Kim
- Mina Kim
- Yong Hee Kim
- Suzannah Kincannon
- James King
- Mariana Carreño King
- Jared Kirby
- Ted T. Kivitt
- Bryan Korn
- Marin Kosut
- Susan Kouguell
- Tatiana Kouguell-Hoell
- Robert Kozma
- George P. Kraemer
- Julian Kreimer
- Jane Kromm
- Gari Laguardia
- Ralph Lalama
- Steven Lambert
- Keith Landa
- Lorraine LaPrade
- Andy LaVerne
- Kevin Lawrence
- Yoon Lee
- Elise Lemire
- Jamie Leonhart
- Michael Leonhart
- Arnold Levine
- Francesca Levine
- Michael Siporin Levine
- Jessica Levy
- Catherine Lewis
- Judy Lieff
- Esther Lim
- Cynthia Lin
- Kristen Lindberg
- Sherry Llauger
- Dianey Lujan
- Joshua Lutz
- Robin Lynch
- Martin Løfsnes
- Tim Mackabee
- James Madejski
- Sara Magenheimer
- Joseph Malbrough
- Pete Malinverni
- Ed Malone
- Eric Mandelbaum
- Tiffany Mangulabnan
- Kerry Manzo
- Ana Margineanu
- Ash Marinaccio
- Mark Marshall
- Carrie Marten
- Beatriz Martin-Ruiz
- Edwin Martinez
- Brian Maston
- Ina Mayhew
- Rachael Mcarther
- Christopher McCann
- Mitchell McCoy
- Scott McCrea
- Maryann McEnroe
- Shaka McGlotten
- Lauren McIntyre
- Joseph McKay
- Barbara E. McMullen
- Katherine McQuillen
- Darmon Meader
- Sade Meeks
- Paul Megna
- Deborah Mesa-Pelly
- Elizabeth Rose Middleton
- Johnny Milani
- William Bryant Miles
- Genevieve Mills
- Milan Misko
- Phil Moffa
- Patrick Mohundro
- Lisa Jean Moore
- Adrian Morejon
- Roberta Morell
- Jesse Moy
- Gustavo Murillo Fernandez-Valdes
- Hugh Murphy
- Katie Murray
- Gaura Narayan
- Heidi Neilson
- Djordje Nesic
- Jaime Neudecker
- Rosalind Newman
- Matt Noble
- Melanie Noblit-Gambino
- Kayle Nochomovitz
- Erica Norgaard
- Mehdi Tavana Okasi
- Ugonna Okegwo
- Rebecca Albrecht Oling
- Matthew Olmos
- Hochi Ortega-Asiatico
- Ayako Oshima Neidich
- Julian Osorio
- Matt Otto
- Sherry Overholt
- Rachel Owens
- Anna Ozbek
- Tara Helen O’Connor
- Lawrence O’Neil
- Michael O’Shea
- John O’Tool
- Brian Paccione
- Nancy Palmatier
- Adam Pape
- Margaret Peot
- Vanessa Perez
- Krystal Perkins
- Sarah Peters
- Sarah Petersiel
- Liz Phillips
- Adam Pietrykowski
- Jason A. Pine
- Bradley Pitts
- Lorraine Plourde
- Janine Polak
- Nicolette Polek
- Jesse Edward Poleshuck
- Peter Polinski
- Daphne Pollon
- Edward Pomerantz
- Jessica Pozzuoli
- Gavin Pritchard
- Stephanie Prugh
- Andoveloniaina Rasolofo
- David Recca
- Ben Recher
- Chris Reineck
- Peter Reit
- Clover Reshad
- Adam Resnick
- Laura Ricciardi
- Jonathan Riedel
- Patricia Rind
- Albert Rivera
- Kristen Robinson
- Mariel Rodney
- Melissa Rodriguez
- Ligaiya Romero
- Tessa Rossi
- Megan Rossman
- Charles Routhier
- Gina Ruggeri
- Rachel Rumore
- Joseph Russo
- Yael Levitin Saban
- Naomi Safran-Hon
- Andrew Saito
- Jonathan Salamon
- 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
- Jennifer Schriever
- Jenna Schultz
- Mark Schwartz
- Kate Scorza Ingram
- Jeana Scotti
- Olga Seham
- Lane Sell
- Lane Sell
- Rosanna Seravalli
- Irina Shablinsky
- Brynn Shiovitz
- Susan Shopmaker
- Jordan Shue
- Paul Siegel
- Bettijane Sills
- Alexis M. Silver
- Charly Simpson
- Linda Celeste Sims
- Brooke Singer
- Dragon Sisters
- Kyle Sitzman
- Joseph Skrivanek
- Alan McIntyre Smith
- Gary Smulyan
- Vanessa Solomon
- Gregory Spears
- Samuel Spillman
- James Spione
- Peter Sprague
- Peggy Stafford
- Haralabos (Harry) Stafylakis
- Alexandra Stamson
- Howard Stern
- Matthew Stern
- Ronni Stewart
- Emily Stout
- Maggie Surovell
- Simon Surowicz
- Rob Swainston
- Joe Swatski
- Deborah Symons
- Patricia Szobonya
- Jack Tamburri
- Jack Tamburri
- Aviva Taubenfeld
- Gregory Taylor
- Ryan W. Taylor
- Olive Teague
- Amanda J. Thackray
- Paul Thayer
- Lamine Thiam
- Andrea Thome
- Joy Marie Thompson
- Beau Thorne
- 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
- Ragnhild Utheim
- Caren Valente
- Nelly van Bommel
- Caleb van der Swaagh
- Doug Varone
- Margaret Vignola
- Marian Villota
- Mark Viola
- Bridget Visser
- Michelle Wagner
- Mary Waller
- Jo Ann Walters
- Sarah Warren
- Kenny Washington
- Robert Watson
- Sam Wear
- Chuck Webster
- Michelle Weinberg
- Michelle Weinberg
- Sean Weiner
- Lori R. Wekselblatt
- Les Wertheim
- Jonah Westerman
- Gregory Wharmby
- Tony White
- Grant Wilcoxen
- Cezar Williams
- Christopher Williams
- Megan Williams
- Rosalyn Coleman Williams
- David Wilson
- Matthew Wilson
- Drew Wimmer
- David Wong
- Kit Yi Wong
- Jason Wood
- David Woolard
- Lachell Workman
- Amy Beth Wright
- Cong Wu
- Anita Yavich
- Zhu Yi
- John G. Young
- David Yozzo
- Agustín Zarzosa
- Leo Zausen
- Sharon Zechowski
- J.D. Zeik
- Chen Zhang
- Ling Zhang
- William Zimmerman
- Raphael Zollinger
- Carmit Rinehart Zori
- Nicole Zuraitis
Faculty Emeriti
- Shemeem Burney Abbas
- Karen L. Baird
- Carol Bankerd
- Linda Bastone
- Peter F. Bell
- Allyson Bellink
- Judith Bernstein
- Naomi Block
- Shirley Neilsen Blum
- Iris Cahn
- 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
- Juan Alejandro Forrest de Sloper
- 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
- Sanford Ikeda
- 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
- Paul Ostrovsky
- David F. Ostwald
- Séamus O’Cléireacáin
- Dennis Parichy
- 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
- Louise Yelin
- Renqiu Yu
- Murray Zimiles
- Philip Zimmermann