MATHEMATICS

EDUCATION
Degree	Institution	Year Graduated
PhD, Mathematics	City University of New York Graduate Center	1985-2000
MS, Mathematics	Courant Institute/New York University	1977-1984
BS, Mathematics	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	1976

TEACHING (Full-Time)
Institution	Responsibilities	Years
Yeshivat Ramaz	High school teacher Precalculus, AP Calculus	September 2008 - August 2009
New Jersey City University	Assistant Professor Taught Calculus I, Intermediate Algebra, Basic College Math, Basic College Algebra, Linear Algebra, Abstract Algebra, C++, History of Iraq, from Prehistory to the American Occupation Academic Foundations Committee Curriculum Committee	September 2005 - August 2008
Brooklyn College	Assistant Professor Math Education, Geometry, Non-Euclidean Geometry, Abstract Algebra, History of Mathematics, Projective Geometry, Galois Theory Students Records Committee	September 2003 - May 2006
Fordham University	Assistant Professor Business Math, Statistics, Business Calculus	September 2000 - May 2002
LaGuardia Community College	Instructor Taught remedial courses, pre-calculus (with Maple), calculus I & II (with TI 83 calculator), statistics, and discrete math Chair of the remedial arithmetic committee Department liaison for Reading across the Curriculum Department liaison for Distance Learning Organized a seminar on Galois theory Faculty advisor to the Jewish, Korean, and Multicultural Clubs	September 1997 - August 2000

TEACHING (Adjunct)
Institution	Responsibilities	Years
Fashion Institute of Technology	Geometry for the fashion industry, finite math, remedial math	1997, 2003-2005, 2009
Nassau Community College	Java Programming	2003
Queensborough Community College	C++ Programming	2003
Brooklyn College	Precalculus	2003
New York University School of Continuing Education	Remedial Algebra	2002-2005
New York Institute of Technology	Calculus III, Linear Algebra	2000-2001
Hunter College and School of Continuing Education	Remedial, Business Math, Precalculus, Statistics, Calculus I & II, Mathematica, JavaScript, HTML, Dreamweaver	1988-1997, 2000-2003
John Jay College	Remedial courses, finite math, Visual Basic for Applications, C++ (second term), Web Page Design, JavaScript, Microsoft Applications Faculty Advisor, Jewish Club Faculty Mentor	1988-1997, 2000-2003
Manhattan College	Linear Math, Calculus I & II	1988-1989
Hostos Community College	Remedial Courses, Statistics	1988
Fordham Univesity	Linear Math, Calculus I	1987
Baruch College	College Algebra	1987
Borough of Manhattan Community College	Remedial Courses	1983-1988

OTHER WORK EXPERIENCE
Institution	Responsibilities	Years
East Flatbush Jewish Center	Excel/Word VBA project	2003
	Copy-Editor, Davis/Dugopolsky, Intermediate Algebra	2003
	Copy-Editor, Sullivan/Mizrachi, Finite Mathematics, 9e, chapters 9-13	2003
Be'er HaGolah	AP Calculus Instructor	1998-2000
Park Slope Jewish Center	Hebrew Instructor	1994-1996, 1999, 2000
Yeshiva Torah Temima	Ninth and Tenth Grade Math	1995-1996
The Learning Center	Teaching math for sheet metal apprentices	1987
Mary Louise Academy	High School Physics and Math	1983
National Council on Compensation Insurance	Actuarial Trainee	1977
Saint Ann's Episcopal School	High School Math Teacher	1976
Upward Bound	Volunteer Tutor	1969-1972

SERVICES TO THE PROFESSION
Judge, Greater Metropolitan New York Math Fair	1993-present
Mentor, Westinghouse Talent Search	1999

PRESENTATIONS
International Conference on Technology in Collegiate Mathematics (20th Session)	“Using Powerpoint VBA for Math Education”	2008
International Conference on Technology in Collegiate Mathematics (19th Session)	”Generating Exams Using VBA for Word”	2007
International Conference on Technology in Collegiate Mathematics (17th Session)	”A JavaScript Online Arithmetic Tutorial”	2005
Instructional Computing &Information Technologies	Best practices on Blackboard	2004
International Conference on Technology in Collegiate Mathematics (16th Session)	“MS Word VBA Programming for Automating Test Generation”	2003
International Conference on Technology in Collegiate Mathematics (15th Session)	“Strategies for JavaScript Applications for Online Problem-Solving”	2002

SKILLS

Competent in Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, and Access relational databases), HTML, LaTex, Mathematica, Maple, Blackboard, Geometer’s Sketchpad, and the TI graphing utilities
Has worked in programming languages: Java, C, C++, Visual Basic for Applications Excel , Access, and Word, and JavaScript.
Speak and/or read Persian, French, Arabic, Turkish, Biblical Hebrew, (Russian), (German), (Georgian)

MIDDLE EAST STUDIES

Publications

Introduction, The Hussaini Encyclopedia (Hussaini Center for Research, London, 2007)
Ahmad Kasravi, History of the Iranian Constitutional Revolution, vol. I (translation) (Mazda Publishers, Costa Mesa, 2006)
“The Use of Classical Iranian Literature in Azerbaijani Satire: The Case of Molla Nasr od-Din” in Horst Unbehaun (ed.), The Middle Eastern Press as a Forum for Literature (Germany: Peter Lang, 2004)
“Äkinchi and Azerbaijani Self-Definition” in Anja Pistor-Hatam (ed.), Amtsblatt, vilayet gazetesi un unabhängiges Journal: Die Anfäng der Presse im Nahen Osten (Germany: Peter Lang, 2001)
“An Azerbaijani Poets’ Duel over Iranian Constitutionalism” in Michael Ursinus, Raoul Motika, & Christoph Herzog (eds.), Presse und Öffentlichkeit im Nahen Östen (Istanbul: ISIS Yayinlari, 2000)
“The Politics of Shahid-e Javid” in Werner Ende and Rainer Brunner (eds.), The Twelver Shia in Modern Times: Religious Culture and Political History (Leiden: Brill (Social, Economic and Political Studies of the Middle East, vol. 72), 2000)
“The Turkish Language in Iran by Ahmad Kasravi” (translated from Arabic), Journal of Azerbaijani Studies (vol. 1, no. 2, 1998)
"A Woman’s Letters to Molla Nasr od-Din (Tbilisi)" in: Christopher Herzog et al. (ed.), Presse und Öffentlichkeit im Nahen Östen (Heidelberg: Heidelberg Orientverelag, 1995)
"Chand Maqale az Molla Nasr od-Din,"Nimeye Digar no. 17 (Winter 1993).

CONFERENCE PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS:

Voice of America (Persian language section), September 28, 2007
Deutsche Welle (Persian language section), July 16, 2006
“The Evolution of Ahmad Kasravi’s Views on the Iranian Constitutional Revolution,” The Centennial of The Persian Constitutional Movement 1906-2006, September 2006
“Ahmad Kasravi and Iran’s Foreign Policy,” The Sixth Biennial of Iranian Studies, August 2006
“Problems of Ahmad Kasravi’s Historiography of the Constitutional Revolution,” Conference Commemorating the Constitution: State-Building and Global responses to Iranian Constitutionalism, 1906-2006, March 2006
“Problems of Ahmad Kasravi’s Historiography of the Constitutional Revolution,” Commemorating the Constitution: State-Building and Global Responses to Iranian Constitutionalism, 1906-2006, Geneva, Switzerland, October 2002
“The Shi`ite Clericalist Indictment of Iranian Constitutionalism,” Images, Representations and Perceptions in the Shia World, Geneva, Switzerland, October 2002
"Debates in Georgian Historiography on the Iranian Constitutional Revolution," Society for Iranian Studies Conference (2001)
"Azerbaijani “The Uses of Persian Classical Literature in Early Azerbaijani Satire," International Conference on "The Middle Eastern Press as a Forum for Literature, Bamberg, Germany (October 2001)
“The Mullah and the Commissar: Mirza Jalil Muhammadquluzada in the Land of the Soviets,” Middle East Studies Association (2000)
“Soviet Georgian Historiography of the Iranian Constitutionalist Revolution,” Society for Iranian Studies Conference (2000)
“A Debate on Women and the Shariat, Baku 1907,” Middle East Studies Association (1999)
“Some Aspects of the Shahid-e Javid Debate in Iran,” Die Zwölfershia in der Neuzeit, Freiburg, October 1999
“Armenophilia among the Azerbaijani Intelligentsia,” Association for the Study of Nationalities (1999)
"Shahid-e Javid as an Alternate Huseynology," Middle East Studies Association (1998)
“Azerbaijani Identity in the first Caucasian Muslim Press: The Case of Ekinchi,” Die Anfänge der Press im Nahen Osten, Aachen, October 1998
“Iranian Historical Survival,” An Evening of Persian Literature, Music, and Poetry (hosted by Encyclopedia Iranica) (Naw Ruz, 1997)
"Taze Hayat (Baku) and the Iranian Constitutionalist Revolution," Middle East Studies Association (1997)
“Taze Hayat between Ottoman Pan-Islam and Iran,” Iran and the Ottoman Empire (Germany, 1997)
"Ahmad Kasravi: From Nationalism to Internationalism," L’Association Française pour l‘Étude du Monde Arabe et Musulman (France, 1996)
"Ahmad Kasravi and the 1946 Azerbaijan Autonomous Government," Middle East Studies Association (1996)
"Women’s Letters to the Editor in Molla Nasr od-Din," Newspaper and Public Opinion in the Islamic World Seminar (Germany, 1996)
"Ahmad Kasravi between Iranism and Azerbaijanism," Middle East Studies Association (1995)
“Molla Nasr od-Din and the Iranian Constitutionalist Revolution,” Baku International Symposium (Republic of Azerbaijan, 1995)
"Molla Nasr od-Din′s Impact on the Iranian Constitutionalist Press," Middle East Studies Association (1994)
"Molla Nasr od-Din and Sattar Khan′s Uprising," Middle East Studies Association (1993)
"Molla Nasr od-Din and the Iranian Constitutionalist Revolution, 1906-1907," Middle East Studies Association (1992)
"Molla Nasr od-Din and the Iranian Constitutionalist Revolution, 1906-1907," Baku, Azerbaijan
"A Palestinian View of the Iranian Revolution," Middle East Studies Association (1990)
"Mehdi Hashemi and the Iranian Revolution," Middle East Studies Association (1998)
"A Palestinian View of the Iranian Revolution," Center for Iranian Research and Analysis (1987)

SERVICES TO THE PROFESSION

Editorial Board Member 1998-2000, Journal of Azerbaijani Studies
Corresponding Secretary 1994-2002, International Society for Azerbaijani Studies