Jonathan Bach is the Interim Dean of SUS and professor of global studies in the Global Studies Program, and faculty affiliate in the Anthropology Department at The New School. His recent work explores social change through the politics of memory, material culture, and urban space, with an emphasis on transitions in Germany and China. He is the author most recently of What Remains: Everyday Encounters with the Socialist Past in Germany (Columbia University Press, 2017), and co-editor of Re-Centring the City: Urban Mutations, Socialist Afterlives, and the Global East (UCL Press, 2020) with Michal Murawski, and co-editor of Learning from Shenzhen: China’s Post-Mao Experiment from Special Zone to Model City (University of Chicago Press, 2017) with Mary Ann O'Donnell and Winnie Wong. His articles have appeared, inter alia, in China Perspectives, The British Journal of Sociology, Memory Studies, Cultural Anthropology, Cultural Politics, Public Culture, Theory, Culture and Society, and Philosophy and Social Science. His first book Between Sovereignty and Integration: German Foreign Policy and National Identity after 1989 (St. Martin’s Press, 1999) examined questions of normalcy and responsibility in Germany during the early years after unification. 

He holds a Ph.D. in political science from the Maxwell School at Syracuse University and has held post-doctoral fellowships at Columbia University (ISERP) and Harvard University (Center for European Studies). Bach was a visiting professor at Brown University’s Watson Institute, a visiting scholar at Columbia University's Harriman Institute and Sociology department, the Institute for European Ethnology at the Humboldt University, Berlin, the Center for Literary and Cultural Studies in Berlin, and the Institute for Peace Research and Security Studies at the University of Hamburg. He is a faculty affiliate at Yale University's European Studies Council and Columbia University's Center on Organizational Innovation and an Associate Member of the Center for the Anthropological Research on Museums and Heritage at the Humboldt University, Berlin. He served on the inaugural Executive Committee of the Memory Studies Association and serves on the editorial boards of German Politics and Society and Sociologica: International Journal for Sociological Debate. At The New School he was the founding chair of the Global Studies Program and served as the associate director of the Julien J. Studley Graduate Programs in International Affairs. He is a 2021 recipient of The New School's Distinguished University Teaching Award.

Jamer Hunt collaboratively designs open and adaptable frameworks for participation that respond to emergent cultural conditions. He was founding director of the graduate program in Transdisciplinary Design at Parsons School of Design (2009-2015). He currently serves as Program Director for University Curriculum at The New School, where from 2016-2021 he served as Vice Provost for Transdisciplinary Initiatives. He is the author of Not to Scale: How the Small Becomes Large, the Large Becomes Unthinkable, and the Unthinkable Becomes Possible (2020), a book that repositions scale as a practice-based framework for navigating social change in complex systems. Fast Company has named him to their list of “Most Creative People.” With Paola Antonelli at the MoMA he was co-creator of the award-winning, curatorial experiment and book Design and Violence (2013-15). With Hilary Jay he co-founded DesignPhiladelphia in 2005, at that time the country’s largest design week. He has published over twenty articles on the poetics and politics of design, including for Fast Company and the Huffington Post, and he is co-author, with Meredith Davis, of Visual Communication Design (2017).

Lisa Rubin is the Interim Executive Dean, Schools of Public Engagement and an Associate Professor of Psychology. 

Concentrations : Gender and Health; Body Image; Psycho-Oncology; Psychological Aspects of Cosmetic/Reconstructive Surgery; Hereditary Cancer Risk/ Risk Management; Assisted Reproductive Technologies; Abortion and Mental Health Reproductive Issues; Feminist Identity; Qualitative Research Methods

I am a cultural historian, artist, and designer. As a historian, I focus on U.S. gender history, visual and print culture, and the intersections of gender and activism. My visual practice is mainly based in photographic media. 

As an academic, I have been a faculty member and administrator in higher education in art and design for over 26 years. I am currently University Professor of Art, Media, and Cultural History at The New School. I served as Executive Dean at Parsons School of Design at The New School (New York City), from July 2019 through July 2022. I currently teach courses at Parsons on research and writing practices for art and design majors, and at Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts on gender history.

I have published three books, numerous peer-reviewed journal articles, additional articles and book chapters. I have exhibited my art works internationally. I recently co-edited a special issue of the Radical History Review with Judith R. Walkowitz, titled "Troubling Terms and the Sex Trades" (forthcoming, May 2024). My most recent book is Elaine Black Yoneda: Jewish Immigration, Labor Activism, and Japanese American Exclusion and Incarceration (Temple University Press, 2021). I am currently conducting research for a book on the visual culture of the fight for reproductive rights in the U.S. during the era of Roe v. Wade.