James Dahlman Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Tech James Dahlman is a chemical / bioengineer who works at the interface of nanotechnology, genomics, and gene editing. He is studying gene editing with Feng Zhang at the Broad Institute. He received his PhD from MIT and Harvard Medical School in 2014, where he studied RNA delivery and gene therapies with Robert Langer and Daniel Anderson.… read more »
Patricia Dailey Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University Patricia Dailey is an Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, Co-Chair of the Affect Studies University Seminar, the Gender and Sexuality Studies Council, and the Colloquium for Early Medieval Studies. Her book Promised Bodies: Time, Language, and Corporeality in Medieval Women’s Mystical Texts (Columbia University Press, 2013) looks at the way women’s mystical texts of the Middle Ages offer us an embodied sense of “living the way one reads.” … read more »
Elias Dakwar Associate Professor, Clinical Psychiatry, Columbia University Elias Dakwar, MD is an Associate Professor at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, and a board-certified addiction and general psychiatrist. He has been researching novel treatments for addictions for over a decade, with the support of several grants from the National Institutes of Health.… read more »
Lisa DeBenedittis Lisa DeBenedittis is an Assistant Professor of Design Research at Parsons School of Design, and most recently has served as Vice Provost of The New School, and Associate Dean at Parsons. She completed her Ph.D. (NYU) in 2005, writing on the aesthetics of subjectivity, and completed her analytic training at the Jungian Psychoanalytic Association, now in practice in New York City and Long Island.… read more »
Marit Delozier Lawyer and Assistant District Attorney, New York city. Marit DeLozier currently serves as an Assistant District Attorney for the Manhattan DA’s Office. Prior to becoming a prosecutor, she clerked for the DC Court of Appeals and also served as special legal counsel to the Senate Judiciary Committee on the nomination of Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts. … read more »
Elizabeth Demaray Elizabeth Demaray is a fine artist whose research area is the interface between the built and the natural environment. Working in sculpture, digital media and eco-art, she designs listening stations for birds that play human music, cultures lichen on the sides of skyscrapers in New York City, and manufactures alternative forms of housing for hermit crabs out of man-made materials.… read more »
Sarah Demers Horace D. Taft Associate Professor of Physics, Yale University Professor Demers is a particle physicist who studies the fundamental particles and forces of nature. Her recent work has focused on the characterization of the Higgs Boson and a measurement of tau polarization with the ATLAS Collaboration at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider.… read more »
Richard Deming Poet & Critic View Papers / Presentations » Richard Deming is an award-winning poet and critic, whose work explores the intersections of literature, philosophy, and visual culture. He is the author of six books, including This Exquisite Loneliness (Viking, 2023), Day for Night (Shearsman, 2016) and Art of the Ordinary (Stanford UP, 2018). … read more »
George Denfield Neuroscience & Psychiatry Resident Physician, Columbia University & New York State Psychiatric Institute. View Papers / Presentations » George Hilton Denfield, IV, MD, PhD, is a Leon Levy Fellow in Neuroscience and psychiatry resident physician at Columbia University and the New York State Psychiatric Institute. He completed his BS at Tufts University, concentrating in biopsychology and cognitive science. Dr.… read more »
Simon Deng Simon Aban Deng is a human rights activist living in the United States. A native of the Shilluk Kingdom in southern Sudan, he spent several years as a child slave until escaping and thereafter applying for asylum in the U.S. and taking U.S.… read more »
Neşe Devenot Postdoctoral Associate, Institute for Research in Sensing (IRiS) University of Cincinnati Affiliate Scholar, Center for Psychedelic Drug Research & Education (CPDRE), Ohio State University Medicine, Society & Culture Research Fellow, Psymposia. View Papers / Presentations » Neşe Devenot, PhD (she/they) is a Postdoctoral Associate at the Institute for Research in Sensing (IRiS) at the University of Cincinnati; an Affiliate Scholar at the Center for Psychedelic Drug Research & Education (CPDRE) at The Ohio State University; and the Medicine, Society & Culture Research Fellow with Psymposia.… read more »
Gayatri Devi Director of Park Avenue Neurology Clinical Professor of Neurology, SUNY Downstate Medical Center Gayatri Devi M.D. is a New York City neurologist, board-certified in Neurology, Pain Medicine, Psychiatry, Brain Injury Medicine, and Behavioral Neurology. Born and raised in India, after post-graduate residency training at Downstate and Columbia University, she established a center for neurologic wellness.… read more »
Stephanie Dick Assistant Professor, History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania Stephanie Dick is an Assistant Professor of History and Sociology of Science at the University of Pennsylvania. She received her PhD in History of Science from Harvard University in 2015 and was a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows prior to joining the faculty at Penn.… read more »
Georges Didi-Huberman Philosopher and Art Historian, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales Georges Didi-Huberman, philosopher and art historian, teaches at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales) in Paris, where he has been a lecturer since 1990. He is a winner of the Distinguished Lifetime Achievement Award for Writing on Art given by the College Art Association.… read more »
Ken Dill Professor of Physics and Chemistry, Stony Brook University Director of the Laufer Center for Physical Biology Ken Dill is a Professor of Physics and Chemistry at Stony Brook University, and Director of the Laufer Center for Physical Biology. He helped to solve the `protein folding problem’ and is interested in the principles of proteins, cell evolution and the early molecular origins of life.… read more »
Theodore Dimon Director of The Dimon Institute; adjunct assistant professor, Columbia Teachers College. Theodore (Ted) Dimon is the founder and director of The Dimon Institute and an adjunct assistant professor at Columbia Teachers College. Dimon’s pioneering work covers the study of the human mental and physical ‘operating system’ as a holistic entity and how it works in activity.… read more »
Nancy DiTomaso Vice Dean for Faculty and Research, and Professor of Management and Global Business, Rutgers University Business School Nancy DiTomaso is Vice Dean for Faculty and Research and Professor of Management and Global Business at Rutgers Business School—Newark and New Brunswick. Her research specialties include the management of diversity and change, the management of knowledge-based organizations, and the management of scientists and engineers.… read more »
Anis Dizdarevic Assistant Clinical Professor of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Columbia University Medical Center Anis Dizdarevic MD is an assistant clinical professor of anesthesiology and pain medicine at Columbia University Medical Center. He specializes in acute and chronic pain, causes, evolution and management. His particular interest is in pain prevention, minimally invasive pain management and mind-body remodeling and rehabilitation mechanisms.… read more »
Gul Dolen Dr. Dölen’s lab focuses studying the molecular, circuit, developmental, and evolutionary mechanisms of social behaviors using a number of evolving and established techniques including: electrophysiology, optogenetics, viral mediated gene transfer, RNA and DNA sequencing, anatomy, and behavior. In addition, her work seeks to harness mechanistic insights for treating neurodevelopmental disorders like autism and schizophrenia, which are characterized by impairments in social behaviors, as well as disorders like addiction and post-traumatic stress disorder that respond to social influence or are the result of social injury.… read more »
Jeff Dolven Poet Professor | Acting Chair, Princeton University Jeff Dolven teaches poetry and poetics at Princeton University. He has an abiding interest in the relations among reading, writing, teaching, and learning—especially the way readers become writers, as a contemporary and a historical question. He is the author of three books of criticism: Scenes of Instruction (Chicago 2007), a study of what poets of the sixteenth century did and didn’t learn from school; Senses of Style (Chicago 2018), about what you like and what you’re like; and the admittedly hasty Take Care (Cabinet 2017), written in twenty-four hours.… read more »
Ray Dougherty Associate Professor of Linguistics, New York University Ray C. Dougherty, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Linguistics at New York University. Professor Dougherty completed the MIT Ph.D. program in Electrical Engineering studying the mathematical communication theories of Shannon, Turing, and von Neumann. He transferred to the Linguistics Department finishing a Ph.D.… read more »
R. Luke DuBois R. Luke DuBois is a composer, artist, and performer who explores the temporal, verbal, and visual structures of cultural and personal ephemera. He holds a doctorate in music composition from Columbia University, and has lectured and taught worldwide on interactive sound and video performance.… read more »