SULP Faculty

Following approval by Syracuse University faculty committee, SU London appoints 40-50 adjunct faculty each semester from a wide range of academic and professional backgrounds. The majority hold full-time appointments at British universities, and enjoy teaching in a different undergraduate pedagogy. Professional classes in advertising, public relations and communications are taught by British and European practioners, who typically hold senior management level positions in agencies and companies, or run their own practices.

The following list is a sample of current faculty. To contact someone not listed, please email the Academic Administrator Rachel Tafesse, who will redirect your email as appropriate.

Dennis Bury has been an Adjunct Professor at SU London for twelve years. He is a Chartered Psychologist and is a Registered Therapist in five different associations. He writes regularly for small journals and is on the Council for Conflict Research. He is a researcher in the field of recovery from Depression. His teaching subject is Personality and here he has an interest in models of assessment. The course he teaches focuses on deriving profiles and seeks to encourage students to predict how various types will respond to future global crises.

Christopher Cook is a cultural historian and broadcaster who has been teaching communications courses for SU London for over two decades. His special interest is visual communication in the mass media. However, he also teaches courses in the history of broadcasting, British cinema and British theatre. He writes and broadcasts for the BBC on Western classical music and reviews and writes features for International Record Review and BBC Music Magazine. He is currently a visiting Professor at the University of the Arts, London and in 2008 was invited to give a series of Gresham lectures on the visual construction of Television News.

Dr. Wolfgang Deckers has 25 years teaching experience in a variety of institutes in the UK and abroad giving him an awareness of different education systems. He teaches on an undergraduate level for a variety of Majors in a non-specialist way. Dr. Deckers emphasizes in his work the correlation between politics and economics on an international level. Dr. Deckers emphasizes the importance of students to enjoy their studies and to challenge their current perspectives and understanding of the world around them. He aims for students to feel motivated to engage on a significant level with the globalized world of which they are part. Dr. Deckers is interested and motivated to teach as a means to tackle injustice and education is a particularly powerful tool for this. Dr. Deckers likes living in multicultural London and likes traveling to experience other lives.

Hadi Enayat is writing a doctorate on the legal system in Iran. He has lived and worked in Iran, Egypt and Turkey and teaches a range of politics and sociology courses in London mainly focused on Islamic and Middle East issues. He has also worked in various capacities with refugees and asylum seekers living in the UK.

Robin Evans has worked in the advertising and communications industries since 1971 and teaches an advertising course at SU London. Recieved an M.A., from Trinity College Dublin;, an M.Phil. from University College London, and a CAM Diploma from CAM Foundation. Delivers CAM Advertising and Media fast-track training programs at London Guildhall University.

Lara Frumkin has a BS, MA and PhD in psychology. She worked in the US at a nonprofit association and for the Federal government. Since coming to London, she has conducted research at two universities and is currently working at the Institute of Education. She teaches forensic psychology at Syracuse University.

Sheila Gunn is a Communications Consultant for a homeless charity and an international development agency. Sheila also lectures at City University. Formerly Political Correspondent on The Times and Personal Press Spokesman for the then Prime Minister, John Major.

Cathy Haill teaches a drama course for SULP. She earned an M.A. in Art History and a B.A. in English. A curator with the Theatre Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum, she also has extensive acting experience and serves as a lecturer on theatre history and specialist in popular entertainment. She has written several books, including Theatre Posters, Illustrated Music Sheets, and Fun Without Vulgarity–Edwardian Theatre Posters. Contributor to the Dictionary of National Biography.

Ian Hessenberg graduated from The Polytechnic of Central London with a BA (hons) in Creative Photography. Ian runs a freelance practice in Commercial, Advertising and Fashion photography. Until 2008 he was Head of Photography at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London. He now teaches photo classes at Syracuse University London Centre and undertakes freelance commissions and consultancy work.

Sandra Heytmajer is a specialist in the Graphic Communications industry from creating retail identities for the changing High Street in the 80's and working on the Habitat Catalogue for Conran Design, to becoming a founding partner and Creative Director of a small Corporate Design company in the City, producing high quality annual reports and brand identities, to now specialising in communications for social change. Currently working as a freelance design consultant to a number of London based Consultancies her personal clients include Fairtrade and The Department of Health. Sandra combines free lance work with lecturing at two American Universities in London which keep her passionate and motivated!

Steve Jeppesen teaches history of design for SULP. He earned a B.A. in Fine Arts and Art History and an M.F.A. in Fine Arts. He is also an Associate Professor in the Department of Visual Communication, American InterContinental University, London. Steve is a partner in Jeppesen Bylander Ltd, a design partnership whose clients include The Museum of London, the London School of Business Management, Timney Fowler, and the Association of Newham Artists.

Bevan Jones trained as an art historian but began his career working for an international development agency. He went on to be head of communications for a national voluntary organisation, writing and publishing an extensive portfolio of publications. In the 1980s, he wrote a study of the Australian broadcast system which led to an appointment as an advisor on broadcasting development to the UK government. He went on to consult for a variety of national and local government agencies, including the British Film Institute, and acquired a Master's in film and television. He currently teaches a range of communications courses for US institutions and the University of Westminster. He has a particular interest in documentary film and broadcast comedy.

Ellie Levenson is a freelance journalist, PR consultant and trainer from London. As well as teaching at SU London, Ellie is a part time lecturer at Goldsmiths, University of London and a journalist and regular columnist writing for several papers and magazines in the UK on politics, women's issues and general features. Ellie's first book, The Noughtie Girl's Guide to Feminism, will be published in July 2009.

Forbes Morlock was educated at Yale and Oxford, and has written recently on Sigmund Freud, Jacques Derrida, 19th-century fiction, ancient texts and contemporary painting, film, and the politics of teaching and learning. He is the author of several books with visual artists, a contributing editor of Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities, and a member of the Institute for Creative Reading. At SU London he teaches English and Textual Studies as well as humanities courses, and leads the pre-semester seminar in Scotland.

Francesco Nerici has a degree in Architecture and Environmental Design, Instituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia. He has been employed in design consultancies in London, where he has specialised in helping companies integrate new media with traditional design. Currently he is Managing Director of Collectiva, London, a design agency specializing in visual communications for integrated media. Clients include the National History Museum and the London Transport Museum.

Darrell Panethiere is a consultant for legal and business affairs at FosterCraig Ltd., where he provides independent advice on legal, musical, and business affairs to individuals and companies in music, film, media, and publishing. His expertise is in online music applications and licensing. He is also a consultant to UNESCO's Division of Arts and Cultural Enterprise on projects related to arts policy, cultural heritage, and international piracy of music, films, books, and computer software. From 1999 to 2004, Panethiere served as vice president for legal and business affairs at Warner Music International in London and prior to that was legal adviser to the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) in London. From 1989 to 1995, Panethiere was chief counsel for intellectual property on the Senate Judiciary Committee of the U.S. Congress, where he was responsible for all copyright, trademark, and patent bills considered by the Senate. He has also served as attorney/advisor to the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Legal Policy and as head of the appeals department at Windle Turley, P.C. in Dallas. In recent years, he has also provided research and editorial assistance to Renée Fleming in writing The Inner Voice: The Making of a Singer (2004, 2005) and authored the CD booklet The Romantic Era for the Decca release Homage (Renée Fleming/Valery Gergiev/Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra, 2006).

Norman Reuter had a protracted architectural education at the then-Regent Street Polytechnic, partly full-time, partly part-time, from 1949-63: they were uncertain whether to award a Diploma or a pension! During that time he worked in New York: Pan Am terminal at JFK Airport, houses at Mount Kisco, brownstone conversion on East 38th Street, etc. In 1959 he joined the Development Group at the then -Department of Education and Science and worked on developing new types of school and university buildings, both in design, planning, and building techniques. He served as the project architect on Eveline Lowe Primary School; and also worked on Bath and York Universities. In 1968 he was invited to join the School of Architecture at what was to become University of East London. As a Principal Lecturer, his roles included running the B.Sc. Course; and later to coordinate one of the three elements of the Architecture course, Contextual Studies. This comprised History, Theory, Urban and Landscape Design; Interior Design and Colour Theory. In 1985 was offered "retraining", in the form of an M.Sc. in History of Modem Architecture, at University College, London. Joined Syracuse University in 1986, and later took over FIA 305: London, History Through Architecture.

Cathy Roberts has taught Social Psychology for Syracuse University London Centre for 14 years, and along the way has developed and taught other classes within the fields of psychology, social work and education. Cathy also has an independent research consultancy, called Tedious Research, which was set up in 1988. Between 1996 and 2002, she was a Research Fellow at the Tavistock Clinic, undertaking an evaluation of therapeutic work with sexually abused children. As a researcher, her main work has been on the subjects of child protection, interpersonal violence and, particularly, the evaluation of learning and therapeutic practice.

Matthew Shlomowitz completed undergraduate and masters degrees in music at the Sydney Conservatorium, and a doctorate in composition at Stanford University supervised by Brian Ferneyhough. His primary activities are as a composer and as a lecturer for the Syracuse University London Program and Royal College of Music. As a composer, he has written works for groups such as Asamisimasa (Norway), Champ D'Action (Belgium), ELISION (Australia), Ensemble Offspring (Australia), IXION, (UK) and the Ricciotti Ensemble (Netherlands). In 2007 he was commissioned by the Spitalfields Festival to write a new work for the Dutch ensemble Calefax.

Gerry Slamon has taught the Presentational Speaking class at SU London since January 2006. In addition to his work as a lecturer and voice coach, Gerry is a professional singer and theatrical performer who regularly presents a variety of recitals and shows. He has recently presented a series of one-man-shows at the Fifth Avenue headquarters of The American Irish Historical Society in New York City. Gerry is a graduate of the internationally renowned MA Voice Program at the Central School of Speech & Drama. He is a specialist in the theatre of Samuel Beckett and has twice won the Irish Voice of the Year Award at London's Irish Cultural Centre. In 2006 Gerry was chosen from across all seven campuses of The American Inter-Continental University as the organization's first ever International Educator of the Year.

Donatella Sparti has served as Associate Professor in the History of Art at SU London since 2001, obtained her PhD from the Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa (Italy) magna cum laude in 1994. She specializes in Italian 17th-century Art and is the author of two books (Le collezioni dal Pozzo. Storia di una famiglia e del suo museo nella Roma seicentesca, Modena 1992; La casa di Pietro da Cortona. Architettura, accademia, atelier e officina, Rome 1997) and some forty articles and reviews published in major Art History journals and conference proceedings. She has taught in American study abroad programmes since 1992, first in Florence (Italy) and since 1998 in London, where she now lives. She was awarded the Michael O'Leary Prize for Excellence in Teaching at SUL in 2007 and she has been the recipient of many fellowships, including ones from the British Academy, the J. Paul Getty Grant Program and the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei.

Richard Tames has been teaching with the SU London Programme since it began over thirty years ago. As an undergraduate he read History at Pembroke College Cambridge and took his postgraduate degree at Birkbeck College, London. He is also a qualified London 'Blue Badge' Guide. Publications include London : A Literary and Cultural History, The London We Have Lost, Theatrical London, Sporting London, Political London, A Traveller's History of Oxford, The Victorian Public House, The Victorian and Edwardian Sportsman and histories of Bloomsbury, The City, the East End and other parts of London.

Nina Tolstrup's design studio 'Studiomama' is situated in the East End of London. Studiomama is designing products, furniture, interiors and accessories for companies including Habitat, Lexon, Trip Trap, E&Y, The Danish Embassy in London, Wentworth, Twentytwentyone and Greenwich Village. Last year Studiomama won Best contribution to 100% Design for the curation and exhibition design for 'Made in Denmark', The Eureka Prize and The prize at The Worshipful Company of Pewters. Studiomama's work had been widely publicised in the international press and featured in numerous books. Nina is lecturing at Ravensbourne Collage, consulting professor at the Syracuse University and member of 100% Design's advisory board. Previously Nina worked as design manager for Eleven Danes and was examiner at the Danish Design School and a board member in the 'Designfondation' with a budget under the Ministry of Cultural Affairs. Nina Tolstrup studied at Les Ateliers (Ecole Nationale Sup?rieure de Création Industrielle) in Paris and also got a business degree from the Copenhagen Business school.

Dan Wheatley teaches a course on Multi-Cultural London. Dan has more than 15 years experience in lobbying, working principally on issues of human rights and social cohesion. An interest in politics in teenage years led him to travel to Southern Africa as a scholarship student at an international school in Swaziland, established to oppose the racial segregation practiced in South African education. He later went on to read a Masters degree in International Relations at the University of Kent. His professional career has included 5 years working in Parliament and 10 years as Government Relations Officer for the Bahai community of the UK. He has done training workshops with youth groups, women's organisations and interfaith associations and has conducted training seminars in Ireland, France, Italy, Norway, Sweden and Bulgaria.

Nick Wilkinson is an Associate Professor at Richmond the American International University in London and has taught economics and finance in various international institutions in the UK and USA. He has also worked in business management in both countries and served as a consultant to many companies, mainly in the leisure industry. He is the author of two books, An Introduction to Behavioral Economics(2007), and the other entitled Managerial Economics: A Problem-Solving Approach (2005).

Michael Williams has been lecturing in Political Science and Public Policy on the Syracuse University London Program since 2004 and at various British universities since 1995. Previously he spent 21 years as a policy adviser in three central government departments. He has published Crisis and Consensus in British Politics (Macmillan, 2000) and co-edited New Left, New Right and Beyond (Macmillan, 1999).

Leonard Witshire is a consultant to Valentino, Fenwick department store group, Todds, Dolce and Gabbana, Hermes, Ungaro, Hardy Amies, Elizabeth Arden, Harrods and Harvey Nichols and Tesco. His theatre /set design and promotional work includes: Royal Ballet, musicals (including London productions of Chicago, Wicked, Carousel and The 49 Steps), as well as special events such as Cecil Beaton's anthology of Fashion Victoria and Albert Museum, 'Better Buy British' for British Board of Trade, and decor for Elizabeth Taylor parties and James Bond premiere parties. Leonard is a Freeman of the City of London.

Matt Wolf is London theatre critic for The International Herald Tribune and London editor of the broadway.com website. He freelances regularly for Bloomberg, The Daily Telegraph, and The Guardian's arts blog and spent 13 years as London theatre critic of Variety and 20 years as arts and theatre writer for The Associated Press. Matt is the author of two books, including one on Sam Mendes' tenure running the Donmar Warehouse, and teaches for NYU/London and UC Berkeley, in addition to SU. Raised in New York and educated at Yale, Matt moved to London in 1983; he is still here.