Executive Committee
The DSC Executive Committee, elected by and from the incoming DSC at its first plenary meeting, serves for one year commencing on July 1. The committee consists of the three Co-Chairs of the DSC, the USS representative (ex-officio, non-voting), and the UFS Liaison (ex-officio, non-voting).
The Executive Committee
- makes decisions on a day-to-day basis for the DSC as per the policies established and actions taken by the Steering Committee and the DSC and be subject to review by these bodies;
- consults and seeks the advice of the Steering Committee on the Executive Committee members' duties;
- establishes or disestablishes whatever ad-hoc committees are deemed necessary to discharge its responsibilities;
- interfaces with faculty, staff, and administration; and
- prepares agendas for Plenary and Steering Committee meetings.
For detailed responsibilities of the Executive Committee members, visit their pages below.
Co-Chair for Student Affairs
Eero Laine is a student in the Theatre Program and a member of the Film Studies Certificate Program. His research interests include theatrical violence, mediated performance, gender, and sports studies. He currently teaches in the Theatre and Film Departments at the College of Staten Island.
Co-Chair for Communications
Jared is pursuing a PhD in Classics with scholarly interests in Latin poetry, reception studies and instructional technology and pedagogy as it relates to Classics. He currently teaches Classical Mythology, The Greek and Latin Roots of English, and Roman Civilization at Hunter College.
Co-Chair for Business
This is Annie's first year as Co-Chair for Business after serving three months on Steering Committee at the end of last term. She has been on the DSC as Program Representative since fall 2009.
Annie is a doctoral candidate in the Art History PhD Program and also enrolled in the Film and American Studies certificate programs. She is a co-chair of Frame Journal (a DSC chartered organization) and teaches undergraduate courses at Parsons, The New School for Design, and frequently adjuncts at various CUNY campuses (currently at Queensborough Community College).
Outside of school, she plays softball for various teams around the city and religiously follows the Washington Nationals.
USS Delegate
Christina is a doctoral candidate in the sociology program. She has taught at Hunter College and Brooklyn College since 2008. Some of the courses she has taught include Classical Theory, Social Networks, Race and Ethnicity, Sociology of Gender, and Sociology of Family. Beginning in September 2011 she will be a Writing Fellow at Bronx Community College. Her areas of interest include science and technology, psychoanalytic theory, and queer theory. Her dissertation is about sociologists in clinical psychoanalysis and the interplay between the clinical practice and the theories and methodologies of sociological practice. This is her third year on the DSC as a program representative for sociology and her first year as the USS delegate. For more information visit christinanadler.com.
UFS Liaison
Anne Donlon is a doctoral candidate in the English Program and a student in the American Studies certificate program. She has taught composition and American Literature at John Jay College, and is a Writing Fellow at Brooklyn College for 2011-2012. Her dissertation considers the networks that brought African-American writers and women activists and writers in Britain into contact in the first half of the twentieth-century, and the formal and aesthetic strategies these writers shared. She has previously served on the DSC as an at-large representative, and as a member of the Grants Committee and Media Board. This year she serves as an English Program representative and the UFS liaison.




