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Name: <\/span><\/strong>Alpana Bhattacharya
Title: <\/span><\/strong>Associate Professor
Department: <\/span><\/strong>Secondary Education & Youth Services
Degree(s): <\/span><\/strong>PhD, City University of New York
Contact Information:<\/span><\/strong>
Phone: 718-997-5168
Office: Powdermaker 150V
Email: alpana.bhattacharya@qc.cuny.edu<\/a><\/p>\n

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“I want to make something happen, even if it\u2019s done on a small scale”
– Alpana Bhattacharya<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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As a child growing up in India, Alpana Bhattacharya visited national landmarks such as Taj Mahal, Red Fort, and Jantar Mantar with her family. But seeing these sites in January 2013, during the Year of India faculty-staff tour, allowed her to appreciate them in a new light. \u201cIt was good to go back as an adult,\u201d she says. \u201cI had a different understanding of the architecture and the history. I went as a tourist\u2014a naturalized American.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n
Insight into how individuals perceive and process information lies at the core of Bhattacharya\u2019s career. A member of Secondary Education and Youth Services\u2019 educational psychology faculty, she specializes in literacy issues. She works with teenagers and adults with and without learning disabilities, especially dyslexia.<\/div>\n
Bhattacharya had another professional track in mind when she came to New York after four years of teaching high school economics in her native Ahmedabad, in the state of Gujarat on the northwest coast of India. She planned to get a master\u2019s in administration and supervision from Baruch and return home to open her own school.<\/div>\n
One class prompted her to change direction. \u201cAt Baruch, I was required to take a three-credit course in students with disabilities,\u201d Bhattacharya recalls. Already interested in this area\u2014in India, she had served as a reader at a school for the blind\u2014she finished the educational administration program at Baruch in 1990 and earned a master\u2019s in special education from Hunter College two years later, with a focus on learning disabilities. After receiving a doctorate in educational psychology from the CUNY Graduate Center, she joined QC.
Bhattacharya remains eager to influence education in her homeland. She is exploring collaborative opportunities in her field with members of the teacher education faculty at Banasthali, Delhi, and Jawaharlal Nehru Universities.<\/div>\n
\u201cIn India, learning disabilities are stigmatized and compared to mental or emotional disorders,\u201d Bhattacharya observes. \u201cI want to identify universities, clinics, and centers that work with learning disabled populations.\u201d Then she hopes to involve QC students in that work, whether through international exchanges and experiential learning or virtual classrooms set up over Skype. \u201cI want to make something happen, even if it\u2019s done on a small scale,\u201d she says.<\/div>\n
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Favorite books:<\/strong> Mysteries, especially titles by Mary Higgins Clark<\/span><\/div>\n
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Favorite music:<\/strong> Jazz. Bhattacharya regularly attends events at Jazz at Lincoln Center and enjoys listening to New Orleans icons like Dr. John and the Preservation Hall Jazz Band\u2014in New Orleans, when possible.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Little-known fact: <\/strong>An animal lover, Bhattacharya is the proud owner of a cockapoo, supports the Humane Society and the ASPCA, and is concerned about wildlife preservation.<\/span><\/div>\n
April 2014<\/span><\/div>\n

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