Abraham Samuel Shiff

Graduate student, MALS program

Interests: Shakespeare, Hamlet. William Blake. Transportation technologies. Railroads.

Contact

718-252-1088

Positions

Student, CUNY Graduate Center

Academic Interests

Shakespeare, Hamlet.
William Blake.
Transportation technologies.
Railroads.

Education

Current: Continuing student, Liberal Studies, Graduate Center, CUNY
2012: MA Liberal Studies, Graduate Center, CUNY
2009: MA History, Brooklyn College, CUNY
1986 – 2000: Mainframe programming, COBOL and SAS
1991: Information Systems Auditing, NYU,Information Technologies Inst.
1990: Software Engineering, NYU, Information Technologies Institute.
1989: CICS Programming, NYU, Information Technologies Institute
1976: MBA Health Care Administration, Bernard M. Baruch College and
Mount Sinai School of Medicine, CUNY
1974: MA Physiology, Hunter College, CUNY
1967: MA Hospital Pharmacy Admin., Brooklyn College of Pharmacy, LIU
1962: BS Pharmacy, Brooklyn College of Pharmacy, LIU

Publications

WILLIAM BLAKE
“Blake’s Priestly Blessing” in: Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly, forthcoming 2014.

“Blake’s Hebrew Calligraphy” in: Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly, vol. 46, no. 2 (fall 2012).

SHAKESPEARE – HAMLET
“Mortal Coil and Stars with Trains of Fire: Hamlet Q2 metaphors for the Copernican Astronomy and Kepler’s Nova of 1604” in: www.hamletworks.org under “Hamlet Criticism.”

“Transition from Corambis to Polonius: The Forgotten Pun on a Diplomatic Scandal in a Hamlet Q2 Stage Direction.” in: www.hamletworks.org under “Hamlet Criticism.”


MEDICAL ADMINISTRATION
“Design for Community Breast Cancer Detection Centers” in: Control of Breast Cancer through Mass Screening, Phillip Strax, ed. (Littleton, MA: PSG Publishing Co., 1979), 143-152; and in: Planning Guide for Radiologic Installations, W. J. Tuddenham, ed. (Chicago: American College of Radiology, 1976) 29-44.

“Evaluation of the Dispensing of Prescription Medication to the General Public by the Pharmacies of Non-Profit Hospitals in New York City” in: Lippincott’s Hospital Pharmacy, vol. 3, no. 5 (May 1968), 3-24.