Featured Roosevelt House Faculty Associates Fall 2011
MIMI ABRAMOVITZ
Mimi Abramovitz is Bertha Capen Reynolds Professor at the Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College. She has published widely on issues related to women, poverty, human rights and the U.S/ Welfare State. Professor Abramovitz is currently writing a book on the history of low-income women’s activism in the U.S. Her previous books include the award-winning Under Attack, Fighting Back: Women and Welfare in the U.S., Regulating the Lives of Women: Social Welfare Policy From Colonial Times to the Present, The Dynamics of Social Welfare Policy and Taxes Are A Woman’s Issue: Reframing the Debate. She has also published more than 80 articles in scholarly and popular journals. Among her honors and awards, Dr. Abramovitz has been inducted into the Columbia University School of Social Work Hall of Fame.
PARTHA DEB
Partha Deb is Professor of Economics at Hunter College and the Graduate Center (CUNY) and Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. A specialist in health economics, he publishes regularly in leading health economics and econometrics journals as well as in multidisciplinary health services and medical journals. He is also the author of 2 popular statistical software packages for Stata and a co-principal investigator on two major research grants, one from the National Cancer Institute, and the other from the Agency for Health Research and Quality. In September 2011, as part of initiatives introduced by the Affordable Care Act, the Obama Administration appointed Professor Deb Senior Advisor at the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation.
MARC EDELMAN
Marc Edelman is Professor and Chair of Anthropology at Hunter College and Professor of Anthropology at the CUNY Graduate Center. He has worked for many years on agrarian social movements in rural Latin America. More recently he has been looking comparatively at peasant movements across the globe. Professor Edelman’s books, which have been translated into several languages, include The Logic of the Latifundio and Peasants Against Globalization. He is also co-author of Social Democracy in the Global Periphery and co-editor of of The Anthropology of Development and Globalization and Transnational Agrarian Movements Confronting Globalization. With funding from the National Science Foundation, he is currently doing research on the campaign of transnational agrarian movements to have the United Nations approve a declaration, and eventually a convention, on the rights of peasants.
NANCY FONER
Nancy Foner is Distinguished Professor of Sociology at Hunter College and the CUNY Graduate Center. Author or editor of fourteen books – among them, From Ellis Island to JFK: New York’s Two Great Waves of Immigration, In a New Land: A Comparative View of Immigration, and Across Generations: Immigrant Families in America. Professor Foner has also written more than eighty-five articles and book chapters. She is the recipient as well of numerous accolades, including the Theodore Saloutos Award of the Immigration and Ethnic History Society and the Distinguished Career Award from the International Migration Section of the American Sociological Association. In 2011, she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
NICHOLAS FREUDENBERG
Nicholas Freudenberg is Distinguished Professor of Public Health and Director of the Doctoral Program at CUNY’s School of Public Health located at Hunter College. His current work focuses on municipal policy responses to child obesity in various cities around the world including New York, London, Cape Town and Lisbon. Over the summer of 2011 with faculty and doctoral students from nursing, psychology and public health, he took a group of faculty and doctoral students in Nursing, Psychology and Public Health to Cape Town and London to meet with researchers, staff from non-governmental organizations and public health officials who were working on child obesity issues in those cities. With a group of colleagues, he is currently preparing a comparative case study of intersectoral municipal responses to child obesity for the World Health Organization. Freudenberg has written or edited five books and more than 75 scientific articles on urban health policy, HIV prevention, community mobilization for health and the role of food policy in health.
PETER KWONG
Peter Kwong is Distinguished Professor of Urban Affairs and Planning at Hunter College and Professor of Sociology at the CUNY Graduate Center. A pioneer in Asian American studies and an accomplished journalist, he has written extensively on Chinese immigration for both scholarly and popular audiences. He is also a filmmaker. Professor Kwong’s books include Chinese America: The Untold Story of America’s Oldest New Community, Chinese Americans: An Immigrant Experience, co-authored with his wife Dusanka Miscevic and Forbidden Workers: Chinese Illegal Immigrants and American Labor (selected by Barnes and Noble as one of the Ten Best Nonfiction Books of 1998). As a journalist Professor Kwong is a frequent contributor to The Nation and the International Herald Tribune. He also writes a bi-weekly column on Asia, syndicated worldwide by Agence Global. His exposés over the years of Chinese drug syndicates and of the Los Angeles racial riots led to his nomination for a Pulitzer Prize. Among his films, Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province, co-produced for HBO, was nominated for an Academy Award in 2010.
MARNIA LAZREG
Marnia Lazreg is Professor of sociology at Hunter College and at the CUNY Graduate Center. A recognized scholar of human rights, she has written extensively about French colonialism in North Africa, in particular Algeria, on the use of torture and on women in Islam. The recipient of several prestigious fellowships, she has been a resident scholar at the Bunting Institute (Radcliffe-Harvard University); the Pembroke Center for Research and Teaching on Women (Brown University); the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center (Italy); and the Institute for Advanced Study ( Princeton). Professor Lazreg’s most recent books include: Torture and the Twilight of Empire: from Algiers to Baghdad; and Questioning the Veil: Open Letters to Muslim Women. Professor Lazreg appears frequently on radio and television programs in Europe, the Middle East and the United States.
JAN POPPENDIECK
Jan Poppendieck is Professor of Sociology at Hunter College and the CUNY Graduate Center, where she serves on the faculties of both Public Health and Sociology. Her primary concerns as a scholar and activist have focused on issues of poverty, hunger, and food assistance in the United States. She is the author of Breadlines Knee Deep in Wheat: Food Assistance in the Great Depression, Sweet Charity? Emergency Food and the End of Entitlement and Free For All: Fixing School Food in America, which won the 2010 Book of the Year award from the Association for the Study of Food and Society. She has been selected to receive a 2011 James Beard Foundation Leadership award.
JONATHAN ROSENBERG
Jonathan Rosenberg is Associate Professor of History at Hunter College and the CUNY Graduate Center. A specialist in the history of the United States in a global context, he is the author of How Far the Promised Land?: World Affairs and the American Civil Rights Movement from the First World War to Vietnam and co-author of Kennedy, Johnson, and the Quest for Justice: The Civil Rights Tapes. He is also the co-editor of Cold War Statesmen Confront the Bomb: Nuclear Diplomacy Since 1945. In addition to contributing articles and reviews to scholarly publications, Professor Rosenberg has written for The Christian Science Monitor, The Wilson Quarterly, and The Washington Post.
PAMELA STONE
Pamela Stone is Professor of Sociology at Hunter College and the CUNY Graduate Center. An expert on women in the workplace, she has written widely on such topics as the gender wage gap, pay equity, and the work-family interface. She has also provided expert testimony, consulted and lectured extensively about these issues. In 2010 she was one of only a handful of academic researchers invited to participate at the historic White House Forum on Workplace Flexibility. Her recent book, Opting Out? Why Women Really Quit Careers and Head Home has received a great deal of attention in the press, including The New York Times, Newsweek, Time, Business Week and Science. Professor Stone also appeared on the CBS Nightly News and the Today Show. Recognized as well in the scholarly community, her book won the 2009 William J. Goode Book Award of the American Sociological Association.
JOSEPH P. VITERITTI
Joseph P. Viteritti is the Thomas Hunter Professor of Public Policy and Faculty Chair of the Public Policy Program at Roosevelt House. He also serves as Chair of the Urban Affairs & Planning Department at Hunter College. Professor Viteritti specializes in education policy, state & local governance, and public law. His most recent of ten books are When Mayors Take Charge: School Governance in the City (ed.) and The Last Freedom: Religion from the Public School to the Public Square. Other books include Choosing Equality: School Choice, the Constitution, and Civil Society; Making Good Citizens: Education and Civil Society (edited with Diane Ravitch); and Across the River: Politics and Education in the City. His more than 100 essays have appeared in social science journals, law reviews, and popular media such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Huffington Post and Education Week.
STEFFIE WOOLHANDLER & DAVID HIMMELSTEIN
Steffie Woolhandler MD MPH and David Himmelstein MD joined the CUNY/Hunter School of Public Health as Professors in 2009, after several decades of work at Harvard Medical School. They have published more than 150 articles on health policy and are best known for their work on national health insurance, access to health care, administrative costs in health care, and medical bankruptcy. They are currently working on several projects investigating medical contributors to foreclosure and bankruptcy, as well as an array of health care reform issues.
