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Temisan Agbeyebe Professor of Economics, Hunter College and CUNY Graduate Center

Faculty Associate
The Human Rights Program

Contact: tagbeyeg@hunter.cuny.edu  212-772-5405

Departmental Website  |  Personal Website

Research Area: Econometrics

Meena Alexander

[In Memoriam] Meena Alexander was a Distinguished Professor of English at the CUNY Graduate Center and Hunter College/CUNY. Ph.D., English, University of Nottingham

Faculty Associate
The Human Rights Program

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Angelo Angelis

Faculty Associate

Contact: aangelis@hunter.cuny.edu  212-772-5540

Departmental Website

Research Area: American Revolution, Early Colonial era, History, U.S. Constitution, U.S. History

[Professor Emeritus] Tom Angotti Professor Emeritus of Urban Affairs and Planning

Faculty Associate

Departmental Website

Research Area: Food Policy, Transportation Policy, Urban Policy

Judith Aponte Associate Professor of Nursing, Hunter-Bellevue School of Nursing at Hunter College

Faculty Associate

Contact: jap@hunter.cuny.edu  212-481-7568

Departmental Website

Research Area: Diabetes, Health Literacy, Hispanic Health, Nursing, Public Health Chronic Diseases

Recent Publications:

Book ChaptersAponte, J., and Holzemer, S. P. (2012). Inquiry and Health Promotion, Health Maintenance, and Health Restoration in the Community. Community Health Nursing: An Alliance for Health. S.P. Holzemer, & M. Klainberg. (2nd ed). Boston: MA: Jones and Bartlett Publishers.Rosofsky, A. and Aponte, J. (2014). Asthma and Diabetes Within the Puerto Rican Population. Puerto Ricans At The Dawn Of The New Millennium. E. Melendez, & C. Vargas-Ramos. New York: NY: Centro Press Publisher.Journal Articles-Peer Reviewed (*signifies an article written with an undergraduate student;**signifies an ar... more

Current Projects:

Funded Grants

2015 The New York City Macroscope Electronic Health Record Surveillance System: Phase II Evaluation and Diffusion of Innovation, Fund for Public Health in New York; $264,257. (2 Years February 2015-Janaury 2017). The New York City Health Department: Principal Investigator (PI): Katharine H. McVeigh: Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI): Remle Newton-Dame; Subcontract to City University of New York-Research Foundation; Co-PI: Lorna Thorpe; Nursing Faculty Supervisor: Judith Aponte.

Karna Basu Assistant Professor, Economics; Ph.D. Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006

Faculty Associate
The Human Rights Program
The Public Policy Program

Departmental Website

Research Area: Applied Microeconomic Theory, Behavioral Economics, Development Economics, Economic Policy

Manu Bhagavan Professor of History and Human Rights, Hunter College, CUNY Graduate Center; Ph.D., History, University of Texas at Austin.

Faculty Associate
The Human Rights Program
The Public Policy Program

Contact: manu.bhagavan@hunter.cuny.edu  212-772-5482

Departmental Website  |  Personal Website

Markus Bidell Associate Professor of Counseling, Hunter College; Ph.D., Combined Psychology, University of California, Santa Barbara and the CUNY Graduate Center

Faculty Associate
The Public Policy Program

Contact: mbidell@hunter.cuny.edu  212-772-4714

Departmental Website

Research Area: Health Disparities, LGBT Health Policy, Practitioner Competency, Professional training

Current Projects:

Using the data Dr. Bidell collected while in the United Kingdom as the 2014-2015 Regent’s University Fulbright Scholar, he is currently exploring factors that impact health and mental health providers’ Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgender (LGBT) clinical competence. Dr. Bidell recently completed a special issue of the Journal of Homosexuality (Titled: An Interdisciplinary Approach to LGBT Clinical Competence, Professional Training, and Ethical Care). He is the Vice President of the International Academy of LGBT+ Psychology and Related Fields, an organization that facilitates international LGBT+ research, public policy, education, and clinical services.

Sarah Bonner Associate Professor of Educational Psychology; Ph.D. in Educational Psychology, University of Arizona, 2005

Faculty Associate

Contact: sbonner@hunter.cuny.edu  212 772-5049

Departmental Website

Research Area: Adolescent and Women’s Health, Classroom assessment, Peer-facilitated instruction, Psychology, Tests and measurement

Recent Publications:

Bonner, S. M., Somers, J. A., Rivera, G. J., & Keiler, L. S. (2017). Effects of student-facilitated learning on instructional facilitators. Instructional Science. Bonner, S. M. (2016). Teachers’ perceptions about assessment: Competing narratives. In G. T. L. Brown & L. R. Harris (Eds.), Handbook of Human and Social Conditions in Assessment. New York: Routledge. ... more

Current Projects:

The Peer-Enabled Restructured Classroom: A New Partnership to Transform Urban Secondary School Mathematics and Science Experiences.

Martha Bragin Silberman School of Social Work

Faculty Associate
The Human Rights Program

Anthony Browne Professor and Chair of Africana and Puerto Rican/Latino Studies, Hunter College; PhD, Columbia University

Faculty Associate
The Public Policy Program

Contact: apbrowne@hunter.cuny.edu  212-772-5033

Departmental Website

Research Area: Race, Race and Civil Rights

Lynn Chancer Professor and Chair of Sociology, Hunter College and CUNY Graduate Center

Faculty Associate

Departmental Website

Research Area: Gender and Sexuality, LGBT Policy, Sociology

Recent Publications:

Sadomasochism in Everyday Life (Rutgers University Press, 1992); Reconcilable Differences: Confronting Beauty, Pornography and the Future of Feminism (University of California Press, 1998); High Profile Crimes: When Legal Cases Become Social Causes (University Of Chicago Press, 2005); and Gender, Race and Class: An Overview (Blackwell, 2006)... more

Howard Chernick Professor Emeritus of Economics

Faculty Associate
The Public Policy Program

Departmental Website

Research Area: Economic Policy, Urban Policy

Recent Publications:

Selected research includes “Fiscal Capacity in New York: the City versus the Region,” Proceedings of the National Tax Association Spring Symposium, 1998.“The Commuter Tax and the Fiscal Cost of Commuters in New York City,” State Tax Notes  (2002).  (with Olesya Tkacheva).  “Fiscal equalisation between Swedish municipalities”, in Fiscal Federalism in Unitary States, Kluwer 2004. Resilient City: The Economic Impact of the 9/11 Attack on NYC... more

Current Projects:

Howard Chernick is actively involved in public policy in New York. He has testified before several NYC tax commissions, and served as a consultant to the City of New York Independent Budget Office, the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, and the Campaign for Fiscal Equity.

John J. Chin Professor of Urban Policy and Planning; Director of Graduate Program in Urban Planning

Faculty Associate
The Public Policy Program

Contact: john.chin@hunter.cuny.edu  (212) 772-5603

Departmental Website

Margaret M. Chin Professor of Sociology, Hunter College and the CUNY Graduate Center; Ph.D., Sociology, Columbia University

Faculty Associate
The Public Policy Program

Contact: mmchin@hunter.cuny.edu  (212) 772-4842

Departmental Website

Research Area: Immigration Policy, Race

Recent Publications:

Stuck: Why Asian Americans Don’t Reach the Top of the Corporate Ladder (New York University Press, 2020) – Winner, 2021 PROSE Award in the Business, Finance & Management CategorySewing Women: Immigrants and the New York City Garment Industry (Columbia University Press, 2005/2015).... more

Current Projects:

Margaret is currently working on a third book with Syed Ali (professor of Sociology at Long Island University), tentatively titled The Peer Effect: Building Better Schools and Better Workplaces.

 

Prof. Chin’s research interests focus on immigrants and the second generation, working poor families, race and ethnicity.

Jonathan Conning Associate Professor of Economics, Hunter College; Member of the Doctoral Faculty at CUNY Graduate Center; Ph.D., Economics, Yale University, 1996

Faculty Associate
The Human Rights Program

Contact: jconning@hunter.cuny.edu  (212) 772-5403

Departmental Website  |  Personal Website

Research Area: Economic Policy

Current Projects:

Jonathan Conning is an Affiliate at the Financial Access Initiative based at NYU.

Rebecca Connor Associate Professor of English, PhD, Stanford University

Faculty Associate

Contact: rebecca.connor@hunter.cuny.edu  (212) 772-4043

Departmental Website

Research Area: 18th Century British Literature, 18th Century Visual and Material Culture, Gothic (18th-20th centuries), Women and Economics

Eduardo Contreras Professor of History

Faculty Associate

Contact: econtre@hunter.cuny.edu  212-772-5346

Departmental Website

Research Area: History

Recent Publications:

Latinos in the Liberal City: Politics in San Francisco from the General Strike to Briggs (Manuscript In Progress)... more

Current Projects:

Twentieth-century U.S. history; U.S. Latinos; urban politics; race and ethnicity; feminist/queer communities; liberalism and conservatism.

Susan Crile Professor

Faculty Associate

Departmental Website  |  Personal Website

Omar Dahbour Professor and Chair of Philosophy, Hunter College; Professor of Philosophy, CUNY Graduate Center; Ph.D., Philosophy, City University of New York, 1995; Ph.D., History, University of Chicago, 1987

Faculty Associate
The Human Rights Program

Contact: odahbour@hunter.cuny.edu  (212) 772-5084 Ext: 1-5084

Departmental Website

Research Area: Philosophy

Recent Publications:

"The Ecological Blindspot in the Territorial Rights Debate" (forthcoming, 2017); "Self-Determination and Power-Sharing in Israel/Palestine" (2016); "Totality, Reason, Dialectics: The Importance of Hegel for Critical Theory from Lukacs to Honneth" (2016); Self-Determination without Nationalism: A Theory of Postnational Sovereignty (2013). ... more

Partha Deb Professor of Economics, Hunter College; Member of the Doctoral Faculty at CUNY Graduate Center; Ph.D., Economics, Rutgers University, 1991

Faculty Associate
The Public Policy Program

Contact: partha.deb@hunter.cuny.edu  (212) 772-5435

Departmental Website

Research Area: Economic Policy

Tracy Dennis-Tiwary Professor of Psychology

Faculty Associate

Contact:   212-650-3878

Departmental Website

Research Area: Psychology

Recent Publications:

Dennis-Tiwary, T., Egan, L.J., Babkirk, S., and Denefrio, S. (2016). For whom the bell tolls: Neurocognitive individual differences in the acute stress-reduction effects of an attention bias modification game for anxiety. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 77, 105-117. Babkirk, S., Luehring-Jones, P., & Dennis, T.A. (In press). Computer-mediated communication preferences predict biobehavioral measures of social-emotional functioning. Social Neuroscience. Babkirk, S., Saunders, L.V., Solomon, B., Kessel, E.M., Crossman, A., Gokhan, N., & Dennis,... more

Current Projects:

Dr. Tracy Dennis-Tiwary’s research focuses on how emotions, habits of thinking, and our ability to flexibly change them play a key role in psychological well-being across the lifespan. She applies behavioral and neuroscience research findings from her lab to fuel the development of innovative intervention and health promotion techniques.

Maura Nguyen Donohue Associate Professor of Dance

Faculty Associate

Contact: mdono@hunter.cuny.edu  (212) 396-6122

Departmental Website  |  Personal Website

Research Area: Arts and New Media/Technology, Asian American Diaspora, Environment, Gender Representation and Portrayals, Performing Arts

Recent Publications:

Premieres/Performance works "Tides Project: North Pacific Gyre (aka 'trash vortex')" West End Theater, May 2015 "Live at Jacques" Gibney Dance Center, May 2014. "zero…sixty" Roulette, Oct 2013. "present.tense(progressive)" La Mama Moves Dance Festival, May 2012. "I’m not coming back" Danspace Project. Oct 2011. "strictly a female female" West End Theater, Soaking WET Series. May 2011.Select NYC Premieres Dance Theater Workshop Commissioned works: "enemy/territory" Mar 2004; "Both" Nov 2001; "SKINning the surFACE" Nov 1998; "Lotus Blossom Itch" Nov 1996; "Islands: a hapa wet dream" Nov 1995.... more

Current Projects:

“Tides Project” – an ongoing investigation of oceanographic phenomena, specifically in relation to human impact.

Marc Edelman Professor of Anthropology (joint appointment with the CUNY Graduate Center); Ph.D., Columbia University, 1985

Faculty Associate
The Human Rights Program
The Public Policy Program

Contact: medelman@hunter.cuny.edu  (212) 772-5659

Departmental Website

Research Area: Anthropology, Economic Policy, History

Recent Publications:

Political Dynamics of Transnational Agrarian Movements (2016) Estudios agrarios cr... more

Current Projects:

Edelman is working on a project, supported by the National Science Foundation and the PSC-CUNY Grants Program, on the efforts of transnational agrarian movements to have the United Nations approve a declaration on the rights of peasants. His most recent books are Political Dynamics of Transnational Agrarian Movements, coauthored by Saturnino M. Borras, Jr. and published in 2016 by Fernwood (Canada) and Practical Action Publishing (UK); and Estudios agrarios críticos: tierras, semillas, soberanía alimentaria y los derechos de las y los campesinos, published in 2016 by the Editorial del Instituto de Altos Estudios Nacionales, Quito, Ecuador.

Terrie Epstein Professor of Education, Hunter College; Member of Doctoral Faculty in Urban Education, CUNY Graduate Center; Ed.D., Harvard University, 1989

Faculty Associate

Contact: tepstein@hunter.cuny.edu  212 772-4677

Departmental Website

Research Area: Education Policy, Human Rights

Current Projects:

She is interested in how young people’s social identities and teachers’ perspectives and pedagogies influence teaching and learning in urban schools. She is the author of Interpreting national history: Race, identity and pedagogy in classrooms and communities (Routledge Press, 2009) and co-editor of Teaching United States history: Dialogues between historians and educators (Routledge Press, 2009), as well as several articles on teaching and learning history.

Ken Erickson Political Science

Faculty Associate
The Human Rights Program

Leonard Feldman Associate Professor of Political Science, Hunter College and CUNY Graduate Center; Ph.D., Political Science, University of Washington, 2000

Faculty Associate
The Human Rights Program

Contact: lfeldman@hunter.cuny.edu  (212) 396-6246

Departmental Website

Research Area: Policing, Political Theory

Recent Publications:

“Police Violence and the Legal Temporalities of Immunity,” Theory & Event 20:2 (April 2017). “Police Reform and Neoliberalism,” in Sanford Schram and Marianna Pavlovskaya, eds., Rethinking Neoliberalism (New York: Routledge, forthcoming). “Eminent Domain and the Rhetorical Construction of Sovereign Necessity.” Co-authored with Daniel Skinner. Law, Culture and the Humanities 11:3 (October 2015): 393-413. “Necessity,” in Michael Gibbons, ed., Encyclopedia of Political Thought (Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell, 2014): 2539–2543. ... more

Ruth Finkelstein Rose Dobrof Executive Director of the Brookdale Center for Healthy Aging at Hunter College

Faculty Associate
The Public Policy Program

Contact: rf1132@hunter.cuny.edu  (212) 396-7835

Departmental Website  |  Personal Website

Research Area: Community Programs and Outreach, Healthy Aging and Longevity, Public Health Policy

Maria Fischer Associate Professor of Hispanic Language and Literature

Faculty Associate
The Human Rights Program

Departmental Website

Research Area: Hispanic Literature, Languages

Recent Publications:

- Neruda: Construcción y legados de una figura cultural. Colección El Saber y la Cultura. Santiago, Chile: Editorial Universitaria, 2008. 232 pp.http://www.universitaria.cl/ntitulos.pl?id=365- Historia y texto poético: la poesía de Antonio Cisneros, José Emilio Pacheco y Enrique Lihn. Concepción, Chile: Latinoamericana Reunida, 1998. 204 pp.- "Elicura Chihuailaf  lee a Neruda: Todos los cantos/Ti kom vl", Hofstra Hispanic Review 10 (2009): 42-53.- "La memoria de la historia en Estrella distante de Roberto Bolaño”, Edmundo P... more

Roseanne Flores Professor of Psychology, Hunter College and CUNY Graduate Center; Ph.D., Psychology, CUNY Graduate Center

Faculty Associate
The Human Rights Program

Contact: rflores@hunter.cuny.edu  (212) 650-3537

Departmental Website

Research Area: Psychology, Public Health Policy, Research Methods

Recent Publications:

The Cambridge Handbook of Psychology and Human Rights – Finalist, 2021 PROSE Award - Single and Multivolume Reference, & Textbooks in the Social Sciences, Association of American Publishers... more

Current Projects:

Flores is currently serving as a member of the Committee on Children, Youth and Families at the American Psychological Association.

Nancy Foner Distinguished Professor of Sociology, Hunter College, CUNY Graduate Center; Ph.D., Anthropology, University of Chicago, 1971

Faculty Associate
The Human Rights Program
The Public Policy Program

Departmental Website  |  Personal Website

Research Area: Immigration, Race and Ethnicity

Current Projects:

Foner is the author of two recent books: Strangers No More: Immigration and the Challenges of Integration in North America and Western Europe (Princeton University Press, 2015) written with Richard Alba and coeditor with Patrick Simon of Fear, Anxiety, and National Identity: Immigration and Belonging in North America and Europe (Russell Sage Foundation, 2015). She was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship for 2017-18 as well as a Berlin Prize Fellowship at the American Academy in Berlin for fall 2017 to work on a book, Immigration and the Transformation of America.

Allan Frei Professor, Chairperson, and Deputy Director, CUNY Institute for Sustainable Cities

Faculty Associate

Contact: afrei@hunter.cuny.edu  212-772-5322

Departmental Website

Research Area: Geography, Hydroclimatology

Recent Publications:

Acharya, Nachiketa, Allan Frei, Jie Chen, Leslie DeCristofaro, Emmet Owens, 2017, Evaluating stochastic weather generators for climate change impact studies of New York City’s primary water supply, Journal of Hydrometeorology, V18, p. 879-896, DOI: 10.1175/JHM-D-16-0169.1 Hall, D.K., A. Frei, N.E. DiGirolamo, J. H. Porter and G.A. Riggs, 2016: Snow cover and extreme streamflow events in the Catskill/Delaware watershed, New York, Proceedings of the IAHR, 31 May – 3 June, 2016, Ann Arbor, MI. Acharya, Nachiketa, Allan Frei, Emmet Owens, 2015, Analysis of Weather Generators: Extreme Events, (extended abstr... more

Current Projects:

Prof. Frei is a climatologist whose research interests have focused on issues related to climate change and changes in snow cover across Northern Hemisphere lands; and on issues of climate change and water resources. Recent projects include an investigation of potential impacts of climate change on New York City’s water supply (in collaboration with the New York City Department of Environmental Protection).

[Professor Emerita] Judith Friedlander Professor Emerita of Anthropology, Hunter College; Ph.D., Anthropology, University of Chicago, 1973

Faculty Associate
The Human Rights Program

Research Area: Anthropology, Culture

Justin Garson

Justin Garson Associate Professor of Philosophy, Hunter College

Faculty Associate

Contact: jgarson@hunter.cuny.edu  212-772-4975

 |  Personal Website

Research Area: Environmental Philosophy, Philosophy of Biology, Philosophy of Medicine

Recent Publications:

Garson, J. (forthcoming) What Biological Functions Are and Why They Matter. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Garson, J., Plutynski, A., and Sarkar, S. (Eds.) (2017) The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Biodiversity. London: Routledge. Garson, J. (2017) “A Generalized Selected Effects Theory of Function,” Philosophy of Science 84: 523-543. Garson, J. (2016) A Critical Overview of Biological Functions. Dordrecht: Springer. Garson, J., and A. Schulz. (2016) “Introduction to Special Section: The Biology of Psychological Altruism,” St... more

Current Projects:

I’m in the early stages of writing a book on the history and philosophy of twentieth-century American psychiatry, Madness as Dysfunction and as Strategy.

Lisa George Associate Professor of Economics, Hunter College; Member of the Doctoral Faculty at CUNY Graduate Center; Ph.D. Applied Economics, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

Faculty Associate
The Public Policy Program

Contact: lisa.george@hunter.cuny.edu  (212) 772-5437

Departmental Website

Research Area: Economic Policy

Current Projects:

Lisa George is editor-in-chief of Information Economics and Policy.

Tami Gold Professor of Film and Media Studies

Faculty Associate

Contact: tamigold@mindspring.com  212 772-4953

 |  Personal Website

Research Area: Documentary filmmaking, Ethics in non-fiction media

Current Projects:

The history of policing in the United States.

Hongmian Gong Professor of Geography, Hunter College; Ph.D., Geography, University of George, 1997

Faculty Associate

Contact: gong@hunter.cuny.edu  (212) 772-4658

Departmental Website

Research Area: Geography, Transportation Policy, Urban Policy

Recent Publications:

Co-PI, Empowering Individuals to Make Environmentally Sustainable and Healthy Transportation Choices in Mega-Cities through a Smartphone App, U.S. Department of Transportation/University Transportation Research Council.... more

Current Projects:

Co-I, Enhancing Hong Kong’s Future as a Leading International Financial Centre, Research Grants Council of Hong Kong.

Tim Goodspeed Professor of Economics, Hunter College; Member of the Doctoral Faculty at CUNY Graduate Center; Ph.D., Economics, University of Maryland, 1986

Faculty Associate
The Public Policy Program

Contact: tgoodspe@hunter.cuny.edu  (212) 772-5434

Departmental Website

Steven G. Greenbaum Professor of Physics

Faculty Associate

Contact: steve.greenbaum@hunter.cuny.edu  212 772-4973

Departmental Website

Research Area: Physics, Science Policy

Recent Publications:

“Ion solvation and the search for a correlation with electrode passivation” with A Von Wald Cresce, A., Russell, S.M., Fu, A., (...), ... more

Jill Simone Gross Associate Professor, Hunter College; Ph.D., Political Science, CUNY Graduate School

Faculty Associate

Contact: jill.s.gross@hunter.cuny.edu  (212) 772-5600

Departmental Website

Owen Gutfreund Associate Professor of Urban Affairs and Planning, Hunter College; Ph.D., History, Columbia University, 1998

Faculty Associate
The Public Policy Program

Contact: owen.gutfreund@hunter.cuny.edu  (212) 396-6248

Departmental Website

Jessica Halliday Hardie Assistant Professor of Sociology, Hunter College

Faculty Associate

Contact:   212-772-5649

 |  Personal Website

Research Area: Family, Inequality, Sociology, Sociology of education, Transition to adulthood

Recent Publications:

Hardie, Jessica Halliday and Judith A. Seltzer. Forthcoming. “Parent-child Relationships at the Transition to Adulthood: A Comparison of Black, Hispanic, and White Immigrant and Native-Born Youth.” Social Forces.Hardie, Jessica Halliday and Kristin Turney. Forthcoming. “The Intergenerational Consequences of Parental Health Limitations.” Journal of Marriage and Family.Hardie, Jessica Halliday. 2015. “The Best Laid Plans: Social Capital in the Development of Girls’ Educational and Occupational Plans.” Social Problems 62(2):241-265. ... more

Current Projects:

Hardie is currently working on a longitudinal qualitative study of class and race differences in young women’s transitions to adulthood, with attention to how they balance work, school, and family life during this period. She is also working on research examining the interrelationship between parental health and children’s well-being, as well as projects related to the mismatch between individuals’ occupational aspirations and outcomes.

Donna Haverty-Stacke Professor of History, Hunter College; Ph.D., History, Cornell University, 2003

Faculty Associate

Contact: dhaverty@hunter.cuny.edu  (212) 772-4412

Departmental Website

Research Area: History, Labor Policy

Recent Publications:

Trotskyists on Trial: Free Speech and Political Persecution Since the Age of FDR. New York University Press, Culture, Labor, History Series. 2015. Rethinking U.S. Labor History: Essays on the Working-Class Experience, 1756–2009, co-edited with Daniel J. Walkowitz. The Continuum International Publishing Group. 2010. ‘Punishment of Mere Political Advocacy’: The FBI, Teamsters Local 544 and the Origins of the 1941 Smith Act Case,” Journal of American History (June 2013): 68 - 93 ... more

Current Projects:

Grace Carlson and the Work of Class: Political Radicalism and Lived Catholicism in Twentieth-Century America

William A. Herbert Distinguished Lecturer and Executive Director, National Center for the Study of Collective Bargaining in Higher Education and the Professions

Faculty Associate
The Public Policy Program

Contact: wh124@hunter.cuny.edu  (212) 481-7550

 |  Personal Website

Research Area: Labor History, Labor Law, Labor Policy

Recent Publications:

Co-editor, Lefkowitz on Public Sector Labor and Employment Law, Fourth Edition; The Winds of Changes Shift: An Analysis of Recent Growth in Bargaining Units and Representation Efforts in Higher Education; Just Cause Discipline for Social Networking in the New Gilded Age: Will the Law Look the Other Way?; Collective Bargaining Law in the Firing Line at the Supreme Court.... more

Current Projects:

Public sector unionism in the United States prior to World War II;
Collective bargaining and labor relations in higher education.

David Himmelstein Distinguished Professor, School of Urban Public Health at Hunter College; M.D., Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons

Faculty Associate
The Public Policy Program

Contact: dhimmels@hunter.cuny.edu  (212) 396-7760

Departmental Website

Research Area: Public Health Policy

David Julian Hodges Professor of Anthropology, Hunter College; Ph.D. New York University

Faculty Associate
The Human Rights Program

Departmental Website

Research Area: Anthropology, Civil rights, Fieldwork, Fieldwork among the Cajuns of Southwestern Louisiana, Race and Civil Rights, Race relations

Recent Publications:

Introducing Cultural Anthropology: Essential Readings, University Readers The Anthropology of Education: Classic Readings, Cognella. ... more

Karen Hunter Distinguished Lecturer

Faculty Associate

Contact: professorhunter@aol.com  212.772.5589

Departmental Website

Kathleen Isaac Director of the Arnhold Graduate Dance Education Program

Faculty Associate

Contact: kis@hunter.cuny.edu  212-396-6635

Research Area: Dance Mentoring Models, Integration of Dance and Technology, Interdisciplinary Curriculum Designing, Student-Centered Dance Education Practices

Nico Israel Associate Professor of English, Hunter College, CUNY Graduate School; Ph.D., English, Yale University,

Faculty Associate
The Human Rights Program

Contact: nisrael@hunter.cuny.edu  (212) 817-8344

Departmental Website

Research Area: English

Current Projects:

Israel’s current book project, On Spirals: Metamorphosis of a Twentieth-Century Image, is under contract with Columbia University Press, in the new Modernist Latitudes series (edited by Paul Saint Amour and Jessica Berman), and is due out in 2014. The book explores intersections among literature, contemporary art and critical theory from 1899-2001, and focuses on the spiral as geopolitical and historical “image” in the sense Walter Benjamin gives to the term.

Elise Jaffe Director, Pre-Law Program; Director, Roosevelt Scholars

Faculty Associate

Contact: elise.jaffe@hunter.cuny.edu  212-772-4889

Departmental Website

Rob Jenkins Professor of Political Science, Hunter College & The Graduate Center

Faculty Associate
The Human Rights Program

Departmental Website

Research Area: International Politics, Politics

Recent Publications:

Peacebuilding: From Concept to Commission (Routledge, 2013) Advancing the UN's Women, Peace and Security Agenda: Political Challenges and Opportunities,' Policy Brief (Oslo: Norwegian Peacebuilding Research Centre, March 2013)... more

Roger Karapin Professor of Political Science, Hunter College and CUNY Graduate Center; Editor-in-Chief, Polity; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1993

Faculty Associate

Contact: rkarapin@hunter.cuny.edu  (212) 772-5665

Departmental Website

Research Area: Climate Policy, Comparative Politics, Energy Policy, Environmental Policy, Environmental politics in Western Europe and the U.S., Politics

Recent Publications:

Political Opportunities for Climate Policy: California, New York, and the Federal Government (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2016). “Not Waiting for Washington: Climate Policy Making in California and New York,” Political Science Quarterly, forthcoming. “Wind-Power Development in Germany and the U.S.: Structural Factors, Multiple-Stream Convergence, and Turning Points,” ch. 5 in Andreas Duit, ed., State and Environment: The Comparative Study of Environmental Governance. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2014, pp. 111-45. “Explaining Success and Failure in... more

Bonnie Keilty Associate Professor of Special Education; Ed.D., 2001, The George Washington University

Faculty Associate

Contact: bkeilty@hunter.cuny.edu  212-772-4709

Research Area: Early childhood inclusion, Effective early intervention systems, Family-professional partnerships, Home visit planning and implementation, Home visiting, Prenatal supports, Professional development, Strengths-based interventions

Recent Publications:

Seven Essentials for Family-Professional Partnerships in Early Intervention NEW EDITION: The Early Intervention Guidebook for Families and Professionals: Partnering for Success, 2nd Edition ... more

[In Memoriam] Peter Kwong Distinguished Professor of Urban Affairs and Planning, Hunter College; Professor of Sociology, CUNY Graduate Center; Ph.D., Columbia University

Faculty Associate
The Human Rights Program

Research Area: Human Rights, Sociology, Urban Planning

Matthew Lasner Associate Professor of Urban Policy and Planning, Hunter College

Faculty Associate
The Public Policy Program

Research Area: Architecture, History, Housing, Urban Planning

Recent Publications:

M.G. Lasner, "Segregation by Design: Race, Architecture, and the Enclosure of the Atlanta Apartment," Journal of Urban History, online first, May 2017 N.D. Bloom and M.G. Lasner, eds., Affordable Housing in New York: The People, Places, and Policies That Transformed a City, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2016 M.G. Lasner, "‘Swingsites for Singles’: New Housing for New Households in Mid-century America," Places Journal, placesjournal.org, Oct. 2014 ... more

Current Projects:

Lasner is writing on a monograph entitled “Community Urbanism: The Bay Area Counterculture and the Reimagining of U.S. Housing and Neighborhoods, 1940-1990,” that reexamines postwar urbanism, locating its avant garde not in the Northeast or in Europe but in Northern California, where designers advanced progressive social, economic, and environmental agendas through innovative housing solutions that echoed the New Deal and anticipated the New Urbanism.

Marnia Lazreg Professor of Sociology, Hunter College, CUNY Graduate Center; Ph.D., Sociology, New York University,

Faculty Associate
The Human Rights Program

Contact: mlazreg@hunter.cuny.edu  (212) 772-5570

Departmental Website

Research Area: Gender and Sexuality, Islam, Sociology

Recent Publications:

Torture and the Twilight of Empire: From Algiers to Baghdad... more

Current Projects:

Lazreg has just completed a manuscript on “Twilight of Empire, Torture and Identity” that will be published by Princeton University Press.

Michael Lee Assistant Professor of Political Science, Hunter College

Faculty Associate

May May Leung Assistant Professor of Nutrition

Faculty Associate

Departmental Website

Research Area: Health Advocacy, Health Policy, Obesity, Public Health Policy, Public health prevention programs, Urban Health, Youth Health Policy

Recent Publications:

Leung, M.M., *Barata-Cavalcanti, O., *El Dada, A., Brown, M., *Mateo, K.F., Yeh, M.C. (2017). Treating Obesity in Latino Children: A Systematic Review of Current Interventions. International Journal of Child Health and Nutrition, 6(1), 1-15. Leung, M.M., *Agaronov, A, *Buckley, J, *Entwistle, T, *Harry, L., Freudenberg, N. (2016). Utilizing photovoice to understand youth perspectives of the food environment in East Harlem, New York. Health Promotion Practice, DOI: 10.1177/1524839916678404. *Agaronov, A., Leung, M.M., Garcia, J.M., *Kwan, A., Yeh, M.C., Zarcadoolas, C., Platkin, C.S. (2016). Feasibility and... more

Current Projects:

Development and evaluation of technology-based interactive tools to prevent childhood obesity in minority populations.

Marty Lucas Assistant Professor, Hunter College Department of Film and Media

Faculty Associate

Departmental Website  |  Personal Website

Research Area: Film and Media

Andrew Lund Associate Professor of Film & Media, Hunter College

Faculty Associate

Research Area: Film and Media

Recent Publications:

Andrew Lund is currently working on two books on independent filmmaking for Peter Lang Publishers.... more

Howard Lune Associate Professor of Sociology and Director, Graduate Social Research Program, Hunter College

Faculty Associate

Contact: hlune@hunter.cuny.edu  212.772-5641

Departmental Website

Research Area: Collective action, Organizations, Revolutions

Recent Publications:

2015 Lune, Howard. “The Test: Ritual as a framing device in the construction of cultural nationalism.” The Irish Journal of Sociology 23(2): 3-28. 2015 Lune, Howard. “Transnational Nationalism: Strategic Action Fields and the Organization of the Fenian Movement.” Research in Social Movements, Conflicts, and Change 38: 3-35. 2013 Chen, Katherine, Howard Lune, and Edward L. Queen. “The ‘Values, culture, and democracy in voluntary and advocacy organizations’ symposium: How values shape and are shaped by organizations.” Nonprofit and Volunteer Sector Quarterly 42.5:856-885. ... more

Peter J. Marcotullio Professor of Geography, Hunter College & Director of the CUNY Institute for Sustainable Cities; Ph.D., Urban Planning, Columbia University, 1996

Faculty Associate
The Public Policy Program

Departmental Website

Research Area: Environmental Change, Geography, Urbanization

Recent Publications:

Peter J. Marcotullio (2017) “Urban environmental transitions in Southeast Asia,” in Philip Hirsch (Ed.) Handbook of Environment in Southeast Asia, London, Routledge, pp. 1-15. Peter J. Marcotullio, Andrea Sarzynski, Jochen Albrecht, Niels Schulz and Jake Garcia (2016) “Assessing Urban GHG Emissions in European Medium and Large Cities: Methodological Issues,” in Pierre Laconte and Christopher Gossop (Eds.), Sustainable Cities: Assessing the Progress and Practice of Urban Environments, London, IA Tauris, pp. 83-101 ... more

Current Projects:

Tracking Influences of Asian Urban GHG emissions for Sustainability Policies: Identifying Low Carbon Pathways to meet the Paris Agreement

Diana Mason Rudin Professor of Nursing, Hunter-Bellevue School of Nursing at Hunter College; Ph.D., Nursing Research and Theory Development, New York University, 1987

Faculty Associate
The Public Policy Program

Contact: dmason@hunter.cuny.edu  212-481-7567

Departmental Website  |  Personal Website

Research Area: Nursing, Public Health Policy

Erin Mayo-Adam Assistant Professor, Political Science Department and Human Rights Program, Hunter College, CUNY

Faculty Associate
The Human Rights Program
The Public Policy Program

Lynn McCormick Associate Professor of Urban Affairs and Planning, Hunter College; Ph.D., Regional Economic Policy and Planning, Massachusettes Institute of Technology, 1996

Faculty Associate

Contact: lmccormi@hunter.cuny.edu  (212) 772-5733

Departmental Website

Elidor Mëhilli Assistant Professor of History; PhD, Princeton University, 2011

Faculty Associate
The Public Policy Program

Contact:   212-772-5485

Departmental Website  |  Personal Website

Research Area: communist dictatorships, European unity and disunity, History, The Cold War

Recent Publications:

"Europe’s ‘fake’ refugees" (http://www.bbk.ac.uk/reluctantinternationalists/blog/europes-fake-refugees/) "States of Insecurity" (http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/07075332.2015.1046390?journalCode=rinh20#.V4UfZJMrJE4) "Wh... more

Current Projects:

A broad-sweep history of Mediterranean points of contact and exclusion, emerging border zones, “democracy-building” projects, and crises since the 1970s.

Dara Meyers-Kingsley Director, Muse Scholar Program, Hunter College Director, Office of the Arts, Hunter College Distinguished Lecturer

Faculty Associate

Contact: dmeyersk@hunter.cuny.edu  212-396-6637

Departmental Website

Research Area: Aesthetic Education, Contemporary Art, Curatorial Practice, Time-Based Media, Visual and Performing Arts

Recent Publications:

Donna Sharrett: Love Songs. New York: Pavel Zoubok Gallery, 2015.“Synaptic Passages: Daniel Canogar’s Media Brainstorms,” Sculpture magazine, April 2011.“Yoko Inoue: Projects in Ceramics,” ArtsNews, November 2008.“Lines of Sight: Diane Samuels’ Tapestry of Glass,” Textile: The Journal of Cloth and Culture, Berg Publishers, UK, 2007.“Conservation of Web Art” (introduction to Shu Lea Cheang’s Brandon Case Study) Taiwan National Museum journal, July 2006.“Diane Samuels Creates Luminous Manuscript for the Center for Jewish History in New York,” Lifestyles Magazine, Vol. 33, no. 195, New Year 2005.... more

Jessica Neuwirth

Jessica Neuwirth Distinguished Lecturer and Rita E. Hauser Director, Human Rights Program

Faculty Associate
The Human Rights Program

Contact: jessica.neuwirth@hunter.cuny.edu  212-396-7924

Departmental Website

Lina Newton

Lina Newton Associate Professor of Political Science, Hunter College

Faculty Associate
The Public Policy Program

Contact: lnewton@hunter.cuny.edu  (212) 772-4785

Departmental Website

Research Area: Immigration Policy

Recent Publications:

“Congress and Immigration Reform: Is Now the Time?" Extensions: Journal of the Carl Albert Congressional Research and Studies Center. University of Oklahoma. (2013)... more

Donna Nickitas Professor of Nursing, Hunter-Belleveu School of Nursing at Hunter College; Ph.D., Nursing, Adelphi University, 1989

Faculty Associate

Contact: dnickita@hunter.cuny.edu  (212) 481-4376

Departmental Website

Research Area: Nursing, Public Health Policy

Recent Publications:

Nickitas, D. M, Middaugh, D. J, & Aries, N. (Editors). (2010). Being and Becoming A Policy Influential Advocacy and Action for Nurses and Other Health Professionals. Sudbury, Massachusetts: Jones and Bartlett Publishers.... more

Current Projects:

Principal Investigator with co- PI Pamela Mahon.. Exploring Perceptions of Clinical Nursing Faculty, Nurse Preceptors, and Nursing Students Perception of Documentation Skills. PSC-CUNY Grant, $4, 600, July 1, 2009-June 31, 2010.

Rupal Oza Associate Professor of Geography, Hunter College; Ph.D., Geography, Rutgers University, 1999

Faculty Associate
The Human Rights Program

Contact: rupal.oza@hunter.cuny.edu  (212) 650-3035

Departmental Website

Research Area: Feminism, Gender and Sexuality, Globalization

Recent Publications:

The Making of Neoliberal India: Nationalism, Gender, and the Paradoxes of Globalization... more

Current Projects:

Oza’s current project is on examining the link between special economic zones and the discourse of security in India

Jessica Van Parys Assistant Professor of Economics, Hunter College; Ph.D. Economics, Columbia University, 2015

Faculty Associate
The Public Policy Program

Contact: jv947@hunter.cuny.edu  212-772-5544

Departmental Website  |  Personal Website

Research Area: Econometrics, Economic Policy, Health Policy

Juan Peña Associate Professor, Silberman School of Social Work, Post Doctoral Fellowship, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY Ph.D., Columbia University School of Social Work, New York, NY

Faculty Associate

Contact: jp84@hunter.cuny.edu  (212) 396-7539

Research Area: Adolescent Mental Health, Cultural Globalization, Latino Mental Health, Suicidal Behavior

Recent Publications:

Peña, J.B., Masyn K.E., & Wang, Y (2012). Plotting Model-Estimated Probabilities: Graphical Faux Pas or Useful Tool to Communicate Research Findings? American Journal of Public Health. Peña J.B., Zayas L.H., Cabrera, P., Vega W.A. (2012).U.S. Cultural Involvement and its Association with Suicidal Behavior among Youth in the Dominican Republic, American Journal of Public Health, 102(4), 664-671. Peña J.B., Matthieu M.M., Zayas L.H., Masyn K.E., & Caine E.D. (2012).Co-Occurring Risk Behaviors Among White, Black, and Hispanic US High School Adolescents With Suicide Attempts Requiring Medical Attention, 1999-2... more

Sonali Perrera English

Faculty Associate

Lacey Peters Assistant Professor, Early Childhood Education, Hunter College

Faculty Associate

Contact: lpeters@huntersoe.org  212-772-5239

Research Area: Assessment, Children's rights and participation, Early childhood, Teacher research

Recent Publications:

Peters, L. Reinke, S. & Castner, D. (2017). Critically engaging in discourses on quality improvement: Political and pedagogical futures in early childhood education. Teachers College Record. Retrieved from http://www.tcrecord.org ID Number: 22063. Peters, L., Gaches, S. & Swadener, B.B. (2015).  Children’s well-being in a rights-based framework:  Collective narratives, He Kupu Early Childhood eJournal, 4(2), p. 58-70. ... more

Current Projects:

I am currently the Principal Investigator on a project titled Case Studies on Authentic Assessment in UPK Citywide: Perspectives on Utility, Fidelity, and Applications to Practice.   This work is generously supported by the Foundation for Child Development. Our aim is to examine the utility of the tools and how they help teachers and the classroom support staff understand the children they’re working with in the context of the respective schools and communities. We also seek the perspectives of program administration, and parents/primary caregivers to develop a more comprehensive understanding of how the assessment tools are used for other purposes

Colleen Henry, MSW, PhD Assistant Professor

Faculty Associate
The Public Policy Program

Contact: colleen.henry@hunter.cuny.edu  (212) 396-7528

Research Area: Child Exposure to Domestic Violence, Child Welfare Practice and Policy, Child Well-being, Children's rights and participation, Welfare State Theory

Recent Publications:

Henry, C.  (2017). Expanding the Legal Framework for Child Protection: Recognition of and Response to Child Exposure to Domestic Violence in California Law. Social Service Review, 91 (2), 203-232Henry, C., Carnochan, S., & Austin, M. (2017). Using Qualitative Data-Mining for Practice-Based Research in Child Welfare. Child Welfare, 93(6), 7-26... more

Current Projects:

Family Violence Research Project: Principal Investigator
Through analysis of child welfare case records and administrative data, this research project examines one urban public child welfare agency’s response to allegations of child exposure to domestic violence. Using both quantitative and qualitative methods, this project examines how child welfare workers construe child exposure to domestic violence as harmful to children and how these constructions influence child welfare service decisions.

Child Welfare Qualitative Data-Mining Project: Co-Principal Investigator
In partnership with the Mack Center on Nonprofit & Public Sector Management in the Human Services at the University of California, Berkeley and public child welfare agencies, this project develops and applies qualitative data-mining (QDM) techniques to examine child welfare policy and practice. QDM, the systematic mining of narrative data from administrative data systems,enhances our understanding of child welfare populations, emerging social problems, client needs, and promising social work practices.

Joachim Pissarro Bershad Professor of Art History and Director of the Hunter College Galleries

Faculty Associate

Contact: joachim.pissarro@hunter.cuny.edu  212-772-4995

Departmental Website  |  Personal Website

Jody N. Polleck Associate Professor and Program Coordinator for Literacy, Hunter College

Faculty Associate

Contact: jpolleck@hunter.cuny.edu  (212) 772-4639

Recent Publications:

Tijms, J., Stoop, M. & Polleck, J. (In Press). Bibliotherapeutic book club intervention to promote reading skills and social-emotional competencies in low SES community-based high schools: A randomized controlled trial. Journal of Reading Research. Polleck, J. & Espana, C. (In Press). Revolutions and resistance: Creating space for adolescent agency and advocacy through a critical reading of Sonia Manzano’s The Revolution of Evelyn Serrano. ALAN Review. Polleck, J. & Jeffery, J. (In Press). C... more

Andrew J. Polsky Ruth and Harold Newman Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences, Hunter College, and Professor of Political Science, Hunter College & The Graduate Center

Faculty Associate

Departmental Website

Research Area: American Political Development

[Professor Emerita] Jan Poppendieck Professor Emerita of Sociology; Ph.D., Sociology, Brandeis University, 1979

Faculty Associate

Departmental Website

Research Area: Food Policy, Public Health Policy

Recent Publications:

Free for All: Fixing School Food in America, The University of California Press January, 2010.... more

Current Projects:

Currently a member of the Sociology Department’s Personnel and Budget Committee.

Laxmi Ramasubramanian Associate Professor of Urban Policy and Planning, Hunter College; Ph.D., Architecture and Planning, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 1998

Faculty Associate

Contact: laxmi@hunter.cuny.edu  (212) 772-5594

Departmental Website

John Ranellucci Assistant Professor of Educational Foundations, Hunter College

Faculty Associate

Contact:   212-772-5667

 |  Personal Website

Recent Publications:

Shin, T. S., Ranellucci, J., & Roseth, C. J. (2017). Effects of peer and instructor rationales on online students’ motivation and achievement. International Journal of Educational Research, 82, 184-199.; Linnenbrink-Garcia, L., Wormington, S. V., & Ranellucci, J. (2016). Measuring affect in educational contexts: A circumplex approach. In P. Schutz & M. Zembylas (Eds.), Methodological advances in research on emotion in education. New York: Springer.; Ranellucci, J., Poitras, E. G., Bouchet, F., Lajoie, S. P., & Hall, N. C. (2016). Understanding emotional expressions in social media through educational data mining. Chapter i... more

Current Projects:

Dr. Ranellucci’s research focuses on motivational interventions and the structural relation among motivation, emotion, learning strategies, and academic achievement in the context of traditional and technology rich learning environments.

Shirley Raps

Faculty Associate
The Public Policy Program

Departmental Website

Research Area: Biological Science, Environmentally Regulated Genes

Recent Publications:

Zhong, S, Qiu, W., and Raps, S, 2008. Phytochrome sequence from Microcystis aerugionosa UV027. GenBank accession number EU723511.... more

Current Projects:

Environmentally Regulated Genes in M. aeruginosa, a Fresh Water Our long term goal is to understand how environmentally regulated genes are expressed in the toxin-producing cyanobacterium Microcystis aeruginosa UV027, a freshwater organism reported to be a health hazard to animals and humans.

[Professor Emerita] Cordelia Reimers Professor Emerita of Economics, Hunter College and The CUNY Graduate Center; Ph.D., Economics, Columbia University, 1977.

Faculty Associate
The Public Policy Program

Departmental Website

Research Area: Economic Policy, Immigration Policy, Race

Recent Publications:

“The Impact of Immigration on the US Labour Market: What Have We Learned Since 2000 and What Do We Need to Do Next?” in Twenty-first Century Immigration to North America, edited by Victoria Esses and Donald Abelson (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2017); “Tax Structure and Revenue Instability: The Great Recession and the States” (with H. Chernick and J Tennant), IZA Journal of Labor Policy, 2014; “Labor Market Effects of September 11th on Arab and Muslim Residents of the U.S.” (with N. Kaushal and R. Kaestner), Journal of Human Resources, 2007;... more

Current Projects:

Immigrants and Public Benefit Programs in New York City (with Howard Chernick.)

Mary Roldán Dorothy Epstein Professor of Latin American History, Hunter College; Ph.D., History, Harvard University 1992

Faculty Associate
The Human Rights Program

Contact: mrol@hunter.cuny.edu  212-772-5488

Departmental Website

Research Area: Comparative Politics, History, Urban History, Urban Policy

Recent Publications:

“End of Discussion: Violence, Participatory Democracy, and the Limits of Dissent in Colombia” in Desmond Arias and Daniel Goldstein, eds., Violent Pluralisms in Latin America (Duke University Press, spring 2010)... more

Jonathan Rosenberg Associate Professor of History, Hunter College, CUNY Graduate Center; Ph.D., History, Harvard University, 1997

Faculty Associate
The Human Rights Program
The Public Policy Program

Contact: jrosen8637@aol.com  (212) 772-5546

Departmental Website

Research Area: History

Recent Publications:

"How Far the Promised Land?: World Affairs and the American Civil Rights Movement from the First World War to Vietnam" (Princeton University Press, 2006).... more

Jill Rosenthal Assistant Professor of History, Hunter College; PhD, Emory University, 2014

Faculty Associate
The Human Rights Program

Contact: jr3192@hunter.cuny.edu  212-772-5490

Jennifer Samson Associate Professor & Acting Chair of Special Education, Hunter College; Ph.D., Education, Harvard University

Faculty Associate

Contact: Jennifer.Samson@hunter.cuny.edu  (212) 772-4663

Departmental Website

Research Area: Education Policy

Current Projects:

A member of the American Educational Research Association, Society for the Scientific Study of Reading, Society for Research in Child Development, and Council for Exceptional Children.

Laura Schor Professor of History, Hunter College and the CUNY Graduate Center; PhD University of Rochester, 1974

Faculty Associate
The Human Rights Program

Contact: lschor@hunter.cuny.edu  212-772-5486

Departmental Website

Research Area: History, Palestine during the British mandate, Women in modern France

Sanford F. Schram Professor of Political Science, Hunter College and Professor of Sociology, CUNY Graduate Center

Faculty Associate
The Public Policy Program

Contact: ss1745@hunter.cuny.edu  212-772-5682

Departmental Website

Research Area: Inequality, Political Behavior, Political Economy, Poverty

Recent Publications:

The Return of Ordinary Capitalism: Neoliberalism, Precarity, Occupy (Oxford, 2015).... more

Current Projects:

Hard White: The Mainstreaming of Racism in America

Jillian Schwedler Professor of Political Science, Hunter College and CUNY Graduate Center

Faculty Associate
The Human Rights Program

Contact: js1287@hunter.cuny.edu  (212) 650-3469

Departmental Website

Research Area: Contentious Politics, Islam, Islamist Politics, Middle East politics, Neoliberalism, Political Geography, protest and dissent

Purvi Sevak Associate Professor of Economics, Hunter College; Ph.D., Economics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2002

Faculty Associate

Contact: Purvi.Sevak@hunter.cuny.edu  (212) 772-5404

Departmental Website

Jonathan H. Shannon Professor and Chair, Anthropology, Hunter College; and Member of Doctoral Faculties in Music and Anthropology, CUNY Graduate Center

Faculty Associate

Contact: jshanno@hunter.cuny.edu  (212) 772-5452

Departmental Website

Research Area: Anthropology, Culture

Current Projects:

Professor Shannon’s current research is on the musical practices of displaced Syrians in Turkey and Europe: “Sounding Home: Music and Migration among Displaced Syrians, from Syria to Scandinavia.”

Sigmund Shipp Associate Professor of Urban Affairs and Planning, Hunter College; PhD, City and Regional Planning, Cornell University

Faculty Associate
The Public Policy Program

Contact: sshipp@hunter.cuny.edu  (212) 772-5591

Departmental Website

Zachary Shirkey Professor of Political Science

Faculty Associate

Departmental Website

Research Area: Foreign Policy, International Relations, Politics, Terrorism and Counter Terrorism, War

Recent Publications:

American Dove: US Foreign Policy and the Failure of Force. 2020. (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press). ... more

Current Projects:

International Relations; Causes and Termination of War; Intervention; Terrorism and Counter-terrorism

Larry Shore Dept. of Film & Media Studies, Thomas Hunter Honors Program

Faculty Associate
The Human Rights Program

Research Area: Film and Media, Human Rights, Politics, South Africa

Current Projects:

Larry is In the early production stages for a new documentary film, “The American Struggle Over Apartheid: Edward Kennedy, Nelson Mandela and Constructive Engagement.”

He is also doing research on politics in post-Mandela South Africa and its implications for American policy; and the impact of new media on international news. 

Benjamin Shuldiner Distinguished Lecturer of Education Leadership Curriculum and Teaching ADSUP

Faculty Associate
The Public Policy Program

Contact: Benjamin.Shuldiner@hunter.cuny.edu  212-772-4627

Departmental Website

Research Area: Education Policy

Melinda R. Snodgrass Assistant Professor; PhD, 2016, University of Illinois

Faculty Associate

Contact: melinda.snodgrass@hunter.cuny.edu  212-772-4229

 |  Personal Website

Research Area: Augmentative and Alternative Communication, Education and disability

Recent Publications:

Meadan, H., Snodgrass, M. R., Palomo, I., Amenta, C. G., & Halle, J. W. (2016). A framework for defining contexts for training and coaching practices. Exceptionality. doi:10.1080/09362835.2016.1196451 Snodgrass, M. R., Israel, M., & Reese, G. C. (2016). Instructional supports for students with disabilities in K-5 computing: Findings from a cross-case analysis. Computers & Education, 100, 1-17. doi:10.1016/j.compedu.2016.04.011 Chung, M. Y., Snodgrass, M. R., Meadan, H., Akamoglu, Y. A., & Halle, J. W. (2016). Understanding... more

Current Projects:

Melinda conducts mixed methods examinations of supports for children’s educational teams, including their families, around augmentative and alternative communication (AAC). She is also a member of a team of researchers across three states that conducts research focused on the use of caregiver coaching and telepractice in Early Intervention (learn more at sites.google.com/a/illinois.edu/i-pics/). Melinda also has methodological interests in mixed methods and single-case experimental designs. She co-leads an interdisciplinary, cross-institution collaborative that examines the use of mixed methods to explore intersections between single-case experimental research and program evaluation for exploring the social validity of interventions.

William Solecki Professor of Geography, Hunter College; Director of CUNY Institute for Sustainable Cities; Ph.D., Geography, Rutgers University, 1990

Faculty Associate
The Human Rights Program
The Public Policy Program

Contact: wsolecki@hunter.cuny.edu  (212) 772-4536

Departmental Website  |  Personal Website

Research Area: Geography, Urban Policy

Current Projects:

Solecki is the Director of the CUNY Institute for Sustainable Cities and has served on several U.S. National Research Councils committees including the Special Committee on Problems in the Environment (SCOPE). He currently is a member of the International Geographical Union (IGU) Megacity Study Group and the International Human Dimensions Programme (IHDP), Urbanization and Global Environmental Change Scientific Steering Committee. He also serves as the co-leader of several climate impacts in the greater New York and New Jersey region. Prof. Solecki’s teaching interests include courses on urban environmental change, urban spatial development, and research methods.

Carolyn Somerville Associate Professor and Chair of Political Science, Hunter College; Ph.D., Political Science, University of Michigan, 1982

Faculty Associate
The Human Rights Program

Contact: csomervi@hunter.cuny.edu  (212) 772-5669

Departmental Website

Research Area: Comparative Politics, International Relations

Recent Publications:

"Politics of Southern Africa." In Oxford Bibliographies in Political Science. Ed. Rick Valelly. NY: Oxford U Press. (2013)... more

Current Projects:

Forthcoming: Women’s Realities, Women’s Choices, 4th Ed. NY: Oxford U. Press. (2013)

Pamela Stone Professor of Sociology, Hunter College, CUNY Graduate Center; Ph.D., Sociology, John Hopkins University

Faculty Associate

Contact: pstone@hunter.cuny.edu  (212) 772-5586

Departmental Website

Research Area: Sociology

Current Projects:

Stone’s research is currently underway with various collaborators, she is examining long-term trends in opting out and carrying out a cross-national comparison of the utilization of flexible work options

Ida Susser Professor of Anthropology, Hunter College, CUNY Graduate Center; Ph.D., Anthropology, Columbia University, 1980

Faculty Associate
The Human Rights Program
The Public Policy Program

Contact: isusser@hunter.cuny.edu  (212) 772-5429

Departmental Website

Research Area: Anthropology, Gender and Sexuality, Public Health Policy

Charles Tien Professor of Political Science, Hunter College & The Graduate Center

Faculty Associate

Contact:   212-772-5494

Departmental Website

Research Area: American Political Development, Congress, Election Forecasting, Race and Ethnicity, Research Methods

Deborah Tolman Professor, Silberman School of Social Work

Faculty Associate
The Human Rights Program
The Public Policy Program

Departmental Website

Research Area: Gender and Sexuality

Current Projects:

How the sexualization of girls is bad for women, boys and men. In E. Zurbriggen & T.A.
Roberts, The Sexualization of Girls and Girlhood, Oxford University Press (in press)

Ellen Trief Professor of Blind & Visually Impaired and Severe & Multiple Disabilities, Hunter College; Ed.D., Ed.D., Special Education and Administration, Teachers College, Columbia University

Faculty Associate
The Human Rights Program

Contact: etrief@hunter.cuny.edu  (212) 772-4110

Departmental Website

Research Area: Special Education

Current Projects:

National Video clip library of exemplary teaching for preparing teachers of the Blind and Visually Impaired.
STACS: a Standardized Tactual Augmentative Communication System published by the American Printing House for the Blind for students with severe and multiple disabilities.

Virginia Valian Distinguished Professor, Hunter College and the CUNY Graduate Center; Director, Hunter College Gender Equity Project; Director, Language Acquisition Research Center

Faculty Associate
The Public Policy Program

Departmental Website

Research Area: Gender, Linguistics, Psychology

Recent Publications:

Valian, V. (2016). Null subjects. In J. Lidz, W. Snyder, & J. Pater (Eds.), Oxford handbook of developmental linguistics (Chapter 17). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. Stewart, A. & Valian, V. (in press). An inclusive academy: Achieveing diversity and excellence, MIT Press. ... more

Current Projects:

Virginia Valian’s book Why So Slow? The Advancement of Women (1998, MIT Press) shows how gender schemas result in women’s being undervalued and men’s being overvalued and how the accumulation of advantage and disadvantage helps men and hurts women. Her book with Abigail Stewart (in press, MIT Press) presents an analysis of why universities and colleges continue to underutilize and undervalue women and people of color; it goes on to recommend solutions for hiring, retention, and promotion. Other recent work examines the role of modern sexism in the 2016 presidential election. Valian’s work on language investigates knowledge and use of language in young monolingual English speakers (two- and three-year-olds) and the possible cognitive benefits of bilingualism.

Shyama Venkateswar Distinguished Lecturer, Hunter College and Director, Public Policy Program, Roosevelt House

Faculty Associate

Contact: shyama.venkateswar@hunter.cuny.edu  (212) 396-7935

Research Area: Economic Policy, Education Policy, Environmental Justice, Environmental Policy, Feminism, Food Policy, Foreign Policy, Globalization, Health Policy, Immigration Policy, International Politics, Labor Policy, Public Health Policy, Urban Policy

Joseph P. Viteritti Thomas Hunter Professor of Public Policy; Chair, Urban Policy and Planning Department; Founding Faculty Chair, Public Policy Program at Roosevelt House

Faculty Associate
The Public Policy Program

Contact: jviter@hunter.cuny.edu  212.772.5597

Departmental Website

Research Area: City politics, Education Policy

Recent Publications:

The Pragmatist: Bill de Blasio's Quest to Save the Soul of New York (Oxford University Press, 2017)... more

John R. Wallach Professor of Political Science, Hunter College and CUNY Graduate Center

Faculty Associate
The Human Rights Program

Contact: jwallach@hunter.cuny.edu  (212) 772-5671

Departmental Website

Research Area: Democratic Theory, History of Western Political Thought, Political Interpretation, Political Theory of Human Rights

Recent Publications:

“Deconstructing the Ancients/Moderns Trope: Historical Reception in Political Theory,” Polis, Vol. 33., No. 2 (2016), 265-290 “After Virtue, by Alasdair MacIntyre,” in Jacob Levy, ed. Oxford Handbook of Classics in Contemporary Political Thought (Oxford, 2016) ... more

Stephanie Woolhandler Distinguished Professor, School of Urban Public Health at Hunter College, CUNY Graduate Center; M.D., Louisiana State University; M.P.H., University of California, Berkeley

Faculty Associate
The Public Policy Program

Departmental Website

Research Area: Health Policy, National Health Systems

Ryan Yeung Assistant Professor, Urban Policy and Planning, Hunter College

Faculty Associate

Contact: ry313@hunter.cuny.edu  212-772-5604

 |  Personal Website

Research Area: Education Policy, Public Budgeting and Finance, Urban Planning

Recent Publications:

JournalsYeung, R. & Nguyen-Hoang, P. (2016). Endogenous peer effects: Fact or fiction. Journal of Educational Research, 109(1), 37-49. Yeung, R. (2015). Athletics, athletic leadership and academic achievement. Education and Urban Society, 47(3), 361-387. Kingma, B. & Yeung, R. (2014). Religion, entrepreneurship, income and employment. International Journal of Social Sciences and Management, 1(1), 3-9. Nguyen-Hoang, P. & Yeung, R. (2014). Dollars for lives: The effects of capital investments on traffic fatalities. Journal of Safety Research, 51, 109-115. Nguyen-Hoang, P., Yeung, R., & Bogin, A. (2014).... more