Directory of Faculty Associates
Mimi Abramovitz Bertha Capen Reynolds Professor of Social Policy, Silberman School of Social Work, Hunter College, CUNY Faculty Associate, Roosevelt House
Faculty Associate The Public Policy Program
Contact: iabramov@hunter.cuny.edu 212-396-7535
Research Area: Class and Gender and the US Welfare state, Human Service Workforce, Neoliberalism, Race, Social Work, U.S. Social Welfare Policy
Recent Publications:
Books2018 Regulating The Lives of Women: Social Welfare Policy From Colonial Times to the Present, Routledge London and New York 3rdEdition 2014 The Dynamics of Social Welfare Policy, NY: Oxford University Press (and Joel Blau). (4threvised edition)Recent Articles2020 The Perils of Privatization: Bringing the Business Model into the Human Services. with Jennifer Zelnick). Read the article on the ... more
Current Projects:
The Impact of Neoliberalism on the US Welfare State; The Impact of Privatization the Human Service Workforce and Organizations; History of Social Welfare Activism Among Working Class Black and White Since 1900;
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
[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
Angelo Angelis
Faculty Associate
Contact: aangelis@hunter.cuny.edu 212-772-5540
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Research Area: Race, Race and Civil Rights
Lynn Chancer Professor and Chair of Sociology, Hunter College and CUNY Graduate Center
Faculty Associate
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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
Research Area: Economic Policy
Thomas DeGloma Associate Professor of Sociology, Hunter College and the CUNY Graduate Center
Faculty Associate The Human Rights Program
Contact: tdegloma@hunter.cuny.edu (212) 369-6255
Research Area: Cognition, Comparative & Historical Sociology, Culture, Memory, Social movements & collective behavior, Sociology, Technology & new media, Trauma
Recent Publications:
DeGloma, Thomas and Max Papadatonakis. Forthcoming. “The Thematic Lens: A Formal and Cultural Framework for Comparative Ethnographic Analysis.” Beyond the Case: Competing Logics and Approaches to Comparative Ethnography. Edited by Corey M. Abramson and Neil Gong. New York: Oxford University Press. DeGloma, Thomas and Erin F. Johnston. Forthcoming. “Cognitive Migrations: A Cultural and Cognitive Sociology of Personal Transformation.” Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Sociology. Edited by Wayne H. Brekhus and Gabe Ignatow. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. DeGloma, Thomas. 2015. “The Strategi... more
Current Projects:
Professor DeGloma is currently writing a book titled, Anonymous: The Performance and Impact of Hidden Identities.
Tracy Dennis-Tiwary Professor of Psychology
Faculty Associate
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.
Sarah-Jane (SJ) Dodd Associate Professor of Social Work, Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College and the CUNY Graduate Center; PhD, University of Southern California School of Social Work
Faculty Associate
Contact: sdodd@hunter.cuny.edu (212) 396-7529
Research Area: Gender and Sexuality, LGBT Policy, Social Work, Welfare Policy
Recent Publications:
Book:Dodd, S.J. & Epstein, I. (2012). Practice-Based Research in Social Work: A Guide for Reluctant Researchers. London: Routledge.Articles:Dodd, S.J. & Tolman, D. (2017). Resurfacing a Positive Discourse on Sexuality within Social Work. Social Work, 62 (3) 227-234. Dodd, S.J., Ruffins, J. & Arzola, D. (2017). Improving Health While Saving Money: Lessons Learned from a Supportive Housing Program for Young Adults with HIV. Sexuality Research and Social Policy, 1-9. Dodd, S.... more
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 Associate Professor of Philosophy, Hunter College
Faculty Associate
Contact: jgarson@hunter.cuny.edu 212-772-4975
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
Research Area: Economic Policy
Current Projects:
Lisa George is editor-in-chief of Information Economics and Policy.
Nancy Giunta Associate Professor at the Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College, City University of New York and John A. Hartford Geriatric Social Work Faculty Scholar.
Faculty Associate
Departmental Website | Personal Website
Research Area: Social Work
Current Projects:
Giunta currently serves as facilitator of the CPFOA Staying Connected Network, formed to support teaching and learning among 15 community partnerships originally funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Community Partnerships for Older Adults national program.
Tami Gold Professor of Film and Media Studies
Faculty Associate
Contact: tamigold@mindspring.com 212 772-4953
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
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
Carol Gould Professor of Philosophy, Hunter College; CUNY Graduate School; Ph.D., Philosophy, Yale University,
Faculty Associate The Human Rights Program
Contact: carol.gould@hunter.cuny.edu (212) 396-6502
Research Area: International Ethics, Political Theory, Social Philosophy
Recent Publications:
Globalizing Democracy and Human Rights (Cambridge University Press, 2004)... more
Steven G. Greenbaum Professor of Physics
Faculty Associate
Contact: steve.greenbaum@hunter.cuny.edu 212 772-4973
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
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
John Hammond Professor of Sociology, Hunter College, CUNY Graduate Center; Ph.D., Sociology, University of Chicago, 1970
Faculty Associate The Human Rights Program The Public Policy Program
Contact: jhammond@hunter.cuny.edu (212) 772‑5573
Research Area: Environmental Sociology, Human Rights, Social Movements
Recent Publications:
Fighting to Learn: Popular Education and Guerrilla War in El Salvador; Building Popular Power: Workers' and Neighborhood Movements in the Portuguese Revolution... more
Current Projects:
John Hammond’s current research is on media and performance in Occupy Wall Street; and environmental impacts.
Jessica Halliday Hardie Assistant Professor of Sociology, Hunter College
Faculty Associate
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
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
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
Research Area: Public Health Policy
David Julian Hodges Professor of Anthropology, Hunter College; Ph.D. New York University
Faculty Associate The Human Rights Program
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
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
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
Rob Jenkins Professor of Political Science, Hunter College & The Graduate Center
Faculty Associate The Human Rights Program
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
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
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.
May May Leung Assistant Professor of Nutrition
Faculty Associate
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.
Michael A. Lewis Professor of Social Work, Hunter College
Faculty Associate The Public Policy Program
Contact: michael.a.lewis@hunter.cuny.edu (212) 396-7557
Research Area: Applied Statistics, Basic Income Guarantee, Public Policy, Social Work, Sociology
Recent Publications:
Lewis, Michael A. “An Overview of Causal Directed Acyclic Graphs for Social Work Researchers.” Journal of Applied Quantitative Methods (September 2015). Lewis, Michael A. “Econometrics of Estimating Causal Effects: an Overview for Social Work Researchers.” Research on Social Work Practice (June, 2015). Lewis, Michael A. and Ferguson-Colvin, Kristin. “Comparison of Decision Rules and Logistic Regression Classification Algorithms to Predict Methamphetamine use among Homeless Youths who attend High S... more
Current Projects:
Research areas: public policy, basic income guarantee, and applied statistics.
Current research: 1) Writing a book on mathematics, public policy, and social issues 2) Writing papers on the use of Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAGs) in causal inference.
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
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
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
Elidor Mëhilli Assistant Professor of History; PhD, Princeton University, 2011
Faculty Associate The Public Policy Program
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
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
Terry Mizrahi Professor of Social Work, Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College; Ph.D., Sociology, University of Virginia
Faculty Associate
Contact: tmizrahi@hunter.cuny.edu 212-396-7531
Research Area: Public Health Policy, Social Work
Current Projects:
Mizrahi, T. (in press) Social Work in Health and Mental Health Policy: Prospects for the 21st Century. Columbia University Press. Community organizing, social work and health care, social work and activism, coalition building
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
Lina Newton Associate Professor of Political Science, Hunter College
Faculty Associate The Public Policy Program
Contact: lnewton@hunter.cuny.edu (212) 772-4785
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
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
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.
Jama Shelton, MSW, PhD Assistant Professor
Faculty Associate The Public Policy Program
Contact: jshelton@hunter.cuny.edu (212) 396-7548
Research Area: and affirmation of LGBTQ youth in youth-serving systems, Child welfare and juvenile justice, LGBTQ Youth Homelessness, Qualitative and arts-based research methods, Social Policy
Recent Publications:
Shelton, J. (in press). Transgender youth homelessness: Understanding programmatic barriers through the lens of cisgenderism. Children and Youth Services Review.Shelton, J. (under review). Finding a gender home: Gender identity assertion among unstably housed transgender and gender expansive youth. Social Service Review.Shelton, J. & Winkelstein, J. (2014). Librarians and Social Workers: Working Together for LGBTQ Youth. Young Adult Library Services, Fall 2014, 20-13.Shelton, J. (2013). There’s no place like home? The experiences of unstably housed transgender and gender non-conforming youth. Docto... more
Current Projects:
Dr. Shelton is currently working on the Homeless Youth Risk and Resilience Study (HYRRS), a multi-city study of risk and protective factors among youth experiencing homelessness; and a research study, “They Should Just Ask: Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, and Pronouns Among Homeless Youth,” which explores how, when, and what to ask regarding sexual orientation and gender identity. They are also co-editing a peer-reviewed book on LGBTQ2S youth homelessness in the U.S. and Canada, with Toronto-based researcher Alex Abramovich, in partnership with the Canadian Observatory on Homelessness.
Vicki Lens, MSW, JD, PhD Professor of Sociology, Hunter College and the CUNY Graduate Center; Ph.D., Sociology, Columbia University
Faculty Associate The Public Policy Program
Contact: vl531@hunter.cuny.edu (212) 396-7539
Research Area: class and gender in the legal system, Ethnographic and qualitative research methods, Inequality and anti-oppression studies, Social justice and fairness in the courts, Socio-legal studies
Recent Publications:
Lens, V. (2015). Poor Justice: How the Poor Fare in the Courts. Oxford University Press.Lens, V. (2015). Welfare Law in Wiley Handbook of Law & Society. Eds. A. Sarat and P. Ewick. Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley.Lens, V. (2015). Against the grain: Therapeutic judging in a traditional Family Court. Law & Social Inquiry. DOI: 10.1111/lsi.12153Lens, V. (2014). The Judiciary and Social Policy in Social Policy and Social Justice. Ed. M. Reisch. Thousand Oaks: Sage.Lens, V. Engaging parents in Family Court: Lessons from an observational study of child protection cases. Journal of Social Work.... more
Current Projects:
Dr. Lens is currently working on an article which examines how gender disadvantages poor women in the civil justice system. It focuses on two forums – the welfare fair hearing system and Family Court –whose clientele are predominantly poor women. While the emphasis is primarily on gender, because of the intersectionality between race and gender, it also considers the former.
Dr. Lens is also working on an article, funded by the Robin Hood Foundation, which is based on qualitative interviews with 70 low-income families living in New York City. It examines why some people experiencing hardship do not seek help from private agencies, while others do.
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
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
Research Area: American Political Development
[Professor Emerita] Jan Poppendieck Professor Emerita of Sociology; Ph.D., Sociology, Brandeis University, 1979
Faculty Associate
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
John Ranellucci Assistant Professor of Educational Foundations, Hunter College
Faculty Associate
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Zachary Shirkey Professor of Political Science
Faculty Associate
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
Research Area: Education Policy
CalvinJohn Smiley Assistant Professor of Sociology, Hunter College
Faculty Associate The Public Policy Program
Contact: csmiley@hunter.cuny.edu (212) 772-5578
Research Area: Critical Animal Studies, Critical Race Theory, Mass incarceration, Popular Culture, Prisoner reentry, Social Media, Social Movements, Sociology of Law
Recent Publications:
Battle, Juan and CalvinJohn Smiley. (2018) “Familia Y Educación: A Quantitative Assessment of the Impact of Parental Configuration on Educational Attainment for a National Sample of Latinx Students” Race Ethnicity and Education.Hayes, Rebecca, Katharina J. Joosen, & CalvinJohn Smiley. (2018) “Black Petes & Black Crooks? Racial Stereotyping and Offending in the Netherlands”-Contemporary Justice Review, 21(1), 16-32.Smiley, CalvinJohn. (2017) “Addict Rap?: The Shift from Drug Distributor to Drug Consumer in Hip-Hop” - Journal of Hip-Hop Studies, 4(1), 94-117.Middlemas... more
Current Projects:
Much of my current research is tackling issues of prisoner reentry including: reentry and clothing, reentry and spousal selection, and reentry and time. In addition to my work on prisoner reentry, I have studied issues in popular culture, particularly hip-hop music, social media spaces, and current social issues (e.g., #BlackLivesMatter). My next large project is still in the early stages but will focus on human and non-human cohabitation in shared spaces of the carceral state.
Melinda R. Snodgrass Assistant Professor; PhD, 2016, University of Illinois
Faculty Associate
Contact: melinda.snodgrass@hunter.cuny.edu 212-772-4229
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
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)
Michaela Soyer Assistant Professor of Sociology, Hunter College
Faculty Associate
Research Area: Criminology, Inequality, Qualitative Methods, Social Theory
Recent Publications:
Soyer, Michaela. A Dream Denied: Incarceration, Recidivism and Young Minority Men in America. University of California Press, 2016. Soyer, Michaela. “‘We knew our time had come’ - The Dynamics of Threat and Microsocial Ties in Three Polish Ghettos under Nazi Oppression. Mobilization, 2014 (19) 1. Soyer, Michaela. “The Imagination of Desistance: A Juxtaposition of the Construction of Incarceration as a Turning Point and the Reality of Recidivism”. British Journal of Criminology. First online Octo... more
Current Projects:
Professor Soyer is working on several research projects about prisoner reentry and the impact of parental incarceration on children. In addition to this collaborative work she is writing her second book “Lost Childhoods” based on qualitative life-course interviews with juveniles that were adjudicated as adults in Pennsylvania. Together with her co-authors Lynn Chancer and Laura Orrico she is also working on a book about the impact gender has on the way sociologists conduct fieldwork.
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
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
Research Area: Anthropology, Gender and Sexuality, Public Health Policy
Charles Tien Professor of Political Science, Hunter College & The Graduate Center
Faculty Associate
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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