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Faculty Experts

The Graduate Center faculty and administrators are renowned scholars and researchers who believe "knowledge is a public good." Accordingly, the following list includes subjects of interest and GC faculty/administrators who are experts in each field and available to speak to the media.

For additional information, please contact Tanya Domi, director of media relations, at (212) 817-7283 or tdomi@gc.cuny.edu.

Affordable Housing

African Diaspora

American Literature

American Presidency

Biography

Biology

Children

Climate Change

Cognitive Neuroscience

Communities

Computer Science

Criminal Justice

Demographic Research

Digital Humanities

Economics

Education

Electoral Politics

English

Ethnography

Fashion

Film

French Literature

Global Cities

History

Human Rights

Immigration

Richard Alba

Distinguished Professor, Sociology
ralba@gc.cuny.edu

SPECIALIZATIONS: Race, urban sociology, immigrant assimilation & ethno-racially diverse workforces
LANGUAGES: German (fluent), French (moderate)

Laird Bergad

Professor, History
Director, Center for Latin American, Caribbean, and Latino Studies
lbergad@gc.cuny.edu

SPECIALIZATIONS: Latin America and Caribbean history, demography, Latino data project, Latino immigration and culture in the U.S.
LANGUAGES: Spanish (fluent), Portuguese (fluent)

David Brotherton

Professor, Criminal Justice
dbrotherton@jjay.cuny.edu

SPECIALIZATIONS: Juvenile Crime & Justice, Gangs, Qualitative Research, Ethnographic Methods in Criminal Justice. ICE Deportation, Immigration

Heath Brown

Assistant Professor, Criminal Justice
hbrown@jjay.cuny.edu

SPECIALIZATIONS: American Presidency, Electoral Politics, Immigrants in electoral politics, the role of immigrant-serving nonprofits, interest groups and advocacy, presidential transition politics, Republican Party and the Tea Party

Margaret Chin

Associate Professor, Sociology
mmchin@hunter.cuny.edu

SPECIALIZATIONS: Immigrant families and work, Asian immigrants, Chinese life, Asian American life, especially children and young adults of immigrant parents
LANGUAGES: Cantonese (fluent), Madarin (moderate)

Nancy Foner

Distinguished Professor, Sociology
nfoner@hunter.cuny.edu

SPECIALIZATIONS: Immigrants in the U.S. and Western Europe, Islam as a barrier to immigration, immigration to NYC, the way immigration has changed perceptions of race and ethnicity in the U.S., including the meaning of whiteness

Ismael García-Colón

Associate Professor, Anthropology
Ismael.Garcia@csi.cuny.edu

SPECIALIZATIONS: Migration, Latinxs in the USA, Puerto Rico, and Puerto Rican migration

David Jaeger

Professor, Economics
djaeger@gc.cuny.edu

SPECIALIZATIONS: Labor Economics, Econometrics, Labor market, Impact of immigration

Philip Kasinitz

Presidential Professor, Sociology
pkasinitz@gc.cuny.edu

SPECIALIZATIONS: Immigration and citizenship in North America, assimilation and experiences of first-generation Americans and Caribbean immigrants, the role of immigration in creating global cities

John Mollenkopf

Distinguished Professor, Political Science, Sociology
jmollenkopf@gc.cuny.edu

SPECIALIZATIONS: Urban politics; comparative urbanism; NYC politics, economic, social and political contribution of immigrant communities; what policies most affect immigrant communities; and citizenship naturalization policies; Electoral Politics; Public Policy

Peter Romaniuk

Associate Professor, Political Science
Assistant Director of the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies
promaniuk@jjay.cuny.edu

SPECIALIZATIONS: Terrorism, counter-terrorism, terrorist financing and multilateral sanctions

Victoria Sanford

Professor, Anthropology
victoria.sanford@lehman.cuny.edu

SPECIALIZATIONS: Latin American History, Social & Political Movements

Robert Smith

Professor, Sociology
robert.smith@baruch.cuny.edu

SPECIALIZATIONS: Mexican immigrants in NYC, DACA, and undocument immigrants
LANGUAGES: Spanish (fluent)

Van Tran

Associate Professor, Sociology
vtran@gc.cuny.edu

SPECIALIZATIONS: Immigration, Intergroup Relations, Urban Poverty, Social Inequality, and Public Policy

Income Inequality

Islam

Labor Movement

LGBT History and Research

Librarianship

Linguistics

Mass Incarceration

Memoir

Middle East

Nanoscience

Neuroscience

New York City

Michelle Fine

Distinguished Professor, Psychology, Urban Education
Founder, Public Science Project
mfine@gc.cuny.edu

SPECIALIZATIONS: Critical Social/Personality Psychology Participatory Action Research, Studies of Social Injustice and Resistance, Urban Education, Women: Gender Inequality and History, U.S. Social History

Joshua Freeman

Distinguished Professor, History
jfreeman@gc.cuny.edu

SPECIALIZATIONS: NYC history, 20th Century US History

Philip Kasinitz

Presidential Professor, Sociology
pkasinitz@gc.cuny.edu

SPECIALIZATIONS: Immigration and citizenship in North America, assimilation and experiences of first-generation Americans and Caribbean immigrants, the role of immigration in creating global cities

John Mollenkopf

Distinguished Professor, Political Science, Sociology
jmollenkopf@gc.cuny.edu

Yoko Nomura

Assistant Professor, Psychology
yoko.nomura@qc.cuny.edu

SPECIALIZATIONS: Developmental origin of health and disease Developmental Psychopathology Developmental epigenetics

Steve Romalewski

Director, CUNY Mapping Service
sromalewski@gc.cuny.edu

SPECIALIZATIONS: NYC politics, demography of NYC/NYS electoral maps, political mapping of New York State

Celina Su

Associate Professor, Urban Education, Social Critical Environmental Psychology
Marilyn J. Gittell Chair in Urban Studies
csu3@gc.cuny.edu

Philosophy

Physics

Psychology

Asohan Amarasingham

Associate Professor of Biology, Computer Science and Psychology
aamarasingham@ccny.cuny.edu

SPECIALIZATIONS: Computational Neuroscience; Statistic; Systems Neuroscience

Jeff Beeler

Associate Professor, Psychology CUNY Neuroscience Collaborative
jbeeler@qc.cuny.edu

SPECIALIZATIONS: Dopamine, addiction, obesity, Parkinson's disease, reinforcement learning

Claudia Brumbaugh

Assistant Professor, Psychology
claudia.brumbaugh@qc.cuny.edu

SPECIALIZATIONS: Romantic Relationships

Joshua Brumberg

Dean for the Sciences
Professor, Biology, Psychology
jbrumberg@gc.cuny.edu

SPECIALIZATIONS: Sensory experience related to the development of the brain, cortical circuitry, and science education

Cheryl Carmichael

Assistant Professor, Psychology
ccarmichael@brooklyn.cuny.edu

SPECIALIZATIONS: Close relationships

Colette Daiute

Professor, Educational Psychology, Pscyhology, Urban Education
cdaiute@gc.cuny.edu

SPECIALIZATIONS: Child/youth development in conflict, migration, poverty

Tracy Dennis

Professor, Psychology
Tracy.dennis@hunter.cuny.edu

SPECIALIZATIONS: Behavioral and cognitive neuroscience, mobile mental health, health psychology

Jennifer Drake

Assistant Professor, Psychology
jdrake@brooklyn.cuny.edu

SPECIALIZATIONS: Psychology of the arts, giftedness, drawing prodigies

Erin Eatough

Assistant Professor, Psychology
erin.eatough@baruch.cuny.edu

SPECIALIZATIONS: Work stress, illegitimate tasks at work, employee health and well-being, interpersonal relationships at work, breadwinning women, pressure to tolerate

Michele Galietta

Associate Professor, Psychology
mgalietta@jjay.cuny.edu

SPECIALIZATIONS: Psychotherapy, Mindfulness, Violence, Domestic VIolence, Stalking, forensic

Stefano Ghirlanda

Professor, Biology, Psychology
sghirlanda@brooklyn.cuny.edu

SPECIALIZATIONS: Cultural trends, cultural dynamics

Frank Grasso

Associate Professor, Biology, Psychology
fgrasso@brooklyn.cuny.edu

SPECIALIZATIONS: BioMimetic Robotics, Neuroethology

Maria Hartwig

Associate Professor, Psychology
mhartwig@jjay.cuny.edu

SPECIALIZATIONS: Deception, interrogation

Margaret Kovera

Professor, Psychology Applied Social Psychology; Psychology and Law
mkovera@jjay.cuny.edu

SPECIALIZATIONS: Eyewitness identification accuracy, legal decision making (jurors, judges and attorneys)

Alexandra Logue

Research Professor, Psychology
alexandra.logue@cuny.edu

SPECIALIZATIONS: Psychology of Eating and Drinking | Higher Education Student Success Policy

Douglas Mennin

Professor, Psychology
dmennin@hunter.cuny.edu

SPECIALIZATIONS: Anxiety disorders, emotion regulation, depression, mindfulness, stress

Kevin Nadal

Associate Professor, Psychology
knadal@gc.cuny.edu

SPECIALIZATIONS: Counseling, Multicultural issues, LGBT, microaggression on mental health of people of color

Yoko Nomura

Assistant Professor, Psychology
yoko.nomura@qc.cuny.edu

SPECIALIZATIONS: Developmental origin of health and disease Developmental Psychopathology Developmental epigenetics

Chitra Raghavan

Professor, Psychology
Acting Director, MA Program in Forensic Mental Health Counseling
craghavan@jjay.cuny.edu

SPECIALIZATIONS: domestic violence, intimate partner violence, sexual assault, sexual harassment, sex trafficking, trauma bonding, PTSD

Susan Saegert

Professor, Psychology
ssaegert@gc.cuny.edu

SPECIALIZATIONS: Stress and inner city families, community development neighborhoods and communities, social capital, micro apartments/tiny houses, community land trusts and affordable housing

Charles Scherbaum

Associate Professor, Psychology
Charles.Scherbaum@baruch.cuny.edu

SPECIALIZATIONS: Employee Hiring | Analytics | Performance Management

Irvin Schonfeld

Professor, Educational Psychology
ischonfeld@gc.cuny.edu

SPECIALIZATIONS: Burnout-depression

Jacob Shane

Assistant Professor, Psychology
jshane@brooklyn.cuny.edu

SPECIALIZATIONS: Developmental Psychology; Lifespan development; Motivation

Deborah Tolman

Professor, Psychology, Social Welfare, MA Women's and Gender Studies
deborah.tolman@gmail.com

SPECIALIZATIONS: Gender/sexuality

Maria Torre

Research Scientist, Psychology
Director, Public Science Project
mtorre@publicscienceproject.org

SPECIALIZATIONS: Studies in social justice, critical participatory action research projects, participatory contact zones, radical inclusion

Virginia Valian

Distinguished Professor of Psychology; Linguistics; Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences
vvalian@gc.cuny.edu

SPECIALIZATIONS: First language acquisition, innateness and learnability, computational corpus analysis, bilingualism

Peggilee Wupperman

Associate Professor, Psychology
pwupperman@jjay.cuny.edu

SPECIALIZATIONS: Mindfulness; impulsive, addictive and self-destructive behaviors (substance abuse, aggression, eating disorders), psychotherapy, psychological impact of gender roles

Philip Yanos

Professor, Psychology
Director of Clinical Training
pyanos@jjay.cuny.edu

SPECIALIZATIONS: Mental Health Services and Mental Health Stigma

Public Policy

Public Space

Quantitative Methods

Race & Identity

Racial Justice

Social & Political Movements

Social Welfare

Speech, Language & Hearing

Teaching, Technology & Pedagogy

United Nations

Urban Education

Visual Arts

Women: Gender Inequality and History