Faculty Experts
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Affordable Housing

John Mollenkopf
Director
- Center for Urban Research
Distinguished Professor
- Political Science
Distinguished Professor
- Sociology
Distinguished Professor
- International Migration Studies
Distinguished Professor
- Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences
African Diaspora

Ruth Wilson Gilmore
Director
- Center for Place, Culture and Politics
Professor
- Earth and Environmental Sciences
Professor
- American Studies
Professor
- Africana Studies
American Literature

Eric Lott
Distinguished Professor
- English
Distinguished Professor
- American Studies
Distinguished Professor
- Africana Studies

David S. Reynolds
Distinguished Professor
- English
Distinguished Professor
- History
Distinguished Professor
- Comparative Literature
Distinguished Professor
- Biography and Memoir
Distinguished Professor
- American Studies
Distinguished Professor
- Liberal Studies
Biography

Blanche Wiesen Cook
Distinguished Professor
- History
Distinguished Professor
- Women's and Gender Studies
Distinguished Professor
- Biography and Memoir

David Nasaw
Distinguished Professor Emeritus
- History
Distinguished Professor Emeritus
- Biography and Memoir
Distinguished Professor Emeritus
- American Studies
Biology

Asohan Amarasingham
Assistant Professor
- Psychology
- Biology
- Computer Science
- Neuroscience
- Cognitive Neuroscience

Jill Bargonetti
Professor
- Biochemistry
- Biology

Joshua Brumberg
Interim President
- President's Office
Professor
- Psychology
- Biology
- Neuroscience
- Cognitive Neuroscience

Patrizia Casaccia
Einstein Professor
- Biochemistry
- Biology
- Neuroscience
Director, Neuroscience Initiative
- Advanced Science Research Center

Kevin H. Gardner
Einstein Professor
- Biochemistry
Einstein Professor
- Biology
Einstein Professor
- Chemistry
Director, Structural Biology Initiative
- Advanced Science Research Center

Daniel Keedy
Professor
- Biology
- Biochemistry
- Chemistry
Professor, Structural Biology Initiative
- Advanced Science Research Center
Children

Tracy Dennis
Professor
- Psychology
- Neuroscience
- Cognitive Neuroscience

Roger Hart
Professor
- Psychology
Professor
- Social Welfare
Professor
- Earth and Environmental Sciences
Director
- Center for Human Environments

Cindi Katz
Professor
- Earth and Environmental Sciences
Professor
- Psychology
Professor
- American Studies
Professor
- Women's and Gender Studies
Deputy Executive Officer
- Earth and Environmental Sciences

Michelle MacRoy-Higgins
Associate Professor
- Audiology
Associate Professor
- Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences

Yoko Nomura
Professor
- Psychology
Professor
- Neuroscience
Professor
- Cognitive Neuroscience

Maria Elena Torre
Research Scientist
- Psychology
Director and Co-Founder, The Public Science Project
- Urban Education
Climate Change

Melissa Checker
Professor
- Anthropology
- Earth and Environmental Sciences

Jennifer Cherrier
Professor
- Earth and Environmental Sciences

Leigh Graham
Assistant Professor
- Psychology

Andrew Reinmann
Assistant Professor
- Earth and Environmental Sciences
Assistant Professor
- Biology

William D. Solecki
Professor
- Earth and Environmental Sciences
Communities

Roger Hart
Professor
- Psychology
Professor
- Social Welfare
Professor
- Earth and Environmental Sciences
Director
- Center for Human Environments
Computer Science

Asohan Amarasingham
Assistant Professor
- Psychology
- Biology
- Computer Science
- Neuroscience
- Cognitive Neuroscience

Sven Dietrich
Professor
- Computer Science

Lev Manovich
Presidential Professor
- Data Science
Presidential Professor
- Computer Science
Presidential Professor
- Digital Humanities
Presidential Professor
- Data Analysis and Visualization
Criminal Justice

David Brotherton
Professor
- Criminal Justice
- Sociology
- Urban Education
- International Migration Studies

Margaret Bull Kovera
Professor
- Psychology

Chitra Raghavan
Professor
- Psychology
Professor
- Criminal Justice

Gabrielle Salfati
Professor
- Psychology
Demographic Research

Laird W. Bergad
Professor
- History
Director
- Center for Latin American, Caribbean & Latino Studies

John Mollenkopf
Director
- Center for Urban Research
Distinguished Professor
- Political Science
Distinguished Professor
- Sociology
Distinguished Professor
- International Migration Studies
Distinguished Professor
- Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences

Steven Romalewski
Director, CUNY Mapping Service
- Center for Urban Research
Digital Humanities

Tracy Dennis
Professor
- Psychology
- Neuroscience
- Cognitive Neuroscience

Matthew K. Gold
Associate Professor
- English
- Liberal Studies
- Digital Humanities
- Data Analysis and Visualization
- Interactive Technology and Pedagogy
- American Studies
Director
- Graduate Center Digital Initiatives
Economics

David A. Jaeger
Professor Emeritus
- Economics

Paul Krugman
Distinguished Professor
- Economics
Distinguished Scholar
- Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality

Branko Milanovic
Stone Center Senior Scholar
- Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality

Salvatore Morelli
Stone Center Senior Scholar
- Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality

Merih Uctum
Professor
- Economics
Education

Cathy N. Davidson
Founding Director
- Futures Initiative
Distinguished Professor
- English
- Data Analysis and Visualization
- Digital Humanities
- American Studies
Director of HASTAC@CUNY

Michelle Fine
Distinguished Professor
- Psychology
- Urban Education
- Liberal Studies
- Women's and Gender Studies
- American Studies
Visiting Professor, University of South Africa

David A. Jaeger
Professor Emeritus
- Economics
English

Matthew K. Gold
Associate Professor
- English
- Liberal Studies
- Digital Humanities
- Data Analysis and Visualization
- Interactive Technology and Pedagogy
- American Studies
Director
- Graduate Center Digital Initiatives
Ethnography

Cindi Katz
Professor
- Earth and Environmental Sciences
Professor
- Psychology
Professor
- American Studies
Professor
- Women's and Gender Studies
Deputy Executive Officer
- Earth and Environmental Sciences

Setha Low
Distinguished Professor
- Psychology
Distinguished Professor
- Earth and Environmental Sciences
Distinguished Professor
- Anthropology
Distinguished Professor
- Women's and Gender Studies
Fashion

Elizabeth Wissinger
Professor
- Liberal Studies
Film

Eric Lott
Distinguished Professor
- English
Distinguished Professor
- American Studies
Distinguished Professor
- Africana Studies
French Literature

André Aciman
Distinguished Professor
- French
- Comparative Literature
- Biography and Memoir
Global Cities

Philip Kasinitz
Director
- Advanced Research Collaborative
Acting Executive Program Officer & Presidential Professor
- Sociology
Presidential Professor
- International Migration Studies
Presidential Professor
- Africana Studies

Setha Low
Distinguished Professor
- Psychology
Distinguished Professor
- Earth and Environmental Sciences
Distinguished Professor
- Anthropology
Distinguished Professor
- Women's and Gender Studies

John Mollenkopf
Director
- Center for Urban Research
Distinguished Professor
- Political Science
Distinguished Professor
- Sociology
Distinguished Professor
- International Migration Studies
Distinguished Professor
- Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences

Celina Su
Professor
- Psychology
Professor
- Urban Education
Professor
- Earth and Environmental Sciences
History

Manu Bhagavan
Professor
- History
- Biography and Memoir

Stephen Brier
Professor Emeritus
- Urban Education
Professor Emeritus
- Digital Humanities
Professor Emeritus
- Interactive Technology and Pedagogy
Professor Emeritus
- American Studies
Professor Emeritus
- Liberal Studies

Joshua B. Freeman
Distinguished Professor
- History

David Nasaw
Distinguished Professor Emeritus
- History
Distinguished Professor Emeritus
- Biography and Memoir
Distinguished Professor Emeritus
- American Studies

Victoria Sanford
Professor
- Anthropology
Human Rights

Manu Bhagavan
Professor
- History
- Biography and Memoir

Victoria Sanford
Professor
- Anthropology
Immigration

Richard Alba
Distinguished Professor Emeritus
- Sociology
- Africana Studies

Laird W. Bergad
Professor
- History
Director
- Center for Latin American, Caribbean & Latino Studies

David Brotherton
Professor
- Criminal Justice
- Sociology
- Urban Education
- International Migration Studies

Heath Brown
Associate Professor
- Criminal Justice
- Urban Education
- International Migration Studies

Margaret M. Chin
Faculty
- Sociology
- International Migration Studies

Nancy Foner
Distinguished Professor
- Sociology
- International Migration Studies

Ismael García-Colón
Professor
- Anthropology
Professor
- International Migration Studies

David A. Jaeger
Professor Emeritus
- Economics

Philip Kasinitz
Director
- Advanced Research Collaborative
Acting Executive Program Officer & Presidential Professor
- Sociology
Presidential Professor
- International Migration Studies
Presidential Professor
- Africana Studies

John Mollenkopf
Director
- Center for Urban Research
Distinguished Professor
- Political Science
Distinguished Professor
- Sociology
Distinguished Professor
- International Migration Studies
Distinguished Professor
- Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences

Peter Romaniuk
Deputy Executive Officer and Admissions Chair
- Political Science

Victoria Sanford
Professor
- Anthropology

Robert Smith
Professor
- Sociology
Professor
- Social Welfare

Van C. Tran
Associate Professor
- Sociology
Associate Professor
- International Migration Studies
Income Inequality

Janet Gornick
Director
- Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality
Professor
- Political Science
Professor
- Sociology
Professor
- Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences
Professor
- Women's and Gender Studies

Paul Krugman
Distinguished Professor
- Economics
Distinguished Scholar
- Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality

Leslie McCall
Associate Director
- Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality
Presidential Professor
- Sociology
Presidential Professor
- Political Science
Presidential Professor
- Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences

Branko Milanovic
Stone Center Senior Scholar
- Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality

Salvatore Morelli
Stone Center Senior Scholar
- Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality
Islam

Susan Buck-Morss
Distinguished Professor
- Political Science

Chase Robinson
Distinguished Professor
- Medieval Studies
Labor Movement

Ruth Milkman
Distinguished Professor
- History
Distinguished Professor
- Sociology
LGBT History and Research

Jean Halley
Professor
- Sociology
Professor
- Liberal Studies
Professor
- Women's and Gender Studies

Kevin Nadal
Distinguished Professor
- Psychology

Maria Elena Torre
Research Scientist
- Psychology
Director and Co-Founder, The Public Science Project
- Urban Education
Librarianship

Maura Smale
Executive Chief Librarian
- Library
Professor
- Digital Humanities
Professor
- Interactive Technology and Pedagogy

Polly Thistlethwaite
Professor
- Library
Special Projects Librarian
- Library
Linguistics

Juliette Blevins
Presidential Professor
- Linguistics

Michelle Fine
Distinguished Professor
- Psychology
- Urban Education
- Liberal Studies
- Women's and Gender Studies
- American Studies
Visiting Professor, University of South Africa

Michelle MacRoy-Higgins
Associate Professor
- Audiology
Associate Professor
- Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences

Loraine K. Obler
Distinguished Professor
- Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences
Distinguished Professor
- Linguistics
Distinguished Professor
- Cognitive Neuroscience

Virginia Valian
Distinguished Professor
- Psychology
Distinguished Professor
- Linguistics
Distinguished Professor
- Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences
Mass Incarceration

Ruth Wilson Gilmore
Director
- Center for Place, Culture and Politics
Professor
- Earth and Environmental Sciences
Professor
- American Studies
Professor
- Africana Studies

Michael Jacobson
Director of CUNY Institute for State and Local Governance
- Sociology

Maria Elena Torre
Research Scientist
- Psychology
Director and Co-Founder, The Public Science Project
- Urban Education
Memoir

André Aciman
Distinguished Professor
- French
- Comparative Literature
- Biography and Memoir
Middle East

Anna Akasoy
Professor
- Comparative Literature
- Liberal Studies
- Medieval Studies
- Middle Eastern Studies
- Global Early Modern Studies
Deputy Executive Officer
- Liberal Studies

Marnia Lazreg
Professor
- Sociology
Professor
- Middle Eastern Studies
Professor
- Women's and Gender Studies
Professor
- French

Christa Salamandra
Professor
- Anthropology
Director and Professor
- Middle Eastern Studies
Nanoscience

Matthew Sfeir
Associate Professor
- Chemistry
Associate Professor
- Physics
Associate Professor, Photonics Initiative
- Advanced Science Research Center
Neuroscience

Jeff Beeler
Professor
- Psychology
- Biology
- Neuroscience
- Cognitive Neuroscience

Patrizia Casaccia
Einstein Professor
- Biochemistry
- Biology
- Neuroscience
Director, Neuroscience Initiative
- Advanced Science Research Center

Tracy Dennis
Professor
- Psychology
- Neuroscience
- Cognitive Neuroscience

John H. Martin
Professor
- Biology
Professor
- Psychology
Professor
- Neuroscience

Yoko Nomura
Professor
- Psychology
Professor
- Neuroscience
Professor
- Cognitive Neuroscience

Tony Ro
Presidential Professor
- Psychology
Presidential Professor
- Biology
Director and Presidential Professor
- Cognitive Neuroscience
Presidential Professor
- Neuroscience
New York City

Michelle Fine
Distinguished Professor
- Psychology
- Urban Education
- Liberal Studies
- Women's and Gender Studies
- American Studies
Visiting Professor, University of South Africa

Joshua B. Freeman
Distinguished Professor
- History

Philip Kasinitz
Director
- Advanced Research Collaborative
Acting Executive Program Officer & Presidential Professor
- Sociology
Presidential Professor
- International Migration Studies
Presidential Professor
- Africana Studies

John Mollenkopf
Director
- Center for Urban Research
Distinguished Professor
- Political Science
Distinguished Professor
- Sociology
Distinguished Professor
- International Migration Studies
Distinguished Professor
- Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences

Yoko Nomura
Professor
- Psychology
Professor
- Neuroscience
Professor
- Cognitive Neuroscience

Steven Romalewski
Director, CUNY Mapping Service
- Center for Urban Research

Celina Su
Professor
- Psychology
Professor
- Urban Education
Professor
- Earth and Environmental Sciences
Philosophy

Linda Martín Alcoff
Professor
- Philosophy
- Women's and Gender Studies
Physics

Matthew Sfeir
Associate Professor
- Chemistry
Associate Professor
- Physics
Associate Professor, Photonics Initiative
- Advanced Science Research Center
Psychology

Asohan Amarasingham
Assistant Professor
- Psychology
- Biology
- Computer Science
- Neuroscience
- Cognitive Neuroscience

Jeff Beeler
Professor
- Psychology
- Biology
- Neuroscience
- Cognitive Neuroscience

Claudia Brumbaugh
Assistant Professor
- Psychology

Joshua Brumberg
Interim President
- President's Office
Professor
- Psychology
- Biology
- Neuroscience
- Cognitive Neuroscience

Cheryl Carmichael
Associate Professor
- Psychology

Colette Daiute
Professor
- Educational Psychology
- Psychology
- Urban Education
- Interactive Technology and Pedagogy

Tracy Dennis
Professor
- Psychology
- Neuroscience
- Cognitive Neuroscience

Jennifer Drake
Associate Professor
- Psychology

Erin Eatough
Assistant Professor
- Psychology

Michele Galietta
Associate Professor
- Psychology

Stefano Ghirlanda
Professor
- Psychology
Professor
- Biology

Frank W. Grasso
Associate Professor
- Psychology

Maria Hartwig
Professor
- Psychology

Margaret Bull Kovera
Professor
- Psychology

Alexandra W. Logue
Research Professor
- Psychology
Research Professor
- Center for Advanced Study in Education

Kevin Nadal
Distinguished Professor
- Psychology

Yoko Nomura
Professor
- Psychology
Professor
- Neuroscience
Professor
- Cognitive Neuroscience

Chitra Raghavan
Professor
- Psychology
Professor
- Criminal Justice

Charles Scherbaum
Professor
- Psychology

Irvin Sam Schonfeld
Professor Emeritus
- Psychology
Professor Emeritus
- Educational Psychology

Jacob Shane
Associate Professor
- Psychology

Deborah Tolman
Professor
- Psychology
Professor
- Social Welfare
Professor
- Women's and Gender Studies

Maria Elena Torre
Research Scientist
- Psychology
Director and Co-Founder, The Public Science Project
- Urban Education

Virginia Valian
Distinguished Professor
- Psychology
Distinguished Professor
- Linguistics
Distinguished Professor
- Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences

Peggilee Wupperman
Professor
- Psychology

Philip T. Yanos
Professor
- Psychology
Public Policy

Van C. Tran
Associate Professor
- Sociology
Associate Professor
- International Migration Studies
Public Space

Cindi Katz
Professor
- Earth and Environmental Sciences
Professor
- Psychology
Professor
- American Studies
Professor
- Women's and Gender Studies
Deputy Executive Officer
- Earth and Environmental Sciences

Setha Low
Distinguished Professor
- Psychology
Distinguished Professor
- Earth and Environmental Sciences
Distinguished Professor
- Anthropology
Distinguished Professor
- Women's and Gender Studies
Quantitative Methods

Richard Alba
Distinguished Professor Emeritus
- Sociology
- Africana Studies

Tracy Dennis
Professor
- Psychology
- Neuroscience
- Cognitive Neuroscience

Michelle Fine
Distinguished Professor
- Psychology
- Urban Education
- Liberal Studies
- Women's and Gender Studies
- American Studies
Visiting Professor, University of South Africa

David A. Jaeger
Professor Emeritus
- Economics
Race and Identity

Ruth Wilson Gilmore
Director
- Center for Place, Culture and Politics
Professor
- Earth and Environmental Sciences
Professor
- American Studies
Professor
- Africana Studies

Jean Halley
Professor
- Sociology
Professor
- Liberal Studies
Professor
- Women's and Gender Studies

Eric Lott
Distinguished Professor
- English
Distinguished Professor
- American Studies
Distinguished Professor
- Africana Studies

Wendy Luttrell
Professor
- Urban Education
Professor
- Psychology
Professor
- Sociology
Professor
- Women's and Gender Studies
Racial Justice

Richard Alba
Distinguished Professor Emeritus
- Sociology
- Africana Studies

Ruth Wilson Gilmore
Director
- Center for Place, Culture and Politics
Professor
- Earth and Environmental Sciences
Professor
- American Studies
Professor
- Africana Studies
Social Welfare

Mimi Abramovitz
Professor
- Social Welfare
- Women's and Gender Studies
Speech, Language and Hearing

Virginia Valian
Distinguished Professor
- Psychology
Distinguished Professor
- Linguistics
Distinguished Professor
- Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences
Teaching, Technology, and Pedagogy

Stephen Brier
Professor Emeritus
- Urban Education
Professor Emeritus
- Digital Humanities
Professor Emeritus
- Interactive Technology and Pedagogy
Professor Emeritus
- American Studies
Professor Emeritus
- Liberal Studies

Cathy N. Davidson
Founding Director
- Futures Initiative
Distinguished Professor
- English
- Data Analysis and Visualization
- Digital Humanities
- American Studies
Director of HASTAC@CUNY

Matthew K. Gold
Associate Professor
- English
- Liberal Studies
- Digital Humanities
- Data Analysis and Visualization
- Interactive Technology and Pedagogy
- American Studies
Director
- Graduate Center Digital Initiatives

Michael Mandiberg
Coordinator and Professor
- Interactive Technology and Pedagogy
Professor
- Data Analysis and Visualization
Professor
- Digital Humanities

Maura Smale
Executive Chief Librarian
- Library
Professor
- Digital Humanities
Professor
- Interactive Technology and Pedagogy

Polly Thistlethwaite
Professor
- Library
Special Projects Librarian
- Library

Luke Waltzer
Director
- Teaching & Learning Center
Adjunct Faculty
- Digital Humanities
Adjunct Faculty
- Interactive Technology and Pedagogy
United States

Michelle Fine
Distinguished Professor
- Psychology
- Urban Education
- Liberal Studies
- Women's and Gender Studies
- American Studies
Visiting Professor, University of South Africa

Thomas G. Weiss
Presidential Professor Emeritus
- Political Science
Professor Emeritus
- Liberal Studies
Urban Education

David Bloomfield
Professor
- Urban Education

Wendy Luttrell
Professor
- Urban Education
Professor
- Psychology
Professor
- Sociology
Professor
- Women's and Gender Studies
Visual Arts

Claire Bishop
Professor
- Art History
Women: Gender Equality and History

Linda Martín Alcoff
Professor
- Philosophy
- Women's and Gender Studies

Alyson Cole
Professor
- Liberal Studies
- Political Science
- Women's and Gender Studies
- American Studies

Blanche Wiesen Cook
Distinguished Professor
- History
Distinguished Professor
- Women's and Gender Studies
Distinguished Professor
- Biography and Memoir

Janet Gornick
Director
- Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality
Professor
- Political Science
Professor
- Sociology
Professor
- Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences
Professor
- Women's and Gender Studies

Jean Halley
Professor
- Sociology
Professor
- Liberal Studies
Professor
- Women's and Gender Studies

Leslie McCall
Associate Director
- Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality
Presidential Professor
- Sociology
Presidential Professor
- Political Science
Presidential Professor
- Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences

Ruth Milkman
Distinguished Professor
- History
Distinguished Professor
- Sociology