Critical Social/Personality Psychology
The Critical Social/Personality Program (CSP) at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York is recognized for its intellectual commitments to history, theory, multiple methodologies, interdisciplinarity, and research for social action. Our students learn to understand their work in historical, social, and political contexts; to be literate in a wide range of epistemological and methodological traditions, including qualitative and quantitative approaches to research; and to become responsible advocates for change within the discipline of psychology, our local communities, policy-making sites, and larger social movements. Students prepare for post-graduate work in policy, public scholarship, university life, organizing, advocacy, and teaching. Our graduates are well-placed in academic positions, foundations, community organizations, and public policy think tanks.
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Michelle Fine
Training Area Head and Distinguished Professor
CUNY Graduate Center
Email: mfine@gc.cuny.edu
Phone: (212) 817-8724
Critical Social/Personality and Environmental Psychology Faculty

Luis Barrios
Professor
- Psychology
Professor
- Social Welfare

Michelle Billies
Associate Professor
- Social Welfare

Tamara Buckley
Professor
- Psychology
Professor
- Africana Studies

Caitlin Cahill
Adjunct Professor
- Psychology

David Chapin
Professor
- Psychology

Melissa Checker
Professor
- Anthropology
Professor
- Earth and Environmental Sciences

Kandice Chuh
Professor
- English
Professor
- Psychology
Professor
- Liberal Studies
Professor
- American Studies
Professor
- Africana Studies

Josh W. Clegg
Associate Professor
- Psychology

Katie Cumiskey
Professor
- Psychology

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

Jessie Daniels
Professor
- Psychology
Professor
- Sociology

Dana-Ain Davis
Professor
- Anthropology
Professor
- Psychology
Director and Professor
- Women's and Gender Studies
Director
- Center for the Study of Women and Society

Michelle Fine
Distinguished Professor
- Urban Education
Distinguished Professor
- Psychology
Distinguished Professor
- Liberal Studies
Distinguished Professor
- Women's and Gender Studies
Distinguished Professor
- American Studies

Nicholas Freudenberg
Distinguished Professor
- Psychology
Distinguished Professor
- Social Welfare
Distinguished Professor
- Africana Studies

David Frost
Assistant Professor
- Psychology

Leigh Graham
Assistant Professor
- Psychology

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

Tarry Hum
Professor
- Psychology
Professor
- International Migration Studies
Professor
- Earth and Environmental Sciences

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

Hosu Kim
Associate Professor
- Psychology

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

Wendy Luttrell
Executive Officer and Professor
- Urban Education
Professor
- Psychology
Professor
- Sociology
Professor
- Women's and Gender Studies

Jeff Maskovsky
Executive Officer and Professor
- Anthropology
Professor
- Psychology

Michael K. Menser
Associate Professor
- Earth and Environmental Sciences

Soniya Munshi
Associate Professor
- Psychology

Kevin Nadal
Distinguished Professor
- Psychology

Susan Opotow
Professor
- Psychology

Krystal M. Perkins
Assistant Professor
- Psychology

Gina Philogéne
Adjunct Professor
- Psychology

Laxmi Ramasubramanian
Associate Professor
- Psychology

Brett Stoudt
Assistant Professor and Training Area Head
- Psychology
Assistant Professor
- Social Welfare

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

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

Jason VanOra
Professor
- Psychology