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Environmental Psychology

Environmental Psychology was founded on three central ideas at the start of the 1970s: 1) the incorporation of the physical environment into psychology – related to emerging recognition of environmental crisis—from ‘silent spring’ to urban decay; 2) the adoption of field research that would operate outside of the laboratory, the received mode in psychology, where variables can be controlled and manipulated, to embrace the messy world of the everyday complex variables of people-environment relationships; 3) interdisciplinarity as the means to include the many necessary perspectives for understanding the interactions of people and place, while embracing the policy and design disciplines that shape our environments. We seek applicants who bring the gifts of various forms of diversity to our program: intellectual, transnational, racial, ethnic, gender, sexuality, linguistic, economic, experiential, immigration status and (dis)ability.

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Brett Stoudt
Training Area Head and Associate Professor
Graduate Center
Room 6203.17
Email bstoudt@jjay.cuny.edu
Phone 212-817-8724

Critical Social/Personality and Environmental Psychology Faculty

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Luis Barrios

Professor

  • Psychology

Professor

  • Social Welfare
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Melissa Checker

Associate Professor

  • Psychology

Assistant Professor

  • Anthropology

Assistant Professor

  • Earth and Environmental Sciences
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Kandice Chuh

Executive Officer and Professor

  • English

Professor

  • Psychology

Professor

  • Liberal Studies

Professor

  • American Studies

Professor

  • Africana Studies
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Colette Daiute

Professor

  • Urban Education

Professor

  • Educational Psychology

Professor

  • Psychology

Professor

  • Interactive Technology and Pedagogy
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Dana-Ain Davis

Professor

  • Anthropology

Professor

  • Psychology

Director and Professor

  • Women's Studies

Director

  • Center for the Study of Women and Society
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Michelle Fine

Distinguished Professor

  • Urban Education

Distinguished Professor

  • Psychology

Distinguished Professor

  • Liberal Studies

Distinguished Professor

  • Women's Studies

Distinguished Professor

  • American Studies
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Nicholas Freudenberg

Distinguished Professor

  • Psychology

Distinguished Professor

  • Social Welfare

Distinguished Professor

  • Africana Studies
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Roger Hart

Professor

  • Psychology

Professor

  • Social Welfare

Professor

  • Earth and Environmental Sciences

Director

  • Center for Human Environments
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Tarry Hum

Associate Professor

  • Psychology

Associate Professor

  • International Migration Studies

Associate Professor

  • Earth and Environmental Sciences
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Cindi Katz

Professor

  • Earth and Environmental Sciences

Professor

  • Psychology

Professor

  • American Studies

Professor

  • Women's Studies
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Hosu Kim

Associate Professor

  • Psychology
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Setha Low

Professor

  • Psychology

Professor

  • Earth and Environmental Sciences

Professor

  • Anthropology

Professor

  • Women's Studies
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Wendy Luttrell

Professor

  • Urban Education

Professor

  • Psychology

Professor

  • Sociology

Professor

  • Women's Studies
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Michael K. Menser

Assistant Professor

  • Earth and Environmental Sciences

Assistant Professor

  • Psychology
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Brett Stoudt

Assistant Professor and Training Area Head

  • Psychology

Assistant Professor

  • Social Welfare
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Celina Su

Professor

  • Psychology

Professor

  • Urban Education

Professor

  • Earth and Environmental Sciences
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Deborah Tolman

Professor

  • Psychology

Professor

  • Social Welfare

Professor

  • Women's Studies
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Maria Elena Torre

Research Scientist

  • Psychology

Director and Co-Founder, The Public Science Project

  • Urban Education