Faculty & Staff

Full-Time Faculty

Adjunct Faculty

Faculty Emeriti

Staff

Organizational Chart

Full-Time Faculty

Dwayne Baker

Assistant Professor | Environmental Studies Advisor – Urban Planning Advisor

Office: Powdermaker Rm. 250
Email: dwayne.baker@qc.cuny.edu

PhD, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Urban planning, transportation planning, GIS, neighborhood change, gentrification/displacement, Transit-Oriented Developments
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Sherry Baron

Professor

Office: Remsen Hall Rm. 311
Telephone: (718) 670-4193
Email: sherry.baron@qc.cuny.edu

MD, Case Western Reserve University
MPH, University of Illinois at Chicago
Environmental public health, immigrant public health, and workers’ health and safety
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Padmini Biswas

Lecturer/Labor Studies Advisor

Office: Powdermaker Hall, 250F
Telephone: (718) 997-5130
Email: padmini.biswas@qc.cuny.edu

PhD, Columbia University
Diversity, equity, inclusion, migration studies
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Melissa Checker

Professor & Chair

Office: Powdermaker Rm. 250A
Telephone: (718) 997 5148
Email: mchecker@qc.cuny.edu

PhD, New York University
U.S. social movements, race, class and ethnicity in the U.S., urban environmentalism, environmental justice, climate justice
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Dana-Ain Davis

Professor

Office: Center for the Study of Women and Society, CUNY Graduate Center
Email: dana.davis@qc.cuny.edu

PhD, Graduate Center, City University of New York
Urban anthropology, gender, race, public policy, participatory action research, Black Studies, feminist theory
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Maggie Dickinson

Associate Professor/Cities & Social Medicine Advisor

Office: Powdermaker 250M
Email: maggie.dickinson@qc.cuny.edu

PhD, Graduate Center, City University of New York
Urban food systems, hunger, food policy, race, class, gender, and the politics of redistribution
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Eric Goldfischer

Lecturer/Urban Studies Advisor/Service Learning Coordinator

Office: Powdermaker 250H
Email: eric.goldfischer@qc.cuny.edu

PhD, University of Minnesota
Homelessness, Policing, Green Development, Participatory Action-Research, Community Organizing, Popular Education
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Martin Hanlon

Associate Professor

Office: Powdermaker Rm. 250
Telephone: (718) 997 5131
Email: martin.hanlon@qc.cuny.edu

PhD, Columbia University
Public management, workforce issues, transportation policy
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Madhulika Khandelwal

Associate Professor

Office: Powdermaker Rm. 251B
Telephone: (718) 997 3050
Email: madhulika.khandelwal@qc.cuny.edu

PhD, Carnegie Mellon University
Asian-American communities, South Asian diaspora. Director, Asian/American Center
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Do Lee

Assistant Professor

Office: Powdermaker Rm. 250
Email: do.lee@qc.cuny.edu

PhD, Graduate Center, City University of New York
(im)mobilities; environmental psychology; participatory action research; critical race, class, gender, and migration
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Jeff Maskovsky

Professor

Office: Department of Anthropology, CUNY Graduate Center
Email: jmaskovsky@gc.cuny.edu

PhD, Temple University
Urban ethnography; social movements; difference and inequality
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Soniya Munshi

Associate Professor/Director, CETLL (Center for Excellence in Teaching, Learning, and Leadership)

Office: Kiely 111
Email: Soniya.Munshi@qc.cuny.edu

PhD, CUNY Graduate Center
Illness and disability; healthcare policy and access; reproductive justice; Asian American diasporas; feminist theories and methodologies; critical pedagogies

Patricia Price

Interim Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs

Office: Kiely 1103-B
Email: Patricia.Price@qc.cuny.edu

PhD, University of Washington
Borders, exile, place, Latinx civic engagement, DEI, higher ed leadership

Alan Takeall

Lecturer/MA in Urban Affairs Advisor

Office: Powdermaker Rm. 250
Email: alan.takeall@qc.cuny.edu

PhD, Graduate Center, City University of New York
Race & ethnicity; social inequality; urban sociology; urban education
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James Vacca

Distinguished Lecturer/Urban Studies Club Advisor

Office: Powdermaker Rm. 251B
Email: profjvacca@aol.com

MA, Queens College, City University of New York
New York City politics; public Administration; community engagement; municipal service delivery; non-profit management.