Full-Time Faculty
Dwayne Baker
Assistant Professor/Environmental Studies Advisor/Urban Planning Advisor
PhD, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Urban planning, transportation planning, GIS, neighborhood change, gentrification/displacement, Transit-Oriented Developments
Office: Powdermaker Rm. 250
Email: dwayne.baker@qc.cuny.edu
Sherry Baron
MD, Case Western Reserve University
MPH, University of Illinois at Chicago
Environmental public health, immigrant public health, and workers’ health and safety
Office: Remsen Hall Rm. 311
Telephone: (718) 670-4193
Email: sherry.baron@qc.cuny.edu
Padmini Biswas
PhD, Columbia University
Diversity, equity, inclusion, migration studies
Office: Powdermaker Hall, 250F
Telephone: (718) 997-5130
Email: padmini.biswas@qc.cuny.edu
Melissa Checker
PhD, New York University
U.S. social movements, race, class and ethnicity in the U.S., urban environmentalism, environmental justice, climate justice
Office: Powdermaker Rm. 250
Telephone: (718) 997 5148
Email: mchecker@qc.cuny.edu
Dana-Ain Davis
PhD, Graduate Center, City University of New York
Urban anthropology, gender, race, public policy, participatory action research, Black Studies, feminist theory
Office: Center for the Study of Women and Society, CUNY Graduate Center
Email: dana.davis@qc.cuny.edu
Maggie Dickinson
PhD, Graduate Center, City University of New York
Urban food systems, hunger, food policy, race, class, gender, and the politics of redistribution
Office: Powdermaker 250M
Email: maggie.dickinson@qc.cuny.edu
Eric Goldfischer
PhD, University of Minnesota
Homelessness, Policing, Green Development, Participatory Action-Research, Community Organizing, Popular Education
Office: Powdermaker 250H
Email: eric.goldfischer@qc.cuny.edu
Martin Hanlon
PhD, Columbia University
Public management, workforce issues, transportation policy
Office: Powdermaker Rm. 250
Telephone: (718) 997 5131
Email: martin.hanlon@qc.cuny.edu
Tarry Hum
PhD, University of California, Los Angeles
Urban planning, immigrant urbanism, community economic development
Office: Powdermaker Rm. 250
Telephone: (718) 997 5124
Email: tarry.hum@qc.cuny.edu
Madhulika Khandelwal
PhD, Carnegie Mellon University
Asian-American communities, South Asian diaspora. Director, Asian/American Center
Office: Powdermaker Rm. 251B
Telephone: (718) 997 3050
Email: madhulika.khandelwal@qc.cuny.edu
Do Lee
PhD, Graduate Center, City University of New York
(im)mobilities; environmental psychology; participatory action research; critical race, class, gender, and migration
Office: Powdermaker Rm. 250
Email: do.lee@qc.cuny.edu
Jeff Maskovsky
PhD, Temple University
Urban ethnography; social movements; difference and inequality
Office: Department of Anthropology, CUNY Graduate Center
Email: jmaskovsky@gc.cuny.edu
Soniya Munshi
PhD, CUNY Graduate Center
Illness and disability; healthcare policy and access; reproductive justice; Asian American diasporas; feminist theories and methodologies; critical pedagogies
Office: Kiely 111
Email: Soniya.Munshi@qc.cuny.edu
Patricia Price
PhD, University of Washington
Borders, exile, place, Latinx civic engagement, DEI, higher ed leadership
Office: Kiely 1103-B
Email: Patricia.Price@qc.cuny.edu
Alan Takeall
PhD, Graduate Center, City University of New York
Race & ethnicity; social inequality; urban sociology; urban education
Office: Powdermaker Rm. 250
Email: alan.takeall@qc.cuny.edu
James Vacca
MA, Queens College, City University of New York
New York City politics; public Administration; community engagement; municipal service delivery; non-profit management.
Office: Powdermaker Rm. 251B
Email: profjvacca@aol.com
Natalie Bump Vena
JD, PhD, Northwestern University
Environmental law and policy; volunteerism; urban protected lands
Office: Powdermaker Rm. 250
Email: natalie.vena@qc.cuny.edu
Faculty Emeriti
Ronald Lawson
Housing, Tenant Movements, Religious Movements
SondleyWriter@gmail.com
William Muraskin
PhD, University of California, Berkeley
Social/urban history, health
Email: william.muraskin@qc.cuny.edu
Len Rodberg
PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
New York City neighborhood data, single payer healthcare in New York State, and energy policy
Email: Leonard.Rodberg@qc.cuny.edu
Alice Sardell
PhD, New York University
Health policy, public policy, urban and community politics
Email: alice.sardell@qc.cuny.edu
John Seley
Professor Emeritus
PhD, University of Pennsylvania
Urban planning, public policy, geography
Email: john.seley@qc.cuny.edu
Stephen Steinberg
PhD, University of California, Berkeley
Race, ethnicity, and immigration; urban sociology; sociology of knowledge
Email: ssteinberg1@gc.cuny.edu
Jeanne Chan
jeanne.chan@qc.cuny.edu
Amanda Sweeney
amanda.sweeney@qc.cuny.edu