Faculty & Staff
Dwayne Baker
Assistant Professor/Environmental Studies Advisor/Urban Planning Advisor
PhD, University of Illinois
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
Claudia Calhoon
DPHc, CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy
MPH, Columbia Mailman School of Public Health
US health care access, financing, and coverage, immigrant health, immigration policy, New York city and state politics and policy
Email: claudia.calhoon@qc.cuny.edu
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ClaudiaCalhoon
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
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
Scott Larson
Lecturer/Undergraduate Advisor
PhD, Graduate Center, City University of New York
Urban redevelopment, gentrification, community-led urbanism
Office: Powdermaker Rm. 250
Telephone: 718-997-5142
Email: scott.larson@qc.cuny.edu
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