Faculty Experts
The Lehman College faculty can provide journalists with authoritative insights and information on a wide variety of issues. Over 300 faculty members teach full-time at Lehman, including six Distinguished Professors, and 85 percent of them hold the Ph.D. or another terminal degree.
To reach the Office of Media Relations, contact: Marge Rice (Director) at 718-960-4992, margaret.rice@lehman.cuny.edu or Keisha-Gaye Anderson (Associate Director) at 718-960-8013, keishagaye.anderson@lehman.cuny.edu.
Rank: Professor
| Department: |
History |
| Expertise: |
Modern French history, social and cultural; social history of global medicine |
| Languages: |
French |
| Campus Phone: |
718-960-7243 |
| Email: |
eackerman7@att.net |
Rank: Assistant Professor
| Department: |
Biological Sciences |
| Expertise: |
Neurochemistry of male parenting in monogamous rodent species |
| Languages: |
Farsi |
| Campus Phone: |
718-960-8648 |
| Email: |
maryam.bamshad-alavi@lehman.cuny.edu |
Rank: Professor and Chair
| Department: |
Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences |
| Expertise: |
Child language development; language and communication disorders in children; language and learning disabilities |
| Languages: |
Hebrew, Yiddish |
| Campus Phone: |
718-960-8134 |
| Email: |
deenabern@aol.com |
Rank: Assistant Professor
| Department: |
Journalism, Communication & Theatre |
| Expertise: |
Contemporary media, news analysis, media industries, African Americans and the media, youth culture, the magazine industry, cyberculture (blogs, webzines, etc.), film and video (particularly Indies) |
| Campus Phone: |
718-960-7723 |
| Email: |
nicholas.boston@lehman.cuny.edu |
Rank: Associate Professor and Chair
| Department: |
Health Sciences |
| Expertise: |
Dietetics, foods, and nutrition; nutrition and the prevention of disease; dietary supplements; trans fats |
| Campus Phone: |
718-960-8084 |
| Email: |
andrea.boyar@lehman.cuny.edu |
Rank: Associate Professor
| Department: |
English |
| Expertise: |
Cinema of Roberto Benigni and Lina Wertmuller; Italian culture; issues of globalization and culture; food and cultural identity; Ernest Hemingway; F. Scott Fitzgerald; role of fashion in society |
| Languages: |
Italian, French |
| Campus Phone: |
718-960-8362 |
| Email: |
grace.bullaro@lehman.cuny.edu |
Rank: Associate Professor
| Department: |
History |
| Expertise: |
Northern Ireland; modern Ireland; religion and politics in the United States; American cultural history |
| Campus Phone: |
718-960-8287 |
| Email: |
martin.burke@lehman.cuny.edu |
Rank: Associate Professor
Rank: Associate Professor
| Department: |
Specialized Services in Education |
| Expertise: |
Transforming school counseling programs K-12 and school counselor education programs; counseling lesbian, bisexual, gay, transgendered, intersex, two-spirit, queer, and questioning persons; comprehensive sexuality education and counseling; multicultural and social justice counseling and advocacy; counseling children and adolescents; counseling couples and families; counseling internship and practicum; counseling and counselor education professional identity |
| Languages: |
Mandarin and French |
| Campus Phone: |
718-960-8173 |
| Email: |
stuart.chen-hayes@lehman.cuny.edu |
Rank: Distinguished Professor
Rank: Professor and Chair
| Department: |
Latin American & Puerto Rican Studies |
| Expertise: |
Third World revolutionary ideologies; intellectual history; effect of democracy and open markets on Latin American societies |
| Languages: |
Spanish |
| Campus Phone: |
718-960-8280 |
| Email: |
forrest.colburn@lehman.cuny.edu |
Rank: Professor and Chair
Rank: Associate Professor
| Department: |
Health Sciences |
| Expertise: |
HIV/AIDS, end-of-life care issues, grief and bereavement |
| Languages: |
Afrikaans, Zulu |
| Campus Phone: |
718-960-7313 |
| Email: |
craig.demmer@lehman.cuny.edu |
Rank: Associate Professor
| Department: |
English |
| Expertise: |
Shakespeare; Renaissance drama; lesbian and gay studies |
| Languages: |
Italian |
| Campus Phone: |
718-960-8529 |
| Email: |
mdigangi@gc.cuny.edu |
Rank: Associate Professor
| Department: |
Early Childhood and Childhood Education |
| Expertise: |
Teacher preparation; professional development schools; bilingual education; teaching English to speakers of other languages; curriculum development and evaluation |
| Languages: |
Portuguese, Spanish |
| Campus Phone: |
718-960-8170 |
| Email: |
nancy.dubetz@lehman.cuny.edu |
Rank: Associate Professor
| Department: |
English |
| Expertise: |
Literature and culture of early modern England; history of sexuality; bisexuality; history of pornography; nature vs. nurture debates; early modern ideas about gender; history of intersexuality; history of transexuality; history of fashion; early modern cultural studies |
| Languages: |
French, Spanish, some Italian |
| Campus Phone: |
718-960-8361 |
| Email: |
william.fisher@lehman.cuny.edu |
Rank: Associate Professor and Chair
| Department: |
Nursing |
| Expertise: |
African-American nurses and patients; health and African-American women; alcohol and drug abuse among nurses; health literacy; health policy; health disparities; community health; nursing; violence as a public health concern |
| Campus Phone: |
718-960-8799 |
| E-mail: |
catherine.georges@lehman.cuny.edu |
Rank: Assistant Professor
| Department: |
Economics, Accounting, and Business Administration |
| Expertise: |
international economics; economic development, especially the Cuban economy; Cuba's post-Soviet economic transformations; family remittances and the Cuban economy; Cuba's agricultural and tourism sectors |
| Languages: |
Spanish |
| Campus Phone: |
718-960-8507 |
| Email: |
mario.gonzalez-corzo@lehman.cuny.edu |
Rank: Assistant Professor
| Department: |
Environmental, Geographic, and Geological Sciences |
| Expertise: |
Natural hazards and disasters; geographic information systems modeling; effects of climate change; glacial studies |
| Languages: |
Russian, Ukrainian, Italian |
| Campus Phone: |
718-960-1981 |
| Email: |
yuri.gorokhovich@lehman.cuny.edu |
Rank: Assistant Professor
| Department: |
Sociology and Social Work |
| Expertise: |
Women's status; women's economic development and labor force participation (Middle East and North Africa); demography of the Middle East; race, ethnicity, social class in college admissions; social capital and academic performance (in the U.S.) |
| Languages: |
Persian and some French |
| Campus Phone: |
718-960-7863 |
| Email: |
elhum.haghighat@lehman.cuny.edu |
Rank: Associate Professor
| Department: |
Journalism, Communication, & Theatre |
| Expertise: |
Playwriting, screenwriting, librettist, lyricist, poet, translator, journalist, television interview show host, and director |
| Languages: |
French |
| Campus Phone: |
718-960-2556 |
| Email: |
william.hoffman@lehman.cuny.edu |
Rank: Associate Professor
| Department: |
Health Sciences |
| Expertise: |
Healthcare for the elderly; Medicare; labor-management health benefits; managed health care |
| Languages: |
French |
| Campus Phone: |
718-960-8763 |
| Email: |
cynthia.hosay@lehman.cuny.edu |
Rank: Assistant Professor
| Department: |
Economics, Accounting & Business |
| Expertise: |
International trade and finance, development economics, regional integration |
| Languages: |
Myanmar(Burmese) |
| Campus Phone: |
718-960-8389 |
| Email: |
dene.hurley@lehman.cuny.edu |
Rank: Associate Professor and Chair
| Department: |
Middle & High School Education (Chair) and CUNY Institute for Irish-American Studies (Director) |
| Expertise: |
Irish language, sociolinguistics, bilingual language acquisition |
| Languages: |
Irish Gaelic, Spanish, Haitian Creole, and French |
| Campus Phone: |
718-960-6776 |
| Email: |
thomas.ihde@lehman.cuny.edu |
Rank: Professor and Chair
| Department: |
Psychology |
| Expertise: |
Neuropsychological and neuroimaging concomitants of normal and pathological aging |
| Campus Phone: |
718-960-7808 |
| Email: |
alan.kluger@lehman.cuny.edu |
Rank: Associate Professor
| Department: |
Sociology and Social Work |
| Expertise: |
Nursing homes and community social services; sociology of aging; ethnicity, race, and aging; gerontological theories |
| Campus Phone: |
718-960-7865 |
| Email: |
patricia.kolb@lehman.cuny.edu |
Rank: Distinguished Professor
| Department: |
Mathematics and Computer Science |
| Expertise: |
Harmonic analysis; Lie Groups; symmetric spaces |
| Campus Phone: |
718-960-8879 |
| Email: |
adam.koranyi@lehman.cuny.edu |
Rank: Director
| Department: |
Student Health Center |
| Expertise: |
Health of college students |
| Languages: |
Spanish |
| Campus Phone: |
718-960-8902 |
| Email: |
cindyk@lehman.cuny.edu |
Rank: Assistant Professor
| Department: |
History |
| Expertise: |
U.S. social and cultural history; history of New York City and State; American urban history; history of American consumerism; history of food in the United States |
| Campus Phone: |
718-960-7713 |
| Email: |
cindy.lobel@lehman.cuny.edu |
Rank: Associate Professor
| Department: |
Psychology |
| Expertise: |
Stress; trauma; post-traumatic stress disorder |
| Campus Phone: |
718-960-8207 |
| Email: |
dmanier@post.harvard.edu |
Rank: Assistant Professor and Chair
| Department: |
Philosophy |
| Expertise: |
Nineteenth-century post-Kantian continental philosophy; race and ethnicity; African philosophy; theory of rehabilitation medicine |
| Languages: |
Limited French and German |
| Campus Phone: |
718-960-8292 |
| Email: |
julie.maybee@lehman.cuny.edu |
Rank: Assistant Professor
| Department: |
Sociology and Social Work |
| Expertise: |
Criminal justice; juvenile justice; juvenile delinquency; gangs; re-entry from prison; effects of incarceration on family members, especially children; teaching in prison; individual, group, marital, and family counseling; child welfare, particularly adoption and foster care; emotional health/well-being of men; adolescent parenting/teen pregnancy; issues of fatherhood; social welfare policy |
| Languages: |
French |
| Campus Phone: |
718-960-7862 |
| Email: |
carl.mazza@lehman.cuny.edu |
Rank: Professor and Chair
| Department: |
Early Childhood & Childhood Education |
| Expertise: |
Child development; childhood stressors; childhood psychotherapy; early childhood education; children's conceptualization of death, divorce, reading, and their own cultural group |
| Campus Phone: |
718-960-8167 |
| Email: |
abigail.mcnamee@lehman.cuny.edu |
Rank: Assistant Professor
| Department: |
English |
| Expertise: |
Journalism; women's issues; women's body modification (author of Bodies of Subversion: A Secret History of Women and Tattoo, Powerhouse 2001) |
| Campus Phone: |
718-960-8371 |
| Email: |
mmifflin@optonline.net |
Rank: Assistant Professor
Rank: Professor
| Department: |
Journalism, Communications & Theatre |
| Expertise: |
Immigration; bilingual and language rights; Hispanic issues; national politics; 2008 presidential election; America's Hispanic history; newspapers; radio; television; journalism-related issues |
| Languages: |
Spanish |
| Campus Phone: |
718-960-8591 |
| Email: |
miguel.perez01@lehman.cuny.edu |
Rank: Professor
| Department: |
English |
| Expertise: |
Teaching writing; creative process in teaching and writing; creative nonfiction/memoir; writing and teaching about the Holocaust; faculty development; teacher-training. |
| Campus Phone: |
718-960-8372 |
| Email: |
sondra105@aol.com |
Rank: Lecturer
| Department: |
Music |
| Expertise: |
Music education in elementary school; supervision of pre-service teachers; creating of original musical theatre for all ages; piano instruction and performance; composing musicals: music and lyrics |
| Campus Phone: |
718-960-7796 |
| Email: |
catchymusic1@aol.com |
Rank: Associate Professor
| Department: |
Psychology |
| Expertise: |
Memory (especially memory illusions), procrastination and plagiarism |
| Campus Phone: |
718-960-8776 |
| Email: |
vincent.prohaska@lehman.cuny.edu |
Rank: Professor
| Department: |
Biological Sciences |
| Expertise: |
Fish ecology; fish systematics; aquatic ecology; estuarine ecology; fish and invertebrate sub-fossils; Bronx River restoration; fisheries |
| Campus Phone: |
718-960-8239 |
| Email: |
joseph.rachlin@lehman.cuny.edu |
Rank: Associate Professor
| Department: |
History |
| Expertise: |
American political history, political rhetoric |
| Languages: |
French |
| Campus Phone: |
718-960-7712 |
| Email: |
andrew.robertson@lehman.cuny.edu |
Rank: Associate Professor
| Department: |
Journalism, Communication & Theatre |
| Expertise: |
Hollywood; images of women in the movies; feminism; documentary and independent film; European cinema; popular culture; celebrity and fandom; media issues; musical theatre |
| Languages: |
French |
| Campus Phone: |
718-960-7723 |
| Email: |
marjorie.rosen@lehman.cuny.edu |
Rank: Professor
| Department: |
Early Childhood and Childhood Education and Center for School/College Collaboratives (Director) |
| Expertise: |
Program design, grant writing, school/college collaboration, partnerships, school reform, small schools, statistics, and research methods |
| Campus Phone: |
718 960-8569 |
| Email: |
anne.rothstein@lehman.cuny.edu |
Rank: Assistant Professor
| Department: |
Anthropology |
| Expertise: |
Arab media, Syria, Lebanon, consumption, urban anthropology, popular culture |
| Campus Phone: |
718-960-8130 |
| Email: |
christa.salamandra@lehman.cuny.edu |
Rank: Professor and Chair
| Department: |
Chemistry |
| Expertise: |
Organic Chemistry, Medicinal and Bio-organic Chemistry; Drug Design & Synthesis; Green Chemistry and Science Education. |
| Campus Phone: |
718-960-8146 |
| Email: |
ralph.salvatore@lehman.cuny.edu |
Rank: Associate Professor
| Department: |
Anthropology |
| Expertise: |
Human rights in Latin America and South Africa; conflict resolution and transitional justice; post-conflict violence; human rights and international humanitarian law; violence in Latin America; urban violence; gangs; organized crime; drug trafficking; post-authoritarian regimes in Latin America; genocide; feminicide; social cleansing in Guatemala; demobilization of armed groups in Latin America; truth commissions; peace communities; forensic anthropology; Guatemalan judicial system |
| Languages: |
Spanish |
| Campus Phone: |
718-960-8847 |
| Email: |
victoria.sanford@lehman.cuny.edu |
Rank: Assistant Professor
| Department: |
Environmental, Geographical, and Geological Sciences (Chair) / Middle and High School Education |
| Expertise: |
Marine geophysics/mid-ocean ridge studies and earth science education |
| Languages: |
French and some Italian and Spanish |
| Campus Phone: |
718-960-8008 |
| Email: |
heather.sloan@lehman.cuny.edu |
Rank: Professor
| Department: |
Languages and Literatures |
| Expertise: |
Contemporary French and Francophone literature, cultures and current affairs, autobiography, cultural diversity, multimedia |
| Languages: |
French |
| Campus Phone: |
718-960-8274 |
| Email: |
thomas.spear@lehman.cuny.edu |
Rank: Assistant Professor
| Department: |
History |
| Expertise: |
Civil rights; black power, including the Black Panthers; twentieth-century U.S. social movements; black women's history; Mississippi Flood of 1927 |
| Campus Phone: |
718-960-8275 |
| Email: |
robyn.spencer@lehman.cuny.edu |
Rank: Associate Professor
| Department: |
Anthropology |
| Expertise: |
Forensic anthropology; human osteology; Polynesian skeletal biology, Easter Island skeletal biology, paleoanthropology |
| Campus Phone: |
718-960-7728 |
| Email: |
vincent.stefan@lehman.cuny.edu |
Rank: Associate Professor
| Department: |
Sociology and Social Work |
| Expertise: |
Disability, adolescent and women's reproductive health, family planning and abortion, economic and racial/ethnic inequalities in health and well-being |
| Campus Phone: |
718-960-1128 |
| Email: |
esther.wilder@lehman.cuny.edu |
Rank: Professor
| Department: |
Biological Sciences |
| Expertise: |
Metabolic engineering of provitamin A carotenoid biosynthesis; plant molecular biology; biochemistry; genetics |
| Languages: |
Hebrew |
| Campus Phone: |
718-960-8643 |
| Email: |
wurtzel@lehman.cuny.edu |
