Lehman College 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.
NICHOLAS BOSTON, M.S.Rank: Assistant Professor
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| 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 |
ANDREA P. BOYAR, Ph.D.Rank: Associate Professor and Chair
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| 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 |
STUART CHEN-HAYES, Ph.D.Rank: Associate Professor
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| 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 |
ERIC DELSON, Ph.D.Rank: Professor and Chair
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| Department: | Anthropology |
| Expertise: | Paleoanthropology, human & primate evolution, physical anthropology, evolutionary theory, 3D comparative morphology, paleontology |
| Languages: | French and some German and Portuguese |
| Campus Phone: | 718-960-8850 |
| Email: | eric.delson@lehman.cuny.edu |
| Podcast: | Podcast: What Were Your Ancestors Like? |
CRAIG DEMMER, Ed.D., Ph.D.Rank: Associate Professor
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| 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 |
NANCY DUBETZ, Ed.D.Rank: Associate Professor
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| 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 |
WILLIAM M. HOFFMAN, B.A.Rank: Associate Professor
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| 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 |
DENE HURLEY, Ph.D.Rank: Assistant Professor
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| 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 |
THOMAS IHDE, Ph.D.Rank: Associate Professor and Chair
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| 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 |
ALAN KLUGER, Ph.D.Rank: Professor and Chair
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| Department: | Psychology |
| Expertise: | Neuropsychological and neuroimaging concomitants of normal and pathological aging |
| Campus Phone: | 718-960-7808 |
| Email: | alan.kluger@lehman.cuny.edu |
CARL MAZZA, D.S.W.Rank: Assistant Professor
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| 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 |
MATTHEW NAGLER, Ph.DRank: Assistant Professor
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| Department: | Economics, Accounting & Business |
| Expertise: | Competitive strategy; marketing strategy; business plans; mergers and acquisitions; revenue forecasting; consumer behavior; industrial economics; experience as staff economist at FCC, in marketing positions at high-tech companies, and as private antitrust consultant |
| Languages: | |
| Campus Phone: | 718-960-8461 |
| Email: | matthew.nagler@lehman.cuny.edu |
| Podcast: | Podcast: New FCC Media Ownership Rules |
HARI PANT, Ph.D.Rank: Assistant Professor
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| Department: | Environmental, Geographic & Geological Sciences |
| Expertise: | Environmental science / physical geography (water, air, soil, sediment, global change, ecological studies) |
| Campus Phone: | 718-960-5859 |
| Email: | hari.pant@lehman.cuny.edu |
| Podcast: | Podcast: How Might Global Warming Threaten the World's Water Supply? |
SUSAN POLIRSTOK, Ed.D.Rank: Professor and Associate Dean
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| Department: | Specialized Services in Education and Division of Education (Associate Dean) |
| Expertise: | Autism, learning disabilities, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, adolescents with behavior disorders, peer tutoring, parent training & advocacy for special needs children, emotional intelligence, faculty development & mentoring |
| Campus Phone: | 718-960-8004 |
| Email: | susan.polirstok@lehman.cuny.edu |
| Video News Release : | Video News Release: Associate Dean to Speak at White House Initiative Conference |
PENNY PRINCE, Ph.D. CandidateRank: Lecturer
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| 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 |
VINCENT PROHASKA, Ph.D.Rank: Associate Professor
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| Department: | Psychology |
| Expertise: | Memory (especially memory illusions), procrastination and plagiarism |
| Campus Phone: | 718-960-8776 |
| Email: | vincent.prohaska@lehman.cuny.edu |
ANDREW ROBERTSON, Ph.D.Rank: Associate Professor
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| Department: | History |
| Expertise: | American political history, political rhetoric |
| Languages: | French |
| Campus Phone: | 718-960-7712 |
| Email: | andrew.robertson@lehman.cuny.edu |
MARJORIE ROSEN, M.S.Rank: Associate Professor
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| 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 |
ANNE ROTHSTEIN, Ed.D.Rank: Professor
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| 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 |
CHRISTA SALAMANDRA, Ph.D.Rank: Assistant Professor
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| Department: | Anthropology |
| Expertise: | Arab media, Syria, Lebanon, consumption, urban anthropology, popular culture |
| Campus Phone: | 718-960-8130 |
| Email: | christa.salamandra@lehman.cuny.edu |
RALPH NICHOLAS SALVATORE, Ph.D.Rank: Professor and Chair
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| 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 |
HEATHER SLOAN, Ph.D.Rank: Assistant Professor
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| 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 |
THOMAS SPEAR, Ph.D.Rank: Professor
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| 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 |
VINCENT H. STEFAN, Ph.D., D-ABFARank: Associate Professor
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| Department: | Anthropology |
| Expertise: | Forensic anthropology; human osteology; Polynesian skeletal biology, Easter Island skeletal biology, paleoanthropology |
| Languages: | |
| Campus Phone: | 718-960-7728 |
| Email: | vincent.stefan@lehman.cuny.edu |
ESTHER WILDER, Ph.D.Rank: Associate Professor
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| 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 |
