Faculty Experts
Updated: July 29, 2009
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 seven 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.
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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 |
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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 |
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Department: |
Health Sciences |
| Expertise: |
Social determinants of health (i.e., race and ethnicity, socioeconomic position, and neighborhood effects); Hispanic health; racial discrimination; oral health; research methods; and analysis of large databases, including survey, census and spatially-linked data |
| Languages: |
Spanish |
| Campus Phone: |
718-960-8549 |
| Email: |
luisa.borrell@lehman.cuny.edu |
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Department: |
Journalism, Communication & Theatre |
| Expertise: |
Contemporary media, news analysis, media industries, diversity within media corporations, state of print media in the Internet age, 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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Department: |
History |
| Expertise: |
Northern Ireland; modern Ireland; religion and politics in the United States; American cultural history |
| Campus Phone: |
718-960-8286 |
| Email: |
martin.burke@lehman.cuny.edu |
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Department: |
Counseling, Leadership, Literacy, and Special Education |
| Expertise: |
K-12 school counseling and consultation for equity; K-16 college readiness counseling; counselor education; professional identity; evidence-based, data-driven developmental school counseling programs; sexuality counseling; LBGT counseling; multicultural and social justice counseling; child, adolescent, couple, and family counseling; counseling internship and practicum; CACREP accreditation process |
| Languages: |
Mandarin and French |
| Campus Phone: |
718-960-8173 |
| Email: |
stuart.chen-hayes@lehman.cuny.edu |
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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 |
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Department: |
Middle and High School Education |
| Expertise: |
Language and identity among white, hip hop-affiliated youth; African American English; language ideologies; teachers' attitudes toward African American English; and language stylization |
| Languages: |
Spanish, French, and German |
| Campus Phone: |
718-960-8896 |
| Email: |
cecelia.cutler@lehman.cuny.edu |
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Department: |
Economics and Business |
| Expertise: |
Economic impact of HIV/AIDS epidemic and how religious beliefs, ethnic diversity, and epidemiological factors impact the spread of the disease |
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| Email: |
juan.delacruz2@lehman.cuny.edu |
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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 |
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Department: |
English |
| Expertise: |
Shakespeare; Renaissance drama; lesbian and gay studies |
| Languages: |
Italian |
| Campus Phone: |
718-960-8529 |
| Email: |
mdigangi@gc.cuny.edu |
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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 |
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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 |
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Department: |
Latin American and Puerto Rican Studies |
| Expertise: |
Cultural anthropology, religion, immigration (especially from Mexico and Latin America to the U.S.), citizenship, medical anthropology, pregnancy and childbirth, Latin America, and Latinos in the United States |
| Campus Phone: |
718-960-5115 |
| Email: |
alyshia.galvez@lehman.cuny.edu |
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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 |
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Department: |
Social Work |
| Expertise: |
Low-income housing and housing issues in New York City; family development and intergenerational issues in the U.S. and abroad |
| Campus Phone: |
718-960-5180 |
| Email: |
jill.gerson@lehman.cuny.edu |
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Department: |
Nursing |
| Expertise: |
Oncology-certified nursing, lung cancer, esophageal cancer, mesothelioma, symptom patterns, symptom management, and cancer survivorship issues |
| Campus Phone: |
718-960-8790 |
| Email: |
pamela.ginex@lehman.cuny.edu |
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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 |
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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 |
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Department: |
Sociology |
| 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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Department: |
Languages and Literatures 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: |
718-960-6722 |
| Email: |
thomas.ihde@lehman.cuny.edu |
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Department: |
Physics and Astronomy |
| Expertise: |
Theoretical physics, in particular string theory and quantum gravity |
| Campus Phone: |
718-960-7832 |
| Email: |
daniel.kabat@lehman.cuny.edu |
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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 |
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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 |
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Department: |
Mathematics and Computer Science |
| Expertise: |
Harmonic analysis; Lie Groups; symmetric spaces |
| Campus Phone: |
718-960-8879 |
| Email: |
adam.koranyi@lehman.cuny.edu |
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Department: |
Student Health Center |
| Expertise: |
Health of college students |
| Languages: |
Spanish |
| Campus Phone: |
718-960-8902 |
| Email: |
cindyk@lehman.cuny.edu |
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Department: |
Social Work |
| Expertise: |
Catastrophic events and social work practice; social work in health care settings; professional development and retention of the workforce in child welfare settings; group work in social work education and practice; technology and social work; the role of the school social worker in the area of HIV/AIDS and sex education in the public schools; domestic violence in the Orthodox Jewish community; and Jewish identity and continuity within the Cuban Jewish community, both inside and outside of Cuba |
| Languages: |
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| Campus Phone: |
718-960-1892 |
| Email: |
heidi.laporte@lehman.cuny.edu |
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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 |
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Department: |
Psychology |
| Expertise: |
Stress; trauma; post-traumatic stress disorder |
| Campus Phone: |
718-960-8207 |
| Email: |
dmanier@post.harvard.edu |
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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 |
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Department: |
Social Work and Graduate Program in Social Work (Director) |
| 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; working with exonerated people wrongfully convicted |
| Languages: |
French |
| Campus Phone: |
718-960-7862 |
| Email: |
carl.mazza@lehman.cuny.edu |
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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 |
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Department: |
English |
| Expertise: |
Women's issues, art, and contemporary culture. Published credits include Bodies of Subversion: A Secret History of Women and Tattoo (1999, 2001), The Blue Tattoo: The Life of Olive Oatman (2009), and articles in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Salon.com, and other printed/online publications. |
| Campus Phone: |
718-960-8371 |
| Email: |
msmifflin@verizon.net |
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Department: |
Sociology |
| Expertise: |
Globalization; work and labor; outsourcing; cultural and urban sociology; race and ethnicity; South Asian culture and politics |
| Languages: |
Urdu and Hindi |
| Campus Phone: |
718-960-1894 |
| Email: |
shehzad.nadeem@lehman.cuny.edu |
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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 |
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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 |
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Department: |
Music |
| Expertise: |
Music education in elementary school; pre-service teacher training; collaborative musical theatre; and piano performance and composition |
| Campus Phone: |
718-960-7796 |
| Email: |
catchymusic1@aol.com |
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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 |
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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 |
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Department: |
Counseling, Leadership, Literacy, and Special Education |
| Expertise: |
Counselor education; special education; Autism Spectrum disorders; I.E.P. formation/implementation; transition from K-12 to adulthood; crisis assessment/counseling |
| Languages: |
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| Campus Phone: |
718-960-8119 |
| Email: |
laura.roberts@lehman.cuny.edu |
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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 |
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Department: |
Journalism, Communication & Theatre |
| Expertise: |
Hollywood; images of women in the movies (author of Popcorn Venus: Women, Movies, and the American Dream); 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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Department: |
Health Sciences |
| Expertise: |
Food analysis; textural characterization of foods; and health foods and bioactive food components |
| Languages: |
English, Hindi, and Malayalam |
| Campus Phone: |
718-960-2421 |
| Email: |
lalitha.samuel@lehman.cuny.edu |
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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 |
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Department: |
Biological Sciences |
| Expertise: |
Plant mineral nutrition; molecular physiology of heavy metal transport in plants; and transfer of mineral nutrients and metal contaminants through the food chain |
| Languages: |
Tamil, some Hindi and Malayalam |
| Campus Phone: |
718-960-8983 |
| Email: |
renuka.sankaran@lehman.cuny.edu |
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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 |
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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: |
718-960-8215 |
| Email: |
thomas.spear@lehman.cuny.edu |
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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 |
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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 |
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Department: |
Sociology |
| 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 |
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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 |
