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 seven Distinguished Professors, and 85 percent of them hold the Ph.D. or another terminal degree.
To reach the Office of Media Relations, contact: Joseph Tirella (Communications Manager) at 718-960-5746, joseph.tirella@lehman.cuny.edu.
Evelyn Ackerman, Ph.D.
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
Maryam Bamshad, Ph.D.
Rank: Assistant
Professor
Department:Biological Sciences
Expertise: Neurobiology of parental behavior
Languages: Farsi
Campus Phone: 718-960-8646
Email: maryam.bamshad-alavi@lehman.cuny.edu
Stefan Becker, Dr. rer. Nat
Rank:
Professor and Chair
Department: Environmental, Geographic, and Geological Sciences
Expertise: Climate change; severe weather (hurricanes)
Languages: German
Campus Phone: 718-960-1120
Email: stefan.becker@lehman.cuny.edu
Luisa N. Borrell, D.D.S., Ph.D.
Rank:
Associate Professor
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
Andrea P. Boyar, Ph.D.
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
Grace Russo Bullaro, Ph.D.
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
Martin Burke, Ph.D.
Rank: Associate
Professor
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
Stephen A. Cavallo, Ph.D.
Rank:
Associate Professor and Acting Associate Dean, Division of Arts and
Humanities
Department: Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences
Expertise: Speech science; voice disorders
Campus Phone: 718-960-8003
Email: stephen.cavallo@lehman.cuny.edu
Stuart Chen-Hayes, Ph.D.
Rank:
Associate Professor
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: 718-960-7304
Email: stuart.chen-hayes@lehman.cuny.edu
Eugene M. Chudnovsky, Ph.D.
Rank:
Distinguished Professor
Department: Physics & Astronomy
Expertise: Physics of solids
Languages: Russian and some Spanish
Campus Phone: 718-960-8770
Email: eugene.chudnovsky@lehman.cuny.edu
Forrest Colburn, Ph.D.
Rank:
Professor
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: 718-960-1161
Email: forrest.colburn@lehman.cuny.edu
Cecelia Cutler, Ph.D.
Rank: Assistant
Professor
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
Juan J. DeLaCruz, Ph.D.
Rank: Assistant
Professor
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
Campus Phone: 718-960-8159
Email: juan.delacruz2@lehman.cuny.edu
Eric Delson, Ph.D.
Rank: Professor
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
Craig Demmer, Ed.D., Ph.D.
Rank:
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
Mario DiGangi, Ph.D.
Rank:
Professor
Department: English
Expertise: Shakespeare; Renaissance drama; lesbian and gay studies
Languages: Italian
Campus Phone: 718-960-8529
Email: mdigangi@gc.cuny.edu
Nancy Dubetz, Ed.D.
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
William Fisher, Ph.D.
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
Alyshia Gálvez, Ph.D.
Rank: Assistant
Professor
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
Languages: Spanish
Campus Phone: 718-960-5115
Email: alyshia.galvez@lehman.cuny.edu
Catherine Alicia Georges, Ed.D.
Rank:
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
Jill Gerson, D.S.W.
Rank: Lecturer
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
Pamela Ginex, Ed.D.
Rank: Assistant
Professor
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
Mario A. Gonzalez-Corzo,
Ph.D.
Rank: Assistant Professor
Department: Economics and Business
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
Yuri Gorokhovich, Ph.D.
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
Elhum Haghighat-Sordellini,
Ph.D.
Rank: Assistant Professor
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
William M. Hoffman, B.A.
Rank:
Professor
Department: Journalism, Communication, & Theatre
Expertise: Playwriting, screenwriting, librettist, lyricist, poet,
translator, journalist, television interview show host, and director
Languages: French
Campus Phone: 718-960-2558
Email: william.hoffman@lehman.cuny.edu
Cynthia K. Hosay, Ph.D.
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
Dene Hurley, Ph.D.
Rank: Assistant
Professor
Department: Economics and 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
Department: Languages and Literatures (Chair)
Expertise: Irish language, sociolinguistics, bilingual language
acquisition
Languages: Irish Gaelic
Campus Phone: 718-960-8179
Email: thomas.ihde@lehman.cuny.edu
Daniel Kabat, Ph.D.
Rank: Associate
Professor
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
Alan Kluger, Ph.D.
Rank: Professor and
Chair
Department: Psychology
Expertise: Neuropsychological and neuroimaging concomitants of normal and
pathological aging
Campus Phone: 718-960-8204
Email: alan.kluger@lehman.cuny.edu
Patricia Kolb, Ph.D.
Rank: Associate
Professor
Department: 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
Adam Koranyi, Ph.D.
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
Cindy Kreisberg, R.P.A.-C
Rank:
Director
Department: Student Health Center
Expertise: Health of college students
Languages: Spanish
Campus Phone: 718-960-8902
Email: cindyk@lehman.cuny.edu
Heidi Heft LaPorte, D.S.W
Rank:
Associate Professor
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:
Campus Phone: 718-960-1892
Email: heidi.laporte@lehman.cuny.edu
Cindy R. Lobel, Ph.D.
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
David Manier, Ph.D.
Rank: Associate
Professor
Department: Psychology
Expertise: Stress; trauma; post-traumatic stress disorder
Campus Phone: 718-960-8207
Email: dmanier@post.harvard.edu
Julie E. Maybee, Ph.D.
Rank: Associate
Professor
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
Carl Mazza, D.S.W.
Rank: Associate
Professor
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
Abigail S. McNamee, Ed.D., Ph.D.
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
Chiseche Salome Mibenge, Ph.D.
Rank:
Assistant Professor
Department: Political Science
Expertise: Human rights; women's rights; armed conflict in Africa; violence
against women; international criminal justice; regional expertise on Rwanda and
Sierra Leone
Languages: French
Campus Phone: 718-960-4037
Email: chiseche.mibenge@lehman.cuny.edu
Margot Mifflin, M.A.
Rank: Associate
Professor
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
Shehzad Nadeem, Ph.D.
Rank: Assistant
Professor
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
Hari Pant, Ph.D.
Rank: Assistant
Professor
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
Miguel Pérez, M.S.
Rank: Professor and
Chair
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: 718-960-6741
Email: miguel.perez01@lehman.cuny.edu
Sondra Perl, Ph.D.
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
Gerardo Piña-Rosales, Ph.D.
Rank:
Professor
Department: Languages and Literatures
Expertise: Contemporary Spanish Literature; Latino Literature; Literature
and Photography; Spanish Language in the United States.
Languages: Spanish
Campus Phone: 718-960-8278
Email: gerardo.pina@olehman.cuny.edu
Penny Prince, Ph.D.
Rank: Assistant
Professor
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
Vincent Prohaska, Ph.D.
Rank: Associate
Professor
Department: Psychology
Expertise: Memory (especially memory illusions), procrastination and
plagiarism
Campus Phone: 718-960-8776
Email: vincent.prohaska@lehman.cuny.edu
Joseph W. Rachlin, Ph.D.
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
Laura Roberts, Ph.D.
Rank: Assistant
Professor
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:
Campus Phone: 718-960-8119
Email: laura.roberts@lehman.cuny.edu
Andrew Robertson, Ph.D.
Rank:
Associate Professor
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
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
Anne Rothstein, Ed.D.
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
Christa Salamandra, Ph.D.
Rank:
Associate Professor
Department: Anthropology
Expertise: Arab media, Syria, Lebanon, consumption, urban anthropology,
popular culture
Campus Phone: 718-960-8130
Email: christa.salamandra@lehman.cuny.edu
Lalitha Samuel, Ph.D.
Rank: Assistant
Professor
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
Victoria Sanford, Ph.D.
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
Renuka Sankaran, Ph.D.
Rank: Assistant
Professor
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
Evan Senreich, Ph.D.
Rank: Assistant
Professor
Department: Social Work
Expertise: Substance abuse in the L.G.B.T. community
Campus Phone: 718-960-8418
Email: evan.senreich@lehman.cuny.edu
Heather Sloan, Ph.D.
Rank: Associate
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
Thomas C. Spear, Ph.D.
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
Robyn C. Spencer, Ph.D.
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: 718-960-2268
Email: robyn.spencer@lehman.cuny.edu
Vincent H. Stefan, Ph.D., D-ABFA
Rank:
Associate Professor and Chair
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
Esther Wilder, Ph.D.
Rank: Associate
Professor
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
Eleanore T. Wurtzel, Ph.D.
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
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