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Anthropology

MANN-HAMILTON, RYAN PH.D.

MANN-HAMILTON, RYAN PH.D. (Associate Professor of Anthropology)

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Room C459QQ

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(718) 482-5996

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rmann-hamilton@lagcc.cuny.edu

Biography

Ryan Mann-Hamilton received his PhD in Cultural Anthropology from the CUNY Graduate Center, and holds an undergraduate degree in International Business and a Masters in Environmental Science with a focus on renewable technologies. His doctoral dissertation focused on the processes, effects and community reactions to state driven economic development and land dispossession in Samaná, Dominican Republic. He is an educator, community organizer, photographer, consultant and writer and has taught courses in history, anthropology and ethnic studies and given a variety of workshops and lectures on social and environmental justice, community based activism, the social constructions of race and AfroLatin@ History and Culture in the Americas. He is currently the Director of Public Programs for the Institute for Socio-Ecological Research and a board member and organizer with the Mayaguez Childrens Library.

STABROWSKI, FILIP PH.D.

STABROWSKI, FILIP PH.D. (Professor & Coordinator of Anthropology, and Coordinator of Urban Studies)

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Room C459HH

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(718) 349-4002

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fstabrowski@lagcc.cuny.edu

Biography

Filip Stabrowski is a Professor and Coordinator of Anthropology at LaGuardia Community College. He received his Ph.D. in geography from the University of California, Berkeley. His research interests include: immigration and gentrification; neoliberal urban planning and governance; platform urbanism; and immigrant foodways in contemporary New York City.

At LaGuardia, he teaches Cultural Anthropology and Urban Anthropology. He is also an affiliated faculty member of the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the CUNY Graduate Center and is involved in the Honors Program at LaGuardia, serving as faculty advisor to the honors student newsletter The Fiorello. Prior to LaGuardia, he taught at the London School of Economics and Political Science, Rutgers University, and Hunter College. He is also editor of the journal CITY: Analysis of Urban Trends, Culture, Theory, Policy, Action. He lives in Sunnyside, Queens.

Criminal Justice

BRYANT, CHARLENE J.D.

	BRYANT, CHARLENE J.D. (Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice)
	Room C-459WW	718.349.4035	cbryant@lagcc.cuny.edu

CHANEY, JOHN J.D.

	CHANEY, JOHN J.D. (Associate Professor of Criminal Justice)
	Room C459UU	718.349.4004	jchaney@lagcc.cuny.edu

Biography

Professor Chaney is widely recognized as an authority in developing effective agency partnerships that deliver essential transitional services for individuals with histories of incarceration. Between 2009 and 2014 he served as the Executive Director for the Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office’s nationally acclaimed ComALERT (Community and Law Enforcement Resources Together) reentry program, simultaneously serving as the New York State-appointed coordinator for the Kings County Reentry Task Force. He is also an author and co-editor of “Gifts from the Dark: Learning from the Incarceration Experience”, and “Race, Education, and Reintegrating Formerly Incarcerated Citizens” both published by Lexington Books. A frequent moderator and expert panelist, Professor Chaney has provided technical assistance for prisons in East Africa; for the Criminal Justice section for the American Bar Association; the ACCES-VR (Adult Career and Continuing Education Services-Vocational Rehabilitation) division for the New York State Department of Education; and for the New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services. His work has received formal recognition from the NY City Council, NY State legislature, and civic awards from several community organizations. Born and raised in Harlem, New York, he received his Bachelor of Arts degree from New York University and a Juris Doctorate with honors from Brooklyn Law School.

GELPI-ACOSTA, CAMILA PH.D.

	GELPI-ACOSTA, CAMILA PH.D. (Associate Professor of Criminal Justice)
	Room C459VV	718.482.5794	cgelpi@lagcc.cuny.edu

Biography

Camila Gelpí-Acosta received her Ph.D. in Sociology from the New School University in 2013. She has extensive research experience, specifically conducting ethnographies, in-depth interviewing, and qualitative and quantitative data analysis. Her doctoral dissertation qualitatively explored the experiences of NYC street heroin users with the criminal justice system and methadone programs. These data led to her “Junkie habitus” theory, which has appeared in several publications (link below). From 2013-2014, she was a postdoc at the Behavioral Scientist Training program (NIDA T32 DA007233), where she received comprehensive training on grant proposal and scholarship development. In September 2014, she was appointed Assistant Professor at LaGuardia/CUNY, Criminal Justice Program. Here, she mainly teaches Criminology (SSJ 201), and Crime and Justice in the Urban Society (SSN 204); but also teaches Introduction to Criminal Justice (SSJ 101), and the First-Year Seminar (CJF 101). Dr. Gelpí-Acosta is a native Puerto Rican who, while in New York City, co-founded a syringe exchange program in Puerto Rico (El Punto en la Montaña, Inc.) to help address the pronounced service needs of rural injection drug users. Each year, she commits a portion of her time to in-kind grant writing to insure the maintenance of this program.

HOLLAR-GREGORY, KYLE J.D.

	HOLLAR-GREGORY, KYLE J.D. (Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice)
	Room C-459ZZ	718.349.4013	khollar-gregory@lagcc.cuny.edu

Biography

Kyle Hollar-Gregory, Esq. was admitted to the New Jersey State Bar as an attorney. He obtained a Juris Doctor Degree from Rutgers University of Law – Newark. He began his legal career as an intern for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which was an introduction to the practice of law. The aforementioned internship allowed Mr. Hollar-Gregory to participate in a rotational program, involving all aspects of law that affected the Port Authority including contracts, real estate, and litigation issues both federal and state. Additionally, he concluded a federal externship with the Honorable Jose Linares in the United States Federal District Court of New Jersey. Both experiences provided Mr. Hollar-Gregory with an opportunity to become familiar with the court rules of criminal procedure by researching an array of criminal law issues as well as observing trials. Mr. Hollar-Gregory served as a law clerk for the Honorable Siobhan A. Teare in the criminal division of the Superior Courts of New Jersey in Essex County. Mr. Hollar-Gregory worked as a paralegal for the Brandon J. Broderick, LLC law firm in New Jersey. As an attorney for the Freeman Law Center in Jersey City, New Jersey he practiced family law, personal injury law, municipal cases and misdemeanor criminal cases.

Since 2009, Mr. Hollar-Gregory taught courses at LaGuardia Community College. Mr. Hollar-Gregory’s educational career began as college lecturer of business, legal and criminal justice courses at LaGuardia Community College. In 2015 he began teaching legal courses and criminal justice courses at Essex County College. He gained exceptional experience in the education field by teaching college level courses entitled Legal Research and Writing, Civil Litigation, Contract Law, Tort Law, Business Finance, Business Law, Technology in the Law Office, Criminal Law, Criminal Justice, and Criminology.

Prior to law school Mr. Hollar-Gregory obtained a degree in economics at the University of Maryland. He was employed as a Senior Investment Operations Associate at Prudential Financial.

KEETON, ANDRÉ J.D., PH.D.

	KEETON, ANDRÉ J.D., PH.D. (Associate Professor of Criminal Justice)
	Room C459BB	718.482.6048	vkeeton@lagcc.cuny.edu

Biography

Dr. Vincent André Keeton holds a PhD from Rutgers University in Urban Systems and Criminal Justice. He received his B.A. in history and Spanish at The University of Texas at Austin, and completed his Master of Public Affairs and Doctor of Jurisprudence concurrently at The University of Texas at Austin. He has held teaching responsibilities at the Rutgers School of Criminal Justice (SCJ), Rutgers School of Public Affairs and Administration (SPAA), The New School for Social Research: Eugene Lang College and research responsibilities with the Newark Schools Research Consortium. He has developed curricula for and teaches various courses including: Constitutional Law, Constitutional Law in Criminal Justice, Criminology, Criminal Justice, Gender Crime and Justice, Case Processing and Ethical and Philosophical Foundations. His research interests are in educational assessment, academic achievement, achievement gaps, crime and justice and Constitutional Law.Dr. Keeton’s most recent publication Keeton and Eren (2014). Invisibility, Difference and Disparity: Alcohol and Substance Abuse on Two-Year College Campuses, explores the disparities in methodology and focus of substance abuse between two-year and four-year college and university campuses. Additionally, Dr. Keeton will be presenting another publication Keeton and Eren (2014). The U.S. Supreme Court’s War on Minorities: Disparate Impact in the age of Florence v. Board of Chosen Freeholders of the County of Burlington at the 2014 meeting of the American Society of Criminology.As a member of the New York State Bar, Dr. Keeton is a former Assistant District Attorney for Bronx County from 1998-2005, where he primarily prosecuted cases for the Sex Crimes and Narcotics Bureaus.

KEHOE, JILL PH.D.

	KEHOE, JILL PH.D. (Associate Professor and Director of Criminal Justice)
	Room C459XX	718.482.5786	jkehoe@lagcc.cuny.edu

ROWE, CORY PH.D.

	ROWE, CORY PH.D. (Associate Professor of Criminal Justice)
	Room C-459SS	(718) 349-4003	cfeldman@lagcc.cuny.edu

WYNN, JENNIFER PH.D.

	WYNN, JENNIFER PH.D. (Associate Professor of Criminal Justice)
	Room C-459NN	718.482.5791	jwynn@lagcc.cuny.edu

Biography

Jennifer R. Wynn, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Criminal Justice and a member of the graduate faculty in the master’s program at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. Trained as a criminologist with a specialization in forensic psychology at the CUNY Graduate Center/John Jay College, she performs mitigation investigations in death penalty cases and has testified as an expert witness in capital trials on future dangerousness and the etiology of violent crime. For many years she ran a successful reentry program on Rikers Island and currently consults with the CUNY Next Step violence reduction program on Rikers. As a former monitor of prison conditions, she has visited over 75 prisons in the United States, including supermax prisons, and has interviewed several hundred individuals held in solitary confinement.

Economics

KAUSHIK, NEETU PH.D.

	KAUSHIK, NEETU PH.D. (Associate Professor and Coordinator of Economics)
	Room C459V	718.482.5788	nkaushik@lagcc.cuny.edu

KONE, SOLOMAN PH.D.

	KONE, SOLOMAN PH.D. (Professor of Economics)
	Room C459I	718.482.6039	skone@lagcc.cuny.edu

Biography

Soloman Kone received his doctoral degree in economics from the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. He also holds both an MBA and M.A. in Finance. He was trained in the Ivory Coast, France and England. His areas of study are quantitative economics and business. He has published the book entitled A Debt Composition Hedging Strategy for Nigeria(2008). Dr. Kone's research interests include financial risks management, trade, debt, and exchange rate issues in Africa. As a dedicated teacher of introductory economics at LaGuardia, he offers students a dynamic approach to the learning of economics through the infusion of collaboration and technology.

LAI, CHOON SHAN PH.D.

	LAI, CHOON SHAN PH.D. (Associate Professor of Economics)
	Room C459U	718.349.4084	clai@lagcc.cuny.edu

Biography

Choon Shan received her Ph.D. in Economics from Purdue University. Her research interests are on international macroeconomics, microstructure of asset markets and risk premium in emerging markets. Choon Shan has years of teaching experience as a full-time faculty including Miami University and University of Southern Indiana. She has numerous publications in peer-reviewed academic journals and conference proceedings, as well as numerous presentations.

History

COOGAN, TIMOTHY PH.D.

	COOGAN, TIMOTHY PH.D. (Associate Professor of History)
	Room C459G	718.482.6049	tcoogan@lagcc.cuny.edu

Biography

A native Californian and former Peace Corps Volunteer, Dr. Coogan earned his BS at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon, his MA & MAT at San Francisco State University, and his PhD at New York University. His published articles have appeared in Labor in Massachusetts: Selected Essays, the Encyclopedia of U.S. Labor and Working-Class History, the Dictionary of American History, New York History, New England's Disharmony: The Consequences of the Industrial Revolution, Diplomatic Claims: Latin American Historians View the United States as well as Disasters, Accidents, and Crises in American History, In Transit, and Working in the Blackstone Valley. In addition, he has presented numerous papers at various conferences. Currently he is writing about the shaping of public opinion in the early American Republic.

DEL RIO, CHELSEA PH.D.

	DEL RIO, CHELSEA PH.D. (Associate Professor and Coordinator of History)
	Room C459RR	718.482.5790	cdelrio@lagcc.cuny.edu

Biography

Chelsea Del Rio received her Ph.D. in history from the University of Michigan in 2016. She holds a BA from University of California, Davis and an MA from California State University, Sacramento. Presently, she is preparing a manuscript on the history of lesbian feminism as a distinct social movement, focusing on the California activists who shaped the national network of lesbian separatist politics and culture from the 1950s through the 1980s. This work builds upon her dissertation which received the 2018 John D’Emilio LGBTQ History Dissertation Award from the Organization of American Historians. Dr. Del Rio is co-chair of the Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History and speaks widely on LGBTQIA history.

At LaGuardia, Dr. Del Rio serves as the History Coordinator, teaches in the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Option, serves as faculty liaison to the Women’s Center and LGBTQIA Safe Zone Hub, and coordinates the LGBTQIA faculty and staff group Lavender LaGuardia. She draws upon her specialization in modern US history and gender and sexuality studies to teach US survey courses, the history of women and gender, the politics of sexuality, and African American history. A longtime activist, Dr. Del Rio is involved in reproductive justice and abortion access advocacy and volunteers as an advocate for survivors of sexual violence.

KIETLINSKI, ROBIN PH.D.

	KIETLINSKI, ROBIN PH.D. (Professor of History)
	Room C459JJ	718.349.4083	rkietlinski@lagcc.cuny.edu

Biography

Dr. Kietlinski received her PhD from the University of Pennsylvania and her BA from the University of Chicago. Her research focuses on East Asia, specifically modern Japan. In 2012, she published her book titled Japanese Women and Sport: Beyond Baseball and Sumo, which examines the history of Japanese women's participation in sport since the 19th century. She has published extensively on other topics related to the intersections of sport and society in modern Japan. Dr. Kietlinski taught history at Fordham University and Baruch College before coming to LaGuardia to teach courses in global and East Asian history in 2012. During the 2019-2020 academic year, Dr. Kietlinski was the recipient of a Fulbright Research Grant to carry out work on a project examining the Olympics and the environment in modern Japan.

LIEBERMAN, RICHARD PH.D.

	LIEBERMAN, RICHARD PH.D. (Professor of History and Director of the LaGuardia and Wagner Archives)
	Room E-238	(718) 482-5066	RICHARDLI@lagcc.cuny.edu

MILLER, KAREN PH.D.

	MILLER, KAREN PH.D. (Professor of History)
	Room C-459EE	718.482.6016	kamiller@lagcc.cuny.edu

Biography

Karen Miller is Professor of History at LaGuardia Community College and the CUNY Graduate Center, where she teaches in the Master’s in Liberal Studies Program. Her book, Managing Inequality: Northern Racial Liberalism in Interwar Detroit (New York University Press, 2014). illustrates that “colorblind racism” emerged in northern cities well before the large-scale demographic shifts of the Second World War. Miller demonstrates that white northern leaders increasingly embraced egalitarian ideas about racial difference at the same time that they helped implement and maintain social and political practices that promoted racial inequality. In other words, she shows that northern segregation and egalitarian language were intertwined.

Dr. Miller’s articles and reviews have appeared in the Journal of American History, the Middle West Review, The International Journal of Critical Pedagogy, The Michigan Quarterly Review, Michigan Feminist Studies, and Against the Current. She also published a book chapter in Groundwork: Local Black Freedom Struggles in America. Dr. Miller has been a faculty fellow at a number of centers at the CUNY Graduate Center, including the Center for Place, Culture, and Politics, the Center for Humanities, the Committee for the Study of Religion, and the Committee on Globalization and Social Change. She was also a visiting scholar at the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies at the University of Michigan. In 2015, she was awarded a Chancellor’s Research Fellowship from CUNY.

Dr. Miller’s current research focuses on the American colonial state in the Philippines and its effort to Christianize majority-Muslim islands in the south of the archipelago. That study will examine this program into the 1960s, when it was continued under the independent Philippine Republic.

SHEAN, JOHN PH.D.

SHEAN, JOHN PH.D. (Professor of History)

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Room C-459OO

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718.482.6015

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jshean@lagcc.cuny.edu
http://johnshean.commons.gc.cuny.edu

Biography

John F. Shean received his BA at Hunter College, CUNY and earned an MBA in Finance from Baruch College, CUNY, an MA in History from the University of Delaware, and an MA in Classics and a PhD in Ancient History from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Professor Shean has taught at various universities in the Midwest and the New York area, including Clarion University of Pennsylvania and the University of Michigan. Professor Shean's research interests focus mainly on Greek, Roman and Byzantine history, the history of religion, and early Christianity. He has published several articles, and given numerous conference presentations that describe how ancient regimes used religion as a way of furthering their legitimacy. He has recently published a book (Soldiering for God: The Roman Army and Christianity. Leiden and Boston: E.J. Brill, 2010) that describes the role of the Roman army in the Christianization of the Mediterranean world, and has also appeared in a History Channel documentary entitled Secrets of Christianity, Episode 5: Selling Christianity).

TALLY, REBECCA PH.D.

	TALLY, REBECCA PH.D. (Associate Professor of History)
	Room C459R	718.349.4032	rtally@lagcc.cuny.edu

Political Science

BLAGOJEVIC, BOJANA PH.D.

BOJANA BLAGOJEVIC PH.D.

(Professor of Political Science and Chairperson of the Social Science Department)

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Room C459W

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718.482.5799

email
bblagojevic@lagcc.cuny.edu

Biography

Bojana Blagojevic is originally from Bosnia where she spent her early teenage years in a war zone. She came to the United States after the war to pursue education. After attending a community college where she majored in Liberal Arts, International Studies, she transferred to Rutgers University and received her Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) degree in Political Science and Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) degree in Global Affairs. Prof. Blagojevic’s experiences include working as a Conflict Prevention Consultant at the United Nations Development Group Office in New York and as a receptionist and radio operator at the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Bosnia. Her research interests include causes of war, human rights, peacebuilding, and the role of sport in development and peace.

SHIPPEN, NICHOLE PH.D.

	SHIPPEN, NICHOLE PH.D. (Professor of Political Science)
	Room C-459TT	(718) 349-4085	nshippen@lagcc.cuny.edu

Biography

Nichole Marie Shippen received her Ph.D. in Political Science from Rutgers University in 2011. Prior to her employment at LaGuardiaCommunity College, she served as the Associate Director of the WaltWhitman Center for the Culture and Politics of Democracy and VisitingAssistant Professor in Political Theory during the 2011-2012 academicyear. Prior to Rutgers, she was a Visiting Assistant Professor in theWomen’s and Gender Studies Program at Ohio University where she also taught courses in political theory for the Political Science Department. Her areas of specialization include classical, modern, and contemporary political theory,the history of political thought, American political theory, American Politics,Women and Politics, Women and Public Policy, and Social Movements.She is the author of Decolonizing Time: Work, Leisure, and Freedom_ (New York: Palgrave Macmillan 2014), which reconsiders discretionary time as a measure of freedom through the concept of temporal autonomy as developed through the Aristotelian-Marxist and critical theory traditions. Her research is further enriched by the respective contributions of feminist, post-colonial, and critical race theory.

http://www.palgrave.com/page/detail/decolonizing-time-nichole-marie-shippen/?K=9781137364647

VOJVODIC, ANJA PH.D.

VOJVODIC, ANJA Ph.D.

(Lecturer and Coordinator of Political Science)

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Room C459FF

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718.482.5789

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avojvodic@lagcc.cuny.edu

Biography

Anja Vojvodic received her PhD from Rutgers University, New Brunswick in May of 2020. Her dissertation examines why some countries in Central and Eastern Europe adopt gender quotas and why some do not. Anja's academic areas of interest are women and politics, social movements, international norms and Central and Eastern Europe. After receiving a master's degree in Global Affairs from NYU in 2011, Anja received a Fulbright Fellowship to do research in Serbia. In Serbia, she completed over 15 interviews with women Parliamentarians to document their role in the gender quota adoption process in that country. Anja used this research in her dissertation and a subsequent academic publication.

Since 2018, Anja has taught at CUNY LaGuardia Community College. She teaches Global Politics and Law and Human Rights in the United States. Anja is also a proud CUNY alumna. She was a member of the first graduating class of the Macaulay Honors College at Queens College. She graduated cum laude with a degree in political science in 2005.

Psychology

BANDLAMUDI, LAKSHMI , PH.D

	BANDLAMUDI, LAKSHMI , PH.D. (Professor of Psychology)
	Room C459LL	718.482.5784	lbandlamudi@lagcc.cuny.edu

BEATY, LARA MARGARET PH.D.

	BEATY, LARA MARGARET PH.D. (Professor and Co-Director of Psychology)
	Room C459L	718.482.5796	lbeaty@lagcc.cuny.edu

Biography

Lara Beaty earned a Ph.D. in developmental psychology at the CUNY Graduate Center. Her research focuses on student-school relationships and video production as a research method and as a way to promote development. She is currently investigating the influence of research groups on student experiences and college progress through the Student Experiences Research Group (SERG). The development of critical literacy, individual and collective agency, an academic discourse, social relations, and identity, have been investigated as part of this work from a cultural-historical perspective. SERG continues to explore student experiences in the effort to understand college retention processes. She is currently a Co-Director of the Psychology Program.

BING, VANESSA PH.D.

	VANESSA BING PH.D. (Professor of Psychology)
	Room C459II	718.482.5787	vbing@lagcc.cuny.edu

Biography

Dr. Vanessa Bing holds the position of Faculty Mentor/Director of LaGuardia's Student Center for Women, and previously served as director of the Women's Center at Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY. A licensed clinical psychologist, Dr. Bing has worked in a variety of educational and clinical settings. Immediately prior to joining the faculty at LaGuardia, Dr. Bing was a supervising psychologist at the University Counseling Center at New York University, where she was also part of the adjunct faculty in the graduate applied psychology program. Dr. Bing also held staff positions at New York University Medical Center/Bellevue Hospital and the Postgraduate Center for Mental Health. Dr. Bing has published a number of articles addressing minority and gender issues in psychology and clinical practice, and has lectured extensively on the issue of trauma and domestic violence. She is a member of various professional organizations including the Association of Women in Psychology, American Psychological Association, and the New York State Psychological Association. She has also served on the Board of Directors of the New York Association of Black Psychologists. Dr. Bing received her formal training at New York University, the University of Delaware, the City University of New York (Graduate Center), and NYU Medical Center/Bellevue Hospital Center. Dr. Bing's current research interest focuses on examining the experience of intimate partner violence in women attending urban commuter colleges.

DIAZ CARDONA, REBIO PH.D.

	DIAZ CARDONA, REBIO PH.D. (Associate Professor of Psychology)
	Room C459S	718.482.5229	rcardona@lagcc.cuny.edu

EUM, KOUN PH.D.

	EUM, KOUN PH.D. (Associate Professor of Psychology)
	Room C459E	(718) 482-5627	keum@lagcc.cuny.edu

Biography

Dr. Koun Eum earned her master’s degree in Clinical Psychology from Murray State University and a Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology from the University of Florida. She completed her postdoctoral residency at the University of Texas at San Antonio Counseling Services. Clinically, she received extensive training in treating obsessive-compulsive disorder in the Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Treatment Program at the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Florida.

Before joining LaGuardia Community College, Dr. Eum was an Assistant Professor and licensed psychologist/ coordinator of diversity training and multicultural services at the Counseling and Testing Center at the University of Idaho. With her expertise in diversity and multiculturalism, she oversaw multicultural training and services, taught classes, supervised APA doctoral interns in multicultural competency, and provided expert consultation to professionals and members of the campus community regarding diversity and social justice issues at the University of Idaho.

Dr. Eum’s research interests include perfectionism, non-traditional college students, and obsessive-compulsive disorders. Her clinical interests are obsessive compulsive disorder, anxiety disorders, and mindfulness.

FRANTZ, SARAH PH.D.

	SARAH FRANTZ PH.D. (Lecturer of Psychology)
	Room C459D	(718) 482-5214	sfrantz@lagcc.cuny.edu

Biography

Sarah Frantz is originally from Fort Worth, Texas, and studied in both Texas and California before completing her undergraduate degree at Hunter College. She received her Ph.D. in Psychology from the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Her research agenda focuses on sociocultural and intergenerational influences on gender development in children. Currently, she is studying LGBTQ+parents and the ways sexual orientation and sociopolitical environment impact how parents navigate gender nonconformity in their children. Currently, she teaches General Psychology and the First Year Seminar in Psychology. She is also an advisor for LaGuardia Community College's Psychology Club.

GÖKHAN, NURPER PH.D.

	GÖKHAN, NURPER PH.D. (Professor of Psychology)
	Room C459CC	718.482.5793	ngokhan@lagcc.cuny.edu

Biography

Dr. Nurper Gökhan is a New York State licensed clinical psychologist who received her Ph.D. from Fairleigh Dickinson University, NJ in 1995. Since 2001, she has been teaching various psychology courses at LaGuardia Community College of the City University of New York. Trained in the cognitive behavioral approach, Dr. Gökhan specializes in the treatment of anxiety disorders. Her research interests include children's emotion regulation, fronto-executive processes using animal models, and creative pedagogy in teaching psychology. In recent years, she has been exploring the value of mindfulness and other contemplative practices as a therapeutic adjunct to Cognitive Behavioral Treatment, as well as a training modality for psychology students.

IMAMICHI, TOMOAKI , PH.D

	IMAMICHI, TOMOAKI , PH.D. (Associate Professor of Psychology)
	Room C459T	718.482.5618	timamichi@lagcc.cuny.edu

Biography

Dr. Imamichi has received his PhD from the CUNY Graduate Center in Environmental Psychology.At LaGuardia Community College, he has been teaching General Psychology, Environmental Psychology (Urban Studies), and Social Psychology (Capstone).His research interests include environmental competence, specifically how people deal with challenging tasks and environments (such as newcomers adjusting to their new environments and marathoners preparing for and running a marathon) and the links of health/well-being, environmental justice, and sustainability.

Dr. Imamichi has served as the mentor of Researchers in Student Environments (RiSE), the mentor of Japanese heritage language scholars of the Luce Project, and the mentor of Psi Beta (Community College National Honor in Psychology).

https://lagcc-cuny.digication.com/tomo_imamichi/Welcome/

PIERRE-LOUIS, JOANNE PH.D.

	PIERRE-LOUIS, JOANNE PH.D. (Professor of Psychology)
	Room C-459H	718.482.6017	jopierre@lagcc.cuny.edu

PODLUCKÁ, DUŠANA PH.D.

	PODLUCKÁ, DUŠANA PH.D. (Associate Professor of Psychology)
	Room C459DD	(718) 349-4037	dpodlucka@lagcc.cuny.edu

SHOHAT, LILY PH.D.

	SHOHAT, LILY PH.D. (Professor and Coordinator of Psychology)
	Room C-459AA	718.482.5797	lilys@lagcc.cuny.edu

Biography

Dr. Shohat received her Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology from Columbia University. She also received training in clinical psychology at the Postgraduate Center for Mental Health for two years. She joined the faculty of this college in 1985. She taught different courses in the discipline of psychology: General Psychology, Developmental Psychology I & ll, Abnormal Psychology, Personality and Group Dynamics. Over the years she served on and chaired many different committees. She has served as the Chair of the Social Science Department for six terms.

SILVERMAN, LISA PH.D.

SILVERMAN, LISA PH.D. (Associate Professor and Co-Director of Psychology)

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Room C-459P

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718.349.4086

email
lsilverman@lagcc.cuny.edu

Biography

Dr. Lisa Silverman received an A.B. in Psychology from Harvard University and a Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology from New York University. In her research, she examines contextual and sociocultural influences on development, acknowledging that both micro and macro level contexts shape individuals. Her more specific interests include exploring the connections between individuals’ relationships and their school experiences. For instance, Dr. Silverman has investigated the ways that family and peer contexts relate to friendship quality, social adjustment to school, and academic efficacy. While most of her research has focused on the experience of urban adolescents, Dr. Silverman has recently begun exploring issues that are more pertinent to emerging adults. She serves as Co-director for the Psychology Program and Faculty Mentor for the Psychology Club.

VIANNA, EDUARDO PH.D.

	VIANNA, EDUARDO PH.D. (Professor of Psychology)
	Room C-459GG	718.482.6043	evianna@lagcc.cuny.edu

Biography

Eduardo Vianna earned a Ph.D. in developmental psychology at the CUNY-Graduate Center in 2007. Drawing on Vygotskian cultural-historical activity theory, his research and publications focus on connecting teaching-learning and development to promote social justice and development among underprivileged groups. He received an M.D. in 1991 from the Federal Fluminense University in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In 1995, he completed his residency in Child Psychiatry, during which he became interested in studying and promoting human development from a cultural-historical perspective. In 2009 his book Collaborative Transformations in Foster Care: Teaching-learning as a developmental tool in a residential program was published.

Urban Studies Sociology

BARANY, DARREN PH.D.

	BARANY, DARREN PH.D. (Professor of Sociology)
	Room C459M	(718) 349-4089	dbarany@lagcc.cuny.edu

Biography

Darren Barany earned his PhD from the CUNY Graduate Center and his MPA from Columbia University. His research covers how social position, poverty, policy, and inequality are mediated by ideology and draws from political sociology, political economy, policy analysis, feminism, critical theory, and cultural studies. Dr. Barany’s new book, The New Welfare Consensus: Ideological, Political, and Social Origins (https://bit.ly/2xP4NhW), explores the origins of American antiwelfarism. He argues that it is rooted in conservative ideology but is now generally normalized across major sectors of US politics. The work and political engagement of antiwelfarist intellectuals and policy planning groups, along with the corresponding social conditions, facilitated the emergence of a new policy consensus that was more conservative, fiscally austere, demeaning, and coercive, culminating in the 1996 Welfare Reform Bill (PRWORA). A couple months after the 2016 general election, Professor Barany’s work addressed Donald Trump's political ascent by revisiting WWII-era research on authoritarianism and contemplating the economic and political landscapes of powerlessness and despair in American society. Professor Barany has taught at Pace University, The New York City College of Technology, John Jay College, and Dutchess Community College.

BASTAS, HARA PH.D.

	BASTAS, HARA PH.D. (Associate Professor and Coordinator of Sociology)
	Room C459O	718.482.5222	hbastas@lagcc.cuny.edu

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As part of the Social Science department, Dr. Bastas blends social scientific analysis with social action to support her teaching and research areas in the sociology of children & youth, gender, and human rights/children’s rights/girls rights. With a Master’s in women’s studies (Minnesota State University, Mankato) and a PhD in sociology (University of Cincinnati), hara's dissertation of “Girls’ Rights: An Insight into the UN from 1995-2010” focused on the development of girls’ rights within the United Nations using a feminist human rights framing analysis. Dr. Bastas serves as the lead delegate for the United Nations from the NGO Sociologists for Women in Society and is actively involved in sociological and women’s studies professional organizations. Dr. Bastas also serves CUNY through Faculty Council and Professional Staff Congress.

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BOUDON, DANIEL PH.D.

	BOUDON, DANIEL PH.D. (Lecturer of Sociology)
	Room C459k	(718) 482-5692	dboudon@lagcc.cuny.edu

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Daniel Boudon, Ph.D. is a sociologist with specializations in qualitative research methods, critical pedagogy, and social justice. A first-generation working-class student and educator, Dr. Boudon has been teaching courses in sociology for nearly two decades. With a commitment to engaging and challenging students, Dr Boudon acts as a partner and mentor to create opportunities for student empowerment. As a researcher he studies the college classroom and conducts qualitative research on the relationship between faculty interpretations of "justice" and student outcomes with a focus on activism. Dr. Boudon earned his M.S.Ed. at Hofstra University focusing on critical anti-racist education and social reproduction in public schools. He continued his graduate studies in advanced research methods at the University of Notre Dame and completed his Ph.D. at Arizona State University where he was awarded the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College Dissertation Fellowship.

LANG, STEVEN PH.D.

	LANG, STEVEN PH.D. (Professor of Sociology)
	Room C459J	718.482.6090	slang@lagcc.cuny.edu

MARTINEZ, ARIANNA PH.D.

	MARTINEZ, ARIANNA PH.D. (Professor of Sociology)
	Room C-459MM	718.482.5961	amartinez@lagcc.cuny.edu

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Arianna Martinez is a Professor of Urban Studies at LaGuardia Community College. She received her PhD from Rutgers University in urban planning and geography. She has analyzed the criminalization of Latino immigrant communities in municipalities where both space and citizenship are hotly contested. Martinez’s current scholarship focuses on national immigration policy, the urban transformation and empowerment of Latino communities, and LGBTQ immigrant enclaves. She is happy to call Queens her home.

MICHELLO, JANET PH.D.

	MICHELLO, JANET PH.D. (Associate Professor of Sociology, and Advisement Liaison for Social Science)
	Room C-459PP	718.482.5798	jmichell@lagcc.cuny.edu

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Janet Michello has been teaching social science courses at LaGuardia for over 20 years. Prior to that she taught at Wayne College, the branch campus of the University of Akron, where she was awarded a doctorate with a specialty in medical sociology. She is author of a number of publications and she is co-author of the text, A Sociology of Mental Illness. She is currently working on an urban sociology text. Dr. Michello resides in Rockland County where she is actively involved in community organizations.

RODRIGUEZ, MIGUELINA PH.D.

	RODRIGUEZ, MIGUELINA PH.D. (Lecturer of Sociology)
	Room C459N	718.482.5496	migrodriguez@lagcc.cuny.edu

WELCOME, HENRY ALEXANDER PH.D.

WELCOME, HENRY ALEXANDER PH.D. (Associate Professor of Sociology)

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