Faculty & Staff - Urban Studies

Full-Time Faculty

Dwayne Baker

Assistant Professor/Environmental Studies Advisor/Urban Planning Advisor

PhD, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Urban planning, transportation planning, GIS, neighborhood change, gentrification/displacement, Transit-Oriented Developments

Office: Powdermaker Rm. 250
Email: dwayne.baker@qc.cuny.edu

Sherry Baron

Professor

MD, Case Western Reserve University

MPH, University of Illinois at Chicago

Environmental public health, immigrant public health, and workers’ health and safety

Office: Remsen Hall Rm. 311
Telephone: (718) 670-4193
Email: sherry.baron@qc.cuny.edu

Padmini Biswas

Lecturer/Labor Studies Advisor

PhD, Columbia University

Diversity, equity, inclusion, migration studies

Office: Powdermaker Hall, 250F
Telephone: (718) 997-5130
Email: padmini.biswas@qc.cuny.edu

Melissa Checker

Professor & Chair

PhD, New York University

U.S. social movements, race, class and ethnicity in the U.S., urban environmentalism, environmental justice, climate justice

Office: Powdermaker Rm. 250
Telephone: (718) 997 5148
Email: mchecker@qc.cuny.edu

Dana-Ain Davis

Professor

PhD, Graduate Center, City University of New York

Urban anthropology, gender, race, public policy, participatory action research, Black Studies, feminist theory

Office: Center for the Study of Women and Society, CUNY Graduate Center
Email: dana.davis@qc.cuny.edu

Maggie Dickinson

Associate Professor/Cities & Social Medicine Advisor

PhD, Graduate Center, City University of New York

Urban food systems, hunger, food policy, race, class, gender, and the politics of redistribution

Office: Powdermaker 250M
Email: maggie.dickinson@qc.cuny.edu

Eric Goldfischer

Lecturer/Urban Studies Advisor/Service Learning Coordinator

PhD, University of Minnesota

Homelessness, Policing, Green Development, Participatory Action-Research, Community Organizing, Popular Education

Office: Powdermaker 250H
Email: eric.goldfischer@qc.cuny.edu

Martin Hanlon

Associate Professor

PhD, Columbia University

Public management, workforce issues, transportation policy

Office: Powdermaker Rm. 250
Telephone: (718) 997 5131
Email: martin.hanlon@qc.cuny.edu

Madhulika Khandelwal

Associate Professor

PhD, Carnegie Mellon University

Asian-American communities, South Asian diaspora. Director, Asian/American Center

Office: Powdermaker Rm. 251B
Telephone: (718) 997 3050
Email: madhulika.khandelwal@qc.cuny.edu

Do Lee

Assistant Professor

PhD, Graduate Center, City University of New York

(im)mobilities; environmental psychology; participatory action research; critical race, class, gender, and migration

Office: Powdermaker Rm. 250
Email: do.lee@qc.cuny.edu

Erin Lilli

Substitute Lecturer

PhD, CUNY Graduate Center

urban housing, political economy of gentrification, public space, critical race studies, neoliberalism, social movements and resistance, place identity and place attachment

Erin.Lilli@qc.cuny.edu

Jeff Maskovsky

Professor

PhD, Temple University

Urban ethnography; social movements; difference and inequality

Office: Department of Anthropology, CUNY Graduate Center
Email: jmaskovsky@gc.cuny.edu

Soniya Munshi

Associate Professor/Director, CETLL (Center for Excellence in Teaching, Learning, and Leadership)

PhD, CUNY Graduate Center

Illness and disability; healthcare policy and access; reproductive justice; Asian American diasporas; feminist theories and methodologies; critical pedagogies

Office: Kiely 111
Email: Soniya.Munshi@qc.cuny.edu

Patricia Price

Interim Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs

PhD, University of Washington

Borders, exile, place, Latinx civic engagement, DEI, higher ed leadership

Office: Kiely 1103-B
Email: Patricia.Price@qc.cuny.edu

Alan Takeall

Lecturer/MA in Urban Affairs Advisor

PhD, Graduate Center, City University of New York

Race & ethnicity; social inequality; urban sociology; urban education

Office: Powdermaker Rm. 250

Email: alan.takeall@qc.cuny.edu

James Vacca

Distinguished Lecturer/Urban Studies Club Advisor

MA, Queens College, City University of New York

New York City politics; public Administration; community engagement; municipal service delivery; non-profit management.

Office: Powdermaker Rm. 251B
Email: profjvacca@aol.com

Natalie Bump Vena

Assistant Professor

JD, PhD, Northwestern University

Environmental law and policy; volunteerism; urban protected lands

Office: Powdermaker Rm. 250
Email: natalie.vena@qc.cuny.edu

Faculty Emeriti

Tarry Hum

Professor

PhD, University of California, Los Angeles

Urban planning, immigrant urbanism, community economic development

Office: Powdermaker Rm. 250
Telephone: (718) 997 5124
Email: tarry.hum@qc.cuny.edu

Ronald Lawson

Professor Emeritus

Housing, Tenant Movements, Religious Movements

SondleyWriter@gmail.com

William Muraskin

Professor Emeritus

PhD, University of California, Berkeley

Social/urban history, health

Email: william.muraskin@qc.cuny.edu

Len Rodberg

Professor Emeritus

PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

New York City neighborhood data, single payer healthcare in New York State, and energy policy

Email: Leonard.Rodberg@qc.cuny.edu

Alice Sardell

Professor Emeritus

PhD, New York University

Health policy, public policy, urban and community politics

Email: alice.sardell@qc.cuny.edu

John Seley

Professor Emeritus

PhD, University of Pennsylvania

Urban planning, public policy, geography

Email: john.seley@qc.cuny.edu

Stephen Steinberg

Distinguished Professor Emeritus

PhD, University of California, Berkeley

Race, ethnicity, and immigration; urban sociology; sociology of knowledge

Email: ssteinberg1@gc.cuny.edu

Staff

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Jeanne Chan

Office Assistant

jeanne.chan@qc.cuny.edu

Amanda Sweeney

MA Program Assistant

amanda.sweeney@qc.cuny.edu