Relevant Faculty – CUNY Human Rights Hub

Name	Email	Title	Affiliation	Research Interests
Adeyinka M. Akinsulure-Smith	[email protected]	Professor of Psychology and Women's Studies	City College	Human Rights Investigations, Gender Crimes, Post Traumatic Stress, Secondary Traumatic Stress, Vicarious Trauma, Compassion Fatigue, Self Care, Mental Health Service Providers
George Andreopoulos	[email protected]	Professor	John Jay	International Human Rights; International Organizations
Jillian BÃ¡ez	[email protected]	Associate Professor of Africana and Puerto Rican/Latino Studies; Center for Studies on Women, CUNY Mexican Studies	Hunter College	Latinx Media and Popular Culture, Transnational Feminisms, Issues of Belonging and Citizenship
Laura Barberan Reinares	[email protected]	Professor of English and Literature	Bronx Community College	Human Trafficking, Gender Studies, Migration Studies, Human Rights, Gender-based Violence, "Comfort Women," Postcolonial Literature and Theory, Anglophone Literature, Transnational Literature
Moustafa Bayoumi	[email protected]	Professor of English	Brooklyn College	Diaspora and Racialization, Islamophobia, Refugees, War and Civil Rights
Ibrahim Bechrouri	[email protected]	Adjunct Lecturer of Sociology	John Jay College	Police and Surveillance, Effects of Counterterrorism Policies, Anti-Racism
Manu Bhagavan	[email protected]	Professor	Hunter College	Modern India; (Post)colonialism; (inter)nationalism
Kovie Biakolo	[email protected]	Independent Journalist, Writer, and Director of Arts and Culture Reporting Program	School of Journalism	Multiculturalism, Race, Gender, National Identity, and Pop Culture
Yarimar Bonilla	[email protected]	Professor of Africana and Puerto Rican/Latino Studies and Acting Director for the Center of Puerto Rican Studies	Hunter College	Anti-Colonial Movements in French Caribbean, Digital Protest in Black Lives Matter, Politics of Recovery, Puerto Rico
Teresa A. Booker	[email protected]	Associate Professor & Department Chairperson of Africana Studies	John Jay College	Africana Studies, Ethnic Studies, Resorative Justice, Humanitarian Relief, Peacemaking
Naomi braine	[email protected]	Professor	Brooklyn College	reproductive justice, drug policy in US and Latin America, gender and sexuality, social movements.
Rebecca Bratspies	[email protected]	Founding Director of the Center for Urban Environmental Reform	School of Law	Environmental justice, Regulation of New Agricultural Technologies, Right to Healthy Environment
Jacqueline N. Brown	[email protected]	Associate Professor of Anthropology	Hunter College	Diasporic Subjectivities, Race, Space and Place, Transnationalism and the Local, Black Identities, Britain
Anthony Browne	[email protected]	Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Africana and Puerto Rican/Latino Studies	Hunter College	Black Diasporic Communities, Poverty, Gentrification, Africana Sociology and Second Generation Immigrants; Power/Race/Policy
Michael Buckley	[email protected]	Associate Professor of Philosophy; Director, Center for Human Rights and Peace Studies	Lehman College	Social Justice, Transitional Justice, Global Justice, HR and Business
David Caicedo	[email protected]	Associate Professor	Borough of Manhattan Community College	Latino/a experience in the U.S., including Latino/a demographic patterns in the Tri-State area, immigration, public opinion
Jean Carmalt	[email protected]	Assistant Professor of Political Science and Environmental Studies	John Jay College and EES at GC	Geography, International Law and Society, Right to Health, Environmental Disasters
Kathleen Cravero	[email protected]	Distinguished Lecturer, Co-Director, Center for Immigrant, Refugee and Global Health	School of Public Health	Global Migrant Health Policies, Ending Violence Against Women and Children, Multi-lateral Organizations, Philanthropy in International Development
Bruce Cronin	[email protected]	Professor of Political Science	GC, City College	International Relations; Civilian/Casualties of War; Humanitarian Intervention Issues
Jessie Daniels	[email protected]	Professor of Sociology	Hunter College	Race, Technology, Racism
Sarah Danielsson	[email protected]	Professor of History; Executive Director of the CUNY Academy	Queensborough; GC	Intellectual History of Mass Violence; Genocide and Human Rights; Nationalism
Lisa Davis	[email protected]	Associate Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Human Rights & Gender Justice Clinic	School of Law	International Human Rights, Gender Justice, LGBTQ+ rights, Peacebuilding and Security
Luca Falciola	[email protected]	Assistant Professor	CCNY and Columbia University	social movements, political radicalism, political violence and terrorism, legal activism
Els De Graauw	[email protected]	Professor	Baruch College	immigration, civil society organizations, urban politics, government bureaucracies, public policy, and qualitative research methods
James De Lorenzi	[email protected]	Associate Professor of History	John Jay College	Counterinsurgency and the International System, Colonial Violence in Ethiopia, Historical Theory, Microhistory, Orientalism and Anthropology, History of Orientalism/Imperialism
Michal Dekel	[email protected]	Distinguished Professor, CCNY Department of English; Director, The Rifkind Center for Humanities & the Arts	City College	Autobiography and Memoir; Class, Culture, and Politics; Refugees; Global/Immigrant Literature; Literary Theory
Jane Marcus-Delgado	[email protected]	Professor	College of Staten Island	reproductive justice, Latin American politics, gender-based politics, social movements and global challenges to democracy
Marc Edelman	[email protected]	Professor of Anthropology	Hunter and GC	Agrarian Issues, Social Movements, Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, Peasants' Rights
Nina Rose Fischer	[email protected]	Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies	John Jay College	Critical Race, Class and Gender Analyses, Interventions with Youth in the Juvenile Justice System
Jennifer Gaboury	[email protected]	Lecturer and Advisor of Political Science/Women & Gender Studies	Hunter College	Masculinities, Feminisms, Politics, Race and Sex Segregation, LGBTQ+ Rights
Alyshia GÃ¡lvez	[email protected]	Professor/Acting Chair	Department of Latin American and Latino Studies, Lehman College; Faculty, Doctoral Program in Anthropology, Graduate Center of the City University of New York	Migration, food justice, Health
Tami Gold	[email protected]	Professor of Film	Hunter College	End Apartheid, Women's Rights, Trauma, War
Julie Goldscheid	[email protected]	Professor of Law	School of Law	Gender Equality, Gender-violence, Economic Equality
Stephanie Golob	[email protected]	Chair and Associate Professor of Political Science; Director, ISLA-Initiative for the Study of Latin America	Baruch College and CUNY Graduate Center	Transitional Justice, Historical Memory, International Law
Ozlem Goner	[email protected]	Associate Professor	College of Staten Island	social movements, with an attention to inter-sectional movements of the oppressed, feminist theory and movements, racial and ethnic relations, global capitalism, and qualitative research
Janet Gornick	[email protected]	Professor of Political Science and Sociology, Director of Stone Center, James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Distinguished Chair in Socio-Economic Inequality	CUNY GC	Public Policy, Comparative Social Welfare Policy, Women and Labor, Socioeconomic Inequality
Carol Gould	[email protected]	Distinguished Professor, Director of the Center for Global Ethics and Politics at the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies	GC, Hunter	Democratic Theory; Human Rights and Global Justice; Feminist Theory
Diana Barbara Greenwald	[email protected]	Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science	City College	State and institutions; politics in Middle East and North Africa; Palestinian politics
Thomas Halper	[email protected]	Professor	Baruch College	foreign policy, health care, popular culture, urban politics, political theory, and, especially recently, the Supreme Court and constitutional law
John Hammond	[email protected]	Professor of Sociology	Hunter College	Human Rights and Warfare, Methods, Occupy Wall Street, Latin American Left, Brazillian Landless Farmworkers
Dâ€™Weston Haywood	[email protected]	Associate Professor of History	Hunter College	African American History, Black Masculinities, Cultural and Political History, Race and Gender Studies, Black Civil Rights, Hip-Hop, Racial Justice, Black Protest Movements
Chaumtoli Huq	[email protected]	Associate Professor of Law	School of Law	Labor and Employment, Human Rights, Advocacy
Susan Kang	[email protected]	Associate Professor of Political Science	John Jay College	Unions, Civil Society, Economic and Social Rights, International Political Economy, International Law, Human Rights
Ramzi Kassem	[email protected]	Professor of Law, Founding Director of the CLEAR Project & Clinic	School of Law	Social movements, Civil rights, Critical Security Studies
RaphaÃ«lle Khan	[email protected]	Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science	City College	International Relations; International & Global History
Marina Kumskova	[email protected]	Associate Professor of Political Science	John Jay College	Civil Society, Peacebuilding, Advocacy, Peace and Security, Gender, Counterterrorism
Donna Hae Kyun Lee	[email protected]	Professor of Law	School of Law	Family Law, Criminal Law, Partner Violence, Asian American Women, Gender and Law, Domestic Violence
Ke Li	[email protected]	Assistant Professor of Political Science	John Jay College	State Law, Power, Inequality, China, Violence against Medical Professionals
Jamie Longazel	[email protected]	Associate Professor of Political Science	John Jay College	Race and Political Economy in Immigration
Christopher Loperena	[email protected]	Assistant Professor of Anthropology	CUNY GC	Indigenous and Black Territorial Struggles, Land, Ethnicality and Subject Formation, Socio-spatial Politics of Economic Development in Honduras
Howard Lune	[email protected]	Associate Professor of Sociology	Hunter College	Collective Action, Organizational Fields, Community and Grassroots Organizing, Collective Identity
Nerve Macaspac	[email protected]	Assistant Professor of Geography; Graduate Faculty Earth and Environmental Sciences	CUNY GC and College of Staten Island	Peace and Conflict, Peacebuilding, Social Movements, Human Rights, Spatial Ethnography, Urban Humanities, Digital Geographies, Critical GIS, Urban Geography, Political Geography, Southeast Asia
Logan McBride	[email protected]	Distinguished Lecturer of History	Macaulay Honors College	Origins of Mass Incarceration
Kimberley Mckinson	[email protected]	Assistant Professor of Anthropology	John Jay College	Urban Residential In/Security, Material Culture, Caribbean Slavery and Postcoloniality, Critical Black Historiography
Uday Singh Mehta	[email protected]	Distinguished Professor of Philosophy	CUNY GC	Freedom and Imagination, Colonialism, Empire, War, Peace, Nonviolence
Ricardo Miranda	[email protected]	Associate Professor and Chair of Film & Media Studies; Chair of the PSC CUNY Faculty Award for Art, Art History and Communication Sciences	Hunter College	Immigration, Discrimination, Gentrification, Globalization, Populism and Critical Perspectives
Alexandra Moffett-Batteau	[email protected]	Assistant Professor of Political Science	John Jay College	Spatial and Aesthetic Realities, Residential Neighborhoods, Political Identity Development, Ethnography
Aaron Morrison	[email protected]	Adjunct Professor of Reporting and Writing	School of Journalism	Race, Civil Rights, Criminal Justice Reform, Grassroots Social Movements
Dirk Moses	[email protected]	Anne and Bernard Spitzer Professor of International Relations	City College	Genocide, Human Rights, International Relations, Atrocity Crimes, Crimes Against Humanity, War Crimes.
Jessica Neuwirth	[email protected]	Distinguished Lecturer and Rita E. Hauser Director, Human Rights Program	Hunter College	Women's Rights, ERA Coalition
Mojúbàolú Olúfúnké Okome	[email protected]	Professor	Brooklyn College	Youth Empowerment, Gender, Democracy and Citizenship in Africa; Governance, Development and Democracy in Africa; Effects of Globalization, Post-Colonialism, and Modernity on Economic and Political Transformation; and African Diaspora Studies
Rupal Oza	[email protected]	Professor of Women and Gender Studies and Geography	Hunter College	Socio-Political Transformations in the Global South, Geography of Right-Wing Politics, Gender, Violence, Political Economy
Edward Paulino	[email protected]	Assistant Professor of History	John Jay College	Race, Genocide, Borders, Nation-building, Latin America and the Caribbean, African Diaspora, NY History
Michael Pfeifer	[email protected]	Professor of History	John Jay College	Collective Violence, Criminal Justice, american Catholicism, Orchestral Performance, Russia-America Relations
Diana Romero	[email protected]	Associate Professor of Community Health and Social Sciences	School of Public Health	Reproductive, Sexual Health and Policy; Social Welfare Policies, Racial/Ethnic Health Disparities
Jill Rosenthal	[email protected]	Assistant Professor of History	Hunter College	19th and 20th century African History, History Humanitarian and International Aid, History of Refugee Migration in Africa, Violence and Healing
Christa Salamandra	[email protected]	Professor of and Deputy Chair of Anthropology	Lehman College and the Graduate Center	Cultural anthropology focusing on the Middle East
Jillian Schwedler	[email protected]	Professor	Hunter College	Comparative Politics, Social Movements and Contentious Politics, Protest and Policing, Political Geography, Middle East, Political Islam, Ethnography and Interpretive Methods
Jeena Shah	[email protected]	Associate Professor of Law	School of Law	Previous Direct of the International Human Rights Clinic, Constitutional Rights, litigationa nd advocacy, grassroots oragnizing, racial and economic justice, immigrant and LGBTQ+ rights
James Sherry	[email protected]	Clinical Professor, Director for CUNY Immigrant Refugee and Global Health; Center for Immmigrant, Refugee and Global Health; Health Policy and Management	School of Public Health	Immigrant, Refugee and Global Health and Policy, International Health Organizations
Irina Carlota (Lotti) Silber	[email protected]	Professor and Chair, Department of Anthropology, Gender Studies and International Studies	City College	Trauma, Post-War, El Salvador
Julia Sinitsky	[email protected]	Adjunct Lecturer of Political Science	John Jay College	Environmental Policy and Human Rights
CalvinJohn Smiley	[email protected]	Assistant Professor of Sociology	Hunter College	Social Justice, Inequality, Race Relations, Mass Incarceration and Re-entry
Cynthia Soohoo	[email protected]	Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Human Rights and Gender Justice Clinic	School of Law	Reproductive Justice, Women's Rights, Human Rights Advocacy
Victoria Stanford	[email protected]	Professor of Anthropology; Founding Director of the Center of Human Rights and Peace Studies	Lehman College	Mass Violence, Human Rights, Incarceration, Disappearance
Jill Strauss	[email protected]	Associate Professor, Speech, Communications, and Theater Arts Dept.	Borough of Manhattan Community College	Restorative Practices; Visual Interpretation of Narrativel Augmented Reality; History and Historical Conflict
Jeanne Theoharis	[email protected]	Distinguished Professor	Brooklyn College	civil rights, Black Power movements, contemporary politics of race in the United States
Erin Thompson	[email protected]	Associate Professor of Art	John Jay College	Labor Market for Looted Antiquitieies, Art Forgery, Museum Theft, Art from Detainees, Art and Crime
John Torpey	[email protected]	Professor of History and Sociology. Director of the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies	GC	Social and Critical Theory / Comparative Historical Sociology / Sociology of Religion / Political Sociology
Patricia Tovar	[email protected]	Professor of Anthropology	John Jay College	Human Rights and Gender Violence
Charlotte Walker-Said	[email protected]	Assistant Professor of History	John Jay College	Christianity, Law, and Human Rights in Cameroon and Central-West Africa, Applications of Human Rights Law, Corporate Social Responsibility in Africa
John Wallach	[email protected]	Professor Emeritus	Hunter College	History of Political Theory; Democratic Theory; Human Rights; Philosophy
Danielle Zach	[email protected]	Assistant Professor of Political Science and Human Rights	City College	Civil War, Transnational Radicalism, Forced Migration, Diaspora, Global Governance

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