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Michelle Fine (Subprogram Head)
Tamara Buckley
Margaret Bull-Kovera
William Cross
Colette Daiute
Kay Deaux
Nicholas Freudenberg
Demis Glasford
Sarit Golub
Curtis Hardin
Glen Hass
Maureen O'Connor
Susan Opotow
Suzanne Ouellette
Jeffrey Parsons
Tracey Revenson
Margaret Rosario
Martin Ruck
Susan Saegert
Herbert Saltzstein
Kristin Sommer
Deborah Tolman
Deborah L. Vietze
Michelle Fine (Subprogram Head)
PhD, Social Psychology, Teachers College, Columbia University
Dr. Fine's research has been organized through participatory action research and focuses how youth think about and contest injustice in schools, communities and prisons. She is a distinguished Professor of Social Psychology, Women’s Studies and Urban Education at the GC, has taught at CUNY since 1992 and is a founding member of the Participatory Action Research Collective at the GC. From 1981 – 1992, she was on the Human Development faculty at the University of Pennsylvania.
View Dr. Fine's CV: mfine.pdf
Recent Awards: Recent Awards: The 2008 Social Justice award from the Cross Cultural Winter Roundtable, the 2007 Willystine Goodsell Award from the American Educational Research Association, the 2005 First Annual Morton Deutsch Award, an Honorary Doctoral Degree for Education and Social Justice from Bank Street College in 2002 and the Carolyn Sherif Award from the American Psychological Association in 2001
Selected Recent Publications:
Cammarota, J. and Fine, M. (eds., 2008) Revolutionizing Education: Youth Participatory Action Research in Motion. New York: Routledge Publishers.
Sirin, S. and Fine, M. (2007) Designated Others: Muslim American Youth Negotiating Identities Post 9-11. New York: New York University Press.
Weis, L. and Fine, M. (2005) Beyond silenced voices (second edition) Albany: SUNY Press. 2006 AESA Critics’ Choice Awards (American Educational Studies Association)
Weis, L. and Fine, M. (2004) Working Method: Social justice and social research. New York: Routledge Publishers.
Fine, M., Weis, L., Pruitt, L. and Burns, A. (2004) Off white: essays on race, power and resistance. New York: Routledge Publishers.
Fine, M., Roberts, R., Torre, M. and Bloom, J., Burns, A., Chajet, L., Guishard, M. and Payne, Y. (2004) Echoes of Brown: Youth documenting and performing the legacy of Brown v. Board of Education. New York: Teachers College Press.
e: mfine@gc.cuny.edu
PhD, Social Psychology, Teachers College, Columbia University
Dr. Fine's research has been organized through participatory action research and focuses how youth think about and contest injustice in schools, communities and prisons. She is a distinguished Professor of Social Psychology, Women’s Studies and Urban Education at the GC, has taught at CUNY since 1992 and is a founding member of the Participatory Action Research Collective at the GC. From 1981 – 1992, she was on the Human Development faculty at the University of Pennsylvania.
View Dr. Fine's CV: mfine.pdf
Recent Awards: Recent Awards: The 2008 Social Justice award from the Cross Cultural Winter Roundtable, the 2007 Willystine Goodsell Award from the American Educational Research Association, the 2005 First Annual Morton Deutsch Award, an Honorary Doctoral Degree for Education and Social Justice from Bank Street College in 2002 and the Carolyn Sherif Award from the American Psychological Association in 2001
Selected Recent Publications:
Cammarota, J. and Fine, M. (eds., 2008) Revolutionizing Education: Youth Participatory Action Research in Motion. New York: Routledge Publishers.
Sirin, S. and Fine, M. (2007) Designated Others: Muslim American Youth Negotiating Identities Post 9-11. New York: New York University Press.
Weis, L. and Fine, M. (2005) Beyond silenced voices (second edition) Albany: SUNY Press. 2006 AESA Critics’ Choice Awards (American Educational Studies Association)
Weis, L. and Fine, M. (2004) Working Method: Social justice and social research. New York: Routledge Publishers.
Fine, M., Weis, L., Pruitt, L. and Burns, A. (2004) Off white: essays on race, power and resistance. New York: Routledge Publishers.
Fine, M., Roberts, R., Torre, M. and Bloom, J., Burns, A., Chajet, L., Guishard, M. and Payne, Y. (2004) Echoes of Brown: Youth documenting and performing the legacy of Brown v. Board of Education. New York: Teachers College Press.
e: mfine@gc.cuny.edu
Tamara Buckley
Ph.D., Counseling Psychology, Columbia University, Teachers College
Dr. Buckley’s research program focuses on reducing health disparities in mental and physical health among persons of color both by building knowledge about the complexity of racial and gender identity development and by introducing theoretical models for increasing individual and organizational- level multicultural competence. Dr. Buckley has received numerous awards for her research including an in-residence Visiting Scholars Fellowship at the Russell Sage Foundation (2007-2008) and the Carolyn Payton Early Career Psychology Award, from APA, Division 35, Psychology of Black Women. She is currently working on a book to be published by the Russell Sage Foundation entitled, “Talking about Race: A New Pedagogical Model for Cultural Competence” that presents a theoretical model for how to create contexts that are psychologically safe for developing multicultural competence. Dr. Buckley is currently an NIMH-funded fellow with the Hunter College Center for Community Urban Health in HIV research for the community.
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e: tamara.buckley@hunter.cuny.edu
Ph.D., Counseling Psychology, Columbia University, Teachers College
Dr. Buckley’s research program focuses on reducing health disparities in mental and physical health among persons of color both by building knowledge about the complexity of racial and gender identity development and by introducing theoretical models for increasing individual and organizational- level multicultural competence. Dr. Buckley has received numerous awards for her research including an in-residence Visiting Scholars Fellowship at the Russell Sage Foundation (2007-2008) and the Carolyn Payton Early Career Psychology Award, from APA, Division 35, Psychology of Black Women. She is currently working on a book to be published by the Russell Sage Foundation entitled, “Talking about Race: A New Pedagogical Model for Cultural Competence” that presents a theoretical model for how to create contexts that are psychologically safe for developing multicultural competence. Dr. Buckley is currently an NIMH-funded fellow with the Hunter College Center for Community Urban Health in HIV research for the community.
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e: tamara.buckley@hunter.cuny.edu
Margaret Bull-Kovera
PhD, Social Psychology, University of Minnesota
Dr. Kovera is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA), American Psychology-Law Society, and the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI). She is the Immediate Past-President of AP-LS and Associate Editor of the journal Law and Human Behavior, and incoming Secretary/Treasurer of SPSSI. Dr. Kovera is currently a Professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. For the past decade she has had continuous funding from the National Science Foundation for her research on jury decision-making and eyewitness identification. She is currently studying behavioral confirmation processes in voir dire, the effects of double-blind lineup administration on witness accuracy, and procedures to help jurors' evaluate scientific evidence
View Dr. Kovera's CV: mbullkovera.pdf
Other Affiliations:: The Innocence Project
e: mkovera@jjay.cuny.edu
PhD, Social Psychology, University of Minnesota
Dr. Kovera is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA), American Psychology-Law Society, and the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI). She is the Immediate Past-President of AP-LS and Associate Editor of the journal Law and Human Behavior, and incoming Secretary/Treasurer of SPSSI. Dr. Kovera is currently a Professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. For the past decade she has had continuous funding from the National Science Foundation for her research on jury decision-making and eyewitness identification. She is currently studying behavioral confirmation processes in voir dire, the effects of double-blind lineup administration on witness accuracy, and procedures to help jurors' evaluate scientific evidence
View Dr. Kovera's CV: mbullkovera.pdf
Other Affiliations:: The Innocence Project
e: mkovera@jjay.cuny.edu
Colette Daiute
EdD, Columbia University
Dr. Daiute is Professor of Psychology at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Dr. Daiute came to the Graduate Center in 1994, after 11 years teaching and doing research at the Harvard University. Her doctorate is from Columbia University, where she also did a post-doc from 1980 – 1983. She does research on social and cognitive development in challenging circumstances, such as urban schools and nations involved in violent conflict and political transition. As a theorist, researcher, and educator, Dr. Daiute has worked toward creating a psychological science that accounts for the interdependent development of children and society, with practice-based methods of inquiry and discourse analysis. Dr. Daiute has published widely on social development and qualitative research methods. Recent publications include several books International perspectives on youth conflict and development (Oxford University Press, 2006) and Narrative inquiry: Studying the development of individuals in society (Sage Publications, 2004), articles on international issues in child and youth development, “The rights of children, the rights of nations: Developmental theory and the politics of children’s rights” published in the Journal of Social Issues in 2008; and chapters such as “Youth and armed conflict” in the Handbook of Youth and Young Adulthood in 2009. Dr. Daiute has received numerous grants for her research; she was a Fellow at the School for International Affairs at Columbia University during her recent sabbatical and has been invited to be a visiting scholar at universities in Eastern and Western Europe, South America, and the U.S.
e: cdaiute@gc.cuny.edu
EdD, Columbia University
Dr. Daiute is Professor of Psychology at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Dr. Daiute came to the Graduate Center in 1994, after 11 years teaching and doing research at the Harvard University. Her doctorate is from Columbia University, where she also did a post-doc from 1980 – 1983. She does research on social and cognitive development in challenging circumstances, such as urban schools and nations involved in violent conflict and political transition. As a theorist, researcher, and educator, Dr. Daiute has worked toward creating a psychological science that accounts for the interdependent development of children and society, with practice-based methods of inquiry and discourse analysis. Dr. Daiute has published widely on social development and qualitative research methods. Recent publications include several books International perspectives on youth conflict and development (Oxford University Press, 2006) and Narrative inquiry: Studying the development of individuals in society (Sage Publications, 2004), articles on international issues in child and youth development, “The rights of children, the rights of nations: Developmental theory and the politics of children’s rights” published in the Journal of Social Issues in 2008; and chapters such as “Youth and armed conflict” in the Handbook of Youth and Young Adulthood in 2009. Dr. Daiute has received numerous grants for her research; she was a Fellow at the School for International Affairs at Columbia University during her recent sabbatical and has been invited to be a visiting scholar at universities in Eastern and Western Europe, South America, and the U.S.
e: cdaiute@gc.cuny.edu
Kay Deaux
PhD, Social Psychology, University of Texas at Austin
Dr. Deaux is a Distinguished Professor Emerita at the CUNY Graduate Center. Over the course of her career her research has addressed issues of gender, social identity, and immigration, the latter represented in her recent book, To Be an Immigrant (Russell Sage Foundation, 2006). In addition to her GC position, she is also a Research Affiliate at the Department of Psychology at New York University.
View Dr. Deaux's CV: kdeaux.pdf
e: kdeaux@gc.cuny.edu
PhD, Social Psychology, University of Texas at Austin
Dr. Deaux is a Distinguished Professor Emerita at the CUNY Graduate Center. Over the course of her career her research has addressed issues of gender, social identity, and immigration, the latter represented in her recent book, To Be an Immigrant (Russell Sage Foundation, 2006). In addition to her GC position, she is also a Research Affiliate at the Department of Psychology at New York University.
View Dr. Deaux's CV: kdeaux.pdf
e: kdeaux@gc.cuny.edu
Nicholas Feudenberg 
(Hunter College)
DrPh, Public Health, Columbia
MPh, Public Health, Columbia
Dr. Freudenberg is a Distinguished Professor of Public Health at Hunter College and the Graduate Center and is director of the CUNY Doctor of Public Health program. For more than 20 years, he has worked with community organizations, civic groups and government agencies to develop, implement and evaluate interventions to improve the health of disadvantaged urban communities. His current research focuses on three areas: the development of multi-level policies and programs to reduce the adverse impact of incarceration on health; environmental and policy strategies to reverse current epidemics of obesity and diabetes; and the impact on population health of corporate practices in the food, alcohol, tobacco, pharmaceutical, firearms and automobile industries.
View Dr. Freudenberg's CV: nfreudenberg.pdf
e: nfreuden@hunter.cuny.edu
(Hunter College) DrPh, Public Health, Columbia
MPh, Public Health, Columbia
Dr. Freudenberg is a Distinguished Professor of Public Health at Hunter College and the Graduate Center and is director of the CUNY Doctor of Public Health program. For more than 20 years, he has worked with community organizations, civic groups and government agencies to develop, implement and evaluate interventions to improve the health of disadvantaged urban communities. His current research focuses on three areas: the development of multi-level policies and programs to reduce the adverse impact of incarceration on health; environmental and policy strategies to reverse current epidemics of obesity and diabetes; and the impact on population health of corporate practices in the food, alcohol, tobacco, pharmaceutical, firearms and automobile industries.
View Dr. Freudenberg's CV: nfreudenberg.pdf
e: nfreuden@hunter.cuny.edu
Demis Glasford
PhD, Social Psychology, University of Connecticut
My research interests are in the areas of intergroup relations, political behavior, and prejudice-reduction. Much of my work is focused on the following topics: understanding when and why people will actively respond to information about social injustices; ways to reduce intergroup conflict/promote reconciliation; effective political and campaign messaging; the use of emotions to conduct better public diplomacy; exploring the relation between psychological needs and differing political behavior of liberals and conservative; and
understanding the individual and situational processes that lead to social change. My approach is interdisciplinary, such that I use social psychology, political psychology, and government/public policy studies to inform the investigation of individual and group behavior. Broadly, I seek to ground my research questions within the larger goal of discovering solutions to social problems, such that my research can inform domestic and foreign policy.
e: dglasford@jjay.cuny.edu
PhD, Social Psychology, University of Connecticut
My research interests are in the areas of intergroup relations, political behavior, and prejudice-reduction. Much of my work is focused on the following topics: understanding when and why people will actively respond to information about social injustices; ways to reduce intergroup conflict/promote reconciliation; effective political and campaign messaging; the use of emotions to conduct better public diplomacy; exploring the relation between psychological needs and differing political behavior of liberals and conservative; and
understanding the individual and situational processes that lead to social change. My approach is interdisciplinary, such that I use social psychology, political psychology, and government/public policy studies to inform the investigation of individual and group behavior. Broadly, I seek to ground my research questions within the larger goal of discovering solutions to social problems, such that my research can inform domestic and foreign policy.
e: dglasford@jjay.cuny.edu
Sarit Golub
PhD, Social Psychology, Harvard University
MPH, Sociomedical Science, Columbia University
Dr.Golub's laboratory investigates social, cognitive, and emotional factors that influence health, with special emphasis on the formation and maintenance of individual identity. Her research is conducted at Hunter, through the Laboratory for Applied Social Psychology and Health, and at the Center for HIV/AIDS Educational Studies and Training (CHEST), which she Co-Directx with Dr. Jeffrey Parsons. Projects include: a) integrating neuropsychological and social/behavioral approaches to understanding HIV risk-behavior; b) investigating the ways in which internal conflict (e.g. between competing desires, between personal values and perceived social norms) can impact risk-taking; and c) examining the role of immigration experiences on the health behavior and psychological wellbeing.
View Dr. Golub's CV: sgolub.pdf
Other Affiliations:: Hunter Psychology Department and CHEST
e: sarit.golub@hunter.cuny.edu
PhD, Social Psychology, Harvard University
MPH, Sociomedical Science, Columbia University
Dr.Golub's laboratory investigates social, cognitive, and emotional factors that influence health, with special emphasis on the formation and maintenance of individual identity. Her research is conducted at Hunter, through the Laboratory for Applied Social Psychology and Health, and at the Center for HIV/AIDS Educational Studies and Training (CHEST), which she Co-Directx with Dr. Jeffrey Parsons. Projects include: a) integrating neuropsychological and social/behavioral approaches to understanding HIV risk-behavior; b) investigating the ways in which internal conflict (e.g. between competing desires, between personal values and perceived social norms) can impact risk-taking; and c) examining the role of immigration experiences on the health behavior and psychological wellbeing.
View Dr. Golub's CV: sgolub.pdf
Other Affiliations:: Hunter Psychology Department and CHEST
e: sarit.golub@hunter.cuny.edu
Curtis Hardin 
(Brooklyn College)
PhD, Social-Personality Psychology, Yale University
MPhil, Social-Personality Psychology, Yale University
Dr. Hardin's research focuses on the interpersonal foundations of implicit and explicit cognition, including the self-concept, social identification, prejudice, stereotyping, and ideology.
e: cdhardin@brooklyn.cuny.edu
(Brooklyn College) PhD, Social-Personality Psychology, Yale University
MPhil, Social-Personality Psychology, Yale University
Dr. Hardin's research focuses on the interpersonal foundations of implicit and explicit cognition, including the self-concept, social identification, prejudice, stereotyping, and ideology.
e: cdhardin@brooklyn.cuny.edu
Maureen O'Connor
PhD, Psychology, Law and Policy, University of Arizona
Dr. O’Connor is the Executive Officer of Doctoral Programs in Psychology for the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and Professor and former Chair of the Psychology Department at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. Dr. O’Connor has appointments on the doctoral faculties in Forensic Psychology, Social/Personality Psychology, and Criminal Justice at the Graduate Center. Her research interests are in the intersection of psychology, gender, and law. Current projects include work on stalking and sexual harassment, with particular focus on lay and legal definitions of those concepts, and a project examining jurors’ responses to defendants raising an insanity defense. Another scholarly interest is in the use of scientific information and expert testimony in the legal system, particularly focused on gendered components of that process. She is a member of the bar in Arizona and Washington, D.C. and serves on the American Psychological Association Council of Representatives, and is active in the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues and the American Psychology/Law Society.
View Dr. O'Connor's CV: moconnor.pdf
e: moconnor@gc.cuny.edu
PhD, Psychology, Law and Policy, University of Arizona
Dr. O’Connor is the Executive Officer of Doctoral Programs in Psychology for the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and Professor and former Chair of the Psychology Department at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. Dr. O’Connor has appointments on the doctoral faculties in Forensic Psychology, Social/Personality Psychology, and Criminal Justice at the Graduate Center. Her research interests are in the intersection of psychology, gender, and law. Current projects include work on stalking and sexual harassment, with particular focus on lay and legal definitions of those concepts, and a project examining jurors’ responses to defendants raising an insanity defense. Another scholarly interest is in the use of scientific information and expert testimony in the legal system, particularly focused on gendered components of that process. She is a member of the bar in Arizona and Washington, D.C. and serves on the American Psychological Association Council of Representatives, and is active in the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues and the American Psychology/Law Society.
View Dr. O'Connor's CV: moconnor.pdf
e: moconnor@gc.cuny.edu
Susan Opotow 
PhD, Columbia University
Dr. Opotow's research concerns the social psychology of conflict and injustice. She is interested in antecedents and process of moral exclusion, when people come to see others as outside their scope of justice and therefore as eligible targets of violence, exploitation, and harm. She also examines moral inclusion, when rights and resources are extended to marginalized groups to promote social justice. Dr. Opotow studies moral exclusion and inclusion in a variety of contexts: post-war societal change, environmental degradation and protection, high school student achievement and disengagement, hating and hate crime, violence, and the post 9/11 recovery trajectory in NYC.
View Susan Opotow's CV: sopotow.pdf
e: sopotow@gc.cuny.edu
PhD, Columbia University
Dr. Opotow's research concerns the social psychology of conflict and injustice. She is interested in antecedents and process of moral exclusion, when people come to see others as outside their scope of justice and therefore as eligible targets of violence, exploitation, and harm. She also examines moral inclusion, when rights and resources are extended to marginalized groups to promote social justice. Dr. Opotow studies moral exclusion and inclusion in a variety of contexts: post-war societal change, environmental degradation and protection, high school student achievement and disengagement, hating and hate crime, violence, and the post 9/11 recovery trajectory in NYC.
View Susan Opotow's CV: sopotow.pdf
e: sopotow@gc.cuny.edu
Suzanne Ouellette
PhD, Psychology, The University of Chicago
My research interests continue to focus on personality understood not as static, genetically set traits; but rather stances toward self and world that are constantly changing as individuals live their lives in complex social, political, and cultural settings. My life study research brings me to contexts like community based HIV/AIDS organizations, radiation clinics, artists’ studios, and public and private gardens. In all, I want to practice what Henry Murray called a "bent of empathy and curiosity toward all profound experiences of individual men and women." Through work with my students, at the borders of the social sciences and the humanities, I seek to build a Critical and Liberatory Personality Psychology..
View Dr. Ouellette's brief resume: souellette.pdf
Affiliations:: GMHC, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Columbia School of Public Health
e: souellette@gc.cuny.edu
PhD, Psychology, The University of Chicago
My research interests continue to focus on personality understood not as static, genetically set traits; but rather stances toward self and world that are constantly changing as individuals live their lives in complex social, political, and cultural settings. My life study research brings me to contexts like community based HIV/AIDS organizations, radiation clinics, artists’ studios, and public and private gardens. In all, I want to practice what Henry Murray called a "bent of empathy and curiosity toward all profound experiences of individual men and women." Through work with my students, at the borders of the social sciences and the humanities, I seek to build a Critical and Liberatory Personality Psychology..
View Dr. Ouellette's brief resume: souellette.pdf
Affiliations:: GMHC, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Columbia School of Public Health
e: souellette@gc.cuny.edu
Jeffrey Parsons 
PhD, Develpomental Psychology, University of Houston
Dr. Parsons' research focuses on sexual health, HIV/AIDS, substance use, and LGBT issues. Much of his work involves qualitative and quantitative formative research designed to develop, implement, and evaluate health behavior change interventions. This work has focused on gay/bisexual men, HIV-positive populations, substance abusers, and adolescents/youth, and has been funded by the CDC and NIH. His other areas of research focus include sexual compulsivity, internet-based sex workers, and the use of the internet for recruitment and intervention delivery. Dr. Parsons has recently begun to focus on LGBT public policy issues, and is preparing to study gay male couples who are pursuing fatherhood via surrogacy.
Other Affiliation: The Center for HIV/AIDS Educational Studies and Training
e: Jeffrey.parsons@hunter.cuny.edu
PhD, Develpomental Psychology, University of Houston
Dr. Parsons' research focuses on sexual health, HIV/AIDS, substance use, and LGBT issues. Much of his work involves qualitative and quantitative formative research designed to develop, implement, and evaluate health behavior change interventions. This work has focused on gay/bisexual men, HIV-positive populations, substance abusers, and adolescents/youth, and has been funded by the CDC and NIH. His other areas of research focus include sexual compulsivity, internet-based sex workers, and the use of the internet for recruitment and intervention delivery. Dr. Parsons has recently begun to focus on LGBT public policy issues, and is preparing to study gay male couples who are pursuing fatherhood via surrogacy.
Other Affiliation: The Center for HIV/AIDS Educational Studies and Training
e: Jeffrey.parsons@hunter.cuny.edu
Tracey Revenson
PhD, Community Psychology, New York University
Dr. Revenson’s research interests include stress and coping processes among individuals, couples, and families facing chronic physical illness, the influence on supportive and non-supportive interpersonal relationships on adaptation, issues of cancer survivorship, and the influences of gender and ethnicity on health. She is the author or editor of six volumes: Handbook of Health Psychology (2001); Couples Coping with Illness (2005); A Quarter Century of Community Psychology (2002), Ecological Research to Promote Social Change (2002), Understanding Rheumatoid Arthritis (1996), and A Piaget Primer: How a Child Thinks (Penguin, 1978, 1996). She was the founding Editor of the journal, Women's Health: Research on Gender, Behavior and Policy and currently serves as an Associate Editor of the Annals of Behavioral Medicine. Dr. Revenson served as elected President of the Division of Health Psychology of the American Psychological Association in 2005.
View Dr. Revenson's CV: trevenson.pdf
Other Affiliations:: Postgraduate School of Psychology “Agstino Gemelli” - Centro studi e ricerche sulla famiglia (Centre for Family Studies & Research) - Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore - Milano-Italy, Division 38, APA, EHE Int'l, National Cancer Institute - Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS) sexual function committee, Social and Behavioral Health Laboratory - Temple University School of Public Health
e: trevenson@gc.cuny.edu
PhD, Community Psychology, New York University
Dr. Revenson’s research interests include stress and coping processes among individuals, couples, and families facing chronic physical illness, the influence on supportive and non-supportive interpersonal relationships on adaptation, issues of cancer survivorship, and the influences of gender and ethnicity on health. She is the author or editor of six volumes: Handbook of Health Psychology (2001); Couples Coping with Illness (2005); A Quarter Century of Community Psychology (2002), Ecological Research to Promote Social Change (2002), Understanding Rheumatoid Arthritis (1996), and A Piaget Primer: How a Child Thinks (Penguin, 1978, 1996). She was the founding Editor of the journal, Women's Health: Research on Gender, Behavior and Policy and currently serves as an Associate Editor of the Annals of Behavioral Medicine. Dr. Revenson served as elected President of the Division of Health Psychology of the American Psychological Association in 2005.
View Dr. Revenson's CV: trevenson.pdf
Other Affiliations:: Postgraduate School of Psychology “Agstino Gemelli” - Centro studi e ricerche sulla famiglia (Centre for Family Studies & Research) - Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore - Milano-Italy, Division 38, APA, EHE Int'l, National Cancer Institute - Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS) sexual function committee, Social and Behavioral Health Laboratory - Temple University School of Public Health
e: trevenson@gc.cuny.edu
David Rindskopf
PhD, Psychology, Iowa State University
Dr. Rindskopf is a Distinguished Professor of Educational Psychology and Psychology at the GSUC. His research interests, past and present, include research methods, program evaluation, measurement, and applied statistics. Dr. Rindskopf's research includes how to evaluate medical and psychological diagnostic indicators when a gold standard isn't available (latent class analysis), how to analyze data from small-n designs (e.g. applied behavior analysis studies), using Bayesian methods for research integration (meta-analysis), and making causal inferences in nonexperimental research.
e: drindskopf@gc.cuny.edu
PhD, Psychology, Iowa State University
Dr. Rindskopf is a Distinguished Professor of Educational Psychology and Psychology at the GSUC. His research interests, past and present, include research methods, program evaluation, measurement, and applied statistics. Dr. Rindskopf's research includes how to evaluate medical and psychological diagnostic indicators when a gold standard isn't available (latent class analysis), how to analyze data from small-n designs (e.g. applied behavior analysis studies), using Bayesian methods for research integration (meta-analysis), and making causal inferences in nonexperimental research.
e: drindskopf@gc.cuny.edu
Margaret Rosario
PhD, Psychology, NYU, Postdoc in Psychiatry, Columbia
Dr. Rosario's research interests have focused on changes in identity and its relations to health since her doctoral work on acculturation among Puerto Rican women. It has expanded to lesbian, gay, and bisexual individuals, with a focus on understanding identity development and the underlying processes that mediate (i.e., explain) or moderate (i.e., interact) the relations between identity development and mental and physical health. Relatedly, she also studies exposure to family and community violence in youth populations and its relations to health and adaptation.
View Dr. Rosario's CV: mrosario.pdf
Other Affiliations:: Associate Editor, The Journal of Sex Research
Member of Experts Panel, The Rockway Institute - A national center for LGBT psychology reseaerch, education, and public policy
e: mrosario@gc.cuny.edu
PhD, Psychology, NYU, Postdoc in Psychiatry, Columbia
Dr. Rosario's research interests have focused on changes in identity and its relations to health since her doctoral work on acculturation among Puerto Rican women. It has expanded to lesbian, gay, and bisexual individuals, with a focus on understanding identity development and the underlying processes that mediate (i.e., explain) or moderate (i.e., interact) the relations between identity development and mental and physical health. Relatedly, she also studies exposure to family and community violence in youth populations and its relations to health and adaptation.
View Dr. Rosario's CV: mrosario.pdf
Other Affiliations:: Associate Editor, The Journal of Sex Research
Member of Experts Panel, The Rockway Institute - A national center for LGBT psychology reseaerch, education, and public policy
e: mrosario@gc.cuny.edu
Susan Saegert
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Herbert Saltzstein 
PhD, Social Psychology, University of Michigan
Born in Brooklyn, Dr. Saltzstein went to Erasmus Hall high school, received his BA in Psychology from Brooklyn College, his MA from UNC and his doctorate in Social Psychology from the University of Michigan, where he worked at the Research Center for Group Dynamics, founded by students of Kurt Lewin. Later, while working as a RA on a research project on parenting and moral development, he became acquainted with and adopted a more developmental viewpoint. Dr. Saltzstein taught at MIT, Sarah Lawrence College, Lehman College and at the Graduate Center where he served as Executive Officer for 12 years. His research interests include: a) children’s and adults’ moral decision-making, especially the relative role of intuition and reasoning, b) children’s eyewitness identification and cross-race identification, c) children’s and adults’ beliefs in collective punishment in the U.S. and Japan, and d) parent-child relations, including children’s judgments of the fairness of parents. Some of his research has been done in NE Brazil. Outside passions include: politics/history, classical music and movies.
e: hsaltzstein@gc.cuny.edu
PhD, Social Psychology, University of Michigan
Born in Brooklyn, Dr. Saltzstein went to Erasmus Hall high school, received his BA in Psychology from Brooklyn College, his MA from UNC and his doctorate in Social Psychology from the University of Michigan, where he worked at the Research Center for Group Dynamics, founded by students of Kurt Lewin. Later, while working as a RA on a research project on parenting and moral development, he became acquainted with and adopted a more developmental viewpoint. Dr. Saltzstein taught at MIT, Sarah Lawrence College, Lehman College and at the Graduate Center where he served as Executive Officer for 12 years. His research interests include: a) children’s and adults’ moral decision-making, especially the relative role of intuition and reasoning, b) children’s eyewitness identification and cross-race identification, c) children’s and adults’ beliefs in collective punishment in the U.S. and Japan, and d) parent-child relations, including children’s judgments of the fairness of parents. Some of his research has been done in NE Brazil. Outside passions include: politics/history, classical music and movies.
e: hsaltzstein@gc.cuny.edu
Kristin Sommer
Ph.D., Social Psychology, Minors in Statistics and Personality, University of Toledo
Dr. Sommer’s primary research interests involve the cognitive and behavioral consequences of interpersonal rejection. She and her students are investigating the myriad ways in which self-protection motives following rejection influence perceptions of, and behaviors toward, new (non-rejecting) relationship partners. The theme underlying this work is that people seek to minimize the pain of future rejection by cognitively derogating others and dismissing the importance of relationships, while simultaneously avoiding behaviors that objectively increase the likelihood of rejection. Another interest of Dr. Sommer’s involves the psychological benefits of having an influence on others. In collaboration with Dr. Martin Bourgeois (Florida Gulf Coast University), she is seeking to understand how successful or failed social influence within the domains of conformity, persuasion, obedience, compliance and behavioral mimicry impact fundamental human needs for control, belongingness, self-esteem, meaningful existence and accuracy. Their theoretical model suggests that the perceived ability to influence others may be an important but neglected variable in the research relating interpersonal relationships to health and well-being. Dr. Sommer’s research has been funded by the National Institute of Mental Health and the National Science Foundation. She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in experimental methods and social psychology, as well as a course on research design in work organizations as part of Baruch College’s Executive Master’s Program in “Management of Human Resource and Global Leadership” in Taipei, Taiwan and Singapore.
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e: Kristin.Sommer@baruch.cuny.edu
Ph.D., Social Psychology, Minors in Statistics and Personality, University of Toledo
Dr. Sommer’s primary research interests involve the cognitive and behavioral consequences of interpersonal rejection. She and her students are investigating the myriad ways in which self-protection motives following rejection influence perceptions of, and behaviors toward, new (non-rejecting) relationship partners. The theme underlying this work is that people seek to minimize the pain of future rejection by cognitively derogating others and dismissing the importance of relationships, while simultaneously avoiding behaviors that objectively increase the likelihood of rejection. Another interest of Dr. Sommer’s involves the psychological benefits of having an influence on others. In collaboration with Dr. Martin Bourgeois (Florida Gulf Coast University), she is seeking to understand how successful or failed social influence within the domains of conformity, persuasion, obedience, compliance and behavioral mimicry impact fundamental human needs for control, belongingness, self-esteem, meaningful existence and accuracy. Their theoretical model suggests that the perceived ability to influence others may be an important but neglected variable in the research relating interpersonal relationships to health and well-being. Dr. Sommer’s research has been funded by the National Institute of Mental Health and the National Science Foundation. She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in experimental methods and social psychology, as well as a course on research design in work organizations as part of Baruch College’s Executive Master’s Program in “Management of Human Resource and Global Leadership” in Taipei, Taiwan and Singapore.
Dr. Sommer's CV is coming soon...
e: Kristin.Sommer@baruch.cuny.edu
Deborah Tolman
EdD, Human Development and Psychology, Harvard University
Dr. Tolman is newly arrived at CUNY (Spring, 2009) as a faculty member. Her primary appointment is in Social Welfare, which is the doctoral program jointly located here at the GC and at Hunter College School of Social Work. She is delighted to be putting down roots in the SP program now as well. Dr. Tolman's research is on adolescent sexuality, specifically the "unmentionables" around pleasure as well as danger, agency as well as prevention for girls. In recent years, her research has been around desire for connection as well as embodied sexual feelings for boys (all sexualities), gender (understood as ideologies) and its development, sexualization of girls and women, and how sexuality, relationships and negotiation of popular culture, youth culture and adult fears and notions are interwoven over the course of adolescence.
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e: dtolman@gc.cuny.edu
EdD, Human Development and Psychology, Harvard University
Dr. Tolman is newly arrived at CUNY (Spring, 2009) as a faculty member. Her primary appointment is in Social Welfare, which is the doctoral program jointly located here at the GC and at Hunter College School of Social Work. She is delighted to be putting down roots in the SP program now as well. Dr. Tolman's research is on adolescent sexuality, specifically the "unmentionables" around pleasure as well as danger, agency as well as prevention for girls. In recent years, her research has been around desire for connection as well as embodied sexual feelings for boys (all sexualities), gender (understood as ideologies) and its development, sexualization of girls and women, and how sexuality, relationships and negotiation of popular culture, youth culture and adult fears and notions are interwoven over the course of adolescence.
View Dr. Tolman's CV: dtolman.pdf
e: dtolman@gc.cuny.edu
Deborah L. Vietze 
PhD, Psychology, Columbia University
Dr. Vietze’s research has focused on developmental and social change across the lifespan including dissertation work on measuring early mother-infant interaction and later school performance, funded research on preventing poor health outcomes in low-income women, adolescent social networks and romantic relationships in adolescents, learning styles in gifted minority adolescents, ethnicity and child abuse, and on identity, achievement and culture in persons of African descent. Her work is now focused on developing narrative approaches to understanding Diaspora identity in persons of African descent, theories of parenting, and understanding power relationships in childhood.
View Dr. Vietze's CV: dvietze.pdf
Other Affiliations: The March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation, the American Psychological Association's Peace Division and its Minority Fellowship Program, The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, The New York City Public Health Department, The Central New Jersey Maternal and Child Health Consortium, The National Research Council of the National Academy of Science, Center for Disease Control, Save the Children USA, The Society for Research in Child Development, Action Editor, Child Development
Funders: NICHD, NIMH, Ford Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, Foundation for Child Development, Office of Education, WT Grant Foundation
e: dvietze@gc.cuny.edu; dlvietze@gmail.com
PhD, Psychology, Columbia University
Dr. Vietze’s research has focused on developmental and social change across the lifespan including dissertation work on measuring early mother-infant interaction and later school performance, funded research on preventing poor health outcomes in low-income women, adolescent social networks and romantic relationships in adolescents, learning styles in gifted minority adolescents, ethnicity and child abuse, and on identity, achievement and culture in persons of African descent. Her work is now focused on developing narrative approaches to understanding Diaspora identity in persons of African descent, theories of parenting, and understanding power relationships in childhood.
View Dr. Vietze's CV: dvietze.pdf
Other Affiliations: The March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation, the American Psychological Association's Peace Division and its Minority Fellowship Program, The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, The New York City Public Health Department, The Central New Jersey Maternal and Child Health Consortium, The National Research Council of the National Academy of Science, Center for Disease Control, Save the Children USA, The Society for Research in Child Development, Action Editor, Child Development
Funders: NICHD, NIMH, Ford Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, Foundation for Child Development, Office of Education, WT Grant Foundation
e: dvietze@gc.cuny.edu; dlvietze@gmail.com