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Susan Opotow (Subprogram Head)
Luis Barrios
Tamara Buckley
Margaret Bull-Kovera
Joshua W. Clegg
William Cross
Colette Daiute
Kay Deaux
Nicholas Freudenberg
Michelle Fine
Demis Glasford
Sarit Golub
Curtis Hardin
Glen Hass
Wendy Luttrell
Maureen O'Connor
Suzanne Ouellette
Jeffrey Parsons
Vita Rabinowitz
Tracey Revenson
David Rindskopf
Margaret Rosario
Martin Ruck
Susan Saegert
Herbert Saltzstein
Kristin Sommer
Deborah Tolman
Deborah L. Vietze
Roderick Watts
Susan Opotow (Subprogram Head) 
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
Luis Barrios
Ph.D., Clinical Psychology, Carlos Albizu University
Dr. Barrios is a Board Certified Forensic Examiner and a professor of Latina/o psychology; Latin American studies; ethnic studies; qualitative research and methodology; and cultural criminology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. He is also the chair of the Department of Latin American & Latina/o Studies. Since 1988, Dr. Barrios is a columnist of El Diario La Prensa in New York City, one of the oldest Spanish newspapers in the United States.
He is the co-editor with Louis Kontos and David C. Brotherton of Gangs and Society: Alternative Perspective (2003-Columbia University); co-author with David C. Brotherton of Almighty Latin King & Queen Nation: Street Politics and the Transformation of a New York City Gang (2004-Columbia University); and co-editor with Dr. Mauro Cerbino of Otras naciones: Jóvenes, transnacionalismo y exclusión. Quito: Ecuador: Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales. Dr. Barrios is also the author of Josconiando: Dimensiones Sociales y políticas de la espiritualidad (2000-Editorial Aguiar), Pitirreando: De la desesperanza a la esperanza (2004-Editorial Edil) and Coquiando: Meditaciones subversivas para un mundo mejor (2008-Editorial Búho).
Current research projects include work on people deported from the USA with particular focus on psychosocial trauma; the transnationalization of street gangs; and the socio-historical and cultural contemporary perspectives of life in the Dominican-Haitian Border.
In addition, Fr. Barrios is an associate priest at St. Mary's Episcopal Church in West Harlem. Luis Barrios is a community activist, a priest activist and a faculty activist.
View Dr. Barrios' CV: lbarrios.doc
e: lbarrios@jjay.cuny.edu
Ph.D., Clinical Psychology, Carlos Albizu University
Dr. Barrios is a Board Certified Forensic Examiner and a professor of Latina/o psychology; Latin American studies; ethnic studies; qualitative research and methodology; and cultural criminology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. He is also the chair of the Department of Latin American & Latina/o Studies. Since 1988, Dr. Barrios is a columnist of El Diario La Prensa in New York City, one of the oldest Spanish newspapers in the United States.
He is the co-editor with Louis Kontos and David C. Brotherton of Gangs and Society: Alternative Perspective (2003-Columbia University); co-author with David C. Brotherton of Almighty Latin King & Queen Nation: Street Politics and the Transformation of a New York City Gang (2004-Columbia University); and co-editor with Dr. Mauro Cerbino of Otras naciones: Jóvenes, transnacionalismo y exclusión. Quito: Ecuador: Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales. Dr. Barrios is also the author of Josconiando: Dimensiones Sociales y políticas de la espiritualidad (2000-Editorial Aguiar), Pitirreando: De la desesperanza a la esperanza (2004-Editorial Edil) and Coquiando: Meditaciones subversivas para un mundo mejor (2008-Editorial Búho).
Current research projects include work on people deported from the USA with particular focus on psychosocial trauma; the transnationalization of street gangs; and the socio-historical and cultural contemporary perspectives of life in the Dominican-Haitian Border.
In addition, Fr. Barrios is an associate priest at St. Mary's Episcopal Church in West Harlem. Luis Barrios is a community activist, a priest activist and a faculty activist.
View Dr. Barrios' CV: lbarrios.doc
e: lbarrios@jjay.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.
Dr. Buckley's CV is coming soon...
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.
Dr. Buckley's CV is coming soon...
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
Joshua W. Clegg
Ph.D., Psychology, Clark University
Most recently, Dr. Clegg's research has focused on assessing sustainable behavior in institutional contexts, research that is part of a larger proposed project investigating messaging and tailoring strategies for grass-roots sustainability work. Previous research focused on understanding socially alienated life experiences – both in the broad biographical sense and in the more narrow sense of proximal relational processes. Dr. Clegg's research is epistemologically pluralistic but not eclectic – that is, multi-method, without being theoretically agnostic – a reflection of his abiding interest in philosophy of social science. Dr. Clegg continues to do work applying historical analysis and continental, post-modern, and post-critical philosophies to research methods and theories in Psychology. This work is influenced by phenomenology and dialogism (and other related traditions), and most particularly by the writings of Emmanuel Levinas and Mikhail Bakhtin.
e: jclegg@jjay.cuny.edu
Ph.D., Psychology, Clark University
Most recently, Dr. Clegg's research has focused on assessing sustainable behavior in institutional contexts, research that is part of a larger proposed project investigating messaging and tailoring strategies for grass-roots sustainability work. Previous research focused on understanding socially alienated life experiences – both in the broad biographical sense and in the more narrow sense of proximal relational processes. Dr. Clegg's research is epistemologically pluralistic but not eclectic – that is, multi-method, without being theoretically agnostic – a reflection of his abiding interest in philosophy of social science. Dr. Clegg continues to do work applying historical analysis and continental, post-modern, and post-critical philosophies to research methods and theories in Psychology. This work is influenced by phenomenology and dialogism (and other related traditions), and most particularly by the writings of Emmanuel Levinas and Mikhail Bakhtin.
e: jclegg@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
Michelle Fine 
PhD, Social Psychology, Teachers College, Columbia University
Dr. Fine served as chair of the Social/Personality Psychology Program during the 2008-2011 academic years. For the past 20 years, Dr. Fine has been engaged in varied critical participatory research projects, across diverse contexts including schools, communities and prisons, to document, interrupt and organize for just alternatives to injustice. The intellectual history of this work sits in the social psychological legacy of Kurt Lewin, W.E.B. DuBois and Marie Jahoda, Ignacio Martin Baro. Crafted in critical race, feminist, neo-liberal and post-colonial theory and through critical participatory methods, these projects are designed toward critical theoretical interventions, to produce social policy/amicus briefs and "to be of use" in social movements for human rights.
A Distinguished Professor of Social Psychology, Women's Studies and Urban Education at the GC, Dr. Fine has taught at the Graduate Center, CUNY since 1992 and is a founding member of the Participatory Action Research Collective/Public Science Project at the Graduate Center. From 1981 – 1992, she was a member of the Human Development faculty at the University of Pennsylvania and since that time has had the privilege of teaching (and mostly learning) in New Zealand, Cyprus, China, Israel/Palestine, Canada and Turkey.
View Dr. Fine's CV: mfine.pdf
e: mfine@gc.cuny.edu
PhD, Social Psychology, Teachers College, Columbia University
Dr. Fine served as chair of the Social/Personality Psychology Program during the 2008-2011 academic years. For the past 20 years, Dr. Fine has been engaged in varied critical participatory research projects, across diverse contexts including schools, communities and prisons, to document, interrupt and organize for just alternatives to injustice. The intellectual history of this work sits in the social psychological legacy of Kurt Lewin, W.E.B. DuBois and Marie Jahoda, Ignacio Martin Baro. Crafted in critical race, feminist, neo-liberal and post-colonial theory and through critical participatory methods, these projects are designed toward critical theoretical interventions, to produce social policy/amicus briefs and "to be of use" in social movements for human rights.
A Distinguished Professor of Social Psychology, Women's Studies and Urban Education at the GC, Dr. Fine has taught at the Graduate Center, CUNY since 1992 and is a founding member of the Participatory Action Research Collective/Public Science Project at the Graduate Center. From 1981 – 1992, she was a member of the Human Development faculty at the University of Pennsylvania and since that time has had the privilege of teaching (and mostly learning) in New Zealand, Cyprus, China, Israel/Palestine, Canada and Turkey.
View Dr. Fine's CV: mfine.pdf
e: mfine@gc.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-Directs 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 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-Directs 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 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
Wendy Luttrell
PhD, Sociology, University of California, Santa Cruz
Wendy Luttrell has recently been appointed Professor in the Ph.D. Program in Urban Education, and comes to the Graduate Center from the Harvard Graduate School of Education where she held the Nancy Pforzheimer Aronson Chair in Human Development and Education. She is a leading authority on how urban American schooling shapes and reinforces beliefs about gender, race, class, identity, knowledge, and power. Her research focuses on how systems of inequality get internalized, especially by learners who have been marginalized, excluded or stigmatized. Luttrell has designed innovative visual method that offer research participants an active role in representing their worlds, as they understand them, and that illuminate complex social, cultural and psychological processes. She is the author of two award winning books, School-smart and Mother-wise: Working-Class Women's Identity and Schooling (1997), and Pregnant Bodies, Fertile Minds: Gender, Race and the Schooling of Pregnant Teens (2003). She is the editor the newly released volume Qualitative Educational Research: Readings on Reflexive Methodology and Transformative Practice (2009). Her current project, Children Framing Childhoods, follows thirty-four diverse, low-income (mostly immigrant) children from elementary school to high school and identifies the role that gender, race and immigrant status play in how they portray their social and emotional worlds. Dr. Lutrrell has been awarded numerous fellowships including the American Council of Learned Societies, Rockefeller Foundation, Spencer Foundation and a Marie Curie Fellowship Award of the World Egalitarian Initiative, University College Dublin.
View Dr. Luttrell's CV: wluttrell.pdf
e: wluttrell@gc.cuny.edu
PhD, Sociology, University of California, Santa Cruz Wendy Luttrell has recently been appointed Professor in the Ph.D. Program in Urban Education, and comes to the Graduate Center from the Harvard Graduate School of Education where she held the Nancy Pforzheimer Aronson Chair in Human Development and Education. She is a leading authority on how urban American schooling shapes and reinforces beliefs about gender, race, class, identity, knowledge, and power. Her research focuses on how systems of inequality get internalized, especially by learners who have been marginalized, excluded or stigmatized. Luttrell has designed innovative visual method that offer research participants an active role in representing their worlds, as they understand them, and that illuminate complex social, cultural and psychological processes. She is the author of two award winning books, School-smart and Mother-wise: Working-Class Women's Identity and Schooling (1997), and Pregnant Bodies, Fertile Minds: Gender, Race and the Schooling of Pregnant Teens (2003). She is the editor the newly released volume Qualitative Educational Research: Readings on Reflexive Methodology and Transformative Practice (2009). Her current project, Children Framing Childhoods, follows thirty-four diverse, low-income (mostly immigrant) children from elementary school to high school and identifies the role that gender, race and immigrant status play in how they portray their social and emotional worlds. Dr. Lutrrell has been awarded numerous fellowships including the American Council of Learned Societies, Rockefeller Foundation, Spencer Foundation and a Marie Curie Fellowship Award of the World Egalitarian Initiative, University College Dublin.
View Dr. Luttrell's CV: wluttrell.pdf
e: wluttrell@gc.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
Suzanne Ouellette
PhD, Psychology, The University of Chicago
Dr. Ouellette's research interests 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. Her life study research brings Dr. Ouellette to contexts like community based HIV/AIDS organizations, radiation clinics, artists’ studios, and public and private gardens. In all, she wants to practice what Henry Murray called a "bent of empathy and curiosity toward all profound experiences of individual men and women." Through work with students, at the borders of the social sciences and the humanities, Dr. Ouellette seek to build a Critical and Liberatory Personality Psychology. Now emeritus, Dr. Ouellette continues to work with current and former students and research colleagues to do scholarly writing. Her primary commitment is currently to art and painting. Dr. Ouellette's website presents examples of her current work and the ways she has merged the worlds of academic psychology and art.
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
Dr. Ouellette's research interests 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. Her life study research brings Dr. Ouellette to contexts like community based HIV/AIDS organizations, radiation clinics, artists’ studios, and public and private gardens. In all, she wants to practice what Henry Murray called a "bent of empathy and curiosity toward all profound experiences of individual men and women." Through work with students, at the borders of the social sciences and the humanities, Dr. Ouellette seek to build a Critical and Liberatory Personality Psychology. Now emeritus, Dr. Ouellette continues to work with current and former students and research colleagues to do scholarly writing. Her primary commitment is currently to art and painting. Dr. Ouellette's website presents examples of her current work and the ways she has merged the worlds of academic psychology and art.
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
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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.
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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.
View Dr. Tolman's CV: dtolman.pdf
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
Roderick Watts
PhD, University of Maryland, College Park
At the broadest level my interests are in social justice and liberation studies, which I see as a transdisciplinary endeavor. Evolving from my past interest in human diversity, particularly social identity and oppression, I have over the years settled into three areas of research and practice: (1) youth sociopolitical development, (2) African American cultural-racial identity, and (3) African American men's development.
Some highlights from my recent work in these areas:
e: rwatts@gc.cuny.edu
PhD, University of Maryland, College ParkAt the broadest level my interests are in social justice and liberation studies, which I see as a transdisciplinary endeavor. Evolving from my past interest in human diversity, particularly social identity and oppression, I have over the years settled into three areas of research and practice: (1) youth sociopolitical development, (2) African American cultural-racial identity, and (3) African American men's development.
Some highlights from my recent work in these areas:
• In "Critical Consciousness: Current Status & Future Directions" My co-authors and I review recent developments in theory and empirical research on Freirian approaches to liberation. It is part of volume titled: Youth Civic Development: Work on the Cutting Edge.
• A colleague and I recently submitted a grant proposal on international youth organizing to examine, among other things, the role of social identity in the political development of young people. This follows on the heels of a study I did on the same topic with support from the Spencer Foundation.
• What is the relationship between cultural orientation, healthy development, and sociopolitical engagement? I am interested in how unique intersections of history, culture, and oppression shape social identities. I currently direct research for a national initiative to advance African culture-based rites of passage programs for African American youth.
• My current work on manhood development includes a HIV-related preventive intervention using the "critical consciousness coaching" method I developed for African American male adolescents. Based on promising findings with rural Kenyan men, the National Institutes of Health funded a colleague's intervention research study with this population.
e: rwatts@gc.cuny.edu