Chair and Directors
Dr. Irina Carlota (Lotti) Silber
Professor and Chair, Department of Anthropology and Interdisciplinary Programs
o: NAC 7/112B
e:
isilber@ccny.cuny.edu
Areas of Expertise/Research
- Anthropology of Central America
- Disability Services
- Gender and Postwar
- Higher Education
- Medical Anthropology
- Migration
Dr. Sarah Muir
Associate Professor and Director, International and Global Studies
o: NAC 7/114B
e:
smuir@ccny.cuny.edu
Areas of Expertise/Research
- Ethical Evaluation
- Financial Crisis
- Political Critique
- Practical Logics of Economic Investment
- Social Class
Dr. Asale Angel-Ajani
Associate Professor and Director, Women's and Gender Studies
o: NAC 7/113B
e:
aangelajani@ccny.cuny.edu
Areas of Expertise/Research
- Drug Trafficking and Women
- Global Trends in the Incarceration and Imprisonment of Women and Girls
- Human Rights in Africa, Latin America, and Asia
- Immigration Detention
- Immigration and Refugees in Europe, Africa, and Asia
Dr. Sherrie Baver
Professor and Interim Director, Latin American and Latino Studies
o: NAC 6/108
e:
sbaver@ccny.cuny.edu
Areas of Expertise/Research
- Environmental justice in Latin America
- Environmental democracy in Latin America
Dr. Norma E. Fuentes-Mayorga (on sabbatical)
Director, Latin American and Latino Studies
o: NAC 6/108C
e:
nfuentes@ccny.cuny.edu
Areas of Expertise/Research
- Women-led Migration
- Sorting of brown and black workers in service jobs
- Solo migrant mothers
- Housing the undocumented
- Dominican, Mexican immigration
- Racialization
- Educational mobility
- Daughters of Dominican and Moroccan immigrants
Administrative Staff
Stephanie E. Barnes
Administrative Specialist, Anthropology and Interdisciplinary Programs
o: NAC 7/114
e:
sbarnes1@ccny.cuny.edu
p: 212.650.8663
Natalie Meyers
CUNY Office Assistant, Anthropology and Interdisciplinary Programs
o: NAC 7/112
e:
nmeyers@ccny.cuny.edu
p: 212.650.7350
Arancy Lopez
College Assistant, Latin American and Latino Studies
o: NAC 6/108
e:
alopez033@citymail.cuny.edu
Full-Time Faculty
Dr. Dave A. Chokshi, MD
Sternberg Family Professor of Leadership
o: NAC 6/107B
e:
dchokshi@ccny.cuny.edu
Areas of Expertise/Research
- Health Equity
- Health Policy
- Intersection of Health/Medicine and Social Justice
- Leadership Development
- Population Health
- Primary Care
- Public Health
Cristina Jiménez Moreta
Distinguished Lecturer
o: NAC 6/137
e:
cjimenezmoreta@ccny.cuny.edu
Areas of Expertise/Research
- Community Organizing
- Immigration
- Leadership Development
- Management
- Power and Strategy
- Social Movements
Dr. Omnia Khalil
Lecturer Doctorate
o: NAC 7/112C
e:
okhalil@ccny.cuny.edu
Areas of Expertise/Research
- Cities
- Counterinsurgency
- Critical Urban Geography
- Egypt
- Middle East and North Africa
- Securitization
- Violence
Dr. Iris Lopez
Distinguished Lecturer
o: NAC 6/108
e:
ilopez@ccny.cuny.edu
Areas of Expertise/Research
- Puerto Ricans in the U.S. Mainland and Hawai’i
- Globalization
- Women of color
- Gender Issues
- Pre-Natal Care
- Sterilization Abuse
- Reproductive Rights Policy and Politics
- Education of Latino Youth
- Diversity and Change in the Latino Community.
Shanelle Matthews
Distinguished Lecturer
o: NAC 6/130
e:
smatthews@ccny.cuny.edu
Areas of Expertise/Research
- Black Liberation
- Narrative Power
- Rhetoric of Social Movements
- U.S. leftist social movements
Dr. Gregory Duff Morton
Assistant Professor
o: NAC 7/114A
e:
gmorton@ccny.cuny.edu
Areas of Expertise/Research
- Comparative Welfare States
- Conditional Cash Transfers
- Urban-to Rural Migration
- Marxism in Anthropology
- Northeastern Brazil
- Plantations and Pleasantries
- Social Work and Anthropology
- Linguistic Anthropology
- Meetings Inside Organizations
Dr. Prash Naidu
Associate Professor
o: NAC 7/113D
e:
pnaidu@ccny.cuny.edu
Areas of Expertise/Research
- Air Pollution
- Coastal Resilience
- Critical Urban Geography
- Environmental Anthropology
- Environmental Health
- Environmental Justice
- Environmental Studies
- Health Disparities
- Impacts on Coastal Communities, Ecosystems and Economies
- Intersection of Health/Medicine and Social Justice
- Medical Anthropology
- Natural Resources
- Remote Sensing and GIS
- Urban Sustainability
Dr. Matthew C. Reilly (on sabbatical)
Associate Professor
o: NAC 7/113A
e:
mreilly@ccny.cuny.edu
Areas of Expertise/Research
- Historical archaeology
- Whiteness
- Social construction of race and structural racism
- Intersections of race, class, gender, colonialism, and capitalism in the Atlantic World
- Origins of modern racial discourse
- Development of whiteness as a racial identity and ideological concept
Asha M. Samad-Matias
Lecturer
o: NAC 7/112C
e:
masamadmatias@ccny.cuny.edu
Dr. Lindsay Zafir
Distinguished Lecturer
o: NAC 6/203B
e:
lzafir@ccny.cuny.edu
Areas of Expertise/Research
- History of sexuality, science, and social movements
- Intersection of labor and climate justice
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