George Ansalone, (PH.D. New
York University) Professor of Sociology specializes in the area of
educational sociology and is the author of numerous research
articles and monographs on tracking, educational delivery systems
and social inequality in schools. His most recent articles
explore the practice of tracking and streaming on an international
level.
Frank
Biafora, (Ph.D. University of Miami) Associate Professor
and Associate Dean teaches and does research in the areas of
juvenile delinquency, substance abuse and research methodology. He
is also the co-director of a 4-year grant to train future scholars
from the U.S. Department of Education.
Barrett P. Brenton, (Ph.D.
University of Massachusetts-Amherst) Associate Professor of
Anthropology is a specialist on global health and dietary change
who has conducted research in Peru, Kenya, South Africa, Great
Britain, and Native American communities. He also conducts urban
archaeological fieldwork and is consulted as a forensic
anthropologist. He has published widely and is currently co-editor
of the international journal of Ecology of Food and Nutrition, and
is President of the Council on Nutritional Anthropology.
Roderick D. Bush, (Ph.D. SUNY Binghamton) Assistant
Professor specializes in Race and Ethnicity, Black Experience,
Social Movements, World-Systems Studies, Globalization, Social
Inequality, Social Change, Urban Sociology, Community Organizing,
Political Sociology.
Irene J. Dabrowski, (Ph.D.
Washington University) Associate Professor of Sociology specializes
in the sociology of medicine, urban sociology, women's studies, and
the sociology of education. She is a Hastings Center Scholar who
conducts research on alternative and holistic health care ad
emerging educational models. Her teaching emphasizes holistic
thought processes, globalism, and the environment. The focus of her
current research is on interdisciplinarity and its implications for
futuristic thinking processes.
Judith DeSena, (Ph.D. City
University of New York) Professor of Sociology does research on
urban neighborhoods, and specializes in the areas of community,
gender, urban sociology, and research methods. She is author of
numerous research books and articles on residential segregation,
women's community activism, and gendered space. Her current work
investigates gentrification and spatial segregation.
William DiFazio, (Ph.D. City
University of New York) Professor of Sociology teaches and does
Research in Work and Technology, Urban Sociology, Social Theory.
Currently writing A Little Food and Cold Storage: Ordinary Poverty
in New York City. Also working on a second edition of Longshoremen
and co-author with Stanley Aronowitz of The Jobless Future: SciTech
and the Dogma of Work.
Dawn Esposito, (Ph.D. City
University of New York) Associate Professor of Sociology and
Department Chair specializes in gender, social theory, feminist
theory, and cultural studies. Her current work focuses on the
construction of Italian-American representation in the cinema and
is part of an overall project of destabilizing race and an
organizing binary of contemporary society.
Michael Indergaard, (Ph.D. Michigan
State University) Associate Professor of Sociology and Anthropology
specializes in the areas of urban sociology, economic sociology,
technology and culture. He has published in Social Problems, Urban
Studies, Urban Affairs Review and Economic Development Quarterly.
He is currently writing a book for Rutledge Press: Silicon Alley:
The Rise and Fall of New York's New Media District.
Ino Rossi, (Ph.D. The New School)
Professor of Anthropology and Sociology an expert in French
Structuralism has developed and published two volumes on a
post-structural dialectic approach to sociology. He has applied
this approach to the study of long-term reconstruction and
development after earthquakes and to the issues of socio-cultural
and economic development in a global context. His latest research
involves the application of dialectical framework to understand
globalization processes and global movements. He draws on
inter-cultural, inter-ethnic and global perspectives in his
teaching.
Judith Ryder, (Ph.D., City
University of New York) Assistant Professor, Dr. Ryder specializes
in gender and family violence, corrections and juvenile
delinquency. She has managed several federally
funded research grants focusing on trauma and
violence among youth, prison-based drug treatment and the effects
of incarceration on communities. The editor of Criminal Justice
Abstracts, she has provided training on intensive after-care
programs for serious and violent youthful offenders.
Robert Tillman, (Ph.D. University
of California, Davis) Professor, specializes in white-collar crime,
methods and theory. He has written widely in these areas
including four recent books on white-collar crime, including Big
Money Crime: Fraud and Politics in the Savings and Loan
Crisis, which won the Albert J. Reiss Award for Distinguished
Scholarship, awarded by the American Sociological Association in
2001.