Faculty

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 and educational delivery systems. His most recent articles explore the practice of tracking and streaming on an international level.

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) Associate Professor of Sociology specialized 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 Scholarships, awarded by the American Sociological Association in 2001.