Hunter College faculty members associated with the Gender Equity Project are actively
involved in research in accounting, chemistry, geopgraphy, political science, psychology
and sociology. Whether you are a graduate student or an undergraduate, being involved in
original research with a faculty member and other students is one of the most interesting
and valuable experiences you can have. You can volunteer to work as an intern on faculty
research. You can also receive course credit via independent research courses.
Here are some of the benefits of getting involved in research.
- You get hands-on experience in thinking like a scientist: developing and testing
hypotheses, collecting data, refining methods, analyzing data, and understanding the
implications of the data.
- You learn what is behind the studies and theories that you read about in your
courses, putting you in a better position to understand and critique those articles.
- You enrich your classroom knowledge by in-depth and detailed understanding of a
particular topic in science.
- You learn what kinds of problems arise in research and how to go about solving
those problems.
- You acquire a variety of skills that are useful for approaching any issue
systematically. Those skills help you figure out what kinds of questions to ask and where to
look for answers.
- You get to know a professor better than you can within the context of a course,
and that professor gets to know you better.
- Your research experience helps you do further scientific work and helps you find
jobs. Employers want to hire people who have the skills that research develops.
Research is work! Depending on whose research project you join, you will be expected to
spend anywhere from 9-15 hours a week working on the project and doing background reading
for the project. It's important to establish ahead of time, with your research sponsor,
how many hours per week you will be committing to the project, what work you will do,
and what final product you will produce.
Be sure to read each faculty member's description of his or her project carefully. That
way you will know whether you have the background and interests that are appropriate for
the project; you will also find out what your responsibilities would be and what you would
learn from being part of the research project.
- Prof.
Fatma Cebenoyan's Research - Financial Accounting: Value-relevance
of accounting information; resolving uncertainty in forecasting;
and firm performance and takeover probability
- Prof.
Erica Childs' Research - The areas of race, gender and sexuality in relationships,
families, communities, and media/popular culture
- Prof.
Margaret Chin's Research - The working poor and family balance
issues; Immigrants, work and their communities; Effects of 9/11
on the Chinese garment workers and Chinatown, and Men of color
and teaching; Ethnographic research.
- Prof. Darlene DeFour's Research
- The intersection of gender and ethnic/racial identity as it
impacts perceptions of discrimination and experiences of violence.
- Prof. Tracy Dennis' Research
- Social, cognitive, and motivational influences on the development of emotion
regulation (the flexibility and control of emotion expression and experiences);
links between emotion regulation and adjustment; neurophysiological underpinnings
of emotion-cognition interactions
- Prof. Dana Draghicescu's Research
- Estimation and prediction for probability distribution functions and/or quantiles
for dependent data; modeling space-time dependencies of environmental processes
- Prof. Jennifer Dwyer's Research
- The intersection of comparative politics and international relations.
- Prof. Roseanne Flores' Research
- The effect of poverty on children's cognitive and linguistic development; The
influence of parent-child discourse practices on children's cognitive and linguistic
development; The role of teacher's reading styles on children's cognition.
- Prof. Lynn Francesconi's Research
- The study of technetium and lanthanide complexes of polyoxometalates
and of technetium peptides with a focus to prepare novel imaging
agents for nuclear medicine.
- Prof. Lisa George's Research
- Current research examines the economics of media markets. Current projects
consider the effect of ownership concentration on product variety in daily
newspaper markets and the effect of national media on local media markets.
- Prof. Hongmian Gong's Research
- Urban geography, economic geography, geographic information systems, quantitative
analysis, China
- Prof. Rebecca Farmer Huselid's
Research - Effects of gender roles and ethnic identity on health and academic
achievement; Effects of race, gender, and acculturation on stress, psychological
adjustment and achievement.
- Prof. Frida Kleiman's Research
- Conducts research on Biochemistry and Molecular/Cell Biology. Our laboratory
is interested in identifying and analyzing the dynamic macromolecular assembly
of proteins that occurs as part of different cellular responses, like DNA damage
and heat shock, and its correlation with control of gene expression and cancer.
- Prof. Yvonne Lassalle's Research
- Memory, political culture, nationalism, youth, religion, built environment; Europe;
the Caribbean, urban US.
- Prof. Marnia Lazreg's Research
- Focus on development in the Middle East and North Africa, especially the interface
between globalization, gender and national politics; the historical uses of torture
as an instrument of terror and political control in France and Algeria; Albert Camus
of the absurd and political change.
- Prof. Neepa Maitra's Research
- My research is in theoretical chemical physics, largely time-dependent density
functional theory, a powerful and elegant method to describe electronic excitations
and dynamics in atomic, molecular, chemical systems and solids. Mostly, I work on
fundamental theory development driven by applications.
- Prof. Regina Miranda's Research
- My research examines the role that hopelessness expectations about the future play
in the development of depressive symptoms and thoughts about suicide among young
people, along with the social-cognitive mechanisms leading to the development and
maintenance of these symptoms.
- Prof. Ines Miyares' Research
- Interests include the spatial, transnational and landscape dynamics of immigration,
refugee, and political asylum law; the evolution of urban ethnic landscapes; and
the incorporation of geography into traditionally history-based social studies K-12
curricula.
- Prof. Lina Newton's Research
- American Politics: Public Policy, Minority Politics, Immigration Policy.
- Prof. Wenge Ni-Meister's
Research - Remote sensing, biogeography, land-atmosphere interaction, climatology.
- Prof. Rupal Oza's Research
- Race, Gender, Postcolonial Theory, Feminist Theory, Cultural Studies,
Social Theory, and Globalization, with area specializations in South
Asia, and United States.
- Prof. Marianna Pavlovskaya's
Research - Class and gender processes and transformations of urban
space; Critical GIS; Mixed research methods; Urban political ecology and
environmental justice
- Prof. Karen E.S. Phillips'
Research - My research involves developing, implementing and assessing innovative
instructional methods that help students to gain a deeper understanding of chemistry.
Efforts are focused in undergraduate organic chemistry, with an emphasis on group
learning through Workshops and advanced laboratory design, as well as the high school
chemistry curriculum.
- Prof. Sangeeta Pratap's
Research - My main research interest is understanding investment at the firm and
macro level and its relationship with capital market imperfections. Currently I am
working on the effects of devaluations and financial crises on investment and growth.
- Prof. Cynthia Roberts'
Research - International Relations, International Security, Transatlantic and
European Security; Post-Communist Transitions, Russian Politics, Foreign, and
Military Policy.
- Prof. Randye Rutberg's
Research - The application of radiogenic isotopic tools to
paleoceanography; Mechanisms of glacial interglacial climate change.
- Prof. Haydee Salmun's Research
- The impact of land-surface heterogeneities, and associated dynamical
processes, on climate and climate variability; The application
of boundary layer flows and boundary mixing theories to transport
of tracers, particulates in suspension and pollutants in aquatic
environments such as estuaries.
- Prof. Purvi Sevak's Research
- Empirical research on topics in labor and public economics. One area
of current research is the savings, labor supply and residential
decisions of retirees. In addition, she is exploring differences
in saving and investment behavior between American men and women.
- Prof. Pamela Stone's Research
- Issues of women in the work force, with a focus on sex segregation,
pay discrimination, and pay equity.
- Prof. Yujia Xu's Research
- The Molecular Mechanisms of the Organization of Collagen; The Mechanisms
of Protein folding; Molecular Etiology of Collagen Related Heritable
Connective Tissue Diseases
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