Faculty

Faculty	Contact Information	Area of Specialization
	Amber Alliger Lecturer a_allige@hunter.cuny.edu Office: 630 North Phone: 212-396-6807	Biopsychology / Behavioral Neuroscience Laboratory animal welfare and husbandry
	Evelyn Behar Associate Professor eb2290@hunter.cuny.edu Office: 734 North Phone: 212-772-4477	Clinical Psychology Affective, behavioral, cognitive, interpersonal, and physiological nature of generalized anxiety disorder
	Danielle Berke Assistant Professor (New Faculty) db2800@hunter.cuny.edu Office: 714B North Phone: TBD Lab phone: TBD	Clinical Psychology Dr. Berke's research applies a culturally-informed, empirical lens to the study of interpersonal violence under the heading gender-based violence
	Christopher B. Braun Professor and Department Chair cbraun@hunter.cuny.edu Office: 605 North Phone: 212-772-5554	Biopsychology / Behavioral Neuroscience Sensory systems in animals; neural substrates of vibration and sound detection; sensory variation; ecology; evolution
	Nesha Burghardt Assistant Professor nb844@hunter.cuny.edu Office: 1047 North	Biopsychology / Behavioral Neuroscience Neurobiology of mood; anxiety and eating disorders; developmental effects of stress; serotonin and emotional learning
	Sheila Chase Professor schase@hunter.cuny.edu Office: 608 North Phone: 212-772-5617	Biopsychology / Behavioral Neuroscience and Cognitive Psychology Animal cognition; memory; decision processes; computer models
	Martin Chodorow Professor martin.chodorow@hunter.cuny.edu Office: 512 Thomas Hunter Hall Phone: 212-772-5618 Fax: 212-650-3247	Cognitive Psychology Models of memory; psycholinguistics; computational linguistics
	Darlene C. Defour Associate Professor ddefour@hunter.cuny.edu Office: 738C North Phone: 212-772-5679	Social Psychology Coping with stress; psychology of women; social networks; Black Psychology; culture and psychology
	Tracy Dennis Professor tracy.dennis@hunter.cuny.edu Office: 636 North Phone: 212-650-3878	Biopsychology / Behavioral Neuroscience, Clinical Psychology, Developmental Psychology, Cognitive Psychology and Health Psychology Emotion regulation; developmental psychopathology; affective neuroscience; parenting and contextual influences
	Dawn Dugan Lecturer dd552@hunter.cuny.edu Office: 738 North Phone: 212-396-6597	Clinical Psychology Impact of interparental conflict on parenting practices and communication
	Joel Erblich Professor jerblich@hunter.cuny.edu Office: 628 North	Clinical Psychology and Health Psychology Nicotine dependence; risk for alcoholism; health psychology
	Roseanne Flores Associate Professor rflores@hunter.cuny.edu Office: 736B North Phone: 212-650-3537 Lab phone: 212-650-3538	Developmental Psychology Lanuage Acquisition; cognitive development; children and poverty; children and culture
	Jennifer Ford Professor (New Faculty) jennifer.ford@hunter.cuny.edu Office: 738H North Phone: 212.396.6690	Clinical Psychology and Health Psychology Adolescent and young adult (AYA) cancer survivors; psychosocial adjustment and coping with chronic Illness
	Sarit Golub Professor sarit.golub@hunter.cuny.edu Office: 1209 North Phone: 212-396-6304	Social Psychology and Health Psychology Gender and sexuality; risk perception and behavior; decision-making.
	James Gordon Professor jgordon@hunter.cuny.edu Office: 604 North Phone: 212-772-5619	Biopsychology / Behavioral Neuroscience Visual psychophysiology; color vision; pattern vision, human visual development
	Michael Hoyt Associate Professor michael.hoyt@hunter.cuny.edu Office: 738 North	Clinical and Health Psychology Stress and coping processes Psychological Adjustment to chronic illness Biobehavioral mechanisms of psychological process and treatment
	Rebecca Farmer Huselid Associate Professor rhuselid@hunter.cuny.edu Office: 737 North Phone: 212-772-5561	Social Psychology and Health Psychology Effects of social identities on psychosocial adjustment and achievement; effects of race, gender and acculturation on substance use and coping strategies
	Shirzad Jenab Professor sjenab@hunter.cuny.edu Office: 602 North Phone: 212-772-5732	Biopsychology / Behavioral Neuroscience Drugs of abuse; gene expression, neurochemistry and neuropharmacology; CNS degenerative diseases
	Joseph Lao Senior Lecturer jla0017@hunter.cuny.edu Office: 738 North Phone: 212-396-6173	Developmental Psychology Parenting skills and cognitive development
	Michael J. Lewis Professor mlewis@hunter.cuny.edu Office: 619 North Phone: 212-772-5280	Biopsychology / Behavioral Neuroscience Neurobiology of motivation and substance abuse; alcohol dependence and eating disorders
	Amber J. Martin Lecturer am2631@hunter.cuny.edu Office: 613 North	Cognitive Psychology and Developmental Psychology Spatial language and spatial cognition; sign language acquisition; effects of delayed first language alcquisition
	Regina Miranda Professor regina.miranda@hunter.cuny.edu Office: 734 North Phone: 212-772-4809	Clinical Psychology, Cognitive Psychology and Health Psychology Adolescent depression, suicide and hopelessness; depressive future-event schemas; social-cognitive process of transference in depression
	Peter Moller Professor pmoller@hunter.cuny.edu Office: 620 North Phone: 212-772-5197	Biopsychology / Behavioral Neuroscience Multisensory integration; electrolocation and electrocommunication in electric fish; behavioral physiology; behavioral endocrinology
	Jeffrey T. Parsons Distinguished Professor jeffrey.parsons@hunter.cuny.edu Office: 611 North Phone: 212-772-5533 CHEST Phone: 212-206-7919 x900 Fax: 212-206-7994	Social Psychology, Developmental Psychology and Health Psychology Adolescent development; risk taking; HIV/AIDS prevention; Gay/Lesbian issues; substance abuse; sexual behavior
	Joshua Plotnik Assistant Professor joshua.plotnik@hunter.cuny.edu Office: 631 North Phone: 212-396-6442	Biopsychology / Behavioral Neuroscience *Animal Behavior:* Convergent cognitive evolution; comparative cognition; elephant behavior and cognition; applications of animal behavior and cognition research to conservation in practice
	Sandeep Prasada Professor - MA Program Director sprasada@hunter.cuny.edu Office: 506 Thomas Hunter Hall Phone: 212-772-5677	Cognitive Psychology and Developmental Psychology Conceptual and lexical representation in the mind and brain; language acquisition
	Thomas Preuss Professor tpreuss@hunter.cuny.edu Office: 626A North Phone: 212-396-6358	Biopsychology / Behavioral Neuroscience Neuroethology of escape behavior; neural decision making; neural plasticity; sensorimotor integration of biological relevant visual and auditory inputs
	Vanya Quiñones-Jenab Professor vaquinon@hunter.cuny.edu	Biopsychology / Behavioral Neuroscience Drug abuse effects on maternal behaviors and CNS/endocrine mechanism; ovarian hormones and pain pathways
	Diana Reiss Professor - MA ABC Program Director diana.reiss@hunter.cuny.edu Office: 606 North Phone: 212-650-3432	Biopsychology / Behavioral Neuroscience and Cognitive Psychology Comparative cognition; animal Behavior and communication; marine mammal cognition
	H. Jonathon Rendina Assistant Professor hrendina@hunter.cuny.edu Office: 714 North Phone: 212-206-7919 ext.922	Health Psychology and Social Psychology
	Tracey Revenson Professor tr227@hunter.cuny.edu Office: 1201 East Phone: 212 396-6769	Health Psychology and Social Psychology Stress and coping; adaptation to chronic illness; social support and caregiving; health disparities
	Kim Robinson Lecturer kr593@hunter.cuny.edu Office: 738 North Phone: 212-396-6591	Social Psychology and Developmental Psychology The effects on minority stress on psychological well-being and health behaviors
	Glenn Schafe Professor glenn.schafe@hunter.cuny.edu Office: 602 North Phone: 212-396-6802	Biopsychology / Behavioral Neuroscience Neurobiological substrates of emotional learning, memory, fear, anxiety and stress
	Stefan Schlussman Lecturer sschluss@hunter.cuny.edu Office: 613 North Phone: 212-396-6731	Biopsychology / Behavioral Neuroscience Primary research interests have used animal models to focus on the question of why some individuals are more vulnerable to the effects of drug abuse than are others
	Peter Serrano Associate Professor serrano@genectr.hunter.cuny.edu Office: 619 North Phone: 212-772-5610	Biopsychology / Behavioral Neuroscience Long-term potentiation; depression and memory; developmental psychobiology and learning disorders; neural mechanisms of stress; fear and post-traumatic stress disorder
	Tricia Skoler Professor tricia.striano@hunter.cuny.edu Office: 507A Thomas Hunter Hall Phone: 212-772-5678	Developmental Psychology Infant development amd social cognition
	Tyrel Starks Associate Professor tstarks@hunter.cuny.edu Office: 1314 West Phone: 212-206-7919	Clinical and Health Psychology Substance use and sexual health in sexual minority populations with a particular emphasis on relationship factors associated with sexual health in gay and bisexual men
	Ofer Tchernichovski Professor otcherni@hunter.cuny.edu Office: 621 North Phone: 212-396-6740	Biopsychology / Behavioral Neuroscience Mechanisms of vocal learning
	Virginia Valian Distinguished Professor virginia.valian@hunter.cuny.edu Office: 510 Thomas Hunter Hall Phone: 212-772-5557 Fax: 212-650-3247	Cognition, Language and Developmental Language; gender
	Mariann Weierich Associate Professor mariann.weierich@hunter.cuny.edu Office: 627B North Phone: 212-396-6375 Fax: 212-772-5620	Biopsychology/ Behavioral Neuroscience, Clinical Psychology and Cognitive Psychology Neurobiology of stress, trauma, PTSD, anxiety and attention; neuroimaging; neuroendocrinology
	Jason Young Associate Professor jason.young@hunter.cuny.edu Office: 738 North Phone: 212-772-5566	Social Psychology and Health Psychology Attitudes and persuasion; political psychology; media influence; evolutionary psychology
	H. Phillip Zeigler Distinguished Professor hzeigler@hunter.cuny.edu Office: 626 North Phone: 212-772-5363	Biopsychology / Behavioral Neuroscience Neuroethology of movement; sensoryprocessing and motor control of active touch; development of a mobile sensory system

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