Faculty and Staff

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 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

Assistant 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

Stephanie Barnes

Administrative Manager, 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

Lisa Babel

Embedded Advisor, Anthropology and Interdisciplinary Programs
o: NAC 7/111
e:  lbabel@ccny.cuny.edu

Dr. Dave A. Chokshi, MD

Sternberg Family Professor of Leadership
o: NAC 6/132
e:  dchokshi@ccny.cuny.edu

Areas of Expertise/Research

• Public health
• Health equity
• Movements for health justice

Cristina Jiménez Moreta

Distinguished Lecturer
o: NAC 6/137
e:  cjimenezmoreta@ccny.cuny.edu

Dr. Omnia Khalil

Lecturer Doctorate
o: NAC 7/114C
e:  oibrahim@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