Faculty

The Department of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences has its own designated full-time faculty. This faculty, consisting of members from various disciplines, has a particular expertise in the Study of the Americas:

Carlos Aguasaco - Professor | Chair, Department of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences
Gail Buffalo - Assistant Professor | E.C.E. Program Director
Marlene Clark - Associate Professor, English
Elizabeth Matthews -  Assistant Professor, Psychology
Kathlene McDonald - Professor, English
Joan Robinson - Assistant Professor, Social Science & Law
Susanna Rosenbaum - Associate Professor, Anthropology | M.A. Program Director
Susanna Schaller - Associate Professor, Public Administration & Urban Studies
Martin Woessner - Professor, History & Society
Danielle Zach - Assistant Professor, Political Science
Rafia Zafar - Assistant Professor, Economics

Faculty members from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the CCNY main campus, CUNY, and other expert professionals are also invited to teach courses in their areas of specialization. Recent guest faculty include:

Carla Cappetti: “Wild Animals of the Americas” (Spring 2012)
Jerry W. Carlson: "Magical Realism in the Americas" (Spring 2025) | “Bachata for a Diaspora: Dominican Fiction & Film of the 21st Century” (Spring 2022) | “Slavery and Its Historical Legacy in the Film and Fiction of the Americas" (Spring 2014)
Campbell Dalglish: "Transitions: Contemporary Ethnographic Film" (Spring 2024) | “Indigenous Visions” (Spring 2023, Spring 2019)
Marcia Esparza: "Indigenous People and Human Rights" (Fall 2015)
Rosa Franco: "Microfinance in the Americas" (Fall 2014)     
Wendy Lutrell: "Critical Childhood and Youth Studies across the Americas" (Spring 2015)
Ian MacDonald: “Labor Strategies in the Americas" (Fall 2013)
Sophie Maríñez: "Slavery, Gender & Colonial Legacies" (Spring 2025) | "Postcolonial Caribbean Thought and Aesthetics" (Spring 2023) | “Slavery, Gender and Resistance in Hispaniola” (Fall 2020)
Irene Victoria Massimino: "Political Violence and Justice in Latin America" (Fall 2025)
Pedro José Ortega Espinal: "The Dominican People in the US: From Migrants to Rooted People" (Spring 2023)
Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert: "Hurricanes and Rising Sea Levels: Climate Change in Caribbean Art and Literature" (Spring 2023) | “Literature & Art in the Contemporary Caribbean” (Spring 2020)
Antoni Pizà: “Music of the Americas” (Fall 2012)
Craig E. Stephenson: “Dreams, Ethics, and Society in the Americas” (Fall 2017)
Cheryl Sterling: “Black Atlantic Cultures” (Spring 2018)
Vanessa K. Valdés: “Haiti and the Americas, from the Revolution to Today” (Spring 2021)