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Department: Psychology

Executive Officer: Professor Patricia Brooks

The Graduate Center

365 Fifth Avenue

New York, NY 10016

Email: psychology@gc.cuny.edu

https://www.gc.cuny.edu/Psychology

FACULTY

Israel Abramov, Karen Ackroff, Adeyinka Akinsulure-Smith, Robert Alfano, Maureen Allwood, Alicia Alvero, Asohan Amarasingham, Molly Andrews, Deidre Anglin, Jesus Angulo, John Antrobus, Igor Arievitch, Luis Barrios, Jennifer Basil, David Bearison, Jeff Beeler, Evelyn Behar, Sarah Berger, Danielle Berke, Markus Bidell, Marom Bikson, Robert Bilder Jr., , Michelle Billies, Richard Bodnar, Joan Borod, Christopher Braun, Elisabeth Brauner, Patricia Brooks, Bruce Brown, Joyce Brown, Justin Brown, Gerard Bruder, Claudia Brumbaugh, Joshua Brumberg, Tamara Buckley, Nesha Burghardt, Pamela Butler, Sarah-Elizabeth Byosiere, Desiree Byrd, Caitlin Cahill, Cynthia Calkins, Gabriel Camacho, Cheryl Carmichael, Yvette Caro, Anil Chacko, Kathryn Chadman, Benzion Chanowitz, David Chapin, Rebecca Chaplan, Hanah Chapman, Sheila Ch, artin Chodorow, Elizabeth Chua, Josh Clegg, Yochi Cohen-Charash, Susan Croll, William Cross, Angela Crossman, Matthew Crump, Kathleen Cumiskey, Colette Daiute, Jessie Daniels, Patricia D'Ateno, Dana-Ain Davis, Pierfilippo De Sanctis, Diana Deacon, Kay Deaux, Andrew Delamater, Kristina Denisova, Florence Denmark, Tracy Dennis-Tiwary Darlynne Devenny, Diana Diamond, Rebio Diaz Cardona, Angelo DiBello, William Dince, Julie Dinh, Jennifer Drake, Robert Duncan, Jennifer Dysart, Erin Eatough, Miriam Ehrensaft, Howard Ehrlichman, Steven Ellman, Timothy Ellmore, Tatiana Aloi Emmanouil, Joel Erblich, William Esber, Adriana Espinosa, Diana Falkenbach, Jin Fan, Alan Feigenberg, Paul Feinstein, Jennifer Feitosa, Eric Fertuck, Lanny Fields, Daniel Fienup, Michelle Fine, Roseanne Flores, Nancy Foldi, Mark Fondacaro, Jennifer Ford, Paul Forlano, John Foxe, Peter Fraenkel, Anderson Franklin, Robert Freedland, Nicholas Freudenberg, David Friedman, David Frost, Michele Galietta, Ana Gantman, Yu Gao, Katie Gentile, M. Felice Ghilardi, Stefano Ghirlanda, Kristen Gillespie-Lynch, Demis Glasford, Joseph Glick, Paul Glovinsky, Elkhonon Goldberg, Harold Goldstein, Sarit Golub, Catherine Good, Renee Goodwin, James Gordon, Jessica Gordon Nembhard, William Gottdiener, Leigh Graham, Frank Grasso, Joan Greenbaum, John Greenwood, Jillian Grose-Fifer, Louise Hainline, Jeffrey Halperin, Emily Haney-Caron, Curtis Hardin, Cheryl Harding, Benjamin Harris, Roger Hart, Maria Hartwig, R. , Glen Hass, Robert Hatcher, Mark Hauber, Nancy Hemmes, Denise Hien, Darryl Hill, Veronica Hinton, Matthew Hoptman, Jon Horvitz, Tarry Hum, Rebecca Huselid, Tomoaki Imamichi, Judith Jaeger, Daniel Javitt, Elizabeth Jeglic, Shirzad Jenab, Joshua Jessel, David Johnson, Matthew Johnson, Ray, Jr. Johnson, Veronica Johnson, Emily Jones, Elliot Jurist, Natalie Kacinik, Charles Kadushin, Jessica Karanian, Lana Karasik, Saul Kassin, Cindi Katz, Simon Kelly, Suzanne Kessler, Ali Khadivi, Hosu Kim, Susan Klitzman, Alan Kluger, William Kornblum, Margaret Kovera, Anjali Krishnan, Thomas Kucharski, Yana Kuchirko, David Kuhn, Daniel Kurylo, Casey LaDuke, David Lahti, Robert Lanson, Julia Lechuga, Joel Lefkowitz, Michael Leippe, Jonathan Levitt, Michael Lewis, Dina Lipkind, Thomas Litwack, Humberto Lizardi, Alexandra Logue, Setha Low, Joan Lucariello, Victoria Luine, Wendy Luttrell, Karen Lyness, Eric Mandelbaum, Jennifer Mangels, Keith Markus, John Martin, Jeff Maskovsky, Steven Mattis, Silvia Mazzula, Lynn McClannahan, Daniel McCloskey, Laraine McDonough, Karen McFadden, Wendy McKenna, Kelly McWilliams, Robert Melara, Michael Menser, Glen Milstein, Regina Miranda, Sophie Molholm, Peter Moller, Joel (Joseph) Moses, Soniya Munshi, Kevin Nadal, Loren Naidoo, Valentina Nikulina, Erika Niwa, Yoko Nomura, David O'Brien, Maureen O'Connor, Sarah O'Neill, Susan Opotow, Eli Osman, Suzanne Ouellette, David Owen, Susan Oyama, Jaihyun Park, Lucas Parra, Jeffrey Parsons, Thanos Patelis, Steven Penrod, Krystal Perkins, Nicholas Petraco, Gina Philogene, Margaret-Ellen Pipe, Bertram Ploog, Joshua Plotnik, Claire Poulson, Sandeep Prasada, Thomas Preuss, Diana Punales Morejon, Carolyn Pytte, Vanya Quiñones-Jenab, Laura Rabin, Vita Rabinowitz Chitra Raghavan, Laxmi Ramasubramanian, Philip Ramsey, Robert Ranaldi, Theodore Raphan, Lisa Ravdin, Walter Reichman, Laura Reigada, Diana Reiss, H. Jonathon Rendina, Salomon Rettig, Tracey Revenson, Timothy Ricker, David Rindskopf, Walter Ritter, Leanne Rivlin, Tony Ro, Robert Rockwell, Margaret Rosario, Jeffrey Rosen, Wilma Rosen, Martin Ruck, M. Sasha Rudenstine, Lesia Ruglass, Lise Saari, Susan Saegert, Kevin Sailor, C. Gabrielle Salfati, Herbert Saltzstein, Glenn Schafe, Charles Scherbaum, Louis Schlesinger, Tamera Schneider, Irvin Schonfeld, Anthony Sclafani, Laura Seiverling, Irina Sekerina, Peter Serrano, Jacob Shane, Sandra Shapiro, Aaron Sher, Andrew A. Shiva, Nicholas Sibrava , Brett Silverstein, Ratna Sircar, Arietta Slade, John Smiley, Charles Smith, Gwenn Smith, Joel Sneed, Kristin Sommer, Tyrel Starks, Yaakov Stern, Anna Stetsenko, Jennifer Stewart, Charles Stone, Justin Storbeck, Brett Stoudt, Deryn Strange, Christopher Stults, Peter Sturmey, Celina Su, Nan Sussman, Larissa Swedell, Vivien Tartter, Ofer Tchernichovski, Deborah Tolman, Maria Elena Torre, Steven Tuber, Kerstin Unger, Virginia Valian, Jason Van Ora, Eduardo Vianna, Deborah Vietze, Myriam Villalobos, Paul Wachtel, Jennifer Wagner, Deborah Walder, Wei Wang, Logan Watts, Roderick Watts, Lissa Weinstein, Rebecca Weiss, Cathy Widom, Bianca Williams, Donald Wilson, Gary Winkel, Maxine Wolfe, Daryl Wout, James Wulach, Peggilee Wupperman, Ann Yali, Philip Yanos, Steven Young, Patricia Zapf, H. Philip Zeigler, Zhiqing Zhou

THE PROGRAM

The mission of the Ph.D. Program in Psychology is to encourage its students to become thoughtful, productive scholars and lifelong learners. We seek to (a) instill in our students an understanding of psychology as a science, (b) promote human welfare and serve society at large, (c) foster student growth and development, and (d) prepare students to serve professionally in the field of psychology or related areas. This mission comes in the context of the larger Graduate Center mission to serve its unusually diverse student population.

Ph.D. Program in Psychology prepares students for research, teaching, and practice in the various fields of psychology, and is organized into 10 different training areas. Three Training Areas (Clinical Forensic Psychology [Clinical Psychology at John Jay]; Health Psychology and Clinical Science [HPCS]; and Neuropsychology Clinical [Clinical Psychology at Queens College]) lead to NYS licensing, whereas the remaining seven (Basic and Applied Social Psychology [BASP]; Behavioral and Cognitive Neuroscience [BCN]; Cognitive and Comparative Psychology [CCP]; Critical Social/Personality and Environmental Psychology [CS/PEP]; Developmental Psychology; Industrial-Organizational Psychology; and Psychology and Law) are academically oriented. For detailed information about the Ph.D. Program in Psychology and the specific training areas, please visit our website at https://www.gc.cuny.edu/Psychology.

Our doctoral faculty includes many top scholars in their fields of study as well as journal editors and leaders of professional societies and organizations. The faculty and their labs are based on eight campuses throughout the CUNY system, with courses offered at the Graduate Center, at the college campuses, and in consortium with other local universities, including Columbia, NYU, and Princeton.

Students can also take full advantage of a variety of interdisciplinary concentrations, centers, and other specialized programs throughout the Graduate Center relevant to psychology (described elsewhere in this bulletin), focusing, for example, on public health, women’s studies, Africana studies, fashion studies, and LGBT studies, among others.

A number of events and activities bring doctoral students from all of the specialized areas together, including the Psychology Student Leadership Council, an annual Teaching of Psychology conference, and an All Psychology Student Research Day.

Resources for Training and Research

Research centers, which provide opportunities for training and research for graduate students in psychology, have been established at several of the senior colleges and at the Graduate Center. Located at the Graduate Center are the Center for Human Environments, the Center for the Study of Women and Society, and the Center for Advanced Study in Education. The Psychological Center, which provides a facility for training and research in clinical psychology, is located at the City College. The Center for the Study of World Psychologies is at Brooklyn College.

En-route M.A.

Upon completing 45 credits with an average grade of B, passing the First Examination, and satisfactorily completing a major research paper, the student may apply for an M.A. degree.