Faculty

Cynthia Chris Cynthia Chris joined CSI’s Department of Media Culture in 2004. She served as chair for two terms, 2018-24. In 2024-25, she is on leave from CSI as a Faculty Leadership Development Fellow in the Offic Read more..

Florette Cohen Florette Cohen received her Bachelor’s in Science from CUNY Brooklyn College in 2003, a Master’s in Science from Rutgers University-New Brunswick in 2005 and her Ph.D. from the Social Psychology progr Read more..

Jacob Collins Twentieth-century intellectual history of Europe, with a focus on France and Italy Read more..

Ismael García Colón Ismael García Colón is a historical and political anthropologist with focus on the Gramscian concept of hegemony, oral history, immigration and colonial migration, race, citizenship, farm labor, U.S. Read more..

Kate Crehan Professor Crehan joined CSI’s Sociology, Anthropology and Social Work Department in 1998. From 1998 to 2007 she served as the coordinator of CSI’s Women’s Studies Program. She is on the doctoral facul Read more..

Kathleen M. Cumiskey Kathleen M. Cumiskey is a Professor in the Psychology Department, and Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program at CSI.  She is the co-director of the Mosaic Lab in Building 4S. Read more..

Ashley Dawson Ashley Dawson is Professor of Postcolonial Studies in the English Department at the College of Staten Island and at the Graduate Center / City University of New York. His latest books include Peo Read more..

Rafael de la Dehesa Rafael de la Dehesa joined the fulltime faculty of the Sociology and Anthropology Department at the College of Staten Island in 2004 after completing his Ph.D. in Government at Harvard University. He Read more..

Lewis Dimmick Lewis Dimmick specializes in teaching first-year writing, working to engage beginning college students in meaningful and equitable writing instruction. Inspired by Paulo Friere’s assertion that “educa Read more..

John M. Dixon John Dixon is a historian of early America and the early modern Atlantic world who teaches at the College of Staten Island and the CUNY Graduate Center. His research interests include intellectual and Read more..