About Our Faculty

A dynamic liberal arts faculty that connects academics with the professional world
The Dyson full-time faculty is comprised of nearly 200 accomplished scientists, scholars, artists, and practitioners, more than 88 percent of whom hold a PhD or equivalent terminal degree. Our faculty are world-class writers, scholars, and researchers who have had original books published, and articles published in respected journals across the disciplines. Many are noted artists whose works have been exhibited in major galleries in New York, across the country, and internationally. Our faculty, often cited by major media outlets, bring their professional experience into the classroom and provide mentoring and career guidance that help you achieve your career goals.

To learn more about their outstanding accomplishments view their profiles here.

William J. Adams, Professor
Reza Afshari, PhD, Professor
Mary Alberi, PhD, Associate Professor
Carol Alpern, PhD, Professor and Director of the Communication Sciences and Disorders Program
Linda Anstendig, Ed.D, Associate Dean, Professor
Hasan Arslan, Assistant Professor
Susan Aston, Lecturer
Demosthenes Athanasopoulos, PhD, Director, Forensics Science Program; The Harold Blancke Chair of Chemistry; Professor
Alexander Azarchs, PhD, Chair and Professor

Edward Allan Baker, Playwriting, Lecturer
Charlotte Becket, Assistant Professor
Michelle Pulaski Behling, PhD, Associate Professor
Daniel Bender, PhD, Associate Professor
Janetta Rebold Benton, PhD, Director of Honors College; Distinguished Professor
Susan Berardini, PhD, Associate Professor
Abbey L. Berg, PhD, Professor and Assistant Chair
Sarah Blackwood, PhD, Assistant Professor, Interim Program Coordinator for American Studies
Barbara Blumberg, PhD, Professor
Matthew Bolton, PhD, Assistant Professor 
Rita Bradshaw-Beyers, Assistant Professor
Thomas Breidenbach, Assistant Professor
Harold Brown, PhD, Chair and Professor
Heather Bryant, Associate Professor
Zafir Buraei, Assistant Professor
Anne J. Bynoe, PhD, Chair and Associate Professor

Jorge Cacheiro, MFA, Chair and Professor
Karen R. Caldwell, PhD, Assistant Professor
Luke Cantarella, Associate Professor
David A. Caputo, PhD, President Emeritus and Professor
Nicholas Catalano, PhD, Professor
Clay McLeod Chapman, Playwriting
Robert Chapman, PhD, Professor
Sheila Chiffriller, PhD, Associate Professor
June Chisholm, PhD, Professor
Cosmin Chivu, MFA, Assistant Professor
Bill Coco, PhD, Director of Theater History Department; Theater History and History of Directing, Lecturer
Jane Collins, PhD, Associate Professor
Gregory Colman, PhD, Associate Professor
Erika Crispo, Assistant Professor
Diane Cypkin, PhD, Professor

Zhaohua Dai, PhD, Associate Professor
Andriy Danylenko, PhD, Associate Professor
Frances Delahanty, PhD, Associate Professor
Shelley Des Etages, Lecturer
Kristen Di Gennaro, Assistant Professor
Jane Dickson, Lecturer
Martha W. Driver, PhD, Distinguished Professor
Edgar Ducasse, PhD, Professor
Ida Dupont, Associate Professor
Shamita Dutta Gupta, PhD, Professor 

Lee Evans, EdD, Professor

Lisa Farber, PhD, Assistant Professor
Lisa Fastenberg, PhD, Associate Professor 
Madeline Fernandez, PhD, Associate Professor
Barbara Friedman, Professor
Margaret Fitzgerald, Associate Professor
Amy Foerster, PhD, Chair and Associate Professor
Joseph Franco, PhD, NYSLMHC, NCC, Senior Associate Dean, Professor
Ronald Frank, PhD, Associate Professor

Antonia Garcia-Rodriguez, PhD, Professor
Lauren Gaul, Assistant Professor
Deborah Gelman, Lecturer
Patricia Giurgescu, PhD, Associate Professor 
Patricia Gloster-Coates, PhD, Chair and Associate Professor
Steven Goldleaf, PhD, Professor
Linda Gottesfeld, Professor
Daniel Greenberg, PhD, Associate Professor
Paul Griffin, PhD, Associate Professor
Melissa M. Grigione, PhD, Associate Professor and Director of the Environmental Science Graduate Program
 

Beth Hart, PhD, Director of the Center for Psychological Services; Professor
Suri Hegde, PhD, Lecturer
Thomas Henthorne, PhD, Associate Professor
Susan Herman, Associate Professor
Linda Herritt, Chair and Professor
Nira Herrmann, PhD, Dean and Professor
William Todd Heyden, PhD, Associate Professor
Terence Hines, PhD, Professor
Charlene Hoegler, PhD, Lecturer
Gregory Holtz, Lecturer
Farrokh Hormozi, PhD, Chair of Public Administration; Professor
John Horne, PhD, Associate Professor
Stephanie Hsu, PhD, Assistant Professor
Sue Huang, PhD, Professor
Lawrence Hundersmarck, PhD, Professor
Mark Hussey, PhD, Professor

Karla Jay, PhD, Distinguished Professor
Ruth Johnston, PhD, Director, Film and Screen Studies Program; Professor
Gregory Julian, PhD, Professor

Canan Karaalioglu, PhD, Assistant Professor
Ghassan Karam, Lecturer
Sethu Karthikeyan, Assistant Professor
Sergey Kazakov, DSc, PhD, Professor
Michael Kazlow, PhD, Associate Professor
Robert Keegan, PhD, Professor
Marcy Kelly, PhD, Professor
Elizabeth Kemp, Director of Acting Department; Acting, Directing, Lecturer
Bette Kirschstein, PhD, Chair and Associate Professor
Robert Klaeger, Chair and Associate Professor
Andrew Kliman, PhD, Professor
Hillary Knepper, PhD, Assistant Professor
Megan Kozak, PhD, Associate Professor
Peter Knopf, PhD, Professor 
Satish Kolluri, PhD, Associate Professor
Grant Kretchik, Assistant Professor
Nancy Krucher, PhD, Professor and Assistant Chair

Iride Lamartina-Lens, PhD, Chair and Professor
Joseph Tse-Hei Lee, PhD, Professor
Julie Lawrence-Edsell, Professor
Helane Levine-Keating, Professor
Anne Levy, Lecturer
Shawn Lewis, Lecturer
Demosthenes Long, Assistant Professor
Maria Luskay, Ed.D., Professor and Program Director, Master of Arts in Media and Communication Arts

Christopher Malone, PhD, Chair, Associate Professor, and Director of Honors College NY
Anthony Mancini, PhD, Assistant Professor
Ellen Mandel, PhD, Professor
Andreas Manolikakis, Chair of the Actors Studio Drama School MFA Program; Directing, Acting, Clinical Professor
Martin Marafioti, PhD, Associate Professor
Gian Marco Lo Forte, Lecturer
Rebecca Martin, PhD, Professor
Maryellen Martirano, Lecturer
Augustine Mascuilli, PhD, Associate Professor
Charles Masiello, PhD, Chair and Professor 
Jillian McDonald, Associate Professor
Alma McManus, PhD, Assistant Professor
Mary Margaret Minnis, PhD, Lecturer
Robert Meffe, Assistant Professor
Lara Merlin, Associate Professor
Rhonda Miller, Clinical Associate Professor
Eddis Miller, Assistant Professor
Seong-Jae Min, Assistant Professor
Mary Minnis, Lecturer
Elmer-Rico Mojica, Assistant Professor
James Moninger, Associate Professor
Joseph Morreale, PhD, Professor
Barry Morris, PhD, Associate Professor
Walter Morris, PhD, Professor
Barbara Mowder, PhD, Director of Graduate Psychology Programs; Professor
Mary Ann Murphy, PhD, Director, Center for Community Action and Research at Dyson College; Professor

David Nabirahni, Professor
Meghana Nayak, PhD, Associate Professor
Weihua Niu, PhD, Professor
Charles North, Poet-In-Residence

William Offutt, PhD, Professor
Allen Oren, Associate Professor
Ellease Ebele N. Oseye, Professor

William Page, PhD, Professor
Judith Pajo, PhD, Lecturer
George Pappas, Esq., Assistant Professor
Will Pappenheimer, Associate Professor
Robert P. Parks, PhD, Lecturer
George Picoulas, MA, Lecturer
Katharina Piechocki, Assistant Professor
Deborah Poe, PhD, Assistant Professor
Johna Pointek, Psy.D., Lecturer
Mitchell Preiss, PhD, Professor
Sandra Pulver, PhD, Professor

Linda Quest, PhD, Professor

Yvonne Rafferty, PhD, Professor
Sherman Raskin, Director of MS Publishing; Professor
Walter Raubicheck, PhD, Professor
Sid Ray, PhD, Professor
Nancy Reagin, PhD, Professor
Eugene Richie, PhD, Professor
JaimeLee Rizzo, PhD, Professor and Assistant Chair
Rostyslaw Robak, PhD, Chair and Professor
Joan Roland, PhD, Professor
Martha Rubi, PhD, Lecturer
Joseph Ryan, PhD, Chair and Professor

Ilan Safit, PhD, Assistant Professor
Roger Salerno, PhD, Chair and Professor
Roger Sayre, Professor
Richard Schlesinger, PhD, Associate Dean, Professor, Interim Chair
Joshua Schwartz, PhD, Professor
Amy Schwartzreich, Associate Professor
Mohsen Shiri-Garakani, PhD, Director, Physics/Engineering Program; Associate Professor
Anna Shostya, Assistant Professor
Manuela Soares, Lecturer
K. Mark Sossin, PhD, Professor
John Stokes, PhD, Professor
Daniel Strahs, PhD, Associate Professor
Wagner Suarez, Lecturer

Geraldine Taiani, PhD, Chair and Professor
Durahn Taylor, PhD, Assistant Professor
Mary Timney, PhD, Professor
Leora Trub, Assistant Professor
Benjamin B. Tucker, Associate Professor

Rita Upmacis, PhD, Associate Professor

Richard Velayo, PhD, Professor
Andrés Villagra, PhD, Associate Dean and Professor
Carmen Vlad, PhD, Professor
Dorothee Von Huene-Greenberg, PhD, Professor

Ying Wang, PhD, Lecturer
Alfred Ward, PhD, Associate Professor
Ama Wattley, PhD, Assistant Professor
Marilyn Weigold, PhD, Professor
Mark Weinstock, Lecturer
Ellen L. Weiser, PhD, Chair and Professor
Howard Weishaus, Lecturer
Emily Welty, Assistant Professor
Marie Werner, Ed.D., LMSW, Associate Professor
Maren Westphal, Assistant Professor
Andrew Wier, PhD, Assistant Professor  
Adelia Williams, PhD, Professor
Ruis Woertendyke, PhD, Associate Chair and Associate Professor

Nigel Yarlett, PhD, Director of Haskins Labs; Chair and Professor
Joshua Yarmish, PhD, Professor
Anastasia Yasik, PhD, Professor
Shannon Young, PhD, Associate Professor

Michele Zaccario, PhD, Assistant Professor
Emilie Zaslow, PhD, Assistant Professor
Paul Ziek, ABD, Assistant Professor
Catherine Zimmer, PhD, Associate Professor

David Zuzga, PhD, Assistant Professor