Please join us for the next brown bag on Wed. May 1st at 11.45am, at
which Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani, an alum of EP, will be speaking about
her new book, Contested City: Art and Public History as Mediation at
New York’s Seward Park Urban Renewal Area, which was recently
published in January 2019.

To learn more about her new book, there is an interesting interview
with her in the following podcast –
https://player.fm/series/the-holistic-housing-podcast/contested-city-with-gabrielle-bendiner-viani

The CUNY Graduate Center’s program in Environmental Psychology would like to welcome Dr. Brett Stoudt as a new GC Faculty member!

Brett G. Stoudt, PhD is an Associate Professor in the Psychology Department with a joint appointment in the Gender Studies Program at John Jay College of Criminal justice as well as the Psychology and Social Welfare Doctoral Programs at the Graduate Center. He has worked on numerous participatory action research projects with community groups, lawyers, and policy-makers nationally and internationally. His interests include the social psychology of privilege and oppression as well as aggressive and discriminatory policing practices. He is also interested in critical methodologies, particularly critical approaches to quantitative research. Dr. Stoudt’s work has been published in volumes such asGeographies of Privilege as well as journals such as The Journal of Social Issues. He is the recipient of The Michele Alexander Early Career Award for Scholarship and Service from The Society for the Psychology Study of Social Issues. He has also received the Haupert Humanitarian Award from Moravian College and, with his participatory collective, received the Truth to Power Award for Excellence in Collaborative Research from the Education Node of the Urban Research-Based Action Network. Dr. Stoudt is currently the Associate Director of the Public Science Project.  He is also actively involved with Communities United for Police Reform (CPR) as a steering committee member.

This Wednesday on April 17, Brown Bag is hosting two CSP alumni, Dr. Wendy McKenna and Dr. Suzanne Kessler, and their talk on “Where Do Idea Come From and Where Do They Go: Part II” in the Graduate Center room 6304.01.

Please Click HERE for more information!

Our Fall 2019 Course List is HERE!

Please Click Here for the Fall 2019 Courses

CSP and EP students, faculty, staff, alumni, community members and friends of the program are all invited to celebrate the end of the academic year at the Graduate Center!

Silvia L. Mazzula, Ph.D. 

Centering race and culture in Latinx Psychology: A framework for relevant science. 

Critical Social and Personality Psychology Brown Bag

March 27th, 2019 (11:45am – 1:45pm). Room 6304.01.

Please click here for more information!

Speaker Bio:

Silvia Lorena Mazzula, Ph.D., is an award-winning educator, scholar, and mental health researcher who focuses racial cultural trauma and stress, social networks and academic pipeline development, and Latinx psychology. A tenured associate professor of psychology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and former President of the Latino Mental Health Association of New Jersey, Dr. Mazzula is an authority voice on support for Ph.D. prepared Latinas and nationally recognized for her successful outreach to underrepresented scholars, students and faculty members.  She is a founder and Executive director of the Latina Researchers Network (LRN): the country’s first multi-disciplinary research network to support Latina doctoral level investigators, professors, scholars and evaluators, where she manages program design, incubation, and evaluation.Under her leadership, LRN has grown to 3,000+ worldwidesince its inception in 2012.  Dr. Mazzula’s work has been published in scientific journals and book chapters. She is an editor of SAGE Encyclopedia on Psychology and Gender, author of Ethics for Counselors: Integrating Counseling and Psychology Standards, and co-investigator of the Race Based Traumatic Stress Symptom Scale. She has given 100+ empirically-based talks, seminars, and workshops on culturally responsive science and on diversity, equity and inclusion throughout the country. She has earned numerous grant awards, appeared on NBC, and featured or expert quoted on National Public Radio (NPR), USAToday, Washington Times, El Diario NY, Insight into Diversity Magazine, and others. In 2018, she was recognized as one of 25 North American women psychologists for the American Psychological Association’s exhibit “Firsts: Women of Color Changemakers”.  A Columbia University alum, Dr. Mazzula is an Afro-descendent Latina, first-generation college graduate from poor economic background, born in Uruguay, South America, raised in New Jersey, and mother of three boys.

Current Environmental Psychology student Jah Elyse Sayers was interviewed by The Design Trust for Public Space. Sayers shared their own experiences researching connections between queerness and space, stating, “I think the actual key to creating safe spaces for LGBTQ+ communities is going to be making sure LGBTQ+ communities have access to space as well as the power to create and make decisions about spaces. When doing so, we also need to consider the multiple intersections of queer identity: how are you increasing access for and listening to the needs of queer people who are undocumented, queer people who are homeless, queer people who are people of color, queer people who are differently abled, queer people who have a mental health issue…? If your understanding of making safe space for LGBTQ+ people isn’t intersectional, then you’re likely to miss out on a number of strategies to make spaces safer for LGBTQ+ people.”

Please click here for the full interview!

 Please come join us in welcoming Dr. Steve Moga on Wednesday March 27, 2019 at 11:45 in room 6304.01.

The talk is free and open to the public!

New York After 9/11: Collaboration, Critical Psychology, & the CUNY Connection