 Director
Marilyn Gittell
Marilyn Gittell, the Director of the Samuels Center, also serves
as a professor of Political Science at the Graduate School and University
Center of the City University of New York. Under the Center's mandate,
Professor Gittell has produced an enormous body of scholarly work,
trained scores of graduate students, received numerous awards and
served as a consultant to several private and voluntary sector institutions.
Ms. Gittell has written extensively on the politics of education,
higher education for low-income women, state politics, and community
development. Her books include: Choosing Equality: The Case for
Democratic Schooling; The New Federalism in State Politics; Limits
of Citizen Participation; and her most recent book, Strategies for
School Equity: Creating Productive Schools in a Just Society, Yale
University Press, 1998. She most recently was co-editor and author
of a chapter in a special edition of the American Behavioral Scientist
entitled Higher Education Today: The Impact of State Politics and
Policies on Access and Economic Development, Sage Publications,
April 2000. In August 2001 Ms. Gittell received the Norton Long
Career Achievement Award in Urban Politics from the Urban Politics
Section of the American Political Science Association. Organizations,
published in September 1999.
Mgittell@gc.cuny.edu
Deputy Director Bill McKinney
Dr. Bill McKinney is the Deputy Director at the Howard Samuels
State Management and Policy Center. He holds a Ph.D. in anthropology
from Temple University and an M.A.A. (Masters of Applied Anthropology)
from the University of Maryland, College Park. Recently Dr. McKinney
has served as Co-Pi on several studies; Increasing Resources To
Meet the Needs of NYS’s Older and MRDD Population; Economic
Status of Working Women in New York State Project; and Constituency
Building of Affirmative Action in Texas and Michigan. In addition
to participating in all of the center's different projects, Dr.
McKinney is spearheading efforts to involve the center in research
addressing, grassroots organizing, civic engagement in Botswana,
Youth Organizing/Civic Engagement, as well as the role of Settlement
Houses and Public Libraries as points of civic engagement. Dr.
McKinney has been actively involved in a diverse array of research
for the past 15 years as an Ethnographer and Evaluator on topics
such as: Youth Organizing, Violence (Youth Violence Reduction
Partnership), Public Libraries (Urban Libraries Project), Public
Health (Children's Futures and the Cultural Systems Analysis Group),
and Settlement Houses (the Lighthouse). In addition to Dr. McKinneys
work at the HSC he is also the co-founder of the Youth Music Exchange
after-school program, and Ethnomatters, a research/evaluation
group in Philadelphia.
Bmckinney@gc.cuny.edu
Senior Research Associate Tracy Steffy
Tracy Steffy is a senior research associate at the Howard Samuels
Center and a Ph.D. candidate in Political Science at the CUNY
Graduate Center. Her projects at the Samuels Center include a
two-year field research based study of women in community development
and two case studies of students at CUNY community colleges. She
is a co-author of three studies, "Women Creating Social Capital
and Social Change: A Study of Women-led Community Development
Organizations" (1999), "The Benefits of College Attendance: A
Case Study of BMCC"(1998), "Community Colleges Addressing Students'
Needs: A Case Study of LaGuardia Community College" (2000). The
studies include a focus on low-income populations and highlight
some of the impacts of welfare reform on women and children. She
worked on the research design, interview and data analysis phases
of all three studies. Ms Steffy will serve as a project coordinator
focusing on study design, research and analysis.
Tsteffy@gc.cuny.edu
Senior Research Associate Charles Reavis Price
Dr. Charles Price is a senior research associate at the Howard
Samuels State Management & Policy Center and a graduate of the
Ph.D. program in Anthropology at the CUNY Graduate Center. During
1999 he served as the New York-based coordinator for the National
Conference "Welfare Reform and the College Option." He has conducted
research into state policy on welfare reform, access to higher
education, and coalition-building. He has authored two reports
for the Center: "State Politics and Coalition-Building: Confronting
the TANF Regulations" (1999), and proceedings from "Welfare Reform
and the College Option: A National Conference" (2000).
Cprice1@gc.cuny.edu
Research Associate Michael Sharpe
Michael Sharpe is a research assistant at the Samuels Center and
a PhD Candidate in Political Science at the CUNY Graduate Center.
He holds a Masters of International Affairs degree from Columbia
University's School of International and Public Affairs as well
as a Graduate Diploma in International Law and Organization for
Development from the Institute of Social Studies in The Hague,
The Netherlands. His research interests concern the politics of
migration, immigrant political incorporation, transnationalism,
and looking comparatively at racism and the exclusion of immigrants
in the US, the Netherlands, Japan and around the world. Prior
to coming to the Samuels Center, he was employed as a political
analyst for the Consulate General of Japan in New York where he
provided research and analysis on local and state government for
officials and before that he worked in Tokyo as a project coordinator
for the International Movement Against All Forms of Discrimination
and Racism (IMADR). Michael Sharpe is the author of "Globalization
and Migration: Post-Colonial Dutch Antillean and Aruban Immigrant
Political Incorporation in the Netherlands," recently published
in Dialectical Anthropology Volume 29, Issue 3-4, September, 2005.
He was actively involved in our project on democratic education
reform and exclusion in several countries and currently involved
in research and grant proposal writing for other comparative projects
around the issues of immigration as well as social justice and
social advocacy.
msharpe@gc.cuny.edu
Research Associate
Julio Huato
Julio Huato is an economics
doctoral candidate at the CUNY Graduate Center in the fields of
international economics/economic development and finance economics.
He holds a MA in economics from the New School for Social Research
and a BA in economics from the Universidad de La Habana, Cuba.
His main research interests are at the intersection of inequality,
growth, finance, political economy, and policy-making. One of
his dissertation papers is an empirical study on the impact of
maquiladora manufacturing on the local standards of living
in Mexico. He has taught economics, econometrics, and finance
at St John's University, Drew University, and St Francis College.
He is currently working on a study on the economic status of women
in New York. He is originally from Mexico, where he was a social
activist and organizer for several years.
jhuato@gc.cuny.edu
Research
Associate Dawn Plummer
Dawn
Plummer is a PhD student of Comparative and American Politics
in the Political Science program. Her research interests include
contentious politics, human rights, political economy, low-wage
worker organizing, comparative social policy, methods of popular
political education, social movements and networks of the poor
and excluded throughout the Americas. Dawn focuses her academic
inquiry on grassroots participation in politics and democratization
in the United States and Brazil. Previously she worked as a community
organizer on US poverty issues and coordinated the US-based solidarity
organization supportive of Brazil’s Landless Workers Movement.
At HSC, she is conducting research on service models for the aging
in five upstate New York cities.
Dplummer@gc.cuny.edu
Research Assistant Mitchell Glodek
Mitchell Glodek is Marilyn Gittell's personal assistant and a
research assistant at the Samuels Center. He helped coordinate
the National Conference "Welfare Reform and the College Option"
in 1999. In 1998, he provided research assistance for "The Benefits
of College Attendance: A Case Study of BMCC." He also provided
editorial assistance for "The Benefits of College Attendance:
A Case Study of BMCC," "Community Colleges Addressing Students'
Needs: A Case Study of LaGuardia Community College," the Welfare
Conference summary and the forthcoming study of state and local
level school politics.
mglodek@gc.cuny.edu
Center Administrator Georgina Pierre-Louis
Georgina Pierre-Louis is the Office Manager of the Howard Samuels
Center. In addition to managing all of the Samuels Center's grants,
Georgina Pierre-Louis handles all of the Center's administrative
duties, including budget, personnel and purchasing, assuring the
smooth and efficient operation of the Center.
gpierre-louis@gc.cuny.edu
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