JOHN JAY RESEARCHANNUAL REPORT

2013–2014

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DEAN’S LETTER

John Jay scholars had a productive 2013-2014 academic year. Grants awarded to our Principal Investiga-tors exceeded $17 million, and college scholars produced some 1,400 works, including over 300 journal articles, 61 books, and many other written, creative, and performance pieces. The grant and productivity portfolios of the College now place us an impressive fourth among all CUNY institutions in both of these research categories. Our scholars continued to produce an impressive diversity of research, ranging from studies of community-based violence, the history of Spanish Caribbean music, alcohol use among teenagers, methods for improving the educational performance of John Jay students, and crime among ethnic populations in New York. And these projects are supported by a wide array of both public and private funders such as the National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, U.S. Department of Education, Tow Foundation, Guggenheim Foundation, Atlantic Philanthropies and many more. The Office for the Advancement of Research has organized a number of programs and activities that help support and encourage scholarly activity. A record $90,000+ was awarded to faculty at the College by way of Seed grants, grant review awards, publication awards, and other mechanisms to support this activity. In addition to direct funding support, events organized by the Office include scholarly exchanges such as our Book Event series, and mentoring workshops on topics such as grantsmanship, data management and other areas. We congratulate all of the scholars at the College, those featured in this publication and elsewhere, for their remarkable achievements and productive year.

Anthony Carpi

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. External Funding Profile .............................................................................................................................. 4 Figure 1: External Awards by College ................................................................................................. 4 Figure 2: Grant Funding by Principal Investigator ............................................................................ 5 Funded Faculty Profile: Ann Jacobs and the PRI ............................................................................... 5 Funded Faculty Profile: Philip Yanos ................................................................................................. 5 Figure 3: Value of Awards by Department ......................................................................................... 6 Funded Faculty Profile: Tanya Coke ................................................................................................... 6

2. Scholarly Productivity .................................................................................................................................. 7 Figure 4: CUNY-Wide Per Capita Scholarship, 2009-2013 ............................................................... 8 Scholar Profile: Bilal Khan ................................................................................................................. 8 Scholar Profile: Adam Berlin .............................................................................................................. 9 Figure 5: Productivity by Department ............................................................................................... 9

3. Internal Funding Provided by OAR to John Jay Faculty and Staff ............................................................ 10 Internal Funding Spotlight: Guoqi Zhang ........................................................................................ 11 Internal Funding Spotlight: Nicole Elias .......................................................................................... 11 Figure 6: Total Funding Applications Submitted by Department .................................................... 12

4. OAR Annual Research Awards ................................................................................................................... 13 Figure 7: Internal Funding by Department ...................................................................................... 13 Awardee Profile: Samantha Majic .................................................................................................... 14 Awardee Profile: Jana Arsovska ...................................................................................................... 14

5. OAR Sponsored Research Events ............................................................................................................... 15

6. Social Media Snapshot ............................................................................................................................... 18

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1. EXTERNAL FUNDING PROFILE

The 2014 federal funding climate remained a challenge, with the effects of sequestration still reverberat-ing among traditional federal funding agencies, as well as trickling down to the state and local levels. John Jay’s faculty and staff responded to this situation by expanding their outreach and fostering productive relationships with a wide range of private donors. Also noteworthy is John Jay’s placement of 4th among our sister CUNY schools in terms of external award dollars in FY2014.

TABLE 1. GRANT AND CONTRACT FUNDING AWARDS TO JOHN JAY FACULTY1

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Federal 70 60 58 25 17 20 $5,546,505 $5,666,362 $5,318,163

State/Local 2 6 7 13 15 13 $4,587,217 $7,435,080 $6,069,046

Private 43 59 64 54 52 61 $4,469,265 $5,075,789 $5,610,122

PSC CUNY(Traditional A) 36 32 21 27 23 17 $91,977 $74,826 $58,466

PSC CUNY (Traditional B) 37 60 58 25 43 37 $122,932 $227,802 $201,232

PSC CUNY (Enhanced) 9 11 5 3 4 5 $35,493 $45,927 $58,558

Total 197 228 208 147 154 153 $14,853,389 $18,525,786 $17,315,587

1 Please note that because (1) submission and award count columns do not account for multi-year awards, and (2) grants submitted in Fiscal Year 2013-14 may not be awarded until the following fiscal year, and (3) grants awarded in FY 2013-14 may result from submissions made the previous year, each of the columns in this table effectively represents a different data stream. See individual column footnotes for further clarity. 2 Submitted during FY 2013-14 3 Awarded during FY 2013-14 4 Total external funds received during FY 2013-14, regardless of submission or award date

Figure 1. FY2014 External Awards (Grants & Contracts) by CUNY College

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Figure 2. FY2014 Grant and Contract Funding by Principal Investigator (top 20)

FUNDED RESEARCHER PROFILE: Ann Jacobs and the Prisoner Reentry Institute

Ann Jacobs, Director of the John Jay College Prisoner Reentry Institute, has established an enviable track record of obtaining external funding since taking over her position in May 2011. In FY 2014, ongoing grants for which Ann served as PI totaled $8.5 million – or fully half the external funding of the college as a whole. Perhaps as important as this truly remarkable achievement is what it represents: a full-time staff of 10 dedicated and highly skilled professionals, overseeing such invaluable programs as a paid intern-ship program for John Jay students with influential community non-profits around the city (the Pinkerton Fellowship); the NYC Justice Corps, a pro-gram allowing justice-involved young people all over New York City to give back to their communities – and gain marketable employment skills in the process; and the Prison to College Pipeline Project, an innovative program bringing John Jay College faculty and students into New York State cor-rectional institutions to teach and learn in credit-bearing classes alongside prisoners looking forward to a college education upon their reentry. We congratulate Ann for bringing these resources to the John Jay community.

FUNDED RESEARCHER PROFILE: Philip Yanos, Professor, Department of Psychology

Philip Yanos, Full Professor in John Jay’s Department of Psychology, had many years of hard work and high quality scholarship rewarded in 2013 with upwards of $800,000 in funding from the National Institutes of Health and the US Department of Education. Professor Yanos has dedicated his career to advancing knowledge and services for people afflicted with severe mental illness, including bipolar disorders and schizophrenia. His NIH award, received through the National Institute of Mental Health, funds an experimental treatment pro-gram aimed at reversing these patients’ internalized stigma. “People who have severe mental illnesses are the most stigmatized in society,” says Yanos. “The worst part of it is the hopelessness associated with self-stigma. So, this research will help change how people with mental illness view themselves.”

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FUNDED RESEARCHER PROFILE: Tanya Coke, Distinguished Lecturer, Department of Public Management

Tanya Coke, Distinguished Lecturer in John Jay’s Department of Public Management, joined the faculty in the Fall of 2013, and immediately began a two-year, $550,000 Atlantic Philanthropies-funded project in support of the Obama Administration’s Supportive School Discipline Initiative (SSDI), which aims to reduce excessive use of suspension and expulsion in public schools. The project is intended as a response to the advisory issued by two cabinet agencies, encouraging schools to use positive disci-plinary alternatives to removing children from school. Data from across the country shows that students of color, especially black males, are sus-pended from school at three times the rate of their white peers. “A single out-of-school suspension in the ninth grade doubles the chance of course failure and early high school drop out,” says Professor Coke, and increases significantly the likelihood of involvement in the criminal justice system. Her work will aim to transform punitive school discipline policies to a more positive, restorative approach.

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2. SCHOLARLY PRODUCTIVITY

John Jay faculty produced 61 books, 322 journal articles and gave almost 700 presentations in 2013. In total, some 3.25 (1.1 by CUNY metrics – see footnote 9 below) items of scholarship were produced per full-time faculty member. The 39 faculty receiving funding from the OAR produced, on average, over 5 (2.3) items of scholarship each.

TABLE 2. SCHOLARLY PRODUCTIVITY FOR JOHN JAY FACULTY5

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Total Reporting 33 of 35 (94%) 39 of 39 (100%) 381 of 414 (92%) 394 of 421 (94%)

‘No work to report’ 0 (0%) 2 (5%) 108 (26%) 103 (24%)

Books 8 (.23) 12 (.31) 53 (.13) 61 (.14)

Book Chapters 31 (.89) 22 (.56) 117 (.28) 106 (.25)

Conference Presentations/Invited Lectures 105 (3.00) 88 (2.26) 617 (1.49) 685 (1.63)

Journal Articles7 44 (1.26) 60 (1.54) 387 (.93) 322 (.76)

News Articles - Reviews - Commentaries 11 (.31) 11 (.28) 193 (.47) 159 (.38)

‘Other’8 2 (.06) 5 (.28) 28 (.07) 38 (.09)

Total 201 (5.74) 198 (5.08) 1395 (3.37) 1371 (3.26)

Per Capita Productivity Rate9 2.0 2.3 1.1 1.1

5 Table Notes: Data reported is for Calendar Year 2013, per CUNY reporting requirements. While CUNY divides faculty into ‘Man-datory Reporting’ (full-time faculty) and ‘Optional Reporting’ (lecturers, substitutes, faculty on leave or sabbatical for any part of the calendar year in question, etc.) categories, we choose here to present only the total of both of these categories. In each cell, first number represents the total number of works by category and faculty type, while number in parentheses represents either percent-age of faculty reporting, or per capita productivity rate, as indicated. 6 ‘OAR Funded Faculty’ include all faculty receiving funding through formal OAR support programs during the calendar year in question. 7 Includes conference presentations published as proceedings.8 Includes art shows curated, performances directed/choreographed/produced/dramaturgied, exhibitions at curated shows, music compositions published, plays produced/performed, and performances (music, dance, theater, etc.)9 As calculated using CUNY formulae. Categories counted by CUNY vary from year to year. In 2013, CUNY counted: Books au-thored, book chapters, conference presentations published as proceedings, peer reviewed journal articles, exhibits at curated art shows, direction/choreography/dramaturgy/design, music composition published/performed, and plays produced/performed. 2013 standards have been retroactively applied to produce 2012 rates.

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Figure 4. CUNY-Wide Per Capita Scholarship, 2009-2013

SCHOLAR PROFILE: Bilal Khan, Professor, Department of Math and Computer Science

Bilal Khan, Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, has had eight articles published in 2013 and has already pub-lished two articles in 2014. One of the best and most broadly consumable works he has been involved in this year were the results of a grant award-ed to the Urban Institute by the National Institute of Justice. Serving as the methodologist, the paper for this project will appear in the “Handbook on the Economics of Prostitution” with the Oxford University Press. This report is the first of its kind to estimate the full scope of the underground sex economy by utilizing interviews conducted with law enforcement and incarcerated former sex workers and traffickers in eight cities throughout the United States. As a mathematician, Bilal values the opportunity to contribute his skills to research opportunities in the social sciences, and encourages his colleagues to follow similarly interdisciplinary and collabo-rative paths.

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Adam Berlin, Professor in the Department of English, published two novels, along with seven other articles and short stories, in an incredibly productive 2013. His novel The Number of Missing, published by Spuy-ten Duyvil Press, examines the nature of loss through the tragedy of 9/11. “I wanted to keep this novel raw,” says Berlin. “I wanted to capture that still, sad, dead feeling that was pervasive throughout the city after the attacks. His second novel of 2013, Both Members of the Club, is a boxing novel and love story published by Texas Review Press.

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3. OAR RESEARCH AND SCHOLARSHIP FUNDING TO JOHN JAY FACULTY AND STAFFOAR continued to engage faculty in AY 2013-14 in areas of scholarly productivity and grantsmanship. Ap-plications for these programs are peer-reviewed on a monthly cycle, and both successful and unsuccessful applicants receive review commentary and guidance for professional development purposes. In total, OAR made 54 funding disbursements with a total value of $94,182. Projects funded in the most recent aca-demic year included: symposia such as “The Snowden Affair: The Surveillance State and Witch Hunts in Everyday Life;” books including Gail Garfield’s Tightrope: A Racial Journey to the Age of Obama and Richard Ocejo’s About Last Night: Nightlife, Community, and Conflict on the Lower East Side; and pilot projects like Kevin Nadal’s LGBT Perceptions of the Criminal Justice System: Implications for Mental Health.

TABLE 3. INTERNAL FUNDING OF JOHN JAY FACULTY, FY2014

Funding Program Applications Funded

Total Awards (Average Award)

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Discretionary Funding 4 7 $9,125 ($2,281) $7,923 ($1,132)

Seed Funding 4 12 $6,000 ($1,500) $16,858 ($1,405)

Emergency Funding 3 2 $11,090 ($3,697) $3,500 ($1,750)

Book Publication 1 12 $1,000 ($1,000) $8,173 ($681)

Open Access Publication 2 2 $1,900 ($950) $1,319 ($660)

Proposal Peer Review 5 2 $1,250 ($250) $500 ($250)

Enhanced Travel Funding 0 7 $ 0 ($0) $6,909 ($987)

Senior Scholar Release 2 10 $14,000 ($7,000) $49,000 ($4,900)

Total 19 54 $44,365 ($2,335) $94,182 ($1,744)

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INTERNAL FUNDING PROFILE: Guoqi Zhang, Assistant Professor, Department of Sciences

Guoqi Zhang, Assistant Professor in the Department of Sciences, joined the faculty in the Fall of 2013. Professor Zhang received a Seed Money Award from the Office for the Advancement of re-search in that same semester. Guoqi’s work focuses on the de-velopment of inexpensive metal catalysts that can facilitate the production of useful fuels and other chemical products from plant and biomass feedstocks. Since being funded by OAR, Guoqi has published one peer-reviewed manuscript, has one manuscript under review, and he has received a PSC-CUNY award of $3500. In early 2014 he was awarded a prestigious New Investigator Award by the American Chemical Society’s Petroleum Research Fund (ACS-PRF). That project, entitled “Non-precious metal catalytic asymmetric reduction of unsaturated bonds: A supramolecular ap-proach” and funded for $55,000, will allow Guoqi and his students to make significant advances in the development of inexpensive earth abundant metal catalysts as substitutes for expensive pre-cious metal catalysts for the production of sustainable petroleum resources. Guoqi has a second application to support his work cur-rently under review with the National Science Foundation’s Faculty Early Career Development Program.

INTERNAL FUNDING PROFILE: Nicole Elias, Assistant Professor, Department of Public Management

Nicole Elias, Assistant Professor in the Department of Public Manage-ment, received an Emergency Fund award of $1,000.00 that assisted her in taking advantage of a unique and immediate opportunity to at-tend the final feedback session of the Office of Personnel Management’s (OPM) Guidance for Agency-specific Diversity and Inclusion Plans. As a result of this funding, Nicole has made several strides in regards to scholarly output. She published a manuscript in Public Administration Quarterly entitled, “Shifting diversity perspectives and new avenues for representative bureaucracy.” She has begun working on a project with the United States State Department on formulating new directions for diversity policy, and has been selected to serve as a distinguished research fellow for two years with the Equal Employment Opportuni-ty Commission (EEOC) to evaluate the climate of federal agencies for LGBT employees.

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4. OAR ANNUAL RESEARCH AWARDS

OAR continued to recognize research excellence with our Annual Research Awards program during the 2013-14 year, awarding 18 courses of release time to John Jay scholars across the disciplines of the hu-manities, social and natural sciences. Combined with the $94,182 disbursed through the OAR’s ongoing internal funding programs, Annual Awards bring the total value of research support distributed by the office to $159,182 in fiscal year 2014.

TABLE 4. OAR ANNUAL RESEARCH AWARDS FOR JOHN JAY FACULTY

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AWARDEE PROFILE: Samantha Majic, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science – Donal E. MacNamara Award Winner

Samantha Majic, Assistant Professor in the Department of Po-litical Science, received the Donal EJ MacNamara Junior Faculty Award for her significant scholarly contribution to the fields of criminal justice and criminology. Samantha’s research focuses on gender and American politics, with specific interests in sex work, civic engagement, institutionalism, and the nonprofit sector. She is the author of Sex Work Politics: From Protest to Service Provision (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013), and the co-editor (with Carisa Showden) of Negotiating Sex Work: Unintended Conse-quences of Policy and Activism (University of Minnesota Press, 2014). Her research has also appeared, or is forthcoming, in Per-spectives on Politics, Polity, New Political Science, The Journal of Women, Politics and Policy, and Gender and Society. A Fellow of the American Association of University Women, Dr. Majic is also a member of the Perspectives on Politics editorial board.

AWARDEE PROFILE: Jana Arsovska, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology – Scholarly Excellence Award Winner

Jana Arsovska, Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology, received a Scholarly Excellence Award for the past three years of exceptional scholarship. Dr. Arsovska, a native of Macedonia, holds a PhD degree in Criminology from Leuven University in Belgium and currently teaches courses related to international criminology, transnational organized crime and criminal justice. Her research interests include culture, migration and organized crime, female offenders and transna-tional crime, and corruption and radical Islam in post-conflict societies. Dr. Arsovska has published extensively on Balkan organized crime and human trafficking in scholarly journals and intelligence magazines and is the co-editor of the book Restoring Justice After Large-Scale Conflict: Kosovo, Congo and the Israeli-Palestinian Case. Her new book Decoding Al-banian Organized Crime is to be published in December 2014 (Los Angeles: California University Press). Dr. Arsovska is a recipient of the National Institute of Justice’s 2012 W.E.B. Du Bois Fellowship for research examining the relation between migration and transnational organized crime.

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5. OAR SPONSORED RESEARCH EVENTS

The Office for the Advancement of Research sponsored a full program of trainings, book talks, and schol-arly events throughout the 2013-14 Academic Year. In addition to providing professional development opportunities for full-time faculty and graduate students in grantsmanship and related skills essential to the pursuit of external funding, the office presented faculty with multiple platforms for promoting their scholarship to diverse audiences, both within the John Jay community and outside of it. Many of these events provided educational opportunities for students and curricular inspiration for faculty, and gener-ated vital discourse in academic, advocacy, and policy circles alike. OAR-sponsored events drew a total audience of upwards of 1,000 attendees during the 2013-14 Academic Year.

Evan Mandery — A Wild Justice — May 7th, 2014

Evan Mandery, Professor and Chair of the Department of Criminal Justice, presented his 2013 book A Wild Justice: The Death and Resurrection of Capital Punishment in America to a rapt audience on the afternoon of the 7th of May. The book draws upon nev-er-before-published original source detail to tell the epic story of two of the most conse-quential, and largely forgotten, moments in Supreme Court history: the striking down of Georgia’s death penalty in Furman v. Geor-gia (1972), and its swift reinstatement four years later in Gregg v. Georgia.

Mike Power — Drugs 2.0 — March 20th, 2014

Mike Power, a freelance investigative journalist for British newspapers and organizations including the Guardian, the Mail on Sunday, and Reuters, brought his book Drugs 2.0: The Web Revolution That’s Changing How the World Gets High to audiences at John Jay and the Drug Policy Alliance, making time to film an edition of the Center on Media, Crime and Justice’s Criminal Justice Matters along the way. Drugs 2.0 is a groundbreaking exploration of the ways in which the internet is changing the development, distribution, and con-sumption of drugs.

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Nickie D. Phillips and Staci Strobl — Comic Book Crime — November 13th, 2013

John Jay alumna and St. Francis College Associate Professor Nickie Phillips and Staci Strobl, Associ-ate Professor in the Department of Law, Police Science and Criminal Justice Administration, were joined on stage by James DiGiovanna, Assistant Professor in the Philosophy Department and former Marvel Comics Editor, for a discussion of their innovative and origi-nal book Comic Book Crime: Truth, Justice, and the American Way. A striking work of cultural criminol-ogy, the book digs deep into celebrated characters in super hero comics to provide a comprehensive un-derstanding of crime and justice in this contemporary American medium.

David Brotherton, Daniel Stageman, and Shirley Leyro — Outside Justice — October 9th, 2013 – Part of the Fall 2013 Immigration and Deportation Initiative

David Brotherton, Professor and Chair of the Depart-ment of Sociology, along with Criminal Justice PhD Stu-dents Daniel Stageman and Shirley Leyro, hosted three of the contributors to their edited volume Outside Justice: Immigration and the Criminalizing Impact of Changing Policy and Practice as part of the college’s Fall 2013 Immigration and Deportation Initiative on October 9th. As part of the panel discussion, Shirley, along with Michele Waslin of the Pew Charitable Trusts, Juan Pedroza of Stanford University, and Jorge Chavez of Bowling Green State, presented updates to the chapters they contributed as part of the original volume, on subjects as diverse as driv-er’s license policy and immigration enforcement through traffic enforcement, the Secure Communities Program, immigrant quality of life under the threat of restrictive state laws, and the effects of deportation on the social cohesion of immigrant communities.

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The Office for the Advancement of Research partnered with the Office of the President to sponsor a semester-long series of over a dozen events, thematically linked to issues of con-temporary immigration, and gathered under the umbrella of the Fall 2013 Immigration and Deportation Initiative.

The Fall 2013 Immigration and Deportation Initiative

On the evening of November 14th, John Jay hosted a lively discussion on the aftermath of deportation from the United States, featuring some of the most well-respected minds in the field.

The New American Diaspora: What Happens to American Immigrants After Deportation? — November 14th, 2013

Bernard Headley, University of the West Indies at Mona

Daniel Kanstroom, Boston College Post-Deportation Human Rights Project

Steven Vigil, Transnational Advisory Group in Support of the Peace Process in El Salvador Dora Schriro, Commissioner

of the New York City Department of Correction

Alina Das, Assistant Professor of Clinical Law and Co-Director, Immigrant Rights Clinic, New York University School of Law

Talia Peleg, Brooklyn Defender Services

Angela Fernandez, Executive Director, Northern Manhattan Coalition for Immigrant Rights

On the afternoon of September 16th, four distinguished women — all well-respected lawyers — gathered in John Jay’s Moot Court-room to inaugurate the Fall 2013 Immigration and Deportation Initiative with a discussion of deportation laws and their impact on New York City.

Deportation Laws and Their Local Impact – September 16th, 2013

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6. SOCIAL MEDIA SNAPSHOT

In 2012, the Office for the Advancement of Research embarked on an ambitious social media strategy, with the intention of providing multimodal promotional platforms for bringing the research, scholarship, and creative activity of John Jay faculty to a wider audience. Since that time, our steady investment in promoting John Jay scholarship and building content has garnered consistent and growing attention for our faculty, their academic work, and their public intellectualism. As the various measures below indicate, the OAR’s regularly updated social media accounts have reached thousands during the 2013-14 Academic Year, in many cases more than doubling the previous year’s reach.

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RESEARCH MISSIONThe mission of the Office for the Advancement of Research is to promote scholarly activity, publication/performance of works, and grantsmanship at John Jay College. The Office works with key stakeholders, including faculty, Center directors, staff and administrators to disseminate this mission via workshops, one-on-one mentoring, collaboration, and internal programs aimed at professional development. Work-ing with the Office of Sponsored Programs, which operates within OAR, the Office serves as a liaison and resource to faculty and staff submitting grants to federal, state, and private sources. The Office works with our Office of Marketing and Development to promote the scholarly mission of the College to the external research communities and the general public. RESEARCH STAFFAnthony Carpi, Associate Provost and Dean of ResearchDan Stageman, Director of Research OperationsLaura Lutgen, Research Operations Assistant Sandra Rutherford, Assistant to the Dean of Research

SPONSORED PROGRAMS STAFFSusy Mendes, Director of Sponsored ProgramsAmrish Sugrim-Singh, Assistant Director of Sponsored ProgramsSuroojnarine (Darryl) Singh, Grant Administrator Cherryanne Ward, Grants Assistant

CONTACT John Jay Research524 West 59th Street, Suite 601BNew York, NY, 10033212.621.3735oar@jjay.cuny.eduFacebook.com/JohnJayResearchTwitter.com/JohnJayResearch

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