Full-Time Faculty

Linda Benbow Assistant Professor View Bio Office: JFT 812 Phone: (845) 257-2779 E-mail: benbowl@newpaltz.edu	Office Hours: MR 1:45 PM - 2:45 PM W 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM And by appointment
Sunita Bose Assistant Professor View Bio Office: JFT 622 Phone: (845) 257-2601 E-mail: boses@newpaltz.edu	Office Hours: Professor Bose will be on leave for the fall 2009 semester. Advisors have been assigned temporarily for her advisees
Karl Bryant Assistant Professor View Bio Office: JFT 504 Phone: (845) 257-3035 E-mail: bryantk@newpaltz.edu	Office Hours: T 9:30 AM - 10:30 AM T 2:30 PM - 3:00 PM R 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM F 9:30 AM - 10:30 AM and by appointment
Donna Chaffee Lecturer View Bio Office: JFT 506 Phone: (845) 257-3539 E-mail: chaffeed@newpaltz.edu	Office Hours: T 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM TF 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM F 1:45 PM - 3:00 PM Friday office hours 1:45-3:00PM are by appointment only
Mette Christiansen Lecturer View Bio Office: JFT 506 Phone: (845) 257-3697 E-mail: christim@newpaltz.edu	Office Hours: TF 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM TF 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM And by appointment
Judith Halasz Assistant Professor View Bio Office: JFT 504A Phone: (845) 257-2375 E-mail: halaszj@newpaltz.edu	Office Hours: MR 11:25 AM - 12:10 PM MR 1:40 PM - 2:55 PM
Peter Kaufman Associate Professor View Bio Office: JFT 508 Phone: (845) 257-3503 E-mail: kaufmanp@newpaltz.edu	Office Hours: M 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM R 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM And By Appointment
Brian Obach Chair View Bio Office: JFT 516A Phone: (845) 257-3447 E-mail: obachb@newpaltz.edu	Office Hours: M 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM T 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM And by appointment
Anne Roschelle Associate Professor View Bio Office: JFT 522 Phone: (845) 257-3502 E-mail: roschela@newpaltz.edu	Office Hours: M 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM R 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM And by appointment
Irwin Sperber Associate Professor View Bio Office: JFT 518 Phone: (845) 257-2772 E-mail: sperberi@newpaltz.edu	Office Hours: TW 2:30 PM - 4:30 PM And by appointment
Roberto Velez-Velez Assistant Professor Office: JFT 504 Phone: (845) 257-3506 E-mail: velezr@newpaltz.edu	Office Hours: R 12:30 PM - 2:30 PM F 8:15 AM - 10:15 AM And by appointment
Eve Waltermaurer Assistant Professor View Bio Office: JFT 512 Phone: (845) 257-3756 E-mail: walterme@newpaltz.edu	Office Hours: M 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM R 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Adjunct Faculty

Marco Caviglia Adjunct Faculty Office: JFT 504 Phone: (845) 257-3505 E-mail: marco_caviglia@yahoo.com	Office Hours: W 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM And by appointment
James Dearce Adjunct Faculty Office: JFT 504 Phone: (845) 257-3505 E-mail: dearcej@newpaltz.edu	Office Hours: By appointment only. E-mailing is the best form of contact - dearcej@newpaltz.edu
Mat JeckerByrne Adjunct Faculty View Bio Office: JFT 504 Phone: (845) 257-3505 E-mail: jeckerbm@newpaltz.edu

Staff

Margaret Betaudier Secretary 1 Office: JFT 516 Phone: (845) 257-3505 E-mail: betaudim@newpaltz.edu	Office Hours: MTWRF 8:30 AM - 5:00 PM Lunch daily from 12:30-1:30PM
Fax Machine Office: JFT 516B Phone: (845) 257-2970

Emeritus Faculty

Susan Lehrer
Professor Emerita
E-mail Address: lehrers@newpaltz.edu

Susan Lehrer received her BA from the University of Chicago and PhD from SUNY-Binghamton. Her expertise is in the area of women and equality under the law, and social policy affecting women, work and family, poverty & welfare, and academic freedom. Her published work includes the book Origins of Protective Labor Legislation for Women 1905-1925 and many articles. She has lectured widely on American social policy and women, including in Freiburg, Germany and Utrecht, The Netherlands. She also participated in the United Nations Conference on Women in Beijing, 1995. Dr. Lehrer taught in the Women’s Studies Program and served as the graduate program coordinator for the Department of Sociology. While no longer teaching classes, Dr. Lehrer is active in the United University Professions (the faculty/professional union for SUNY) at the campus and statewide level, and currently does photography for community and environmental organizations.

Harold Jacobs
Professor Emeritus
E-mail address: jacobsh@newpaltz.edu

Harold Jacobs received his Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley, where he was appointed Acting Assistant Professor of Sociology from 1969-1971. He taught sociology at SUNY New Paltz from 1971 to 2002, when he retired as Professor Emeritus. He received the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching in 1974-1975 and served as a past Chair of the Sociology Department and Director of its Concentration in Human Services. He has published extensively on the New Left, including a book on the Weather Underground. He specializes in social movements, political sociology, social psychology, and sociological theory. From 2002 to 2008, Hal taught literature, social theory and philosophy in the New Paltz College Honors Program. He presently teaches "Great Books" classes at the University of California, Riverside campus extension in Palm Desert, CA.