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title: "Faculty | Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences"
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date: 2026-05-01
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# Faculty | Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences

Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences

## Faculty

Meet the faculty of Manhattan University's Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, a team of scholars and licensed practitioners in Riverdale, NY teaching psychology, sociology, and criminology alongside graduate counseling programs. Our faculty mentor students through one-on-one research, the annual psychology poster session, and clinical training pathways into mental health counseling, marriage and family therapy, and school counseling.

 

  ![](/sites/default/files/profile-pictures/391673.jpg)  [Roksana Badruddoja](/directory/roksana.badruddoja)Professor

Sociology

 [Kakos School of Arts & Sciences](/directory?field_of_study=198)

 

  ![](/sites/default/files/profile-pictures/591833.jpg)  [Rebecca Dolgin](/directory/rebecca.dolgin)Assistant Professor

Psychology

 [Kakos School of Arts & Sciences](/directory?field_of_study=198)

 

  ![](/sites/default/files/profile-pictures/513413.jpg)  [Elisabeth Fallica](/directory/elisabeth.fallica)Adjunct

Sociology

 [Kakos School of Arts & Sciences](/directory?field_of_study=198)

 

  ![](/sites/default/files/profile-pictures/518453.jpg)  [Maria Isabel Hernandez Amarante](/directory/maria-isabel.hernandez-amarante)Adjunct

Sociology

 [Kakos School of Arts & Sciences](/directory?field_of_study=198)

 

  ![](/sites/default/files/profile-pictures/511043.jpg)  [Theodore Kerr](/directory/theodore.kerr)Adjunct

Sociology

 [Kakos School of Arts & Sciences](/directory?field_of_study=198)

 

  ![](/sites/default/files/profile-pictures/53021.jpg)  [Arno Kolz](/directory/arno.kolz)Associate Professor

Psychology

 [Kakos School of Arts & Sciences](/directory?field_of_study=198)

 

  ![](/sites/default/files/profile-pictures/332538.jpg)  [Kelly Marin](/directory/kelly.marin)Professor

Psychology

 [Kakos School of Arts & Sciences](/directory?field_of_study=198)

 

  ![](/themes/custom/jasper/images/default_images/default_directory.jpeg)  [Preston Martin](/directory/preston.martin)Visiting Assistant Professor

Psychology

 [Kakos School of Arts & Sciences](/directory?field_of_study=198)

 

  ![](/sites/default/files/profile-pictures/591079.jpg)  [John Meehan](/directory/john.meehan)Adjunct

Sociology

 [Kakos School of Arts & Sciences](/directory?field_of_study=198)

 

  ![](/sites/default/files/profile-pictures/52781.jpg)  [Martha Mendez-Baldwin](/directory/martha.mendez-baldwin)Affiliated Faculty

Psychology

 [Kakos School of Arts & Sciences](/directory?field_of_study=198)

 

  ![](/sites/default/files/profile-pictures/452795.jpg)  [Madeleine Novich](/directory/madeleine.novich)Associate Professor

Sociology

 [Kakos School of Arts & Sciences](/directory?field_of_study=198)

 

  ![](/sites/default/files/profile-pictures/592741.jpg)  [Asteya Percaya](/directory/asteya.percaya)Adjunct

Psychology

 [Kakos School of Arts & Sciences](/directory?field_of_study=198)

 

  ![](/sites/default/files/profile-pictures/496181.jpg)  [Marjan Persuh](/directory/marjan.persuh)Associate Professor, Director of Mental Health Program

Counseling and Therapy

 [Kakos School of Arts & Sciences](/directory?field_of_study=198)

 

  ![](/sites/default/files/profile-pictures/376602.jpg)  [Asghar Sajadian](/directory/asghar.sajadian)Adjunct

Psychology

 [Kakos School of Arts & Sciences](/directory?field_of_study=198)

 

  ![](/sites/default/files/profile-pictures/536175.jpg)  [Fazeela Siddiqui](/directory/fazeela.siddiqui)Adjunct

Sociology

 [Kakos School of Arts & Sciences](/directory?field_of_study=198)

 

  ![](/sites/default/files/profile-pictures/306507.jpg)  [Dart Westphal](/directory/dart.westphal)Adjunct

Sociology

 [Kakos School of Arts & Sciences](/directory?field_of_study=198)

 

  ![](/sites/default/files/profile-pictures/534868.jpg)  [Allan Wolf](/directory/allan.wolf)Adjunct

Sociology

 [Kakos School of Arts & Sciences](/directory?field_of_study=198)