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Civic Studies Faculty and Staff

Core Teaching and Advising Faculty

  • Hilary Binda, Senior Lecturer, Visual and Critical Studies; Director of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; Founding Director, Tufts University Prison Initiative at Tisch College
  • Yonatan Brafman, Assistant Professor, Religion
  • Heather Curtis, Professor, Religion and History; Interim Chair, Studies in Race, Colonialism, and Diaspora
  • Julie Dobrow, Tisch College Senior Fellow for Media and Civic Engagement
  • Deborah Donahue-Keegan, Lecturer, Education
  • Ioannis Evrigenis, Professor, Political Science
  • Laurie Goldman, Senior Lecturer, Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning
  • Kelly Greenhill, Associate Professor, Political Science; Director, International Relations
  • Anna Hardman, Senior Lecturer, Economics
  • Eitan Hersh, Associate Professor, Political Science
  • Erin Kelly, Professor and Chair, Philosophy
  • Peter Levine, Associate Dean and Lincoln Filene Professor of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Tisch College of Civic Life
  • Penn Loh, Senior Lecturer, Urban and Environmental Policy and Practice
  • John Lurz, Associate Professor, English
  • Elizabeth Marfeo, Associate Professor, Occupational Therapy and Community Health
  • Jayanthi Mistry, Professor and Chair of Child Studies and Human Development
  • Diane O’Donoghue, Director, Program for Public Humanities
  • Diane Ryan, Tisch College Associate Dean for Programs and Administration
  • Brian Schaffner, Newhouse Professor of Civic Studies, Political Science
  • Deborah Schildkraut, Professor, Political Science

Teaching Staff and Guest Lecturers

  • Sara Allred, Associate Director of Student Programs
  • Samantha Jo Fried, Program Manager for Science, Technology, and Society (STS) and Civic Studies
  • Kenneth Galdston, Guest Instructor, Community Organizing
  • Jonathan Garlick, Professor, School of Dental Medicine
  • Brianda Hernández, Senior Program Administrator and Lecturer
  • Jennifer Howe Peace, Senior Researcher, Tisch College
  • Ron Lasser, Professor of the Practice, Electrical and Computer Engineering
  • Daniel LeBlanc, Guest Instructor, Community Organizing
  • Sherri Sklarwitz, Director of Student Programs

Program Administration

Director: Peter Levine, Associate Dean and Lincoln Filene Professor of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Tisch College of Civic Life

Program Manager: Samantha Jo Fried

Civic Studies
Tufts University
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Medford MA 02155