Claire Cahen

PhD Candidate in Environmental Psychology

Claire Cahen is a fourth year PhD candidate in Environmental Psychology at the Graduate Center at CUNY. She has taught multiple interdisciplinary courses including a course titled “Psychologies of People in Place” at City College, and a course on Human Sexuality at Hunter College.

Academic Interests

urban development/ redevelopment; deindustrialization; public sector unionism; labor geography; austerity urbanism

Education

B.A. in English, Pomona College, Magna Cum Laude

M.Phil in Environmental Psychology, The Graduate Center at CUNY

Positions

Writing Across the Curriculum Fellow, Provost’s Office, New York City College of Technology
Digital Pedagogy Fellow, Provost’s Office, New York City College of Technology
Research Assistant, the Housing Environments Research Group, Research Foundation, CUNY Graduate Center