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Kathleen M.
Cumiskey
Assistant Professor
Psychology
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Kathleen M. Cumiskey
Assistant Professor
Office
: Building 4S
Room 201
Phone
: 718.982.4072
Fax
: 718.982.4114
cumiskey@mail.csi.cuny.edu
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Degrees :
BA, Douglass College, Rutgers University
MA, Hunter College
PhD, CUNY Graduate Center
Biography / Academic Interests
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Kathleen M. Cumiskey received her Ph.D. in Social-Personality Psychology from CUNY. She is an Assistant Professor in the Psychology Department and Women’s Studies Program at CSI. She is known, world-wide, for her groundbreaking research on the impact of mobile phones on face-to-face interaction. How people make meaning of the presence of mobile technology and the psychological consequences of the use of that technology is at the crux of her work. She is currently developing a measure of people’s attitudes toward public mobile phone use. She is also investigating how mobile phones impact women’s perceptions of public safety. She has presented at conferences in London, Budapest, Dresden and Sydney.
Dr. Cumiskey is an advocate for girls’ in confinement in New York State. She serves on the community advisory board of a residential facility that is run by the Office of Children and Family Services. She has addressed the New York City Council, and the U.N. conference on the rights of women/girls. She has worked in collaboration with other organizations to stop the expansion of youth detention facilities in New York City.
Dr. Cumiskey is committed to involving students in “community action projects”. She serves as the faculty advisor to CSI’s “Gay-Straight Alliance”.
Scholarships / Publications
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Recent Publications:
Cumiskey, K. M. (2005). “Making the bias explicit”: Constantinople’s rendering of psychology’s misogynistic roots. Feminism and Psychology, 15, 431-436.
Cumiskey, K. M. (2005). “Surprisingly, nobody tried to caution her”: Perceptions of intentionality and the role of social responsibility in the public use of mobile phones. In Rich Ling and Ped Pedersen (Eds.), Mobile Communications: Re-negotiation of the Social Sphere. Surrey, UK: Springer-Verlag, 225-236.
Six entries published in D. A. Gerstner (Ed.) (2005). International Encyclopedia of Queer Culture – Contemporary Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transsexual Cultures.
Cumiskey, K. M. (2005). “Can you hear me now?”: Paradoxes of techno-intimacy resulting from the use of mobile communication technology in public. In Kristof Nyiri (Ed.). The Global and the Local in Mobile Communication: A Sense of Place. Vienna: Passagen-Verlag, 91-98.
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