SUZANNE J. KESSLER
Professor of Psychology and
Dean of the School of Natural and Social Sciences

Tel: (914) 251-6602

Fax:
(914) 251-6603

Office:
Soc. Sci. 2013

School of Natural and Social Sciences
Purchase College, SUNY
735 Anderson Hill Road
Purchase, NY 10577

Suzanne.Kessler@purchase.edu

 

Education:
B.A. 1968, Carnegie-Mellon University; Ph.D., 1974, City University of New York.

Courses taught: Social Psychology; Psychology of Gender; Psychology of Women; Ethnomethodology; Psychology of Communication; Social Psychology of AIDS; Phenomenological Psychology; Social Psychology of Prisons.

Areas of Expertise: psychology of gender, social influence, women and prison.

Research Interests: The social construction of gender, with particular emphasis on those categories that violate our culture's gender assumptions (transsexuality, intersexuality)

Honors and Awards: Purchase College Student Union Award for Outstanding Faculty Member in the Letters and Sciences, 1996; SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching, 1994; NYS/UUP Continuing Faculty Development Award.

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