Marni Finkelstein, Ph.D. specializes in research on populations at risk. She has conducted research on substance abuse, homeless youth, children in foster care, and sexual assault victims. She was research associate on the NIDA-funded Heroin in the 21st Century Project, and the NIJ-funded Lower East Side Drug Trafficking project, both at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. At the Vera Institute of Justice, she was principal investigator of a study on children in foster care, and co-investigator on a study on sexual assault revictimization. She was also the project director of a CDC-funded study on HIV prevention among homeless men in single-occupancy residences for Montefiore Medical Center. She is the author of the book, With No Direction Home: Homeless Youth on the Road and in the Streets, which is based on her NIDA-funded ethnographic study on street youth.
Marni received her Ph.D. in Anthropology from the New School for Social Research in New York City, her M.A. in anthropology from American University, her M.A. in Journalism from the University of Maryland, and her B.A. in Communications from Purdue University.
Publications
- Finkelstein, M., Baghurst, T., & Shavers, T. (2015). "Cleat Chasers": College Football Players Talk About Women and Sex. Issues in Social Science 3(1). 120-137.
- Finkelstein, M., & Thom, D.M. (2014).The underprepared college student: How non-cognitive factors influence academic preparedness. Journal of Studies in Education 4(1). 59-76.
- Finkelstein, M., Curtis, R., & Spunt, B. (2008). Nomadic Traveling Among Homeless Street Youth in Flynn, M., and Brotherton, D. (eds) Globalizing the Streets: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Youth, Social Control and Empowerment in the New Millennium. New York: Columbia University Press.
- Finkelstein, M. (2004). With No Direction Home: Homeless Youth on the Road and In the Streets. Belmont CA: Wadsworth Publishing.
Courses Taught at New York Tech
- ANTH 101 Introduction to Anthropology
- ICBS 309 Anthropology of Health Seminar
- ICBS 310 Addiction Seminar