Christopher Malone

Christopher Malone has more than two and a half decades of experience in higher education and politics in New York City and State. In July 2018 Malone was appointed Founding Dean of the newly created School of Arts and Sciences at Molloy College. From 2015 to 2018, he served as Associate Dean of the School of Natural and Social Sciences at Lehman College, CUNY. From 2001-2015 Malone was a professor of Political Science at Pace University in New York City. In his years at Pace University, Malone served in various academic and administrative roles, including: Founding Director of the American Studies Program, Director of the Pforzheimer Honors College, Founding Director of the Pace Summer Scholars Institute, and Chair of the Department of Political Science. From 2011-2015 Malone served in the New York State Senate as Policy Director for State Senator Gustavo Rivera from the Bronx, the Chair of the Senate Health Committee, for whom he worked mainly on health and criminal justice policy.

Malone is a nationally recognized teacher of civic engagement and public values. During the 2000 presidential campaign, he helped produce and appeared in the PBS show for teens In the Mix, teaching young voters about analyzing campaign ads. In January 2004 he was identified by the Washington Post as one of the nation's most innovative professors. From 2004-2010, Dr. Malone co-taught a course on American Politics and Public Policy with C-SPAN's Executive Producer Steve Scully that aired every Friday afternoon on the C-SPAN networks. Videos of those courses can be found on the CSPAN Video Library website.

Malone's academic research focuses primarily on race and American political development, democracy and citizenship. He is the author of Between Freedom and Bondage: Race and Voting Rights in the Antebellum North.(Routledge Press, 2008), contributing author and co-editor of Occupring Political Science: The Occupy Wall Street Movement from New York to the World (Palgrave, 2013), and contributing author and co-editor of The Organic Globalizer: Hip Hop, Political Development and Movement Culture (Bloomsbury Press 2015). Malone reviews books for the Law and Politics Book Review and regularly analyzes politics for Good Morning Hudson Valley, USA Today, The New York Times and WINS 1010 in New York City. Malone has also been quoted in more than a hundred of news articles on presidential politics and has appeared on local New York City television news shows analyzing presidential politics.