Christopher Malone
Associate Provost
Christopher Malone has nearly 3 decades of experience in higher education and public service. In September 2021, Malone was appointed Associate Provost at Farmingdale State College, SUNY. From 2018-2021, Malone served as Founding Dean of the newly created School of Arts and Sciences at Molloy University. From 2015 to 2018, he served as Associate Dean of the School of Natural and Social Sciences at Lehman College, CUNY.
Malone began his teaching career in the Department of Political Science at Hunter College in 1996, as a Doctoral Teaching Fellow. In 2001, he joined the faculty of the Political Science Department at Pace University in New York City, where he remained for 15 years. In his time at Pace, 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, Chair of the Dyson Faculty Assembly, and Chair of the Department of Political Science. From 2004-2010, Malone also co-taught a popular distance learning Public Policy and American Politics course on CSPAN, with CSPAN's long-time serving Vice President, Steve Scully, which reached 70 million households.
Malone has worked in and around politics and government throughout his academic career. He managed his first political campaign in 2000-2001 - a New York City council race in Brooklyn. In the two decades since, he has been sought out as a consultant to numerous political leaders and candidates. At the same time, Malone has been a resource for the media given his political expertise, appearing in the local, national, and international media regularly.
From 2011-2015 Malone served in the New York State Senate as Policy Director for State Senator Gustavo Rivera from the Bronx, Chair of the Senate Health Committee, working mainly on health, higher education, and criminal justice policy. He has authored numerous legislative bills that have become New York State Law. In April 2020, NYC Mayor Bill DeBlasio appointed Malone to a 5-year term on the Campaign Finance Board's Voter Assistance Advisory Committee (VAAC).
Malone's academic research lies in the field of race and American political development, political participation, and civic engagement. He is the author of Between Freedom and Bondage: Race, Party and Voting Rights in the Antebellum North (Routledge, 2008), and co-editor and contributing author of Occupying Political Science: OWS From New York to the World (Palgrave, 2012) and The Organic Globalizer: Hip Hop, Political Development and Movement Culture (Bloomsbury, 2014).