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MALS at a Glance
• 30 Credits
• 4 required MALS courses
• Electives chosen from all
   GC course offerings
• Thesis required
• Renowned GC Faculty
• Full- or part-time study
 
Liberal Studies Tracks

 

Faculty

The CUNY Graduate Center faculty, recognized leaders in a diverse array of fields in the arts and sciences, are dedicated to interdisciplinary scholarship and pedagogical excellence.

Battle, Juan
Public Health, Sociology, Urban Education, Liberal Studies MA, Coordinator of the Africana Studies Certificate Program.
Bozorgmehr, Mehdi
Sociology, Liberal Studies MA, Middle Eastern Studies MA., Immigration, Urban Studies, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Muslim Americans
Brier, Stephen
U.S. History, Labor and Working-Class Studies, Public Education, Information Technology and Pedagogy
Brownstein, Rachel
18th and 19th century literature, the novel especially; life writing; essays; caricature
Chinn, Sarah E.
19th century US literature and culture, gender and sexuality
Cook, Blanche Wiesen
History, Liberal Studies MA, Women’s Studies CP.
Cooper, Sandi
Peace and Women’s Movements; Introduction to Modernity; 
History; Liberal Studies MA; Women’s Studies CP
Dauben, Joseph W.
History of Science; History of Mathematics; Sociology of Science; Science and Technology in China
Dickstein, Morris
Modern literature and cultural history, film, biblical criticism, popular culture
Dolan, Marc
U.S. Literature and Culture, 1845 to the present; Mass Culture and Mass Art; Popular Narrative; Literature and Ethnicity; Representations of New York City in Literature; American Studies; Cultural Studies; Cultural Theory; History of Popular Song
Entin, Joseph
American Studies; American literature; modernism; visual culture, especially documentary photography; class, culture, and working-class studies; cultural theory
Fine, Michelle
Psychology, Urban Education, Liberal Studies MA, Women’s Studies CP; Education and Social Justice
Finke, Wayne
Spanish Peninsular Literature, language and linguistics
Gold, Matthew K.
Digital Humanities, scholarly communication, networked rhetoric, open-access pedagogy, nineteenth-century American literature and culture
Gottlieb, Anthony
Liberal Studies MA
Grasso, Linda
U.S. Literature; U.S. Women’s Literature and Culture; African American Literature; U.S. Women’s History; Asian American Studies; Teaching Writing Across the Curriculum
Hattori, Tomohisa
International Political Economy, Moral Economy, and International Development
Joseph , Gerhard
Victorian Literature, Contemporary Theory, the interface of contemporay literature and cognitive theory, and of literature and anthropology
Kessner, Thomas
History, Urban Education, Liberal Studies MA, American Studies CP.
Lyness, Karen
Work-Life and Family, Business, Psychology, Liberal Studies MA; diversity in organizations, cross-cultural issues, and other topics in industrial-organizational psychology.
Macaulay-Lewis, Elizabeth
Archaeology; Architectural History; Classical material culture; Roman material culture; Islamic art, architecture and material culture; Reception studies.
Paulicelli, Eugenia
Fashion Studies and Theory; Fashion and Politics; Women and Gender Studies; Film and Screen Media; Italian Literature, Culture and Fashion (Early Modernity to the Present); New Technologies and the Mediation of Culture; The Work of Roland Barthes and Charles Sanders Peirce.
Shockley, Kristen
work-family issues, workplace mentoring, career success, occupational stress
Singer, Robert
Interdisciplinary Studies, American Studies, Film Studies, Comparative Literature