Four Named CUNY Distinguished Prof's This fall four members of The Graduate Center is faculty were named Distinguished Professors by the Board of Trustees of the City University of New York: Stewart Ewen, Michelle Fine, Nicholas Freudenberg, and John Mollenkopf. Stuart Ewen Photo: David Pavlosky Stuart Ewen is director of the MFA Program in Integrated Media Arts in the Department of Film & Media Studies--offering advanced studies in nonfiction media making--at Hunter College and is on the faculties of the history, sociology, and American studies programs at The Graduate Center. He is the author of a number of influential books including PR! A Social History of Spin (Basic Books, 1996) and All Consuming Images: The Politics of Style in Contemporary Culture (Basic Books, 1988; 1999), which provided the foundation for Bill Moyers's PBS series, "The Public Mind." Ewen's other books include Captains of Consciousness: Advertising and the Social Roots of the Consumer Culture (McGraw Hill, 1977; 25th-anniversary edition by Basic Books, 2001) and Channels of Desire: Mass Images and the Shaping of American Consciousness (with Elizabeth Ewen; University of Minnesota Press, 1992). He is on the editorial board of Advertising & Society Review, and, among extensive journal publications, his "Memoirs of a Commodity Fetishist" was featured as a "Scholarly Milestone Essay" in Mass Communication and Society (Winter 2000/2001). He is presently at work on a new book with Elizabeth Ewen, a three-century history of stereotyping to be entitled "Typecasting: On the Arts & Sciences of Human Inequality." Michelle Fine Photo: Holger Thoss Michelle Fine is on the faculties of the Ph.D. Programs in Psychology and Urban Education and the Women's Studies Certificate Program at The Graduate Center. Her research centers on theoretical questions of injustice and the development of critical forms of social consciousness through work on public high schools, prisons, and youth in urban communities. Among her many publications are The Unknown City: Lives of Poor and Working Class Young Adults (with L. Weiss; Beacon Press, 1998), A Student Friendly Guide to Qualitative Research (with L. Weiss and M. Speedbumps; Teacher's College Press, 2000), and Construction Sites: Excavating Race, Class, Gender & Sexuality in Spaces for and by Youth (with L. Weiss; Teacher's College Press, 2000). She was lead investigator and co-author of the recent study "Changing Minds: The Impact of College in a Maximum-Security Prison," which showed the effect of college on the lives women inmates and the potential savings to taxpayers that such programs can provide. Nicholas Freudenberg Photo: Courtesy Hunter College Nicholas Freudenberg is professor and director of the Program in Urban Public Health at Hunter College and on the faculty of the Ph.D. Program in Psychology. He is founder of the Center on AIDS, Drugs, and Community Health at Hunter College and served as its director from 1987 to 1999 and again from 2000 to 2001. For the last 25 years, he has worked with community organizations in New York City to develop and evaluate interventions to reduce HIV infection, substance abuse, environmental threats to health, childhood asthma, and other conditions. Since 1992, he has led the center's Health Link project, a model program designed to reduce drug use, HIV risk, and re-arrest among women and adolescents returning to New York City neighborhoods from jail. His many publications include Preventing AIDS: A Guide to Effective Education for the Prevention of HIV Infection (American Public Health Association, 1989) and AIDS Prevention in the Community: Lessons from the First Decade (edited with Marc Zimmerman; American Public Health Association, 1995). John Mollenkopf Photo: Holger Thoss John Mollenkopf directs the Center for Urban Research at The Graduate Center and teaches in the political science and sociology doctoral programs. His research focuses on urban politics and public policy, New York City politics, immigrant political participation, and second-generation immigrants. He has authored or edited ten books, including Place Matters: Metropolitics for the 21st Century (with Peter Dreier and Todd Swanstrom; University Press of Kansas, 2001), which recently won the Michael Harrington Prize of the American Political Science Association; as well as Rethinking the Urban Agenda (co-edited with Ken Emerson; Century Foundation, 2001); and E Pluribus Unum? Contemporary and Historical Perspectives on Immigrant Political Incorporation (co-edited with Gary Gerstle, Russell Sage Foundation, 2001). His previous books include A Phoenix in the Ashes: The Rise and Fall of the Koch Coalition in New York City Politics (Princeton University Press, 1992) and The Contested City (Princeton University Press, 1983). He has worked with local government agencies and advocacy organizations, most recently helping the New York City Council on redistricting matters and assisting the Asian American Federation's study of the impact of September 11th on Chinatown. During the 2000-2001 academic year, he was a visiting scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation and was Wibaut Chair Visiting Professor at the University of Amsterdam in June 1998.