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• 7 Grad Center Alumni Share Their Tips to Get on the Tenure Track

  

  (L-R) Michèle Duguay, José R. Chávarry, Noel Torres-Rivera, and Morgan C. Williams, Jr.

  These alumni share their tips with fellow scholars who want to land a tenure-track job.  Read more

• Economics Alum, Now on the Tenure Track at Barnard, Discusses His Research on the Costs and Benefits of Policing

  

  Morgan C. Williams, Jr. (Photo courtesy of Williams)

  Morgan C. Williams, Jr. shares what made him stand out in the job market. Read more

• Student Spotlight: Claudia M. Astorino, on the Brink of a Postoc at Berkeley, Shares Her Journey as a Biological Anthropologist and LGBTQIA+ Activist

  

  Claudia M. Astorino

  Astorino’s research focuses on variations in the human skull and teeth that are due to differences in sex, and she is a leader and activist for intersex rights in the STEM fields.  Read more

• ‘The Racial Contract’ by Professor Charles Mills Retains Its Influence After More Than Two Decades

  

  Charles Mills and his book, "The Racial Contract" (Photo: Sam Alcoff)

  The American Political Science Association chose Distinguished Professor Charles Mills as the recipient of its biennial Benjamin E. Lippincott Award, which honors a work of exceptional quality by a living political theorist that is still considered significant 15 or more years after its first publication. Read more

• Professor Lyn Di Iorio Was Named a 2021 NYSCA/NYFA Fiction Fellow

  

  Lyn Di Iorio

  The fellowship program, administered by the New York Foundation for the Arts, makes unrestricted cash grants of $7,000 and is intended to fund an artist’s vision or voice. Read more

• José R. Chávarry, LAILAC Alum, Shares Advice on Getting a Tenure-Track Faculty Position

  

  José R. Chávarry (Photo courtesy of Chávarry)

  José R. Chávarry will begin working this fall at the College of Charleston as an assistant professor of Hispanic Studies. Read more

• Talking to Strangers: A Digital Humanities Student Coordinates a New York City Oral History Project

  

  Elena Abou Mrad (Photo courtesy of Abou Mrad)

  “This project sounded very in line with what I love doing, which is to help bring people into the archive and the archive out to the people,” Abou Mrad says. Read more

• Student Spotlight: Yuka Miura Wants to Work in Biotech, and a Summer Internship Is Helping Her Get There

  

  Yuka Miura (Photo courtesy of Miura)

  Miura will intern with IAVI, formerly known as the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative, a nonprofit that researches vaccines and other preventions for HIV, tuberculosis, emerging infectious diseases, and more. Read more

• Lo Ferguson, M.A. ’20 in Women’s and Gender Studies, Receives Full Tuition Scholarship to University of Pennsylvania Law School as a Public Interest Scholar

  

  Lo Ferguson (Photo courtesy of Ferguson)

  Ferguson, whose research focuses on transgender college students, wants to work "on things like access to health care and housing for the LGBTQ community, and at a level that will enact more systematic change." Read more

• Alumna Puleng Segalo Appointed the Chief Albert Luthuli Chair at the University of South Africa

  Segalo, whose academic work pays attention to the need to curb global gender inequities, laid out her vision for her three-year appoinment.  Read more