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• Waiting to Exhale: Students, Faculty, and Staff Reflect a Year After the COVID Shutdown

  

  Megan Henriquez, Rod Hurley, Tracy Dennis-Tiwary, and Shawna Townsend

  A year after the pandemic began, Graduate Center students, faculty, and staff share their experiences. Read more

• Students, Faculty, and Staff Share Their Pandemic Reflections

  A year after the pandemic began, Graduate Center students, faculty, and staff share their experiences and what they learned.  Read more

• Women’s History Month Books Guide: 10 Great Reads by Graduate Center Faculty and Alumni

  

  Books by Graduate Center faculty and alumni.

  From Georgia O'Keeffe to the ERA, here are some great books for Women's History Month.  Read more

• Ph.D. Student Gisely Colón López on the Struggle for Puerto Rican Studies

  

  Gisely Colón López (Photo courtesy of Colón López)

  Colón López describes her work on the new documentary and how the Puerto Rican and Latino Studies department at Brooklyn College was "transformative" in her own life. Read more

• Danielle Garcia Explores Hip-Hop’s Political Power and Its Paradoxes, and Finds Her Calling

  

  Danielle Garcia and some of her hip-hop albums

  "There is a lot about hip-hop that we can learn from and use to empower," says alumna Dannielle Garcia.  Read more

• The CUNY Digital History Archive Receives Prestigious Grant to Document Activism for Greater Access, Inclusion, and Diversity at CUNY

  

  SLAM! (Student Liberation Action Movement) business card, by Jed Brandt. Retrieved from CUNY Digital History Archive.

  The Metro Equity in Action grant, one of only four awarded citywide, enhances a project to curate and digitize documents relating to CUNY’s history, and provides funding for three student researchers. Read more

• ‘Over-Policed and Under-Protected’: Michael Fortner on How to Safeguard Black Communities

  

  Michael Fortner

  Professor Michael Fortner spoke to The Graduate Center about the criminal justice system, Black Lives Matter, and his family’s own experience with the criminal justice system and as victims of crime.  Read more

• ‘She Was Speaking Directly to Us’: Professor Celina Su on Amanda Gorman’s Inauguration Poem, ‘The Hill We Climb’

  

  Amanda Gorman (Credit: Hostos Community College)

  Professor Celina Su (GC/Brooklyn, Urban Education/Political Science) shares her thoughts on Amanda Gorman’s inauguration poem and why it moved so many of us. Read more

• Thuy Anh Tran Awarded Dissertation Research Grant by the American Political Science Association

  

  Thuy Anh Tran

  Tran will use the grant for research that focuses on political repression, state power, and social movements. Read more

• Inauguration and Democracy in the Balance: Graduate Center Faculty React to the Swearing in of President Joseph R. Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris

  

  President Joe Biden (Photo credit: Alex Irklievski)

  Graduate Center faculty reflect on Inauguration Day and "dawn of a new era." Read more