I am sorry to inform you that Hurricane Irma has badly damaged the Barbuda Research Complex, led by Dr. Sophia Perdikaris. Though I am relieved no Graduate Center staff or faculty were among those killed and injured, I am deeply concerned because many of the friends and colleagues who worked with them and maintained the field station on the island remain unaccounted for. I know we all hope emergency services finds everyone and they are all as unharmed as it is possible to be in a disaster of this magnitude.
The Barbuda Council in collaboration with the City University of New York (CUNY), the Graduate Center, Brooklyn College, the Global Human Ecodynamics Alliance (GHEA), and the Human Ecodynamics Research Center (HERC) founded the Barbuda Research Complex in 2011. The intent is to serve the dual purpose of maintaining a multidisciplinary research station on Barbuda and ensuring community relevance and ownership of all research conducted there.
Our thoughts are with the loved ones of those killed in this storm and the over half of the 1,800 inhabitants of the tiny island believed to be homeless. As was intended, researchers became part of the community on Barbuda. I know they are all in mourning. Dr. Perdikaris will travel to Barbuda on September 20 if it is possible to land a plane. I thank her for her commitment to Barbuda and this important project.
From the Provost - Archive
Joy Connolly is the Provost and Senior Vice President at the Graduate Center. As the institution’s chief academic officer, she ensures the quality and performance of all degree-granting programs. Her current priorities include opening up the Graduate Center to larger numbers of the public, including masters students, who seek access to the GC’s intellectual strengths; developing creative non-degree programs; strengthening global partnerships; lifting the GC’s distinctive public-facing profile; and fostering innovation and experimentation in graduate education.
Before joining the Graduate Center in August 2016, Connolly was the Dean for the Humanities and Professor of Classics at New York University, where she was responsible for about 400 faculty in close to 30 departments, programs, centers, and institutes. Previously, as the Director of NYU’s College Core Curriculum, she put in place a post-doctoral program that featured workshops for graduate students on pedagogy and practical preparation for the job market. Earlier in her career, she taught at the University of Washington and at Stanford.
Connolly’s research focuses on Roman ideas about aesthetics, communication, ethics and political action, particularly as they relate to the 18th century and the contemporary world. Her first book, The State of Speech (Princeton, 2007), examined the role of communication in Roman ideals of citizenship. The Life of Roman Republicanism (Princeton, 2014) analyzed key themes in Roman thought: freedom, recognition, antagonism, self-knowledge, irony, and imagination. Connolly is also the author of Going on the Market, a handbook available on line that helps students navigate graduate school as well as the job-application and post-doctoral fellowship processes. Along with scholarly articles and book chapters, she has written reviews for the Times Literary Supplement, The Nation and The New York Times Book Review.
Connolly earned her AB from Princeton University and her PhD from the University of Pennsylvania. She first studied classical literature and culture at Middlesex School in Concord, Massachusetts, and is a member of the School’s board of trustees.
Email: jconnolly@gc.cuny.edu
Phone: (212) 817-7229
Reporting to the Provost and serving as deputy, the Associate Provost and Dean for Academic Affairs assists in supervising a variety of administrative and fiscal areas, including all doctoral and master’s programs, interdisciplinary studies, the certificate programs, students’ professional development, the Graduate Assistant Programs, annual dissertation awards competition, oversight of the CUNY Performance Management Process (PMP) annual reports for GC goals and outcomes, and the Language Reading Program. The Associate Provost and Dean for Academic affairs also plays a key leadership role in the Humanities, Social Science and Science Discipline clusters, and is a significant partner in the implementation of the Graduate Center’s Strategic Plan.
Email: dolan@gc.cuny.edu
Phone: (212) 817-7205
Reporting to the Provost, the Dean for the Sciences oversees all of the science doctoral programs (including the health science programs). The Dean for the Sciences also monitors admissions and the 5-year student fellowship packages offered by the joint doctoral degree programs in the bench sciences, and plays a leadership role in the Science Discipline cluster.
Email: jbrumberg@gc.cuny.edu
Phone: (212) 817-7215
Bazan, Margarita
Associate Director for Academic Operations
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(212) 817-7238
Brumberg, Joshua
Dean for the Sciences
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(212) 817-7215
Joy Connolly
Provost and Senior Vice President
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(212) 817-7200
Doneger, Myra
CUNY Administrative Assistant
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Ellis, Anne
Director of Graduate Assistant Programs/
Special Assistant to the
Associate Provost and Dean for Humanities and Social Sciences
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Ellis, Edward
CUNY Administrative Assistant
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Fish, Barbara L.
Director of Faculty Administration and Academic Information Systems
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(212) 817-7228
Gayle, Tamra L.
Administrative Executive Coordinator
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Jiménez, Olga
College Assistant
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Kinger, Mansha
CUNY Office Assistant
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Kobrin, Jennifer
Director of Institutional Research & Effectiveness
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(212) 817-7209
Maldonado, Rosa A.
Academic Operations Specialist
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212-817-7287
Modica, Stacy
Assistant to the Provost
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(212) 817-7229
Olan, David
Associate Provost and Dean for Academic Affairs
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(212) 817-7205
Sponzo, Rachel
Associate Director of Student Research Fellowships
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(212) 817-7282
Tiongson, Stacie
Executive Director of Academic Affairs
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(212) 817-7226
Wong, Steven
Assistant Director of Faculty Administration and Academic Information Systems
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