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• What Trump's Inaugural Address Didn't Say: Heath Brown

  Among those analyzing President Donald J. Trump's inaugural address was Professor Heath Brown (GC/John Jay, Criminal Justice), a sought-after expert on electoral politics. His observations follow. Read more

• Kevin Nadal Receives Major Award from American Psychological Association

  Associate Professor Kevin Nadal (GC/John Jay, Psychology), executive director of the GC’s CLAGS: The Center for LGBTQ Studies, has received the 2017 Early Career Award for Distinguished Contributions to Psychology in the Public Interest, a highly prestigious honor bestowed by the American Psychological Association.    Read more

• Public Science Project Awarded $500K Ford Foundation Grant

  The GC’s Public Science Project (PSP) has been awarded a $500,000 grant from the Ford Foundation to fund its “Just Methods for Participatory Youth Policy” project. Read more

• Potential Increase in Hate Crimes Against Transgender People, Says Kevin Nadal

  Associate Professor Kevin Nadal (GC/John Jay, Psychology), the Executive Director of CLAGS: Center for LGBTQ Studies, said he feared there could “definitely be an increase in hate crimes against trans and queer people” under a Trump administration. Read more

• ‘Wanted: Equal Opportunity Globalization’: Branko Milanovic Pens New Essay

  In a new Eurasia Review essay, Visiting Presidential Professor Branko Milanovic analyzes whether globalization — often seen as the cause of dissatisfaction in the United States and other wealthy countries — is the result of U.S. policies or other factors. Read more

• Pulitzer Prize-Winning Historian Kai Bird to Head Leon Levy Center for Biography

  The Graduate Center announced today that Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and journalist Kai Bird has been appointed Executive Director of the Leon Levy Center for Biography, effective January 27, 2017. Read more

• Ruth Milkman Supports ‘Fight for $15’ Movement in New York Times

  In a prominent New York Times story, Distinguished Professor Ruth Milkman (Sociology) calls the Fight for $15 campaign — an effort to raise the minimum wage for millions of workers — “the single most important initiative on the labor front in the last few years.”
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• The ‘Ruinous Betrayal’ of Indians and Black Americans: David Reynolds in NYRB

  Distinguished Professor David S. Reynolds (English) explores colonization, integration, and the hypocrisy intertwined with American idealism in a thought-provoking new essay for The New York Review of Books.  Read more

• Tania León’s Return to Cuba Featured in New York Times

  Professor Tania León (Music), who this month will perform in her native Cuba for the first time in almost 50 years, spoke to The New York Times about the significance of her upcoming trip. Read more

• Trump’s Appeal, Explained Through WWII-Era Science: Richard Wolin

  World War II-era social scientists provided a starting point for “shedding light on the meaning of Trumpism and what it says about the fate of American democracy,” writes Distinguished Professor Richard Wolin (Comparative Literature/History/Political Science) in a new Chronicle of Higher Education essay. Read more