Graduate of the Last Decade Award Winner Maya Hess (Ph.D. ’14) discusses Red T — her “dissertation in action. Read more
Currently the president of Franklin & Marshall College, Porterfield (Ph.D. '95, English) will succeed Walter Isaacson as president of the Washington, D.C.-based think tank on June 1, 2018. Read more
Five alumni will be recognized as the winners of the Graduate Center's 2017 Alumni Achievement Awards on Wednesday, November 15, at 6:00 p.m. Read more
Michelle Ronda ’11 (Sociology) and Robin Isserles ’02 (Sociology) were commissioned to survey Battery City Park, a study influenced by the work of Emeritus Professor William Kornblum. Read more
Michael Shinn, a performer, educator, arts advocate, and the cofounder of a music festival in Sonoma County, California, was named dean of music at the Boston Conservatory at Berklee. Read more
Allison Padilla-Goodman ’14 (Ph.D., Sociology), a veteran community organizer, educator, and activist against racism and anti-Semitism, was named the Southeast Regional Director for the Anti-Defamation League (ADL). Read more
James Blair (Ph.D. ’16, Anthropology) is one of a handful of doctoral graduates to be named a 2017 Mellon/ACLS (American Council of Learned Societies) Public Fellow. Read more
Ira Dworkin
Congo Love Song: African American Culture and the Crisis of the Colonial State (The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture)
The University of North Carolina Press (2017)
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Perry Halkitis (Ph.D. ’95, Educational Psychology), the newly appointed dean of Rutgers School of Public Health and the first openly gay man to hold the position, is accustomed to defying limits. Read more
In September, Wen Liu (Ph.D. ’17, Critical Psychology) will start a tenure-track faculty position in the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Department at the University of Albany – SUNY. It’s a coveted opportunity for her to pursue her research on LGBTQ issues and to teach at another public institution that values diversity. Read more