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• Winning Their Marbles? The Return of Cultural Heritage Objects

  

  Graduate Center alumnus Pierre Losson (Ph.D. '19, Political Science) discusses the return of cultural heritage objects on the International Horizons podcast. Read more

• Faculty Book: James C. Lendemer

  Jessica L. Allen and James C. Lendemer
  Urban Lichens: A Field Guide for Northeastern North America
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• 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

• With Ph.D.s and Master’s in Hand, These 11 Grads Are Going Places

  

  Top (L-R) Katherine Entigar, Andrew Levine, Siqi Tu, Conner Martinez, Bottom (L-R): Sandra Castro, Roxana Piotrowska, Raj Korpan, Allison Guess

  The Class of 2021 graduates have overcome incredible odds to complete their dissertations and push scholarship in their fields forward. Read more

• 9 Grad Center Scholars to Be Proud of During Pride And Every Day

  

  (L-R) Jack Crawford, Jagadīśa-devaśrī Dācus, and Jama Shelton

  Graduate Center scholars have pushed boundaries with activism and outstanding scholarship about the LGBTQ+ community, from discovering the economic benefit of mental health care for older HIV+ patients to presenting a scholarly understanding of drag. Read more

• Documenting Immigrant Families’ Separation and Reunion: Sandra Castro, Class of 2021, on her Dissertation and Her New Assistant Dean Role

  

  Sandra Castro (Photo courtesy of Castro)

  For her doctoral dissertation, Castro spent years studying immigrant mothers on Long Island who came to the U.S. from Central America without their children, parented them from afar, and then finally reunited with them.  Read more

• Cooking Up New Ways to Use the ‘Wonder Material,’ Graphene: Andrew Levine, Class of 2021, Joins a Startup

  

  Andrew Levine (Photo courtesy of Levine)

  Levine’s knowledge of carbon-based nanomaterials comes from studying organic light-harvesting materials and their fabrication into devices at the CUNY ASRC. Read more

• For Siqi Tu, the Center Is Always Changing: A Class of 2021 Graduate on Relocating from China to New York To Germany, and Her Next Move

  

  Siqi Tu (Photo courtesy of Tu)

  Her research — which also examines the effects of the increasing geopolitical tension between China and the United States, and the surge of populist anti-immigrant and anti-globalization sentiments — is particularly timely. Read more

• How He Converted ‘Dumb Questions’ Into Serious Research: Conner Martinez, Class of 2021 M.A. Grad, on Getting Into a Political Science Ph.D. Program

  

  He plans to study federal and state anti-immigration policies and their impact on U.S. politics and on Latinx political involvement.  Read more

• Seeing Universities as ‘Radical Agents in Very Hard Times’: Katherine Entigar, Class of 2021, Lands a Tenure-Track Faculty Role at the University of Toronto

  

  Entigar will continue researching issues such as immigrant justice and multilingualism and multiculturalism in adult education, but from a new vantage point. Read more