Barbara B. Stern at the Graduate Center's first commencement in 1965. She was the first woman to receive a Ph.D.
Stern was 25 and expecting her first child when she graduated in 1965. Her daughters discuss her path from English Ph.D. to marketing professor. Read more
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Doctorates Number 1 and 10,000: Daniel N. Stern (Ph.D. '65, Psychology) and Kristen Case (Ph.D. '09, English). Robinson hooded Case at Commencement in 2009.
Robinson, who was the first man to receive a doctorate from the Graduate Center in 1965, made a career out of being curious. Read more
Mahwash Shoaib (author and contributor)
Muslim American Hyphenations: Cultural Production and Hybridity in the Twenty-first Century
(Lexington Books, 2021)
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Psychology Ph.D. alumna Maureen Coyle offers research-based advice and discusses what’s next in her academic career. Read more
Kevin McGruder
Philip Payton: The Father of Black Harlem
(Columbia Unversity Press, 2021)
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Amanda Wasielewski
From City Space to Cyberspace: Art, Squatting, and Internet Culture in the Netherlands
(Amsterdam University Press, 2021)
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João Marinotti (Photo courtesy of Marinotti)
Marinotti, who took an unusual path through academia, offers advice to other scholars seeking tenure-track positions. Read more
Ronnie Ancona and Georgia Tsouvala
New Directions in the Study of Women in the Greco-Roman World
(Oxford University Press, 2021)
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Colin Jerolmack
Up to Heaven and Down to Hell: Fracking, Freedom, and Community in an American Town
(Princeton University Press, 2021)
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(L-R) Michèle Duguay, José R. Chávarry, Noel Torres-Rivera, and Morgan C. Williams, Jr.
These alumni share their tips with fellow scholars who want to land a tenure-track job. Read more