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• James Oakes Wins Award from Civil War Round Table

  Distinguished Professor James Oakes of the Ph.D. Program in History has won the 52nd annual Barondess/Lincoln Award from the Civil War Round Table of New York for his book Freedom National: The... Read more

• Selfiecity Project Applies Demographic Analysis and Pattern Visualization to Instagram Photos from Five World Cities

  Lev Manovich, professor of computer science at the Graduate Center, is coordinator of Selfiecity, a project using 3,200 Instagram selfie photos, taken between December 4 and 12, 2013, in Bangkok, Berlin, Moscow, New York, and São Paulo, to explore how people represent themselves using mobile photography in social media. Read more

• Noson Yanofsky's Book Wins PROSE Award

  Noson S. Yanofsky (Prof., Brooklyn, Computer Science) has won the PROSE Award for the best publishing on popular science and popular mathematics for his book The Outer Limits of Reason: What... Read more

• Ruth Wilson Gilmore Wins AAG Award

  On January 22, the Association of American Geographers (AAG) announced Ruth Wilson Gilmore as the winner of the 2014 Harold M. Rose Award, which honors scholars who lead social change. The... Read more

• Peter Eckersall Joins Theatre Program

  Peter Eckersall, a pioneering researcher in Japanese theatre and dramaturgy and contemporary performance, has joined the Graduate Center as professor of theatre as of Spring 2014. Read more

• Alexander Named National Fellow at Indian Institute

  The Indian Institute of Advanced Study (IIAS) named Distinguished Professor Meena Alexander (Hunter, English) a National Fellow at the IIAS, beginning July 2014. The high honor was awarded to... Read more

• Three More Doctoral Faculty Members Named Distinguished Professors

  Three members of the GC's consortial faculty, Arthur Apter (Baruch, Mathematics), Jay Rosen (CSI, Mathematics), and Richard McCoy (Queens, English), have been appointed distinguished professors,... Read more

• David Joselit Joins Art History Program

  The Graduate Center is pleased to welcome accomplished scholar and critic David Joselit, who has been named distinguished professor in the Ph.D. Program in Art History as of Spring... Read more

• Joan Richardson Appointed Distinguished Professor

  At the January 27 meeting of CUNY’s board of trustees, Joan Richardson, a member of the doctoral faculty in English and comparative literature, was appointed Distinguished Professor. She is... Read more

• History Professor Bhagavan Speaks Out on Indian Supreme Court Ruling

  Manu Bhagavan, professor of history at the Graduate Center and Hunter College, was interviewed on NPR on December 12 about this week’s controversial decision by the Supreme Court of India to... Read more