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Two Graduate Center Anthropology Students Win Fulbrights
Evan Mann and Carly Batist
Ph.D. candidates Carly Batist and Evan Mann won 2021–2022 Fulbright U.S. Student Program grants. Read more
ARC Student Scholar Publication: Christopher Maggio
Christopher Maggio, a Ph.D. candidate in Sociology at The Graduate Center and former student scholar at the Advanced Research Collaborative, published
"The Context of Immigrant Reception in the American South" in Social Currents, 2021. Read more
Learning to ‘Speak Lemur’: Fulbright Fellow Carly Batist Will Go to Madagascar to Study and Help Protect a Critically Endangered Species
Carly Batist and a black-and-white ruffed lemur (Photos courtesy of Batist)
Knowing the range and abundance of these lemurs is important because they are a critically endangered species, Batist said, and much of their rainforest habitat has been fragmented by deforestation. Read more
A Record Six Graduate Center Ph.D. Candidates Awarded ACLS Dissertation Fellowships, With More Than $35,000 in Funding Each
Top (L-R): Jack Crawford, Jessica Larson, China Sajadian; Bottom: Amir Reicher, Yasemin Ozer, Kyong Mazzaro
This year’s fellows span the fields of art history, politics, and anthropology. Read more
‘What It Means to Be Human’: Anthropologist and Fulbright Fellow Evan Mann Looks for Clues in Quebec’s Prehistoric Pottery
Evan Mann (Photo courtesy of Mann)
Evan Mann came upon his passion for antrhopology almost by accident. Read more
‘I’m Going to Carry on Doing What I’ve Always Done, and Let My Curiosity Guide Me’: Writer, Google Strategist, and QMSS Student on Her 'Times' Feature and Multifaceted Career
Stéphanie Thomson (Photo courtesy of Thomson)
Master's student Stéphanie Thomson explains how a class at The Graduate Center led her to research and write an article on the desperate search for subsidized day care by low-income parents, published in The New York Times. Read more
Student Spotlight: Melina Giakoumis Studies Some ‘Cool Critters’ in National Parks to Understand the Effects of Climate Change
Giakoumis will devote the next year to studying sea stars in intertidal ecosystems throughout the northeastern U.S. to understand and share with the public how these ecologically important species are responding to climate change. Read more
AAPI Month: Graduate Center Scholars and Alumni Who Are Challenging the Status Quo and Raising Awareness of Their Communities
We're honoring the work of Graduate Center scholars who have contributed to scholarship and activism focused on Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) communities. Read more
From Robotics to Cannabis: 10 Students Will Enlighten Us About Their Doctoral Research in Just Three-Minutes Each, at 2021 Dissertation Showcase
Top L-R: Jojo Karlin, Serena Wang, Jasmine Bayron, Guillermo Yrizar Barbosa, and Melanie Blair Thies; Bottom: Roxana Piotrowska, Emily Weiss, Raj Korpan, Natalie Gordon, and Virginia Diaz-Mendoza
Meet the 10 students in this year’s Disseration Showcase, who will present research ranging from how cannabis affects psychopharmacology to what asteroids tell us about the origins of life. Read more
Student Spotlight: Serena Wang Explores Tradition and Innovation in the Music of Chinese Émigré Composers in New York City
Serena Wang
"I'm writing a New York story and at the same time, a transnational one," says Sara Wang of her dissertation. Read more

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