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This page uses the General Page template, and this summary is entered using the "Intro Text" field, which allows basic text formatting options. An optional banner image is included below. (This can also be a video.)

This page uses the General Page template, and this summary is entered using the "Intro Text" field, which allows basic text formatting options. An optional banner image is included below. (This can also be a video.)
This is the Body field.
The body is the main content area of the page
As a general rule the body should always be populated with content, even if no other pages sections or components are used.
The field is a WYSIWYG - What You See Is What You Get - which allows you to visually enter and format content including basic text, links/buttons, headings bulleted and numbered lists, tables, and embedded media like images and videos.
Another WYSIWYG field is available as an optional component in the Page Sections portion of the template, which you can use in combination with other components to add extra content below the menu section.
Page Sections
Below the body and top accordions is the Page Sections area, which spans the full width of the page and is made up of a customizable set of mix-and-match components to display static and dynamic content. These components can be added in any quantity and in any combination, and can easily be re-ordered using a drag-and-drop feature.
An example of each available component is included below - use these links to jump quickly to the component you would like to see. (Note: This intro has been added using the WYSIWYG component!)
Accordions | Book Components | Checkerboards | Contacts | Differentiators | Event Components | Forms | FYIs | Gallery | Listing | News | Profiles | Testimonials
Book Components
The component below is the Book Feature component, which displays the three most recently published book posts matching selected parameters (author, topic, and/or department). The component also includes an optional clickthrough link, which you can use to link to a full archive of matching books.
A related component, the Book Listing, is also available, which displays ALL book posts matching the selected parameters. Note that these lists are often very long, which means this component may not be suitable for use on a general page alongside other content and components. We recommend placing the Book Listing component on a separate, dedicated page and using the optional link in the Book Feature to direct users to view the full archive. You can see this approach in action in the demo component below.
Book Feature
Optional link to direct users to a full archive of books
Seeing | Making
―> Room for Thought
Renowned philosopher Susan Buck-Morss collaborates with conceptual apparel label Boot Boyz Biz's Kevin McCaughey and Inventory Press' Adam Michaels on this experimental image-text update of McLuhan and Benjamin.
Showing how the montage principle allows thought to occupy the space between two seemingly unrelated things, Seeing | Making Room for Thought both studies and embodies how an arrangement of images can be a form of thinking―in other words, images not as illustrations or objects of analysis but as a montage. In a close collaboration with designers Kevin McCaughey (founder of the popular conceptual clothing line Boot Boys Biz) and Adam Michaels of Inventory Press, renowned philosopher Susan Buck-Morss expands on her unique conception of montage, combining images and text―also integrating excerpts from Buck-Morss’ previous work―in an innovative way that provides insight into images and how they work together. In both design and content, Seeing | Making Room for Thought is directly in conversation with Marshall McLuhan and Quentin Fiore’s The Medium Is the Massage, as well as the works of Walter Benjamin.
Published November 2023
Inventory Press

Working with the Brain in Psychology
Considering Careers in Neuropsychology
By Lynn A. Schaefer, Ph.D. and Hilary C. Bertisch, Ph.D.
Working with the Brain in Psychology: Considering Careers in Neuropsychology seeks to assist students in their career exploration, by introducing them early, in the contemplative stage of career planning, to the fascinating speciality of psychology known as neuropsychology. The text spends considerable time differentiating neuropsychology from alternative career paths, and provides personal accounts, contributions from neuropsychologists in various settings, and case examples of different patient populations to illustrate what it is like to train to become and work as a neuropsychologist.
This text begins by describing what neuropsychology is, how it is situated within psychology, and for whom it could be a good fit. Suggestions are provided about how to engage in self-assessment in order to help choose a career. It goes on to review over a dozen similar and overlapping careers to illustrate how neuropsychology stands out. Quotes by professional neuropsychologists bring to life what "a day in the life" looks like in different settings, and the kinds of populations with whom neuropsychologists work are illustrated with case examples. This book then outlines how one becomes a neuropsychologist, including how to re-specialize from a different field. It also gives an honest appraisal of potential challenges that come with this career, and ends with anticipated future directions in the profession to look forward to.
This book will be useful primarily for psychology-minded undergraduates and college graduates thinking of going on to graduate school for psychology, as well as for high school students interested in the brain and psychology. This book is further aimed at those considering a change of career from a related field into neuropsychology, as well as the guidance counselors and college career centers that assist with career planning.
Published September 2023
Routledge

Scholars in COVID Times
Edited by Melissa Castillo Planas and Debra A. Castillo.
Scholars in COVID Times documents the new and innovative forms of scholarship, community collaboration, and teaching brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic. In this volume, Melissa Castillo Planas and Debra A. Castillo bring together a diverse range of texts, from research-based studies to self-reflective essays, to reexamine what it means to be a publicly engaged scholar in the era of COVID.
Between social distancing, masking, and remote teaching—along with the devastating physical and emotional tolls on individuals and families—the disruption of COVID-19 in academia has given motivated scholars an opportunity (or necessitated them) to reconsider how they interact with and inspire students, conduct research, and continue collaborative projects. Addressing a broad range of factors, from anti-Asian racism to pedagogies of resilience and escapism, digital pen pals to international performance, the essays are connected by a flexible, creative approach to community engagement as a core aspect of research and teaching. Timely and urgent, but with long-term implications and applications, Scholars in COVID Times offers a heterogeneous vision of scholarly and pedagogical innovation in an era of contestation and crisis.
Published September 2023
Cornell University Press
Book Listing (All matching chosen parameters)

The Memory Dictionary
By Madeleine Barnes (Ph.D. candidate in English, Writing Across the Curriculum Fellow at Baruch College)
Madeleine Barnes is a writer and visual artist living in Brooklyn. Her debut full-length poetry collection, You Do Not Have To Be Good, was published by Trio House Press in 2020. She is also the author of Women’s Work (Tolsun Books, 2021), Light Experiments (Porkbelly Press, 2019), and The Mark My Body Draws in Light (Finishing Line Press, 2014). Her work has been featured in places like The Poetry Society of America: In Their Own Words, Pleiades, PANK, Split Lip Magazine, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, Prelude, The Brooklyn Review, and Plume Poetry: 10. Her poetry was featured in Frontier Poetry’s “Exceptional Poetry From Around The Web” series alongside poetry by Tracy K. Smith. She is the recipient of fellowships from The Morgan Library & Museum, the PublicsLab at the Graduate Center, and the Center for Book Arts. She serves as editor-at-large at Cordella Press.
Published April 2023
Ethel Press

The Animal of Existence
Language is a dangerous burning woods. ‘What's at stake is thus far what survives the inferno’. And in those hot thickets, The Animal of Existence by Jared Daniel Fagen is itself a complex animal — crouching, questioning, restless, at times stalking the edges of consciousness, at times wild of mouth, with an electric charged bite. It offers a series of poetic prose texts, hybrid in their inventive logics of narrative and syntax, each piece carrying distinct music and texture. ‘I am walled and rung alive by your love, your love annihilated me from the territory of circumferences, of your retina.’ This book powerfully wrangles alienation and identity as well as grief, hard feelings, and ‘the mourning dusk of us’. The angles are vividly torqued and they touch the delicate nerves. ‘Say I a wound instead.’
Jared Daniel Fagen is a Ph.D. candidate in Comparative Literature at The Graduate Center.
Published October 2022
Black Square Editions

After Cooling
On Freon, Global Warming, and the Terrible Cost of Comfort
By Eric Dean Wilson (Ph.D. candidate in English)
This “ambitious [and] delightful” (The New York Times) work of literary nonfiction interweaves the science and history of the powerful refrigerant (and dangerous greenhouse gas) Freon with a haunting meditation on how to live meaningfully and morally in a rapidly heating world.
In After Cooling, Eric Dean Wilson braids together air-conditioning history, climate science, road trips, and philosophy to tell the story of the birth, life, and afterlife of Freon, the refrigerant that ripped a hole larger than the continental United States in the ozone layer. As he traces the refrigerant’s life span from its invention in the 1920s—when it was hailed as a miracle of scientific progress—to efforts in the 1980s to ban the chemical (and the resulting political backlash), Wilson finds himself on a journey through the American heartland, trailing a man who buys up old tanks of Freon stockpiled in attics and basements to destroy what remains of the chemical before it can do further harm.
Wilson is at heart an essayist, looking far and wide to tease out what particular forces in American culture—in capitalism, in systemic racism, in our values—combined to lead us into the Freon crisis and then out. “Meticulously researched and engagingly written” (Amitav Ghosh), this “knockout debut” (New York Journal of Books) offers a rare glimpse of environmental hope, suggesting that maybe the vast and terrifying problem of global warming is not beyond our grasp to face.
Published July 2022
Simon & Schuster

Women's Work
By Madeleine Barnes (Ph.D. candidate in English)
Fusing original embroidery art, digital collage, and poetry that draws from the Public Domain, Women’s Work is a hybrid poetry chapbook that treads the frontier between the handmade and the digital. Each poem pulls text from sewing instructions and advertisements, layered over the scanned backs of the author’s original embroideries—messy threads that reveal traces of order. Exploring women’s labor, expression, sexuality, disobedience, and gender-based expectations of virtue, this chapbook pays tribute to women’s work and art, illuminating the dangers and adventures inherent to creating as a woman.
Published February 2021
Tolsun Books

Glaring
By Benjamin Krusling (Ph.D. candidate in English)
Glaring: a sustained look of anger, an obvious fact, a situation of such brightness and intensity that vision is obscured. In his debut book of poems, Krusling is concerned with reading domination and violence and entering their psychotic motion, the better to do otherwise. Through the thicket of anti-blackness, militarism, surveillance, impoverishment, and interpersonal abuse and violence, Glaring investigates the things that haunt daily life and make love difficult, possible, necessary.
Published December 2020
Wendy's Subway

You Do Not Have To Be Good
By Madeleine Barnes (Ph.D. candidate in English)
Chosen for the 2019 Trio House Open Reading Selection, You Do Not Have To Be Good utilizes powerful lyricism to illuminate the soul's perseverance to live. Barnes intimately immerses us in what it means to be chronically ill and reflects on the body's connection to the planet. While the body succumbs to illness, Barnes expresses illness that tides silence, "everything / fell apart in my mouth in piles of razors / that severed language, my only tether to Earth." You Do Not Have To Be Good guides us through the ways modern medicine attempts to heal the body, as the poet bravely confides in her reader that she searches for solace in poetry's galaxy.
Published May 2020
Trio House Press
Sex, Heels, and Virginia Woolf
A History of Feminist Polemics
By Paris Shih (Ph.D. candidate in English).
In his third book, Sex, Heels, and Virginia Woolf, Paris Shih revisits seminal debates among feminists and explores the intersection between feminist and queer historiographies. Tracing feminist polemics surrounding major literary figures such as Jane Austen and Virginia Woolf, as well as controversial topics including sex, fashion, and the romance novel, Shih discovers the uneven yet intertwined developments of feminist and queer theorization since the 60s. Through such a critical review, Shih not only develops an alternative feminist historiography but also foregrounds its queer potential. As he argues, the ideological contradictions in feminist thinking led to the birth of queer theory. The “troubles” of feminist history, thus, illuminated rather than obscured queer futures.
Published September 2018
The Commercial Press

The Girl Revolution
100 Years of Girl Culture from Flappers to Girl Power
By Paris Shih (Ph.D. candidate in English).
In his follow-up book, The Girl Revolution, Paris Shih uses the concepts of girl culture and generational differences to chart a “prehistory of postfeminism.” As he observes, the history of the cultural phenomenon could be traced to the 20s, when the flapper redefined the idea of girlhood and launched the “girl revolution.” Following the flapper, Helen Gurley Brown created another wave of cultural movement with her runaway bestseller, Sex and the Single Girl, reinventing feminine ideals through alternative lifestyles other than marriage and the family. In the 90s, Riot Grrrls, Spice Girls, and daughters of second-wave feminists started the revolution’s third wave through a process of generational disidentification. Rather than undermining feminist politics, Shih contends, the “girl revolution” formed a dialectical relationship with the three waves of feminist movement, at once remapping the history of feminism and anticipating the future of postfeminism.
Published June 2016
Book Republic

The Power of the Badgirl
The Rise of Postfeminism in Popular Cinema
By Paris Shih (Ph.D. candidate in English).
In his debut study, The Power of the Badgirl, Paris Shih traces a history of postfeminist cinema from Sex and the City to Legally Blonde, from Mean Girls to Sorority Row. Spanning three decades and traversing different genres, the book simultaneously builds on and revises previous scholarship on postfeminism. While feminist scholars such as Angela McRobbie critique the limits of the cultural phenomenon, Shih argues for its queer possibility, observing the intertwined developments of postfeminist and queer subjectivities at the turn of the twenty-first century. As the first book ever published on postfeminism in the Sinophone world, The Power of the Badgirl remaps feminist cinematic history and lays the foundation for what would become his trilogy of alternative feminist historiography.
Published March 2015
Book Republic

First Checkerboard Title
A checkerboard component is made up of one or more checkerboard items, each including an image or video and a colored box with, minimally, a title and description. The description field allows for basic text formatting including bold, italics, and inline links. Text should be kept brief.
If multiple checkerboard items are added to the component, the layout will alternate from left to right.
Optional Eyebrow Heading
Second Checkerboard Title
This checkerboard item uses a video instead of an image, and includes the optional eyebrow heading and button link (limited to one).
Note that if you choose to use a video, you will still need to select an image for the template to display as a placeholder. This is important for accessibility.
Optional button linkOptional Eyebrow HEading
Contacts
The Contacts component allows you to select an unlimited number of people and/or departments to automatically display relevant content information. For people, it will pull the person's name, title(s), phone number(s), and email from the person's Drupal profile. For departments (including academic programs) it will pull the department name, phone number, and email from its directory entry. For each contact you can elect to hide the phone number and/or email address (but please display at least one of those!)
You can also include an introduction or description using the optional description field, which allows for basic text formatting including bold, italics, and inline links.
Steve Everett
Differentiators
The Differentiators component is made up of a manually-selected set of differentiator cards, which are entered in Drupal as individual pieces of content. The component will display a maximum of four cards on load, with a carousel function to display any additional cards. The component also includes an optional description field, which allows for basic text formatting including bold, italics, and inline links, as well as an optional button link.
Event Components
There are two Event components available:
- The Event Feature component displays the summary information for a single manually-selected event in a full-width feature box.
- All information is pulled directly from the event post itself.
- Only events which include a banner image can be selected for display in an Event Feature component.
- Once the event has passed, the component will no longer display on the page.
- The Event Listing component displays the three next upcoming events which match the selected parameters (topic, department/program, type, and/or audience).
- All information is pulled directly from the event posts themselves.
- The component also includes a link to the GC's event calendar, automatically filtered to match the parameters selected, to show the full list of matching upcoming events.
- If there are no upcoming events that match your selected parameters, the component will not display on the page.
You can see examples of these components below. (But only if there are active events to display! If you do not see the demo components, check back at a later date.)
Optional Eyebrow Heading
Event Listing
Optional Eyebrow Heading
Form
The Form component allows you to display a Drupal webform or embed a form from an outside source. It also includes an optional description field, which allows for basic text formatting including bold, italics, and inline links, as well as an optional button link.
FYI Component
The FYI component displays the five most recently published FYIs matching your selected parameters (category, topic, and/or department/program). All content is pulled directly from the FYI posts. The component also includes a link to the GC's general FYI listing, automatically filtered to match the parameters selected, to show a full archive of matching FYIs.
You can see an example of this component below.
FYIs
All FYIsAnnouncing the 2023 Senior International Fellows
The Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society at the Graduate Center of The City University of New York is pleased to announce the selection of eight Fellows who will join us for this year’s Senior International Fellows Program. The Fellows come from Brazil, Italy, Ghana, Kosovo, Mexico, Senegal, and Ukraine and will attend seminars together in New York throughout the month of October.
Read about the Fellows, their research topics, and their professional development in the field of philanthropy.
- Announcement
Congratulations to Shivani Shah for being selected as a finalist for the DEIA Excellence in Research Grant
Congratulations to Psychology Ph.D. student Shivani Shah (Industrial/Organizational Psychology training area) on being selected as a finalist for the DEIA Excellence in Research Grant.
- Congratulations/Kudos

Professor Josh Cohen co-edits a special issue of ARTMargins
Professor Josh Cohen, along with Foad Torshizi and Vazira Zamindar, co-edited Art History, Postcolonialism, and the Global Turn — a special issue of ARTMargins . See it here.
- Congratulations/Kudos
CONGRATULATIONS
Olivia Mignone (Ph.D. student) will present her research “The Place of Himalayan Languages in the Linguistic Landscape of Jackson Heights” at the 14th Linguistic Landscape Workshop: Utopías and Dystopías at Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Sept. 7th, 2023.
- Congratulations/Kudos
Gallery
The Gallery component displays a manually selected, unlimited number of images and/or videos from the Drupal media library. The gallery will show the first 2 rows of items, with a button to expand the full gallery if additional items are included. Clicking a media item in the gallery will open it at full size in a lightbox viewer. The component also includes an optional description field which supports basic text only (no formatting).
Listing
The Listing component is made up of one or more Listing Items, each of which will minimally contain a title and a block of descriptive copy, but can also include a list of links and and image or video. The Listing Items can be re-ordered using a drag-and-drop feature. This component is most useful when you need to display multiple sections of related content and links under a common heading/description.
Listing Title
This is the simplest version of a Listing Item, containing only a title and description. The description field allows for basic text formatting including bold, italics, and inline links.
Optional Eyebrow Heading
Second Listing Item Title
Optional Subtitle
This Listing Item uses all available options, and demonstrates the list-style formatting for links.
This example includes an image, but a video can also be used. Note that if you choose to display a video, you will also need to select an image for the template to display as a placeholder. This is important to accessibility.

News Component
The News component displays the four most-recently published news stories that match your selected parameters (category, topic, and/or department/program). All content is pulled directly from the news posts. The component also includes a link to the GC's general News listing, automatically filtered to match the parameters selected, to show a full archive of matching News items.
You can see an example of this component below.
News
Sep 21, 2023
How Volatile Temperatures Shape Violent Crime
A new study finds that temperature spikes are driving rates of violent crimes in American cities.
- GC Stories
- Research News
- Faculty News
- Alumni News
Sep 20, 2023
Professor Brings Geospatial Science Training to the Bronx
Sunil Bhaskaran directs CUNY’s source for geospatial tech education in the Bronx.
- GC Stories
- Faculty News
Sep 18, 2023
ChatGPT Tips for the CUNY Classroom, Version 2.0
Graduate Center scholars share their latest insights on teaching in an AI-infused world.
- GC Stories
- Faculty News
- Student News
- Alumni News
Sep 15, 2023
Recognizing Leaders of Hispanic Scholarship
In celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month, we recognize our scholars who are leaders and pushing the boundaries of knowledge.
- GC Stories
- Student News
- Alumni News
- Faculty News
Optional Eyebrow Heading
Profiles
The Profiles component uses a grid layout to automatically pull and display the name, title(s), and headshot for all people matching the parameters selected in the component (type, topic, program, and/or department). It also includes an optional description field, which allows for basic text formatting including bold, italics, and inline links.

Joshua Brumberg
Professor
- Psychology
Professor
- Biology
Professor
- Neuroscience
Professor
- Cognitive Neuroscience
Dean for the Sciences
- Provost's Office
Dean for the Sciences
- Academic Affairs

Steve Everett
Provost and Senior Vice President
- Provost's Office

Monica W. Varsanyi
Interim Associate Provost for Academic Affairs and Dean for Humanities and Social Sciences
- Provost's Office
Professor
- Earth and Environmental Sciences
Professor
- International Migration Studies
Testimonial
The Testimonial component creates a large, visual feature for a quote, statement or review. Minimally required are a heading, the quote itself, and the name of the quotes source/author. You can also optionally include a title and subtitle for the person, a clickthrough link, and an image. This example uses the minimum settings; see below for a more fully featured testimonial.
— The GC Web Team
Second Testimonial
This testimonial example uses all available features. Please note that the quote field supports basic text only (no formatting).
— Jane Smith
Web Developer
Communications and Marketing
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