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FYI posts are brief announcements, reminders, updates, and shout-outs. They cover successes, happenings, and advances at the Graduate Center.
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Ask Me Anything with Dean Peterson
Join Dean Brian A. Peterson for an Ask Me Anything (AMA) hour.
March 15, 2021
12:00 PM–1:00 PM
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CSWS Summer Reading List!
Check out faculty books this Summer!
- Violación y resistencia: Cómo comprender las complejidades de la violación sexual (Prometeo 2019) - Linda Martin Alcoff
- Poor Queer Studies: Confronting Elitism in the University (Duke University Press 2020) - Matt Brim
- How Capitalism Forms our Lives (Routledge 2020) - Edited by Alyson Cole and Estelle Ferrarese
- Michael Paul Rogin: Derangement and Liberalism (Routledge 2019) - Edited by Alyson Cole and George Shulman
- Italian Prisons in the Age of Positivism, 1861-1914 (Bloomsbury Academic 2019) - Mary Gibson
- Demography and Democracy: Transitions in the Middle East and North Africa (Cambridge University Press 2018) - Elhum Hagighat
- Horse Crazy: Girls and the Lives of Horses (University of Georgia Press 2019) - Jean O’Malley Halley
- The Routledge Companion to Sexuality and Colonialism (Routledge 2021) - Edited by Chelsea Schields and Dagmar Herzog
- Staging the Third Reich: Essays in Cultural and Intellectual History (Routledge 2020) - Anson Rabinbach, Edited by Stefanos Geroulanos and Dagmar Herzog
- Lee Krasner: A Biography (Thames & Hudson 2019) - Gail Levin
- Islamic Feminism and the Discourse of Post-Liberalism: The Cultural Turn in Algeria (Routledge 2020) - Marnia Lazreg
- The Biomedical Empire: Lessions Learned from the Covid-19 Pandemic (Stanford University Press 2021) - Barbara Katz Rothman
- Plantation Politics and Campus Rebellions: Power Diversity, and the Empancipatory Struggle in Higher Education (SUNY Press 2021) - Edited by Bianca C. Williams, Dian D. Squire, and Frank A. Tuitt
Summer 2021 Survey Update
Please see the following report from our most recent survey:
Congrats to the Class of 2021!
Women’s and Gender Studies MA Program Graduates: Jozette Belmont, Isatou Bittaye-Jobe, Clarisa Gonzalez, Alexandra Johnson, Juwon Jun, Ashleigh K. Williams, Jyun-Jie Yang
Women’s Studies Certificate Program Graduates: Sumru Atuk, Christina Katopodis, Pilar Ortiz, Alison Parks, Aaron Slodounik
2020-2021 Award Winners: The Koonja Mitchell Memorial Prize – China Sajadian, The Sue Rosenberg Zalk Endowed Fund Award – Joanna Beltrán Girón, The Carolyn G. Heilbrun Dissertation Prize – William Camponovo
Coda Quarterly
Coda Quarterly is an online publication created and run by the current fellows and alumni of the Writers' Institute, presenting original essays, short stories, poetry, and artwork by past and present students and faculty. It also features interviews with our faculty--the most prominent editors in New York City--who share their knowledge of the publishing world and offer advice to aspiring writers. For more information on Coda Quarterly, please visit their website.
Center Director Kathleen McCarthy Published on HistPhile
"Melinda Gates’s The Moment of Lift, is a feminist Gospel of Wealth for the 21st century," writes U.S. historian and Center director Kathleen McCarthy in her review of the feminist billionaire's recent memoir for HistPhil, a web publication on the history of the philanthropic and nonprofit sectors.
New Award Opportunity: Hearst Graduate Assistantships
William Randolph Hearst Graduate Assistantships are now available for CUNY Graduate Center students doing work related to civil society, philanthropy or nonprofit studies.
Spring 2021 Survey Updates
Please see the following reports from our most recent surveys:
Class, Race, and Female Performance in 17th-Century Italy.
Thank you so much for attending Emily Wilbourne’s talk, “Barbara Strozzi’s Mother: Class, Race, and Female Performance in 17th-Century Italy.” For a recording, please visit the CSWS Facebook page.