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Apr 20, 2022
Celebrate Earth Day with Our Scholars
Join Graduate Center scholars to protect the environment, advocate for positive change, and learn about the natural world.
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Mar 11, 2022
How Our Scholars Played Heroic Roles in the Pandemic
Graduate Center scholars have been at the forefront of research to understand the virus and the larger pandemic.
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Mar 8, 2022
The Ways COVID Changed Teaching at CUNY for the Better
From confronting the “archaic way we test our students” to using digital archives, Graduate Center students and faculty share how the pandemic spurred new ways of teaching.
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Feb 1, 2022
Herman Bennett and Helena Rosenblatt Named Distinguished Professors, Highest Academic Honor at CUNY
Professors Herman Bennett (History) and Helena Rosenblatt (History, French, Political Science, Liberal Studies, Biography and Memoir) were recognized for their outstanding scholarship and service to...
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Liberal Studies Books

Seeing White
An Introduction to White Privilege and Race, Second Edition
Seeing White: An Introduction to White Privilege and Race, Second Edition is an interdisciplinary, supplemental textbook that challenges undergraduate students to see race as everyone’s issue. The book’s early chapters establish a solid understanding of privilege and power, leading to a critical exploration of discrimination.
By Jean Halley, Amy Eshleman, and Ramya Mahadevan Vijaya
Published May 2022
Rowman & Littlefield

The Complete Thoughts of Greg Masters
A collection of new poems, some of which settle with past bewilderment, some retaliate against immoral acts, while others try to match the lift of music and find delight in hill towns. Freud is imagined as a shrink of the Old West and there’s a formula for settling a restaurant check for a table with imbibers and non-imbibers.
Published March 2022
Crony Books, 2022

Global Governance Futures
Co-edited by Rorden Wilkinson
Global Governance Futures addresses the crucial importance of thinking through the future of global governance arrangements. It considers the prospects for the governance of world order approaching the middle of the twenty-first century by exploring today’s most pressing and enduring health, social, ecological, economic, and political challenges. Each of the expert contributors considers the drivers of continuity and change within systems of governance and how actors, agents, mechanisms, and resources are and could be mobilized.
The aim is not merely to understand state, intergovernmental, and non-state actors. It is also to draw attention to those underappreciated aspects of global governance that push understanding beyond strictures of traditional conceptualizations and offer better insights into the future of world order.
Published September 2021
Routledge