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Aug 23, 2023
‘We’re Back!’ The Graduate Center Welcomes About 600 New Students
The Graduate Center held its first full-day, in-person new student orientation since 2019.
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Jul 11, 2023
Liberal Studies Grad Moves on to a Ph.D. and a Planned Career in Higher Education
Avery M.D. Davis, now at Johns Hopkins, shares his experience and advice for degree seekers.
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May 2, 2023
Tributes to a Professor’s Work and Wide Influence
Alumni reflect on the profound impact of Professor Thomas G. Weiss, who is retiring this year.
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Apr 24, 2023
Professor Thomas G. Weiss on the U.N. and a Career Studying It
A longtime, esteemed scholar of the U.N. reflects on the organization and his own career as he moves toward retirement.
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The forced abundance of Justin Peck
Liberal Studies student Eve Bromberg published an article, "The Forced Abundance of Justin Peck" in The Brooklyn Rail.
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A postcard from Paris
Liberal Studies student Sato Moughalian published an article, "A postcard from Paris," in Contingent Magazine.
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Dr. Colette Daiute named a Fulbright Specialist for 2022-2026
Congratulations Colette! Dr. Colette Daiute*, CSPEP and Developmental Psychology, has been named a Fulbright Specialist for 2022-2026 for her groundbreaking work with lawyers, asylum seekers and immigration/refugee activists at the University of Naples Law School Clinical Lawyering Project. Daiute’s participation will include working with lawyer/client team interviews and scholars across law, humanities, and social sciences at the University of Naples Federico II to improve the credible fear interview process, especially to highlight the perspectives of asylum-seeking clients.
*Professor Daiute is also on the faculties of the Ph.D. Programs in Educational Psychology, Urban Education, the Committee on Globalization and Social Change, the Interactive Technology and Pedagogy (ITP) Certificate program, and the MALS Childhood and Youth Students Concentration. She guides the new Ph.D. Program in Psychology Concentration on Qualitative Research Methods.
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Joliette Mandel Recognized for Outstanding Thesis
Congratulations to Joliette Mandel (M.A. ’22, Liberal Studies), who received the Provost’s Prize for the most outstanding thesis/capstone project in the M.A. in Liberal Studies program for her paper “Equitable Assessment for Elementary-Aged Dual Language Learners.”
The thesis was an outgrowth of a doctoral-level course on New York City education and an accompanying policy conference led by Professor David Bloomfield (GC/Brooklyn, Urban Education), acting executive officer of the Ph.D. Program in Urban Education.
Bloomfield, who advised Mandel on the thesis, called the paper an “outstanding policy analysis with recommendations, combining sophisticated research methodology and original insights into a significant public issue.”
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Liberal Studies Books
If There Is No Wind
By Margaret R. Sáraco (M.A. '95, Liberal Studies)
If There Is No Wind is a book of frank wonder—frank in its clear-eyed assessment of “human cruelty,” asking “What will become of us?”; wonder at the healing beauty of nature, family, art, “the ordinary, the lived in.” In taking all of this on, Sáraco reminds us that “We, the flawed, inherit the earth,” but this news should be as much comfort as indictment. After all, it suggests that “you are not alone,” and that “there can still be great//abundance.” These poems are, in a wounded time, a much-needed salve —David Ebenbach, author, What’s Left to Us by Evening
Published September 2022
Human Error Publishing
Seeing White
An Introduction to White Privilege and Race, Second Edition
This book is co-authored by Amy Eshleman and Ramya Vijaya.
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.
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
