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May 25, 2023
From a Postdoc at Smith to the Tenure Track at Vassar
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May 30, 2023
With a Ph.D. in Urban Education at Age 78, a Grad Finds a New Mission

May 22, 2023
A Class of ’23 Graduate Draws on Theory in a Policy Role Helping NYC’s Homeless
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Upcoming Events
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Saturday, June 3, 2023
Artist Saturdays with Tali Keren
12:00 pm — 6:00 pm
1200: James Art Gallery
Monday, June 5, 2023
Gender, Politics, and Revolutions in Latin America
4:00 pm
9100: Skylight Room
Monday, June 12, 2023
Music from Copland House: CULTIVATE 2023
7:30 pm — 9:30 pm
1201: Elebash Recital Hall
Wednesday, June 14, 2023
Virtual Graduate Science Program Information Session
4:00 pm — 5:30 pm
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Recent Books

Photography and Korea
Authored by GC alumna Jeehy Kim, Ph.D. '15, Art History.
From the late nineteenth century, when Korean travellers brought Western photographic technology home from China, to modern times, photography has been interwoven into Korea’s political and cultural history. In Photography and Korea, the first history of Korean photography for a Western readership, Jeehey Kim presents multiple visions of the country, including the divided peninsula, Korea as imagined through foreign eyes, key Korean artists, Korean diasporas and local professional and vernacular photographers. Kim explores studio and institutional practices during the Japanese colonial period, and the divergence of practices after the division of Korea.
Published May 2023
Reaktion Books

Textures of Terror
The Murder of Claudina Isabel Velasquez and Her Father's Quest for Justice
Investigating the unsolved murder of a female law student and the pervasive violence against Guatemalan women that drives migration.
Part memoir and part forensic investigation, Textures of Terror is a gripping first-person story of women, violence, and migration out of Guatemala—and how the United States is implicated. Accompanying Jorge Velásquez in a years-long search for answers after the brutal murder of his daughter Claudina Isabel, Victoria Sanford explores what it means to seek justice in "postconflict" countries where violence never ended.
Through this father's determined struggle and other stories of justice denied, Textures of Terror offers a deeper understanding of US policies in Latin America and their ripple effect on migration. Sanford offers an up-close appraisal of the inner workings of the Guatemalan criminal justice system and how it maintains inequality, patriarchy, and impunity. Presenting the stories of other women who have suffered at the hands of strangers, intimate partners, and the security forces, this work reveals the deeply gendered nature of power and violence in Guatemala.
Published May 2023
University of California Press

Men As Friends
From Cicero to Svevo to Cataldo
Neither a cautionary tale nor a polemic, Men as Friends is about a variety of male friendships and a variety of men. A “coming-of-old-age story,” it speaks to an audience of men who love or have loved other men but are too embarrassed to say so, opening the reader to the deep sadness of loss as well as the joy of its acknowledgment.
Published May 2023
Köehler Books

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