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CONFRONTING SOCIAL NORMS IS CRITICAL FOR WOMEN’S EMPOWERMENT IN BANGLADESH, A NEW BOOK BY POLITICAL SCIENCE ALUMNA SHOWS
Nayma Qayum (Ph.D. ’14, Political Science) recently published Village Ties: Women, NGOs, and Informal Institutions in Rural Bangladesh, a book that argues that women’s mobilization programs can empower women, but only if these programs confront social structures. “Women’s lives are...
ON MLK DAY, SEE HOW THESE GRADUATE CENTER SCHOLARS ARE CARRYING THE TORCH OF ACTIVISM AND JUSTICE
In honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day we honor his legacy and recognize our scholars who carry on his work of pursuing civil rights and social justice from fields as diverse as architecture to economics. The Graduate Center, CUNY...
‘I WAS FORTUNATE TO JOIN A GREAT RESEARCH GROUP’: A 2021 CHEMISTRY ALUMNUS REFLECTS ON HIS PH.D.
In December, a few months after completing his Ph.D., Marek Wlodarczyk (Ph.D. ’21, Chemistry) was back at the Graduate Center to help the Ph.D. Program in Chemistry welcome students who started the program in the fall of 2020 and 2021...
HOW TO REACH YOUR ACADEMIC NEW YEAR’S RESOLUTIONS: GET YOUR RESEARCH MOVING, PUBLISH YOUR DISSERTATION, FIND A TENURE-TRACK JOB, AND LAND A PROMOTION
As we look forward to a new year, Graduate Center scholars share the lessons they have learned to help you reach your academic goals in 2022. 1. Land a Tenure-Track Job João Marinotti (M.Phil. ’21, Linguistics; M.A. ’17, Linguistics), who...
ALUMNUS DEMOND MULLINS TO LEAD FIRST ALL-BLACK TEAM TO CLIMB EVEREST
Demond (Dom) Mullins (Ph.D. '13, Sociology) has organized a group of Black mountaineers who intend to make an expedition to climb Mount Everest in spring 2022. PBS NewsHour recently covered his story and his ambition. Called Full Circle Everest, the...
HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE: 12 BOOKS BY GRADUATE CENTER FACULTY, STUDENTS, AND ALUMNI THAT BEND GENRES AND OFFER COMPELLING TAKES ON CULTURAL ISSUES
Haven’t yet tried a book by Maggie Nelson? Want to delve into the complexities of the fracking debate or learn why calls for civility hold back racial justice? Or are you interested in a genre-defying memoir or two? These books...
THE CRISIS ON THE POLAND-BELARUS BORDER, WITH NICK MICINSKI
What is behind the current standoff over refugees trying to enter Poland from Belarus? Why is the E.U. supporting Poland’s position? Have asylum seekers become pawns of regional powers seeking political and economic advantage? Nicholas (Nick) Micinski, assistant professor of...
‘FORGET RUSSIA’ TAKES READERS ON A FICTIONALIZED JOURNEY THROUGH A FAMILY’S TRAGIC HISTORY
Lisa Williams’ (Ph.D. ’96, English) latest book is her first work of fiction, but it tells a personal story that she’s wanted to share for decades. Forget Russia, published under L. Bordetsky-Williams, is the story of three generations of Russian-American...
A PSYCHOLOGY ALUMNUS APPLIES HIS PH.D. RESEARCH TO BUILD SOCIAL, RACIAL, AND ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE IN ARCHITECTURE
Todd Levon Brown (Ph.D. ’21, Psychology) is putting his doctoral research into action with a prestigious fellowship that aims to bring social, environmental, and racial justice to the field of architecture. The recipient of the University of Texas at Austin...
URBAN EDUCATION ALUMNA WINS PRESTIGIOUS AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING RESEARCH IN THE SOCIOLOGY OF LANGUAGE
Demet Arpacik (Ph.D. ’20, Urban Education) received the 2021 Joshua A. Fishman Award for her dissertation titled The Medium of Liberation: Kurdish Language and Education Activism in Turkey. The award for early-career researchers includes a prize of € 1,000 or...