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Sociology

November 21, 2022

An Immigration and Race Scholar Who Bucks Conventional Thought

Sociologists reflect on the influence of Professor Emeritus Richard Alba.

November 9, 2022

Graduate Center Experts Analyze the Midterm Elections

Faculty members assess the 2022 elections and their consequences for U.S. politics and policy and the future of democracy.

October 13, 2022

Ebinger Girls, Blackout Cake, and Boycotts: A NYC Guidebook Gives the People’s Story

With "A People’s Guide to New York City," Professor Carolina Bank Muñoz and two fellow CUNY professors not only take urban explorers off the beaten path but challenge the very idea of what makes a site important.

September 28, 2022

Documenting Public Housing-to-Prison Pipeline Is a Personal Mission

Professor Van C. Tran and two former students portray the students’ “lived experiences” in a revealing and data-driven study.

September 19, 2022

Meet the 2022 Teaching and Mentoring Award Winners

Congratulations to Professors Abhijit Champanerkar, Anna Indych-Lopez, and Barbara Katz Rothman, and to students and recent graduates Filip Bergabo, Cristina Pardo Porto, and Karyna Pryiomka.

September 8, 2022

Distinguished Professor John Mollenkopf on Mayor Adams’ First Six Months

The political analyst discusses Adams’ performance on issues from public safety to affordable housing.

NYC public housing authority (NYCHA) housing developments and concentrated incarceration by census tract in NYC. Incarceration rate is the number of incarcerated per 100,000 in a census tract. (Figure 1).

August 30, 2022

Study Reveals Pipeline From Public Housing to Prison in New York City

The Graduate Center partnered with researchers from the National Executive Council at the Columbia University Center for Justice in highlighting structural incarceration.