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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...
KEVIN NADAL, NAMED A DISTINGUISHED PROFESSOR, HOPES TO INSPIRE FELLOW FACULTY OF COLOR AT CUNY
As a first-generation Filipino American growing up in Fremont, California, Kevin Nadal didn’t imagine going to graduate school, let alone becoming a professor. This month, at age 43, he has become one of the youngest distinguished professors at CUNY and...
LET YOUR MIND WANDER IN OTHER SPACES: AMBER MUSSER ON BLACK FEMINISMS, THE IDEA OF THE FLESH, AND THE INTELLECTUAL REWARDS OF ‘QUIRKY TANGENTS’
Professor Amber Musser (English), one of two professors who joined the Graduate Center last semester, is an interdisciplinary scholar whose work explores critical race theory, Black feminisms, and queer of color critique. Her books include Sensual Excess: Queer Femininity and...
STUDENT SPOTLIGHT: A SOFTWARE ENGINEER SEEKS A MASTER'S IN DATA ANALYSIS AND VISUALIZATION, DRAWN BY CUNY'S 'COOL VIBE'
Serving as an adjunct teacher for New York City’s Tech-in-Residence Corps in 2020, in the midst of the pandemic, gave software engineer Atilio Barreda his first taste of teaching. To his surprise, he liked it a lot. That experience spurred...
HE HELPED FREE INNOCENT PEOPLE FROM PRISON. NOW HE WANTS TO DO EVEN MORE.
Before coming to the Graduate Center to pursue a Ph.D. in Sociology, Edwin Grimsley worked for 10 years at the Innocence Project. As a senior case analyst, he came up with ways of using DNA testing to prove the innocence...
THE STARS ALIGN FOR A MASTER’S STUDENT INTERESTED IN BLACK FEMINIST LITERATURE AND ACTIVISM
By Lida Tunesi Master’s student Kayla Reece (Women’s and Gender Studies) has a passion for storytelling, whether it’s through tarot readings, the physical stories told by practicing yoga, or the written word. Reece recently accepted a position as an editorial...
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...
PUTTING MORE CUNY STUDENTS ON PATHS TO (STUDY) THE STARS
By Lida Tunesi When Rocio Kiman (Ph.D. ’22, Physics) started her work on low-mass stars she only had a little bit of experience doing research. Today, Kiman is a postdoctoral scholar at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics at the...
CUNY GRADUATE CENTER EXECUTIVE NAMED TO THE 2021 OUTSTANDING 100 LGBT+ 100 EXECUTIVES LIST, SPONSORED BY YAHOO FINANCE
New York, Nov. 12, 2021 — Elaine Montilla, assistant vice president and chief information officer at the CUNY Graduate Center, was named to the 2021 OUTstanding 100 LGBT+ Executives list by Yahoo Finance. The list showcases leaders who are breaking...
INSTEAD OF CALLS FOR ‘CIVILITY,’ WE NEED CIVIC RADICALISM: ’14 POLITICAL SCIENCE GRADUATE ON HIS LATEST BOOK
Alex Zamalin (Ph.D. ’14, Political Science) has published a book almost every year since defending his dissertation. The latest, Against Civility: The Hidden Racism in Our Obsession with Civility, shows how calls for civility from both the right and the...