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Pending and Insistent Research Questions’ About Sustainable Development in Paraguay Led Alumna Christine Folch to a 2021 Carnegie Fellowship
Graduate Center alumna Christine Folch (Ph.D. 12, Anthropology) was named a 2021 Andrew Carnegie Fellow, receiving $200,000 for a two-year study of sustainable development in Paraguay.
Elliot Wiseman Receives an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship to Study How Crimes Are Reported by Detectives
Wiseman will join the Anthropology program to study the narratives created and used by detectives during investigatory police work.
DRAG AND FLAMBOYANT PERFORMANCE ART ARE LIKE ‘BREAD AND BUTTER’ TO AERIALIST AND ART HISTORY SCHOLAR JACK CRAWFORD
Crawford is channeling her interest in drag and burlesque into her doctoral dissertation.
‘IT’S ABOUT POVERTY’: JAMA SHELTON (PH.D. ’13, SOCIAL WELFARE) ON THE STRUCTURAL FORCES BEHIND LGBTQ+ YOUTH HOMELESSNESS
I wanted to focus more on policy and research and try to make more of a structural impact, says Jama Shelton.
Many thanks to Emeritus Profs. Charles Cairns and Helen Cairns
Many thanks to Emeritus Profs. Charles Cairns and Helen Cairns.
URBAN EDUCATION STUDENT AND WOMEN OF COLOR ARCHIVE FOUNDER AWARDED AAUW FELLOWSHIP FOR ‘SEARCHING FOR MAMI & ABUELITA’
Wendy Barrales is also the founder of Women of Color Archive (WOCArchive) a "storytelling project that seeks to preserve the stories of our matriarchs, femmes, and non-binary folks of color."
Two Philosophy Ph.D. Candidates Are Named 2021 Charlotte W. Newcombe Dissertation Fellows
Philosophy Ph.D. candidates Shannon Brick and Alex Steers-McCrum will each receive $27,500 for the final year of dissertation writing.
Two Graduate Center Anthropology Students Win Fulbrights
Ph.D. candidates Carly Batist and Evan Mann won 2021-2022 Fulbright U.S. Student Program grants.
LEARNING TO ‘SPEAK LEMUR’: FULBRIGHT FELLOW CARLY BATIST WILL GO TO MADAGASCAR TO STUDY AND HELP PROTECT A CRITICALLY ENDANGERED SPECIES
Knowing the range and abundance of these lemurs is important because they are a critically endangered species, Batist said, and much of their rainforest habitat has been fragmented by deforestation.
A Record Six Graduate Center Ph.D. Candidates Awarded ACLS Dissertation Fellowships, With More Than $35,000 in Funding Each
This year's fellows span the fields of art history, politics, and anthropology.