The CUNY Graduate Center community deeply mourns the passing of Professor Emeritus Richard Alba (Sociology, Africana Studies), a pathbreaking demographer who bucked conventional ideas about how ...

Lincoln Center’s elegant David Geffen Hall was the scene of much rejoicing on Tuesday as the CUNY Graduate Center conferred 460 doctoral and master’s degrees at its 59 th Commencement.. A moment to ...

Robert P. Robinson (Ph.D. ’20, Urban Education), an assistant professor of Africana Studies at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice and a member of the doctoral faculty in Urban Education and the ...

When Distinguished Professor Cathy N. Davidson (English, Data Analysis and Visualization, Digital Humanities, American Studies) came to the CUNY Graduate Center in 2014, she brought with her a lofty ...

During a year of political change, the Graduate Center and its scholars have demonstrated unwavering support for the LGBTQ+ community, shedding light on its history, well-being, and present challenges ...

In this episode of The Thought Project, Maura Smale, chief librarian of the CUNY Graduate Center’s Mina Rees Library, explores how academic libraries empower research and uphold democratic values in a ...

Philip Yanos and his new book, “Exiles in New York City: Warehousing the Marginalized on Ward’s Island” Nestled in the East River between Queens and East Harlem, Ward’s Island has long been a place of ...

Higher education is under siege, but Distinguished Professor Cathy N. Davidson and others argued that with bold reimagining, deeper community engagement, and solidarity across institutions, it will ...

In this episode of The Thought Project podcast, education policy expert David Bloomfield discusses the ongoing recovery of New York City’s public school system after the disruption of the COVID-19 ...

The years Professor Margaret Bull Kovera (GC/John Jay, Psychology) has spent conducting research on the reliability of eyewitness memory and testimony paid off handsomely last month when she helped ...

CUNY Graduate Center faculty members Ana Gantman, Qiushi Guo, Sarah Ita Levitan, Matthew Lindauer, Vladimir Rosenhaus, and Catherine Kramarczuk Voulgarides received the Feliks Gross and Henry Wasser ...

“I applied to 30 jobs,” said Kushya Sugarman (Ph.D. ’24, Urban Education).Confronting the daunting challenge of landing a tenure-track position in a tight market — while caring for her two daughters, ...