Professor Miles P. Grier (GC/Queens College, English) began considering the central topics of his debut monograph, Inkface: Othello and White Authority in the Era of Atlantic Slavery (2023), as an ...

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 ...

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 ...

In this episode of The Thought Project, CUNY Graduate Center Distinguished Professor Cathy N. Davidson reflects on her 11 transformative years at the City University of New York. Calling CUNY “an ...

To mark the release of her new Audible Original lecture series, Why Memoir Matters: Learning from the Lives of Others, alumna Tahneer Oksman (Ph.D. ’13, English) shared a list of memoirs to savor this ...

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 ...

Nestled in the East River between Queens and East Harlem, Ward’s Island has long been a place of exile for some of society’s most vulnerable people. Exiles in New York City: Warehousing the ...

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 ...

Come celebrate graduates from the Graduate Center's master's programs presenting their theses and capstone projects. Location Online: Zoom (link sent upon registration) In-Person: CUNY Graduate Center ...

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 ...

John Zayac admits he likes explosions. But even more, he wants to understand them. “Volcanoes are a conduit from the interior of the planet to the exterior of the planet,” said Zayac, who completed ...