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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Join CUNY Academy for the last in our series of events celebrating the 2024 recipients of CUNY Academy's Feliks Gross & Henry Wasser Awards. This event will feature lectures by awardees David Lindsey ...

This event has passed. Monday, March 3, 2025 9:00 am — 6:00 pm 9100: Skylight Room Open to the Public Join us for the Black, Race, and Ethnic Studies Spring 2025 Research Symposium.

Professor Ava Chin (GC/College of Staten Island, Biography and Memoir, American Studies) was awarded a grant from CUNY’s Asian American / Asian Research Institute (AAARI) for her forthcoming book, ...