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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Venezia Michalsen (Ph.D. ’07, Criminal Justice) wants to change how people think about crime and justice.In her new book, Intersectional Feminist Criminology: A Critical Companion to Theory and ...

Professor Emeritus Irvin Sam Schonfeld (GC/City College, Educational Psychology, Psychology) wants readers to look past the popular catchword “burnout.”. In their new book, Breaking Point: Job Stress, ...

A new scholarly movement is pushing beyond the research–activism divide. Language Activism: The Role of Scholars in Linguistic Reform and Social Change (2025) brings together researchers committed to ...

Lucas G. Rubin, director of the Latin/Greek Institute at the CUNY Graduate Center, has published The Latin/Greek Institute at the City University of New York (2025), a pictorial history of a program ...

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 ...

Dear GC Community Member, The Graduate Center will begin phase two of CUNY's network modernization project on Wednesday, June 11, 2025.During this phase, network servers and storage devices will be ...

As a sports fan, I consider May and June the culmination of the academic season — just as our neighbors, the New York Knicks, have finished theirs. Looking back at all that we have accomplished ...