Lara Mimosa Montes (Ph.D. ’16, English) explores the boundaries of storytelling and identity in her debut work of fiction, The Time of the Novel. In this novella, a disaffected young woman leaves her ...

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 ...

English students were celebrated during the Graduate Center's 2025 Commencement ceremony at David Geffen Hall in New York City's Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts complex on June 10, 2025.

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The New Sounds on Fifth Ensamble is an inaugural collaboration at the Graduate Center that highlights the music of this generation. This program features the Nuntempe Guitar Ensamble performing works ...

Graduate Center Ph.D. student Beryl Kahn (Biology) was awarded a John A. Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship by New York Sea Grant. For the one-year fellowship, which began in February, she is applying ...

Historian Benjamin Carter Hett, a professor of History at the CUNY Graduate Center and Hunter College, joins The Thought Project for a timely discussion of the rise of autocracy in America and its ...