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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...