Recent GC Faculty Appointments

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• Press Release: Kenneth Tobin Receives NSF Distinguished Teaching Scholars Award

  CUNY Graduate Center Professor Kenneth Tobin has been awarded The National Science Foundation's (NSF) Director's Award for Distinguished Teaching Scholars (DTS), the foundation's highest honor for teaching and research excellence. A Presidential Professor in The Graduate Center’s Ph.D. Program in Urban Education, Professor Tobin was one of eight leading scholars to be presented with this year’s award.
  
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• Press Release: Faculty Recruitment Campaign Nets Intellectual Capital for Graduate Center

  The CUNY Graduate Center is marking its 40th anniversary year with the culmination of a faculty recruitment drive that has brought some of the country's most prominent academics and public intellectuals to the school's already renowned roster of scholars. Ten new core appointments added this year ‹ two in the spring, seven last fall, and one to come next fall ‹ join more than a dozen who arrived over the past few years, all acclaimed leaders in their respective fields. Read more

• Saul Kripke appointed to the Graduate Center

  

  Saul Kripke

  Distinguished Professor, Ph.D. Program in Philosophy Saul Kripke is known as a brilliant logician and one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century. While a high-school student... Read more

• Kenneth Tobin appointed to the Graduate Center

  

  Kenneth Tobin

  Presidential Professor, Ph.D. Program in Urban Education Kenneth Tobin is recognized for his thirty years of research on the teaching and learning of science. In 2004 he was awarded a... Read more

• Victor Kolyvagin appointed to the Graduate Center

  

  Victor Kolyvagin

  Distinguished Professor, Ph.D. Program in Mathematics, and Mina Rees Chair in Mathematics Victor Kolyvagin is the first to hold the Mina Rees Chair in Mathematics, named for The Graduate... Read more

• Gabor T. Herman appointed to the Graduate Center

  

  Gabor T. Herman

  Distinguished Professor, Ph.D. Program in Computer Science Gabor T. Herman is a pioneer in the field of computerized tomography (an important medical diagnostic procedure) and the author of... Read more

• José del Valle appointed to the Graduate Center

  

  José del Valle

  Professor, Ph.D. Program in Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures and Languages José del Valle does interdisciplinary work in two closely related subfields in Hispanic linguistics: one,... Read more

• Jean Anyon appointed to the Graduate Center

  

  Jean Anyon

  Professor, Ph.D. Program in Urban Education Jean Anyon is one of few scholars whose work investigates political economy and urban education. Her last book, Ghetto Schooling: A Political Economy of... Read more

• Mitchell Duneier appointed to the Graduate Center

  

  Mitchell Duneier

  Distinguished Professor, Ph.D. Program in Sociology Mitchell Duneier earned his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. His first book, Slim's Table: Race, Respectability, and Masculinity, which was... Read more

• André Aciman appointed to the Graduate Center

  

  André Aciman

  Distinguished Professor, Ph.D. Program in Comparative Literature André Aciman is a specialist in seventeenth-century French literature and modern European literature. His 1995... Read more