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Promoting Interdisciplinary Scholarship at the City University of New York


"The interdisciplinary forum for the exchange of ideas that ARC provides is absolutely unique within the Graduate Center, and within the CUNY system." - Grace Davie, Associate Professor of History, Queens College	"As a member of the CUNY faculty from Brooklyn College, the opportunity gave me an invaluable experience." - Mojúbàolú Olúfúnké Okome, Professor of Political Science, Brooklyn College	"ARC is crucial for maintaining alive the ideal of intellectual and scientific communities exchanging ideas and knowledge in a productive and welcoming environment." - Patrick Simon, Director of Research, Institut National D'Etudes Demographiques, Paris	"The release time, office space and, more importantly, being amidst fellow scholars, was invaluable. This is particularly a significant support for Community College faculty." - Lakshmi Bandlamudi, Professor of Psychology, LaGuardia Community College

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DISTINGUISHED CUNY FELLOWS

Every year ARC invites tenured CUNY faculty to apply for a fellowship with ARC. Similar to Distinguished Visiting Fellows, Distinguished CUNY Fellows present papers in the annual ARC seminar, participate in the GC intellectual community, and work with students in research praxis seminars on areas of common interest. The fellowship provides them with course releases and an office at the GC in which they can pursue their research in a collaborative context working alongside their peers and doctoral students.

Distinguished CUNY Fellows receive three course releases per semester for a maximum of two semesters.

Below are profiles of the 2017-2018 Distinguished CUNY Fellows:

Ray Allen is Professor of Music at Brooklyn College and the CUNY Graduate Center. In addition, he directs the American Studies Program and serves as a senior associate at the Hitchcock Institute for Studies in American Music at Brooklyn College. He teaches courses on American folk, popular, and concert music, and American cultural studies. Allen is the author of Gone to the Country: The New Lost City Ramblers and the Urban Folk Music Revival (University of Illinois Press, 2010) and Singing in the Spirit: African-American Sacred Quartets in New York City (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1991). He has co-edited the volume Island Sounds in the Global City: Caribbean Popular Music and Identity in New York (University of Illinois Press, 1998) with Lois Wilcken. His latest book project, Jump Up! Caribbean Carnival Music in New York, is scheduled to be published by Oxford University Press in 2018.

Sharon Avni is Associate Professor in the Department of Academic Literacy and Linguistics at Borough of Manhattan Community College, where she joined in 2009. An applied linguist, her scholarly work investigates how Hebrew, in its discursive, textual, and material forms, is a constitutive element of American Jewish social and religious identity. Currently, she is co-authoring a book (to be published by Rutgers University Press in 2018) examining Hebrew language ideologies and practices at Jewish residential camps in the United States. She is the co-PI on a Spencer Foundation-funded project examining the expansion of a Hebrew-English dual language bilingual education program at a public middle school in NYC. She received her PhD from New York University in 2009.

Elissa Bemporad is the Jerry and William Ungar Associate Professor of East European Jewish History and the Holocaust at Queens College and the CUNY Graduate Center. She is the author of Becoming Soviet Jews: The Bolshevik Experiment in Minsk (Indiana University Press, 2013), winner of the National Jewish Book Award and of the Fraenkel Prize in Contemporary History. The Russian edition was recently published with ROSSPEN, in the History of Stalinism Series. She is currently finishing a book entitled Legacy of Blood: Jews, Pogroms, and Ritual Murder in the Lands of the Soviets, which will be published with Oxford University Press. Elissa is the co-editor of Women and Genocide: Survivors and Perpetrators (forthcoming with Indiana University Press in 2018), a collection of studies on the multifaceted roles played by women in different genocidal contexts during the twentieth century. She has recently been a recipient of an NEH Fellowship and a Fellowship at the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC. Elissa's projects in progress include research for a biography of Ester Frumkin, the most prominent Jewish female political activist and public figure in late Imperial Russia and in the early Soviet Union.

Heath Brown is associate professor of public policy at the City University of New York, CUNY Graduate Center and John Jay College. He is the author of four books: Lobbying the New President: Interests in Transition (Routledge 2011); Tea Party Divided: The Hidden Diversity of a Maturing Movement (Praeger 2015); Pay-to-Play Politics: How Money Defines the American Democracy (Praeger 2016); Immigrants and Electoral Politics (Cornell University Press 2016). He has published in a variety of journals including Policy Sciences, Social Science Quarterly, and Political Research Quarterly. He is the reviews editor for the journal Interest Groups & Advocacy. He is also an active and engaged scholar who has written for The Atlantic, American Prospect, The Hill, The Monkey Cage Blog at the Washington Post, Mischief of Factions blog, New West blog, and the Huffington Post. He host a weekly podcast called The New Books in Political Science and I am the New York City co-chair of the Scholars Strategy Network, an organization of over 900 scholars committed to public engagement and policy. He currently is working on a research project focused on intersection of innovation, demographic change, and the rise of Trumpism. The project applies theories of policy feedback and resource mobilization to understanding the opportunities and challenges faced by immigrants in difference political and economic contexts.

Cecelia Cutler works on language and identity, particularly among young people in the U.S. who affiliate with hip-hop culture. Some of her current work explores multilingualism and alignment in computer mediated communication among Mexican-American youth and language attitudes towards Scottish English on YouTube. She is also working on a three-year collaborative NSF-funded project on variation and change in New York City English with Christina Tortora, Michael Newman, and Bill Haddican.

Els de Graauw is Associate Professor of Political Science at Baruch College, CUNY, where she also teaches in the Austin W. Marxe School of Public and International Affairs. Her research centers on the nexus of immigration and citizenship, civil society organizations, urban and regional politics, and public policy, with a focus on building institutional capacity for immigrant integration and representation. Her award-winning book Making Immigrant Rights Real: Nonprofits and the Politics of Integration in San Francisco (Cornell University Press, 2016) analyzes the role of nonprofit organizations in advocating for immigrant integration policies in San Francisco, with a focus on immigrant language access, labor rights, and municipal ID cards. Currently, she is working on her second book, a comparative study of city and state immigrant affairs offices in the United States, with a focus on New York City, Atlanta, Houston, San Francisco, and Detroit. She also has under way collaborative research on the implementation of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program in three large U.S. metro regions. Els earned her Ph.D. degree in Political Science from the University of California at Berkeley, and she has been a researcher at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government and Cornell University. She co-founded the Section on Migration and Citizenship of the American Political Science Association in 2012, and she served as the Section’s elected co-president and secretary for four years. She serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies and the Urban Affairs Review.

Tatyana Kleyn is associate professor and director of the Bilingual Education and TESOL programs at the City College of New York. She has an Ed.D. in international educational development at Teachers College, Columbia University. She received the early career award for the Bilingual Research SIG for the American Educational Research Association. For 2014-15 Tatyana served as president of the New York State Association for Bilingual Education and a Fulbright Scholar in Oaxaca, Mexico. Tatyana is author of “Immigration: The Ultimate Teen Guide,” co-author of “Teaching in Two Languages: A Guide for K-12 Bilingual Educators” (with Reyes) and co-editor of “Translanguaging with Multilingual Learners: Learning from Classroom Moments” (with García). She is the director and co-producer of the documentaries “Living Undocumented: High School, College and Beyond” and “Una Vida, Dos Países [One Life, Two Countries]: Children and Youth (Back) in Mexico.” She was an elementary school teacher in San Pedro Sula, Honduras and Atlanta, Georgia.

Sanders Korenman is Professor in the Austin W. Marxe School of Public and International Affairs, Baruch College, CUNY, the CUNY Institute for Demographic Research and the CUNY Graduate Center. He served as Senior Economist for labor, welfare, and education for President Clinton’s Council of Economic Advisers and was a member of the Board on Children, Youth, and Families of the National Academy of Sciences. He is a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. With support from the Russell Sage Foundation and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation he and Dahlia Remler have developed a poverty measure that includes a basic need for health care and incorporates health insurance benefits. They are using this measure to assess the impact of health insurance benefits on poverty, particularly under the Affordable Care Act. Korenman and Remler’s paper on the impact of the Massachusetts health reforms on poverty appeared in the December 2016 Journal of Health Economics. His prior positions include Associate Professor in the Humphrey Institute, University of Minnesota and Assistant Professor of Economics and Public Affairs in the Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University. He teaches courses in poverty and social policy, the economic analysis of public policy, and research methods.

Kate Menken is a Professor of Linguistics at Queens College of the City University of New York (CUNY), and a Research Fellow at the Research Institute for the Study of Language in Urban Society at the CUNY Graduate Center. She is Co-Principal Investigator of the CUNY-New York State Initiative for Emergent Bilinguals (NYSIEB) project (www.cuny-nysieb.org). She holds an Ed.D. from Teachers College, Columbia University. Her research interests include language education policy, bilingual education, and emergent bilinguals in secondary schools. Books she has authored or edited are: English Learners Left Behind: Standardized Testing as Language Policy (Multilingual Matters, 2008), Negotiating Language Policies in Schools: Educators as Policymakers (co-edited with Ofelia García, Routledge, 2010), and Common Core, Bilingual and English Language Learners: A Resource for Educators (co-edited with Guadalupe Valdés and Mariana Castro, Caslon, 2015). Further information can be found on her website: http://katemenken.org

Cathy Mulder is an associate professor of Economics at John Jay College-CUNY. She earned her Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst (2006), her MA from Temple University in Philadelphia (1994), and her BA from Stockton College in Pomona, NJ (1992) all in Economics. Cathy specializes in economic justice, labor studies/economics, and gender issues. However, she takes an interdisciplinary approach in both her scholarly research and her teaching, uniting not only her specialties, but also concerns about the environment, politics, history, and is currently researching alternative business organizations internationally among other specialties. Cathy has over 35 years of worker activism, having been employed by the telephone company as a blue-collar worker in a non-traditional position where she was very active in her union, the IBEW, Local 827. She was also a member and official in the UAW while a graduate student at UMass, and she worked as a business agent for the NY musicians’ union, AFM Local 802 for two years. She is currently an active member of the Professional Staff Congress-CUNY (PSC-CUNY) where she served as a delegate in 1010/11. Her scholarly work is representative of her life experiences and include two single authored books, Unions and Class Transformation: The Case of the Broadway Musicians and Transcending Capitalism Through Cooperative Practice which consists of six case studies of alternative business structures ranging from the Green Bay Packers, to the London Symphony Orchestra, and a group of sex workers. Most recently she co-edited the Handbook of Marxian Economics. She has authored a number of peer reviewed articles and is currently the president of the Association of Economic and Social Analysis (AESA) and is also is an executive board member of the Left Forum.

Michael Paris is Associate Professor of Political Science at the College of Staten Island (CUNY), where he teaches courses in constitutional law, civil liberties, and race and public policy. He is the author of Framing Equal Opportunity: Law and the Politics of School Finance Reform (Stanford University Press, 2010), which received an honorable mention for the 2011 C. Herman Pritchett Award, given annually by the American Political Science Association’s Law and Courts Section for the best book in the field published by a political scientist during the previous year. Paris’s other publications include “Racial Liberalism and School Desegregation Jurisprudence: Notes Toward a Usable Past,” in Anne R. Oakes, Ed., Controversies in Equal Protection (Ashgate Publishers, 2015), and “The Politics of Rights: Then and Now,” Law and Social Inquiry, Vol. 31, No. 4 (Fall 2006). He is currently working on a book about the history and future of school desegregation in the United States.

Andrea Parmegiani is Associate Professor in the English Department at Bronx Community College. He received an M.A. in English (Creative Writing) from City College (City University of New York), an M.Ed. in Language and Literacy from the University of Cape Town, and a Ph.D. in English from the Graduate Center (City University of New York). His South African research explores the notion of language ownership as a construct for understanding how language shapes identity construction and power relations in multilingual societies where English is the dominant language. His findings show that in order to facilitate democratic transformation, the ownership of dominant languages should not be thought of as a native speaker’s prerogative, but rather as an asset that can be acquired as a result of an appropriation process within the framework of additive multilingualism. In the United States, Andrea Parmegiani’s research has zeroed-in on the pedagogical aspects of appropriating English as an additional language by looking for ways to use students’ mother tongue as a resource for academic literacy acquisition. He is currently working on a book based on a program he started at Bronx Community College to promote college success among Latin@ students by linking Spanish and ESL academic literacy development courses.

Emily Raboteau is a novelist, memoirist, essayist and professor of creative writing at the City College of New York. She is the author of two books; The Professor's Daughter (Henry Holt, 2005), and Searching for Zion: The Quest for Home in the African Diaspora, (Grove/Atlantic, 2013) winner of a 2014 American Book Award and a finalist for a Hurston/Wright Legacy Award. Her recent essay on the Know Your Rights! murals of New York City was included in the landmark NYT bestselling anthology, The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race (Scribner, 2016). Other writing of hers about race, identity, social justice, and photography has appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Guardian, The Washington Post, VQR, Salon, Orion, Transition, and elsewhere. Her next novel, Endurance, explores the intersecting lives and problems of the residents of a gentrifying Upper Manhattan apartment building, as seen through the eyes of the building's live-in superintendent.

Ida Susser is a Professor of Anthropology at Hunter College and the CUNY Graduate Center and adjunct Professor of Socio-Medical Sciences at the Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University. She has conducted ethnographic research with respect to urban social movements and the urban commons in the United States and Europe as well as with respect to the gendered politics, local, national and global of the AIDS epidemic in New York City, Puerto Rico and southern Africa. Her book: Updated Norman Street:Poverty and Politics in an Urban Neighborhood (Oxford University Press) features a new section, Claiming a Right to New York City, which discusses the changing neighborhoods of Greenpoint and Williamsburg in Brooklyn from the original ethnography which began with the New York City fiscal crisis and the occupation of the People’s Firehouse in 1975 to the Occupy movement of 2011. Other recent books are AIDS, Sex and Culture: Global Politics and Survival in Southern Africa (Wiley-Blackwell) which was awarded the Eileen Basker Memorial Prize for research in women and health, by the Society for Medical Anthropology (2012) a co-edited book Rethinking America (Paradigm Press) and Medical Anthropology in the World System (co-authored) Praeger , (3^rd edition). Her research has been funded by a MacArthur Foundation Research and Writing Fellowship, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Institute of Health and the National Science Foundation.

Monica Varsanyi (Ph.D. Geography UCLA) is Professor of Political Science at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY, and Geography (Earth and Environmental Sciences) at the CUNY Graduate Center. She is a scholar of migration, membership, and the state, with a specific focus on unauthorized immigration, state and local immigration politics, and immigration federalism in the United States. She is author of numerous journal articles, and her books include Taking Local Control: Immigration Policy Activism in U.S. Cities and States (Stanford University Press, 2010, edited volume) and Policing Immigrants: Local Law Enforcement on the Front Lines (with Doris Marie Provine, Scott Decker, and Paul Lewis; University of Chicago Press, 2016). Her current research project, with Marie Provine, traces the evolution of immigration policies and the tensions of immigration federalism as they have played out in New Mexico and Arizona from the Territorial Period to the present. She is also working on a project that explores the contentious evolution of Hispanic identity in New Mexico during the Chicano Period (1963-1972). Her research has been funded by the National Science Foundation and National Endowment for the Humanities. She currently serves on the Research Advisory Board of the Vera Institute of Justice (New York City), and the editorial board of the Annals of the Association of American Geographers, the flagship journal in the discipline.

Read about past Distinguished CUNY Fellows

Student Fellows

Each year ARC invites GC doctoral students to apply for an ARC Research Praxis Award. Students are required to be in the second year of their doctoral program with the intention of pursuing a dissertation research topic in one of the research themes of any given year. Throughout the period of the award, students work with ARC Distinguished Fellows in the research praxis seminar to learn how they conduct their research and to share research insights which can help them in their dissertation. These insights, as well as the perspectives of their peers who are focused on similar disciplines, are intended to foster student intellectual creativity and early entry into the research process. Students also blog on the ARC Student Research Commons on their research projects as well as on critical issues of the day.

Below are short bios of the Fall 2017 and Spring 2018 ARC Research Praxis Award winners:

Miguel Acosta is a Ph.D. student in Economics at The Graduate Center, CUNY. His research is at the intersection between theoretical and applied macroeconomics, using dynamic general equilibrium models to address different macroeconomic issues in emerging markets. The main question he addresses are: Why haven’t some emerging markets being able to catch up, in terms of relative per capita income, with developed countries? What policies could be taken to revert this trend? The most recent findings of his work are that informality has an important role in holding back the level of a country’s economic development, therefore policies that tackle its determinants, such as fiscal policy and institutional improvement of law enforcement, are crucial in the reduction of informality and, therefore, the increase in aggregate productivity, which finally leads to a higher level of per capita income. His current projects are focused on determining the macroeconomic impact of crime in Colombia and Mexico, on explaining the causes and effects of early deindustrialization over Latin America’s development, and assessing the impact of international shocks over economic fluctuations in emerging markets.

Andrew Anastasi is a Ph.D. student in Sociology at the Graduate Center. His dissertation research explores social movement activism and state and capital responses in the postwar United States. More specifically he studies New Left activist projects and the War on Poverty programs of the 1960s and 1970s in order to draw out the relationships between rebellions by waged and unwaged workers and students, the state's role in the regulation and reproduction of labor-power, and the rise in forms of and discourses around socially-meaningful work. In addition to his research at the Graduate Center, Andrew teaches social theory at Queens College. He is also a member of the Viewpoint Magazine editorial collective. He holds a B.A. in Film & Video Studies from Macalester College.

Thomas Bane is a Ph.D. student in Social Welfare at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. His research focuses on health systems strengthening and improving health equity across populations. For the past seven years, he has worked in public health insurance programs. He has previously worked in the areas of global public health and health policy. Thomas is also an adjunct lecturer at City Tech. He has a Master's in Social Work and a Master's in Fine Arts in Poetry.

Kelsey Chatlosh is a Ph.D. student in cultural anthropology and Digital Fellow at The Graduate Center, CUNY. She holds a B.A. (2012) in anthropology and American studies, with a minor in Hispanic languages and literatures from The George Washington University. Her future dissertation research will examine how inequalities of race, gender and class motivate and structure women Afro-Chilean activists’ articulations of belonging to the Chilean nation and the African diaspora, in the context of a purportedly racially homogenous country. Her work as a Digital Fellow is focused on digital tools and platforms for qualitative research, oral interviews and sound data, with an emphasis on ethics and decolonizing and feminist methods.

Rachel Chapman is a Ph.D. candidate in Urban Education at the Graduate Center and a Teaching Fellow in the Elementary and Early Childhood Education Program at Queens College. She holds a B.A. in Spanish and Sociology from the University of Toledo and a M.A. in Latin American Studies from the University of Arizona. Her dissertation research focuses on urban education reform policy's impact on literacy practices in early childhood education, specifically in schools designated as "failing," largely in low-income neighborhoods within Latino, African American & immigrant communities. As an ARC student fellow, Ms. Chapman will further develop her research on the impact of policy and poverty on literacy, child development and socialization, with a concentration on a case study located in Cleveland, Ohio.

Misty Crooks is a Ph.D. student in linguistic anthropology at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. She received a B.A. in anthropology from UNC Chapel Hill. Before beginning her studies at CUNY, she taught English as a Second Language and received an M.A. in Applied Linguistics at the University of Massachusetts Boston. This fostered her interest in the social life of language and discourses as well as issues of race and class. Her previous research analyzed cross examinations of witnesses and focused on the reproduction of dominant ideologies in court trials. She is currently developing a project to explore the political battles around democratic process in North Carolina. She is interested in voter suppression and transgender bathroom laws.

Claudia Crowie is a Ph.D. student in the cultural anthropology program at the CUNY Graduate Center, and a graduate teaching fellow at John Jay College. Her current research examines the ways that the privatization of urban governance in post-Apartheid Durban, South Africa constructs local race and class divisions, and shapes tensions between locals and African immigrants living in the inner city. She obtained a Bachelor of Laws degree from the University of Kwazulu-Natal in South Africa in 2008, and an M.A. in cultural anthropology from the University of Northern Arizona on a Fulbright Foreign Student grant in 2013.

Angela Crumdy is a doctoral student in the cultural anthropology and a MAGNET Fellow at The Graduate Center, CUNY. She holds a B.A. (2012) in anthropology and Latin American & Caribbean Studies from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Prior to entering The Graduate Center, she served as a high school English teacher. Her research interests include gender, education and critical race theory. Through an extended historical trajectory, her dissertation research examines black Cuban women educators' contributions to the Cuban education system and to more general nation building efforts beginning in the 20^th century.

Erin Cully is a PhD student in the history department. She studies the political economy of the post-1980s turn to finance in the US. Her research has focused on the politics of the deregulation of deposit interest rates, the consolidating effects of the savings and loan crisis, and the formation of regional interstate compacts in the Southeast, using documents from Congress, the Carter, Reagan and Clinton libraries, as well as several US state archives. Together, these projects provide an analysis of the interplay between state and federal policymaking. She hopes to contribute to historicizing the ‘financialization’ of the US economy by tracing its historical roots. Erin earned a BA (2012) and an MA (2013) from McGill University, and is a recipient of a Doctoral Student Research Grant, a Provost’s Digital Innovation Grant, and a Provost’s Early Research Initiative Grant.

Fadime Demiralp is a graduate student in Economics at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. She holds M.Phil. in Mathematics. Currently, Fadime teaches at the Mathematics and Statistics Department of Hunter College and at the Economics Department of Brooklyn College, and works as a research assistant for the Economic Studies Group at the Graduate Center. Her research fields are financial economics, international macroeconomics, and monetary economics. Fadime believes that some core determinants of markets have to be redefined and adjusted due to advances in technology, especially in communication technology, if one concerns about increasing wage and income inequality. As ARC fellow, her research will not only provide a concrete evidence for need of such upgrade whose absence will effect productivity and inequality at the bottom of wage distribution but also provide a core base in terms of corresponding reforming in academic literature in economics.

Ola Galal is a PhD student in Cultural Anthropology at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Her research focuses on marginalization and conceptions of citizenship rights and of democracy in Tunisia. She wrote her MA thesis on youth participation in the 2011 Egyptian Revolution. Previously, she worked as a journalist covering breaking news and economic and financial stories in North Africa and the Middle East for Bloomberg News.

Edwin Grimsley is a doctoral student in Sociology at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. He is primarily interested in using both quantitative and qualitative methods to study issues related to neighborhoods and the life outcomes of those who encounter arrests and convictions for misdemeanor offenses in the United States. He is currently working on several quantitative and qualitative projects related to Broken Windows policing and Stop, Question, and Frisk, and has worked in other research areas such as race and ethnicity, culture and immigration. He previously worked at the Innocence Project as a Senior Case Analyst, where he investigated cases of prisoners convicted of serious crimes, ultimately helping to free six innocent people from prison. Additionally, he worked on post-9/11 detentions for the ACLU Immigrants Rights Project. He holds a BA in Biology from Wesleyan University. He plans to use the ARC Research Praxis Fellowship to study the relationship between immigration deportations and NYPD policing practices in New York City, particularly examining the impact of arrests for minor offenses on immigration detentions and deportations.

Bonnie H. Ip is a doctoral student in Sociology at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. She holds a BA in English Literature from Binghamton University, an MA in American Studies from City College of New York, and an MA in sociology from The New School for Social Research. She is also currently a Graduate Research Assistant at University of Connecticut working on a Russell Sage Foundation funded project called “Etiquette of Inequality” that looks at the influence of background racial, ethnic, immigrant, and economic inequality on social relations in egalitarian settings in NYC. Her scholarly interests revolve around issues of intergenerational immigrant assimilation experiences, urban immigrant neighborhoods, and ethnic group boundaries. As a mixed methods researcher, she plans to use the ARC Pine Tree Fellowship to study the way immigrant enclaves in NYC have shifted and changed spatially and functionally throughout time. Using archival materials, business directories, ACS Census data, and GIS mapping software, she plans to investigate how well theoretical definitions of immigrant enclaves from the literature map onto the empirical spatial reality of ethnic enclaves.

Gaurav Jashnani is a doctoral student in Critical Social/Personality Psychology. His current research explores perceptions of changing public and commercial space among Brooklyn residents within the context of intensive gentrification and ‘broken windows’ policing. This project builds upon his previous work on urban policing, which explores how trauma and other forms of institutionally generated distress serve to regulate and reconfigure policed communities’ relationships to public space, specifically within a context of rapid displacement and violent dispossession of poor and working-class people of color (i.e., gentrification). Additionally, Gaurav holds a Master of Education in Counseling Psychology from Columbia University. He is co-founder of the Challenging Male Supremacy Project (www.challengingmalesupremacy.org), and has been working on issues of trauma and intimate violence since 2006. He is originally from Queens, New York.

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Martin Aagaard Jensen is a doctoral student in the Comparative Literature program at the Graduate Center. His research focuses on the cultural politics of media and technology, and in particular on how literary and cultural narratives make sense of changing technological realities in the Americas during the post-1945 period. In an age of globalization that often construes scientific and technological progress as the agent of history, his work focuses on how technology fails to transcend racial, gender, and social divisions and instead becomes a vehicle for the inequality it was assumed to overcome.

Philip Johnson is a doctoral student in the Political Science program at the Graduate Center, and teaches at Hunter College. His research focuses on theories of violence, and on how and why systems of violence form and function. Recent work looks at detention facilities in the War on Terror, and the connections between state and criminal violence in Mexico. He is currently developing a project that examines the targeting of undocumented migrants and other marginalized groups by criminal organizations in Mexico.

Dae Shin (Hayden) Ju is a doctoral student in the Sociology program at the Graduate Center, CUNY. Her research interests primarily lie within the areas of immigration, family and work, and quantitative methods with a focus on exploring the ways in which the immigration experience transforms gender ideologies and socially prescribed family roles. Her current project examines the changing pattern of migration among married Korean women and how different migration strategies lead to divergent paths in women's lived experience. She analyzes the American Community Survey to estimate the likelihood of labor force participation among married Korean American women. As an ARC student fellow, she hopes to develop a study that addresses both the structural dimensions of immigrant women’s work and family and the subjective meanings that are created during the family life course.

Jojo Karlin is a doctoral student in the English program at the Graduate Center and a GC Digital Initiatives Digital Fellow. Jojo’s research examines letters and letter writing before and after the rise of telecommunications. She looks at how letters act as elaborations or elongations of writers’ understanding of two separate time-spaces and how letters’ physical displacement operates on a notion of correspondence through asynchronous synchronicity or copresence. As a Pine Tree Fellow, she hopes to investigate the preservation of correspondence in a digital humanities context.

Mary Catherine Kinniburgh is a doctoral candidate in English at The Graduate Center, CUNY, whose research focuses on the intersections of book history, new media, and poetics. In particular, her work examines the simultaneous rise of reprographic technologies after World War II and renewed poetic interest in occult themes, including mysticism, alchemy, and poetics of dictation. She is invested in negotiating the methods of bibliography and book history from a digital perspective, and how this process may be informed by practices such as critical making, collaboration with archival institutions on special collections pedagogy, and media archaeology. Mary Catherine is also an editor for Lost and Found: The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative, and a two-time recipient of the Diane di Prima Fellowship for archival research. She created and coordinates the Collaborative Research Seminar, a working group for primary source research at the Center for the Humanities, and teaches workshops in digital skills and physical computing as a Digital Fellow and lead fellow for the GC Maker Space. She holds an M.A. in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University and a B.A. in English and Medieval Studies from University of Virginia as a Jefferson Scholar. She is currently an ARC Pine Tree Fellow.

Christopher Maggio is a doctoral student in Sociology at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. He is primarily interested in using quantitative methods to study issues related to contemporary immigration in the United States. His past and current research largely relates to policies at the state and local level impacting immigrants and ethnic minorities in the U.S., studying outcomes including social/civic engagement and mental health. He is also currently working on several quantitative projects with faculty at the Graduate Center related to early indicators of college success and affordable housing, and has worked in other research areas such as gender and sexuality and public health. He holds a BA in Economics and an MA in Applied Quantitative Research, both from NYU. He plans to use the ARC Research Praxis Fellowship to study the experiences of immigrants and the 2nd generation in new destinations of the United States, particularly looking at the South and Midwest through a comparative lens. These experiences include social and educational mobility, residential segregation, and perceptions of discrimination.

Taryn Malcolm is currently a doctoral student and member of Loraine Obler’s Neurolinguistics lab in the Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences Department at the Graduate Center. Her current research investigates how verb markers are affected from cross-linguistic influence in healthy adult speakers of Jamaican Creole and Standard English. This research will serve as the basis for further research in bilingual Jamaican Creole-Standard English speakers who have a language impairment following a stroke. She holds an M.A. in Speech-Language Pathology from St. John’s University and is a practicing speech-language pathologist.

Kahdeidra Monét Martin is Ph.D. student in Urban Education at the Graduate Center, The City University of New York. She holds a B.A. degree in African and African American Studies from Stanford University, with a minor in Linguistics, and she has studied education leadership and reform at Teachers College, Columbia University. As a NYC Teaching Fellow, she earned an M.S.Ed. in Teaching Urban Adolescents with Disabilities from Long Island University. Her research interests include critical sociolinguistics, contrastive analysis strategies, culturally relevant literacy curricula, the intersections of religious and linguistic ideology in education, and the language practices of multilingual and multidialectal African-descended youth. Kahdeidra is the publisher and editor at Dimonet Connect Publishing, where she has authored two bilingual children’s books, I Love Myself, Do You? and Saturday is My Favorite Day, and one collection of poetry, Saltwater Rivers. In July 2017, she will begin a two year term as a member of the Citywide Council on English Language Learners at the NYC Department of Education.

Matt Stuck is a PhD student in the Linguistics Program at the CUNY Graduate Center, and is a member of the Second Language Acquisition Lab under the direction of Prof. Gita Martohardjono. He has worked as a research assistant for the past two years on a project that investigates language change across two generations of bilingual Spanish-English speakers residing in NYC. During his ARC tenure, he plans to employ quantitative methods to understand how individual demographic and language-use variables shape language shift in bilingual heritage speakers. Prior to joining the Linguistics Program, he was an instructor of English as a Second/ Foreign Language in programs in Seattle, New York, and China, and earned an MA TESOL from NYU Steinhardt. His primary research interests lie at the intersections of structured language variation and second language acquisition (SLA), heritage languages, and endangered languages. In the future, he hopes to investigate the similarities and differences in modeling stability of linguistic variation across majority, minority, and L2 language varieties.

Kelsey Swift is a Ph.D. student in linguistics at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Before coming to the Graduate Center, she served as a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant in Mexico and taught English as a Second Language to adults in Boston. Her work involves both education and linguistics and is focused on the development of second language instruction that is empirically motivated and rooted in social justice. Her interests include adult second language acquisition, pedagogy and curriculum design, multilingualism, and critical sociolinguistics. She is currently developing a project which uses various sociolinguistic methodologies to investigate the role of ‘nonstandard’/vernacular input in instructed English learning.

Laxman Timilsina is currently pursuing his Ph.D in Economics at the Graduate Center. He is interested in learning how society distributes opportunity and if that has an impact on overall inequality. And if such opportunities if distributed equally or provided to the most vulnerable will help them escape poverty? He is interested in researching about the impact of wealth we accumulate (inheritance or gift) from our parents. How much advantage we inherit from our families’ wealth and status directly impacts the opportunity that society provides to us which undermines fairer competition and upward mobility. Such advantages could not only be passed on through wealth but as education, health and political connection (power) among others. He believes inequality should be primarily viewed as ex ante and hope to learn and research about such topics as he moves in his education life and beyond.

Sara Vogel is a doctoral student in the Graduate Center's Urban Education program. She is interested in conducting applied research at the intersection of computer science education, bilingual education and social justice pedagogy, in partnership with educators and school communities. She aims to put students' diverse languaging practices, cultural backgrounds and interests at the center of teaching and learning with digital media and technology. As an instructor at the Hunter College School of Education, she guides pre- and in-service teachers to reflect on the theory, history, and policy of bilingual education in ways that support their development of equitable and transformational classroom practice. In collaboration with the NYC-based Hive Research Lab, she also founded the CS Education Visions project, which has surfaced the diverse visions that formal and informal educators have for universal computer science education initiatives.

Sejung Sage Yim is a PhD student in Sociology at the CUNY Graduate Center. She also works at the Research Center for Korean Community at Queens College, where she is involved in various quantitative and qualitative projects related to Korean Americans. Her main research interests include immigration, race and ethnicity, and transnationalism focusing on contemporary immigrants’ experiences in the United States. Having immigrated to the U.S. relatively recently, she is particularly interested in immigrants’ growing transnational ties with their home country. Using mixed methods, she intends to examine the active role played by the emigrant state, i.e., the South Korean government, in promoting and strengthening overseas Koreans’ cross-border linkages, and how that has affected their ethnic identity and assimilation in the host country within various historical and social contexts.

Lianye Zhu is a Ph.D. student in linguistics at the Graduate Center, City, University of New York. She received a B. A. in English from Shanghai Jiao Tong University (China), and a M. A. TESOL from Michigan State University. Her current research focuses on building a corpus as a tool to investigate a currently under development — not yet stabilized, and subject to idiosyncratic variation — orthography for Shanghainese, which has long been a vernacular only language that is mainly spoken in urban Shanghai city, China. The orthography, based on Mandarin Chinese characters, is being created by Shanghainese-Mandarin bilingual speakers who are passionate for writing in Shanghainese as a way of establishing their social identities, and promoting Shanghainese. The corpus will provide references of developing Shanghainese textbook to community-based organizations that teach Shanghainese to adult immigrants who are literate in Mandarin.

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