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• Faculty Book: Mary Ann Caws

  Alice Paalen Rahon
  Translated by Mary Ann Caws
  Alice Paalen Rahon
  (Prenguin Random House, 2021)

  
   

  
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• Eliza Who? 'Restless Enterprise' by Professor Katherine Manthorne Profiles the Most Famous American Artist You Never Heard Of

  

  Katherine Manthorne and the cover of her book "Restless Enterprise: The Art and Life of Eliza Pratt Greatorex"

  A new book on Eliza Pratt Greatorex profiles the artist who had been "deliberately expunged from the record," says Professor Katherine Manthorne.  Read more

• Faculty Book: Katherine Manthorne

  Katherine Manthorne
  Restless Enterprise
  
  
  
  
  
  
  (University of California Press, 2020) Read more

• Science, Superheroes, and Kids: For This CUNY Power Couple, Family Comes First

  

  Professors Maral Tajerian and Sebastian Alvarado (right) and their children.

  So, you think you’re busy between pandemic hassles and all your other work-life obligations? Here’s what busy looks like for CUNY’s very own power couple, Professors Maral Tajerian and Sebastian Alvarado. Read more

• Holiday Books Gift Guide: 12 Gripping Reads by Graduate Center Faculty About Living a Good Life, Dressing in Your Dreams, and Arguing with Zombies

  

  Recent books by Wayne Koestenbaum, Katina Rogers, David Reynolds, Tanisha Ford, William Helmreich, Melissa Checker, Margaret Chin, Massimo Pigliucci, Richard Alba, Ismael García-Colón, Sanford Schram, and Paul Krugman.

  We’ve been warned about the long, dark winter and the need to stay away from relatives and friends this holiday season. But if you’d like to send a gift, these books might be the perfect choice. Read more

• How the ‘Greening’ of Gentrifying Neighborhoods Leads to the ‘Browning’ of Others Revealed in a New Book by Professor Melissa Checker

  

  Melissa Checker and her book "The Sustainability Myth: Environmental Gentrification and the Politics of Justice"

  Checker exposes the hidden costs of New York City’s efforts to transform industrial waterfronts into green oases, in The Sustainability Myth. Read more

• Follow the Footnotes: Unearthing Puerto Rican History After the U.S. invasion

  

  Laird Bergad and his book "Agrarian Puerto Rico: Reconsidering Rural Economy and Society, 1899-1940"

  In their new book, Professor Laird Bergad and his co-author debunk common notions about how U.S. control affected Puerto Rico’s agrarian economy and society in the early 20th century. Read more

• Faculty Book: Melissa Checker

  Melissa Checker
  The Sustainability Myth
  (NYU Press, 2020)
  
  
  
  
  
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• Faculty Book: Raquel Chang-Rodríguez and Carlos Riobó

  Raquel Chang-Rodríguez and Carlos Riobó
  Talking Books with Mario Vargas Llosa
  (Nebraska Press, 2020)
  
  
  
  
  
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• The Adults in the Room Couldn’t Stop Him: Hitler and the March to World War II

  

  European leaders of 1938 Peace Conference (Credit: Getty Images)

  Professor Benjamin Carter Hett discusses his new book on Nazi Germany and what it reveals about our times. Read more