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• COVID and Cages: Graduate Center Researchers Map How Prisons Responded to the Pandemic

  

  Ph.D. student Olivia Ildefonso (left) and alumna Celeste Wilson

  Ph.D. student Olivia Ildefonso and alumna Celeste Wilson talk about their project, which visualizes data about prison releases related to the pandemic. Read more

• Professor Rosamond Rhodes, Biomedical Ethicist, Publishes Book Aimed at Challenging Long-Dominant Views in the Field

  

  Rosamond Rhodes and the cover of her book, "The Trusted Doctor" (Photos courtesy of Rhodes)

  Rhodes, a Graduate Center alumna, discusses her timely new book and her mentoring of nearly 30 Graduate Center students, all of whom found jobs in their field. Read more

• Professor Brett Stoudt Discusses the Growing Support for Accountability in and Defunding of Police Departments

  

  Professor Brett Stoudt (Ph.D. '09, Psychology) (Credit: The Graduate Center/Alex Irklievski)

  He advocated for the Safer NY Act and is about to start a research project that will invite people living in heavily policed neighborhoods to imagine new possibilities for public safety. Read more

• Laura Limonic, Sociology Alum, on ‘Kugel and Frijoles’ and Latino Jewish Identity

  

  Alumna Laura Limonic and the cover of her book, Kugel and Frijoles (Photo courtesy of Limonic)

  Now a tenured professor at SUNY Old Westbury, Limonic turned her dissertation into an award-winning book. Read more

• Graduate Center Alumni Awarded Prestigious Mellon/ACLS Fellowships

  

  Barry P. Goldberg (left) and Jaime Shearn Coan. (Photos courtesy of ACLS)

  Jaime Shearn Coan and Barry P. Goldberg will apply the skills and perspectives they gained from their doctorates in English and history to community-focused positions in nonprofit organizations.  

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• Remembering Alumna Georgianna Glose, Activist Nun Who Dedicated Her Life to Social Justice

  Glose was known for starting a social service organization in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, and for speaking out about a child sexual abuse scandal within the Catholic Church. Read more

• Class of 2020: How a Sociologist’s Love of Salsa Led to a Dissertation and a Community

  

  Carmela Dormani (Photo courtesy of Dormani)

  Carmela Dormani will join Mercy College as an assistant professor. A former tenant organizer, she intended to study displacement and social movements, but then shifted course. Read more

• Jane McAlevey (Ph.D. ’15, Sociology), Longtime Labor Organizer, Profiled in ‘The New Yorker’

  As strikes and protests sweep the nation, McAlevey addresses how to create successful labor and social movements, in her new book. Read more

• Alumni Book: Maureen E. Ruprecht Fadem

  Maureen E. Ruprecht Fadem
  Silence and Articulacy in the Poetry of Medbh McGuckian
  (Lexington Books, 2019)

  
  
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• How to Stem the Loss of STEM Students

  

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  New research by Professor Paul Attewell and alumnus Dirk Witteveen debunks some beliefs and suggests new ways to address inequity in STEM education. Read more