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• Social Security for Everyone: Mimi Abramovitz on The Thought Project

  Abramovitz, a professor of social welfare and prolific writer, discusses the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and the need for a new New Deal. 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

• Peter Beinart, Latest Graduate Center 'New York Times' Columnist, on Writing About Politics in a Time of ‘Craziness and Ghastliness’

  

  Peter Beinart

  The well-known journalist, who teaches in the Political Science program, shares his insights and his advice on writing for wider audiences.  Read more

• Professor Andrea Alù Is Named a Highly Cited Researcher for the Fourth Consecutive Year

  

  Andrea Alù

  Alù is widely known for his photonics research, particularly in the area of metamaterials — artificial materials that have highly unusual properties. Read more

• Professor Joseph Straus Wins the 2020 Wallace Berry Award for ‘Broken Beauty: Musical Modernism and the Representation of Disability’

  

  Professor Joseph Straus and his book "Broken Beauty: Musical Modernism and the Representation of Disability"

  The award, considered the highest honor music theory, recognizes Straus' achievment in establishing disability studies as an accepted sub-discipline in his field. Read more

• How the Pandemic Is Affecting Labor: Luke Elliott-Negri on The Thought Project

  Elliott-Negri, a doctoral candidate in sociology, discusses his many projects, including a new grant-funded study of collective action by workers whose lives have been put at risk by the pandemic. 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

• A Message from the President: Thank You

  The approaching November break offers a welcome opportunity to express how grateful I am to all of you — faculty, students, staff, and alumni — for the commitment you have shown to The Graduate Center and its mission through all that you do. Read more

• Google Earth and a Bar Conversation Yield an Archaeological Breakthrough and ‘Times’ Coverage for Alumnus Pablo Crespo

  

  Pablo Crespo helped archaeologist Gino Caspari map Scythian burial sites across a huge swath of territory in present-day Russia, Mongolia and China using Google Earth images. (credit: Pablo Caspari)

  Crespo, an economics Ph.D., applied his machine learning knowledge to create a tool that allows archaeologists to access hard-to-reach sites.  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