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• Alumni Book: Michael G. Garber

  Michael G. Garber
  My Melancholy Baby: The First Ballads of the Great American Songbook, 1902-1913 
  (University Press of Mississippi, 2021)
  
  
  
  
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• Lo Ferguson, M.A. ’20 in Women’s and Gender Studies, Receives Full Tuition Scholarship to University of Pennsylvania Law School as a Public Interest Scholar

  

  Lo Ferguson (Photo courtesy of Ferguson)

  Ferguson, whose research focuses on transgender college students, wants to work "on things like access to health care and housing for the LGBTQ community, and at a level that will enact more systematic change." Read more

• ‘Pending and Insistent Research Questions’ About Sustainable Development in Paraguay Led Alumna Christine Folch to a 2021 Carnegie Fellowship

  

  Christine Folch (Photo courtesy of Folch)

  Folch will use the $200,000 fellowship to spend 14 months in Paraguay, shadowing social entrepreneurs who are finding ways to balance poverty alleviation and development with environmental protections in the midst of climate change Read more

• Winning Their Marbles? The Return of Cultural Heritage Objects

  

  Graduate Center alumnus Pierre Losson (Ph.D. '19, Political Science) discusses the return of cultural heritage objects on the International Horizons podcast. Read more

• Faculty Book: James C. Lendemer

  Jessica L. Allen and James C. Lendemer
  Urban Lichens: A Field Guide for Northeastern North America
  (Yale University Press, 2021)
  
  
  
   

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• Alumna Puleng Segalo Appointed the Chief Albert Luthuli Chair at the University of South Africa

  Segalo, whose academic work pays attention to the need to curb global gender inequities, laid out her vision for her three-year appoinment.  Read more

• With Ph.D.s and Master’s in Hand, These 11 Grads Are Going Places

  

  Top (L-R) Katherine Entigar, Andrew Levine, Siqi Tu, Conner Martinez, Bottom (L-R): Sandra Castro, Roxana Piotrowska, Raj Korpan, Allison Guess

  The Class of 2021 graduates have overcome incredible odds to complete their dissertations and push scholarship in their fields forward. Read more

• 9 Grad Center Scholars to Be Proud of During Pride And Every Day

  

  (L-R) Jack Crawford, Jagadīśa-devaśrī Dācus, and Jama Shelton

  Graduate Center scholars have pushed boundaries with activism and outstanding scholarship about the LGBTQ+ community, from discovering the economic benefit of mental health care for older HIV+ patients to presenting a scholarly understanding of drag. Read more

• Documenting Immigrant Families’ Separation and Reunion: Sandra Castro, Class of 2021, on her Dissertation and Her New Assistant Dean Role

  

  Sandra Castro (Photo courtesy of Castro)

  For her doctoral dissertation, Castro spent years studying immigrant mothers on Long Island who came to the U.S. from Central America without their children, parented them from afar, and then finally reunited with them.  Read more

• Cooking Up New Ways to Use the ‘Wonder Material,’ Graphene: Andrew Levine, Class of 2021, Joins a Startup

  

  Andrew Levine (Photo courtesy of Levine)

  Levine’s knowledge of carbon-based nanomaterials comes from studying organic light-harvesting materials and their fabrication into devices at the CUNY ASRC. Read more