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• A Tenure-Track Social Welfare Grad Works on Preventing Intra-Community Violence

  

  Maurice Vann (Photo courtesy of Vann)

  After leaving law school for social welfare, '20 alumnus Maurice Vann connects research and practice while addressing racial bias, in a new tenure-track position.  Read more

• Home is Where Her Art Lies

  

  Nadiah Rivera Fellah

  Alumna Nadiah Rivera Fellah’s research on Latinx art embraced her family’s history and led her back home to Ohio and her curatorial job at the Cleveland Museum of Art. Read more

• After Finding an ‘Intellectual and Political Home’ at The Graduate Center, Alumna Lands Postdoc at UC Berkeley

  

  Mae A. Miller (Photo courtesy of Miller)

  Alumna Mae A. Miller (Ph.D. ’20, Earth & Environmental Sciences) talks to The Graduate Center about her bold research questions, the importance of building communities to support students of color, and her new postdoc position.  Read more

• COVID-19, Conspiratorial Thinking, and Social Disaster: Alumna Martha Lincoln’s Perspective on the Pandemic

  

  Martha Lincoln (Photo courtesy fo Lincoln)

  Lincoln sharpens the public conversation about epidemics, inequality, and social change through the lens of medical anthropology. Read more

• Princeton-Bound 2020 Graduate on Bridging the Gap Between ‘Being (and Feeling Like) a Student and Becoming a Scholar’

  

  Natalia Castro Picón

  Alumna Natalia Castro Picón is starting a tenure-track position at Princeton and offers advice to students in the job market.  Read more

• Alumni Book: Maureen E. Ruprecht Fadem

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  Objects and Intertexts in Toni Morrison’s "Beloved" : The Case for Reparations
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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