News from three GC Alums!
Thomas Jordan has accepted a new position as the Executive Director of the Bronx Educational Opportunity Center effective March 24th. Thomas was working as Director of the SEEK Program at York college.
Doug Meyer has accepted a 3-year Instructor position in the Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies Program at The University of Virginia.
Elizabeth Miller, "Cultivating an Unexpected Community: Inclusivity of Immigrant Service Workers in a Wealthy Neighborhood" has been accepted in the forthcoming issue of Journal of Contemporary Ethnography. Her other article "Learning to Interpret Cultural Meaning through an Etic Description of a Familiar Culture" will be released in the October, 2014, issue of Teaching Sociology. Read more
Alumna Julia Rothenberg (Sociology, 2006) published Sociology Looks at the Arts (2014) in Routledge’s Contemporary Sociological Perspectives series. Rothenberg is an assistant professor of... Read more
Alumnus Michael Sharpe (Political Science, 2008) published Postcolonial Citizens and Ethnic Migration: The Netherlands and Japan in the Age of Globalization (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014). Sharpe is... Read more
Alumna Sybil Gottlieb (Clinical Psychology, 1968) died February 14, 2014. She taught at the School of Education at City College for many years and was a licensed psychologist in Westchester... Read more
Alumna Sara Pursley (2012) the first student in the Middle East major in the Ph.D. Program in History, has accepted a two-year postdoctoral fellowship at the Princeton Society of Fellows, starting... Read more
Alumna Claudia Moreno Pisano (English, 2010) edited Amiri Baraka and Edward Dorn: The Collected Letters (University of New Mexico Press, 2013). Pisano is an associate professor of English at... Read more
The newest book by alumna Martha P. Nochimson (English) is David Lynch Swerves: Uncertainty from Lost Highway to Inland Empire (University of Texas Press, 2013).
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Andrew C. Long (Comparative Literature, 2000) published Reading Arabia: British Orientalism in the Age of Mass Publications, 1880–1930 (Syracuse University Press, 2013). Long teaches in the... Read more
Three Sociology alumni have new academic positions:
Zoe Meleo-Erwin, a 2013 graduate, has just accepted a tenure-track position at Eastern Connecticut State University. Zoe was a visiting assistant professor at Hunter this fall.
Patrick Inglis, another 2013 graduate, has recently accepted the tenure-track offer at Grinnell College starting fall 2014. Patrick is a Visiting Professor at Grinnell this year.
Roderick Graham, a 2009 graduate, has accepted a position at Old Dominion University. Roderick is at Rhode Island college for last few years. Read more
Barbara Heyman (Music Ph.D., 1989) has published her second book on Samuel Barber, Samuel Barber: A Thematic Catalogue of the Complete Works (Oxford University Press, 2012). She is now at work on... Read more