In September, Wen Liu (Ph.D. ’17, Critical Psychology) will start a tenure-track faculty position in the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Department at the University of Albany – SUNY. It’s a coveted opportunity for her to pursue her research on LGBTQ issues and to teach at another public institution that values diversity. Read more
LuAnn Walther (Ph.D. '78, English) is the quiet force behind the success of bestselling paperbacks by Margaret Atwood, Toni Morrison, Alice Munro, Oliver Sacks, Chinua Achebe, and Colson Whitehead, among others. Read more
Fake news, Twitter attacks, and viral videos are making life more difficult for corporate and political leaders. But it’s a golden age for experts in global crisis and reputation management like Kara Alaimo (Ph.D. ’15, Political Science). Read more
Kirsten Jensen (Ph.D. ’07, Art History), the Gerry and Marguerite Lenfest chief curator of the James A. Michener Art Museum in Doylestown, PA, is featured in the Philadelphia Inquirer online. Read more
In an op-ed in the Baltimore Business Journal, Ahu Yildirmaz (Ph.D. ’97, Economics), co-head of the ADP Research Institute, suggests three steps for recruiting and retaining manufacturing talent. Read more
When institutional politics and the pressure to secure tenure bog me down, I try to remember how lucky I am to have landed a tenure-track position at UC-Riverside. I get to live near Los Angeles,... Read more
Ahead of the Office of Career Planning and Professional Development's Alumni Roundtable, the GC spoke to Marilyn Puder-York about the advice she would offer to students who are thinking about careers, particularly in non-academic settings. Read more
In a lavish profile, Gabay (Ph.D. ’14, Urban Education) talks about his transition from self-described “class clown” to beloved English teacher at Brooklyn Democracy Academy, a transfer school for under-credited students whose education had been interrupted. Read more
Elizabeth Alsop (Ph.D. ’12, Comparative Literature), a Mellon Humanities Scholar in the GC’s Teaching and Learning Center (TLC), published a thought-provoking Atlantic essay about “why TV needs ‘weak’ female characters.” Read more
American universities awarded a record number of Ph.D.s in 2015 — with the Graduate Center among the top 10 institutions awarding doctorates to members of underrepresented minority groups, according to new federal data presented in Inside Higher Ed. Read more