
Morris Dickstein (Credit: Richard Alcorn)
Dickstein is celebrated for his extraordinary career as a scholar, teacher, author, literary critic, and public intellectual who was central to life at The Graduate Center and well beyond. Read more

Frances Degen Horowitz
Past President and Professor Emerita Frances Degen Horowitz, a prominent developmental psychologist who moved The Graduate Center to its current home on 34th Street, has died at age 88. Read more
Glose was known for starting a social service organization in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, and for speaking out about a child sexual abuse scandal within the Catholic Church. Read more
A longtime professor of mathematics, Hoobler died at age 78 from complications of COVID-19. Read more
The Graduate Center mourns the loss of Anita Crumpton, CUNY Office Assistant in the Office of Financial Aid, who passed away on Sunday, April 26, from complications of COVID-19. Read more
The emeritus professor, “a giant in the field of American art,” passed away this month at age 91. Read more
The Graduate Center deeply mourns the loss of Thomas J. Waters, a former student in our Ph.D. Program in Political Science who passed away on April 4. Read more

William Helmreich
Helmreich, a distinguished professor of sociology who passed away on March 28, 2020, was widely admired for his books about the everyday people and the neighborhoods of New York City. Read more
An esteemed curator, writer, and cultural historian, Berger (Ph.D. ’88, Art History) died this week from complications of COVID-19. Read more