Lara Mimosa Montes (Ph.D. ’16, English) explores the boundaries of storytelling and identity in her debut work of fiction, The Time of the Novel. In this novella, a disaffected young woman leaves her ...

Professor Miles P. Grier (GC/Queens College, English) began considering the central topics of his debut monograph, Inkface: Othello and White Authority in the Era of Atlantic Slavery (2023), as an ...

English students were celebrated during the Graduate Center's 2025 Commencement ceremony at David Geffen Hall in New York City's Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts complex on June 10, 2025.

The CUNY Graduate Center community deeply mourns the passing of Professor Emeritus Richard Alba (Sociology, Africana Studies), a pathbreaking demographer who bucked conventional ideas about how ...

Lincoln Center’s elegant David Geffen Hall was the scene of much rejoicing on Tuesday as the CUNY Graduate Center conferred 460 doctoral and master’s degrees at its 59 th Commencement. A moment to ...

Robert P. Robinson (Ph.D. ’20, Urban Education), an assistant professor of Africana Studies at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice and a member of the doctoral faculty in Urban Education and the ...

When Distinguished Professor Cathy N. Davidson (English, Data Analysis and Visualization, Digital Humanities, American Studies) came to the CUNY Graduate Center in 2014, she brought with her a lofty ...

In this episode of The Thought Project, CUNY Graduate Center Distinguished Professor Cathy N. Davidson reflects on her 11 transformative years at the City University of New York. Calling CUNY “an ...

During a year of political change, the Graduate Center and its scholars have demonstrated unwavering support for the LGBTQ+ community, shedding light on its history, well-being, and present challenges ...

Nestled in the East River between Queens and East Harlem, Ward’s Island has long been a place of exile for some of society’s most vulnerable people. Exiles in New York City: Warehousing the ...

Come celebrate graduates from the Graduate Center's master's programs presenting their theses and capstone projects. Location Online: Zoom (link sent upon registration) In-Person: CUNY Graduate Center ...

Last year, Kendra Sullivan’s (Ph.D. ’25, English) first full-length book of poetry, Reps, was published and praised. A Brooklyn Rail reviewer called it a “relentlessly probing debut.” And a Bomb ...