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The Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York (CUNY Graduate Center) is a
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. Serving as the principal doctorate-granting institution of the
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(CUNY) system, The CUNY Graduate Center is classified among " R1: Doctoral Universities – Very High Research Activity". The school is situated in the landmark B. Altman and Company Building at 365
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in
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, opposite the
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. The CUNY Graduate Center has 4,600 students, 31 doctoral programs, 14 master's programs, and 30 research centers and institutes. A core faculty of approximately 140 is supplemented by over 1,800 additional faculty members drawn from throughout CUNY's eleven senior colleges and New York City's cultural and scientific institutions. CUNY Graduate Center faculty include recipients of the
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, the
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, the
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, the George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism,
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s, the New York City Mayor's Award for Excellence in Science and Technology, the
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, and memberships in the
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and the
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. Several doctoral programs at the CUNY Graduate Center, including Criminal Justice, English, History, Philosophy, and Sociology, have been consistently ranked among the top 30 in the United States. For the Fall 2021 semester, 11% of applicants across all doctoral programs at the CUNY Graduate Center were offered admission. In addition to academics, the CUNY Graduate Center extends its intellectual and cultural resources to the general public, offering access to a wide range of events, including lectures, symposia, performances, and workshops.


History

CUNY began offering doctoral education through its Division of Graduate Studies in 1961, and awarded its first two Ph.D.s to Daniel Robinson and Barbara Stern in 1965. Robinson, formerly a professor of philosophy at the
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, received his Ph.D. in psychology, while Stern, late of Rutgers University, received her Ph.D. in English literature. In 1969, the Division of Graduate Studies formally became the Graduate School and University Center. Mathematician
Mina S. Rees Mina Spiegel Rees (August 2, 1902 – October 25, 1997) was an American mathematician. She was the first female President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1971) and head of the mathematics department of the Office of N ...
served as the institution's first president from 1969 until her retirement in 1972. Rees was succeeded as president of the Graduate Center by environmental psychologist Harold M. Proshansky, who served until his death in 1990. Provost
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was named acting president in Spring 1991. Psychologist Frances Degen Horowitz was appointed president in September, 1991. In 2005, Horowitz was succeeded by the school's provost, Professor of English Literature William P. Kelly. During Kelly's tenure at the Graduate Center, the university saw significant growth in revenue, funding opportunities for students, increased Distinguished Faculty and a general resurgence. This is in accordance with three primary goals articulated in the Graduate Center's strategic plan. The first of these involves enhancing student support. In 2013, 83 dissertation-year fellowships were awarded at a total cost of $1.65 million. The Graduate Center is also developing new programs to advance research prior to the dissertation phase, including archival work. The fiscal stability of the university has enabled the chancellery to increase, on an incremental basis, the value of these fellowships. The packages extended for 2013-14 year increase stipends and reduce teaching requirements. In 2001, the Graduate Center provided 14 million dollars in student support, and, in Fall 2013, 51 million in student support. On April 23, 2013, the CUNY Board of Trustees announced that President Kelly would serve as interim chancellor for the City University of New York beginning July 1 with the retirement of Chancellor
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. GC Provost
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, a historian, was appointed to serve as interim president of the Graduate Center in 2013, and then served as president from July 2014 to December 2018.
Joy Connolly Joy Connolly is an American scholar of classics and the president of the American Council of Learned Societies. She was previously interim president and provost of The Graduate Center, CUNY. She was formerly a professor of classics and the dea ...
became provost in August 2016 and interim president in December 2018. Julia Wrigley was appointed as interim provost in December 2018. In July 2019, James Muyskens became interim president, as Connolly had been appointed president of the
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. On March 30, 2020,
Robin L. Garrell Robin L. Garrell is an American chemist, academic and current President of The Graduate Center, CUNY. Until 2020, Garrell served as Vice Provost for Graduate Education and Dean of Graduate Division at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) ...
, Vice Provost for Graduate Education and Dean of Graduate Division at
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, was announced as the next president of The Graduate Center. She assumed office on August 1, 2020. Steve Everett assumed the position of Provost and Senior Vice President in August 2021.


Campus

The CUNY Graduate Center's main campus is located in the B. Altman and Company Building at 34th Street and
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in the
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neighborhood of New York City. CUNY shares the B. Altman Building with the
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. The CUNY Graduate Center has occupied its current location since 2000, before which it was housed in Aeolian Hall on West 42nd Street across from the
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. In 2017, the CUNY Advanced Science Research Center at 85 St. Nicholas Terrace in Manhattan's Harlem neighborhood became part of the CUNY Graduate Center.


Advanced Science Research Center

The Advanced Science Research Center at the Graduate Center (CUNY ASRC) is an interdisciplinary
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center for research and discovery that leverages expertise across five increasingly interconnected fields: nanoscience,
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,
structural biology Structural biology is a field that is many centuries old which, and as defined by the Journal of Structural Biology, deals with structural analysis of living material (formed, composed of, and/or maintained and refined by living cells) at every le ...
,
neuroscience Neuroscience is the scientific study of the nervous system (the brain, spinal cord, and peripheral nervous system), its functions and disorders. It is a multidisciplinary science that combines physiology, anatomy, molecular biology, development ...
, and
environmental science Environmental science is an interdisciplinary academic field that integrates physics, biology, and geography (including ecology, chemistry, plant science, zoology, mineralogy, oceanography, limnology, soil science, geology and physical geograp ...
. The CUNY ASRC aims to enhance STEM education and promote a collaborative research culture, one where scientists from different fields can work side by side in the center’s core facilities, pursuing new research that yields practical benefits for society. It is located in a state-of-the-art, 200,000-square-foot building on the southern edge of City College's campus in Upper Manhattan. The CUNY ASRC, which opened its doors in September 2014 is an outgrowth of CUNY’s “Decade of Science” initiative, a 10-year-long, multibillion-dollar commitment to elevating science research and education. The CUNY ASRC formally joined the CUNY Graduate Center in spring 2017. Today, the CUNY ASRC serves as a hub for CUNY’s integrated research network across the five boroughs of New York City. Five years after the center opened, over 200 graduate, undergraduate, and high school students had been mentored by CUNY ASRC scientists. In that time, the center also hosted over 400 conferences, seminars, and workshops and awarded over $600,000 in seed grants to CUNY faculty.


Research initiatives

The CUNY ASRC was founded on the principle that the next great scientific advances will result from the interaction of researchers across different disciplines. Thus, the center integrates five diverse research fields to encourage collaboration among established scientists, early-career researchers, and students in areas that shape 21st-century global science. * Nanoscience: Exploring on the tiniest scale, using the living world for inspiration to create new materials and devices that advance fields ranging from biomedicine to energy production * Photonics: Discovering new ways to control light, heat, radio waves, and sound for future optical computers, ultrasensitive cameras, and cell phone technology * Structural biology: Combining physics and chemistry to explore biology at the molecular and cellular levels, with the intention of identifying new ways to treat diseases * Neuroscience: Investigating how the brain senses and responds to environmental and social experiences, with a focus on neural networks, metabolic changes, and molecular signals occurring in brain cells, with the goal of developing biosensors and innovative solutions to promote mental health * Environmental sciences: Developing high-tech, interdisciplinary solutions to urgent environmental challenges, including air and water issues, climate change, and disease transmission Each research initiative occupies one floor of the CUNY ASRC building that hosts four faculty laboratories and between two and four core facilities.


Core facilities

The CUNY ASRC houses 15 individual core facilities containing a wide array of cutting-edge equipment. These facilities are open to researchers from CUNY, other academic institutions, nonprofit organizations, and for-profit companies. The CUNY ASRC welcomes researchers from the New York metropolitan area as well as from across the country and globe. The facilities include: * Advanced Laboratory for Chemical and Isotopic Signatures (ALCIS) Facility * Biomolecular Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) Facility * Comparative Medicine Unit (CMU) * Epigenetics Facilities * Imaging Facility * Live Imaging & Bioenergetics Facility * MALDI Imaging Joint Facility * Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) Facility * Macromolecular Crystallization Facility * Mass Spectrometry Core Facility * Nanofabrication Facility * Next Generation Environmental Sensor (NGENS) Lab * Photonics Core Facility * Radio Frequency and mm Wave Facility * Surface Science Facility


Education and outreach

The CUNY ASRC promotes science education throughout CUNY, New York City, and well beyond. Students from CUNY’s community and senior colleges participate in research opportunities during the academic year and over the summer through programs such as the CUNY Summer Undergraduate Research Program. Likewise, graduate students from master's and doctoral programs at the Graduate Center and from the
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are integral members of CUNY ASRC research teams.


= IlluminationSpace

= The CUNY ASRC’s IlluminationSpace is an interactive education center that makes science accessible to New Yorkers of all ages and backgrounds. IlluminationSpace has welcomed high school field trips and offered free community hours. Currently, it offers a variety of virtual programs and resources for exploring the science that takes place at the CUNY ASRC. The CUNY ASRC received a Public Interest Technology University Network 2021 Challenge Grant to establish the IlluminationSpace as a hub for public interest technology,
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pathways, and science communications and outreach at CUNY. The goal of the funding is to better serve New York City’s underrepresented communities by applying a community-informed approach to democratize STEM and sustain impact. It will tap a diverse range of experts and lived experiences to build an ecosystem of engagement and exchange that benefits NYC’s
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communities and the CUNY
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community.


= Community Sensor Lab

= The CUNY ASRC Community Sensor Lab is a workshop series that teaches high school students and community members how to build low-cost,
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s that can monitor aspects of the environment, from the level of carbon dioxide and pollutants in the air to acidity in the soil and water.


Faculty opportunities

The CUNY ASRC offers a seed grant program to fund collaborative research that supports tenured and tenure-track faculty at CUNY colleges. The program started in 2015 and currently awards six one-year, $20,000 grants annually. In addition, the center’s National Science Foundation CAREER Bootcamp Program, which guides tenure-track faculty through the proposal writing process, have helped CUNY researchers secure substantial NSF CAREER grants.


= Grants and research

= Between 2014 and 2019, CUNY ASRC researchers secured 126 grants totaling $61 million. Several recent grants have set records for CUNY and the CUNY Graduate Center. Faculty, postdoctoral fellows, and graduate students at the CUNY ASRC also hold several patents. Professor Kevin Gardner, director of the CUNY ASRC Structural Biology Initiative, was instrumental in the identification of hypoxia-inducible factor 2-alpha (HIF-2α) as a druggable target and the drug development efforts that led to the FDA-approved first-in-kind kidney cancer drug from Merck, belzutifan.


Center for Advanced Technology – Sensor CAT

The CUNY ASRC is home to one of 15 Centers for Advanced Technology (CATs) designated by Empire State Development NYSTAR. Funded by a nearly $8.8 million grant, the CUNY ASRC Sensor CAT spurs academic-industry partnerships to develop sensor-based technology. Developing biomedical and environmental sensors is a particular focus, as is finding new approaches to sensing through research in photonics, materials, and nanoscience.


Simons Collaboration

Supported by a 2020 grant of up to $16 million from the Simons Foundation, a team of scientists, led by Professor
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, director of the CUNY ASRC Photonics Initiative, is studying wave transport in metamaterials. The team’s work could lead to greater sensing capabilities for the
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, improvements in biomedical applications, and extreme control of sound waves for medical imaging and wireless technology.


Department of Defense Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowships

Professors Rein Ulijn and
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, the directors of the CUNY ASRC Nanoscience Initiative and the CUNY ASRC Photonics Initiative, each won a prestigious Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship from the
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. The fellowship is the agency’s most prestigious single-investigator award. Alù’s $3 million fellowship, awarded in 2019, support his efforts to develop new materials that enable extreme wave manipulation in the context of
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and heat management. Alù was also named the 2021 Blavatnik National Awards Laureate in Physical Sciences and Engineering. Ulijn’s $3 million fellowship, awarded in 2021, supports his work to understand how complex mixtures of molecules acquire functionality, and to repurpose this understanding to create new
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that is inspired by living systems.


Mina Rees Library

The Mina Rees Library, named after former president
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, supports the research, teaching, and learning activities of the CUNY Graduate Center by connecting its community with print materials, electronic resources, research assistance and instruction, and expertise about the complexities of scholarly communication. Situated on three floors of the CUNY Graduate Center, the library is a hub for discovery, delivery, and digitization, as well as a place for solitary study. The library offers many services, including research consultations, a 24/7 online chat service with reference librarians, and workshops and webinars on using research tools. The library also serves as a gateway to the collections of other CUNY libraries, the
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(NYPL), and libraries worldwide. It participates in a CUNY-wide book delivery system and offers an interlibrary loan service to bring materials from outside CUNY to Graduate Center scholars. The main branch of NYPL is just a few blocks up Fifth Avenue, and NYPL's
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is just around the corner inside the B. Altman Building. CUNY Graduate Center students and faculty are NYPL's primary academic constituents, with borrowing privileges from NYPL research collections. NYPL's participation in th
Manhattan Research Library Initiative
(MaRLI) extends borrowing privileges for CUNY Graduate Center students to NYU and Columbia libraries as well. The Mina Rees Library is a key participant in the CUNY Graduate Center's digital initiatives. It supports the digital scholarship of students and faculty, and promotes the understanding, creation, and use of open access literature. Among its special collections is the
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collection, an oral history project focused on unheralded New York City community-based women activists.


Cultural venues

The CUNY Graduate Center houses three performance spaces and two art galleries. The Harold M. Proshansky Auditorium, named for the institution's second president, is located on the concourse level and contains 389 seats. The Baisley Powell Elebash Recital Hall, located on the first floor, seats 180. The Martin E. Segal Theatre, also located on the first floor, seats 70.


James Gallery

The ground floor of the CUNY Graduate Center houses the Amie and Tony James Gallery, also known as the James Gallery, which is overseen by the Center for the Humanities. The intention of the James Gallery is to bring scholars and artists into dialog with one another, as well as serve as a site for interdisciplinary research. The James Gallery hosts numerous exhibitions annually, and has hosted solo exhibitions by notable American and international artists such as
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and
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.


Academics

Across the institution's PhD programs, 11% of applicants were offered admission to the CUNY Graduate Center in Fall 2021. The latest edition of U.S. News & World Report Best Graduate School Ranking ranked CUNY Graduate Center's PhD program in Criminal Justice 15th, its English program 20th, its Sociology PhD program 28th, its History PhD program 34th, and its Mathematics PhD program 39th best in the nation.https://www.usnews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-humanities-schools/cuny-graduate-school-and-university-center-190576 U.S. News & World Report CUNY--Graduate Center In the 2016 edition of QS World University Rankings, CUNY Graduate Center's PhD program in Philosophy was ranked 44th globally. The most recent edition of the
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ranked CUNY Graduate Center's philosophy program 14th best in the United States and 16th best in English-speaking countries. Faculty members regularly receive prestigious honors and awards. Some recent examples include the
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,
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, the
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, the
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, the
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, the
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,
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, the George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism,
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s, the New York City Mayor's Award for Excellence in Science and Technology, the Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers, and memberships in the
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and the
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. Many departments are recognized internationally for their level of scholarship. Courses in the social sciences, humanities, and mathematics, and courses in the sciences requiring no laboratory work convene at the Graduate Center. Due to the consortial nature of doctoral study at the CUNY Graduate Center, courses requiring laboratory work, courses for the clinical doctorates, and courses in business, criminal justice, engineering, and social welfare convene on CUNY college campuses. The CUNY Graduate Center pioneered the
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in 2009 to much praise. The CUNY Academic Commons is an online, academic social network for faculty, staff, and graduate students of the City University of New York (CUNY) system. Designed to foster conversation, collaboration, and connections among the 24 individual colleges that make up the university system, the site, founded in 2009, has quickly grown as a hub for the CUNY community, serving in the process to strengthen a growing group of digital scholars, teachers, and open-source projects at the university. The project has received awards and grants from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the
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and was the winner of the 2013 Digital Humanities Award. It continues to be in the forefront of scholarly social media. Also affiliated with the institution are four University Center programs: CUNY Baccalaureate for Unique and Interdisciplinary Studies through which undergraduates can earn individualized bachelor's degrees by completing courses at any of the CUNY colleges; the CUNY School of Professional Studies and the associated Joseph S. Murphy Institute for Worker Education and Labor Studies; the
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, which offers a master's degree in journalism; and
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.


Research

CUNY Graduate Center describes itself as "research-intensive," and is classified by the
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to be an R1 or have "highest research activity." The CUNY Graduate Center's primary library, named after Mina Rees, is located on campus; however, its students also have borrowing privileges at the remaining 31 City University of New York libraries, which collectively house 6.2 million printed works and over 300,000 e-books. Beginning in 1968, the CUNY Graduate Center maintains a formal collaboration with the
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that allows faculty and students access to NYPL's extensive research collections, regular library resources, as well as three research study rooms located in the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building. Further, , students have access to the libraries of
Columbia University Columbia University (also known as Columbia, and officially as Columbia University in the City of New York) is a private research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manhatt ...
and
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through the NYPL's Manhattan Research Library Initiative. The CUNY Graduate Center library also maintains an online repository called CUNY Academic Works, which hosts open-access faculty and student research.


Advanced Research Collaborative (ARC)

The CUNY Graduate Center's Advanced Research Collaborative (ARC) program conducts research in seven core areas of study: #
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- Research on the structural foundations of increasing inequality across our society and ways to mobilize communities around various alternatives. #
Immigration Immigration is the international movement of people to a destination country of which they are not natives or where they do not possess citizenship in order to settle as permanent residents or naturalized citizens. Commuters, tourists, and ...
- Interdisciplinary research on the social, cultural, and political impacts of international migration, with special attention on the role of immigration in New York City and comparative studies on how immigration and ethnic diversity are experienced in different nations. #
Multilingualism Multilingualism is the use of more than one language, either by an individual speaker or by a group of speakers. It is believed that multilingual speakers outnumber monolingual speakers in the world's population. More than half of all E ...
- Interdisciplinary research on complex social, cultural, and policy issues raised by multilingualism. # Digital Initiatives: Research in a broad range of digital projects and digital resources, including data mining and the digital humanities. #
Urban Studies Urban studies is based on the study of the urban development of cities. This includes studying the history of city development from an architectural point of view, to the impact of urban design on community development efforts. The core theoretica ...
: Critical issues facing large cities around the world and the role played therein by public, nonprofit, and business organizations.


Initiatives and committees

The CUNY Graduate Center does additional work through its initiatives and committees: * Futures Initiative * Graduate Center Digital Initiatives * Initiative for the Theoretical Sciences (ITS) * Revolutionizing American Studies Initiative * The Committee for the Study of Religion * The Committee on Globalization and Social Change * The Committee for Interdisciplinary Science Studies * Endangered Language Initiative * Intellectual Publics


Centers and institutes

With over 30 research institutes and centers the CUNY Graduate Center produces work on a range of social, cultural, scientific and civic issues. * Advanced Science Research Center * American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning * Barry S. Brook Center for Music Research and Documentation * Bildner Center for Western Hemisphere Studies * Center for Jewish Studies * Center for Advanced Study in Education (CASE) * Center for Human Environments * Center for Latin American, Iberian, and Latino Cultures * Center for Place, Culture and Politics * Center for the Humanities * Center for the Study of Culture, Technology and Work * Center for the Study of Women and Society * Center for Urban Education Policy * Center for Urban Research * Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society * CLAGS: The Center for LGBTQ Studies * CIDR: CUNY Institute for Demographic Research * CUNY Institute for Software Design and Development (CISDD) * European Union Studies Center * Foundation for Iberian Music *
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*
Henri Peyre French Institute The Henri Peyre French Institute was founded by distinguished Professor Mary Ann Caws and Professor Emeritus John W. Kneller in 1980 to honor the internationally acclaimed scholar Henri Peyre, critic and author of over 44 books, who is particularly ...
* Howard Samuels Center * Human Ecodynamics Research Center * Institute for Language Education in Transcultural Context * Institute for Research on the African Diaspora in the Americas & the Caribbean (IRADAC) * Latin/Greek Institute * Leon Levy Center for Biography * Middle East and Middle Eastern American Center (MEMEAC) * Martin E. Segal Theatre Center * Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies * Research Center for Music Iconography * Research Institute for the Study of Language in Urban Society (RISLUS) * Saul Kripke Center * Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality * Teaching and Learning Center * The Writers' Institute at The Graduate Center


American Social History Project

The American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning (ASHP/CML) was established in 1981 to create and disseminate materials that help with understanding the diverse cultural and social history of the United States. Founded by Stephen Brier and Herbert Gutman, who sought to teach the history of everyday Americans, early projects included the film ''1877: The Grand Army of Starvation'', about the 1877 railway strike. ASHP has created curriculum grounded in the work of
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,
Herbert Gutman Herbert George Gutman (1928–1985) was an American professor of history at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, where he wrote on slavery and labor history. Early life and education Gutman was born in 1928 to Jewish immigra ...
, and Stephen Brier which aims to teach social studies at the high school level with the inclusion of diverse viewpoints, including indigenous groups, enslaved Americans, immigrants, and the working class. Notable curricula and teaching tools have included ''Freedom's Unfinished Revolution: An Inquiry into the Civil War and Reconstruction'', and
Who Built America?
' . Other curriculum, such as ''Golden Lands, Working Hands,'' has focused on labor history; these types of ASHP materials emphasize collaborative teaching and learning strategies and have been popular in teaching districts that prioritize union labor. Digital teaching resources created by ASHP have included th
History Matters
website; and the online resource
Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité: Exploring the French Revolution
'' As teaching tools, these websites place an emphasis on inclusion of primary source material for use in the classroom, alongside teaching strategies for seamless use of these documents in classroom curriculum. The online resource,
September 11 Digital Archive
'' has received acclaim for its comprehensive representation of historic perspectives. ASHP is also a partner of the ''Mission US'' project and co-produced ''Mission US: Cheyenne Odyssey,'' an award-winning video game about a Cheyenne tribesman whose way of life is challenged by western expansion. ASHP was established out of the success of a series of National Endowment for the Humanities summer seminars; seminar topics have included ''Learning to Look: Teaching Humanitites with Visual Images and New Media,'' and ''Visual Culture of the American Civil War and its Aftermath,'' This focus on professional development opportunities for educators has included other workshops such as the ''Bridging Historias: Latino/a History and Culture in the Community College Classroom'' program.


Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality

The James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality was launched on September 1, 2016. The Stone Center expanded and replaced the
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(LIS) Center, which opened its doors at the Graduate Center in 2009. It began a post-doctoral program in 2019. The Stone Center has hosted several scholarly convenings. One year after its launch, it hosted the 2017 Meeting Of The Society For The Study Of Economic Inequality (ECINEQ). In 2021, it convened wealth inequality scholars for the two-day conference, ''From Understanding Inequality to Reducing Inequality.''


Notable people

The CUNY Graduate Center has graduated 15,000 alumni worldwide, including numerous academics, politicians, artists, and entrepreneurs. As of 2016, the CUNY Graduate Center counted five MacArthur Foundation Fellows among its alumni, including writer
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as the most recent recipient. Among alumni graduated between 2003 and 2018, more than two-thirds are employed at educational institutions and over half have remained within New York City or its
metro area A metropolitan area or metro is a region that consists of a densely populated urban agglomeration and its surrounding territories sharing industries, commercial areas, transport network, infrastructures and housing. A metro area usually co ...
. Among the CUNY Graduate Center's alumni are leading scholars across numerous disciplines, including art historian and ACT-UP activist
Douglas Crimp John Douglas Crimp (August 19, 1944 July 5, 2019) was an American art historian, critic, curator, and AIDS activist. He was known for his scholarly contributions to the fields of postmodern theories and art, institutional critique, dance, fi ...
, political scientist Douglas Hale, anthropologist
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, sociologist Michael P. Jacobson, historian
Maurice Berger Maurice Berger (May 22, 1956 – March 22, 2020) was an American cultural historian, curator, and art critic, who served as a Research Professor and Chief Curator at the Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture, University of Maryland, Baltimore ...
, and philosopher
Nancy Fraser Nancy Fraser (; born May 20, 1947) is an American philosopher, critical theorist, feminist, and the Henry A. and Louise Loeb Professor of Political and Social Science and professor of philosophy at The New School in New York City.Jadžić, Milo ...
. The City University of New York has been acknowledged for its exceptional number of faculty and students who have been awarded nationally recognized prizes in poetry. Among this group include student
Gregory Pardlo Gregory Pardlo (born November 24, 1968) is an American poet, writer, and professor. His book ''Digest'' won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. His poems, reviews, and translations have appeared in ''The American Poetry Review'', ''Callaloo'', '' ...
, winner of the 2015
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The CUNY Graduate Center holds a reputation for attracting established scholars to its faculty. In 2001, the CUNY Graduate Center initiated a five-year faculty recruitment campaign to hire additional renowned academics and public intellectuals in order to bolster the institution's faculty roster. Those recruited during the drive include
André Aciman André Aciman (; born 2 January 1951) is an Italian-American writer. Born and raised in Alexandria, Egypt, he is currently a distinguished professor at the Graduate Center of City University of New York, where he teaches the history of litera ...
,
Jean Anyon Jean Anyon (July 16, 1941 – September 7, 2013), was an American critical thinker and researcher in education, a professor in the Doctoral Program in Urban Education at The Graduate Center of The City University of New York, and a civil rights an ...
,
Mitchell Duneier Mitchell Duneier is an American sociologist and ethnographer. He is currently Maurice P. During Professor and department chair of Sociology at Princeton University and has also served as a regular Visiting Distinguished Professor of Sociology at ...
,
Victor Kolyvagin Victor Alexandrovich Kolyvagin (russian: Виктор Александрович Колывагин, born 11 March, 1955) is a Russian mathematician who wrote a series of papers on Euler systems, leading to breakthroughs on the Birch and Swinnerto ...
,
Robert Reid-Pharr Robert Reid-Pharr is an American literary and cultural critic and professor. Early life and education A native North Carolinian, Reid-Pharr holds a B.A. in political science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and both an M.A. ...
and
Saul Kripke Saul Aaron Kripke (; November 13, 1940 – September 15, 2022) was an American philosopher and logician in the analytic tradition. He was a Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and emerit ...
. The CUNY Graduate Center utilizes a unique consortium model, which hosts 140 faculty with sole appointments at the CUNY Graduate Center, most of whom are senior scholars in their respective disciplines, as well as draws upon 1,800 faculty from across the other
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schools to both teach classes and advise graduate students. Notable faculty members include: * Writer
André Aciman André Aciman (; born 2 January 1951) is an Italian-American writer. Born and raised in Alexandria, Egypt, he is currently a distinguished professor at the Graduate Center of City University of New York, where he teaches the history of litera ...
* Poet Ammiel Alcalay * Sociologist
Stanley Aronowitz Stanley Aronowitz (January 6, 1933 – August 16, 2021) was a professor of sociology, cultural studies, and urban education at the CUNY Graduate Center. He was also a veteran political activist and cultural critic, an advocate for organized labo ...
* Political scientist
Frances Fox Piven Frances Fox Piven (born October 10, 1932) is an American professor of political science and sociology at The Graduate Center, City University of New York, where she has taught since 1982.
* Anthropologist
Talal Asad Talal Asad (born 1932) is a Saudi-born cultural anthropologist who is currently a professor of anthropology at the City University of New York Graduate Center. His prolific body of work mainly focuses on religiosity, Middle Eastern studies, po ...
* Biophysicist
William Bialek William Samuel Bialek (born 1960, in Los Angeles, California) is a theoretical biophysicist and a professor at Princeton University and The Graduate Center, CUNY. Much of his work, which has ranged over a wide variety of theoretical problems at t ...
* Art historian
Claire Bishop Claire Bishop is a British art historian, critic, and Professor of Art History at The Graduate Center, CUNY, New York where she has taught since September 2008. Bishop is known as one of the central theorists of participation in visual art and ...
* Musicologist
Barry S. Brook Barry Shelley Brook (November 1, 1918, New York City – December 7, 1997, New York City) was an American musicologist.''Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, Ninth edition,'' edited by Laura Kuhn, New York: Schirmer Books (2001) Educatio ...
* Literary historian
Mary Ann Caws Mary Ann Caws (born 1933) is an American author, translator, art historian and literary critic. She is Distinguished Professor Emerita in Comparative Literature, English, and French at the Graduate School of the City University of New York, and ...
* Composer
John Corigliano John Paul Corigliano Jr. (born February 16, 1938) is an American composer of contemporary classical music. His scores, now numbering over one hundred, have won him the Pulitzer Prize, five Grammy Awards, Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition, an ...
* English professor
Cathy Davidson Cathy N. Davidson (born 1949) is an American scholar and university professor. Beginning July 1, 2014, she is a professor at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She was a professor of English at Duke University in 2006. She ...
* Music theorist
Philip Ewell Philip Adrian Ewell (born February 16, 1966) is an American professor of music theory Music theory is the study of the practices and possibilities of music. ''The Oxford Companion to Music'' describes three interrelated uses of the term "mus ...
* Spanish professor
Paul Julian Smith Paul Julian Smith is a university professor specializing in Spanish and Mexican cinema and television. He is also a film critic. He is currently a Distinguished Professor of Hispanic studies at the Graduate Center of City University of New York. ...
* Geographer Ruth Wilson Gilmore * Economist
Michael Grossman (economist) Michael Grossman (born 1942) is an American health economist and economics professor emeritus at the City University of New York Graduate Center (CUNY). He directed the Health Economics Program at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) f ...
* Geographer
David Harvey David W. Harvey (born 31 October 1935) is a British-born Marxist economic geographer, podcaster and Distinguished Professor of anthropology and geography at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY). He received his P ...
* Historian
Ervand Abrahamian Ervand Abrahamian; hy, Երուանդ Աբրահամեան (born 1940) is an Iranian-American historian of the Middle East. He is Distinguished Professor of History at Baruch College and the Graduate Center, CUNY, Graduate Center of the City Un ...
* Historian
Dagmar Herzog Dagmar Herzog (born 1961) is Distinguished Professor of History and the Daniel Rose Faculty Scholar at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. She has published extensively on the histories of sexuality and gender, psychoanalysis, theolo ...
* Historian James Oakes * Historian David Nasaw * Art historian David Joselit * Physicist
Michio Kaku Michio Kaku (, ; born January 24, 1947) is an American theoretical physics, theoretical physicist, futurist, and popular science, popularizer of science (science communicator). He is a professor of theoretical physics in the City College of New ...
* Poet
Wayne Koestenbaum Wayne Koestenbaum (born 1958) is an American artist, poet, and cultural critic. He received a B.A. from Harvard University, an M.A. from the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars, and a Ph.D. from Princeton University and is a 1994 Whiting Award recipie ...
* Mathematician
Victor Kolyvagin Victor Alexandrovich Kolyvagin (russian: Виктор Александрович Колывагин, born 11 March, 1955) is a Russian mathematician who wrote a series of papers on Euler systems, leading to breakthroughs on the Birch and Swinnerto ...
* Economist
Paul Krugman Paul Robin Krugman ( ; born February 28, 1953) is an American economist, who is Distinguished Professor of Economics at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and a columnist for ''The New York Times''. In 2008, Krugman was th ...
* Literary critic Eric Lott * Economist Branko Milanović * Social psychologist
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* Feminist theorist and memoirist
Nancy K. Miller Nancy K. Miller (born 21 February 1941) is an American literary scholar, feminist theorist and memoirist. Currently a Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the CUNY Graduate Center, Miller is the author of several boo ...
* Literary critic
Robert Reid-Pharr Robert Reid-Pharr is an American literary and cultural critic and professor. Early life and education A native North Carolinian, Reid-Pharr holds a B.A. in political science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and both an M.A. ...
* Literary historian and biographer David S. Reynolds * Mathematician
Dennis Sullivan Dennis Parnell Sullivan (born February 12, 1941) is an American mathematician known for his work in algebraic topology, geometric topology, and dynamical systems. He holds the Albert Einstein Chair at the City University of New York Graduate Ce ...
* Computer Scientist
Robert Haralick Robert M. Haralick (born 1943) is Distinguished Professor in Computer Science at Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY). Haralick is one of the leading figures in computer vision, pattern recognition, and image analysis. He is a ...


Student life

Students at the CUNY Graduate Center have the option of living in Graduate housing, located in East Harlem. The eight story building includes a gym, laundry facilities, lounge and rooftop terrace with views of the Midtown skyline. The Graduate housing was opened in the Fall of 2011 in conjunction with the construction of the Hunter College School of Social Work. The Doctoral and Graduate Students' Council (DGSC) is the sole policy-making body representing students in doctoral and master's programs at the CUNY Graduate Center. There are over forty doctoral student organizations ranging from the Middle Eastern Studies Organization and Africana Studies Group to the Prison Studies Group and the Immigration Working Group. These chartered organizations host conferences, publish online magazines, and create social events aimed at fostering a community for CUNY Graduate Center students. Doctoral students at the CUNY Graduate Center also produce a newspaper funded by the DGSC and run by a committee of editors from the various doctoral programs. The paper, entitled ''The GC Advocate'', comes out six times per academic year and is free of charge for students, faculty, staff, and visitors.


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