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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Lucas G. Rubin, director of the Latin/Greek Institute at the CUNY Graduate Center, has published The Latin/Greek Institute at the City University of New York (2025), a pictorial history of a program ...

A new scholarly movement is pushing beyond the research–activism divide. Language Activism: The Role of Scholars in Linguistic Reform and Social Change (2025) brings together researchers committed to ...

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 ...

Dear GC Community Member, The Graduate Center will begin phase two of CUNY's network modernization project on Wednesday, June 11, 2025. During this phase, network servers and storage devices will be ...

New York City Council Member Keith Powers (fifth from left) and Deputy Manhattan Borough President Keisha Sutton-James (fourth from left) presented CUNY Graduate Center President Joshua C. Brumberg ...