Faculty

Ervand Abrahamian (B.A., M.A., Oxford University; Ph.D. Columbia University), an Armenian born in Iran and raised in England, is well qualified by education and experience in world and Middle East history. He has published Iran Between Two Revolutions, The Iranian Mojahedin, Khomeinism, Tortured Confessions, and Inventing the Axis of Evil. He teaches at the CUNY Graduate Center, an ... <Read More>

André Aciman received his Ph. D. and A.M. in Comparative Literature from Harvard University and a B.A. in English and Comparative Literature from Lehman College. Before coming to The Graduate Center, he taught at Princeton University and Bard College. Although his specialty is in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English, French and Italian literature (he wrote his dissertation on Madame de ... <Read More>

U.S. Army Research Office grant to develop miniature electromagnetic radiation detectors

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The seeds of Richard Alba's interest in ethnicity were sown during his childhood in the Bronx of the 1940s and 1950s and nurtured intellectually at Columbia University, where he received his undergraduate and graduate education, completing his Ph.D. in 1974. He was Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the University at Albany, SUNY, until September 2008; he now holds that tit ... <Read More>

Meena Alexander was born in Allahabad, India. She is considered one of the foremost poets of her generation. She has a B.A. Honors in French and English from Khartoum University and a Ph.D. from Nottingham University. Her works have been widely anthologized and translated. They include Illiterate Heart, (winner of the PEN Open Book Award), Quickly Changing River, and the forthcoming Birthplace wi ... <Read More>

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Eric Alterman is a Distinguished Professor of English at Brooklyn College, City University of New York, and Professor of Journalism at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism. He is also “The Liberal Media” columnist for The Nation, a senior fellow and “Altercation” weblogger for Media Matters for America, (formerly at MSNBC.com) in Washington, DC, a senor fellow at the Center for American Pro ... <Read More>

Author of Comparative Constitutionalism & Rights: Global Perspectives, The Post-Apartheid Constitutions, and recipient of Women of South Africa Achievement Award

Stanley Aronowitz has taught at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York since 1983, where he is a Distinguished Professor of Sociology. He received his B.A. at the New School in 1968 and his Ph.D from the Union Graduate School in 1975. He studies labor, social movements, science and technology, education, social theory and cultural studies and is director of the Center for the ... <Read More>

Sergei N. Artemov is a Distinguished Professor of Computer Science, Mathematics, and Philosophy at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He came to CUNY with years of experience acquired in leading research centers around the world, including Cornell University, Stanford University, Moscow State University, and the Russian Academy of Sciences, as well as in France, Switzerland, ... <Read More>

At the Graduate Center since 1998, Talal Asad is a sociocultural anthropologist of international stature specializing in the anthropology of religion with a special interest in the Middle East and Islam. He earned his M.A. at Edinburgh University and B. Litt. and D.Phil. at Oxford. Before coming to the United States to teach at the New School, he taught at Oxford and the universities o ... <Read More>

Allan Atlas’s research has taken him in a number of directions. Having begun his scholarly career working on music in fifteenth-century Italy—his Renaissance Music (W.W. Norton, 1998) is the standard textbook on the subject (it has been translated into Spanish, and a French translation is in the works)—he gradually widened his interests to the sacred music of Giovanni Battista Pergolesi and th ... <Read More>

Professor Attewell was born in London, and completed his undergraduate education in England before moving to the United States to pursue a doctorate in sociology at the University of California at San Diego. He then taught for several years at the University of California at Santa Cruz and at Stony Brook University in New York before joining the faculty at the CUNY Graduate Center in 1990, where ... <Read More>

Born in Calcutta, India, Professor Banerjee holds a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology and he earned his Ph.D. at the University of Waterloo in Canada. After working eight years with Atomic Energy of Canada, he was Westinghouse Professor in the Engineering and Physics Department at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ont., from 1976 to 1980, when he joined the facul ... <Read More>

Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers and Assn. for Women in Science Outstanding Woman Scientist Award

Gilbert Baumslag is the founder and Director of the Center for Algorithms and Interactive Scientific Software (CAISS), and a Distinguished Professor of Mathematics at The City College of New York, CUNY. His tenure at City College followed appointments to the faculties of Princeton University, Courant Institute, Rice University and the University of Warwick , and is marked by distinctive resear ... <Read More>

Laird W. Bergad has been on the faculty of Lehman College's Department of Latin American and Puerto Rican Studies since 1980 and the Ph.D. Program in History at the Graduate Center from 1985. He is an internationally-respected authority on the social, economic and demographic history of slave-based plantation societies in Latin America and the Caribbean during the eighteenth and nineteenth centu ... <Read More>

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Distinguished Professor Berman passed away on September 11, 2013. Marshall Berman received degrees from Columbia, Oxford, and Harvard Universities. He helped found the Center for Workers' Education at CCNY. He is member of the editorial board of Dissent, and has written on cultural history and criticism in New York Times, Village Voice, Dissent, Nation, New Left Review, etc. His publication ... <Read More>

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Professor Bittman has written over 250 research articles and serves on the editorial boards of several scientific journals. He has edited more than 47 volumes of the monograph Organic Reactions, and edited Volume 28 of Subcellular Biochemistry, “Cholesterol: Its Functions and Metabolism in Biology and Medicine” (Plenum Press). He received the Avanti Award from the American Society for Biochem ... <Read More>

Reforma: Best Novel Published in Mexico, 2005 and Best Book of Poems Published in Mexico 2004

In addition to her work on modern Italian art and fascist culture, Professor Emily Braun has published on renaissance architecture, late nineteenth-century European painting, twentieth-century American art, women's studies, Jewish history, and contemporary painting and sculpture. She was awarded a Senior Research Grant from the Getty Foundation (1993), the Hunter College Presidential Award for ... <Read More>

Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers

John Brenkman, distinguished professor at the City University of New York, directs the U.S.-Europe Seminar at Baruch College. He lives in New York and Paris. He currently has two books, Straight Male Modern: A Cultural Critique of Psychoanalysis and Culture and Domination. His next book, The Cultural Contradictions of Democracy: Political Thought in the Age of Geo-Civil War was re ... <Read More>

Susan Buck-Morss is an interdisciplinary thinker and a prolific writer of international reputation. Her most recent book, Hegel, Haiti, and Universal History (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2009), offers a fundamental reinterpretation of Hegel's master-slave dialectic by linking it to the influence of the Haitian Revolution. Her books The Origin of Negative Dialectics: Theodor W. Adorno, Walter ... <Read More>

Edwin G. Burrows is Distinguished Professor of History at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York. He is the coauthor of Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 (Oxford University Press, 1998), which won the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for History and has received awards from the Municipal Art Society, the St. Nicholas Society, the New York Society Library, and other organizations. Prof. ... <Read More>

One of the most original, talented and prolific writers in the English language today, Peter Carey has won the Booker Prize twice, the Commonwealth Prize twice and many other distinctions. He has been named a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and has been awarded three honorary doctorates. His work has been translated into at least 30 languages. Three of his novels are considere ... <Read More>

Marvin A. Carlson, Distinguished Professor (Graduate Center), has a Ph.D. in Drama and Theatre from Cornell University. The Sidney E. Cohn Distinguished Professor of Theatre and Comparative Literature, his research and teaching interests include dramatic theory and Western European theatre history and dramatic literature, especially of the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. He has been awarded t ... <Read More>

Noël Carroll, distinguished professor of philosophy and one of the leading philosophers of art and aesthetics in the U.S., is internationally recognized for his groundbreaking work in the philosophy of film. He is the author of eleven monographs, including The Philosophy of Motion Pictures, Beyond Aesthetics, and The Philosophy of Horror; three edited collections; and over two hundred academic ar ... <Read More>

Mary Ann Caws was born and grew up in Wilmington, North Carolina. Her father was Harmon Chadbourn Rorison, of Scottish heritage (McDonald of the Isle of Skye), her mother, Margaret Devereux Lippitt, was the only daughter of the painter Margaret Walthour Lippitt. Professor Caws attended the National Cathedral School, and went on to get her B.A. (cum laude) at Bryn Mawr in 1954, her M.A. at Yal ... <Read More>

Raquel Chang-Rodríguez (PhD, New York University) is Distinguished Professor of Hispanic literature and culture at the Graduate Center and the City College (CCNY) of the City University of New York (CUNY). She has held visiting posts at Colgate University as Colgate Professor of the Humanities and at Columbia University, and has participated in seminars and courses in Spain, Peru, and Germany ... <Read More>

Distinguished Professor Eugene M. Chudnovsky, who has been a member of the Lehman Department of Physics and Astronomy faculty since 1988, is an internationally prominent theoretical physicist. He is known for his theoretical predictions of the phenomenon of magnetic poles “tunneling.” His experimental research also helped lead to the discovery of “quantum magnetic hysteresis,” a novel physics ef ... <Read More>

Todd R. Clear is a Distinguished Professor at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York. In 1978, he received a Ph.D. in Criminal Justice from The University at Albany. Clear has also held professorships at Ball State University, Rutgers University, and Florida State University (where he was also Associate Dean of the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice). He ... <Read More>

Billy Collins was born in New York City in 1941. He is the author of several books of poetry, including She Was Just Seventeen (2006), The Trouble with Poetry (2005); Nine Horses (2002); Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems (2001); Picnic, Lightning (1998); The Art of Drowning (1995), which was a finalist for the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize; Questions About Angels (1991), w ... <Read More>

Blanche Wiesen Cook is Distinguished Professor of History and Women's Studies at John Jay College and the Graduate Center, CUNY. Her biography, Eleanor Roosevelt: Volume I (Viking Penguin 1992), and Volume II (Viking Penguin 1999) received numerous awards and were on The New York Times best seller list. Volume I won The Los Angeles Times' 1992 Biography Prize, and the Lambda Literary Award. She ... <Read More>

John Corigliano is among the most honored composers in the United States. He was awarded the 2001 Pulitzer Prize in Music for his Symphony No. 2, introduced in November 2000 by the Boston Symphony Orchestra and subsequently heard in New York, Helsinki, Berlin, and Moscow. In March 2000, Corigliano’s third film score, for "The Red Violin," was awarded the Academy Award ("Oscar.") Corigliano's ... <Read More>

Stephen C. Cowin is a Distinguished Professor in the departments of Biomedical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering at City College. He also serves as Adjunct Professor of Orthopaedics at the Mt. Sinai School of Medicine in New York City. He was the director of the New York Center for Biomedical Engineering at the City University of New York for 2000 to 2008. Before taking up his position at Ci ... <Read More>

Vincent Crapanzano graduated from the Ecole Internationale in Geneva, received his B.A. in philosophy from Harvard, and his PhD in anthropology from Columbia University. He has taught at Princeton, Harvard, the University of Chicago, the University of Paris, the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, the University of Brasilia, and the University of Cape Town. He has lectured i ... <Read More>

Michael Cunningham was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, and grew up in La Cañada, California. He received his B.A. in English literature from Stanford University and his M.F.A. in creative writing from the University of Iowa. His novel A Home at the End of the World was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 1990 to wide acclaim. A film version was directed by Michael Mayer, and featured Colin Fa ... <Read More>

Lehman College and Graduate Center history professor Joseph W. Dauben earned his doctorate from Harvard in 1972, the same year he joined the Lehman faculty. He is the author of two biographies that are considered classics: Georg Cantor: His Mathematics and the Philosophy of the Infinite (Harvard University Press, 1979) and Abraham Robinson: The Creation of Nonstandard Analysis, A Personal and ... <Read More>

Del Tredici began his studies at the University of California at Berkeley with Seymour Shifrin and continued work at Princeton University, where he studied with Roger Sessions, receiving his M.F.A. degree in 1964. He has served on the faculties of Harvard University, the University of Buffalo, Boston University, and Julliard. Currently he is Distinguished Professor of Music at the City College ... <Read More>

Morton M. Denn is the Albert Einstein Professor of Science and Engineering, Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering, Professor of Physics, and Director of the Benjamin Levich Institute for Physico-Chemical Hydrodynamics at the City College of New York. Prior to joining CCNY in 1999, he was Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, where he served as Depa ... <Read More>

Michael Devitt, a student of the famous American empiricist Willard Van Orman Quine at Harvard, where he earned his Ph.D., has argued his realist position steadily over the years. His Realism and Truth is now in its third printing. He was also chosen as the spokesperson for naturalism (opposition to the a priori, or knowledge not derived from experience) in the forthcoming volume, Contempo ... <Read More>

Emmy Award-winning broadcast journalist

Morris Dickstein is a literary and cultural critic and Distinguished Professor of English at the CUNY Graduate Center. He is senior fellow of the Center for the Humanities, which he directed from 1993 to 2000. He has also taught at Columbia, Queens College, and the University of Paris VIII (St. Denis). Perhaps best known for his book Gates of Eden: American Culture in the Sixties (Basic Books, ... <Read More>

Mitchell Duneier earned his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. His first book, Slim's Table: Race, Respectability, and Masculinity, which was largely his dissertation, won the 1994 American Sociological Association's award for Distinguished Scholarly Publication, an unheard-of achievement for a dissertation. His research for this work consisted of listening to the stories of men gathered ... <Read More>

Linnea C. Ehri received her Ph.D. in Educational Psychology from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1970 and was a professor at the University of California, Davis, before coming to the Graduate Center in 1991 as a Distinguished Professor. She holds appointments in the Educational Psychology and Speech and Hearing Sciences programs. She has received research awards from the American ... <Read More>

Cynthia Fuchs Epstein, Distinguished Professor of Sociology at The Graduate Center of the City was honored in 2004 with the ASA Jessie Bernard award for her pioneering work exploring women’s exclusion from the professions. She was President of the American Sociological Association for the year 2005 to 2006. Among her books are Woman’s Place (1970), Women in Law (1981), and her landmark th ... <Read More>

Stuart Ewen is Distinguished Professor in the Department of Film & Media Studies at Hunter College, and in the Ph.D. Programs in History, Sociology and American Studies at The CUNY Graduate Center (City University of New York). He is generally considered one of the originators of the field of Media Studies, and his writings have continued to shape debates in the field. He is the author of ... <Read More>

Marie T. Filbin is a Distinguished Professor and Director of the Specialized Neuroscience Research Program at Hunter College, City University of New York in Manhattan. She received both her BSc and PhD degrees from the University of Bath, UK. During a post-doctoral fellowship in the laboratory of Gihan Tennekoon at Johns Hopkins Medical School she began working on myelin formation at the molec ... <Read More>

Michelle Fine, Distinguished Professor of Social Psychology, Women’s Studies and Urban Education at the Graduate Center, CUNY, has taught at CUNY since 1990. Before that I taught at the University of Pennsylvania for more than a decade. My research focuses on youth in schools, communities and prisons, developed through critical feminist theory and method. For my information about my research ... <Read More>

Jack Flam, Distinguished Professor of Art and Art History at Brooklyn College and Graduate Center, has taught at CUNY since 1975. He is the author of numerous books, catalogues, and articles on various aspects of nineteenth and twentieth-century art, and on African art, and he has lectured extensively at museums and universities throughout the United States and abroad. His recent books include ... <Read More>

Janet Dean Fodor came to the Graduate Center from the University of Connecticut in 1986 as a distinguished professor of linguistics. She is the author of a textbook on semantics entitled Semantics: Theories of Meaning in Generative Grammar, which has been called “a masterpiece of clarity and good sense.” In this work she combined descriptive linguistic concerns with philosophical issues ab ... <Read More>

Nancy Foner, Distinguished Professor of Sociology at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York, received her B.A. from Brandeis University and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. Her main area of interest is immigration. She has studied Jamaicans in their home society as well as in New York and London, nursing home workers in New York, and has written widely on im ... <Read More>

Joshua B. Freeman is Distinguished Professor of History at Queens College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and associated with the Joseph S. Murphy Institute for Worker Education and Labor Studies. He served as Executive Officer of the Ph.D. Program in History from 2003 to 2009 and is currently the Academic Director of the Urban Studies Program at the M ... <Read More>

Nicholas Freudenberg is professor in the Program in Urban Public Health at Hunter College, on the faculty of the Ph.D. Program in Psychology, and serves as Interim Director of CUNY's new Doctor of Public Health Program. He is founder of the Center on AIDS, Drugs, and Community Health at Hunter College and served as its director from 1987 to 1999 and again from 2000 to 2001. For the last 25 ... <Read More>

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Fred Gardaphe was born in Chicago in 1952 and raised in Melrose Park, Illinois, a predominantly Italian American community. His grandparents on his mother’s side emigrated from Bari, Italy. On his father’s side, his grandmother’s family emigrated from Calabria, his grandfather’s family from Canada. He attended Sacred Heart Grammar School, Fenwick Preparatory High School (Oak Park) and Trito ... <Read More>

Dr. Genack is a native of Queens. From 1973-75 he was a Research Associate at City College of CUNY. He spent the following two years as a Research Associated at the IBM Research Laboratory in San Jose, CA. He moved back to the east coast in 1977 to take a position at the Corporate Research Laboratories of the Exxon Research and Engineering Company. Dr. Genack joined the faculty of Queens Colle ... <Read More>

Peter Godfrey-Smith grew up in Sydney, Australia. He has an undergraduate degree from the University of Sydney, and a Ph.D. in philosophy from UC San Diego. He taught at Stanford, the Australian National University, and Harvard before joining CUNY. His main research interests are in the philosophy of biology and the philosophy of mind, and he also works on pragmatism (especially John Dewey), the ... <Read More>

Born in Peru, in 1945, Isaac Goldemberg is a poet, playwright, and fiction writer whose works are known throughout Latin America, Europe and the United States. He has lived in New York since 1964 and is Distinguished Professor of Humanities at Hostos Community College of the City University of New York, where he is also Director of the Latin American Writers Institute, and Editor of the literar ... <Read More>

Carol C. Gould is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Hunter College and Professor in the Doctoral Programs in Philosophy and Political Science and Director of the Center for Global Ethics & Politics at the Ralph Bunche Institute at The Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She is also Editor of the Journal of Social Philosophy. A native New Yorker, Gould received a BA from ... <Read More>

David Greetham was born in the UK, did his undergraduate work at Oxford, taught in Germany before coming to the US in 1967, since when he has been a member of the CUNY faculty, first at Queensborough Community College and then at the Graduate Center, where he holds positions in the English Ph.D. Program and in the Certificate Programs in Medieval Studies and in Interactive Technology and Pedagogy ... <Read More>

Michael Grossman is Distinguished Professor of Economics in the Ph.D. Program in Economics at The City University of New York Graduate Center and Research Associate and Health Economics Program Director at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is the author of four books, fifty-eight journal articles, and thirty-three book chapters. His research has focused on economic models of the det ... <Read More>

Godfrey Gumbs, who is based at Hunter College and is a faculty member in The Graduate Center's Ph.D. program in physics, has made important contributions to solid-state physics. His research, which includes a powerful approach to the study of nanostructures, focuses on several areas, including condensed matter physics, plasma physics, optoelectronics, math and computational techniques. A recen ... <Read More>

Kimiko Hahn was born in 1955 in Mt. Kisco, New York, the child of artists, a Japanese American mother from Hawaii and a German American father from Wisconsin. She received an undergraduate degree in English and East Asian studies from the University of Iowa, and a master's degree in Japanese literature from Columbia University in 1984. She is the author of seven collections of poetry, inclu ... <Read More>

For more than two decades Jeffrey Halperin, Professor of Psychology and Educational Psychology at The Graduate Center and Queens College, has been conducting research examining behavioral, cognitive, neuropsychological, and neurochemical functioning in children with AD/HD. A substantial proportion of this research has been based on the premise that AD/HD is not a unitary disorder, and the thru ... <Read More>

Robert Haralick earned his Ph.D. from the University of Kansas. Before coming to The Graduate Center, he held the prestigious Boeing Egtvedt Professorship in Electrical Engineering at the University of Washington and was vice president of research at Machine Vision International. A fellow of the Institute for Electrical and Electronic Engineers and the International Association for Pattern Rec ... <Read More>

Author of White Man’s Law: Native People in Nineteenth Century Canadian Jurisprudence and Distinguished Fulbright Professor of Human Rights Law, University of Lund, Sweden

David Harvey, a leading theorist in the field of urban studies whom Library Journal called "one of the most influential geographers of the later twentieth century," earned his Ph.D. from Cambridge University, was formerly professor of geography at Johns Hopkins, a Miliband Fellow at the London School of Economics, and Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography at Oxford. His reflections on the ... <Read More>

Samuel Heilman holds the Harold Proshansky Chair in Jewish Studies at the Graduate Center and is Distinguished Professor of Sociology at Queens College of the City University of New York. He has also been Scheinbrun Visiting Professor of Sociology at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, visiting professor of social anthropology at Tel Aviv University, and a Fulbright visiting professor at t ... <Read More>

Distinguished Professor of Earth and Environmental Science at Queens College Professional Preparation Undergraduate- University of Washington Zoology B.A., 1966 Graduate- University of Washington Civil Engineering/Water and Air Resources M.S., 1970 University of Washington Civil Engineering/Comparative Limnology Ph.D., 1973 Appointments 2005 – present City Universi ... <Read More>

Professor Herman received a B.S. and M.S. in Mathematics from the University of London, an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley, and Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of London. He is a pioneer in the field of computerized tomography (an important medical diagnostic procedure) and the author of several books and well over one hundred articles incl ... <Read More>

Dagmar Herzog is Distinguished Professor of History and the Daniel Rose Faculty Scholar at the Graduate Center, where she teaches courses in Modern European history, the history of the Holocaust and its aftermath, interdisciplinary theory and research methodology, and the histories of gender and sexuality. She received her B.A. (1983) in Political Science and French Literature from Duke Universi ... <Read More>

Yunping Jiang was born in China and received a B.S. and M.S. in Mathematics from Peking University in Beijing before coming to the United States to pursue his Ph.D. at the CUNY Graduate Center. He subsequently taught at Stony Brook University for two years before joining the faculty of Queens College in 1992 and the Graduate Center in 1998. Professor Jiang has published over five dozen research ... <Read More>

Internationally recognized authority in theoretical physics and Co-creator of string field theory

Saul Kassin received his Ph.D. in personality and social psychology at the University of Connecticut. In 1984, he was awarded a U. S. Supreme Court Judicial Fellowship, and spent the year at the Federal Judicial Center. In 1985 he was a postdoctoral fellow and visiting professor in the Psychology and Law Program at Stanford University. Dr. Kassin has conducted research on police interviewing, ... <Read More>

Thomas Kessner is a graduate of Brooklyn College (1963) and earned his doctorate at Columbia University in 1975 with distinction. He was appointed as distinguished professor at the Graduate Center in 2005. His special areas of interest are American urban and social history and the history of New York City. He has published several books, including The Flight of the Century: Charles A. Lind ... <Read More>

Writer, scholar and critic Wayne Koestenbaum is recognized as an important American poet, as one of the founders of queer studies, and as a wide-ranging cultural critic who crosses boundaries of literature, art, music, and popular culture. His book The Queen’s Throat: Opera, Homosexuality, and the Mystery of Desire, published in 1993, had a significant impact on the emerging fields of gender ... <Read More>

Victor Kolyvagin is the first to hold the Mina Rees Chair in Mathematics, named for The Graduate Center's first president, who was a distinguished mathematician. He is famous for a series of papers produced over several years and culminating in one on "Euler Systems," which is considered an original, fundamental breakthrough, and which played an important role in Andrew Wiles's path to his fa ... <Read More>

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Richard Kramer writes on the music and aesthetics of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. His Distant Cycles: Schubert and the Conceiving of Song won the Kinkeldey Award of the American Musicological Society and an ASCAP-Deems Taylor Prize; a review essay on the Mozart sketches ( Notes, Vol. 57/1, September 2000) won the Eva Judd O'Meara Award of the Music Library Association. ... <Read More>

Saul Kripke is known as a brilliant logician and one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century. While a high-school student in Nebraska, he wrote a series of papers that transformed modal logic and remain canonical works in the field. He became a junior fellow at Harvard in his sophomore year and gave lectures to graduate students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technol ... <Read More>

Peter Kwong is Distinguished Professor of Urban Affairs and Planning at Hunter College, as well as Professor of Sociology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He is a pioneer in Asian American studies, a leading scholar of immigration, and an award-winning journalist and filmmaker, widely recognized for his passionate commitment to human rights and social justice. As a sch ... <Read More>

John J. Lee is a marine microbial ecologist working mainly on symbiosis in "living sands" (giant foraminifera) and microbial and protistological problems related to mariculture. He also works with salt marsh protozoa. While most of his laboratory work takes place in New York, field work frequently takes him to well illuminated shallow tropical seas. "Tough work" for a New Yorker, but someone h ... <Read More>

Tania León born in Cuba, a vital personality on today’s music scene, is highly regarded as a composer and conductor recognized for her accomplishments as an educator and advisor to arts organizations. She has been the subject of profiles on ABC, CBS, CNN, PBS, Univision (including their noted series “Orgullo Hispano” which celebrates living American Latinos whose contributions in societ ... <Read More>

An outstanding scholar, biographer and art historian, Professor Levin’s international reputation is based on the 18 books she has written or edited, including her definitive studies of Edward Hopper, her current work on Judy Chicago, and her developing interests in feminist art and Eastern European Jewish immigrant influences on currents of American modernist art. Her work as a curator, particula ... <Read More>

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Professor Luine received a bachelor’s degree in Chemistry at Allegheny College in Meadville, Pa. and her PhD in Pharmacology from SUNY at Buffalo. Following post doctoral studies and a faculty appointment at Rockefeller University, she joined Hunter College in 1987. In addition to her research and teaching, she is the PD for Hunter College’s RISE and SCORE Programs (NIH grants) which promote res ... <Read More>

James Lynch is on the faculty at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and is a faculty member in The Graduate Center Ph.D. program in criminal justice. Lynch, who holds a B.A. in sociology from Wesleyan University and an M.A. and Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Chicago, is one of the leading practitioners of quantitative criminology and a nationally recognized expert on criminal just ... <Read More>

Jane Marcus is one of the founders of feminist criticism in the U.S., (distinguished from other feminists by her commitment to socialist feminism in her writing and as an activist). She is notable for having brought race and class into feminist discourses in the 70s and 80s. Her essay “No More Horses: Virginia Woolf on Art and Propaganda,” Women’s Studies 1977 is considered to have started the r ... <Read More>

Gerald E. Markowitz, professor of history at The Graduate Center and John Jay College of Criminal Justice, is the author of 43 articles and nine books. He is the co-author of Deceit and Denial: The Deadly Politics of Industrial Pollution, which was published in 2003 and has been praised for chronicling how the lead paint industry knowingly exposed Americans, including children, to toxic subst ... <Read More>

NASA Exceptional Achievement Medal and NASA consultant on advanced in-space propulsion technology

John Matteson is Distinguished Professor of English at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. His first book, Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father, was awarded the 2008 Pulitzer Prize in Biography. Eden's Outcasts was also named as an Honors Book in Nonfiction by the 2008-09 Massachusetts Book Awards and received a commendation from the Massachusetts State Legislature. Pr ... <Read More>

Uday Singh Mehta, distinguished professor of political science, is a renowned political theorist whose work encompasses a wide spectrum of philosophical traditions. He has worked on a range of issues including the relationship between freedom and imagination, liberalism’s complex link with colonialism and empire, and, more recently, war, peace, and nonviolence. He is the author of two books, ... <Read More>

Corinne Michels has achieved an international reputation for her research into the regulation of gene expression. Her research utilizes the genetic model eukaryote Saccharomyces cerevisiae, baker's and brewer's yeast, and molecular genetic analysis tools. She focuses on the seemingly simple regulated genetic system for the utilization of the sugar maltose as a model for regulated transcriptio ... <Read More>

Distinguished Professor Milhous earned her Ph.D. in drama and theatre from Cornell University in 1974 and taught at the University of Iowa and the University of Maryland before coming to the Graduate Center in 1987. Her research is focused on British theatre, dance, and opera during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and on theatre history and historiography. Her major publications i ... <Read More>

Distinguished Professor Miller’s areas of interest include contemporary autobiography and autobiography theory; women's writing (American and French); twentieth-century cultural history, after 1945; and feminist theory. She earned her Ph.D. in French literature, with distinction, from Columbia University. In 1988, after thirteen years of teaching at Columbia College and Barnard Coll ... <Read More>

Pyong Gap Min is Distinguished Professor of Sociology at Queens College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He has taught courses on race and ethnic relations, immigration, ethnic identity, marriage and the family, new immigrants and their religions, and Asian Americans. The areas of his research focus are immigrant entrepreneurship, ethnic identity, changes in the fa ... <Read More>

John Mollenkopf is Director of the Center for Urban Research at The Graduate Center of the City University and teaches courses in political science and sociology on urban politics, public policy, immigration, and the changing nature of urban communities. He has authored or edited more than a dozen books on urban politics, urban policy, and New York City, recently completing Inheriting the City: ... <Read More>

Lead writer in NEWSDAY team that won Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Reporting

A presidential professor in the Ph.D. program in anthropology at the CUNY Graduate Center, Mullings is among the most pre-eminent scholars in the critical study of race, class, gender and health, with special reference to urban America. The executive board of the Society for Anthropology of North America called her the “the most influential scholar in the field of North American a ... <Read More>

Dr. Fred Naider's distinguished career combines the qualities of an extraordinary researcher and teacher. He is one of a very select group of scientists recognized by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) with over 30 continual years of funding for his important and continuous research. A chemist by training, Dr. Naider has spent the best part of his career studying peptides, a family of mol ... <Read More>

Nair obtained his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees from the University of Kerala, India, and his Ph.D. from Syracuse University. He was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton (1983-1985) and the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, Santa Barbara (1985-1986), before joining Columbia University as a faculty member in 1987. He moved to CUNY in 1993. Nair's research covers a wide spec ... <Read More>

David Nasaw has been on the doctoral faculty at the Graduate Center since 1990. He is currently the Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. Professor of American History as well as the director of the Center of Humanities at the Graduate Center. He is also the author of The Chief: The Life of William Randolph Hearst, which won the Bancroft Prize and the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize and was a finalist for th ... <Read More>

Stephen Neale is generally acknowledged as one of the best philosophers of his generation in the English-speaking world, and the best working at the interface between philosophy of language and linguistics. Neale is known internationally for producing a large body of scholarship related to descriptions, pronouns, quantification, and demonstratives, and his two books Descriptions a ... <Read More>

Elizabeth Nunez emigrated from Trinidad after completing high school there. She received her MA and Ph.D. in English from New York University and is CUNY Distinguished Professor of English at Hunter College. Dr. Nunez is the award-winning author of six novels: Prospero's Daughter; Grace; Discretion; Bruised Hibiscus; Beyond the Limbo Silence; and When Rocks Dance. Prospero’s Daughter, her m ... <Read More>

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One of the leading historians of 19th century America, Professor Oakes has an international reputation for path-breaking scholarship. In a series of influential books and essays, he tackled some of the most important questions about the history of the United States from the Revolution through the Civil War. His early work focused on the South, examining slavery as an economic and social system th ... <Read More>

Loraine K. Obler’s international reputation is based on her groundbreaking work in several areas of neurolinguistics: aphasia, bilingualism, aging, and dementia. She came to the Graduate Center in 1985, and was appointed as a distinguished professor in June 1991. She teaches in the Ph.D. Programs in Speech–Language–Hearing Sciences and Linguistics and also directs the Neurolinguistics Lab, ... <Read More>

Ursula Oppens is one of the few pianists before the public today who has won equal renown as an interpreter of the established repertoire and a champion of contemporary music. Her performances of music old and new are marked by a powerful grasp of the composer's musical intentions and an equally sure command of the keyboard's resources; qualities placing her in the ranks of the wo ... <Read More>

Dr. Robert Paaswell, Distinguished professor of Civil Engineering (CCNY) currently serves as Director of the federally supported University Transportation Research Center, located at the City College of New York. A consortium of 12 major U.S. Academic Institutions, the Center asserts a significant role in the region and nationally, conducting research and projects on surface transportation, carr ... <Read More>

Janos Pach, professor of computer science at The Graduate Center and City College, is one of the most productive and influential geometers in the world. The author of several books and more than 170 research papers, he has received a number of prestigious honors, including the Lester Ford Award from the Mathematical Association of America and the Academy Award from the Hungarian Academy of Sci ... <Read More>

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Born in 1939 in Moscow, USSR, I received my MS (1961) and PhD (1964) degrees in Math from the Moscow State University (MGU). Math provided me with few keys that opened many locks. Later I leaned towards Computational Math, not the mainstream then but much more so by now. My Russian journal papers on polynomial computations made me known in the West as “polynomial Pan”. In 1976 I left the oppre ... <Read More>

Rohit Parikh is a Distinguished Professor of Computer Science, Mathematics and Philosophy, Graduate Center, and Dept. of Computer Science, Brooklyn College.. All his degrees, one in Physics, and two in Mathematics, are from Harvard. Apart from CUNY, he has taught at Boston University, Stanford, NYU, Bristol University (in UK), and Panjab University (in India). ... <Read More>

Dr. Parsons is Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Public Health at Hunter College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Dr. Parsons joined the Hunter College faculty in 2000 and served as Chair of the Department of Psychology from 2008 to 2010. Professor Parsons' work has shed important light on health behaviors, including HIV prevention, HIV medication adherence, s ... <Read More>

Steven Penrod earned his J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1974 and his Ph.D. in Psychology from Harvard University in 1979. He joined the faculty of John Jay College of Criminal Justice as a Distinguished Professor of Psychology in the fall of 2001. Prior to that he was professor and director of the Law/Psychology program at the University of Nebraska from 1995-2001. He was on the law faculty a ... <Read More>

Rosalind Petchesky is Distinguished Professor of Political Science at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, CUNY and a 1995 recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship. She has long been a scholar and activist in the movement for reproductive and sexual rights internationally and was founder and international coordinator of the International Reproductive Rights Research Action Group (IRRRAG) as wel ... <Read More>

Frances Fox Piven is Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Political Science at the CUNY Graduate Center. Her scholarship and activism have centered on social movements, electoral politics, and welfare policy. She received her B.A. in City Planning from the University of Chicago, and her M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. She has taught in the Columbia University School of Socia ... <Read More>

Co-Principal Investigator NSF Grant Introducing Indivisibles into Calculus Instruction, Co-investigator War Trauma Foundation Grant and Psychosocial and Mathematics Teaching Tsunami Victims in Tamil Nadu State

Graham Priest, BA, MA (Cambridge) MSc, PhD (London), LittD (Melbourne), FAHA, was born in London, and studied at Cambridge and the London School of Economics. In 1976 he moved to Australia, where he has since held positions at the Universities of Western Australia, Queensland, and Melbourne. Before joining CUNY in 2009, he was Boyce Gibson Professor of Philosophy at the University of Melbourne. ... <Read More>

Jesse Prinz, distinguished professor of philosophy, is a notable expert in philosophy of psychology and a strong proponent of the emerging methodology known as experimental philosophy. His books include Furnishing the Mind: Concepts and Their Perceptual Basis (2002); Gut Reactions: A Perceptual Theory of the Emotions (2004); and The Emotional Construction of Morals (2007). Two books are forth ... <Read More>

Emmy Nominee and Fulbright Scholar

New York Times 2007 ESOL Teacher of the Year Award

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A Presidential Professor of English and American Studies at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, Robert Fitzgerald Reid-Pharr holds a B.A. in Political Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, as well as an M.A. in Afro-American Studies and a Ph.D. in American Studies from Yale. Before coming to the Graduate Center he was an assistant and associate profess ... <Read More>

David S. Reynolds is Distinguished Professor of English and American Studies at Baruch College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He is the author of John Brown, Abolitionist: The Man Who Killed Slavery, Sparked the Civil War, and Seeded Civil Rights, winner of the Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award; winner of the Kansas State Book Award; finalist for the Peter Se ... <Read More>

David Rindskopf is Distinguished Professor of Educational Psychology and Psychology at the CUNY Graduate Center, where he has taught since 1979. His research and teaching are in the area of applied statistics, measurement, and research design. He is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA), and has served as the President of the New York Chapter of the ASA. He has also served as ... <Read More>

Riskin has been one of the pioneers of contemporary Chinese economic studies. His China's Political Economy: The Quest for Development since 1949 (Oxford, 1987) was a comprehensive history of China, from a political economy perspective, since the founding of the People's Republic. He has explored many aspects of modern China's history, from the role of economic "surplus" in explaining China's dev ... <Read More>

Chase F. Robinson, Distinguished Professor of History, is considered the leading expert of his generation on early Islamic history. From 2003 to 2005, he chaired Oxford University's Faculty of Oriental Studies, having first served as a professor of Islamic history at Oxford, beginning in 1993. He was appointed provost and senior vice president of the Graduate Center of the City University of New ... <Read More>

Ruthann Robson, Professor of Law and University Distinguished Professor, teaches in the areas of constitutional law, family law, feminist legal theory, and sexuality and the law, and is faculty advisor to the New York City Law Review. She is the author of numerous works developing a lesbian legal theory, which include the books Sappho Goes to Law School and Lesbian (Out)Law: Survival Under the ... <Read More>

Morris Rossabi was born in in the multi-ethnic environment of Alexandria, Egypt and was raised to speak Arabic, English, and French. Migrating to the U.S. as a boy, he became fluent i German before studying for a Ph.D. in East and Central Asian History at Columbia University. During graduate school, he learned Chinese and Japanese and several Central Asian languages. Fluency in those language ... <Read More>

Dr. Rossow's research interests include cloud physics and dynamics, atmospheric radiative transfer, atmospheric dynamics, and satellite remote sensing of Earth's climate and other planetary atmospheres about which he has published over 170 papers and reports. His early work focused on the clouds and dynamics of the atmospheres of Venus and Jupiter and he served on the Science Teams for the Pio ... <Read More>

Born in Antwerp, Belgium Myriam Sarachik attended primary school in Antwerp and Havana, Cuba and high school at the Bronx High School of Science in New York. She earned a B. A. cum laude from Barnard College in 1954, majoring in physics. After working for a year at the IBM Watson Laboratories at Columbia University she returned to graduate school, receiving a M.S. in 1957 and a Ph.D. in 1960 f ... <Read More>

David Savran is a Distinguished Professor at the Graduate Center. He holds a Ph.D. in Theatre Arts from Cornell University. Major publications include: Breaking the Rules: The Wooster Group (1988); In Their Own Words: Contemporary American Playwrights (1988); Communists, Cowboys and Queers: The Politics of Masculinity in the Work of Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams (1992); Taking it Like ... <Read More>

Mitchell B. Schaffler is the CUNY and Wallace H. Coulter Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the City College of New York, and Director of the New York Center for Biomedical Engineering (NYCBE), the research consortium among CCNY and the major New York City teaching hospitals and medical schools. Before coming to City College, he was Professor of Orthopaedics, Anatomy and Cell B ... <Read More>

She is author of Marianne Moore: The Poetry of Engagement; editor of Ezra Pound, translator from the Hebrew of T. Carmi's At the Stone of Losses; and co-translator from the Spanish of Pablo Antonio Cuadra's Songs of Cifar. She is Poetry Editor of the Nation, and former director of the Poetry Center, 92nd Street Y. Schulman received her Ph.D. from New York University, and is Di ... <Read More>

Sarah Schulman is the author of the novels The Mere Future (2009), The Child (2007), Shimmer (1998), Rat Bohemia (1995), Empathy (1992), People in Trouble (1990), After Delores (1988), Girls, Visions and Everything (1986), and The Sophie Horowitz Story (1984); the nonfiction books The Gentrification of the Mind: Witness to a Lost Imagination (2011), Ties That Bind: Familial Homophobia and Its Co ... <Read More>

Robert A. Schwartz is Marvin M. Speiser Professor of Finance and University Distinguished Professor in the Zicklin School of Business, Baruch College, CUNY. Before joining the Baruch faculty in 1997, he was Professor of Finance and Economics and Yamaichi Faculty Fellow at New York University's Leonard N. Stern School of Business, where he had been a member of the faculty since 1965. Profess ... <Read More>

Lía Schwartz, originally from Argentina, has studied at the University of Buenos Aires, the University of Mainz, Germany, and the University of Illinois, where she earned her Ph.D. She has taught at Fordham University, New York University, Princeton University, and Queens College, CUNY, and came to The Graduate Center from Dartmouth, where she held an endowed chair in Spanish and was chair of ... <Read More>

Dr. Anthony Sclafani, distinguished professor of psychology, directs the Feeding Behavior and Nutrition Laboratory at Brooklyn College. Dr. Sclafani, a Brooklyn College alumnus, returned to the College as an assistant professor in 1970 after receiving his Ph.D. in psychobiology at the University of Chicago. He became associate professor in 1975, professor in 1980 and distinguished professor in ... <Read More>

Dr. Sethi is University Distinguished Professor of Management at the Zicklin School of Business, Baruch College, The City University of New York. He is currently visiting Yale University as Forrest Mars, Sr. Professor of Ethics, Politics and Economics. He holds a Masters degree in Economics from Delhi University, India, and MBA and Ph.D. degrees from Columbia University, New York. Dr. Sethi ha ... <Read More>

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Former editor-in-chief of Business Week American Society of Magazine Editors Hall of Fame. Gerald M. Loeb Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award for business journalism Henry John Fisher Award, Overseas Press Club President's Award

Academy of American Poets 2007 Wallace Stevens Award, U.S. Poet Laureate 2007-2008

Tom Sleigh’s most recent book of poetry, Space Walk (Houghton Mifflin, 2007), won the 2008 Kingsley Tufts Award. His book of essays, Interview with a Ghost, was published by Graywolf Press in 2006. He has also published After One, Waking, The Chain, The Dreamhouse, Far Side of the Earth, Bula Matari/Smasher of Rocks, and a translation of Euripides' Herakles. He has won the Shelley Prize from the ... <Read More>

Paul Julian Smith is Distinguished Professor of Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures and Languages. He is a renowned specialist in the visual culture of Spain and Latin America, although he began his research in the field of Spanish Golden Age literature. After taking his BA (1980) and PhD (1984) in Cambridge, his first academic post was at Queen Mary College, University of London. He then bec ... <Read More>

Neil Smith is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Geography at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York where he also directs the Center for Place, Culture and Politics. He recently won the LA Times Book Prize for Biography (2003) for his book American Empire: Roosevelt’s Geographer and the Prelude to Globalization (2003). He works on the broad connections between spac ... <Read More>

Michael Sorkin is the principal of the Michael Sorkin Studio in New York City, a design practice devoted to both practical and theoretical projects at all scales with a special interest in the city and in green architecture. Recent projects include planning and design for a highly sustainable 5000-unit community in Penang, Malaysia, master planning for the Zha Bei district in Shanghai, the desi ... <Read More>

Distinguished Professor David Sorkin (B.A., University of Wisconsin, Madison; Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley) is a faculty member in the Department of History at the Graduate Center, as well as the director of the Center for Jewish Studies. Professor Sorkin has taught at Brown University (1983-86), Oxford University (1986-1992) and the University of Wisconsin, Madison (1992-2011). He i ... <Read More>

Carnegie/ CASE Outstanding Community College Professor of the Year

Domna Stanton is a renowned scholar of seventeenth-century and early-modern French studies with an influential feminist perspective. Her first book, The Aristocrat as Art: A Study of the Honnête Homme and the Dandy in 17th- and 19th-Century French Literature, is considered a classic. Her most recent books are Women Writ, Women Writing: Gendered Discourse and Differences in Seventeenth-Century ... <Read More>

Professor Stark received her A.B. degree at Cornell University in upstate New York and obtained her Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry under the guidance of Robert and Regitze Vold at the University of California, San Diego in 1977. Subsequently, she joined the group of Dr. Robert Griffin at MIT's National Magnet Lab as an NIH Postdoctoral Fellow for two years. In 1979, she was appointed Assistant Pro ... <Read More>

Editor and co-publisher of award winning Riverdale Press and founder of Hunts Point Express. Pulitzer Prize.

Judith Stein is a distinguished professor of history at City College and the Graduate Center. Stein received a BA at Vassar College and PhD from Yale . She is the author of Pivotal Decade: How the United States Traded Factories for Finance in the Seventies (Yale, 2010), Running Steel, Running America: Race, Economic Policy, and the Decline of Liberalism (1998) and The World of Marcus Garvey: ... <Read More>

A revised biography of Professor Steinberg will be published soon. Stephen Steinberg, a sociologist, is an internationally renowned authority on race and ethnicity in the United States. His most recent book is Race Relations: A Critique (Stanford University Press, September 2007). His last book, Turning Back: The Retreat from Racial Justice in American Thought and Policy (Beacon Press, 1995), ... <Read More>

Writer and editor for Newsweek magazine. Overseas Press Club Award

Joseph Straus is a music theorist specializing in music of the twentieth century, with research interests that include set theory, voice-leading in post-tonal music, the music of Stravinsky, and the music Ruth Crawford Seeger. His book, Introduction to Post-Tonal Theory, is a standard college textbook on this topic. His book Remaking the Past received the Wallace Berry award from ... <Read More>

An internationally renowned theoretical mathematician, Sullivan specializes in topology, geometry, and dynamical systems. He was named Albert Einstein Chair in Science in 1981, at the time in cooperation with Queens College. During the 1980s the resources of the chair allowed the founding of a regular seminar in geometry and chaos theory that brought first-rank international scholars to CUNY a ... <Read More>

Lucien Szpiro came to The Graduate Center from the National Center of Scientific Research at the University of Paris (Universite de Paris-Sud), where he earned his Ph.D. and where he had served as Directeur de Recherches de Classe Exceptionelle (Distinguished Professor) since 1991. Ranked among the world's leading mathematicians specializing in the fields of commutative algebra, Diophantine ge ... <Read More>

John M. Tarbell is currently the CUNY and Wallace Coulter Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the City College of New York, and Chair of the biomedical engineering department. Before coming to City College in 2003, he was Distinguished Professor of Chemical and Bioengineering at Penn State University. He has been active nationally in the affairs of several engineering societies ... <Read More>

NSF Research Experience for Undergraduates grant co-investigator and Co-principal investigator of CUNY/American Museum of Natural History NASA COSMOS Evolution Survey

Virginia Valian is a faculty member of the Ph.D. Programs in Psychology and Linguistics and has been a psychology professor at Hunter College since 1987. Valian's landmark book Why So Slow? The Advancement of Women (MIT Press, 1998) uses the concepts of gender schemas and the accumulation of advantage to explain why so few women from scientists to choreographers are at the top of their profe ... <Read More>

Megan Vaughan is a historian of Africa and of colonialism. Her first book, The Story of an African Famine: Gender and Famine in Twentieth-Century Malawi (C.U.P. 1987) drew on extensive oral historical research in Malawi. In 1991 she published Curing Their Ills: Colonial Power and African Illness (Polity and Stanford, 1991), an examination of colonial medical discourse and a critical discussion of ... <Read More>

NIH and NSF grants to study brain cancer infiltration

Katherine Verdery is Julien J. Studley Faculty Scholar and Distinguished Professor of Anthropology. Since 1973 she has conducted field research in Romania, initially emphasizing the political economy of social inequality, ethnic relations, and nationalism. With the changes of 1989, her work has shifted to problems of the transformation of socialist systems, specifically changing property rela ... <Read More>

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Mike Wallace, co-author of the Pulitzer-Prize winning Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898, is Distinguished Professor of History at John Jay College of Criminal Justice (City University of New York). His most recent book - A New Deal for New York - examines the future of post September 11 Gotham in the light of its past. Wallace was born and raised in New York City and its environs. ... <Read More>

Professor Weinbaum has published more than 185 full length papers plus numerous shorter communications and conference papers. His research has involved important collaborations with other investigators and institutions. His joint studies with the UC San Diego have investigated the cellular origins of the permeability of arterial endothelium to low density lipoproteins, transport models for the ... <Read More>

Mac Wellmann’s recent work includes The Difficulty of Crossing a Field (with composer David Lang) at ACT in San Francisco and at Montclair in the fall of 2006, and at UT Austin in 2010; and 1965 UU for performer Paul Lazar, and directed by Stephen Mellor at the Chocolate Factory in the fall of 2008. He is also working on two plays for chorus: The Invention of Tragedy (Classic Stage Company) and ... <Read More>

Douglas H. Whalen has conducted research on a broad range of topics in speech perception, speech production and cognitive neuroscience, as well as coordinating efforts to document endangered languages. He joined the Graduate Center faculty in 2011 from Haskins Laboratories in New Haven, CT, where continues to hold the position of Vice President of Research. His perceptual work has highlighted t ... <Read More>

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Richard Wolin is a highly regarded authority in the field of modern European intellectual history. He received a B.A. from Reed College, and an M.A. and Ph.D. from York University in Toronto and has held faculty positions at Reed College and Rice University where he was D.D. McMurtry Professor of History. He is the author of several books on subjects such as Martin Heidegger, Heidegger's influ ... <Read More>

Jock Young, who earned his B.Sc., M.Sc. and Ph.D. from the London School of Economics, is best known as the coauthor of The New Criminology, the 1973 book that founded a new school of thought about the subject. Another book, The Drugtakers, is a classic study of drug policy and drug behavior. His most recent book, The Exclusive Society, offers a withering critique of social exclusion in conte ... <Read More>

After graduating from City College in 1954, H. Philip Zeigler obtained his Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin, working with Clinton Woolsey, Wally Welker and Harry Harlow in the areas of animal behavior, neurophysiology and comparative neuroanatomy. A National Institute of Health (NIH) fellowship (1958-1961) supported his training in the nascent field of ethology at Cambridge University, where ... <Read More>