Please join the Ph.D. Theatre and Performance program for an Anti-Racist and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Resource Gathering facilitated by students. At this gathering, the Theatre and Performance program’s Anti-Racism Committee hopes to build connections and collectively strategize with colleagues across the Graduate Center who have been engaged in anti-racist work. This will serve as… Read More


The U.S./Global application for the ninth cohort of Schwarzman Scholars officially opened on April 12. Recently, we also celebrated an important milestone as April 21 commemorated the announcement of this program to the world ten years ago. It was a historic moment for Schwarzman Scholars, as President Xi Jinping and President Obama each provided a… Read More


Call For Applications: Social Practice CUNY Initiative for Faculty   Social Practice CUNY (SPCUNY), an initiative based at The CUNY Graduate Center that seeks to amplify the collective power of social practice artists, scholars, and advocates across the CUNY system, is currently seeking the third cohort of SPCUNY Faculty Fellows. A significant number of CUNY… Read More


Call for 2023-2024 Manifold Graduate Fellow Deadline: Applications Accepted and Reviewed on a Rolling Basis; Apply by May 12, 2023 for best consideration GC Digital Initiatives welcomes applications from GC doctoral students to join the Manifold Team as a Manifold Graduate Fellow. This position offers graduate students the opportunity to gain experience with digital publishing… Read More


American Quarterly 2024 Special Issue “We Are Not American” Still   Maile Arvin (University of Utah) Hiʻilei Julia Hobart (Yale University) Bryan Kamaoli Kuwada (University of Hawaiʻi) Brandy Nālani McDougall (University of Hawaiʻi) Lani Teves (University of Hawaiʻi) On the night of July 3, 2021, a small group of activists made their way to the… Read More


The Decorative Arts Trust is thrilled to announce that we are now accepting applications for a Helen Scott Reed Study Trip Abroad Scholarship for a MA or PhD student or an emerging professional less than five years from completing their degree to attend our France in the Footsteps of Jefferson program on September 9–17, 2023. Applicants… Read More


Feminists Reclaim Mentorship: A Reading and Celebration with Nancy K. Miller and Tahneer Oksman Thursday, May 4th at 6:00 PM (EST). This Event will take place In-Person in the Skylight Room at the CUNY Graduate Center. To RSVP and Register: https://bit.ly/CSWSNancyMiller This event is free and open to the public. Please distribute widely. Event Details: Mentorship continues… Read More


In Hamlet’s soliloquy, the phrase “undiscovered country” refers to “death, The undiscovered country, from whose bourn / No traveler returns.” In this light, the phrase speaks to the urgency of global climate change as the earth passes benchmarks on the way to “irreversible” transformation, making significant parts of the globe uninhabitable by humans and other species.… Read More


The Carolyn G. Heilbrun Dissertation Prize will be awarded to an outstanding dissertation completed at the CUNY Graduate Center in the given academic year. The prize is meant to recognize a dissertation that is in the interest of the humanities with the broad intellectual aims of Carolyn Heilbrun’s work. To be considered for the prize,… Read More


Friday, April 28, 2023 4:00 p.m. English Program Lounge, room 4406   Come hear Prof. Judith Raiskin, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, University of Oregon, talk about her oral history project:   In the 1960s-90s Eugene, Oregon was known as a “lesbian mecca,” drawing hundreds, perhaps thousands, of young women from across the United States.… Read More