Featured Alum News from our 2018 department newsletter, Homo Politicus. Access the newsletter archive here.

Kara Alaimo (2015), Assistant Professor of Communications at Hofstra University, was quoted in a front-page story in the New York Times about advertisers’ social media responses to political controversy in November, 2017. 

Tatiana Carayannis (2017) was appointed director of the Social Science Research Council’s new program, “Understanding Violent Conflict” which explores evidence-based research and responses to contemporary conflicts to enable more effective responses to the increasing complexity of violent conflict globally. 

Jill Simone Gross (1998) co-authored “The role of governance networks in building metropolitan scale” with Jen Nelles and Loraine Kennedy in Territory, Politics and Governance. The article is a comparative analysis of the networks and the governance of metropolitan development. 

Peter Kolozi’s (2009)  book, Conservative Critiques of Capitalism: From the Industrial Revolution to Globalization, was reviewed by the Action Institute, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Jacobin, and the American Conservative, as well as quoted in the Boston Review.

John McMahon (2016) accepted an appointment as Assistant Professor of Political Science at SUNY-Plattsburgh beginning August 2018. He also published an article in Political Theory titled “The ‘Enigma of Biopolitics’: Antiblackness, Modernity, and Roberto Esposito’s Biopolitics.”  In addition, McMahon’s article “Unchained Succubus: A Queer New Institutional Analysis of U.S. Supreme Court Nomination Hearings” was published in Politics and Gender in December 2017. 

Patrice McSherry (1994) appeared as a featured analyst in a Radio BBC World documentary on Chilean New Song. An interview with McSherry about Chilean New Song and one of its legendary musicians, Víctor Jara (who was killed in the first days of the Pinochet dictatorship) was published in the Chilean newspaper El Ciudadano. McSherry was also invited to present a paper about the interrelations between music and politics in Chile at the interdisciplinary conference “1968 in Europe and Latin America,” organized by the Nanovic Institute for European Studies and the Kellogg Institute for International Studies, Notre Dame University, April 2018.

Rich Meagher (2008) published his book, Atheists in American Politics (Lexington 2008), which highlights key moments in the political history of atheism and examines how changing circumstances within the movement help explain political mobilization. 

Keith Powers (2013) was elected to the New York City Council in November 2017, representing the CUNY Graduate Center’s own Council District 4. Councilmember Powers serves on several committees including Health and Finance, and serves as Chair of the Committee on Criminal Justice, and Vice Co-Chair of the Progressive Caucus. 

Bernd Reiter (2003) gave a TEDx talk in March 2017, during which he discussed the themes of his new book, The Crisis of Liberal Democracy (Rowman & Littlefield 2017) examining case studies of laws and institutions that challenge economic elitism, and exploring alternatives to capitalist growth and representative liberal democracy to address economic inequality, and restore economic opportunity and fairness, through more universal participation and limited wealth accumulation. 

Rochelle Saidel (1992), Executive Director of Remember the Women Institute, coordinated an art exhibition titled “Trailblazing VIOLATED! Women in Holocaust and Genocide” beginning April 2018, at the Ronald Feldman Gallery. 

Joshua Sperber (2017) has been hired as Assistant Professor in Political Science and History at Averett University, and his article, “Making the Grade: Rating Professors,” was published in New Labor Forum.

Michael J. Thompson (2005), Professor of Political Theory at William Paterson University, published an edited volume: Hegel’s Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Politics (Routledge 2018). 

Phillip Thompson (1990), Associate Professor of Political Science and Urban Planning in the School of Architecture and Planning at MIT was named Deputy Mayor of New York City for strategic policy initiatives by Mayor de Blasio. 

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