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Students: are you considering creating a professional website or Twitter account but don’t know where to start? Preparing for the job market and need help…
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Ankita Aggarwarl (level II) published “Why are MNREGA wages so low?” in Ideas For India. Fernando Aquino (level III) is running for New York City…
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Mike Stinavage is a M.A. student currently in Spain completing a Fulbright Fellowship at the Public University of Navarre. His research focuses on waste management…
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Andrés Sebastian Besserer Rayas is a level II Ph.D. student in the Comparative Politics subfield who studies migration. The interview below has been edited for…
![How He Converted ‘Dumb Questions’ Into Serious Research: Conner Martinez, Class of 2021 M.A. Grad, on Getting Into a Political Science Ph.D. Program](https://i0.wp.com/politicalscience.commons.gc.cuny.edu/wp-content/blogs.dir/2712/files/2021/06/Conner.jpg?resize=469%2C140&ssl=1)
Conner Martinez (M.A. ’21, Political Science) is heading to Indiana this August to begin a doctoral program in political science at the University of Notre…
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As our semester draws to a close, your EC reps are inviting you to gather for a Virtual Student Town Hall on May 7th from 3-5pm…
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See the application document here: Pay it Forward Application. The Political Science GC Alum Committee is now accepting applications for small grants to support research…
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Featured Student News from our Fall 2020 department newsletter, Homo Politicus. Access the newsletter archive here. Ankita Aggarwal (level II) co-authored “Time to act on MGNREGA,”…
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Hip-hop has exploded as a global phenomenon, heard everywhere from Broadway to Bangalore. Yet its commercial success is one of the paradoxes of a music…
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Graduate Center doctoral candidate Thuy Anh Tran (Political Science) was awarded a 2020 Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant by the American Political Science Association. The…
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