
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…

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…

Adam Sachs (M.A. ’20, Political Science) was two months away from graduation when he was laid off from his finance role at a prestigious performing…

As the fall semester begins with an unusual set of challenges, Ph.D. candidate Philip Johnson (Political Science), who studies crime and violence in Latin America,…

Alison Parks is a Ph.D. candidate in Political Theory. She was awarded the American Association of University Women (AAUW) American fellowship for the 2019-20 academic…

Abby Dobson is a second-year M.A. student in Political Theory. While enrolled in the M.A. program she has also been working full time as a…

Featured Student News from our Spring 2020 department newsletter, Homo Politicus. Access the newsletter archive here. Andrés Besserer (level II) published “Why School Securitization Fails. Lessons…

The Doctoral Program in Political Science at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York mourns the loss of our treasured colleague Tom…

Please join us on Thursday, January 30, 2020 at 4:15pm for a practice job talk by PhD candidate Sumru Atuk on her dissertation research, “Politics…

Featured Student News from our 2019 department newsletter, Homo Politicus. Access the newsletter archive here. Ankita Aggarwal (level I) published “The Political Project of the MGNREGA”…
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