![Alum Adam Sachs (M.A. '20) on Pivoting During the Pandemic: Laid Off from the Arts Sector, a Political Science Graduate Finds Opportunity and Meaning in New Role](https://politicalscience.commons.gc.cuny.edu/wp-content/blogs.dir/2712/files/2020/10/Adam-Sachs-1-pdf.jpg)
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…
![Ph.D. Candidate Philip Johnson Awarded Two Fellowships for Work on Organized Crime in Mexico](https://politicalscience.commons.gc.cuny.edu/wp-content/blogs.dir/2712/files/2020/09/Philip-Luke-Johnson-469-copy-pdf.jpg)
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,…
![Spring 2020 Student interview: Alison Parks](https://i0.wp.com/politicalscience.commons.gc.cuny.edu/wp-content/blogs.dir/2712/files/2020/07/Parks-scaled.jpg?resize=470%2C140&ssl=1)
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…
![Spring 2020 Student interview: Abby Dobson](https://i0.wp.com/politicalscience.commons.gc.cuny.edu/wp-content/blogs.dir/2712/files/2020/07/Dobson.jpg?resize=214%2C140&ssl=1)
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…
![Student News: Spring 2020](https://i0.wp.com/politicalscience.commons.gc.cuny.edu/wp-content/blogs.dir/2712/files/2020/07/studentnews2020.jpeg?resize=470%2C140&ssl=1)
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…
![In Memoriam - Thomas J. Waters](https://i0.wp.com/politicalscience.commons.gc.cuny.edu/wp-content/blogs.dir/2712/files/2020/04/Waters-MTRNY-cropped.jpg?resize=470%2C140&ssl=1)
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…
![Professional Development Workshop, Practice Job Talk: Sumru Atuk, "Politics of Femicide: “Woman” Making and Women Killing in Turkey" Thursday, January 30th, 4:15pm](https://i0.wp.com/politicalscience.commons.gc.cuny.edu/wp-content/blogs.dir/2712/files/2020/01/Atuk-Job-Talk-1-30-2020_cropped.png?resize=470%2C140&ssl=1)
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…
![Student News: Fall 2019](https://i0.wp.com/politicalscience.commons.gc.cuny.edu/wp-content/blogs.dir/2712/files/2019/11/student2019fall-1.png?resize=470%2C140&ssl=1)
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”…
![Ph.D. Candidate Alison Parks Receives Prestigious AAUW Fellowship](https://i0.wp.com/politicalscience.commons.gc.cuny.edu/wp-content/blogs.dir/2712/files/2019/11/Alison-Parks_AAUW.png?resize=470%2C140&ssl=1)
Ph.D. candidate Alison Parks was awarded the American Association of University Women (AAUW) American fellowship for the 2019-20 academic year. Parks’s project explores the queer…
![Student News: Spring 2019](https://i0.wp.com/politicalscience.commons.gc.cuny.edu/wp-content/blogs.dir/2712/files/2019/10/studentnews2019.png?resize=470%2C140&ssl=1)
Featured Student News from our 2019 department newsletter, Homo Politicus. Access the newsletter archive here. Ariel Mekler (level I) is presenting “Queer (in)security in the age…
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