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Awards and prizes
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Krugman in 2008
Among the Graduate Center's faculty are recipients of the Pulitzer Prize, the Nobel Prize, the Lakatos Award, the National Medals of Humanities and Science, the Bancroft Prize, Grammy Award, Guggenheim Fellowship, the George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism, New York City Mayor's Award for Excellence in Science and Technology, the Lakatos Award, and the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, as well as memberships in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences.[1]
Nobel Laureates
In 2015, the Graduate Center recruited Nobel laureate Paul Krugman to the faculty. Krugman joined the faculty on a dual appointment, both to the university's Ph.D. program in economics and as a distinguished scholar at the Graduate Center’s Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality.
At the Stone Center, Krugman's colleagues include political scientist and sociologist Janet Gornick as well as economist Branko Milanovic.[2]
American Academy of the Arts and Sciences
National Academy of Sciences
MacArthur Fellows
Name |
Relation to The Graduate Center |
Year Awarded |
Reference |
Nancy Siraisi |
Distinguished Professor Emerita of History |
2008 |
[23] |
Eric Wolf |
Distinguished Professor of Anthropology |
1990 |
[24] |
Ralph Shapey |
Distinguished Professor of Music |
1982 |
[25] |
National Medal of Arts
Name |
Relation to The Graduate Center |
Year Awarded |
Reference |
Gregory Rabassa |
Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature, Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures |
2006 |
[32] |
National Medal of Science
Name |
Relation to The Graduate Center |
Year Awarded |
Reference |
Dennis Sullivan |
Albert Einstein Chair in Science (Mathematics) |
2004 |
[33] |
Rolf Schock Prize
Name |
Relation to The Graduate Center |
Year Awarded |
Reference |
Saul Kripke |
Distinguished Professor of Philosophy |
2001 |
[34] |
Alan T. Waterman Award
Name |
Relation to The Graduate Center |
Year Awarded |
Reference |
Andrea Alù |
Einstein Professor of Physics |
2015 |
[35] |
Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers
Name |
Relation to The Graduate Center |
Year Awarded |
Reference |
Daniel McCloskey |
Associate Professor of Psychology |
2016 |
[36] |
Alexander Gamburd |
Presidential Professor of Mathematics |
2008 |
[37] |
Grammy Award
Name |
Relation to The Graduate Center |
Year(s) Awarded |
Reference |
Ursula Oppens |
Distinguished Professor of Music |
2016 |
[38] |
John Corigliano |
Distinguished Professor of Music |
2014, 2009, 2009, 1997, 1992 |
[39]
[40] |
Bancroft Prize
Name |
Relation to The Graduate Center |
Year Awarded |
Reference |
David Nasaw |
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. Professor of History |
2001 |
[41] |
David S. Reynolds |
Distinguished Professor of English |
1996 |
[42] |
Notable faculty by department
The Graduate Center's employment of faculty operates according to a unique consortium model, which both hosts 140 faculty with sole appointments exclusively at the Graduate Center, often senior scholars in their respective disciplines, and provides joint appointments to 1,800 faculty from the thirteen senior colleges and seven community colleges in the CUNY system to teach classes and advise graduate students.[43]
Computer Science
- Sergei Artemov, Distinguished Professor of Computer Science
- Melvin Fitting, Professor Emeritus of Computer Science at the Graduate Center and the City College of New York
- Robert Haralick, Distinguished Professor of Computer Science
- Gabor Herman, Distinguished Professor of Computer Science
- Saul Kripke, Distinguished Professor of Computer Science and Philosophy
- Lev Manovich, Professor of Computer Science
- Victor Pan, Distinguished Professor of Computer Science
- Rohit Jivanlal Parikh, Distinguished Professor of Computer Science and Philosophy at the Graduate Center and Brooklyn College
- Theodore Raphan, Distinguished Professor of Computer Science
- Stathis Zachos, Professor Emeritus of Computer Science at the Graduate Center and Brooklyn College
English
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Irving Howe, Distinguished of English, 1970-1986
[44]
- Ammiel Alcalay, Professor of English at the Graduate Center and Queens College
- Meena Alexander, Distinguished Professor of English at the Graduate Center and Hunter College
- John Brenkman, Distinguished Professor of English at the Graduate Center and Baruch College
- Mary Ann Caws, Distinguished Professor of English
- Cathy Davidson, Distinguished Professor of English
- Ashley Dawson, Professor of English at the Graduate Center and the College of Staten Island
- Morris Dickstein, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Senior Fellow at the Center for the Humanities
- David Greetham, Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the Graduate Center and Bronx Community College
- N. John Hall, Distinguished Professor Emeritus
- bell hooks, Former Distinguished Professor of English at the Graduate Center and the City College of New York
- Irving Howe, Former Distinguished Professor of English at the Graduate Center and Hunter College
- Fred Kaplan, Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the Graduate Center and Queens College
- Alfred Kazin, Former Distinguished Professor Emeritus of English at Hunter College and the Graduate Center
- Wayne Koestenbaum, Distinguished Professor of English
- Eric Lott, Professor of English
- Louis Menand, Former Distinguished Professor of English
- Nancy K. Miller, Distinguished Professor of English
- Feisal G. Mohamed, Professor of English
- Robert Reid-Pharr, Professor of English
- David S. Reynolds, Distinguished Professor
- David Savran, Distinguished Professor of English, Vera Mowry Roberts Chair in American Theatre
- Eve Sedgwick, Former Distinguished Professor of English
- Ira Shor, Professor of English at the Graduate Center and the College of Staten Island
- Michele Wallace, Professor of English at the Graduate Center and the City College of New York
Philosophy
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Saul Kripke, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Computer Science, 2003-present
[45]
- Linda Martín Alcoff, Professor of Philosophy
- Noël Carroll, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy
- Michael Devitt, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy
- Melvin Fitting, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the Graduate Center and Lehman College
- Miranda Fricker, Presidential Professor of Philosophy
- Peter Godfrey-Smith, Adjunct and Former Distinguished Professor of Philosophy
- Carol C. Gould, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Political Science, Director of the Center for Global Ethics and Politics at the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies
- Joel David Hamkins, Professor of Philosophy
- Virginia Held, Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the Graduate Center and Hunter College
- Serene Khader, Professor of Philosophy at the Graduate Center and Jay Newman Chair in Philosophy of Culture at Brooklyn College
- Saul Kripke, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Computer Science
- Douglas P. Lackey, Professor of Philosophy at the Graduate Center and Baruch College
- Michael Levin, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the Graduate Center and the City College of New York
- Charles W. Mills, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy
- Stephen Neale, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Linguistics and Kornblith Chair in the Philosophy of Science and Value
- David Papineau, Visiting Presidential Professor of Philosophy
- Massimo Pigliucci, Professor of Philosophy at the Graduate Center and the City College of New York
- Graham Priest, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy
- Jesse Prinz, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy
- David M. Rosenthal, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy
- Nathan Salmon, Visiting Professor of Philosophy
- Galen Strawson, Former Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the Graduate Center
- Marx Wartofsky, Former Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the Graduate Center and Baruch College
Physics
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Michio Kaku, Henry Semat Professor of Physics the City College of New York and Graduate Center
- Robert Alfano, Distinguished Professor of Science and Engineering at the City College of New York and Graduate Center
- Andrea Alù, Einstein Professor of Physics and Director of the Photonics Initiative at the Advanced Science Research Center
- William Bialek, Visiting Presidential Professor of Physics
- Xi-Cheng Zhang, Assistant Professor of Physics
- Eugene Chudnovsky, Distinguished Professor of Physics at Lehman College and the Graduate Center
- Swapan K. Gayen, Distinguished Professor of Physics at the City College of New York and Graduate Center
- Daniel Greenberger, Distinguished Professor of Physics at the City College of New York and Graduate Center
- Godfrey Gumbs, Distinguished Professor of Physics at Hunter College and Graduate Center
- Michio Kaku, Henry Semat Professor of Physics the City College of New York and Graduate Center
- V. Parmeswaran Nair, Distinguished Professor of Physics at the City College of New York and Graduate Center
- Matthew O'Dowd J., Professor of Physics at Lehman College and the Graduate Center
Political Science
- Randolph L. Braham, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the Graduate Center and City College of New York
- Susan Buck-Morss, Distinguished Professor of Political Science
- Mitchell Cohen, Professor of Political Science at the Graduate Center and Baruch College
- Paisley Currah, Professor of Political Science at the Graduate Center and Brooklyn College
- Robert Engler, Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the Graduate Center and New York City College of Technology
- Andrew Hacker, Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the Graduate Center and Queens College
- Michael Harrington, Former Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the Graduate Center and Queens College
- Uday Singh Mehta, Distinguished Professor of Political Science
- Ralph Miliband, Former Visiting Professor of Political Science
- John Mollenkopf, Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Sociology
- Stanley Renshon, Professor of Political Science and Lehman College
- Corey Robin, Professor of Political Science at the Graduate Center and Brooklyn College
- Thomas G. Weiss, Distinguished Professor of Political Science
- Susan L. Woodward, Professor of Political Science
- Donald S. Zagoria, Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the Graduate Center and Hunter College
Psychology
- Roger Hart, Professor of Environmental Psychology and Earth and Environmental Sciences
- Cindi Katz, Professor of Environmental Psychology and Earth and Environmental Sciences
- Stanley Milgram, Former Distinguished Professor of Psychology
- David Rindskopf, Distinguished Professor of Psychology
- Susan Saegert, Professor of Environmental Psychology
- Anna Stetsenko, Professor of Human Development and Urban Education
Sociology
- Richard Alba, Distinguished Professor of Sociology
- Stanley Aronowitz, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Urban Education
- Juan Battle, Professor of Sociology, Public Health, and Urban Education
- Bogdan Denitch, Former Professor Emeritus of Sociology
- Mitchell Duneier, Former Distinguished Professor of Sociology
- Cynthia Fuchs Epstein, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Sociology
- Stuart Ewen, Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the Graduate Center and Hunter College
- Samuel Farber, Professor Emeritus of Sociology
- Nancy Foner, Distinguished Professor of Sociology
- Gerald S. Handel, Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the Graduate Center and the City College of New York
- Michael P. Jacobson, Director of CUNY Institute for State and Local Governance
- James M. Jasper, Professor of Sociology
- Philip Kasinitz, Presidential Professor of Sociology at the Graduate Center and Hunter College
- Ruth Milkman, Distinguished Professor of Sociology, Associate Director of the Joseph S. Murphy Institute
- Pyong Gap Min, Professor of Sociology at the Graduate Center and Queens College, Director of the Research Center for Korean Community
- Peter Moskos, Professor of Sociology at the Graduate Center and the John Jay College of Criminal Justice
- Victoria Pitts-Taylor, Former Professor of Sociology at the Graduate Center and Queens College
- Francis Fox Piven, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Political Science
- Barbara Katz Rothman, Professor of Sociology, Public Health, Disability Studies and Women's Studies at the Graduate Center and Baruch College
- Iván Szelényi, Former Distinguished Professor of Sociology
- John Torpey, Professor of Sociology and History, Director of Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies
- Bryan Turner, Presidential Professor of Sociology
- Jock Young, Distinguished Professor of Criminal Justice and Sociology
- Sharon Zukin, Professor of Sociology at the Graduate Center and Brooklyn College
References
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- ↑ "Noted Economist Paul Krugman to Join Graduate Center Faculty in 2015". The Graduate Center, CUNY. The City University of New York. February 28, 2014. Retrieved November 14, 2017.
- 1 2 "Richard Alba and Charles Mills Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences". The Graduate Center, CUNY. The City University of New York. April 12, 2017. Retrieved November 14, 2017.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 "List of Active Members by Class" (pdf). Membership. American Academy of Arts & Sciences. 2016. Retrieved November 14, 2017.
- ↑ "Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences". The Graduate Center, CUNY. The City University of New York. May 1, 2005. Retrieved November 14, 2017.
- 1 2 3 4 "William Bialek Elected to the National Academy of Sciences". The Graduate Center, CUNY. The City University of New York. May 11, 2012. Retrieved November 15, 2017.
- ↑ "Dennis P. Sullivan". Member Directory. National Academy of Sciences. 2017. Retrieved November 15, 2017.
- ↑ "Esther Allen". Fellows. John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. 2018. Retrieved May 2, 2018.
- ↑ "Nancy Foner Awarded 2017 Guggenheim Fellowship". The Graduate Center, CUNY. The City University of New York. April 12, 2017. Retrieved November 15, 2017.
- ↑ "Robert F. Reid-Pharr". Fellows. John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. 2016. Retrieved November 15, 2017.
- ↑ "Two GC Professors Win 2012 Guggenheim Fellowships". The Graduate Center, CUNY. The City University of New York. July 10, 2012. Retrieved November 15, 2017.
- ↑ "Joshua Brown". Fellows. John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. 2017. Retrieved November 20, 2017.
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- ↑ "Philippa Strumm". Fellows. John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. 2017. Retrieved November 20, 2017.
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- ↑ "Mary Ann Caws". Fellows. John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. 2017. Retrieved November 16, 2017.
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- ↑ "Nancy Siraisi". MacArthur Fellows Program. MacArthur Foundation. 2008. Retrieved November 15, 2017.
- ↑ "Eric Wolf". MacArthur Fellows Program. MacArthur Foundation. 1990. Retrieved November 16, 2017.
- ↑ Finley, Patrick Daniel (1997). A Catalogue of the Works of Ralph Shapey. Stuyvesant, NY: Pendragon Press. p. 15. ISBN 9780945193890.
- ↑ "The 2002 Pulitzer Prize Winner in History". Prize Winners. Pulitzer Prize. 2002. Retrieved December 21, 2017.
- ↑ "The 2001 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Music". Prize Winners. Pulitzer Prize. 2001. Retrieved November 21, 2017.
- ↑ "Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898, by Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace (Oxford University Press)". Prize Winners. Pulitzer Prize. 1999. Retrieved December 15, 2017.
- ↑ "The 1980 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Music". Prize Winners. Pulitzer Prize. 1980. Retrieved January 8, 2018.
- ↑ "The 1946 Pulitzer Prize Winner in History". Prize Winners. Pulitzer Prize. 1946. Retrieved January 8, 2018.
- ↑ "The 1966 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Biography or Autobiography". Prize Winners. Pulitzer Prize. 1966. Retrieved January 8, 2018.
- ↑ "Gregory Rabassa". National Medal of Arts. National Endowment for the Arts. 2006. Retrieved November 16, 2017.
- ↑ "Dennis P. Sullivan". National Medal of Science Laureates. National Science and Technology Medals Foundation. 2004. Retrieved November 16, 2017.
- ↑ "Previous Laureates". Rolf Schock Prizes. Rolf Shock Prize Foundation. 2017. Retrieved November 20, 2017.
- ↑ "2015". Alan T. Waterman Award Recipients, 1976 - present. National Science Foundation. 2017. Retrieved November 20, 2017.
- ↑ "President Obama Awards CSI Prof Dan McCloskey with Nation's Highest Honor for Early Career Researchers". News. The City University of New York. February 24, 2016. Retrieved December 3, 2017.
- ↑ "Alexander Gamburd appointed to the Graduate Center". All News. The Graduate Center, CUNY. July 7, 2011. Retrieved December 3, 2017.
- ↑ "GC Faculty & Graduate Student amongst the 58th Annual GRAMMY Nominations". GC Music Program Community Portal. The Graduate Center, CUNY. February 12, 2001. Retrieved November 20, 2017.
- ↑ "WINNERS Best Classical Instrumental Solo". Winners and Nominees. Grammy Awards. 2013. Retrieved November 20, 2016.
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- ↑ Rosenheim, Andrew (May 6, 1993). "Obituary: Irving Howe". Retrieved April 13, 2018.
- ↑ "Press Release: New Center of Philosophic Universe". Press Release - The Graduate Center, CUNY. New York City, NY. November 1, 2007. Retrieved August 22, 2018.