James M. Jasper (Faculty)
Prof. Jasper’s book The Emotions of Protest (Chicago, 2018) won this year’s best book award from the sociology of emotions section of the ASA.
Karen is participating in the 2020-2022 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation’s “African/Black Diaspora Academic and Public Discourse” project held at the University of Maryland.
Rob Smith (Faculty)
Prof. Smith received the 2020 Award for Public Sociology in International Migration from the ASA International Migration Section.
His research was also instrumental in winning two major victories. The Wells Fargo lawsuit used his current DACA research and was settled in favor of the plaintiffs for 20 million! https://www.outtengolden.com/news/landmark-settlement-reached-lending-discrimination-class-action-cases-brought-by-daca In addition, the Supreme Court’s decision to uphold DACA is the other lawsuit he was working on last year. Over 650,000 kids get to stay!
Read Prof. Smith’s recent interview with the GC: https://www.gc.cuny.edu/News/All-News/Detail?id=55196
Anna Zhelnina
Anna’s paper titled “The Apathy Syndrome: How we are trained not to care about politics” won the 2020 Mayer N. Zald Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Student Paper Award of the ASA Collective Behaviors & Social Movements Section.
Jane McAlevey (‘2015)
Jane was profiled in The New Yorker with a heady title: “Jane McAlevey’s Vision of the Future of American Labor.” It touts her newest book and refers to her as coach and chronicler of the labor union movement. https://www.newyorker.com/books/under-review/jane-mcaleveys-vision-for-the-future-of-american-labor
Click https://gc.cuny.edu/News/All-News/Detail?id=55163 to learn more about Jane’s work.
Qasim Haq
Carell Dissertation Fellowship ($25,000)
Spiros Maximos Papadantonakis
Dissertation Year Fellowship ($25,000)
Carlos Camacho
Center for Place, Culture and Politics Dissertation Award ($10,000).
Awarded a grant from the Africana Studies Certificate Program ($800)
Yen-Chiao Liao
Received the Phipps-Clark Dissertation Fellowship ($5,000)
Joanna Dressel
Amelia Fortunato
Beiyi Hu
Xuemeng Li
Nga Than
Also received the Provost’s Digital Innovation Grant ($2,000)
Joseph Van Der Naald
Also received Wayne State University Walter P. Reuther Library’s Sam Fishman Travel Grant
Andrew Anastasi
Received the Graduate Center Archival Research Grant in American Studies ($4000)
Courtney Frantz
Received the Graduate Center Early Research Initiative/PublicsLab Summer Research Fellowship ($4,000)
Marianne Madore
Received the Connect New York Fellowship ($4000)
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