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.