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Philip Johnson on The Thought Project - Episode 78 Jan 30, 2020

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Philip Luke Johnson is a Ph.D. candidate in political science at The Graduate Center, CUNY. He is also a political science writing fellow at The Graduate Center and a former adjunct instructor at Hunter College. Johnson joined The Thought Project podcast for a wide-ranging discussion about the convergence and role of organized crime and state terrorism in Mexico, which is part of a growing global phenomenon. Johnson’s case study of the Zetas criminal syndicate that massacred migrants in San Fernando, Mexico, in 2010 was published in "Perspectives on Terrorism."

Katina Rogers on The Thought Project - Episode 77 Jan 17, 2020

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Our guest this week is Katina Rogers, co-director of the Futures Initiative at The Graduate Center, CUNY. She is also the co-director of the CUNY Humanities Alliance, which was created in 2015 to support humanities education at LaGuardia Community College and prepare Ph.D. students for careers as faculty members and higher education leaders. With a new $3.15 million grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the alliance is expanding to encompass three additional CUNY community colleges: Borough of Manhattan Community College, Guttman Community College, and Hostos Community College. Rogers is about to publish her first book, "Putting the Humanities Ph.D. to Work: Thriving in and Beyond the Classroom", and in this wide-ranging conversation, she touches on the hot topics of current discourse about universities in America.

Heath Brown on The Thought Project - Episode 76 Jan 10, 2020

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This week’s Thought Project guest is Heath Brown, associate professor of public policy at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice and The Graduate Center, CUNY. He is author of several books including "Immigrants and Electoral Politics" and the "Tea Party Divided: the Hidden Diversity of a Maturing Movement." In 24 days the Democratic presidential primaries begin with the Iowa caucuses. Brown weighs in on the primaries, the rise of foreign policy in the 2020 election, and which candidate is most likely to win the Democratic Party’s nomination.

Matthew Gold and Luke Waltzer on The Thought Project - Episode 75 Dec 17, 2019

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This week’s guests are Graduate Center Professor Matthew K. Gold (English and Digital Humanities) and Luke Waltzer, director of The Graduate Center’s Teaching & Learning Center. Both are deeply involved in the CUNY Academic Commons, an academic social network designed to connect faculty, students, and staff throughout the 25 campuses of The City University of New York. Gold is the director of the Commons, and Waltzer is the director of community projects for the Commons. Gold and Waltzer return to The Thought Project podcast to celebrate and discuss the 10th anniversary of Commons, which achieved their goal to establish a generative platform that enhances the intellectual life of CUNY. Tune in to hear about their plans for the next 10 years.

Van Tran on The Thought Project - Episode 74 Dec 09, 2019

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Graduate Center, CUNY Professor Van C. Tran (Sociology), a former refugee and a graduate of Hostos Community College, Hunter College, and Harvard, talks about the joy of returning to CUNY and fulfilling one of his dreams: to teach at The Graduate Center. He revels in his research of immigrant-rich New York City, where he has explored the experiences of second-generation Latinos. Another area of scholarly interest is Asian immigrants in the U.S. and their beliefs about affirmative action. Tran talks about CUNY’s commitment to public scholarship and what that means to him.

Charles Tien on The Thought Project - Episode 73 Nov 22, 2019

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Charles Tien is a professor of political science at Hunter College and at The Graduate Center, CUNY and an expert on the U.S. Congress and national politics. In this episode of The Thought Project, he weighs in on the House Select Intelligence Committee’s impeachment inquiry into President Donald J. Trump’s dealings with Ukraine. The inquiry is now in its second week of hearings.

Jean Halley on The Thought Project - Episode 72 Nov 19, 2019

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Jean Halley is a professor of sociology at The Graduate Center, CUNY and the College of Staten Island. She earned her doctorate in sociology at The Graduate Center and her master’s in theology at Harvard University. She is the author of several books, including her latest, Horse Crazy: Girls and the Lives of Horses, a blend of personal narrative and research into why girls fall in love with horses and how it shapes their lives.

Merima Ključo and Jelena Milušić on The Thought Project - Episode 71 Nov 14, 2019

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Merima Ključo, an acclaimed accordionist and vocalist Jelena Milušić have a new creation, which they will be performing at The Graduate Center this week. Their duo album, Lume, is a conceptual work consisting of 10 love songs from different parts of the world, five of which were composed by Ključo, based on Romanian, Croatian, Kosovarian, and Sephardic traditional pieces. In different languages, "lume" has various meanings: the world, life, source of light, illusion, fire, spark, lover, humanity, more than love. The link connecting the songs is the universal theme of love.

Andrea Alù on The Thought Project - Episode 70 Nov 05, 2019

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Andrea Alù is the founding director of the Photonics Initiative at the Advanced Science Research Center at The Graduate Center, CUNY; Albert Einstein Professor of Physics at the Graduate Center, and a professor of electrical engineering at The City College of New York. Alù has received numerous awards and widespread recognition for his breakthroughs in invisibility cloaking — a technology that makes objects undetectable to monitoring signals — and sound cloaking. Alù’s leapfrog discoveries are powered by his work to create novel methods for manipulating light waves and soundwaves.

Kevin Gardner on The Thought Project - Episode 69 Oct 30, 2019

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Kevin Gardner is the founding director of the Advanced Science Research Center (CUNY ASRC) at The Graduate Center, CUNY’s Structural Biology Initiative and the Einstein Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry at The City University of New York and The Graduate Center, CUNY. Gardner’s team at the CUNY ASRC explores critical questions about the structures and functions of molecules within cells to better understand how cells work: how they respond to their surroundings, how they duplicate, and what determines the balance between health and disease. The answers they unearth become bedrocks for developing novel drugs and therapies. Gardner spoke with The Thought Project host Tanya Domi about the role of basic research in fueling scientific advances that change our lives and how the CUNY ASRC is contributing to this work as it celebrates its fifth anniversary.

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