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The Thought Project - Episode 29 - Interview with Stephen Brier Sep 27, 2018

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Stephen Brier is a professor of urban education & founder of The Graduate Center, CUNY's Interactive Technology and Pedagogy certificate program. A stalwart advocate of public higher education who has been publicly engaged on these issues for many years, is co-author of Austerity Blues: Fighting for the Soul of Public Higher Education (John Hopkins University Press, 2016) which explores the negative impact of neoliberal policies on public higher education since the 1980s. Professor Brier articulates the latest on how he sees the role of CUNY in New York City and the key issues for public education in America today.

The Thought Project - Episode 28 - Interview with Jessica Murray Sep 06, 2018

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The Graduate Center Ph.D. psychology student, Jessica Murray who is also a disability activist, was invited on a subway ride along with Andy Byford, president of the New York MTA to inform him on all the challenges that face disabled New Yorkers encounter each day in their commute to work. Find out what happened during and after the ride that was reported by The New Yorker magazine.

The Thought Project - Episode 27 - Interview with Candace McCoy Sep 04, 2018

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Professor Candace McCoy returns to The Graduate Center this fall after a two-year public service leave with the New York Police Department’s (NYPD) Office of the Inspector General. Learn what Dr. McCoy learned about the NYPD as a policy analyst in the office that is charged with investigating the largest police force in the United States.

The Thought Project - Episode 26 - Interview with Jennifer Furlong Aug 29, 2018

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How did Dr. Jennifer Furlong, director of The Graduate Center’s Office of Career Planning and Professional Development get interested in advising graduate students on entering the workforce having already attained a Ph.D. in Romance languages? Furlong dove head first into the field and has never left it. Listen in to this week’s The Thought Project podcast and learn more.

The Thought Project - Episode 25 - Interview with Carla Shedd Jun 21, 2018

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Carla Shedd is an associate professor in sociology and urban education at The Graduate Center. Her work focuses on the timely issues related to criminal justice, race, law and society, social inequality, and urban policy. She is the author of the award-winning book Unequal City: Race, Schools, and Perceptions of Injustice, which explores obstacles facing urban adolescents in Chicago.

The Thought Project - Episode 24 - Interview with Justin Brown Jun 05, 2018

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Justin T. Brown is the executive director of CLAGS: The Center for LGBTQ Studies at The Graduate Center. He is also an assistant professor of health sciences at LaGuardia Community College, CUNY where his teaching primarily centers on courses in public health and human services. His collaborative research focuses on addressing health inequities among persons of color, LGBTQ, youth, and those populations at the intersection. Brown completed his doctoral training with a health concentration in the Critical Social-Personality Psychology program at The Graduate Center, CUNY in 2017.

The Thought Project - Episode 23 - Interview with Patricia Chapple Wright May 31, 2018

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Patricia Chapple Wright (Ph.D. '85, Anthropology), winner of The Graduate Center's 2018 President's Distinguished Alumni Medal, is an American primatologist, anthropologist, and conservationist. She is best known for her extensive study of social and family interactions of wild lemurs in Madagascar. She established the Institute for the Conservation of Tropical Environments at Stony Brook University. She has worked extensively on conservation and contributed to the establishment of the Ranomafana National Park in Madagascar. She is a distinguished professor of anthropology at Stony Brook University.

The Thought Project - Episode 22 - Interview with Katharine Viner May 31, 2018

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Katharine Viner, who was awarded an honorary doctorate at The Graduate Center's 2018 Commencement, is the first woman to serve as editor-in-chief of Guardian News & Media (comprising The Guardian, The Observer—the world's oldest Sunday newspaper—and theguardian.com). She joined The Guardian as a writer in 1997 and was was appointed deputy editor of The Guardian in 2008. She launched the award-winning Guardian Australia in 2013, then moved to New York to run Guardian US before becoming editor-in-chief of The Guardian in 2015. She is the paper's 12th editor-in-chief in its nearly 200-year history.

The Thought Project - Episode 21 - Interview with Jean Halley May 22, 2018

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Jean Halley is a professor of sociology at The College of Staten Island and The Graduate Center of The City University of New York. She earned her doctorate in sociology at The Graduate Center of CUNY, and her master’s degree in theology at Harvard University. Among her recent publications include Seeing Straight, an Introduction to Gender and Sexual Privilege in 2017 and Seeing White An Introduction to White Privilege and Race, 2011.

The Thought Project - Episode 20 - Interview with Katherine Verdery May 10, 2018

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Katherine Verdery is the Julien J. Studley Faculty Scholar and distinguished professor of anthropology at The Graduate Center, CUNY. Since 1973, she has conducted field research in Romania, initially emphasizing the political economy of social inequality, ethnic relations, and nationalism. Two decades after the fall of communism under the dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, Verdery discovered that she had been a subject of investigation. She captures this discovery in her impressive memoir, My Life As a Spy, published by Duke University Press.

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