This a partial list of notable faculty (either past, present, or visiting) at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.
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]
In 1997, Queens College recruited future Nobel laureate and co-discoverer of the human immunodeficiency virus Luc Montagnier, appointing him to an endowed professorship. [2] Montagnier was subsequently added to the faculty of the Graduate Center in the department of biology. [3]
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. [4]
Name | Relation to The Graduate Center | Year Inducted | Reference |
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Richard Alba | Distinguished Professor of Sociology | 2017 | [5] |
Charles Mills | Distinguished Professor of Philosophy | 2017 | [5] |
Sheldon Weinbaum | Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Biomedical and Mechanical Engineering | 2013 | [6] |
Nancy Foner | Distinguished Professor of Sociology | 2011 | [6] |
Ervand Abrahamian | Distinguished Professor of History | 2010 | [7] |
Mary Ann Caws | Distinguished Professor Emerita of Comparative Literature, English, and French | 2009 | [6] |
David Harvey | Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Earth and Environmental Sciences | 2007 | [6] |
Eve Sedgwick | Distinguished Professor of English | 2005 | [8] |
Ursula Oppens | Distinguished Professor of Music | 1999 | [6] |
Leo Treitler | Distinguished Professor of Music | 1994 | [6] |
Dennis Sullivan | Albert Einstein Chair in Science (Mathematics) | 1991 | [6] |
Saul Kripke | Distinguished Professor of Philosophy | 1978 | [6] |
Name | Relation to The Graduate Center | Year Inducted | Reference |
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William Bialek | Visiting Presidential Professor of Physics | 2012 | [9] |
Sheldon Weinbaum | Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Biomedical and Mechanical Engineering | 2002 | [9] |
Myriam Sarachik | Distinguished Professor of Physics | 1994 | [9] |
Andreas Acrivos | Albert Einstein Professor of Science and Engineering Emeritus | 1991 | [9] |
Dennis Sullivan | Albert Einstein Chair in Science (Mathematics) | 1983 | [10] |
Name | Relation to The Graduate Center | Year Awarded | Reference |
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Esther Allen | Professor of Latin American, Iberian, and Latino Cultures at Baruch College and the Graduate Center | 2018 | [11] |
Nancy Foner | Distinguished Professor of Sociology | 2017 | [12] |
Robert Reid-Pharr | Professor of English | 2016 | [13] |
Dagmar Herzog | Distinguished Professor of History | 2012 | [14] |
Joshua Brown | Former Executive Director of the American Social History Project | 2010 | [15] |
Lev Manovich | Professor of Computer Science | 2002 | [16] |
André Aciman | Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature and French | 1997 | [17] |
Janet Dean Fodor | Distinguished Professor of Linguistics | 1993 | [18] |
Louis Menand | Former Distinguished Professor of English | 1990 | [19] |
Nancy K. Miller | Distinguished Professor of English, Comparative Literature, and French | 1989 | [20] |
Philippa Strum | Professor Emeritus of Political Science | 1986 | [21] |
Marshall Berman | Distinguished Professor of Political Science | 1981 | [22] |
Francis Fox Piven | Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Political Science | 1973 | [23] |
Mary Ann Caws | Distinguished Professor of English, French and Comparative Literature | 1972 | [24] |
Jerry Fodor | Former Distinguished Professor of Philosophy | 1972 | [25] |
Name | Relation to The Graduate Center | Year Awarded | Reference |
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Nancy Siraisi | Distinguished Professor Emerita of History | 2008 | [26] |
Eric Wolf | Distinguished Professor of Anthropology | 1990 | [27] |
Ralph Shapey | Distinguished Professor of Music | 1982 | [28] |
Name | Relation to The Graduate Center | Year(s) Awarded | Reference |
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Louis Menand | Former Distinguished Professor of English | 2002 | [29] |
John Corigliano | Distinguished Professor of Music | 2001 | [30] |
Mike Wallace | Distinguished Professor of History at the Graduate Center and the John Jay College of Criminal Justice | 1999 | [31] |
David Del Tredici | Distinguished Professor of Music at the Graduate Center and the City College of New York | 1980 | [32] |
Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. | Former Albert Schweitzer Professor Emeritus of the Humanities | 1946, 1966 | [33] [34] |
Name | Relation to The Graduate Center | Year Awarded | Reference |
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Gregory Rabassa | Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature, Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures | 2006 | [35] |
Name | Relation to The Graduate Center | Year Awarded | Reference |
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Dennis Sullivan | Albert Einstein Chair in Science (Mathematics) | 2004 | [36] |
Name | Relation to The Graduate Center | Year Awarded | Reference |
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Saul Kripke | Distinguished Professor of Philosophy | 2001 | [37] |
Name | Relation to The Graduate Center | Year Awarded | Reference |
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Andrea Alù | Einstein Professor of Physics | 2015 | [38] |
Name | Relation to The Graduate Center | Year Awarded | Reference |
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Daniel McCloskey | Associate Professor of Psychology | 2016 | [39] |
Alexander Gamburd | Presidential Professor of Mathematics | 2008 | [40] |
Name | Relation to The Graduate Center | Year(s) Awarded | Reference |
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Ursula Oppens | Distinguished Professor of Music | 2016 | [41] |
John Corigliano | Distinguished Professor of Music | 2014, 2009, 2009, 1997, 1992 | [42] |
Name | Relation to The Graduate Center | Year Awarded | Reference |
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David Nasaw | Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. Professor of History | 2001 | [44] |
David S. Reynolds | Distinguished Professor of English | 1996 | [45] |
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. [46]
The City University of New York is the public university system of New York City. It is the largest urban university system in the United States, comprising 25 campuses: eleven senior colleges, seven community colleges, and seven professional institutions. In 1960, John R. Everett became the first chancellor of the Municipal College System of New York City, later known as the City University of New York (CUNY). CUNY, established by New York state legislation in 1961 and signed into law by Governor Nelson Rockefeller, was an amalgamation of existing institutions and a new graduate school.
The Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York is a public research institution and postgraduate university in New York City. Formed in 1961 as Division of Graduate Studies at City University of New York, it was renamed to Graduate School and University Center in 1969. Serving as the principal doctorate-granting institution of the City University of New York (CUNY) system, CUNY Graduate Center is classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very High Research Activity".
Baruch College is a public college in New York City. It is a constituent college of the City University of New York system. Named for financier and statesman Bernard M. Baruch, the college operates undergraduate and postgraduate programs through the Zicklin School of Business, the Weissman School of Arts and Sciences, and the Marxe School of Public and International Affairs.
Lehman College is a public college in New York City. Founded in 1931 as the Bronx campus of Hunter College, it became an independent college in 1967. The college is named after Herbert H. Lehman, a former New York governor, United States senator, and philanthropist. It is a senior college of the City University of New York (CUNY) and offers more than 90 undergraduate and graduate degree programs and specializations.
Matthew Goldstein is the former chancellor of the City University of New York (CUNY). Goldstein was appointed CUNY chancellor on September 1, 1999. He was the first CUNY graduate to head the CUNY system, having received his undergraduate degree from City College. Previously, Goldstein served as president of CUNY's Baruch College from 1991 to 1998, and president of Adelphi University from 1998 to 1999.
Burton Pike was an American translator of Robert Musil, as well as a distinguished professor emeritus of comparative literature and Germanic languages and literature at the CUNY Graduate Center.
William E. Macaulay Honors College, commonly referred to as Macaulay Honors College or Macaulay, is the honors college of the City University of New York (CUNY) system in New York City. It was founded in 2001 as CUNY Honors College.
Victoria Pitts-Taylor is Professor of Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Wesleyan University, Connecticut, and also Professor of Science in Society and Sociology there. She was formerly a professor of sociology at Queens College and the CUNY Graduate Center, New York, and visiting fellow at the Centre for the Study of Social Difference, Columbia University, New York. Pitts-Taylor is also former co-editor of the journal Women's Studies Quarterly. She has won the Robert K. Merton Book Award from the section on Science, Knowledge and Technology of the American Sociological Association, and the Feminist Philosophy of Science Prize from the Women's Caucus of the Philosophy of Science Association.