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. While its constituent colleges date as far back as 1847,CUNY was established in 1961. The university enrolls more than 275,000 students and counts thirteen Nobel Prize winners and twenty-four MacArthur Fellows among its alumni.
Anne Elizabeth Applebaum is an American and naturalized-Polish journalist and historian. She has written extensively about the history of Communism and the development of civil society in Central and Eastern Europe.
Manohla June Dargis is an American film critic. She is one of the chief film critics for The New York Times. She is a five-time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism.
Mary Ruefle is an American poet,essayist,and professor. She has published many collections of poetry,the most recent of which,Dunce,was longlisted for the National Book Award in Poetry and was a finalist for the 2020 Pulitzer Prize. Ruefle's debut collection of prose,The Most Of It,appeared in 2008 and her collected lectures,Madness,Rack,and Honey,was published in August 2012,both published by Wave Books. She has also published a book of erasures,A Little White Shadow (2006).
Benjamin S. Lerner is an American poet,novelist,essayist,critic and teacher. The recipient of fellowships from the Fulbright,Guggenheim,and MacArthur Foundations,Lerner has been a finalist for the National Book Award for Poetry and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Lerner teaches at Brooklyn College,where he was named a Distinguished Professor of English in 2016.
Nathan Englander is an American short story writer and novelist. His debut short story collection,For the Relief of Unbearable Urges, was published by Alfred A. Knopf,in 1999. His second collection,What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank,won the 2012 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.
John Matteson is an American professor of English and legal writing at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City. He won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography for his first book,Eden's Outcasts:The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father.
Annette Gordon-Reed is an American historian and law professor. She is currently the Carl M. Loeb University Professor at Harvard University and a professor of history in the university's Faculty of Arts &Sciences. She is formerly the Charles Warren Professor of American Legal History at Harvard University and the Carol K. Pforzheimer Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Gordon-Reed is noted for changing scholarship on Thomas Jefferson regarding his relationship with Sally Hemings and her children.
Vincent Brown is Charles Warren Professor of History,Professor of African and African-American Studies,and Director of the History Design Studio at Harvard University. His research,writing,teaching,and other creative endeavors are focused on the political dimensions of cultural practice in the African Diaspora,with a particular emphasis on the early modern Atlantic world.
Gary Cohn is an American Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter and adjunct professor at the University of Southern California Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism.
Fredrik Logevall is a Swedish-American historian and educator at Harvard University,where he is the Laurence D. Belfer Professor of International Affairs at the John F. Kennedy School of Government and professor of history in the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences. He is a specialist in U.S. politics and foreign policy. Logevall was previously the Stephen and Madeline Anbinder Professor of History at Cornell University,where he also served as vice provost and as director of the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies. He won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for History for his book Embers of War:The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America’s Vietnam. His most recent book,JFK:Coming of Age in the American Century,1917-1956 (2020),won the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography and was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year.
Natalie Diaz is a Pulitzer Prize-winning Mojave American poet,language activist,former professional basketball player,and educator. She is enrolled in the Gila River Indian Community and identifies as Akimel O'odham. She is currently an Associate Professor at Arizona State University.
Heather Ann Thompson is an American historian,author,activist,professor,and speaker from Detroit,Michigan. Thompson won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for History,the 2016 Bancroft Prize,and other awards for her work Blood in the Water:The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy.
Lauren Redniss is an American artist and writer. She was awarded a "Genius Grant" from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation in 2016.
Ada Ferrer is a Cuban-American historian. She is Julius Silver Professor of History and Latin American Studies at New York University. She was awarded the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in History for her book Cuba:An American History.
Caroline Elizabeth Weber is an American author and fashion historian. She is a professor of French and Comparative Literature at Barnard College within Columbia University. Her book Proust's Duchess was a finalist for the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography.
Jennifer A. Homans is an American historian,author,and dance critic. Her book Apollo's Angels:A History of Ballet was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in 2010.
Louise Aronson is an American geriatrician,writer,and professor of medicine at the University of California,San Francisco (UCSF). Her book Elderhood:Redefining Aging,Transforming Medicine,Reimagining Life was a finalist for the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction.
Wendy Anne Warren is an American historian. Her book New England Bound won a Merle Curti Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for History. She is also an Associate professor of History at Princeton University.
Kimberly Phillips-Fein is an American historian. and the Gardiner-Kenneth T. Jackson Professor of History at Columbia University. She was formerly a professor at the Gallatin School of Individualized Study and the History Department of the College of Arts and Science at New York University (NYU). Her book Fear City:New York’s Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics was named a finalist for the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for History.
