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The Thought Project - Episode 14 - Interview with Gregory Smithsimon by CUNY Graduate Center

This week’s guest is Ruth Milkman a sociologist of labor and labor movements who has written on a variety of topics involving work and organized labor in the United States, past and present. Her most recent book is Unfinished Business: Paid Family Leave in California and the Future of U.S. Work-Family Policy (Cornell University Press, 2013), coauthored with Eileen Appelbaum. She has also written e...

This week’s guest is Linda Martin Alcoff who is a professor of philosophy at Hunter College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She specializes in epistemology, feminism, race theory and existentialism. Alcoff has called for greater inclusion of historically underrepresented groups in philosophy and notes that philosophers from these groups have created new fields of inquir...

This week’s guest is Polly Thistlethwaite, the chief librarian at the Graduate Center. She joined the GC in 2011 and since then has increased the Library’s participation in networks to bring meaningful access to the world’s academic and cultural heritage to CUNY scholars and students. Among these initiatives include a collaboration with the Manhattan Research Library Initiative that enables access...

This week’s guest Dr. Michelle Fine, a distinguished professor of Critical Psychology, Women’s Studies, American Studies and Urban Education at the Graduate Center. She is also co-founder of the Public Science Project at the Graduate Center. Her primary research interest is the study of social injustice: when injustice appears as fair or deserved, when it is resisted, and how it is negotiated by t...

This week’s guest is Manu Bhagavan, professor of history and human rights at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Professor Bhagavan is a specialist on modern India focusing on the 20th Century late-colonial and post-colonial periods, with particular interests in human rights, nationalism and questions of sovereignty. He is author of the critically acclaimed The Pea...

This week’s guest Meena Alexander, is a distinguished professor of English, Hunter College and the Graduate Center. As a practicing poet, and scholar Professor Alexander has a special interest in postcolonial writings and contemporary poetry and poetics. These areas are tied in with her ongoing reflections on autobiographical writing, feminism, Indian Ocean cosmopolitanisms, transnational migratio...

This week’s guest Richard Alba, is a distinguished professor of sociology who became a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2017. Author of numerous books and known for his scholarship on race and urban sociology, which has developed a comparative focus, encompassing the immigration of North American societies and Western Europe. Today he joins us to discuss his latest effort as...

This week’s guest Matt Gold, is an Associate Professor of English and Digital Humanities at the Graduate Center, where he holds teaching appointments in the Ph. D. Program in English, the M.A. Program in Liberal Studies (MALS), and the doctoral certificate programs in Interactive Technology and Pedagogy and American Studies. He serves as Advisor to the Provost for Digital Initiatives, Director of...

This week’s guest Heath Brown, is an associate professor of public policy at the Graduate Center and John Jay College of Criminal Justice at CUNY. He obtained his PhD in public administration and public policy at the George Washington University and a Masters’ degree at the Elliot School of International Affairs, also at GW. He is author of four books, three of which apply to today's podcast conve...

This week’s guest Tony Ro is a presidential professor of psychology and biology and director of the Ro Lab at Graduate Center. Ro and his colleagues are investigating the brain’s deeply complex cognitive and neuronal architecture, and its role in determining our attention, perceptions and action. Ro joined the Graduate Center in 2015 after 7 years at the Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Le...

This week’s guest is Steve Romalewski, director of the CUNY Mapping Service at the Center for Urban Research at the Graduate Center. The CUNY Mapping Service is supporting a fair and accurate Census 2020 Count and is working with a coalition of civil rights groups, philanthropic foundations and others to map in “hard to count” communities in advance of the 2020 Census.

Interview with David Bloomfield, professor of Educational Leadership, Law and Policy at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center. Professor Bloomfield specializes in education law, school district management, school reform and legislative matters.

Interview with Lev Manovich, a professor of computer science at the Graduate Center and director of the Cultural Analytics Lab, who is discussing a new study "Visual Earth," that shines a light on how people around the world are expanding and curating the global photo-sharing gallery, possibly shaping a historical view of the current era.