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Official account for the PhD Program in Sociology at The Graduate Center, CUNY. Follow us to get updates about what's happening in our program.
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Are you interested in learning more about pursuing a PhD in Sociology at the Graduate Center? Join us for our hybrid open house on Wednesday, Nov. 18, to learn more! www.gc.cuny.edu/events/fall-...
Fall 2025 Sociology Open House
We are one of the leading programs in the country in the study of international migration.
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November 18, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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Mark your calendars for our next Colloquium! Nov 21st. 3-5 pm Learn more and register: www.gc.cuny.edu/events/same-...
November 6, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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📚 Join us TU 10/21, 6:30–8:30pm EST for a book talk with Dr. Vojislava Filipcevic Cordes on The Politics of Sanctuary.

👉 Info & register: tinyurl.com/yfuzfs78

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October 15, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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jean23bean.bsky.social
Excited to welcome @wrigleyfield.bsky.social to @cunygcsociology.bsky.social for her colloquium this Friday:

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in-person and hybrid!
What we can, and can't, learn from racial disparities in mortality
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October 13, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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jean23bean.bsky.social
So thrilled to co-organize 2 lectures @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social:

1. Wednesday, October 29: Laure Bereni @cnrs.fr @lecmh.bsky.social :

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Laure Bereni lecture
October 11, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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janetgornick.bsky.social
Are you a new or soon-to-be PhD? Do you work on socio-economic inequality, poverty, and/or mobility? Do you study income, wealth, or earnings? Are you passionate about research as well as policy analyses? If so, we may be the perfect home for you, starting in fall 2026? Take a look! 🍎 #postdoc 👇👇👇
September 9, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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So excited to welcome @ranitaray1.bsky.social to @cunygcsociology.bsky.social for our first colloquium of the year on September 19th: www.gc.cuny.edu/events/slow-...
Slow Violence: Confronting Dark Truths in the American Classroom
Drawing on three years of immersive ethnography inside 15 classrooms, following a cohort of 4th graders into 6th grades in one of the nation's largest school districts, in this talk, Ray exposes th
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September 4, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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"Birthright #Citizenship Works," a new piece by sociologist Philip Kasinitz (@cunygcsociology.bsky.social) explores a successful but threatened constitutional conferral. Free to read, download, and share through 8/11: journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10....
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July 29, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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Professor Jeremy Porter explains why FEMA’s flood maps often miss dangerous flash flood riskshttps://theconversation.com/femas-flood-maps-often-miss-dangerous-flash-flood-risks-leaving-homeowners-unprepared-260990
July 18, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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janetgornick.bsky.social
Several GC CUNY PhD graduates were in the house! I caught up with 3 from GC Econ - Ercio Muñoz, Luis Monroy-Gómez-Franco, & Nishant Yonzan. Also Dirk Witteveen from GC Soc. @ercio.bsky.social
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July 12, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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It's on! The 2025 LIS Summer Workshop. Five days of intensive learning about cross-national data, research, and methods. Another impressive group of attendees from many countries! #Luxembourg
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July 1, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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Congratulations to Assistant Professor Brittany Fox-Williams and Associate Professor Fetsum-Rahwa Haile, who were named @cuny.edu Black, Race and Ethnic Studies (BRES) faculty fellows for the 2025-2026 academic year! www.lehman.edu/news/2025/So...
June 21, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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RIP, Professor Alba 🙏
You will be missed www.gc.cuny.edu/news/memoria...
In Memoriam: Distinguished Professor Emeritus Richard Alba
An eminent demographer and sociologist, he challenged conventional thinking on how immigrants integrate into U.S. society.
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June 16, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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jean23bean.bsky.social
great interview w my colleague @jeanhalley.bsky.social of @cunygcsociology.bsky.social @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social

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Queer Visibility Becomes a Powerful Act at Lavender Graduation
In a time of backlash against LGBTQ+ individuals, Jean Halley, a professor at the CUNY Graduate Center and College of Staten Island, takes a powerful stand by addressing graduates at her home campus’s
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June 9, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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Sharing on behalf of my @cunygcsociology.bsky.social friend/colleague Ruth Milkman who isn't on social media. Here's her statement re a problematic censoring of an obituary for Michael Burawoy to appear in ASA Footnotes #soctwitter #socsky #sociology

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Statement re Michael Burawoy obit
Statement from Ruth Milkman re commissioned obituary of Michael Burawoy to appear in ASA Footnotes: Dear All, As many of you know, I published a tribute to Michael Burawoy in Jacobin shortly after ...
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May 15, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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evictionlab.bsky.social
Join our founder, Matthew Desmond, today for a hybrid conversation with @cunygcsociology.bsky.social on why U.S. antipoverty spending has increased but results have lagged.

Register here: www.gc.cuny.edu/events/accom...
The Accommodationist Welfare State: Government Spending, Poverty Reduction, and Extractive Markets in the U.S.
Matthew Desmond is a sociologist and the Maurice P. During Professor of Sociology at Princeton University, where he is also the principal investigator of the Eviction Lab.
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May 9, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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janetgornick.bsky.social Janet Gornick @janetgornick.bsky.social · May 7
What a fabulous choice! Congratulations to @socarxiv.bsky.social and to its fearless leader @philipncohen.com. The GC CUNY Stone Center's Working Paper series is archived at SocArXiv, and we are grateful for this excellent partnership. @stone-lis.bsky.social @cunygcsociology.bsky.social
kohli-sociology.bsky.social Kohli Foundation for Sociology @kohli-sociology.bsky.social · May 7
👏The 2025 Infrastructure Prize for Sociology goes to @socarxiv.bsky.social, represented by @philipncohen.com , for its accessible and timely contribution to the dissemination of sociological knowledge.
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May 7, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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jean23bean.bsky.social
Please help my godfather, Butch Rayfield, who needs a new kidney, if you can ❤️

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New Kidney New Hope
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April 30, 2025 at 3:51 AM
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thegraduatecenter.bsky.social
The Graduate Center community mourns the death of Professor Emeritus Andrew Beveridge, a prominent demographer whose research and insights changed perceptions and even people’s lives www.gc.cuny.edu/news/memoria...
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April 25, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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Tomorrow! 4/30 at 6:30 pm ET. Register to attend this in-person event at @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social or to watch the livestream.
thegraduatecenter.bsky.social CUNY Graduate Center @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social · Apr 24
Join us Wed, 4/30 at 6:30p ET for “Are We on the Brink of a New Economic Order”? Feat. Chris Hughes, Leslie McCall, Dorian T. Warren & moderator Felicia Wong of @rooseveltinstitute.org Reserve to attend in person or online: www.gc.cuny.edu/events/are-w... Presented w @stone-lis.bsky.social
Are We on The Brink of a New Economic Order?
Elebash Recital Hall
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April 29, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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In Memoriam: Professor Emeritus Andrew Beveridge
From redistricting cases to headline news, his demographic research shaped public understanding and advanced social justice.
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April 30, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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jean23bean.bsky.social
Next month at @uclei.bsky.social :

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Suspect Citizenship: Rethinking Belonging and Non-belonging in Plural Societies
Join us for a discussion with Dr Jean Beaman, Associate Professor of Sociology in the Ph.D. Program at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY), on "suspect citizenship", a framew...
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April 13, 2025 at 3:19 AM
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janetgornick.bsky.social
Tomorrow 4:15pm! Ive Marx presenting "Zero Poverty Society" - co-hosted by CUNY Graduate Center ARC and the Stone Center. @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social @stone-lis.bsky.social Zoom link below. 👇 👇 👇
ivemarx.bsky.social Ive Marx @ivemarx.bsky.social · Apr 7
This Wednesday April 9 at 4.15pm EST I will be presenting my new book “Zero Poverty Society: ensuring a decent income for all” at @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social co-sponsored by @stone-lis.bsky.social. Please join by Zoom 👇
April 8, 2025 at 12:30 PM