The Graduate Center
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City University of New York

The Graduate School and University Center, known as The
Graduate Center, was founded in 1961 as the doctorate-
granting institution of City University of New York (CUNY).
Today 3,500 students and 1,600 faculty scholars, drawn from
throughout the CUNY system and New York City’s leading
cultural and scientific institutions, join in the shared
enterprises of teaching, learning, researching, and expanding
the boundaries of knowledge. In this environment of
intellectual discovery and exchange, 31 doctoral programs in
the humanities, social sciences, and sciences are augmented
by 30 research centers and institutes focused on areas of
compelling social, civic, cultural, and scientific concerns. The
National Research Council's most recent assessment placed
more than a third of the school's rated Ph.D. programs among
the nation’s top 20.

The Graduate Center is located at 365 Fifth Avenue in
midtown Manhattan. It moved in the fall of 1999 from its
longtime home on West 42nd Street to a new campus, which
is housed in a landmark building redesigned to meet the
specific needs of a 21st-century institution of advanced
learning.

City University of New York, the nation’s largest urban
university, consists of ten senior colleges, six community
colleges, a technical college, a law school, a medical school,
and The Graduate Center.

The Center for the Study of Women and Society
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The Center for the Study of Women and Society has
promoted interdisciplinary feminist scholarship since its
founding in 1977. The eighty faculty associated with both the
Women’s Studies Certificate Program and the center have
expertise in a wide range of disciplines and fields. Among
these nationally and internationally known scholars are:
Mimi Abramovitz, Social Welfare

Meena Alexander, English

Mary Ann Caws, English, Comparative Literature, French
Blanche Wiesen Cook, History

Hester Eisentein, Sociology

Cynthia Fuchs Epstein, Sociology

Michelle Fine, Psychology

Viginia Held, Philosophy

Kristin Booth Klen, Law

Jane Connor Marcus, English

Nancy K. Miller, English, Comparative Literature, French
Leith Mullings, Anthropology

Frances Fox Piven, Political Science

Barbara Katz Rothman, Sociology

Natalie Sokoloff, Criminal Justice

Joan Tronto, Political Science

Michele Wallace, English

Gloria Jean Watkins (bell hooks), English.

Director: Patricia Ticineto Clough


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With the participation of its renowned faculty, the center

hosts intellectual exchange, symposia and lectures that are
all part of the annual Women’s Studies Speakers’ Series.

Major Projects

A number of projects are underway that address the ways

in which differences of gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity,
class and nation shape the experiences of women and
men in societies around the world.

College and Community Fellowship Program (CCF).

CCF, which is funded through a generous grant from the
Racollin Foundation, addresses in the New York City Area,
two national problems: first, the issue of college education
for ex-offenders, some of whom have begun college work
while incarcerated; and second, the need among ex-
offenders for community support. CCF assists ex-offenders
to continue their college education by providing a wide

range of services that are needed during the transition
period, including scholarships, academic counseling and
individual mentoring. Each of these CCF students has a
mentor who may be involved in a number of activities
including tutoring for entry exams, assisting with
application and financial aid forms, offering advice with
regard to student loan arrangements, teaching study skills,
and giving some instruction on using the computer. CUNY
graduate students who participate in the mentoring program
receive monetary compensation for their work.

CCF Speaker's Bureau

CCF ex-offender students, under the auspices of the center,
also run a speaker's bureau which aims, through formal and
informal conversation, to contribute important new
information that could affect public policy and enlarge the
wider community's understanding of prison and post-prison
experiences.

CCF Conviction Project Seminar and Research

CCF provides a site for research on the impact of higher
education on those in prison as well as on those in
transition from prison to the outside community. Michelle
Fine, Professor of Social Psychology at The Graduate
Center/CUNY, has been engaged in research on whether
taking courses has any effect on recidivism rates among
those who pursue a college education while serving their
prison terms.

The Conviction Project Seminar, composed of faculty and
students, meets twice a month to explore ideas for further
research. The seminar focuses on a single theme during
each semester. Examples of themes that have been or that
are presently being addressed are: Conviction in the
Postmodern Age, Prisons With/Out Walls, Guilt, Discipline
and Control. The seminar explores the experience of
physical, mental and spiritual imprisonment, both within
and outside prison, especially in relationship to race, age,
ethnicity, gender, class and sexuality. The participants focus
particularly on the issues of silencing and censorship,


traumatized memory and bodily discrimination, and
abjection or abuse. The seminar also studies the conditions
of education inside and outside prison. Course release for
faculty and stipends for graduate students are available for
participation in the seminar.

Rockefeller Seminar, 2002-2004 — Facing Global Capitalism,
Finding Human Security: A Gendered Critique

This interdisciplinary seminar for faculty, graduate students,
policy makers, activists and visiting fellows from around the
world is funded by a Rockefeller Foundation Resident
Fellowships in the Humanities Grant and hosted in
collaboration with the National Council of Research on
Women.

Human security is an emerging paradigm in the
international community. The aim of the seminar is to
address questions about human security, especially for
women. In seeking to understand women’s need for
security, it is hoped that the idea of ‘national security’ might
come to include concerns about social, cultural and
economic well-being. Seminar members address the
changing relationship of state, civil society, family and kin
groups. They closely examine non-state actors such as non-
governmental organizations, labor, religious and grassroots
organizations, and evaluate their potential as sites of
accountability for women’s security. Course release for
faculty and stipends for graduate students are available for
participation in the seminar.

Future Matters: Materialist Analysis and Politics Seminar

The Future Matters Seminar is an ongoing research seminar
for faculty and students. The aims gf the seminar are: to
develop a feminist perspective for addressing systems of
surveillance, discipline and control in the context of global
expansion of technoscience and telecommunication
systems; to evaluate political economics in the context of
the global mobility of capital; and to explore new strategies
for a materialist analysis. Some of the questions we address
are: How can we better understand the impact of

information or communication networks and surveillance or

control technologies on the lives of women? What are the
critical issues for women regarding the development of
genetic technology, war technology and scientific
experimentation? What forms of history and genealogy can
capture the ongoing transformation of memory, cognition
and perception produced by the expansion of technoscience
and telecommuncation?

The Activist Women’s Voices Oral History Archive

Under the direction of Professors Joyce Gelb and Patricia
Laurence, this project documents the voices of unheralded
activist women in community-based organizations. The
Activist Women’s Voices Oral History Project, funded by
AT&T, the Ford Foundation, the Ms. Foundation for Education
and Communication, and the New York Council for
Humanities, has documentation on a number of activists.
Among them are:

Alice Cardona (Puerto Rican Association for Community Affairs)
Alisa Del Tufo (Family Violence Project)

Essie Duggan (Wayside Baptist Church)

Annie Ellman (The Center for Anti Violence Education)

Peggy Shepard (West Harlem Environmental Action
Committee)

Deborah Zimmerman (Women Make Movies).

For further information
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See <http://web.gc.cuny.edu/womencenter/> or contact
pclough@gc.cuny.edu.

Patricia Ticineto Clough is Professor of Sociology and
Women’s Studies at The Graduate Center and Queens
College, CUNY. Among her publications are Autoaffection:
Unconscious Thought in the Age of Teletechnology
(Minnesota: U. of Minnesota Press, 2000); The End(s) of
Ethnography: From Realism to Social Criticism, 2nd Ed. with
new Preface (NY: Peter Lang, 1998); and Feminist Thought:
Desire, Power and Academic Discourse (Cambridge:
Blackwell 1994).


Women's Centers and Women's Studies Contacts

across CUNY Campuses

Baruch College

Jacquelyn DiSalvo

English Department
Jacqueline_Disalvo@baruch.cuny.edu
646-312-4009

Borough of Manhattan Community College

Cheryl Fish and Yi- Chun Tricia Lin

English Department and Women’s Studies
Project

Cjf@pipeline.com

212-346-8643

Brooklyn College

Paisley Currah

Women’s Studies Program
Pcurrah@brooklyn.cuny.edu

718-951-5476

<http://depthome. brooklyn. cuny.edu/womens/s
tudies>

Bronx Community College
Kathleen Williams

History Department
Kathleen.Williams@bcc.cuny.edu
718-289-5474

City College

Annie K. Koshi

Women’s Studies Program
Karickampa@aol.com
212-650-6288

College of Staten Island

Kate Crehan

Women's Studies Program
Crehan@postbox.csi.cuny.edu

718-982-2912
<http://www.library.csi.cuny.edu/dept/womens
tudies/>

Hostos Community College
Jerilyn Fisher

English Department
JBF1121@aol.com
718-518-6780

Hunter College

Cristina Leon Alfar

Women’s Studies Department
Calfar@shiva.hunter.cuny.edu
212-772-5660

John Jay College

Amy Green

Women’s Studies Department
Amysgreen@home.com
212-237-8352

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Kingsborough Community College
Frances Kraljic and Inez Martinez
Women’s Studies Program
Fkraljic@kbec.cuny.edu
718-368-5162

LaGuardia Community College

Elizabeth Clark

English Department and Women's Studies
Committee

Iclark@lagcc.cuny.edu

718-482-5665

Lehman College

Charlotte Morgan-Cato
Women's Studies Program
Charlott@lehman.cuny.edu
718-960-7722

Medgar Evers

Safiya Bandele

Center for Women's Development
Safiya@mec.cuny.edu
718-270-5155

New York City Technical College
Sonia Jackson

Dean of Instruction, Provost's Office
SJackson@nyctc.cuny.edu
718-260-5560

Queens College

Joyce Warren

English Department and Women’s Studies
Department

Joyce_warren@qc.edu

718-997-4620

<http://forbin.qc.edu/ws/>

Queensborough Community College
Shuang Shen

Women’s Studies Program
Shuangshen@yahoo.com
718-631-2229

York College

Laura Fishman

Women’s Studies Program

Fishman @york.cuny.edu

718-262-2645
<http://www.york.cuny.edu/~womensp/
index.html>