The Ph.D. Program in Criminal Justice offers an interdisciplinary education in the field of criminology and criminal justice. It prepares students for careers of research, scholarship and teaching.

Andrea Kouklanakis is Associate Professor at Hunter College in Classics at Hunter College. She received her BA from Hunter College, having transferred from the Pontifical Catholic University of São ...

a specialist on the Balkans, her current research focuses on transitions from civil war to peace, international security and state failure, and post-war state-building. Susan L. Woodward is professor ...

Ruth O’Brien, who earned her Ph.D. in political science at UCLA, joined the Graduate Center’s doctoral faculty in 1997 and, in 2004, founded the Writing Politics specialization in political science.

Aesthetics (especially environmental aesthetics and public art) History of late 18th-19th c. Philosophy (especially Kant and Schopenhauer) History of ethics ...

Robert Courtney Smith (Ph.D. Columbia, 1995) is a Professor of Sociology, Immigration Studies and Public Affairs at the School of Public Affairs, and in the Sociology Department, Graduate Center, CUNY ...

Amid scenes of wildfires, floods, severe storms, and increasingly extreme weather, the evidence is clear that climate change is wreaking havoc on the planet. Less clear are the impacts that climate ...

José del Valle joined The Graduate Center in 2002 and served as executive officer of the Ph.D. Program in Latin American, Iberian and Latino Cultures between 2011 and 2017. He is also a faculty member ...

Professor Christopher Loperena is the author of “The Ends of Paradise: Race, Extraction, and the Struggle for Black Life in Honduras.” Garifuna, a Black Indigenous people whose presence in Honduras ...

Nancy Foner and her book “One Quarter of the Nation: Immigration and the Transformation of America” By 2020 an unprecedented 45 million immigrants were living in the U.S., the largest number since ...

Ariana Mangual Figueroa draws from the fields of language socialization and linguistic anthropology to examine language use and learning in Latinx communities living in the United States. Her ...

Individual innovation is considered one sign of intelligence within species, and elephants are among the animals that researchers have long taken an interest in because of their sophisticated approach ...