32 Notable alumni of
CUNY Graduate School and University Center
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CUNY Graduate School and University Center is 1527th in the world, 540th in North America, and 507th in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 32 notable alumni from CUNY Graduate School and University Center sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Ryūhō Ōkawa
- Enrolled in CUNY Graduate School and University Center
- Studied international finance
- Occupations
- scholar of Englishintellectualsociologistfather of faithpolitical philosopher
- Biography
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Ryuho Okawa was a Japanese religious and political leader who was the CEO and founder of the Happy Science and the Happiness Realization Party. He was also chairman of two companies affiliated with the organization, New Star Production and ARI Production.
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Nancy Fraser
- Occupations
- philosopheruniversity teachersociologistpolitical scientist
- Biography
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Nancy Fraser is an American philosopher, critical theorist, feminist, and the Henry A. and Louise Loeb Professor of Political and Social Science and professor of philosophy at The New School in New York City. Widely known for her critique of identity politics and her philosophical work on the concept of justice, Fraser is also a staunch critic of contemporary liberal feminism and its abandonment of social justice issues. Fraser holds honorary doctoral degrees from four universities in three countries, and won the 2010 Alfred Schutz Prize in Social Philosophy from the American Philosophical Association. She was President of the American Philosophical Association Eastern Division for the 2017–2018 term.
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Maggie Nelson
- Occupations
- university teacherart criticwriterfaculty memberpoet
- Biography
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Maggie Nelson is an American writer. She has been described as a genre-busting writer defying classification, working in autobiography, art criticism, theory, feminism, queerness, sexual violence, the history of the avant-garde, aesthetic theory, philosophy, scholarship, and poetry. Nelson has been the recipient of a 2016 MacArthur Fellowship, a 2012 Creative Capital Literature Fellowship, a 2011 NEA Fellowship in Poetry, and a 2010 Guggenheim Fellowship in Nonfiction. Other honors include the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism and a 2007 Andy Warhol Foundation/Creative Capital Arts Writers Grant.
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Hal Foster
- Occupations
- university teacherart criticart historianarchaeologistjournalist
- Biography
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Harold Foss "Hal" Foster is an American art critic and historian. He was educated at Princeton University, Columbia University, and the City University of New York. He taught at Cornell University from 1991 to 1997 and has been on the faculty at Princeton since 1997. In 1998 he received a Guggenheim Fellowship.
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Patricia Phelps de Cisneros
- Occupations
- art collector
- Biography
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Patricia "Patty" Phelps de Cisneros is a Venezuelan-born Dominican art collector and philanthropist who focuses on Latin American modernist and contemporary art from Brazil, Venezuela, and the Río de la Plata region of Argentina and Uruguay. Since the 1970s Cisneros has supported education and the arts, with a particular focus on Latin America. Along with her husband, Gustavo A. Cisneros, she founded the New York City and Caracas-based Fundación Cisneros. In the 1990s the Fundación's primary art-related program became the Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros. In 2016, Cisneros donated 102 modern and contemporary artworks from the 1940s to 1990s to the Museum of Modern Art, establishing the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Research Institute for the Study of Art from Latin America at MoMA.
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Janet Biehl
- Years
- 1953-.. (age 71)
- Occupations
- writerecofeministprintergraphic artistenvironmentalist
- Biography
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Janet Biehl is an American author, copyeditor, translator, and artist. She authored several books and articles associated with social ecology, the body of ideas developed and publicized by Murray Bookchin. Formerly an advocate of his antistatist political program, she broke with it publicly in 2011 and now identifies as a progressive Democrat.
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Jane McAlevey
- Occupations
- trade unionist
- Biography
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Jane F. McAlevey is an American union organizer, author, and political commentator. She is a Senior Policy Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley's Institute for Research on Labor and Employment, and a columnist at The Nation.
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Kevin Parker
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Kevin Parker is an American politician from the state of New York. He is a member of the New York State Senate representing the 21st district, which comprises portions of the Brooklyn neighborhoods of East Flatbush, Flatbush, Midwood, Ditmas Park, Kensington, Park Slope, and Windsor Terrace. A Democrat, Parker was first elected to the Senate in 2002.
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Gregory Pardlo
- Occupations
- translatorwriterpoet
- Biography
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Gregory Pardlo is an American poet, writer, and professor. His book Digest won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. His poems, reviews, and translations have appeared in The American Poetry Review, Callaloo, Poet Lore, Harvard Review, Ploughshares, and on National Public Radio. His work has been praised for its “language simultaneously urban and highbrow… snapshots of a life that is so specific it becomes universal.”
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Gustavo Rivera
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Gustavo Rivera is a New York state senator representing the 33rd Senate District, covering the Bronx neighborhoods of Kingsbridge Heights, Kingsbridge, Fordham, University Heights, Van Nest, Tremont, East Tremont, and parts of Morrisania and Parkchester. First elected in 2010, Rivera is a Democrat.
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James Kugel
- Occupations
- linguistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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James L. Kugel is professor emeritus in the Bible department at Bar Ilan University in Israel and the Harry M. Starr Professor Emeritus of Classical and Modern Hebrew Literature at Harvard University.
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Lee A. Feinstein
- Occupations
- diplomat
- Biography
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Lee Andrew Feinstein is an American policy-scholar, and former diplomat and senior official at the US Departments of State and Defense. Feinstein held senior positions on leading Democratic presidential campaigns in 2008. He served as the United States Ambassador to Poland from 2009 to 2012, appointed by President Obama and unanimously confirmed by the US Senate. Feinstein is currently the inaugural dean at Indiana University's Lee H. Hamilton and Richard G. Lugar School of Global and International Studies. His nonpartisan scholarship has been recognized by leading Republicans and Democrats.
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Lisa Nakamura
- Years
- 20th Century
- Occupations
- university teacheracademic
- Biography
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Lisa Nakamura is an American professor of media and cinema studies, Asian American studies, and gender and women’s studies. She teaches at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where she is also the Coordinator of Digital Studies and the Gwendolyn Calvert Baker Collegiate Professor in the Department of American Cultures.
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Roman Popadiuk
- Occupations
- diplomat
- Biography
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Roman Popadiuk is an American diplomat of Ukrainian descent. Popadiuk served as the first United States Ambassador to Ukraine under George H. W. Bush, from 1992 to 1993. From 2015 until 2017, he was a principal at Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP's subsidiary Morgan Lewis Consulting, and prior to 2015 he was the principal at Bingham Consulting. Since late 2018 Popadiuk has been the president of the Diplomacy Center Foundation which oversees the development of the National Museum of American Diplomacy.
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Randy Martin
- Years
- 1957-2015 (aged 58)
- Occupations
- danceruniversity teachersociologistpolitical activist
- Biography
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Randy Martin was a professor of Art and Policy at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, socialist activist, and dancer.
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Albert Nofi
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Albert A. Nofi, is an American military historian, defense analyst, and designer of board and computer wargaming systems.
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Karl Widerquist
- Years
- 1965-.. (age 59)
- Occupations
- university teacherphilosophereconomist
- Biography
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Karl Widerquist is an American political philosopher and economist at Georgetown University on its campus in Qatar. He is best known as an advocate of basic income, but is also an interdisciplinary academic writer who has published in journals in fields as diverse as economics, politics, philosophy, and anthropology. He is a consistent critic of propertarianism, right-libertarianism, social contract theory, and the belief that modern societies fulfill the Lockean proviso.
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Gina Neff
- Years
- 1971-.. (age 53)
- Enrolled in CUNY Graduate School and University Center
- Graduated with master's degree in sociology
- Occupations
- academicinformation scientistuniversity teachersociologist
- Biography
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Gina Neff is the Executive Director of the Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy at the University of Cambridge. Neff was previously Professor of Technology & Society at the Oxford Internet Institute and the Department of Sociology at the University of Oxford. Neff is an organizational sociologist whose research explores the social and organizational impact of new communication technologies, with a focus on innovation, the digital transformation of industries, and how new technologies impact work.
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Merle Hoffman
- Years
- 1946-.. (age 78)
- Occupations
- publisher
- Biography
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Merle Hoffman is an American journalist and activist.
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Mark M. Goldblatt
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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Mark Meyer Goldblatt is an American journalist, novelist, theologian and educator. He attended Queens College of the City University of New York from 1974-1979, where he earned a bachelor's degree in English. After brief stints as a proofreader and copyeditor, he enrolled in the CUNY Graduate Center in 1983 and was awarded a doctorate in English literature in 1990, writing his dissertation on the theological underpinning of the Protestant Reformation in England.
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Eleanor Sobel
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Eleanor Sobel is a Democratic member of the Florida State Senate, representing the 33rd District, which includes Davie, Hallandale Beach, Hollywood, and Pembroke Pines in southeastern Broward County, since 2012, previously representing the 31st District from 2008 to 2012. Before winning election to the Florida Senate, Sobel served as a member of the Florida House of Representatives, representing the 100th District from 1998 to 2002 and the 99th District from 2002 to 2006.
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David E. Rowe
- Years
- 1950-.. (age 74)
- Occupations
- historianhistorian of mathematicsmathematicianuniversity teacher
- Biography
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David E. Rowe is an American mathematician and historian. He studied mathematics and the history of science at the University of Oklahoma, and took a second doctorate in history at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He served as book review editor, managing editor, and editor of the journal Historia Mathematica. In 1992, Rowe was appointed Professor of History of Mathematics and Natural Sciences at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz where he presently teaches. His research has mainly focused on mathematics in Germany, but in recent years he has been concerned with Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity and the broader cultural and political impact of Einstein's ideas. As part of this effort, he and Robert Schulmann have co-edited a source book entitled Einstein on Politics: His Private Thoughts and Public Stands on Nationalism, Zionism, War, Peace, and the Bomb, published by Princeton University Press in 2007.
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Sharon Sutton
- Occupations
- architect
- Biography
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Sharon Egretta Sutton, is an American architect, educator, visual artist, and author. Her work is focused on community-based participatory research and design. She is a professor emerita at the University of Washington. In 1984, she became the first African American woman to become a full professor in an accredited architectural degree program while teaching at the University of Michigan. She has also taught at Parsons School of Design, and Columbia University.
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Gerard Scharfenberger
- Enrolled in CUNY Graduate School and University Center
- Graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- politicianarchaeologist
- Biography
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Gerard P. Scharfenberger is an American politician, adjunct professor and Republican Party politician who has served in the New Jersey General Assembly representing the 13th Legislative District since 2020, replacing Amy Handlin. Scharfenberger had previously served on the Monmouth County Board of Chosen Freeholders and as Mayor of Middletown Township.
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Reba White Williams
- Occupations
- writerart collector
- Biography
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Reba White Williams, is an American author, philanthropist, and expert on fine art prints. As a novelist, her influences include Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers. She and her husband, Dave H. Williams, built the world's largest private collection of American prints; they also founded the Print Research Foundation. She and Dave Williams are also co-creators of the Willie Morris Award for Southern Fiction.
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Michael Szenberg
- Occupations
- economist
- Biography
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Michael Szenberg is a professor emeritus and a former Chairman of the Finance and Economics department at Lubin School of Business in Pace University, New York. He is the author and editor of 22 books on economics, and was the editor of The American Economist published by Omicron Delta Epsilon.
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Edwin Battistella
- Years
- 1955-.. (age 69)
- Enrolled in CUNY Graduate School and University Center
- Graduated with Doctor of Philosophy in linguistics
- Occupations
- editor-in-chiefuniversity teacherlinguisteditor
- Biography
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Edwin Battistella is an American linguist known for work on markedness, syntax, and language attitudes. He is an emeritus professor of Humanities and Culture at Southern Oregon University in Ashland, Oregon.
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Jean Halley
- Occupations
- memoiristhistorian
- Biography
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Jean Halley is an American writer and sociologist based in New York City. Her work revolves around issues of social power, violence, trauma, gender, and animal studies. Halley is also a professor of sociology at the College of Staten Island and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.
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Adil Shamoo
- Years
- 1941-.. (age 83)
- Occupations
- biochemist
- Biography
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Adil E. Shamoo is an Iraqi biochemist with an interest in biomedical ethics and foreign policy. He is currently a professor at the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Maryland.
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Lisa Farrington
- Years
- 20th Century
- Occupations
- art historian
- Biography
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Lisa Farrington is an American art historian, specializing in African-American art, Haitian art, and women's art. She is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Art and Music at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice. Farrington is one of the major scholars of Faith Ringgold, is the author of several books on African-American art, and is one of only six full professors of African-American art history in the United States.
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Girardin Jean-Louis
- Enrolled in CUNY Graduate School and University Center
- Graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- researcher
- Biography
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Girardin Jean-Louis is an American academic who is a Professor in the Departments of Psychiatry and Neurology at the University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine. He serves as Director of the Translational Sleep and Circadian Sciences Program and the "Program to Increase Diversity among Individuals Engaged in Health-Related Research" Institute. Dr. Jean-Louis’ translational behavioral sleep and circadian research was recently featured in Science and NPR. In 2020, he was named ‘Pioneer in Minority Health and Health Disparities’ and one of the Community of Scholars' most inspiring Black scientists in America. In 2021, he received the Mary A. Carskadon Outstanding Educator Award from the Sleep Research Society, and in 2022 the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Leadership Award from the American Academy of Sleep Medicine.
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Taína Caragol
- Enrolled in CUNY Graduate School and University Center
- Graduated with Doctor of Philosophy in art history
- Occupations
- curatorart historian
- Biography
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Taína Caragol also known as Taína Beatriz Caragol-Barreto, is an American art historian, curator, and author. She currently serves as the curator for Latino Art and History at the National Portrait Gallery, since 2013. She previously held positions at Museum of Modern Art and at the Museo de Arte de Ponce.
