A groundbreaking scholar, activist, and longtime professor of political science at Hunter College, the late Kenneth Sherrill (1942-2023) was the first out gay elected official in New York State. A former Democratic District Leader, and pioneer of the analysis of the LGBTQ vote, Sherrill laid “the foundation for the study of LGBTQ Politics in America,” […]
Join CENTRO on September 19th for a panel discussion on radical student movements and the screening of “The Five Demands”, a film documenting the student takeover of City College of New York in April 1969. Following the Vietnam war, protests like the one at City College, led by Puerto Rican and Black students, set the […]
Book Signing and Pizza to Follow By 2028, Gen-Z and Gen-Alpha will be the largest group of eligible voters in the country. But youth voter turnout in recent presidential elections has remained ominously low. Voters under 25 were half as likely to vote in 2020 as voters over the age of 65; and, in 2020, when voter […]
Lauri Kytomaa is an Assistant Professor of Applied Economics and Policy at Cornell University's SC Johnson College of Business. Kytömaa earned his PhD in economics from the University of Texas […]
Please join us as Roosevelt House—together with Hunter College’s Office of the President and MFA in Creative Writing Program—celebrate the artistry of the great Sandra Cisneros on the 40th anniversary of the publication of the The House on Mango Street. To mark the occasion, American Voices: The Sandra Cisneros Symposium at Hunter College will bring together leading authors, journalists, scholars, singers, […]
Robert Seltzer Lecture Series The Light of Learning: Hasidism in Poland on the Eve of the Holocaust The Light of Learning, by Glenn Dynner, tells the story of an unexpected Hasidic revival in Poland on the eve of the Holocaust. Hasidic leaders reinvented themselves through an ensuing pedagogical revolution. Hasidic yeshivas soon overshadowed courts and […]
Matthew Neidell is an economics professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at Columbia University. He received his PhD in economics from UCLA, and was a post-doc at […]
Join CENTRO for a Cafecito con…Mónica Jiménez and Alvin Padilla-Babilonia as they discuss Jimenez’s new book Making Never-Never Land: Race and Law in the Creation of Puerto Rico. This “brilliant study” (Latin American Review of Books) and “insightful analysis of Puerto Rico and how the U.S. government treats it” (Library Journal), examines a larger history […]
Join CENTRO’s Digital Projects Specialist, Grace Mckenna, on October 15th for a virtual Library & Archives Lunch Hour as she shares her favorite new items that have been added to the digital collections thanks to the support from the National Endowment for the Humanities for our digitization grant project “100 Years of Puerto Rican Arts […]
Archishman Chakraborty is the Mel Harris Chair in Insurance and Risk, and Chair of the Finance Department at the Syms School of Business, Yeshiva University. His research interests are in […]
