As an Associate Professor in Economics at Hunter, Dr. Matthew Baker teaches Development of Economic Thought, Introduction to Economics, and Economics of Law, focusing on economic history, applied econometrics and cultural evolution. Outside of Hunter, Dr. Baker has worked on predicting the incidence of health problems around the world using geospatial and economic data. His […]
Jonathan Capehart, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer, editor, and TV host, recounts powerful stories from his life about embracing identity, picking battles, seizing opportunity, and finding his voice, at the Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College.
DISCOVERING DAILY LIFE IN ROMAN EGYPT A lecture by Dr. Anna Lucille Boozer, Professor of Archaeology and Ancient History, Baruch College Egypt has served as a critical source of evidence for social history in the Roman world. Studies of everyday life within Roman Egypt, however, have been riven by disciplinary, methodological, and theoretical ruptures. In this […]
Promoting Civil Discourse & Intellectual Dialogue Series Free Speech and Civil Dialogue Today on Campus and in Society This hybrid program will include a discussion about the importance of free speech, civil dialogue, academic freedom and diversity of perspectives in higher education and our society, including the contours of applicable protections. It will contextualize recent […]
Robert Seltzer Lecture Series Making the Documentary: A Very British History: Back to Belarus Filmmaker Simon Glass explores his family history and tells the story of the Yorkshire Jews in the early 20th century. Destined for America, thousands of migrants arrived by boat on the east coast of England and settled in a run-down slum […]
Fall 2025 Igna Ritcher Seminar Series Presents: Gap Junction Connectivity of Astrocytes in Health and Disease. Presented by Dr. Randy Stout, NYIT
Dr. Karna Basu is an associate professor of economics at Hunter College and CUNY's Graduate Center. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Chicago from 2006 to 2009. Dr. Basu's research centers on the intersection of behavioral economics and development, with a particular focus on informal banking. His research has been published in […]
Dara Meyers-Kingsley has extensive experience as a contemporary art curator with an interdisciplinary curatorial practice. Her exhibitions, often including visual art, media, installation, and performance have been presented at LA […]
A film screening of Vishal Jugdeo's "Deo's Moon" and "Does Your House Have Lions" followed by a conversation with the filmmaker and Prof. Gayatri Gopinath. Vishal Jugdeo (b. 1979 Regina, Canada) is a multidisciplinary artist. His work across video, installation, performance, sculpture and text experiments with narrative, blurring fiction and truth. His recent films emerge […]
Andrea Cohen's poems and stories have appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry, The Threepenny Review, The New York Review of Books, The Atlantic Monthly, The New Republic, Glimmer Train, etc. A new poetry collection, Sugar, will be out in early 2026. Other books include The Sorrow Apartments (Four Way Books, 2024), Everything (Four Way, 2021), Nightshade (Four Way, 2019). Unfathoming (Four Way, 2017), Furs Not Mine (Four Way, 2015), Kentucky Derby (Salmon Poetry, 2011), Long Division (Salmon […]
