2024 Dissertation Fellows

We are pleased to announce the 2024 Gittell Dissertation Fellows:

Ryan Brunette (Political Science), After the Miracle: Constructing Political Regimes and Corruption in Post-Apartheid South Africa 

Thayer Hastings (Anthropology), Inhabiting the “Center of Life” in Jerusalem and the Demographic Governance of non-Citizenship

Zahra Khalid (Earth and Environmental Sciences), The “military real-estate state:” insecurity, middle-class aspirations, and speculative real-estate development in Pakistan

2024 Book-Writing Workshop Awardees

The CUNY Gittell Collective Public Scholar Book-Writing Workshop supports CUNY faculty in developing and publishing great first books by providing structured feedback infrastructure: negotiated deadlines, peer camaraderie and accountability, and feedback from field/subfield experts and esteemed interlocutors.

The 2024 Awardees are:

  • Anthony Dest, Anthropology, Lehman College
    • Dissident Peace: An Ethnography of Struggle in Colombia
  • Ted Gordon, Music, Baruch College
    • The Composer’s Black Box: Cybernetics and Instrumentality in American Experimental Music
  • Rhea Rahman, Anthropology, Brooklyn College
    • Muslim Humanitarians in Black, Brown, and White: Racializing the Umma
  • Shreya Subramani, Anthropology, John Jay College of Criminal Justice
    • Carceral Transitions: The Productive Relations of Reentry Governance in New Orleans

2023 Dissertation fellows

We are very pleased to announced the Gittell Dissertation Fellows for the 2023-2024 academic year:

Misty Crooks (Anthropology), Democracy Redefined: Electoral Governance, Political Demobilization, and the Hope of Reform Activism,

Silvina Calderaro (Urban Education), Regenerative Processes in Education and Climate Action: Learning More-than-human conviviality, and 

Marianne Madoré (Sociology), The Empire City’s university: A study of CUNY colleges’ imbrication in US imperialism in the early 21st century

Congratulations!

2023 Book-Writing Workshop Awardees

The CUNY Gittell Collective Public Scholar Book-Writing Workshop supports CUNY faculty in developing and publishing great first books by providing structured feedback infrastructure: negotiated deadlines, peer camaraderie and accountability, and feedback from field/subfield experts and esteemed interlocutors.

The 2023 Awardees are:

  • John Frank (Sociology), Lehman College: The Self Illusion: A Simplified Equation for “You”
  • Marta-Laura Haynes (Anthropology), John Jay College of Criminal Justice, Untrusting: The quest for democratic policing in urban Brazil
  • Jinwon Kim (Sociology), College of Technology, The Koreatown in Manhattan: Branding Korea and Consuming Ethnicity in the Global Economy
  • Nerve Macaspac (Geography), College of State Island, Spaces Of Peace: How Ordinary People Protect Their Lives During War