Nikhil Ramachandran is a PhD student in the Anthropology Program at the CUNY Graduate Center. His research and teaching interests lie broadly in the problematics of political imagination, racial capitalism, and urban studies.
Joseph Boisvere is a PhD candidate at the CUNY Graduate Center in the Comparative Literature Department, a Lehman College WAC Fellow, and an adjunct lecturer at CCNY, Baruch College, and NYU. His research is on science fiction media.
Samuel Teeple is a doctoral candidate in musicology at the Graduate Center, CUNY and co-founder of the GC Music Teaching Hub, an online repository of open educational resources created by graduate students for graduate students. His dissertation examines the role of Jewish Berlin in the musical formation of Germanness at the turn of the nineteenth century, with special attention to questions of race and gender. Samuel is currently a Writing Across the Curriculum Fellow at Lehman College and an adjunct instructor at the Aaron Copland School of Music, Queens College.
Sarah Jacobson is a PhD candidate in Cognitive and Comparative Psychology at the CUNY Graduate Center and WAC fellow at Lehman College. She is finishing up her dissertation on personality and cognition in Asian elephants, entitled “Individual differences in wild Asian elephant behavior: links between neophilia and innovation across mosaic landscapes.” Sarah is passionate about making science more accessible and engaging for students and the public, as well as developing methods of improving student writing in scientific fields. She’s taught statistics labs at Brooklyn College and Evolution and Behavior at Hunter College.
Hayoung Jeong is a PhD student in the Environmental Psychology program at the CUNY Graduate center. Her dissertation examines the historical and geographic trajectories of affordable housing development on formerly city-owned land in New York City. Her dissertation explores the potential of the state’s partnership with grassroots Community Land Trusts (CLTs) for public land redevelopment to preserve democratic control over public land and address racial equity in land-use and planning systems. Since 2020, she has been working with East New York CLT and a coalition of CLTs, to acquire and redevelop city-owned land for community-led development.
Britt Munro (she/her) is a doctoral student in English at the CUNY Graduate Center. She teaches composition at Lehman College and Interdisciplinary Studies at John Jay college. She is interested in developing anti-racist praxis in the writing classroom, and challenging some of the ways the framework of ‘neutrality’ is applied in pedagogy. Her research is on the role of discipline in liberal imaginaries of freedom, and the entanglement of discipline and freedom between late liberal settler colonies today.
Miriam Navas – Hernández is a PhD Candidate in the department of Latin American, Iberian, and Latino cultures at The Graduate Center, CUNY, dedicated to exploring the intersections of gender studies and feminist activism through art. With a primary focus on Spanish women writers, directors, and producers, Miriam delves into how they utilize their art as a form of activism, fighting against various manifestations of violence against women.
Her research delves deeply into the ways in which these creative individuals challenge societal norms and address pressing gender issues through their work, a phenomenon often referred to as “artivism.” By analyzing the narratives, techniques, and messages conveyed in literature, film, and other artistic expressions, Miriam seeks to illuminate the profound impact of these endeavors on both cultural discourse and social change.
Furthermore, Miriam is deeply committed to understanding how the realms of creation, academia, and social movements intersect and collaborate in the collective effort to combat gender-based violence and discrimination. She is driven by a profound belief in the power of art and scholarship to shed light on these critical issues and contribute to the ongoing struggle for gender equality and justice. Through her academic pursuits and advocacy work, Miriam aims to contribute to a more inclusive and equitable society where the voices and experiences of women are heard, valued, and respected. She is dedicated to bridging the gap between theory and practice, academia and activism, in the ongoing quest for a world free from gender-based violence and oppression.
