CUNY Graduate Center

About CUNY Graduate Center

The CUNY Graduate Center is a leader in public graduate education devoted to enhancing the public good through pioneering research, serious learning, and reasoned debate. The CUNY Graduate Center offers ambitious students more than 40 doctoral and master’s programs of the highest caliber, taught by top faculty from throughout CUNY — the nation’s largest public urban university. Through its nearly 40 centers, institutes, and initiatives, including its Advanced Science Research Center (ASRC), The Graduate Center influences public policy and discourse and shapes innovation. The CUNY Graduate Center Graduate Center’s extensive public programs make it a home for culture and conversation.

Publisher

CUNY Graduate Center

Category

society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

29 Nov 2017

Latest episode

5 Nov 2026

Latest episodes

193 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   5 Nov 2026

   Preserving Human Judgment in the AI Age

   As artificial intelligence transforms higher education, the CUNY Graduate Center is taking a different approach to managing the technology. Rather than focusing on restrictions and penalties, the institution is encouraging thoughtful discussion, responsible experimentation, and shared decision-making. Provost Joel P. Christensen and Luke Waltzer, director of the Teaching and Learning Center, are helping lead this effort and spoke about it on The Thought Project podcast with Tanya Domi.

2. 

   22 Oct 2026

   How Graduate Education Stays Relevant

   Kandice Chuh, the CUNY Graduate Center’s new associate provost for academic affairs and dean for the humanities and social sciences, joins The Thought Project for a conversation about race, ethnicity, education, and the public value of scholarship. As an academic leader, she supports the humanities and social sciences programs and helps implement the Graduate Center’s strategic plan. Speaking with host Tanya Domi, Chuh discusses responsibilities that include academic and fiscal oversight of graduate programs, centers, and institutes, along with dissertation fellowships and graduate assistantships. She connects that work to questions central to her scholarship: Who decides what counts as knowledge and whose histories and experiences have been excluded. Drawing on ethnic studies, Black studies, and queer theory, Chuh explains why understanding America requires looking across disciplines and examining how its past shapes its present. Amid political pressure on universities, she argues that curiosity, careful research, and openness to others are especially urgent. Chuh also reflects on teaching as a source of new ideas, where differences enrich discussion. She brings those principles to hiring, curricula, and student support, guided by a commitment to fairness, honesty, and shared well-being. Her goal is to help programs create conditions for scholarship that benefits society.

3. 

   7 Oct 2026

   How Women Really Won the Vote and the Example They Set for Today

   On The Thought Project, CUNY Graduate Center History Ph.D. candidate Rachel B. Tiven talks to host Tanya Domi about the organizing, public protest, and electoral pressure that secured women’s suffrage. Tiven investigates why members of Congress changed their minds and agreed to amend the Constitution over a century ago. The findings reveal a movement that commanded headlines and made opposition politically costly. Women who already voted in Western states threatened to unseat politicians whose party blocked a federal amendment. Outside the White House, the “Silent Sentinels” confronted President Woodrow Wilson with his own promises of democracy, continuing their protests despite attacks, arrests, imprisonment, and force-feeding during hunger strikes. Tiven explains why lobbying and nonviolent civil disobedience were both essential, even when the leaders pursuing those strategies disagreed. She also challenges the familiar explanation that women’s wartime service persuaded Congress to recognize their political equality. The conversation, based on Tiven’s doctoral dissertation, connects this history to contemporary struggles over voting rights and women’s citizenship, asking how the suffragists’ persistence, leadership, and political strategies can inform efforts to defend those rights today.

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Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

5 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

1 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 55 / 100

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Quality

61

Social presence

0

YouTube

93

Engagement

32

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