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Welcome to the Fall semester!

As you probably already know, there is a Welcome Reception provided by Dean Erica Chito Childs for everyone in Arts & Sciences at Hunter College on Thursday, 8/22 from 3-5pm.  The reception will be held in the 3rd Floor West Large Cafeteria (see attached flyer).

Following that, we will host a small, separate…[Read more]

About the IMEU: The Institute for Middle East Understanding (IMEU) is an independent 501c3 nonprofit that educates audiences in the US about Palestine and Palestinians through media. We do this by offering mainstream US media access to facts, analysis, and experts in order to help them cover the issue with accuracy and depth, and by creating and…[Read more]

I recently posted a job for a “Digital Media Manager” with the North Star Fund. If this is the kind of job opportunity that interests you, then you should sign up for this summer course:

• Digital Content Creation – (GSR 79047)

This will be taught online and will be *GREAT* preparation for these kinds of digital media manager jobs, which is an…[Read more]

Everyone is welcome on the 8th Floor, West Bldg, in the FDA Lounge for our annual Charles Green Day, TODAY, Tuesday, 7 May. Here’s the lineup:

• 11:45am-1pm: Alumni Panel, 4 former students talk about their experiences after graduation;
• 1pm-2:30pm: Student Poster Session, presented by sociology capstone students;
• 2:30pm-3:45pm:  KEYNOTE…

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North Star Fund is a social justice fund that supports grassroots organizing led by communities of color building power in New York City and the Hudson Valley. We organize people across race and class to give in support of social justice movements. We also offer year-round programming to help organizers build and sustain their work.

Digital…[Read more]

This is a friendly reminder for folks graduating this semester that you should receive a “Degree Audit” from the good people in the registrar’s office. These emails can be stress-inducing but there’s no need to stress.

I will respond to these with notations about anything you’re missing or courses that should be used as substitutions. You don’t…[Read more]

UPDATED: Here is the slide deck from today’s session, and the audio file.

Some excellent recent digital portfolios:

• Trae Banuelos
• Kyla Cortez
• Jacob Rosette
• Cara Wohnsigl

And, here are the learning objectives for the program (you should link EACH ONE to some artifact that demonstrates your mastery of that objective):

• explain the…

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Anna Gifty (Doctoral Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School) is currently seeking a (remote) research assistance on projects related to workplace inequality beginning May 2024.

This position will require 5-10 hours of research assistance per month at $20/hour and will take place for the year with holiday breaks. Onboarding takes place in May and the…[Read more]

Freedom on the Move, a digital history project based in Cornell University’s Department of History, is working in partnership with the Cornell University Library to hire five data fellows for the summer of 2024.

In this eight-week program, data fellows will work with scholars of slavery, resistance, marronage, and emancipation to help deepen t…[Read more]

Qualitative Interviewer/Temporary and Remote

Duties and Essential Job Functions

The successful candidate will assist the Comparative Disinformation Project team, led by Dr. Jen Schradie, at CRIS (Center for Research on Social Inequalities) at Sciences Po Paris. This position is based in the United States.

Tasks include (though not limited to) t…[Read more]

Please come to this discussion and book launch for digital sociologist John D. Boy (Leiden University, NL and graduate of the GC), where he will be in conversation with John Torpey and Jessie Daniels.

When: Monday, 5 Feb 2024, 4:15pm-6pm

Where: The Graduate Center (GC), Ralph Bunche Institute, Room 5203 (in person only)

Getting into the GC: Buil…[Read more]

Internship to Employment (i2E) connects NYC small businesses with CUNY students with the aim of converting internships to employment. I2E’s summer 2024 cohort has two opportunities for CUNY students to participate. I2E Juniors is an 8-week Internship for current CUNY students who plan to apply for Fall 2024 classes with a minimum of 60 credits, a…[Read more]

The NYS legislators involved with the HEAL act are looking for a campaign staffer that would be perfect for someone from this program (including recent alums).

What’s the HEAL Act? It’s a bill that would limit the property tax exemptions that NYU and Columbia take (from their massive holdings, some of which are not used for education) and would…[Read more]

build4good, an initiative of New America is a summer intern-mentorship program for post-secondary students and nonprofit organizations that aims to inspire a network of future leaders to develop civically minded technology, discover public interest technology and social impact careers, and help nonprofits harness the power of technology for s…[Read more]

I just received this invitation below from colleagues in the British Digital Sociology Association, led by Mark Carrigan.

*You* ~ students in this program ~ are the *experts* in this area and you should be involved in claiming and creating knowledge on Wikipedia. New to doing a Wikipedia hackathon? Fear not, read & learn about them here, and join…[Read more]

Many people have reached out to ask about additional instruction in statistics and I have good news!

Hunter College has provided us with a wonderful stats tutor,  Wafaa Elmanasir.

Even better, Professor Elmanasir teaches two (undergraduate) stats classes. You may want to consider enrolling in SOC 241 to help ground you in the basics. There are…[Read more]

The CUNY Office for Graduate Studies is hosting a Financial Aid Information Session designed for current and future graduate students.

• Date: January 10th
• Time: 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm

Zoom link:

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAqce6opj4iE9YI_cG7mBmGiSgzmdMDO7LJ

CONGRATULATIONS!!! Big kudos to everyone who has made it to graduation! Yay!

The Sociology Department will be hosting a small commencement ceremony at the Roosevelt House on Wednesday, January 24, 20024.

If you are a master’s student OR a BA/MS student and would like to participate in this ceremony, please email me directly:…[Read more]

Deadline for this has passed for 2024, but keep this for next year!

The Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT) is now accepting applications for internships for the summer of 2024. We welcome applications from students currently enrolled in law, graduate, and undergraduate programs with an interest in the internet and technology policy, human…[Read more]