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SUBLETS AVAILABLE

Two of them! Check it out:

1)

Spacious and sunny room in two-bedroom apartment is available for summer sublet from May 30 – August 30 (three month sublet).

This is a fully furnished, lightly decorated room in an amenity-full apartment with a fully equipped kitchen and a dining room. It has hardwood floor, high ceilings, and was renovated last year. The room is the size of a large studio. There are two big closets. The room includes a futon bed, medium-size shelf unit, and desk.

The apartment is at a perfect location. It is a block away from the Church Avenue stop on B/Q trains (20 mins to Manhattan), two blocks from Prospect Park. It is steps away from a 24 hour produce market and two laundromats. It’s also very close to Park Slope ( 2 stops away) and Crown Heights, lively neighborhoods with nice restaurants, cafes, bars and Brooklyn Museum of Art.

You”ll be sharing the apartment with a male PhD student in early 30s who will be subletting the other room in the apartment for the summer.

The rent per month will be $900 + utilities (electric+ gas usually $50/2 per month). To move in First and Last Month rent required. Negotiable deposit covering furniture and appliances may be required.

You must be responsible adults with references available upon request. If you are interested in, please tell us about yourself, your profession, and lifestyle.

No smoking in apartment, no pets

please contact Secil Yilmaz sechyuss@gmail.com

2)

FULLY FURNISHED APARTMENT FOR SUBLET, FALL 2013 SEMESTER (July 11 – December 31, 2013, dates somewhat flexible)

Lovely, fully furnished and fully equipped apartment in a brownstone building in Brooklyn Heights. Located on a classic, quiet street but one block from Atlantic Avenue (Sahadi’s, Trader Joe’s, a 24-hour pharmacy, and large grocery store, and many restaurants and shops). Apartment has two bedrooms plus a home office; sunny, eat-in kitchen with new appliances and dishwasher; washer and dryer in apartment; working fireplace; very short walk to most subway lines (2,3,4,5,,N,R,Q,A,C,F) and easily accessible to all of Brooklyn’s and Manhattan’s attractions; 5 minutes walk to gorgeous Brooklyn Bridge Park. Minutes to downtown Manhattan, a short and easy subway ride to the Graduate Center. Rent is way below market price. For information about cost of rent or to express interest, please write to amychazkel@gmail.com

 

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Important on Dissections

Dear Seminar participants, 

Please help us hear your feedback and secure funding for next year’s Dissections seminars. Should we get the extra funding, we’ll be able to reinstitute lunches with Dissections.

You can help us by filling out the survey (takes less than 2 minutes!) by MONDAY, May 13thhttps://www.surveymonkey.com/s/SeminarParticipantsSurvey

April 22 Email from Career Planning and Professional Development

Dear Students,

 

I look forward to seeing many of you at the Office of Career Planning and Professional Development’s first events this week—two panels featuring alumni who have put their graduate degrees to work in very interesting fields.

 

Please note that we will not have walk-ins this Wednesday, 4-6, because the panel on “Careers in Writing and Editing” will take place at that very same time.

 

Would you like to schedule a career advising appointment?  Just send us an email at careerplan@gc.cuny.edu

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The PhD Program in History Mourns The Loss of Professor Brooks

IN MEMORIAM

THE DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY MOURNS THE PASSING OF PROFESSOR BARBARA BROOKS

Barbara Jeanne Brooks, 60, passed away on April 12, 2013 at home after a long battle with breast cancer. A scholar of Japan and professor of History at the City College of New York and the CUNY Graduate Center, Barbara received a B.A. and M.A. from Yale University and a Ph.D from Princeton University.  The mother of Isadora Brooks Jaffee and spouse of David Jaffee, she is survived by her parents William and Margaret Brooks, her sister Sarah Brooks, and her brother Tom Brooks.  Barbara took great joy in learning, writing and teaching about Japan, working on her garden, taking care of Oscar the dachshund, and many, many other things.

A memorial for Barbara will take place on Monday, May 13, at 6pm at the Bard Graduate Center, 38 West 86th Street.

Employment Opportunity for Summer, 2013

We are looking for graduate students who are interested in helping us develop material for reading comprehension tests this summer. We would very much appreciate your distributing the attached job notice to all graduate students who might be interested.

 

Thank you!

 

Sincerely,

 

Barbara Elkins

Director of Verbal Skills

Assessment Development

Educational Testing Service

Princeton, NJ 08540

 

Sent via:

Katherine L. E. Hoyt (Katie)

Educational Testing Service (ETS)

AD Higher Education

660 Rosedale Road

N155I Messick Hall, MS 14-N

Princeton, NJ  08541

P:  609.683.2876

F:  609.683.2800

E:  khoyt@ets.org

www.ets.org

 

Summer 2013 Employment Opportunity

4/25: Ergonomic Considerations in Academia Workshop on 4/25 – **Pre-registration Required by 4/19! **

Ergonomic Considerations

in Academia Workshop

 with Dr. Davis Reyes PT, DPT

 

Thursday, April 25, 2013

3:00 pm—4:00 pm

CUNY Graduate Center

Room 9206

 

You will learn how the body is affected by our everyday habits

and work environments, injuries that can result,

and simple adjustments you can make to prevent them!

 

***Pre-registration is required by April 19th.***

E-mail healthed@gc.cuny.edu with your full name and email address

 

The event is FREE and open to all students, staff, and faculty!

Davis V. Reyes PT, DPT holds a clinical doctorate in physical therapy and is an advanced clinician at Hospital for Special Surgery’s rehabilitation department.

 

Sponsored by:

 The Wellness Center

Student Health Services

365 Fifth Ave, Room 6422

212-817-7028

healthed@gc.cuny.edu

www.cuny.is/wellnesscenter

Ergonomic Considerations Flyer 2013 (1)

4/23 – Mayoral Forum on Higher Education (most of the candidates are expected)

Mayoral Forum on Higher Education (most of the candidates are expected)

Tuesday, April 23, 7:00 – 9:00 p.m.

Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College/CUNY

2013 logos2180 Third Avenue @ 119th Street

Prof. Gregory Downs wins a prestigious 2013 ACLS Digital Innovation Fellowship

The PhD Program in History is delighted to congratulate Prof. Gregory Downs on winning a prestigious 2013  American Council of Learned Societies Digital Innovation Fellowship.

The American Council of Learned Societies, a private, nonprofit federation of 71 national scholarly organizations, is the preeminent representative of American scholarship in the humanities and related social sciences. Advancing scholarship by awarding fellowships and strengthening relations among learned societies are central to ACLS’s work. This year, ACLS will award more than $15 million dollars to nearly 400 scholars across a variety of humanistic disciplines. The seven fellows, who were selected from a very competitive pool of applications, will spend a year dedicated to a major scholarly project intended to advance digital humanistic scholarship in powerful new directions. The projects span disciplines, methodologies, and digital formats, but all engender innovative approaches to scholarly research and communication. Applications to the program were evaluated by a committee of scholars with wide-ranging expertise in the digital humanities. 2012-2013 marked the eighth year of the ACLS Digital Innovation Fellowship Program, generously funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. “The 2013 ACLS Digital Innovation Fellows are forging exciting pathways for scholarship in the humanities, providing widespread access to previously unavailable sources and creating tools to aid scholars at all levels of study,” said ACLS Director of Fellowships Nicole Stahlmann. “From transforming traditional ideas of literary genre to modeling changes in regional speech patterns over time, the fellows are finding new ways to channel big data for greater humanistic understanding.”

Among this year’s supported projects is a new searchable, digital archive of coroner’s reports that allows scholars to view the American South of the Civil War-era through the eyes of a crime scene investigator; a tool for students and advanced scholars alike to explore Pompeii through a GIS model that maps bibliographies of existing scholarship onto relevant points throughout the famous archaeological site; and a bi-lingual, multimedia online book that probes new directions in both performance studies and scholarly publication. The 2013 ACLS Digital Innovation Fellows and project titles are:

Gregory Downs (Associate Professor of History, The City College of New York) Mapping Occupation: The Union Army and the Meaning of Reconstruction (For more information, see http://www.acls.org/research/fellow.aspx?cid=43d71b64-8786-e211-b90d-000c29a3451a . Our own Prof. Joshua Brown notes “His project will profoundly change our notion about the “occupation” of the Reconstruction South.”)

Stephen Berry (Professor of History, University of Georgia) CSI Dixie: Race, the Body Politic, and the View from the South’s County Coroners’ Offices, 1840-1880

Allison Booth (Professor of English, University of Virginia) The Practice and Theory of Digital Prosopography: Collective Biographies of Women and the Biographical Elements and Structure Schema

William Kretzschmar (Professor of English, University of Georgia) Computer Simulation of Speech and Culture as a Complex System

Eric Poehler (Assistant Professor of Classics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst) The Pompeii Bibliography and Mapping Resource

Diana Taylor (Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, New York University) The Politics of Passion: A Digital, Bi-lingual Scholarly Book Focusing on the Art and Activism of Jesusa Rodríguez

Ted Underwood (Associate Professor of English, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) Understanding Genre in a Collection of a Million Volumes

Further information on this year’s fellows and their projects is available on the ACLS website <http://www.acls.org/research/digital.aspx?id=798> .

 

ACLS

 

summer internship at the Wyckoff Farmhouse Museum in Brooklyn

The Wyckoff Farmhouse Museum
5816 Clarendon Road
Brooklyn, NY 11203

Position: Museum/ Education Intern
(Part-time, Temporary, Unpaid Internship)
Reports to: Director of Education
Start date: June 11, 2013

Position Summary:
The Wyckoff Farmhouse Museum’s is looking for motivated and energetic undergraduate or graduate students to assist in a variety of museum functions. The summer intern will assist with planning and facilitating adult and family programs throughout the summer and will also develop a culminating project based upon his/her interests. The Museum Intern will gain experience working within multiple contexts of a small historic house museum, including social media management, giving guided public tours, and assisting with garden programs.

Position Responsibilities:

  • The Education Intern’s primary responsibilities will be to support the Director of Education with:
    • researching and contacting potential performers and speakers for museum events
    • assisting staff at museum-wide events and public programs
    • collaborating with Director of Education in designing pre and post visit materials for school lessons.
    • designing and leading guided house tours to public audiences
  • Intern will also assist other members of the staff on a variety of projects such as updating the membership database, assisting with garden programs, and planning/distributing marketing materials
  • Over the course of the internship program, the Intern will design a culminating project based on his/her academic or professional interests. Such opportunities may include, but are not limited to, developing small exhibitions, working within the museum archives, drafting interpretive labels, or developing new community programs.

Qualifications:
The ideal candidate will have a background and interest in history, arts and/or education as well as an ability to work flexibly with a team of colleagues. Candidates should possess a B.A in a related field, be working towards an M.A or a recent graduate. Undergraduate students entering Junior and Senior years will be considered based on experience. The summer intern will report directly to the Director of Education.

 

Compensation and Benefits: While the internship is unpaid, the candidate will receive travel reimbursement in the form of MetroCards for work related travel, a free Recreation Center membership for the duration of the internship and entry to weekly Parks & Recreation events, lectures and gatherings.

Schedule:  June 11- August 27, 2013, two and a half month summer internship with dates negotiable.  Part time position, 20 hours a week (2-3 days) including some weekend dates.

To Apply:  Please submit a resume and cover letter detailing your interest and availability by May 1, 2013 to Melissa Branfman, Director of Education at education@wyckoffassociation.org

WFM

Global Studies Collective Events–Save the Date(s)!

Dear everyone,

Greetings from the Global Studies Collective! Please save the date(s) for the following events:

Lit Goes Global: Worlding the Great Books
with Christopher Leydon (Ph.D., Comp. Lit., CUNY Graduate Center)

and

 

American Chinese: The Life of Jade Snow Wong
with Jaime Cleland (Ph.D.,English, CUNY Graduate Center)

These two talks will take place respectively on Friday, 5 April 2013 in Room 5489 and Friday, 26 April 2013 in Room 5409; both lectures will begin at 6 pm. I will send out
reminders about both events later on in the semester, but in order to get a sense of how much food we’ll need to order for these events, we would appreciate it if you could send
an RSVP for either or both lectures to me at megschlegel@yahoo.com.

In the meantime, if you are a currently matriculated doctoral student at the GC, it would be greatly appreciated if you would sign our electronic roster for the spring, 2013 semester (click on the following link):

http://www.cunydsc.org/organizations/global-studies-collective

If you have any questions about our group, please feel free to email me at megschlegel@yahoo.com.

Hoping to seeing you in April,
Best wishes,

Cori L. Gabbard, 2012-13 chair of the Global Studies Collective*

*The purpose of the Global Studies Collective, one of the student groups at the GC, is to provide “members of the Graduate Center community with an inter-disciplinary forum
for research, discussion, and networking relating to scholarly and professional pursuits on issues of contemporary international and global relevance” by convening “student[s] and faculty from various departments. . . .to discuss issues of globalization, development,
diplomacy, human rights, migration and diaspora(s) and transnationalism” (Global Studies Collective Mission Statement). Although the Global Studies Collective has traditionally attracted student members from the departments of Anthropology, Economics, History, Political Science, and Sociology, we welcome students from all disciplines at the
GC with an interest in these topics to join us,and indeed, our two upcoming events should be of particular interest to those in the humanities.