Jean participated in multiple demonstrations during the Occupy Wall Street protests in the fall of 2007. Here she is pictured with a group of students and faculty from the CUNY Urban Education Program who joined her for one of the largest demos New York City has ever seen.
At Occupy Wall Street in the fall of 2011, Jean’s message was clear:
Students creatively expressing their love for Jean on a recent writing retreat.
Pictured with Dr. Kiersten Greene’s dissertation committee (from left: Dr. Nicholas Michelli, Dr. Jean Anyon, Kiersten, Dr. Sondra Perl, Dr. Steve Brier) on the day of her dissertation defense in April 2013.
For Jean’s 70th birthday, students gathered with her to celebrate the momentous occasion, and created a book of letters to her, explaining how important her work, mentorship, and teaching meant to them — both as a collective and individually.
Taken in the Urban Education Thesis Room, where she did most of her teaching, with her doctoral students.
Each year, Dr. Anyon would hold an year-long, invitation-only research seminar. Throughout the year, she would be urge her doctoral students to consider categories of literature, affectionately referred to as “buckets.” These buckets would help shape the literature review that students would write up for their second doctoral exam. Students who went through this year with Dr. Anyon would often emerge transformed — feeling prepared to take on the task of writing a dissertation proposal and forging ahead with their research projects. These groups of thinkers, theorists, and emerging scholars shaped by Dr. Anyon’s mentorship would often become tightknit groups, as you can see here in the 2008-2009 academic year.
