On this episode we are joined by Graduate Center Sociology Alums and current Borough of Manhattan Community College professors Rose M Kim and Deborah Gambs. We discuss their new book, Women on the Role of Public Higher Education: Personal Reflections from CUNY’s Graduate Center, their experiences with finding community at the Graduate Center, and how that helped them to develop critical subjectivities.

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Rose M. Kim is an associate professor of sociology at the Borough of Manhattan Community College/CUNY; she began working there in 2007.  Prior to entering graduate school, she worked as a journalist at New York Newsday and the Los Angeles Times, and received a Pulitzer Prize for her reporting of the 1992 Los Angeles riots.  She recently co-edited Women on the Role of Public Higher Education: personal reflections from CUNY’s Graduate Center (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014).  She also coedited Struggle for Ethnic Identity (Altamira Press, 1999), and has published in Amerasia Journal, Ethnic and Racial Studies, and Socialism and Democracy.  She received a Ph.D. in Sociology from the Graduate Center/CUNY, and a B.A. in Art and Design from the University of Chicago.

 

Gambs Deborah Gambs is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the Borough of Manhattan Community College, City University of New York, USA. Her work uses feminist, auto-ethnographic, and visual approaches to look at the confluence of art, nature, technology, and culture. She has published in Qualitative Inquiry, Socialism and Democracy, and Cultural Studies Critical Methodologies.