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Bowing Out: Provost Bowers
Announces Retirement
Jane Bowers, John Jay's
Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs, announced March
15 that she will step down from the dual executive posts and retire,
effective August 1. Bowers has been the Provost since July 2007, in
that time presiding over a dramatic expansion and transformation of
curricular offerings and academic support services. Read More
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CNN's Van Jones Hailed as 2017
Justice Trailblazer
Van Jones, the CNN
commentator who was a familiar on-air presence during last year's
presidential campaign and election, was honored Feb. 16 as the 2017
Justice Trailblazer by John Jay's Center on Media, Crime and Justice.
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John Jay Salutes Its "Champions
of Justice"
More than 125 scholarship
recipients and their benefactors were saluted on Feb. 23 at the annual
Champions of Justice reception in John Jay's Moot Court. Read More
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Gun violence in America,
seemingly a daily headline in the news media, is the focus of a
probing, semester-long examination at John Jay that seeks to shed light
on "America's Gun Epidemic: A Question of Public Health, Security,
and Freedom." Read More
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The Drama of Sexual Violence
Sexual violence remains
among the most sensitive, hot-button societal issues, yet all too
often, the word "rape" is still uttered only in whispered
tones, much as words such as "cancer" and "polio"
were spoken in decades past. One team-taught course in John Jay's
Interdisciplinary Studies Program is hoping to change the nature of the
discussion and bring the topic out of the shadows, spearheaded by an
evening of student-led theater called "Seeing Rape." Read More
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Professor Alisse Waterston Appointed Presidential
Scholar
Anthropology Professor
Alisse Waterston has been appointed as a Presidential Scholar,
effective spring 2017, in recognition of her accomplishments and
standing as one of the country's leading scholars in her field. Read More
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Research Network on Misdemeanor Justice Announces Six
Core Cities
February 16, 2017, New York, NY - The Research
Network on Misdemeanor Justice at John Jay College of Criminal Justice
today announced the six sites- Los Angeles, CA , Toledo, OH, Durham, NC, Seattle, WA, Prince George's County, MD and St. Louis, MO
- selected to join New York City as part of the Network. Read More
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Ann A. Huse (English) gave a presentation at the Society of Early Americanists
Biennial Conference in Tulsa, Okla., on March 4. Her paper,
"Memory, Manuscript, Print: Local Knowledge in Three Versions of
Lucy Terry Prince's `Bars Fight,'" treated the first known work of
African-American literature.
Jose
Luis Morín's (Latin American and Latina/o Studies) latest book, Latinos and Criminal
Justice: An Encyclopedia, has been chosen by Library Journal as one its
"Best Reference Titles of 2016." The journal hailed the work
as "an authoritative, compelling, and informative encyclopedia
that dispels many inconsistences, misperceptions, and myths about
Latinas/Latinos (Latinx) and American criminal justice."
Sara
McDougall's (History) commentary "Bastards and thrones in
medieval Europe" was posted on March 5 on OUPblog, a site
sponsored by Oxford University Press.
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Effie
Papatzikou Cochran (English) has been
awarded a Niarchos Greek Diaspora Fellowship to travel to
Greece and work with the American College of Thessaloniki's English
Programs. Cochran will be teaching Sector Analysis (also known as
"X-Word Grammar"), an editing tool of the English written
language, training tutors and teachers of English as a Foreign Language
and offering practical ways of writing error-free sentences in English.
Susan Opotow and Jayne Mooney (Sociology) are serving as team members for Justice in Design,a
project organized by Van Alen Institute and The Independent Commission
on New York City Criminal Justice and Incarceration Reform. The project
is researching how jails impact the health and wellness of the people
inside them and the communities in which they are located.
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March 31 - April 1, 9:30 AM
7th Annual Hip Hop Literacies
Conference
Click here for registration and
information.
Various campus locations.
#JusticeNerds Speaker Series - Spring
2017
"Safety and
Justice Without Prison: A Survivor-Centered Approach to Ending Mass
Incarceration"
Guest Speaker: Danielle Sered, Director, Common Justice Project, Vera
Institute of Justice
Presented by the Center for Policing Equity
African-American Men and the Labor
Market during the Great Recession
Speaker: Michelle Holder, Assistant Professor, John Jay
Department of Economics
Presented by the Office for Advancement of Research
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3rd Biennial Latina/o Literary Theory
and Criticism Conference
"Latinx Lives, Matters & Imaginaries"
Click here for information and registration.
Various campus locations.
Criminalizing Gender: Best Practices,
Programs and Policies that Make a Difference
Part 2 of the Pinkerton Symposium
Presented by the Prisoner Reentry Institute
Keynote Speaker: Jeannette Pai-Espinosa, President,
National Crittenton Foundation
Click here for registration and information.
Student Dining Hall, 2nd Floor, New Building
Book Talk: Listening to Jazz
Benjamin Bierman, Associate Professor, Department of Art
& Music
Presented by the Office for Advancement of Research
Moot Court, 6th Floor, New Building
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