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ABOUT THE NEW SCH�L Located in the heart of New York City’s historic Greenwich Village, The New School was founded in 1919 by a group of prominent progressive scholars including Charles Beard, John Dewey, James Harvey Robinson, and Thorstein Veblen. In planning their

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school, these distinguished intellectuals envisioned a center for instruction and counseling for mature men and women. They planned it as an alternative to traditional universities,

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with an open curriculum, minimal hierarchy, and free discussion of controversial ideas.

In 1933, The New School for Social Research gave a home to the University in Exile, a

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refuge for scholars forced from Europe by the rise of the Nazis. In 1934, the University in Exile was incorporated into The New School for Social Research as the Graduate

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Faculty of Political and Social Science.

In the decades since, The New School has grown into a university of seven undergraduate and graduate schools. From the beginning, the institution has been called simply The New School. In 2005, this name was made official. The Graduate Faculty is again

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The New School for Social Research. The other schools are Parsons School of Design, Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts, Mannes School of Music, the School of Drama,

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the School of Jazz, and the Schools of Public Engagement, which includes the founding college and other academic programs.

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The university’s commitment to transcending the boundaries between traditional academic disciplines, its close connections to the cosmopolitan cultural and professional life of New York City, and its willingness to reinvent itself remain unchanged, as does its dedication to the ideal of lifelong education for all citizens. The New School holds a

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place in the avant-garde of American universities, attracting adventurous, creative, civic-minded scholars who are interested in pursuing careers that improve the world.

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MESSAGE FROM THE DEAN Welcome to The New School for Social Research, where you come not just to study but also to absorb a world and an ethos of challenging academic orthodoxy and asking big questions about society. The New School for Social Research is a graduate school with a distinctive intellectual tradition that thrives on public debate and cultivates academic rigor. Its small programs encourage close collaboration between students and professors.

The New School for Social Research has always been both intimate and worldly, as evidenced by the passionate discussions in classrooms and corridors, the school’s engagement with the political and cultural life of New York City, and its participation in popular and academic institutions around the world.

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This year we mark the 82nd anniversary of the University in Exile, the foundation of The New School for Social Research. The University in Exile was established in 1933 as

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a home for a small group of distinguished German scholars fleeing Nazism. Their goal

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was to continue expanding their intellectual engagement, to mentor future generations of scholars, and to pursue academic research and publication.

Critical Journalism, Economics, Global Political Economy and Finance, Historical

The roots of our graduate school can be traced further back, to 1919, with the founding

Studies, Liberal Studies, Philosophy,

of The New School, a forward-looking institution started by progressive and pragmatist

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educators who pursued a new audience and a new model for higher education. Their mission was to offer courses to working people from all walks of life, based on the

Students can earn an MA with a special

conviction that public debate was essential to an open society and that learning

concentration, such as an MA in

should be a lifelong process.

Philosophy with a focus on psychoanalysis,

Today’s New School for Social Research is the remarkable product of the original New School and the University in Exile. We embrace both political scientist Charles Beard’s insistence in 1919 on “an impartial and open-minded consideration of present difficulties” and Hannah Arendt’s plea in 1971 that scholars avoid standard ideas “which have the socially recognized function of protecting us against reality.”

Our faculty is united by a sense of the importance of boldly questioning conventional thinking and expanding the boundaries of social thought—from James Miller’s writings on the relationship between philosophers’ lives and their ideas and Miriam Ticktin’s

a research MA in Psychology, or an MA in Psychology focusing on substance abuse counseling.

MASTER OF SCIENCE (MS) Economics

DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (PhD)

scrutiny of humanitarianism in migration policy to Bill Hirst’s investigations of the

Anthropology, Economics, Philosophy,

problems of memory. Faculty continue to publish important books and to engage in

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dialogue in popular media. Notable examples include books published in 2014 by

(Cognitive, Social, and Developmental),

Federico Finchelstein (The Ideological Origins of the Dirty War, Oxford University

Sociology

Press), Janet Roitman (Anti-Crisis, Duke University Press), and Dmitri Nikulin (Comedy, Seriously, Palgrave Macmillan) and newspaper columns written by Simon Critchley

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(the New York Times) and Teresa Ghilarducci (the Huffington Post).

Gender and Sexuality Studies

In 2013, The New School opened the Robert L. Heilbroner Center for Capitalism Studies. The center provides a space for faculty and students to investigate capitalism

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in its historical context and from the perspectives of economics, policy, ethics, culture,

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media, and the visual arts. Their work will broadens our understanding of how capitalism informs political, technological, and creative actions in the modern world.

As dean of The New School for Social Research, I am honored to lead this great graduate school of social sciences. I am passionate about the intellectual energy of our faculty and students, our traditions and history, and our future.

I look forward to your joining our scholarly, productive, and nurturing community at The New School for Social Research.

William Milberg, Dean and Professor of Economics

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ANTHROPOLOGY The Department of Anthropology at The New School for Social Research embodies the

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university’s commitment to addressing urgent social and political problems of the 21st century. Through engaged scholarship supported by rigorous theoretical and empirical

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work, innovative research methodologies, and a sustained commitment to historical

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and ethnographic sensibilities, a close-knit, lively group of scholars thrives in an intellectual environment that fosters individual exploration. Faculty and students in

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the department see themselves not as consumers of knowledge but as producers of

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new ways of understanding today’s world.

The anthropology master’s program is designed to provide students with a broad

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understanding of the development of the discipline and to introduce key concepts and

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questions. The PhD program prepares students for careers as teachers and for original independent research. Students develop topics that are personally meaningful,

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intellectually stimulating, and socially important. Recent dissertation topics include

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• T he privatization of the military in Somalia • T he emergence and experience of post-traumatic stress disorder in the United States • T he impact and future of open-access publishing • Discourses of corruption in post-socialist Albania • T he politics of the press in Mumbai • Emergent technologies of text-based communication in East Asia • T he socialization of schoolchildren in Israel

Anthropology and Time Janet Roitman Anthropology: History of the Present Ann Stoler In Search of the Political Miriam Ticktin If you are interested in learning

Students can refine their ideas in the biweekly student-led Anthropology Workshop

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and in a series of colloquia featuring visiting speakers. They can participate in faculty

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courses and projects developed both individually and in collaboration with other

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graduate programs at The New School, including the Graduate Program in International Affairs, Parsons School of Design, the India China Institute, the Committee on

Anthropology Faculty

Historical Studies, the Janey Program in Latin American Studies, and the Transregional

Lawrence Hirschfeld, Chair and

Center for Democratic Studies. They can also take courses through the regional Inter-University Consortium.

Professor of Anthropology and Psychology

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Abou Farman, Assistant Professor

The Department of Anthropology offers MA and PhD degrees. All anthropology

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students at The New School enter the MA program. Students who complete MA

Nicolas Langlitz, Associate Professor

requirements with sufficient distinction may petition for admission to PhD study.

of Anthropology Hugh Raffles, Professor of Anthropology Janet Roitman, Professor of Anthropology Ann Laura Stoler, Willy Brandt Distinguished University Professor of Anthropology and Historical Studies Miriam Ticktin, Associate Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs

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LIFE EXPERIENCE IN THE CLASSROOM “I was always interested in what makes people different from one another,” says Miriam Ticktin, associate professor of anthropology. Professor Ticktin started college as a neuroscience major but shifted her focus to the social sciences after taking an anthropology class. “I thought the answers were in the brain, but then realized I could find answers to many of the same questions in people’s cultural, political, and social contexts.” She completed her graduate studies at Stanford, the École des hautes études en sciences sociales, and Oxford and now focuses on issues such as the unintended consequences of humanitarianism and the politics of mobility and migration.

“Like a lot of research at NSSR, my work stems from a concern for inequality and social justice,” Professor Ticktin explains. “In many cases, humanitarian intervention hinders, rather than helps, the disenfranchised.” Through her work, Professor Ticktin speaks to a broad audience—from doctors, lawyers, and activists to anthropologists and political, gender, and critical race theorists—something she encourages her students to do, too.

In Professor Ticktin’s department, like NSSR as a whole, instructors and students come from a variety of academic and nonacademic backgrounds. Faculty members have trained in areas including environmental studies, political science, history, psychology, medicine, and literature. “This diversity creates a broad foundation for nontraditional research and learning,” says Professor Ticktin. “With students coming from such different walks of life, there is a huge range of intellectual and life experience in the classroom. This means students push one another in entirely new directions and become much more creative, curious thinkers.”

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There is a huge range of intellectual and life experience in the classroom.

Students push one another in entirely new directions and become much more creative, curious thinkers.

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ECONOMICS The Department of Economics offers a multifaceted graduate program that places

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what Robert Heilbroner called “the worldly philosophy”—informed, critical, and passionate investigation of the economic foundations of contemporary society—

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at the heart of its curriculum. Students learn about a range of economic theories,

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including Keynesian and post-Keynesian economics; the classical political economy of Smith, Ricardo, and Marx; structuralist and institutionalist approaches to economics; and neoclassical economics. They also acquire a comprehensive understanding of conceptual, mathematical, and statistical modeling techniques used in economic research. Coursework emphasizes the relationship between the history of economic ideas, contemporary economic policy debates, and conflicting interpretations of economic phenomena.

Along with their coursework, students in the Department of Economics engage in research on topics reflecting their own interests and shaped by their interactions with professors throughout the university. The Department of Economics fosters intellectual inquiry leading to practical solutions to contemporary problems and framing new questions for study. Recent research topics include

Historical Foundations of Political Economy Paulo dos Santos

Advanced Topics In Political Economy Duncan Foley

Labor Economics Teresa Ghilarducci

• Changes in the world economy

Cultures of Finance

• Global financial markets and institutions constituting the world economy

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• Problems of regulating and guiding economic development • T he complexity of economic systems

Financial Economics Willi Semmler

• Economic aspects of class, gender, and ethnicity The Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis (SCEPA) conducts research that

Classical Theory of Price

complements the work of the Department of Economics and offers students

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opportunities to pursue original research.

If you are interested in learning more about these courses, visit us

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at newschool.edu/nssr/economics

The Department of Economics offers MA, MS, and PhD degrees. Students who complete

and select “Courses.”

MA requirements with sufficient distinction may be considered for admission to PhD study. In rare cases, the department grants direct PhD admission to applicants who have completed a comparable MA in Economics at another institution.

Economics Faculty Anwar Shaikh, Chair and Professor

Darrick Hamilton, Associate Professor

Willi Semmler, Arnhold Professor

of Economics

of Economics and Urban Policy, Milano

of International Cooperation and

School of International Affairs,

Development

Lopamudra Banerjee, Assistant Professor of Economics Paulo dos Santos, Assistant Professor Duncan Foley, Leo Model Professor of Economics Teresa Ghilarducci, Irene and Bernard

Management, and Urban Policy William Milberg, Professor of Economics and Dean of The New School for Social Research Sanjay Reddy, Associate Professor of Economics

Schwartz Professor in Economic Policy Analysis

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Mark Setterfield, Professor of Economics

FREEDOM TO RESEARCH Mamadou Bobo Diallo came from his native Guinea to study at The New School because “it is one of the few places that you can study heterodox economics and because students are encouraged to study in areas that other schools would never allow. At The New School, you are given the freedom to research areas that interest you personally.”

While working toward his PhD, which he received in 2010, Diallo thrived on the diversity he encountered at The New School. “I don’t just mean nationality, religion, or race, but diversity as in academic interests. [Students in the Department of Economics] come from all walks of life, including people who never studied economics before, who studied philosophy or sociology.”

Diallo’s dissertation combined economic growth theory with open economy macroeconomics, building on work he did with Professor Willi Semmler for the World Bank. Together they developed a model and applied it to three groups of countries—low income, lower and middle income, and middle and upper income. Their research showed that shifting public expenditures toward social programs like health care, education, and public infrastructure was the most effective way for countries in all three categories to enhance economic growth. These findings can inform the design of future fiscal policy.

Diallo is currently a consultant for the United Nations Development Programme.

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Students are encouraged to study in areas that programs in other schools would never allow. At The New School, you are given the freedom to research areas that interest you personally.

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HISTORICAL STUDIES The Committee on Historical Studies was founded in the mid-1980s by Charles Tilly,

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Louise Tilly, Aristide Zolberg, and Ira Katznelson on the premise that a knowledge of history is critical to all human understanding. The committee saw The New School for

History and Digital Media

Social Research as a natural place for historians, philosophers, and social scientists to

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come together to develop theoretically informed approaches to historical questions and critical histories of the present. It recognizes that historical inquiry can transform interpretation and theory in the social sciences. Its mission is to rejuvenate the empirically based social sciences with linguistically informed and pictorially sympathetic approaches inspired by the humanities. The committee provides The New School for Social Research—an institution that has in the past represented the European critical

Historiography and Historical Practice Jeremy Varon

economic history, intellectual and cultural history, visual culture, imperialism and

Zone Infrastructure: Histories of Finance, Globalization, and Territory

colonialism, the history of science, history and politics, history and memory, and

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tradition—with an archive and a perspective on the world from the outside in. General topics commonly explored in Historical Studies include historical theory and methodology,

gender history.

Recent student and faculty research topics include • Popular conservatism and political disorder

Violence/Repression/Revolution Federico Finchelstein

• Forms of democracy and forms of representation

Rethinking Capitalism

• T he history of socialism and communism

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• State making, nation building, market reform,

Gender, Politics, and History

and civil society in Ukraine

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• Immigration and religion in New York City

Postcolonial History Big and Small

Degrees Offered

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Historical Studies offers the MA degree. Students with an MA in Historical Studies, Sociology, or Politics at The New School for Social Research may apply to study in the PhD program in Sociology or in Politics and receive their PhD while adding a specialization in Historical Studies. Students with an MA in history or politics from another institution may apply for admission directly into the PhD program in Politics with a specialization in Historical Studies.

Histories of Capitalism on the Edges of World Economy Julia Ott If you are interested in learning more about these courses, visit us at newschool.edu/nssr/historical-studies and select “Courses.”

Historical Studies Faculty Federico Finchelstein, Chair and

Orit Halpern, Assistant Professor

Professor of History

of History

Elaine Abelson, Associate Professor

Joseph Heathcott, Associate Professor

of History

of Urban Studies

Laura Auricchio, Associate Professor

Eiko Ikegami, Professor of Sociology

of Art History David Brody, Associate Professor of Art and Design Studies Julia Foulkes, Associate Professor of History Oz Frankel, Associate Professor of History

Aaron Jakes, Assistant Professor of History Natalia Mehlman-Petrzela, Assistant Professor of History

David Plotke, Professor of Politics Claire Potter, Professor of History Jessica Pisano, Assistant Professor of Politics David Scobey, Professor of American Studies Ann-Louise Shapiro, Professor of History Ann Stoler, Willy Brandt Distinguished

James Miller, Professor of Politics and

University Professor of Anthropology and

Liberal Studies

Historical Studies

Julia Ott, Associate Professor of History

Jeremy Varon, Associate Professor Eli Zaretsky, Professor of History

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HISTORICAL EXPERIENCE The New School for Social Research attracted Federico Finchelstein in part because it was founded by refugees from European fascism. “I was born in Argentina just one year before the creation of the last military dictatorship (1976–1983), the most violent and criminal of many military regimes in the history of my country. I spent my early childhood in a totalitarian context, where political and even historical questions were banned from public life. My own historical experience informs my view.”

Professor Finchelstein has engaged in extensive research on the links between European and Latin American fascism. His graduate dissertation from Cornell University was published by Duke University Press in 2010 as a book titled Transatlantic Fascism: Ideology, Violence, and the Sacred in Argentina and Italy, 1919–1945. In the book, Professor Finchelstein explores an indigenous form of fascism derived from European fascism but shaped by Roman Catholic traditions. He has also written on the mythology associated with Argentine fascism. Most recently, Finchelstein published The Ideological Origins of the Dirty War: Fascism, Populism, and Dictatorship in Twentieth Century Argentina (Oxford University Press, 2014).

Professor Finchelstein finds that New School students “identify with our approach to history, an approach that is contextually preoccupied and theoretically inclined.

They also find the empirical training very beneficial.”

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Students in Historical Studies identify with our approach to history, an approach that is contextually preoccupied and theoretically inclined. They also find the empirical training very beneficial.

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LIBERAL STUDIES Bringing together students interested in research and writing in the humanities and

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social sciences, the Committee on Liberal Studies enables students to design their own interdisciplinary curriculum. Students will encounter faculty engaged in Critical Media

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Theory, like Dominic Pettman, Eugene Thacker, and Ken Wark, as well as distinguished

Dominic Pettman

journalists and creative writers, including Jed Perl, art critic with the New Republic; and Robert Boyers, editor of the literary quarterly Salmagundi.

The Fate of the Novel

To complete a master’s thesis, students write about topics reflecting their creativity

Alice Crary

and diversity of interests. Titles of past theses include • Futurism, Fascism, and Henri Bergson’s Philosophy of Time • Single Women in Sex and the City and Beyond

State, Culture, Identity Eiko Ikegami

• T he Aura of the Brand: Nike and Postmodern Capitalism

Pessimism

• Camp Aesthetics in Andy Warhol

Eugene Thacker

• Biblical Allusions in Nietzsche’s Thus Spake Zarathustra

Sin and Evil in Western Literature

• T he Pinochet Case: Universal Jurisdiction and State Sovereignty

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• T he Concept of Self-Government in Jefferson Davis and Abraham Lincoln • Franz Kafka and Hannah Arendt’s Image of Totalitarianism The Liberal Studies program is ideal for students who wish to enrich their education or pursue a career in writing or journalism, as well as those planning to earn a PhD in a related program. Recent graduates are working as writers, painters, and musicians.

One edits her own literary journal. Others are working toward PhDs in philosophy, politics, and sociology at The New School; English at CUNY; architecture at Columbia University; and art history at UC Berkeley.

The Philosophical Self: On Knowing and Living Through Writing Inessa Medzhibovskaya

The Body: Aesthetics, Culture and Politics in the 20th Century Terri Gordon If you are interested in learning

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The Liberal Studies program offers the MA degree. Students who fulfill MA requirements

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in one of the six PhD-granting departments in the course of completing the MA in

and select “Courses.”

Liberal Studies may petition for admission to PhD study in that department.

Liberal Studies Faculty Dominic Pettman, Chair and Professor

Terri Gordon, Assistant Professor

Melissa Monroe, Part-Time Assistant

of Media and Culture

of Comparative Literature

Professor of Liberal Studies

Alice Crary, Associate Professor

Noah Isenberg, Professor of Literary

Gustav Peebles, Associate Professor

of Philosophy

Studies

of Anthropology

Simon Critchley, Hans Jonas Professor

Elizabeth Kendall, Associate Professor

Jed Perl, Visiting Lecturer of Liberal

of Philosophy

of Liberal Studies and Literary Studies

Studies Hugh Raffles, Professor of Anthropology

Stefania de Kenessey, Professor

Paul Kottman, Associate Professor

of Music

of Literary Studies

Oz Frankel, Associate Professor

Elzbieta Matynia, Professor of Sociology

of History

and Liberal Studies

Laura Frost, Associate Professor

Inessa Medzhibovskaya, Associate

of Literary Studies

Professor

Neil Gordon, Professor of Literary Studies

James Miller, Professor of Political Science and Liberal Studies

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Ann Snitow, Professor of Literary Studies Eugene Thacker, Associate Professor of Media Studies Gina Walker, Associate Professor of Women’s Studies McKenzie Wark, Professor of Media and Culture

LIVING IN PLATO’S REPUBLIC “It’s the closest I could come to living in Plato’s Republic,” says Alex McCown of his experience in the Liberal Studies program. McCown decided to enroll at The New School for Social Research because “it has an interdisciplinary focus and is much more open to new ideas and ways of thinking than other schools. Also, the history is a real recommendation; you know that this is the way they have approached education for a long time, which means that a new chairperson won’t come a month after you arrive and turn the department into a bland and uptight place.”

McCown says that his experience has been anything but bland. The Liberal Studies program has been ideal for him because “the program offered through Liberal Studies allowed me to figure out what I really wanted to go after.” McCown also values the exposure the program has given him to a community of informed, intelligent, and dedicated students. “The program is hugely international. I have become friends with a journalist from Norway, a writer from Africa, a psychologist from Brazil, and a marketing guy from IBM, all of whom want to enrich themselves and understand the world better through literature, art, and philosophy.”

McCown’s experiences at The New School working as a teaching assistant and with his professors have led him to plan a career in academia. He has decided to pursue a PhD combining political theory with contemporary media studies.

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The program is hugely international.

I have become friends with a journalist from Norway, a writer from Africa, a psychologist from Brazil, and a marketing guy from IBM.

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PHILOSOPHY The New School for Social Research has always attracted renowned scholars from

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around the world who foster an open atmosphere for exploration and inquiry through their teaching and research. The eminent philosophers who have helped create and

Embodied Cognition

sustain an intellectually vibrant Department of Philosophy include Hannah Arendt,

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Hans Jonas, Aron Gurwitsch, and Reiner Schürmann.

The focus of study in the Department of Philosophy is the history of Western

Gender and Domination

philosophical thought and the European philosophical tradition, particularly

Chiara Bottici

contemporary Continental philosophy. The graduate curriculum consists of two components. The first is the study of major figures such as Plato, Aristotle, Augustine,

Contemporary Pragmatism

Spinoza, Descartes, Hume, Kant, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, Husserl, Heidegger, Freud,

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Gadamer, Adorno, Benjamin, Wittgenstein, Foucault, and Derrida. The second is the study of the movements, schools, branches, and ideas associated with those figures.

Philosophy at The New School is thus the study of phenomenology, hermeneutics, and pragmatism; political and social thought; ethics, critical theory, and aesthetics; epistemology, metaphysics, and ontology; logic and language; rationality, methodology, and naturalism within the social sciences; nature, culture, beauty, and goodness; unconscious and conscious processes; and contingency, necessity, and human freedom, tragedy, and truth.

Faculty and students have explored these philosophers and their ideas in depth through research and dissertations, the topics of which have recently included

Kant’s Critique Of Pure Reason Jay Bernstein

Mysticism Simon Critchley

Spinoza’s Ethics Omri Boehm

• Ethical modernism and political atrocity

Speech Acts

• T he nature of poetry and ethics

Alice Crary

• T he ethico-political ground of ancient Greek thinking

Art and Mechanical Reproduction

• Religiosity in John Dewey

Zed Adams

The Department of Philosophy reflects the interdisciplinary tradition of its original faculty through the research and writing of its members as well as its distinctive

Philosophy and the Great War

collaborative courses.

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Degrees Offered

Citizenship and Politics

The Department of Philosophy offers MA and PhD degrees. Students who complete

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MA requirements with sufficient distinction may be considered for admission to PhD study. In rare cases, the department grants direct PhD admission to applicants who have completed a comparable MA in philosophy at another institution.

If you are interested in learning more about departmental courses, visit us at newschool.edu/nssr/philosophy and select “Courses.”

Philosophy Faculty Alice Crary, Chair and Associate

Richard J. Bernstein, Vera List Professor

James Dodd, Associate Professor

Professor of Philosophy

of Philosophy

of Philosophy

Zed Adams, Associate Professor

Omri Boehm, Assistant Professor

Nancy Fraser, Henry A. and Louise Loeb

of Philosophy

of Philosophy

Professor of Political and Social Science

Cinzia Arruzza, Assistant Professor

Chiara Bottici, Associate Professor

Dmitri Nikulin, Professor of Philosophy

of Philosophy

of Philosophy

J.M. Bernstein, University Distinguished

Simon Critchley, Hans Jonas Professor

Professor of Philosophy

of Philosophy

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A DISTINCTIVE NICHE Simon Critchley, the Hans Jonas Professor of Philosophy, says, “I have spent my life as a student and teacher thinking and writing about the Continental tradition in philosophy. The New School for Social Research, with its unique heritage, is the most important center for this tradition in the English-speaking world. Being in New York offers us access to the cultural and intellectual riches of the city, giving The New School an absolutely distinctive niche in the philosophical life of America.”

Professor Critchley is an internationally renowned scholar. His recent books include Infinitely Demanding (Verso, 2007), a widely reviewed book about ethics and politics, translated into five languages. The Book of Dead Philosophers (Vintage, 2009) has been translated into ten languages and was on the New York Times best seller list. In this book, Professor Critchley suggests that studying what great thinkers have said about death provides profound insights into the meaning and possibility of human happiness— that as people learn to die, they also learn to live. His latest book is a meditation on politics, religion, and violence called The Faith of the Faithless (Verso, 2012).

Passionate about research and teaching, Professor Critchley helps students navigate the study of philosophy as they develop interests and expertise of their own. He especially enjoys teaching his large weekly lecture course on Tuesday evenings. He describes the students in the Department of Philosophy as “tenacious, smart, and open-minded.”

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Being in New York offers us access to the cultural and intellectual riches of the city, giving The New School an absolutely distinctive niche in

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the philosophical life of America.

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POLITICS To study politics is to study power: how it positions actors unequally, who has it and

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who fights to get it, how it is used, and for what purposes. In the Politics department of The New School for Social Research, the relations and manifestations of power are studied in contexts ranging from the family to the transnational environment. Power relations are critically analyzed across political, social, and economic systems; ethnic groups; social classes; genders and sexualities; divisions of labor; citizenships; and species lines. Particular attention is paid to historical and contemporary movements and struggles to reshape power and define its possibilities. Students think deeply and critically about prospects for overcoming social injustice and political domination.

They explore such questions as whether the exercise of power benefits a few or promotes the welfare of the many and how struggles for power advance or obstruct the possibility of a better world. Those continuing to doctoral study gain proficiency in two of the three areas of instruction offered by the department: American politics, comparative politics, and political theory. Courses and university events also include

Truth, Deception, and SelfDeception in Politics, Philosophy, and the Media James Miller

Political Sensorium Victoria Hattam, Ann Snitow

Privatization and Commodification Jessica Pisano

of students and faculty often cross fields and can be accommodated by courses

Tyranny and Dictatorship in Western Political Thought

organized around particular issues and themes. Students are also encouraged to

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opportunities to explore the field of international relations. The academic interests

take advantage of interdisciplinary courses available throughout the university.

Students in the Department of Politics also belong to the broader community of The New School for Social Research, which gives them access to a wide array of extracurricular lectures, conferences, and seminars. Interactions with scholars from

Conceptions of Democracy Sanjay Ruparelia

different regions, with unique perspectives and fresh ideas, make the study of politics

Feminist Philosophy

at The New School for Social Research an academically enriching, personally

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gratifying experience.

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Degrees Offered The Department of Politics offers MA and PhD degrees. Students who complete MA requirements with sufficient distinction may be considered for admission to PhD study. In rare cases, the department grants direct PhD admission to applicants who have completed a comparable MA in politics at another institution.

Mark Frazier

Field Seminar in American Politics Deva Woodly

Biopolitics Banu Bargu

Environmental Political Thought Politics Faculty

Rafi Youatt

Andreas Kalyvas, Chair and Associate

James Miller, Professor of Politics and

If you are interested in learning

Professor of Politics

Liberal Studies

more about these courses, visit us

Banu Bargu, Associate Professor

Jessica Pisano, Associate Professor

of Politics

of Politics

Nancy Fraser, Henry A. and Louise Loeb

David Plotke, Professor of Politics

Professor of Political and Social Science

Sanjay Ruparelia, Associate Professor

Mark Frazier, Professor of Politics

of Politics

Victoria Hattam, Professor of Politics

Deva Woodly, Assistant Professor

Anne McNevin, Associate Professor of Politics

of Politics Rafi Youatt, Assistant Professor of Politics

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at newschool.edu/nssr/politics and select “Courses.”

POLITICAL CONVICTION AND INTELLECTUAL SERIOUSNESS In the time that James Miller has taught at The New School, he has found that “the students are the most interesting thing about the university. The fact that The New School actually stands for something, starting with the University in Exile, still attracts students from around the world.” Graduate students in politics in particular “come to The New School out of a sense of political conviction, as well as intellectual seriousness.

The students vary greatly in background and training, but almost all have a profound passion for politics; they care about changing the world as well as understanding it.”

In 2011, Professor Miller published Examined Lives, a collection of biographical essays that begins with Socrates, ends with Nietzsche, and discusses ten other “philosophers who tried to live philosophically.” He began writing Examined Lives as a result of research he did for an earlier book, The Passion of Michel Foucault.

Professor Miller particularly enjoys teaching Modernity and Its Discontents, a course with an interdisciplinary syllabus that juxtaposes novels and pamphlets, essays and manifestos by writers ranging from Rousseau, Goethe, and Robespierre to Joseph Conrad, André Breton, and Hannah Arendt.

“The New School attracts extraordinary students from around the world, creating a distinctly cosmopolitan student body,” says Professor Miller. It is these scholars who will be the political thinkers and leaders of the future.

“

The students vary greatly in background and training, but almost all have a profound passion for politics; they care about changing the

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world as well as

understanding it.

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PSYCHOLOGY The Department of Psychology was founded as part of the University in Exile by the

Courses taught recently:

pioneering Gestalt psychologist Max Wertheimer. Over the years, its distinguished faculty has included Leon Festinger, Jerome Bruner, Hans Wallach, Irving Rock, Kurt

Social Psychology

Goldstein, Serge Moscovici, Solomon Asch, Sándor Ferenczi, and Erich Fromm. Within

Emanuele Castano

the program, there is a strong emphasis on conducting research that contributes to basic psychological knowledge and is sensitive to social, cultural, and political influences and concerns.

Language and Thought Michael Schober

Students entering can earn a master’s degree in general psychology. In the 30-credit General Psychology MA program, students take basic courses in cognitive, social,

Political Psychology

personality, developmental, and abnormal psychology and in research methods

Jeremy Ginges

and statistics.

and Substance Abuse Counseling. This concentration prepares students to fulfill the

Autobiographical Memory and the Self

academic eligibility requirements for the New York State Alcohol and Substance Abuse

William Hirst

Alternatively, students can complete the 30-credit MA concentration in Mental Health

Counseling Certificate exam.

Student dissertations from the Psychology department as a whole have recently included such topics as • Sociocultural factors that affect HIV/AIDS disclosure

Developmental Psychology Joan Miller

• T he use of animated agents in surveys

Assessment of Individual Differences

• Attachment representations of youth aging out of foster care

Doris Chang

• Forgetting, emotion, and trauma • Linguistic cohesion in psychotherapeutic process and outcome

Cognitive Psychology William Hirst

• Laterality and embodiment effects in response to emotionally valent words • Cultural influences on emerging adulthood • T he impact of classism and stereotyping on low-socioeconomic-status individuals

Doctoral Studies

Evidence Based Treatment Wendy D’Andrea

Advanced Issues in Substance Abuse Jenifer Talley

Master’s students are not guaranteed admission to the doctoral program and must formally apply. Those with an overall GPA of 3.5 are eligible to apply and may submit applications either to the PhD Program in Cognitive, Social, and Developmental Psychology (CSD) or to the Clinical Psychology PhD Program.

Cognitive, Social, and Developmental Psychology The Cognitive, Social, and Developmental Psychology doctoral program is distinguished by sensitivity to issues of culture and context. Faculty research centers on areas such as language and thought, semantics, cognitive psychology, perception, political psychology, social psychology, social cognition, cognitive development, close relationships, and

Adult Psychopathology McWelling Todman

Culture and Social Cognition Joan Miller

Research Methods Arien Mack

social development. The graduate program is based on an apprenticeship model in

If you are interested in learning

which students work closely with individual faculty. Students concentrate in cognitive,

more about these courses, visit us at

social, or developmental psychology but are welcome to bridge these concentrations

newschool.edu/nssr/psychology

with courses, research, and work with faculty.

and select “Courses.”

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A FRUITFUL ENVIRONMENT What drew Bernhard Leidner from his home in Germany to The New School was his interest in “moral disengagement,” the human tendency to downplay violence in which one’s own country is engaged, to evaluate actions as “not that bad” when committed by compatriots. As a graduate student in Germany, Bernhard learned that New School Professor Emanuele Castano was studying moral disengagement in international conflicts, and he wanted to participate in this research.

Leidner graduated from The New School in 2010 with a PhD in Social Psychology.

For his dissertation, he conducted a study of how people apply moral principles in weighing their own country’s actions and similar actions committed by countries perceived as antagonistic or neutral.

Leidner has found his experience at The New School rewarding because “the student body is very international and diverse. You can collaborate with other students and professors easily, and there is a lot of interaction and overlap among departments, which gives you exposure to many different people and ideas. It is a very liberal school, so if you are interested in research it is a very fruitful environment.” Leidner is currently an assistant professor of psychology at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

“

The student body is very international and diverse. You can collaborate with other students and professors easily, and there is a lot of interaction and overlap among departments.

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Clinical Psychology The Clinical Psychology doctoral program follows the scientist-practitioner model of clinical training and is accredited by the American Psychological Association (APA).

It combines a psychoanalytic emphasis with cognitive behavioral approaches. The program integrates theory, research, and practice and promotes an appreciation for diversity and pluralism with respect to race, culture, and theoretical perspective.

Students are encouraged to develop critical thinking skills and a high level of scholarship in order to both build their clinical skills and contribute to the field of clinical psychology. While fulfilling doctoral dissertation requirements, students gain hands-on experience outside of The New School. First-year doctoral students participate in a practicum at the New School Beth Israel Center for Clinical Training and Research. In the second and third years, they continue with externship placements throughout the city. The fourth year culminates for most students in a year-long full-time placement at an APA-accredited internship site.

Degrees Offered The Department of Psychology offers MA and PhD degrees. All psychology students at The New School enter the master’s program. After earning 30 credits with a GPA of at least 3.5, students may apply for admission to the doctoral program. Students seeking admission to the PhD program in Clinical Psychology are evaluated on the basis of their entire records and admission interviews conducted independently by two Clinical Psychology faculty members. No admission interview is required for PhD students applying to the Cognitive, Social, and Developmental Psychology program. Students who have been provisionally accepted into the two doctoral programs must either pass the Comps Examination or complete a research project as part of the research master’s program. In rare cases, the department grants advanced-standing admission to applicants who have completed a comparable MA in psychology with distinction at another institution.

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Psychology Faculty Emanuele Castano, Co-chair and Professor of Psychology Jeremy Safran, Co-chair and Professor of Psychology Doris F. Chang-Kaplan, Associate Professor of Psychology Christopher Christian, Assistant Professor of Psychology Wendy D’Andrea, Assistant Professor of Psychology Jeremy Ginges, Associate Professor of Psychology Lawrence Hirschfeld, Professor of Anthropology and Psychology

William Hirst, Professor of Psychology Arien Mack, Alfred J. and Monette C. Marrow Professor of Psychology Joan Miller, Professor of Psychology Lisa Rubin, Associate Professor of Psychology Michael Schober, Professor of Psychology Howard Steele, Professor of Psychology Miriam Steele, Professor of Psychology Jenifer Talley, Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology McWelling Todman, Associate Professor of Psychology

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SOCIOLOGY The Department of Sociology offers a unique curriculum with a mix of critical,

Courses taught recently:

historical, comparative, and theoretical courses organized into six specializations: sociology of culture, comparative and historical analysis, sociology of politics, urban

Social Interaction

sociology, social thought, and sociology of the media. The graduate program emphasizes

Jeffrey Goldfarb

the intellectual connections between these areas. The ultimate goal is to ensure that students understand the major transformations in modern and postmodern societies and are prepared to devise concrete solutions to challenges posed by these changes.

Classical Sociological Theory Carlos Forment

Understanding these challenges and formulating solutions requires solid research.

Through sustained treatment of a single topic, doctoral students draw on existing

Consumption, Culture, and Class

theories and methods to develop new forms of sociological study that cross disciplines

Rachel Sherman

in innovative and imaginative ways. In recent years, faculty and students have researched topics such as

Concept of Culture

•C ivility and state formation in Japan

Elzbieta Matynia

•U rbanism and culture •C ritical theory of art and technology

Sociology of Federalism and Pluralism

•M ass media, propaganda, and the visibility of power

Andrew Arato

To acquire the grounding necessary for such ambitious research, students are courses and projects developed with the Transregional Center for Democratic Studies,

Islam and Authority: Sociological Perspectives

the Department of Liberal Studies, the Department of Politics, and the Department

Benoit Challand

encouraged by faculty in the Department of Sociology to participate in interdisciplinary

of Philosophy.

Logic of Inquiry Degrees Offered

Virag Molnar

The Department of Sociology offers MA and PhD degrees. Students who complete MA requirements with sufficient distinction may be considered for admission to PhD

Fundamentals of Urban Sociology

study. In rare cases, the department grants direct PhD admission to applicants who

Terry Williams

have completed a comparable MA in sociology at another institution.

State, Culture, Identity Eiko Ikegami

The Ghetto Terry Williams

Sociology of Organization and Disorganization

Sociology Faculty Andrew Arato, Co-chair and Dorothy

Elzbieta Matynia, Professor of Liberal

Hart Hirshon Professor of Political and

Studies and Sociology

Social Theory

Virag Molnar, Associate Professor

Robin Wagner-Pacifici If you are interested in learning more about these courses, visit us

Benoit Challand, Associate Professor

of Sociology

at newschool.edu/nssr/sociology

Carlos Forment, Associate Professor

Rachel Sherman, Associate Professor

and select “Courses.”

of Sociology

of Sociology

Jeffrey Goldfarb, Co-chair and Michael E.

Robin Wagner-Pacifici, University

Gellert Professor of Sociology

in Exile Professor of Sociology

Eiko Ikegami, Walter A. Eberstadt

Terry Williams, Professor of Sociology

Professor of Sociology

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FLUIDITY BETWEEN DISCIPLINES Hector Vera, a recent graduate of the PhD program, says, “One of the most attractive things about The New School for Social Research is the fluidity between disciplines; you are in constant contact with people in other fields.” According to Vera, The New School’s location in New York City—with access to some of the richest intellectual, cultural, and human resources in the world—has benefited his education immensely: “The New School is exciting. With its research libraries, other universities, and the people who come from all over the world to give lectures on diverse topics, the city is a very good place to be in contact with a lot of people and ideas.”

Vera arrived in the United States after earning his BA at the Universidad Iberoamericana and his MA at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). He describes The New School as a “natural fit, because some of the sociologists that I admired the most taught at The New School, which has a very good reputation among social scientists in Mexico.”

Vera conducted a sociological analysis of the history of the decimal metric system, which was invented during the French Revolution and has since been adopted in all but three countries in the world. For his dissertation, he compared the implementation of the metric system in Mexico with the failed attempts to get the United States to adopt it.

Vera is currently a researcher at the Instituto de Investigaciones sobre la Universidad y la Educación at UNAM.

“

One of the most attractive things about The New School for Social Research is the fluidity between disciplines; you are in constant contact with

”

people in

other fields.

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CREATIVE PUBLISHING AND CRITICAL JOURNALISM Since its inception, The New School for Social Research has attracted thoughtful journalists and experimental publishers. The founders included Thorstein Veblen, Charles Beard, and John Dewey—authors whose books reached a wide audience of general readers. After World War II, faculty and students at The New School helped create and launch the first alternative weekly urban newspaper, the Village Voice.

The Graduate Faculty subsequently attracted public intellectuals like Robert Heilbroner and Hannah Arendt, whose work appeared in publications like the New Yorker and the New York Review of Books. In more recent decades, The New School for Social Research

Creative Publishing and Critical Journalism Faculty Juliette Cezzar, Founder and principal, e.a.d.; president, AIGA/NY (American Institute of Graphic Arts New York); co-author, Designing the Editorial Experience

has invited outspoken journalists like Christopher Hitchens, Jonathan Schell, and Katha

Heather Chaplin, Co-author, Smartbomb:

Pollitt to discuss their contrarian views with its graduate students in substantive courses

The Quest for Art Entertainment and Big

on timely topics.

Bucks in the Videogame Revolution

This program not only trains students in the traditions of criticism, critical theory, and

Neil Gordon, Author, The Company

fine writing but also offers students a variety of studio courses and working experiences that teach them how to design, edit, and distribute journals and books containing

You Keep

intellectually serious work aimed at the general reader. In addition to surveying

Mark Greif, Co-founder, n+1; author

traditional forms of book and magazine publishing, the program will explore the

of essays in the American Prospect,

possibilities opened up by new media, such as the Internet, tablet applications, and

London Review of Books, Harper’s

the rise of print-on-demand small-batch publications.

Our unique curriculum equips students to think critically and historically about book publishing and journalism; to understand the best practices of contemporary reporting and cultural criticism; to appreciate the business aspects of production and distribution; and to work collaboratively in the writing, editing, design and publication of texts on a variety of platforms, both print and digital.

The program will also explore the democratic potential inherent in disseminating new “worlds made by words,” whether in the form of so-called “open journalism,” in which

Elizabeth Kendall, Author, Balanchine & the Lost Muse James Miller, Author, Examined Lives: From Socrates to Nietzsche, The Passion of Michel Foucault, and Democracy Is in the Streets Jed Perl, Art critic, the New Republic

writers interact in new ways with engaged communities of readers, or in the form of

Rachel Rosenfelt, Founder, the New

political pamphleteering and open advocacy.

Inquiry; creative director, Verso Books

Unlike other publishing programs, this program teaches students how to edit pieces, how to write better, how to think more clearly and critically—and how to design literary texts. Unlike other journalism programs, this program teaches students how to design

Courses include

in the history of written communication from the printing press to the Internet. And

Creative Publishing and Critical Journalism

unlike most design programs, this program regards design, communication technology,

Jim Miller and Rachel Rosenfelt

a business plan and how to lay out a cross-platform publication and offers a grounding

and form making as part of the exchange of ideas.

Design and the Future of Publishing Juliette Cezzar

Cultural Criticism Melissa Monroe

Picasso: Artist of the 20th Century Jed Perl

Multimedia Publishing, Production, and Writing Lab Rachel Rosenfelt

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GENDER AND SEXUALITY STUDIES The Graduate Certificate in Gender and Sexuality Studies (GSS) is a university-wide 12-credit program that brings together faculty and courses from across The New School to address gender and sexuality from many disciplinary perspectives. The certificate is designed to foster intellectual collaboration on issues of gender and sexuality among students and faculty representing a variety of disciplines. It is open to both New School students enrolled in graduate degree programs and students from outside the university.

Students can enroll in the certificate program while pursuing a graduate degree at The New School or enroll directly in the program on a full-time or part-time basis.

GSS students can choose courses from a range of disciplines:

Gender and Sexuality Studies Faculty The Graduate Certificate in Gender and Sexuality Studies draws on the research interests and expertise of faculty from colleges across the university.

Co-Directors Margot Bouman Assistant Professor of Visual Culture Alice Crary Associate Professor of Philosophy

Anthropology Economics International Affairs

Steering Committee

Philosophy

Elaine Abelson Associate Professor of History and Urban Studies

Politics Psychology Sociology

Hazel Clark Professor of Design Studies and Fashion Studies

Media Studies Creative Writing Fashion Studies

Jasmine Rault Assistant Professor of Culture and Media

Visual Studies Art and Design History The program prepares its students to recognize and respond to questions such as: What is gender? How is sexuality culturally constructed? How do attitudes toward gender affect individual experience, artifact design, artistic production, and modes of social organization? How do we respond to gender-based claims of injustice?

Lisa Rubin Associate Professor of Psychology Miriam Ticktin Associate Professor of Anthropology

What does social justice looks like in a gendered (or postgendered) world?

Affiliated Faculty Laura Auricchio Dean of School of Undergraduate Studies and Associate Professor of Art History David Brody Associate Professor of Design Studies Colette Brooks Associate Professor of Theater and Writing Katayoun Chamany Associate Professor of Biology T.L. Cowan FemTechNet Chair of Experimental Pedagogies Marilyn Cohen Part-Time Assistant Professor Tracy Ehrlich Part-Time Assistant Professor Jennifer Firestone Assistant Professor of Literary Studies Nancy Fraser Henry A. and Louise Loeb Professor of Philosophy and Politics Jessica Fripp Postdoctoral Fellow in Material and Visual Culture

Teresa Ghilarducci Bernard L. and Irene Schwartz Chair in Economic Policy Analysis and Director of the Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis (SCEPA) Terri Gordon Associate Professor of Comparative Literature Francesca Granata Assistant Professor of Fashion Studies Sarah Lichtman Assistant Professor of Design History Rachel G. Lifter Postdoctoral Fellow in Fashion Studies Lily Ling Associate Professor of International Affairs Laura Y. Liu Assistant Professor of Urban Studies Brian McGrath Professor of Urban Design Ricardo Montez Assistant Professor of Performance Studies

Elizabeth Morano Part-Time Assistant Professor Veronica Paredes Part-Time Lecturer Dominic Pettman Professor of Culture and Media Claire Potter Professor of History Mary M. Serra Part-Time Assistant Professor Rachel Sherman Associate Professor of Sociology Ann Snitow Associate Professor, Literature and Gender Studies Eva von Redecker Visiting Heuss Lecturer Gina Walker Associate Professor of Women’s Studies Maxine Weisgrau Part-Time Assistant Professor of International Affairs Tiphanie Yanique Assistant Professor of Writing

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RESEARCH CENTERS Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility

Robert L. Heilbroner Center for Capitalism Studies

The migration of people has taken on

The Robert L. Heilbroner Center for

greater and greater significance in our age

Capitalism Studies brings together faculty

Housed in The New School’s University

of globalization. Migration creates new

and students for interdisciplinary

Center at 14th Street and Fifth Avenue,

economic and political opportunities, new

conversations around theoretical

the Graduate Institute was conceived as

types of exploitation and inequality, new

approaches to and analytic methods for

a university-wide hub for collaborative

forms of knowledge, new ethical dilemmas,

the study of capitalism in its myriad

faculty research, interdisciplinary doctoral

and new political pressures. The Zolberg

forms. Affiliated faculty and students

dissertations, and innovative scholarly

Institute builds on the intellectual

share a commitment to critical thought,

practice that draws substantively on

tradition of migration studies at The New

ethical reflection, and real-world relevance

ethnographic methodologies and

School and provides a space for research

in their research. Our graduate and

sensibilities.

and scholarship, policy debate, and

undergraduate courses examine the basic

discussion with activists and artists

logic of capitalism (as conceived by a

around issues of global migration and

range of theorists), its culturally and

mobility, their economic impact, their

historically specific varieties, and its

political consequences, and their meaning

ability to structure our political possibilities

for citizenship and identity. The Zolberg

and creative endeavors. Through

Institute aims to produce high-quality

interdisciplinary research and teaching,

research; bring together scholars from

the Robert L. Heilbroner Center for

many disciplines; engage with contentious

Capitalism Studies aims to develop and

political and cultural questions of mobility

promote theoretical and analytic tools

and immobility, justice and inequality,

that can help us envision and instantiate

belonging and exclusion; and open a

different and better economies—local

space for scholarly, activist, and artistic

and global—for the future.

voices on the political, economic, and cultural consequences of migration. Most important, the center provides a space in which to think about the way migrants and migration are changing the political landscape—how they open up new political possibilities, wittingly or unwittingly.

Using migration as a lens, the center studies various types of transformation, replacing a focus on nation-states and their borders with new forms of global knowledge and action, developed by

inventive research environment and a focused interdisciplinary space in which to develop their ideas.

For inquiries about our fellowship program or biweekly seminars, or for further information, please visit gidest. org or contact GIDEST@newschool.edu.

Center for Public Scholarship The Center for Public Scholarship (CPS) is an intellectual crossroads between the academy, the public, and policy makers, and between disciplines within the academy. The center is envisioned as a bridge to many initiatives at The New School and serves as a catalyst for new

For more information, contact

programs within the university. Its

Heilbroner Center for Capitalism Studies

activities include publication of Social

The New School for Social Research

Research: An International Quarterly, an

6 East 16th Street, 10th floor

award- winning journal that has been

New York, NY 10003

mapping the landscape of intellectual

Email: capitalismstudies@newschool.edu

thought since 1934; the Social Research

Website: newschool.edu/nssr

conference series, which engages experts

The Graduate Institute for Design, Ethnography, and Social Thought

and the public in discussion of critical and contested issues as a way of influencing public policy (since 1988); the Journal Donation Project, a major library assistance

and for migrants.

Funded by a grant from the Andrew W.

program to create scholarly journal archives in 35 countries that, for political or

For more information, contact

Mellon Foundation and based in The New School for Social Research, the Graduate

economic reasons have been unable or

Institute for Design, Ethnography, and

unwilling to do so on their own (since

Social Thought incubates advanced

1990); and Endangered Scholars Worldwide,

research at the intersection of social

an activist initiative responding to the

theory and design and fosters dialogue

wrongful imprisonment of scholars and

on related themes across the university.

students around the world (since 2008).

Drawing on the university’s tradition of

For more information, contact

Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility The New School for Social Research 6 East 16th Street, 10th floor New York, NY 10003 Email: migration@newschool.edu Website: blogs.newschool.edu/ zolberg-center

politically engaged, historically grounded, and theoretically informed social research, as well as our strengths as a center of design thinking and practice, the institute annually supports five faculty and five doctoral fellows and provides members of the campus community with a lively and

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Center for Public Scholarship 80 Fifth Avenue, room 501 New York, NY 10011 Telephone: 212.229.5776 Fax: 212.229.5476 Email: cps@newschool.edu Website: newschool.edu/cps

Janey Program in Latin American Studies

Transregional Center for Democratic Studies

The ongoing struggles over social justice,

Building on the interdisciplinary tradition

equality, human rights, and political

of The New School for Social Research,

liberty in Latin America resonate deeply

the Transregional Center for Democratic

with the commitments of The New School

Studies (TCDS) offers cross-departmental

for Social Research, reflecting many of the

programs for graduate study and advanced

concerns that led to the founding of the

research. Following the social and political

University in Exile in 1933. The Janey

transformations of recent years, two

Program supports fellowships for students

contradictory trends—globalization and

from Latin America and the Caribbean

fragmentation along ethnic lines—have

who are pursuing graduate studies at the

become dominant modes. TCDS’s

school, summer fellowships for fieldwork

activities use geographical region as a

and research in Latin America and the

perspective from which to examine the

Caribbean, an annual conference, lectures,

complex relations between the local and

and occasional visits to The New School

the global. The center’s programs, designed

by scholars from Latin America.

to foster understanding of how “new” and

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“old” democracies are converging, focus

Janey Program in Latin American Studies The New School for Social Research 6 East 16th Street, room 711A New York, NY 10003 Telephone: 212.229.5905 Email: janeyprogram@newschool.edu Website: newschool.edu/nssr/janeyprogram

on the problems faced by democratic institutions at the local, national, and regional levels in five target regions: central and eastern Europe; Central Asia and the Caucasus; sub-Saharan Africa; Latin America; and North America.

Democracy and Diversity Graduate Summer Institutes

Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis

Regional Democracy and Diversity

The Schwartz Center for Economic Policy

(in Cape Town, South Africa) and July

Analysis (SCEPA), created through a generous gift from Irene and Bernard L. Schwartz, is the economic policy research arm of the Department of Economics at The New School for Social Research.

Institutes are held annually in January (in Kraków, Poland). In these intensive three-week programs, an international body of participants examine critical issues of democracy and democratization as they manifest themselves in the host

SCEPA activities are organized around

region and beyond.

three broad areas: economic growth,

For more information, contact

employment, and inequality. The center

Transregional Center for

focuses on the U.S. economy but always

Democratic Studies

with an eye to global implications. The

The New School for Social Research

underlying purpose of SCEPA’s research

80 Fifth Avenue, room 517

activities is to identify the conditions

New York, NY 10011

under which a more stable, equitable, and

Telephone: 212.229.5580 x3136

prosperous economy is possible, both in

Fax: 212.229.5894

the United States and globally, and to

Email: tcds@newschool.edu

develop domestic and international policies

Website: newschool.edu/tcds

to help bring about these conditions.

For more information, contact Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis 6 East 16th Street, room 1112 New York, NY 10003 Telephone: 212.229.5901 x4911 Fax: 212.229.5903 Email: scepa@newschool.edu Website: economicpolicyresearch.org

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FACULTY INFORMATION Elaine Abelson Associate Professor of Historical Studies PhD 1986, New York University

Simon Critchley Hans Jonas Professor of Philosophy PhD 1988, University of Essex

Orit Halpern Assistant Professor of History PhD 2006, Harvard University

Zed Adams Associate Professor of Philosophy PhD 2008, University of Chicago

Wendy D’Andrea Assistant Professor of Psychology PhD 2008, University of Michigan

Andrew Arato Dorothy Hart Hirshon Professor of Political and Social Theory PhD 1975, University of Chicago

Stefania de Kenessey Professor of Music PhD 1984, Princeton University

Victoria Hattam Professor of Politics PhD 1987, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Cinzia Arruzza Assistant Professor of Philosophy PhD 2005, University of Rome “Tor Vergata” Lopamudra Banerjee Assistant Professor of Economics PhD 2007, University of California at Riverside Banu Bargu Associate Professor of Politics PhD 2008, Cornell University J.M. Bernstein University Distinguished Professor of Philosophy PhD 1975, University of Edinburgh Richard J. Bernstein Vera List Professor of Philosophy PhD 1958, Yale University Omri Boehm Assistant Professor of Philosophy PhD 2009, Yale University Chiara Bottici Associate Professor of Philosophy PhD 2004, European University Institute, Florence Emanuele Castano Professor of Psychology PhD 1999, Catholic University of Louvain Benoit Challand Associate Professor of Sociology PhD 2005, European University Institute Doris Chang-Kaplan Associate Professor of Psychology PhD 2000, University of California at Los Angeles Christopher Christian Assistant Professor of Psychology and Director of The New School–Beth Israel Center of Clinical Training and Research PhD 1996, University of Massachusetts at Amherst Alice Crary Associate Professor of Philosophy PhD 1999, University of Pittsburgh

James Dodd Associate Professor of Philosophy PhD 1996, Boston University Paulo dos Santos Assistant Professor of Economics PhD 2007, School of Oriental and African Studies Abou Farman Assistant Professor of Anthropology PhD 2012, The Graduate Center, CUNY Federico Finchelstein Professor of History PhD 2006, Cornell University Duncan Foley Leo Model Professor of Economics PhD 1966, Yale University Carlos Forment Associate Professor of Sociology PhD 1991, Harvard University Oz Frankel Associate Professor of History PhD 1998, University of California at Berkeley Nancy Fraser Henry A. and Louise Loeb Professor of Political and Social Science PhD 1980, City University of New York Mark Frazier Professor of Politics PhD 1997, University of California at Berkeley Laura Frost Associate Professor of Literary Studies PhD 1998, Columbia University Teresa Ghilarducci Irene and Bernard L. Schwartz Professor of Economics and Policy Analysis PhD 1984, University of California at Berkeley Jeremy Ginges Associate Professor of Psychology PhD 2004, Tel Aviv University Jeffrey Goldfarb Michael E. Gellert Professor of Sociology PhD 1976, University of Chicago

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Lawrence Hirschfeld Professor of Anthropology and Psychology PhD 1984, Columbia University William Hirst Professor of Psychology PhD 1976, Cornell University Eiko Ikegami Walter A. Eberstadt Professor of Sociology PhD 1989, Harvard University Noah Isenberg Professor of Literary Studies PhD 1995, University of California at Berkeley Aaron Jakes Assistant Professor of History PhD 2014, New York University Andreas Kalyvas Associate Professor of Politics PhD 2001, Columbia University Elizabeth Kendall Associate Professor of Literary Studies MAT 1971, Harvard Graduate School of Education Paul Kottman Associate Professor of Comparative Literature PhD 2000, University of California at Berkeley Nicolas Langlitz Associate Professor of Anthropology PhD 2007, University of California, Berkeley and San Francisco Benjamin Lee Professor of Anthropology and Philosophy PhD 1986, University of Chicago Arien Mack Alfred J. and Monette C. Marrow Professor of Psychology PhD 1966, Yeshiva University Elzbieta Matynia Professor of Liberal Studies and Sociology PhD 1979, University of Warsaw Anne McNevin Associate Professor of Politics PhD 2006, Australian National University

Inessa Medzhibovskaya Associate Professor of Literature PhD 2001, Princeton University

Michael Schober Professor of Psychology PhD 1990, Stanford University

Terry Williams Professor of Sociology PhD 1978, City University of New York

William Milberg Professor of Economics and Dean of The New School for Social Research PhD 1987, Rutgers University

Willi Semmler Arnhold Professor of International Cooperation and Development PhD 1976, Free University of Berlin

Deva Woodly Assistant Professor of Politics PhD 2008, University of Chicago

James Miller Professor of Politics and Liberal Studies PhD 1975, Brandeis University

Mark Setterfield Professor of Economics PhD 1993, Dalhousie University

Joan Miller Professor of Psychology PhD 1985, University of Chicago

Anwar Shaikh Professor of Economics PhD 1973, Columbia University

Virag Molnar Associate Professor of Sociology PhD 2005, Princeton University

Ann-Louise Shapiro Professor of History PhD 1980, Brown University

Dmitri Nikulin Professor of Philosophy PhD 1990, Institute for Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Rachel Sherman Associate Professor of Sociology PhD 2003, University of California at Berkeley

Julia Ott Associate Professor of History PhD 2007, Yale University

Ann Snitow Senior Lecturer in Liberal Studies, Associate Professor of Literary Studies PhD 1979, University of London

Dominic Pettman Professor of Culture and Media PhD 1997, University of Melbourne Jessica Pisano Associate Professor of Politics PhD 2002, Yale University David Plotke Professor of Politics PhD 1985, University of California at Berkeley Hugh Raffles Professor of Anthropology DFES 1999, Yale University Sanjay Reddy Associate Professor of Economics PhD 2000, Harvard University Janet Roitman Professor of Anthropology PhD 1996, University of Pennsylvania Lisa Rubin Associate Professor of Psychology PhD 2005, Arizona State University Sanjay Ruparelia Associate Professor of Politics PhD 2006, Cambridge University Jeremy Safran Professor of Psychology PhD 1982, University of British Columbia

Howard Steele Professor of Psychology PhD 1991, University College, London Miriam Steele Professor of Psychology PhD 1990, University College, London Ann Laura Stoler Willy Brandt Distinguished University Professor PhD 1982, Columbia University Jenifer Talley Assistant Professor of Psychology PhD 2007, Virginia Polytechnical Institute and State University Miriam Ticktin Associate Professor of Anthropology PhD 2002, Stanford University McWelling Todman Associate Professor of Psychology PhD 1986, The New School for Social Research Jeremy Varon Associate Professor of History PhD 1998, Cornell University Robin Wagner-Pacifici University in Exile Professor of Sociology PhD 1983, University of Pennsylvania

Rafi Youatt Assistant Professor of Politics PhD 2007, University of Chicago Eli Zaretsky Professor of History PhD 1978, University of Maryland EMERITI Agnes Heller Professor Emerita of Philosophy PhD 1955, Eรถtvรถs Lorรกnd University Marcel Kinsbourne Professor of Psychology DM 1963, Oxford University Edward Nell Professor Emeritus of Economics BLit 1962, Oxford University David Shapiro Professor Emeritus and Senior Lecturer in Psychology PhD 1950, University of Southern California Herbert Schlesinger Professor Emeritus and Senior Lecturer in Psychology PhD 1952, University of Kansas David Schwartzman Professor Emeritus of Economics PhD 1953, University of California at Berkeley Lance Taylor Professor Emeritus and Arnhold Professor of International Cooperation and Development PhD 1968, Harvard University Louise Tilly Professor Emerita of Sociology PhD 1974, University of Toronto Yirmiyahu Yovel Professor Emeritus of Philosophy PhD 1968, Hebrew University, Jerusalem Vera Zolberg Professor Emerita of Sociology PhD 1974, University of Chicago

McKenzie Wark Professor of Culture and Media PhD, Murdoch University

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ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS Public Seminar Public Seminar (PS) is an online platform reflecting the tradition of critical scholarship and public engagement of the original New School for Social Research (1919) and its University in Exile (1933). Confronting fundamental problems of the human condition and pressing problems of the day using the broad resources of social research, PS provokes critical and informed discussion through short-form posts, long-form essays, and audio and video pieces. PS is an extension of The New School’s legendary General Seminar, founded by the original University in Exile scholars. Through this innovative platform, the faculty, students and alumni of The New School for Social Research, along with colleagues from near and far, constitute a public seminar for the 21st century. publicseminar.org

Constellations

Social Research

Constellations is an international peer-reviewed quarterly committed to publishing

An award-winning international quarterly

the best in contemporary political and social theory. With roots in the Frankfurt School

of the social sciences, Social Research has

tradition of critical theory, it brings together a range of perspectives, including those

been mapping the landscape of intellectual

of the Continental and Anglo-American traditions.

inquiry since 1934. Most issues of the journal

newschool.edu/nssr/constellations

are theme driven, combining historical

Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal The Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal is a professional publication that provides a forum for contemporary authors to engage with the history of philosophy and its traditions. Past issues have included contributions from Hans-Georg Gadamer, Jacques

analysis, theoretical explanation, and reportage by some of the world’s leading scholars and thinkers. socres.org

Derrida, Jürgen Habermas, and Reiner Schürmann. The journal is published twice

New School Economic Review

yearly and is edited and produced by advanced graduate students in the Department

The New School Economic Review (NSER)

of Philosophy at The New School for Social Research.

is a student-run journal whose content

newschool.edu/nssr/GFPJ

reflects The New School’s history and

The New School Psychology Bulletin Launched in 2003, the New School Psychology Bulletin is a semi-annual peer-reviewed research journal created and produced by graduate students at The New School for Social Research. Articles in the bulletin cover ongoing work and collaborations at The New School including new research, research proposals, research methods projects, and a New School psychology historical series, as well as work from the annual Graduate Faculty Poster Session. nspb.net

International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society The International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society publishes articles and reviews on issues that arise at the intersections of nations, states, civil society, and global institutions. It is concerned with the interplay of macroscopic and microscopic structures and processes, including changing configurations of ethnic groups, social classes, religions, and personal networks and the impact of new communication technologies and media on public and private life. Interdisciplinary in orientation and international in scope, the journal focuses on the connection between theory and substantive normative concerns and encourages disciplined creativity. newschool.edu/nssr/politics-culture-society

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traditions and embraces a multidisciplinary and heterodox approach to the social sciences as espoused by early classical thinkers such as Smith, Ricardo, and Marx.

The NSER provides a forum for professors, practitioners, and students to debate world politics and social affairs, discuss current issues in economics, and share insights from other disciplines. newschooljournal.com

ACADEMIC RESOURCES LIBRARIES The New School operates three libraries, which are open to all university students.

Each library specializes in a particular area. The Raymond Fogelman Library collection is weighted toward the social sciences and philosophy; its extensive reserve collection is used by the entire university. The Adam and Sophie Gimbel Design Library serves Parsons School of Design. The Harry Scherman Library serves Mannes College of Music and specializes in European and American classical music

The Research Library Consortium of South Manhattan In addition to offering the resources of its own libraries, The New School is a member of the Research Library Association of South Manhattan. Other consortium members are New York University, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, and the New York Library of Interior Design. This association is one of the largest interuniversity library consortia in the country—NYU’s Elmer Holmes Bobst Library alone houses more than three million volumes. Most holdings of the consortium libraries are listed in BobCat, a user-friendly online catalog that can be accessed over the Internet or by direct dial-in. All the libraries provide information resource training and orientations for students, normally at the beginning of each semester.

New School students also have reading access to materials at the nearby Cardozo Law School of Yeshiva University. Through membership in the Metropolitan Reference and Research Library Agency, students have access to more than 300 other libraries in the New York City area.

For more information about university libraries and consortium privileges, visit the website at library.newschool.edu.

ACADEMIC COMPUTING University Academic Computing currently operates three general-access facilities for students. Each facility offers a wide variety of software, such as word processing, spreadsheet, database, electronic mail, graphics, and statistical packages. Students using the centers are supported by a full-time staff and assisted by lab aides. Training seminars and documentation are available on supported software and hardware.

Each facility is fully networked and offers access to the Internet.

Online Resources MyNewSchool, the university’s customizable Web portal, uses a single secure sign-on to provide access to Blackboard Online Learning; Self Service, where you can find student academic and financial information; webmail; library resources; personal and campus announcements; information about events; and much more. Campus-wide wireless Internet access on a secure network allows you to check your email, download files, and surf the Web anytime. Students also have access to New School library e-resources, which allow them to find a particular journal, magazine, newspaper, or report in the library’s periodical databases quickly and easily and to search remotely for the holdings of the three New School libraries and the consortium libraries.

THE NEW SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH DEAN’S OFFICE: STUDENT ACADEMIC AFFAIRS Student Academic Affairs promotes academic community within the school by supporting student activities and organizations and providing academic and career services. It administers scholarships, fellowships, assistantships, prizes, and other financial awards designated specifically for graduate students of The New School for Social Research.

Student Academic Affairs also oversees academic advising, academic policies, and graduation procedures. The office newsletter, GradFACTs, contains news and resource information for students.

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UNIVERSITY INFORMATION THE COLLEGES OF THE NEW SCHOOL Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts Eugene Lang College is The New School’s four-year liberal arts college for traditional-

Policy. The college also offers hundreds of

age undergraduates. The college began in 1972 as the Freshman Year Program, an

open-enrollment continuing education

experimental program for high school seniors. It became the Seminar College, a

courses on campus in Greenwich Village

full-time bachelor’s program, in 1975 and a separate college of the university in 1985.

and online.

This bold experiment in undergraduate education is named in honor of New School trustee Eugene M. Lang, a generous supporter of the college. Students at Eugene Lang College enjoy small seminar-style classes taught by a faculty of prominent scholars, many of whom are also affiliated with the graduate departments of The New School for Social Research. The college’s location in the center of a major metropolitan area offers its students opportunities for civic engagement and internships available to

The New School for Social Research In 1933, The New School gave a home to the University in Exile, a refuge for scholars fleeing persecution by the Nazis.

In 1934, The New School incorporated

students of few other small liberal arts schools.

this community as a graduate school

Mannes School of Music

graduate students enjoy opportunities

of political and social science. Today’s

Founded in 1916 by David Mannes and Clara Damrosch, Mannes became part of The

to cross disciplinary boundaries and

New School in 1989. Mannes is one of the leading classical music conservatories in the

collaborate with scholars, designers, and

world, providing professional training for a select group of talented student musicians.

artists in other colleges of the university.

A comprehensive curriculum and a faculty of world-class artists enable students to

The New School for Social Research

attain virtuosity in vocal and instrumental music, conducting, composition, and

addresses the most urgent political,

theory. Students also enjoy access to the resources of the university as a whole and

cultural, and economic concerns of the

opportunities for civic engagement in New York City. Mannes offers undergraduate

day and upholds the highest standards

and graduate music degrees and professional diplomas. Mannes also has a community

of critical inquiry.

extension program for adult learners and a preparatory program for children.

Parsons School of Design

School of Drama

Parsons is one of the world’s preeminent

The New School has been a center of innovation in theater since Erwin Piscator

colleges of art and design. Founded in

brought his Dramatic Workshop here from Europe in the 1940s. His students included

1896 by artist William Merritt Chase and

Marlon Brando, Walter Matthau, Harry Belafonte, Elaine Stritch, and Tennessee

his circle, Parsons was renamed in 1936

Williams. Piscator established a tradition of excellence in theater education that

for its longtime president, Frank Alvah

continues at The New School today. The School of Drama began in 1994 as a program

Parsons, who dedicated his career to

to train talented individuals for careers in the theater as actors, directors, and

integrating visual art and industrial

playwrights. The New School’s New York City setting offers students abundant

design. Parsons became part of The New

opportunities to learn through observation and make professional connections

School in 1970. It was the first institution

through the broadest theater career network in the United States.

in the United States to award university

School of Jazz

degrees in interior design, advertising and graphic design (originally commercial

In 1986, The New School established an undergraduate program offering talented

illustration), and lighting design. Parsons

young musicians the opportunity to study with professional artists from New York

has earned and maintained an international

City’s peerless jazz community. The teaching model is based on the tradition of the

reputation as a school at the vanguard

artist as mentor: Our students study and perform with some of the world’s most

of design education. Students in its

accomplished musicians. They are immersed in the history and theory of and latest

undergraduate and graduate degree

developments in jazz, blues, pop, and the ever-evolving genres of contemporary music.

programs hold themselves to exceptional

Learning takes place in classrooms, student ensembles, one-on-one tutorials, public

standards of creativity and scholarship,

performances, and master classes. Students develop their creative talents to meet the

developing their skills and building

high standards of professional musicianship exemplified by the legendary faculty.

knowledge in laboratories, workshops,

Schools of Public Engagement The Schools of Public Engagement embody the values that motivated the university’s founders in 1919. The college was renamed in 2011 to reflect its position as an enterprise designed to connect theory to practice, foster innovation in culture and communication, and promote democratic citizenship through lifelong education. The college offers undergraduate degree programs for adult and transfer students and graduate degrees and certificates in its schools of languages, media studies, and writing and in the Milano School of International Affairs, Management, and Urban

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and seminars. Parsons offers general art and design courses and certificate programs for students of all ages.

STUDENT LIFE Throughout the academic year, The New School offers many kinds of workshops, lectures, and other activities designed to enrich students’ experience. Student Services activities reflect the diversity of our student population—intellectually, artistically, culturally, and socially. Student Services also offers a recreation program and health education workshops. Graduate students are encouraged to participate in student organizations for their professional development.

Housing New School housing offers graduate students convenient living and learning spaces with amenities suitable for diverse needs and budgets. Residence hall and leased apartment facilities are fully furnished. Security is provided 24 hours a day in all of our residences, and our staff is trained to handle emergencies. The Office of Student Housing also offers students assistance in finding off-campus accommodations.

Printed and electronic listings for rental properties, shared apartments, sublets, and short-term accommodations are available in the office. For more information, visit newschool.edu/studentservices.

International Student Services The New School is authorized under federal law to enroll non-immigrant-alien students. International Student Services offers workshops, printed materials and other media, and individual advice and support throughout the year by appointment.

For more information, visit newschool.edu/studentservices.

Services for Students with Disabilities The New School is committed to ensuring that people with disabilities enjoy full access to academic services and others and will make arrangements to assist students with disabilities as required by the Americans with Disabilities Act and other applicable laws. Students who may require special arrangements are encouraged to self-identify by contacting the office of Student Disability Services as soon as possible after they have been admitted to study. Call 212.229.5626 or email sds@newschool.edu.

CAREER AND ALUMNI SERVICES The Center for Student Success provides students with information explaining the demands and requirements of both the academic and the nonacademic job markets.

The center provides assistance on writing curricula vitae, résumés, and cover and follow-up letters and on job search, job interviewing, and networking techniques.

Workshops are held to discuss how students can obtain teaching jobs while attending graduate school, prepare for the academic job market after graduation, or secure a postdoctoral position. The center also sponsors speakers and events relevant to employment outside of academia for those with degrees in philosophy and the social sciences. The center maintains job listings for both short-term and long-term assignments, professional positions, “survival” jobs, and internships. Students interested in work opportunities are encouraged to explore these listings. The center also provides information on external funding opportunities.

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A HISTORY OF THE NEW SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH The history of The New School for

authorization from the Board of

administration during the Second

Social Research began in 1919, when

Regents of the State of New York to

World War. Max Wertheimer

a group of distinguished Columbia

offer master’s and doctoral degrees.

introduced Gestalt, or cognitive,

University professors were censured

Johnson created faculty positions

psychology, which challenged the

for taking a public stand against

for nine distinguished scholars: five

dominant American paradigm of

World War I. In protest, they resigned

economists (Karl Brandt, Gerhard

behaviorism. The philosopher Hans

and founded their own school as a

Colm, Arthur Feiler, Eduard

Jonas’ work was little known when

place where adult scholars and

Heimann, and Emil Lederer), two

he came to the Graduate Faculty,

artists could exchange ideas freely.

psychologists (Max Wertheimer and

but it now frames much scholarly

That school became The New School

Erich von Hornbostel, also a leading

writing on bioethics and the

for Social Research, located in New

musicologist), one social policy

environment. The work of Hannah

York City’s Chelsea neighborhood.

expert (Frieda Wunderlich), and one

Arendt has attracted attention for

The original faculty included Charles

sociologist (Hans Speier). Other

decades as political theorists have

Beard, Thorstein Veblen, James

leaders of Europe’s intelligentsia

reevaluated their assumptions

Harvey Robinson, Wesley Clair

soon joined. These scholars

about totalitarianism, democracy,

Mitchell, and John Dewey.

introduced students to Western

and revolution. Other Graduate

traditions in the social sciences and

Faculty scholars whose works

philosophy, and The New School

remain influential include Alfred

established a reputation for

Schutz, Leo Strauss, Aron Gurwitsch,

upholding the highest standards of

and Adolph Lowe.

The founders maintained strong personal and professional ties to Europe, which strongly influenced the school’s academic and institutional development. In the 1920s, Alvin Johnson, The New School’s first president, served as

scholarly inquiry while addressing issues of major political, cultural, and economic concern.

The mission of The New School for Social Research—inspired by progressive American thought,

co-editor of the Encyclopedia of

In the early 1940s, The New School

European critical theory, and the

the Social Sciences, on which he

also created the École libre des

legacy of the University in Exile—is

collaborated regularly with

hautes études to promote French

grounded in the core social sciences

European colleagues. As tensions

scholarship in the United States.

and broadened with a commitment

in Europe mounted, Johnson was

The school received an official

to philosophical and historical

alerted to the danger Hitler

charter from de Gaulle’s Free French

inquiry. In this intellectual setting,

represented. He responded

government in exile and attracted

disciplinary boundaries are easily

immediately and in 1933—with the

refugee scholars who taught in

crossed. Students learn creative

financial support of the Rockefeller

French, including the philosopher

democracy—the concepts,

Foundation and philanthropists

Jacques Maritain, the anthropologist

techniques, and commitments

such as Hiram Halle—created a

Claude Lévi-Strauss, the linguist

necessary for the world’s people to

University in Exile within The New

Roman Jakobson, and the political

resolve multiple conflicting interests

School, a haven for scholars and

thinker Henri Bonnet, who

and live together peacefully and

artists whose lives were threatened

originated the idea of the European

justly. Today, The New School for

by National Socialism. The

community.

Social Research remains true to

University in Exile sponsored more than 180 individuals and their families, providing them with visas and jobs.

The New School for Social Research has always attracted distinguished and socially active faculty.

Economist Gerhard Colm, political

In 1934, the University in Exile, later

scientist Arnold Brecht, and

renamed the Graduate Faculty of

sociologist Hans Speier served as

Political and Social Science, received

policy advisors for the Roosevelt

Alvin Johnson’s ideal of a university for students and faculty of different ethnicities, religions, and geographical origins who are willing to take the intellectual and political risks our world requires.

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• TOEFL score (required of all

School for Social Research assists

international applicants except

prospective applicants with the graduate

citizens and permanent residents of

application process. The Admission staff

Australia, Canada, Ireland, New

is available to answer your questions

Zealand, South Africa, the United

weekdays between 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m.

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You are invited to contact us:

The Bahamas, Barbados, Belize,

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Email: socialresearchadmit@newschool.edu

St. Vincent and Grenadines, and

To expedite application, The New School

Trinidad and Tobago). International

for Social Research uses an online system.

applicants with four years of

To access the system, go to newschool.

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edu/nssr/admission and select the

bachelor’s degree from a U.S.

“Apply Now” link.

university or college are also exempt from the TOEFL requirement. IELTS or

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reviewed.

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• Current résumé

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