CACI is offering a limited number of additional fellowships for Summer 2026 to enable CUNY graduate students to visit China. The purpose of the program is to enable CUNY graduate students who have participated in CACI to gain a first-hand experience of life in China, to meet Chinese graduate students Read more…
By Amalia Torrecillas (Fall 2025 Seminar Fellow) For me, CACI has represented a completely new open door. I have always believed that entering a new literature is incredibly difficult without guidance, especially when it concerns a region, history, or set of social realities that I have not previously studied in Read more…
By Bret Windhauser (Spring 2025 Seminar Fellow; Summer 2025 Travel Fellow; Fall 2025 Teaching Fellow) My participation in the CACI program has proven instrumental in significantly expanding both my knowledge base and pedagogical competency in teaching Chinese history to my students. This professional development program serves a critical function by Read more…
Agenda for First CACI Meeting Fall 2025 9:30-2:30 pm on August 29 (Friday) Location: CUNY Graduate Center, Ralph Bunche Institute, Suite 5203 The purpose of our first meeting is to become acquainted with each other and with CACI. We have also organized three talks from faculty members at CUNY and Read more…
Anson Cheuk-Hin Chung is a Ph.D. student in Political Science at the CUNY Graduate Center. His research focuses on the judicial behavior of judges, specifically looking at British judges serving as foreign judges in Hong Kong and the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. His research also focuses on the Read more…
Danny Soper is a 2nd year doctoral student in the Clinical Psychology program at CUNY Queens College and the Graduate Center. His research examines executive functions in undergraduate populations as they relate to internalizing symptoms, namely anxiety and depression symptoms. He is also interested in understanding how cultural identity and Read more…
I am third-year PhD student in Political Science at CUNY Graduate Center specializing in political theory and comparative public policy. My research focuses on the intersections of power, justice, and gender, with particular attention to how policies affect marginalized communities. I am especially interested in the implementation of conversion therapy Read more…
Amalia Torrecillas (she/her) is a Ph.D. student in Comparative Politics at the Graduate Center, CUNY. Her primary research interests center on queer economics and the intersection of inequality and queerness, particularly as shaped by family policies. She investigates how the concept of queerness influences and intensifies economic inequality, with an Read more…
Gloria Caminha is a PhD candidate in History at the Graduate Center. Her research focuses on U.S. foreign policy toward Brazil from the mid-1960s to the late 1970s, with a specific emphasis on energy issues. She teaches United States history and currently teaches U.S. policy in Latin America during the Read more…
PhD Political Scientist Student at the Graduate Center, with a Master of Public Administration at the Maxwell School in Syracuse University and with complete studies in the master’s degree in Human Rights by the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (PUCP). Work and teaching experience in research, design, and analysis of Read more…