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Surveillance, Civil Liberties, and the TikTok Debate
Authors: Laura Altinsoy and Jesus Lopez Perez
Authors: Laura Altinsoy and Jesus Lopez Perez
Authors: Laura Altinsoy and Jesus Lopez Perez
I am a Ph.D. student at the CUNY Graduate Center, specializing in International Relations and Comparative Politics. My research focuses on the intersection of immigration, border politics, human rights, and international organizations. I am particularly interested in understanding how integration policies work, how immigrants think about political participation, and the Read more…
I am a second year student in the Sociology Doctoral program at the Graduate Center. My research focuses on the ways that digital technologies relate to social inequalities. My current project uses panel longitudinal survey data to examine the connection between childhood digital technology use and early adult social mobility Read more…
Fatima Rahman (she/her) is a second-year doctoral student in the English program at the Graduate Center. Her research interests include interrogating representations of the state, nationalisms, and revolutionary possibilities in postcolonial literature, including the diasporic community whose cohesion (or lack thereof) can complicate or contribute to the longue durée of Read more…
Inna Oliinyk’s research focuses on Ukraine, with particular attention to civil society, the ongoing Russian invasion, and the role of global propaganda in shaping political and social responses. She is the author of the research project Open Arms, Conflicting Loyalties: A Comparison of Russian and Ukrainian Immigration to Poland and Read more…
Weixiang Chen is a Chinese labor activist and a doctoral student in Sociology at the CUNY Graduate Center. He has been active in labor organizing and worker empowerment for a decade in southern China. His research interest lies in the labor relations, labor movement and China. He teaches Research Method Read more…
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…