Jamie Banks is a PhD candidate in Classics. Their research interests lie in literary translation, scientific poetry, and Latin-vernacular bilingual identities in Early Modern Europe. They teach Latin as a “living” language whenever they can. Before returning to academia they taught in K-12 settings for gifted neurodivergent students.

Alexandra A. Rego is a doctoral candidate in Theatre and Performance at the Graduate Center. Her dissertation, titled Vestigial Choreographies, traces histories of climate anxiety in the long nineteenth century, writing dance theories of ephemera and other material objects.

Aline Van Neutgem is a PhD Student in Political Science at the CUNY Graduate Center. She holds a Master’s degree in Administration from the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC), Brazil. Her research experience includes work on cultural policy and social movements. Currently, her primary research interests lie in exploring comparative perspectives on gender-based violence in the U.S. and Latin America.

Adam Kocurek is a PhD candidate in History at The Graduate Center. He researches at the intersections of LGBTQ history, history of higher education, and labor history. He has BAs in History and Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies, and an MA in History. He teaches at Hunter College and works as a historic tour guide in New York City.

Ugur Akpinar is a PhD student in the History Department at the Graduate Center, CUNY, interested in the history of orphans and orphanages in the Middle East in the context of identity, capital, and violence. He holds an MA from Bogazici University, Ataturk Institute for Modern Turkish History. As a graduate teaching, he currently teaches world history at City College.

Mette Christiansen is a doctoral student in Political Theory at the Graduate Center. She draws on various traditions of Critical Theory, Black Political Thought, Marxist, and Aesthetic Theory to consider the school and pedagogy as sites of potential emancipation and as loci of social reproduction, political contestation, and subject formation.

Fiona Brady is a third year PhD student in Philosophy at CUNY’s Graduate Center with interests in ethics and moral psychology, esp. as it relates to the Stoics. When not working in philosophy, she is leading historical walking tours in different neighborhoods of New York City, bouldering, or trying out new vegan recipes.