Monique Sosnowski Wants Poached Furs and Skins to Go Out of Fashion
Monique Sosnowski
Not only has Ph.D. student
Monique Sosnowski (Criminal Justice) seen her research on wildlife crime published in academic journals, but she’s also been quoted and cited in Vogue, National Geographic, and other media outlets. Her latest work was co-authoring a chapter on wildlife crime for a textbook on international criminal justice. Sosnowski spoke with The Graduate Center about her research, her path to CUNY, and why she chose an academic route for her interests rather than activism at least for now.
GC: You’ve studied topics ranging from the live coral trade to elephant ivory markets, but let’s focus on your
Eliza Who? Restless Enterprise by Professor Katherine Manthorne Profiles the Most Famous American Artist You Never Heard Of
Eliza Who? Restless Enterprise by Professor Katherine Manthorne Profiles the Most Famous American
Katherine Manthorne and the cover of her book Restless Enterprise: The Art and Life of Eliza Pratt Greatorex
By Beth Harpaz
th century landscape painter and graphic artist.
Manthorne originally set out to research American culture between 1863 and 1877 as a period distinct from the Gilded Age. But she kept encountering references to Eliza Greatorex. She became convinced that Greatorex (pronounced: greater-EX) and other women in her circle had not just been forgotten, but were “deliberately expunged from the record.” Telling Greatorex’s story became Manthorne’s “personal crusade,” a project that she pursued on and off for decades.
Trump Should Declassify How Chinese Communist Party Interfered in Our Election
Politicians tackle debts and deficits, politicians deal with planning and zoning, politicians struggle with their civil service.
Statesmen, or stateswomen, however, are the politicians who take hold, grasp, and define the seminal moments of our times. They map out the course of history through surgical words and key actions. These words and actions stand to drive the statesman/stateswoman to glory, and with luck and historical hindsight, will even earn the begrudging respect of political foes and ideological opponents.
Lincoln gifted the world with the Gettysburg Address, 272 words that were backed with surgical action blood and treasure spilled to forge a nation together and to free the slaves. Roosevelt spoke of and gave America a “New Deal” that has lasted over three-quarters of a century, while Eisenhower cautioned an innocent nation to beware of “the Military-Industrial Complex.” President