Introducing the CPCP’s New Postdoc, Student, and Faculty Fellows

The CPCP is delighted to announce that Joao Gabriel will join us this fall as our new postdoctoral fellow. He holds a PhD in History from Johns Hopkins University. His research focuses on the history of slavery and abolition in the French Caribbean, with particular attention to the relationship between slavery, labor coercion, and incarceration.

We are also excited to welcome an extraordinary new cohort of faculty and student fellows who will explore our 2026–2027 theme, “Radical Imagination: Temporalities and Geographies of Struggle.” Together, these scholars bring a range of disciplinary approaches to our collective inquiry into the dynamics of social transformation and the ways alternative futures are envisioned, contested, and made.

Joining the CPCP as faculty fellows are Ozlem Goner (College of Staten Island/Graduate Center), Lauren Hudson (CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies), Boyda Johnstone (BMCC), Alethia Jones (CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies), James Lowry (Queens College/Graduate Center), and Sonali Perera (Hunter College/Graduate Center).

Our new student fellows are Lucien Baskin (Urban Education), Patricia Cipollitti Rodríguez (Philosophy), Benjamin Krusling (English), Khouloud Mallak (Geography), Keith Rosenthal (History), and Eva Rose Steinberg (Anthropology).

We look forward to the conversations, collaborations, and critical engagements this fabulous group will foster in the year ahead.