Our postdoctoral scholars program, launched in 2019, is an integral component of the Stone Center. Each academic year, a new cohort of two postdocs joins our team at the Graduate Center for a period of two years. The postdocs — four in residence at any given time — carry out individual research projects related to socio-economic inequality and mobility, and engage with the Center’s senior scholars, associated graduate students, and staff.

In each cohort, one postdoc is selected for a position that focuses on high-end wealth inequality in the United States, internationally, or both. In addition to doing individual research, this postdoc contributes to the Center as a member of the GC Wealth Project team. The second position is open to candidates working on various facets of socio-economic inequality. Preferred topics vary from year to year and often expand the range of the Center’s existing work in new disciplinary, methodological, and substantive directions.

In addition to a competitive salary and a comprehensive CUNY benefits package, postdoctoral scholars receive generous funding to hire Graduate Center students as research assistants, private offices with desktop computers, and additional support to help offset the costs of software, books and journals, and research-related travel. Postdocs have the opportunity to organize and participate in the Multidisciplinary Seminar Series, a forum that connects researchers from various backgrounds, both inside and outside of the Graduate Center, who are interested in inequality; to submit working papers to the Stone Center Working Paper Series; and to extend the reach of their work to both academic and general audiences through the Stone Center’s website.

Current Postdoctoral Scholars

 

Selected Work by Stone Center Postdoctoral Scholars