City University of New York Graduate Center Welcomes Four New Women Professors

Caitlin Meehye Beach has joined the CUNY Graduate Center faculty as an associate professor of art history. She comes to her new role from Fordham University in New York, where she served as an assistant professor of art history, faculty affiliate in African and African American Studies, and interim co-director of the Asian American studies program. She is the author of Sculpture at the Ends of Slavery (University of California Press, 2022).

Dr. Beach received her bachelor’s degree from Bowdoin College in Maine and her Ph.D. from Columbia University in New York.

Jean Beaman has joined the CUNY Graduate Center faculty as an associate professor of sociology. She most recently taught as an associate professor of sociology at University of California, Santa Barbara. Her background in ethnographic research led her to authoring Citizen Outsider: Children of North African Immigrants in France (University of California Press, 2017).

Dr. Beaman earned her bachelor’s degree, master’s degree, and a Ph.D. all in sociology from Northwestern University in Illinois.

Anaar Desai-Stephens has joined the CUNY Graduate faculty as an associate professor of music and ethnomusicology. Most recently, she served as an assistant professor of ethnomusicology in the Eastman School of Music at the University of Rochester in New York. She also held faculty affiliations with the Institute for Women’s and Gender Studies and the visual and cultural studies program.

Dr. Desai-Stephens is a graduate of the Manhattan School of Music, where she majored in violin performance. She holds a master’s degree in ethnomusicology from Boston University and a Ph.D. in ethnomusicology from Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.

Aliqae Geraci has joined the CUNY Graduate faculty as a critical pedagogy librarian. She most recently served as director of the Walter P. Reuther Library and the Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. Earlier in her career, she was the assistant director of the Catherwood Library at the School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University.

Geraci holds a master’s degree in labor studies from CUNY and a second master’s degree in library and information science from Long Island University.

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