Professor Sharpe Joins Grad Center Faculty

Congratulations to Political Science professor, Michael O. Sharpe on his appointment to the Political Science department of the CUNY Graduate Center, where he is an alumnus!

Not to worry, however, Dr. Sharpe is not leaving York College. It will remain his home campus where he has taught and mentored countless students even as he continued to nurture his own scholarship since he was hired 15 years ago. Having joint appointments at a home campus and the Graduate Center is not unusual for York professors and others across the system.

Dr. Sharpe was hired at York while he was still a doctoral candidate at the Graduate Center. Two of his four degrees are from that institution. The Political Science scholar has taken the York College, CUNY name throughout the US and abroad and in articles in prestigious publications including "The Washington Post." 

Kudos to Dr. Sharpe! Read the details in the CUNY: political science alumnus returns to graduate center.

**"Dr. Michael Orlando Sharpe’s areas of specialization are comparative politics and international relations and his research interests include looking comparatively at globalization, the politics of international migration, immigrant political incorporation, and political transnationalism. His current research analyzes the factors that propel migrations of postcolonial citizen and coethnic immigrants and what limits or facilitates their political incorporation and political transnationalism in liberal democratic host societies. Dr. Sharpe's book Postcolonial Citizens and Ethnic Migration: the Netherlands and Japan in the Age of Globalization (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014) cross-regionally examines the role of legal citizenship and ethnicity in migration. At York College, Dr. Sharpe teaches classes that include comparative politics, international relations, US politics and government, American foreign policy, comparative politics of migration, Caribbean Politics, Asian Politics, and African Politics."