Transregional Center for Democratic Studies

Alumni News & Publications

TCDS programs have generated over 1700 alumni from both The New School and from more than 50 countries around the world. Here we share news about their work, publications, projects, successes, and adventures!

Transregional Center for Democratic Studies presents its NSSR-Europe Collective

In the summer of 2016 we hosted members of the NSSR-Europe Collective at our 25^th annual Democracy & Diversity Institute in Wroclaw. These TCDS alumni and associates — now based at major academic institutions and policy think-tanks throughout Europe — spoke at the concluding event of the Institute, the conference on The Shrinking of Democracy.

March 15, 2023

TCDS Alumna Publishes New Book, “The Role of Civil Society in Transitional Justice: The Case of Russia”

About the book: This book examines how civil society engaged with transitional justice in Russia, demonstrating abroad range of roles civil society can undertake while operating in a restrictive political context. […]

February 21, 2023

TCDS Alumna Zuzanna Krzątała receives the 2022 Aspen CE Madeleine K. Albright Leadership Award

Zuzanna Krzątała received her MA in Liberal Studies from The New School for Social Research and she is an alumna of the TCDS 2016 Democracy & Diversity Summer Graduate Institute. Through […]

May 11, 2022

Bryan Greene, 2019 Democracy & Diversity Alumnus Named To Fulbright US Student Program

Bryan Greene, an alumnus of the 28th Democracy & Diversity Graduate Summer Institute, with the theme of “Reclaiming Democratic Performatives: Actors, Spaces, Processes,” held in Wrocław, Poland, has received a […]

March 8, 2022

TCDS Alumna Zuzanna Krzątała on Hosting Ukrainian Refugees in Poland – on BBC

Watch the video on BBC: Ukraine: Family of seven refugees now live in volunteer’s flat in Poland Family of seven refugees now live in volunteer’s flat in PolandClose Watch as […]

February 23, 2021

ONLINE | Book Launch: Gender, Pleasure, and Violence, with author Agnieszka Kościańska

Join us for a discussion with the author Agnieszka Koscianska about her book Gender, Pleasure, and Violence: The Construction of Expert Knowledge of Sexuality in Poland, recently translated into English. The book recounts the non-linear […]

November 3, 2020

TCDS Alum, Monica Ciobanu Publishes New Book

Repression, Resistance and Collaboration in Stalinist Romania 1944-1964

September 17, 2020

The Memory Studies Group at The New School Launches Its NEW Website!

Launched more than a decade ago by a cohort of graduate students, The Memory Studies Group at the New School is based at The New School for Social Research (NSSR) under […]

August 19, 2020

Belarus: A View from the ‘Near Abroad’

by Mykola Balaban, Co-founder and President, NGO Environment Security Research Center “PROMETHEUS,” Lviv-Kyiv, Ukraine As we watch developments in Belarus, we all hope the events in Minsk signal the beginning […]

August 14, 2020

Out of Minsk: Interview with TCDS Global Dialogues Fellow Aliaksandr Bystryk

Introduction by Karolina Koziura, PhD Candidate in Sociology and Historical Studies, NSSR and 2016 Global Dialogues Fellow Since August 9th Belarus has been the stage of mass protests, detentions, police […]

March 6, 2020

“The Polish Government’s War on Jewish History,” Interview by TCDS Alumna Emma Saltzberg with Former Polin Museum Director

Congratulations to Emma Saltzberg, TCDS Alumna and graduate student at the New School for Social Research, for her timely interview. In Emma’s words: “I interviewed Dariusz Stola, who was pushed […]

March 6, 2020

TCDS Alumnus Abu Bakarr Bah Edits New Book on “Post-Conflict Institutional Designs BUILDING PEACE AND DEMOCRACY IN AFRICA”

TCDS is proud to announce that Abu Bakarr Bah, Alumnus of our Democracy & Diversity Institute, and Professor of Sociology at Northern Illinois University recently published a new book on Post-Conflict Institutional Designs: […]

March 11, 2019

Congratulations to Global Dialogues 2016 Alumni!

TCDS is excited to announce that our Global Dialogues 2016 Fellows, Malkhaz Toria and Mykola Balaban, received the first Global Dialogues Alumni Grant. Malkhaz and Mykola will work together on […]

October 31, 2017

Malkhaz Toria, Fall 2016 TCDS Global Dialogues Fellow, Op-Ed published in Civil.ge!

Malkhaz Toria, Fall 2016 TCDS Global Dialogues Fellow has had his Op-Ed on the ethnic Georgian residents of the Gali district of Abkhazia, published in Civil.ge! Toria received his Ph.D […]

June 6, 2017

TCDS Alumnus Abu Bakarr Bah Publishes Book on International Security and Peacebuilding

TCDS is proud to announce that Abu Bakarr Bah, Alumnus of our Democracy & Diversity Institute, and Associate Professor of Sociology at Northern Illinois University recently published a new book on International Security and […]

January 31, 2016

TCDS Alumni Publications- “Constitutional Crisis in Poland” by Jan Smoleński

Democracy & Diversity Institute alumnus and New School for Social Research Politics Ph.D. student Jan Smoleński published his latest piece titled “Constitutional Crisis in Poland” on Public Seminar, the New School’s online platform. […]

May 19, 2014

Transregional Center for Democratic Studies

Alumni News & Publications

TCDS Alumna Publishes New Book, “The Role of Civil Society in Transitional Justice: The Case of Russia”

TCDS Alumna Zuzanna Krzątała receives the 2022 Aspen CE Madeleine K. Albright Leadership Award

Bryan Greene, 2019 Democracy & Diversity Alumnus Named To Fulbright US Student Program

TCDS Alumna Zuzanna Krzątała on Hosting Ukrainian Refugees in Poland – on BBC

ONLINE | Book Launch: Gender, Pleasure, and Violence, with author Agnieszka Kościańska

TCDS Alum, Monica Ciobanu Publishes New Book

The Memory Studies Group at The New School Launches Its NEW Website!

Belarus: A View from the ‘Near Abroad’

Out of Minsk: Interview with TCDS Global Dialogues Fellow Aliaksandr Bystryk

“The Polish Government’s War on Jewish History,” Interview by TCDS Alumna Emma Saltzberg with Former Polin Museum Director

TCDS Alumnus Abu Bakarr Bah Edits New Book on “Post-Conflict Institutional Designs BUILDING PEACE AND DEMOCRACY IN AFRICA”

Congratulations to Global Dialogues 2016 Alumni!

Malkhaz Toria, Fall 2016 TCDS Global Dialogues Fellow, Op-Ed published in Civil.ge!

TCDS Alumnus Abu Bakarr Bah Publishes Book on International Security and Peacebuilding

TCDS Alumni Publications- “Constitutional Crisis in Poland” by Jan Smoleński

Yifat Gutman receives Dan David Prize for young scholars

Letter from The New School for Social Research: Elzbieta Matynia Remembers Jonathan Schell

New Foreign Minister of Ukraine is TCDS alumnus!

Krzysztof Czyzewski awarded the Dan David Prize

Hana Cervinkova on the Kidnapping of Wroclaw’s Dwarves

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