Virtual Town Hall Discussion of Tastes Like War

​Rose M. Kim

Faculty coleader

Rose M. Kim is Associate Professor of Sociology at the Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY. She received her Ph.D. in sociology from The Graduate Center and her B.A. in Art and Design from The University of Chicago.  She was born and raised in Los Angeles, CA.  She co-edited Women on the Role of Public Higher Education: Personal Reflections from CUNY’s Graduate Center (2015) and Struggle for Ethnic Identity: Narratives by Asian American Professionals (1999).  She has published in various journals, including Amerasia, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Qualitative Inquiry and Socialism and Democracy.  Prior to graduate school she worked as a reporter at New York Newsday and the Los Angeles Times. She was part of a team of journalists and photographers that won a Pulitzer Prize for its coverage of the 1992 L.A. riots/insurrection/saigu, an event she re-examines in her scholarly work. Her research areas include racialization, mass media discourse and public higher education.

Prince Cunningham

Prince Cunningham is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Coordinator of the LGBTQ+ Minor Program at State University of New York (SUNY) Fashion Institute of Technology. He earned his PhD from the Graduate Center’s Sociology Doctoral program in 2014 and winner of the Koonja Mitchell Memorial Prize for his dissertation research, the award given in honor of Grace Cho’s mother. An auto-ethnographer and interdisciplinary scholar, since earning tenure in 2019 he has turned his attention to writing poetry, with his book-length manuscript Fire Burning Water under review for publication. He has read his poetry publicly at venues such as Cobra Club Literary Salon and the Robert Frost Place Annual Conference on Poetry.

Jean Halley

Jean Halley (Professor of Sociology) teaches at the College of Staten Island and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY). She earned her doctorate in sociology at the Graduate Center of CUNY, and her master’s degree in theology at Harvard University. Her book about touching children, breastfeeding, children’s sleep, gender and heteronormativity, Boundaries of Touch: Parenting and Adult-Child Intimacy was published in 2007. She also assisted Patricia Ticineto Clough in editing The Affective Turn: Theorizing the Social (2007), and co-authored with Amy Eshleman and Ramya Vijaya, Seeing White: An Introduction to White Privilege and Race (2011; second edition 2022). Her book, The Parallel Lives of Women and Cows: Meat Markets, a combination of memoir and social history of cattle ranching in the United States, came out in 2012. She and Amy Eshleman published Seeing Straight: An Introduction to Gender and Sexual Privilege on gender and heteronormativity in 2017. Halley’s book, Horse Crazy: Girls and the Lives of Horses, came out with University of Georgia Press in 2019. Finally, co-authored with Ron Nerio The Roads to Hillbrow: Making Life in South Africa’s Community of Migrants came out with Fordham University Press in 2022. Halley and her horse, Snipaway, grew up in the rural Rocky Mountains. She now lives in New York City with a couple of humans, one pitbull and one vicious chihuahua.