Significant Findings Speaker Series featuring Professor Shirley Leyro

The BMCC office of Academic Affairs will present “Significant Findings,” a new series of talks by BMCC faculty that will cover publically relevant research and scholarship.

The first presentation features Social Sciences, Human Services and Criminal Justice Professor Shirley Leyro, October 25 at 7 p.m. in Richard Harris Terrace. Her topic will be:

“CUNY American Dream Machine?”
Exploring Feelings of Belonging and Membership by CUNY Noncitizen Students

About Professor Shirley Leyro
A native New Yorker, Shirley Leyro is a critical criminologist who earned her Ph.D. in Criminal Justice from the Graduate Center of the City of New York and John Jay College. She holds an M.A. in Criminal Justice from John Jay College with honors in English and a minor in Deviant Behavior and Social Control.

Professor Leyro’s research explores the role that the vulnerability to deportation, and the fear resulting from it, plays in disrupting the process of integration, and the possible implications of this interruption for immigrants and their communities.

This event is free and open to the public. If you are not affiliated with BMCC or CUNY, please register for this event.

For more information, contact Helene Bach, Director of Research at hbach@bmcc.cuny.edu.

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