List of Graduate Center, CUNY faculty
This a partial list of notable faculty (either past, present, or visiting) at the Graduate Center, CUNY. Awards and prizes. Among the Graduate Center's faculty are recipients of the Pulitzer Prize, the Nobel Prize, the Lakatos Award, the National Medals of Humanities and Science, the Bancroft Prize, Grammy Award, Guggenheim Fellowship, the George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism, New York City Mayor's Award for Excellence in Science and Technology, the Lakatos Award, and the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, as well as memberships in the American Academy of  Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences. Nobel Laureates. In 1997, Queens College recruited future Nobel laureate and co-discoverer of the human immunodeficiency virus Luc Montagnier, appointing him to an endowed professorship. Montagnier was subsequently added to the faculty of the Graduate Center in the department of biology. In 2015, the Graduate Center recruited Nobel laureate Paul Krugman to the faculty. Krugman joined the faculty on a dual appointment, both to the university's Ph.D. program in economics and as a distinguished scholar at the Graduate Center's Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality. At the Stone  Center, Krugman's colleagues include political scientist and sociologist Janet Gornick as well as economist Branko Milanovic. Notable faculty by department. The Graduate Center's employment of faculty operates according to a unique consortium model, which both hosts 140 faculty with sole appointments exclusively at the Graduate Center, often senior scholars in their respective disciplines, and provides joint appointments to 1,800 faculty from the thirteen senior colleges and seven community colleges in the CUNY system to teach classes and advise graduate students.