Hunter College

Hunter College, located in the heart of Manhattan, is the largest college in the City University of New York (CUNY). Founded in 1870, it is also one of the oldest public colleges in the country. More than 23,000 students currently attend Hunter, pursuing undergraduate and graduate degrees in more than 170 areas of study.

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The cast of the film ‘Spotlight’ reacts after they won the Oscar for Best Picture at the 88th Academy Awards. Mario Anzuoni/Reuters

Oscars 2016: expert reaction

Kevin Hagopian, Penn State; Amberia Sargent, University of California, Los Angeles; Kathy DeMarco Van Cleve, University of Pennsylvania; Kellie Carter Jackson, Hunter College; Michael Mamp, Central Michigan University; Patti McCarthy, Whittier College, and Thomas Leitch, University of Delaware

From Chris Rock’s opening monologue to red carpet hits (and misses), our experts analyze key moments from this year’s Academy Awards.
A woman cries beside a truck carrying 136 coffins of newly identified victims of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre. They will be buried at the massacre memorial on July 11. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic

Who gets to forget? What the tragedy of Srebrenica says about Europe

Elidor Mehilli, Hunter College

Twenty years after the mass killings of 8,000 Muslim men and boys in Srebrenica in 1995 during the Balkan War, Europeans still grapple with the legacy of genocide.
Alejandro G. Inarritu’s Birdman took home four awards, including Best Picture. Mike Blake/Reuters

Oscars 2015: expert reaction

Michael Green, Arizona State University; Catherine Liu, University of California, Irvine; Fabrizio Cilento, Messiah College; Kellie Carter Jackson, Hunter College; Marissa J. Moorman, Indiana University; Michele Schreiber, Emory University, and Stephen Benedict Dyson, University of Connecticut

Indies to the rescue, the quiet power of foreign language films, Gen-X’s crowning moment. All – and more – are covered by our experts, who weigh in on this year’s Oscars.

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