Follow the exciting research our 2025 ERI/PS2 Summer Public Research Fellows completed this past summer on Distributaries — an online publication series from the Center for the Humanities documenting collaborative and creative public scholarship at CUNY.
PS2 (The Public Scholarship Practice Space (PS2) housed at The Center for the Humanities honors the past, present, and future of public scholarship at the CUNY Graduate Center. As part of that mission, we are committed to supporting the future of applied, activist, and community-engaged scholarship. With generous funding from the Provost’s Office, the Early Research Initiative (ERI) and PS2 Summer Public Research Fellowship is awarded to CUNY Graduate Center doctoral students whose research prioritizes a public-facing component and/ or community-engagement.
Our 2025 fellows represent a broad range of doctoral programs at the CUNY Graduate Center, methodologies, and approaches. Their home departments included: Anthropology, Art History, Earth and Environmental Sciences, History, LAILAC, Music, Psychology, Social Welfare, and Sociology. Read their work on Distributaries
Read about our fellows’ research projects below:
2025 ERI PS2 Research Fellows Projects
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Plotting the Commons in Central India: The De-Commodification of Urban Space in a SmartCity
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Climate Change, Resilience Strategies, and Climate Justice Counter-Discourses in Miami, Florida
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Coming together as the Riis Beach Bloc Association
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When Harry Got Fired
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Language Game
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From Reunion to Revolution: How this Summer Shaped My Dissertation Journey
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Agrarian Commoning: Building Relational Food Systems
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A Summer Forging Connections Between Civic Tech, Digital Literacy, and Democracy
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The Fuller the Rice Stalk, the Lower it Bends: Community in Progress
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Listening to Journalism Labor Organizers and More TK (To Come)!
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Singing While Trans: A By-Trans, For-Trans Open Education Resource
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Mapping the national coordination of unaccompanied minors in France
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Collective Bodies Against Indebtedness (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
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Everyday Queer Resistance in Unbearable Times
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The Work of Envisioning and Implementing an Alternative to Economic-Development-as-Usual
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Digital Infrastructure: Increasing Internet Access through Community Technology
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The N’dee/N’nee/Ndé Lotería Project: Co-Creating a Tool for Language Reclamation
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Reclaiming the sea for Penang’s urban future: What remains?
2025 ERI/PS2 Summer Public Research Fellows
Tenn Joe Lim
ERI/PS2 Public Research Fellow
Denisse Gómez-Retana
ERI/PS2 Public Research Fellow
Sumeja Tulić
ERI/PS2 Public Research Fellow
Seon Britton
ERI/PS2 Public Research Fellow
Nikhil Ramachandran
ERI/PS2 Public Research Fellow
Mica Baum-Tuccillo
ERI/PS2 Public Research Fellow
María Sosa
ERI/PS2 Public Research Fellow
Léa Coffineau
ERI/PS2 Public Research Fellow
Laura Hooberman
ERI/PS2 Public Research Fellow
Kristofer Eckelhoff
ERI/PS2 Public Research Fellow
Joshua Adler
ERI/PS2 Public Research Fellow
Jessica Bal
ERI/PS2 Public Research Fellow
jah elyse sayers
ERI/PS2 Public Research Fellow
Jaclyn Reyes
ERI/PS2 Public Research Fellow
Ian Williams
ERI/PS2 Public Research Fellow
Cassandra Cronin
ERI/PS2 Public Research Fellow
Danielle Bennett
ERI/PS2 Public Research Fellow
Brendan O’Connor
ERI/PS2 Public Research Fellow
Brittany Brathwaite
ERI/PS2 Public Research Fellow
