Follow the exciting research that our 2026 ERI/PS2 Summer Public Research Fellows completed this past summer.
A glimpse into their work is now available to read 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) 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 non-extractive public-facing and/or community-engaged research.
Our 2026 fellows represent a broad range of doctoral programs at the CUNY Graduate Center, methodologies, and approaches. Read their work on Distributaries
2026 ERI/PS2 Research Fellows Posts
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The Line Below Box Office: A Guide to Who Pays for the Plays You See
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“Wait, go back to that”: Different States, Same Fight
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Bureaucratizing the Dead: Shi’a Corpses, Smuggling, and the British Mandate of Iraq
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Trans-cending the body: Mapping a visual history of Transness in Western India
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Role of the Public Scholar
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An Ultra-Rare Pediatric Cancer and the Intersectionality of Clinical Neglect
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NDARN (Negotiating Darkness: Artists Research Network)
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Democratic Resistance Has a Thousand Faces
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NYC Trash Through a One Health Lens: Waste, Rats, and Disease
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Agrarian Social Movements in Punjab, India
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The Past and the Future Are Now
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Contested Sites Within Cyprus
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Carceral development and organized violence
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Learning the Know-hows of Getting Goods into Palestine
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Will a Program That Worked There Work Here?
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Teaching Machines to See the Road
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Stand Up for Your Rights: Language, Resistance and Community Building
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time before the disaster
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Nuestra Historia Amsterdam
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Experiencing Femtech On and Offline: What happens when an Egyptian women’s health app brings users together?
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Designer Babies or Parental Choice? Exploring Ethical Perspectives on Polygenic Embryo Screening
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Men and the Deportation Regime
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Clairette Atri Mizrahi
ERI/PS2 Public Research Fellow
Luis E. Banegas
ERI/PS2 Public Research Fellow
Marisa Breathwaite
ERI/PS2 Public Research Fellow
Adam Elsayigh
ERI/PS2 Public Research Fellow
Xavier Fitzsimmons Cruz
ERI/PS2 Public Research Fellow
Chris Harding
ERI/PS2 Public Research Fellow
Diana Higuera
ERI/PS2 Public Research Fellow
Chufeng Jiang
ERI/PS2 Public Research Fellow
Googie Karrass
ERI/PS2 Public Research Fellow
Alexander Kwon
ERI/PS2 Public Research Fellow
Danning Li
ERI/PS2 Public Research Fellow
Noelle Mapes
ERI/PS2 Public Research Fellow
S. Maynard
ERI/PS2 Public Research Fellow
Foiniki Papadopoulou
ERI/PS2 Public Research Fellow
Opalanietet (Ryan) Pierce
ERI/PS2 Public Research Fellow
Nikhil Ravipati
ERI/PS2 Public Research Fellow
Taylor Rubin
ERI/PS2 Public Research Fellow
Guillermo Sardi Garcia
ERI/PS2 Public Research Fellow
Irina Shirobokova
ERI/PS2 Public Research Fellow
Evan Stoddard
ERI/PS2 Public Research Fellow
Paulo Suarez
ERI/PS2 Public Research Fellow
