About
Overview
The Center for the Humanities at the CUNY Graduate Center encourages collaborative, creative, and engaged work in the humanities and social sciences.
While providing students, faculty, and community partners with grants, fellowships, and professional support, we also produce innovative projects and programs, digital and print publications, and infrastructure for public scholarship from a justice-forward framework at CUNY and across NYC.
In addition to our general programming, the Center’s key platforms include the Public Scholarship Practice Space (PS2), the NYC Climate Justice Hub (CJH), Working Groups in the Humanities, Lost & Found: The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative, Women’s Studies Quarterly (WSQ), and Distributaries: New Writing in the Public Humanities.
Taken together, our work enlivens humanities discourse within and beyond the university from a justice-forward framework.
Who We Are
Kendra Sullivan
Co-Director of NYC Climate Justice Hub
Dasharah Green
Presidential Research Fellow (PS2)
Juwon Jun
Programs Manager
Prithi Kanakamedala
Faculty Coordinator (PS2)
Stephon Lawrence
Managing Editor (Lost & Found)
Sampson Starkweather
Publicity & Communications Director
Advisory Board
Edith Everett
Founding Trustee
Sue Lonoff DeCuevas
Founding Trustee
Joanna S. Rose
Founding Trustee
Joshua Brown
Founding Trustee
Graduate Center, CUNY Faculty Board
Herman Bennett
History, The Graduate Center, CUNY
Claire Bishop
Art History, The Graduate Center, CUNY
Emily Braun
Art History, The Graduate Center and Hunter College, CUNY
Joshua Brown
Art History, The Graduate Center, CUNY
Mary Ann Caws
English, French, Comparative Literature, The Graduate Center, CUNY
Vincent Crapanzano
Comparative Literature, Anthropology, The Graduate Center, CUNY
Morris Dickstein
English, The Graduate Center, CUNY
Dagmar Herzog
History, The Graduate Center, CUNY
Wayne Koestenbaum
English, The Graduate Center, CUNY
Nancy K. Miller
English, The Graduate Center, CUNY
David Nasaw
History, The Graduate Center, CUNY
Helena Rosenblatt
History, The Graduate Center, CUNY
Gary Wilder
Anthropology, The Graduate Center, CUNY
Opportunities
Humanities classifieds! Read more to access current calls for student and faculty fellowships, grants, papers, course offerings, research projects looking for collaborators, paid internships, job openings, and more!
Community
Our community includes students, faculty, and extramural partners–individuals, organizations, and foundations–working together to deepen humanities impact in the expanded field.
The Center fosters a community of practice. Those communities of practice coauthor public scholarship. Public scholarship promotes social flourishing within and beyond the university.
History
From the Center’s beginnings in 1993 to its current incarnation, we have expanded our activities to reflect the changing needs of the CUNY Graduate Center, and the many intersecting New York City communities we serve.
News
News
2025 CUNY Adjunct Incubator Awardees
Opportunities & Call for Papers
WSQ Call for Papers: Living with Chronic Illness
Fellowships & Opportunities
Summer Public Research Fellowships from Public Scholarship Practice Space (PS2) & Early Research Initiative
Fellowships, Opportunities & Grants
