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.

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Who We Are

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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! 

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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.

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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

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