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, CUNY Climate Assembly Project (CCAP), 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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Founding Trustees

Edith Everett
Founding Trustee

Sue Lonoff DeCuevas
Founding Trustee

Joanna S. Rose
Founding Trustee

Margo Viscusi 
Founding Trustee

Stanley Burnshaw Advisory Board

Wayne Koestenbaum
CUNY Graduate Center

Mónica de la Torre
Brooklyn College

Chris Campanioni
CUNY Graduate Center

Celina Su
CUNY Graduate Center

Rosamond King
Brooklyn College

Zohra Saed
Macaulay Honors College

Center for the Humanities Advisory Board

Herman Bennett
CUNY Graduate Center

Joseph Caceres 
Baruch College

Alyson Cole
Queens College and CUNY Graduate Center

Dána-Ain Davis
Queens College

Matt Gold 
CUNY Graduate Center

Kieran Howard
Kingsborough Community College

Dinorah Hudson
CUNY Graduate Center

Ángeles Donoso Macaya
Borough of Manhattan Community College

Amber Musser 
CUNY Graduate Center

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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