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.
Who We Are
Kendra Sullivan
NYC CJH Co-Director, CUNY
Dasharah Green
Presidential Research Fellow (PS2)
Prithi Kanakamedala
Faculty Coordinator (PS2)
Certificate Coordinator
Stephon Lawrence
Managing Editor (Lost & Found)
Maithreyi (Maithi) Rajeshkumar
Public Engagement Strategist
Climate Justice Fellowship Lead
Jazmyn Michelle Blackburn
Hub Coordinator, CUNY
Research Teams Lead
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!
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
Distributaries
Samuel R. Delany & Kevin Killian: 1985-1993 Correspondence
Distributaries
Between Delivery: Letter Threads After the Theresa Hak Kyung Cha Archive (Part II)
News
Rooted in Community: Collaborative Research Showcase
Opportunities & Call for Papers
WSQ Call for Papers: Indigenous Feminist Pedagogies
News
2026 ERI/ PS2 Summer Public Research Fellows
Distributaries
Enhancing Media Literacy Skills in the Digital Age
Distributaries
Investigating the Intersection of Housing & Immigration
Opportunities & Call for Papers
