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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Fellows
The Center funds and supports a wide range of student and faculty fellows at the CUNY Graduate Center and across CUNY. Fellows receive funds to develop innovative projects, advance research, build professional skills, collaborate with community partners, and provide a platform for public scholarship, bridging humanities research and teaching with public engagement both inside and outside of the academy.
Faculty Fellows
Faculty Fellows join the Center from across CUNY community, senior, and graduate degree granting colleges to mentor student fellows, innovate and implement curriculum, curate public programs, launch collaborative public research projects, shape broader institutional design, and incubate emergent initiatives that need a homebase.
Student Fellows
Student fellows are interdisciplinary doctoral candidates at the CUNY Graduate Center. We currently offer Climate Justice Hub Fellowships, Lost & Found Archival Research Fellowships, Public Scholarship Practice Space Fellowships, Diasporican Archives Summer Fellowships, and Public Humanities Fellowships. Fellows receive grants to pursue individual research, to participate in peer-to-peer study groups based on a cohort model, or to gain professional skills through leadership and research opportunities in their field as they advance toward degree.
Community Partners
With roughly 80% of CUNY students coming from New York City high schools, and 80% of CUNY graduates remaining in New York City to live, work, and lead in virtually all sectors of city governance and management, CUNY communities are NYC communities.
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Participants
Through its public programs, seminars, conferences, publications and exhibitions, the Center for the Humanities brings CUNY students and faculty from various disciplines into dialogue with each other and prominent writers, artists, scholars, and civic leaders from around the world.
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Supporters
The Center for the Humanities is reliant on private, foundation, and individual gifts to augment resources allocated by CUNY.
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Get Involved
If you’d like to contribute please contact our Director Kendra Sullivan at [email protected] for more information on how to get involved with our various programs and initiatives.
We depend on the generous support of our friends and donors to continue our extensive programming!
We hope you might help make possible the important role we play in the intellectual and cultural life of the city by donating to the Center for the Humanities. No matter the amount, your support will sustain and strengthen public humanities in New York City.
You may make a tax-deductible donation to the Center for the Humanities or one of its dependent platforms, including Lost & Found, Public Scholarship Practice Space, Working Groups in the Humanities, or the Climate Justice Hub online here:
Or you may send a check made out to The Graduate Center Foundation, Inc., with a memo line to the Center for the Humanities, to the following address:
CUNY Graduate Center
Office of Institutional Advancement
365 Fifth Avenue, Suite 8204
New York, NY 10016-430