Our Work


Working with students, faculty, and community partners, our work enlivens humanities discourse within and beyond the university from a justice-forward framework.

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Publishing Scholarship Practice Space (PS2)

Building on the strength and long history of engaged, applied, and activist research at the CUNY Graduate Center, The Public Scholarship Practice Space (PS2) advances institutional and civic transformation through publicly engaged scholarship.

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Public Engagement

The Seminar on Public Engagement and Collaborative Research expands the diverse ways that the public humanities function in public life and as a public good.

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Working Groups in the Humanities

Organized by faculty and graduate students at The CUNY Graduate Center, Working Groups stem from our ongoing Seminars in the Humanities series. Working Groups provide the time, space, sociality, and institutional support necessary for participants to develop and implement sustained intellectual inquiry in extra-disciplinary fields.

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Advancing equitable climate solutions led by communities of color on the front lines of climate breakdown.

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Selected Projects

Countermapping the Humanities

This survey is an effort to learn from CUNY’s public humanities scholars, and their community partners, how scholar-activism, public higher education, and knowledge from lived experience can shape the future of public humanities.