About Us
Housed within the Center for the Humanities, we honor the past, present, and future of public scholarship at the CUNY Graduate Center.
The Graduate School and University Center of The City University of New York has a long, rich intellectual history of producing scholarship for the public.
The Public Scholarship Practice Space (PS2) at the Center for the Humanities honors this tradition through public programming, publications, curricula development, and financial support for graduate research (ERI/PS2 Summer Fellowship) and faculty research (CUNY Adjunct Incubator).
- PS2 intentionally builds upon the expertise and knowledge production of faculty, staff, and our students – both current and alumni – who are at the center of applied, engaged, and activist research.
- We echo the core values of the Center for the Humanities at the CUNY Graduate Center which celebrates its own long history of championing public-facing work.
- Together, we hold a deep commitment to supporting projects, scholars, and practitioners whose work centers social justice, engages in interdisciplinary effective practices, and adopts non-extractive research models including accessibility, reciprocity, self-representation, and equity in all community or public-engaged work.
- In doing so, we acknowledge our debt to fields such as Black Studies, Ethnic Studies, and Queer Studies that have been at the forefront of making scholarship for the people.
Finally, we also honor Graduate Center scholars past and present whose work guides the program’s mission, and acknowledge our intellectual debt to them.