PS2

A Radical Intellectual Tradition and Praxis in the Heart of New York City

Housed within the Center for the Humanities, PS2 honors the past, present, and future of Public Scholarship at the CUNY Graduate Center

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Since its founding in 1961, the CUNY Graduate Center has long championed and produced scholarship for, and collaboratively with, the public(s)

PS2 (The Public Scholarship Practice Space) holds a deep commitment to this rich intellectual tradition. We honor GC scholars past and present whose work guides our mission, and celebrate the next generation. And we embody the CUNY Graduate Center’s core value that Knowledge is a Public Good.

We steward:

• the Public Scholarship Graduate Certificate Program
• ERI/ PS2 Summer Public Research Fellowship supporting doctoral research
• Sip n Chat, our semesterly peer-led space for current GC students
• a range of collaborative public programs showcasing the best of creative, collaborative, community-engaged and/or public-facing research

PS2 supports projects, scholars, and practitioners that are rooted in social justice, engaged in multidisciplinary effective practices, and center non-extractive research models including accessibility, reciprocity, self-representation, self-determination, and equity in all community and/ or public-engaged work.

As such, we acknowledge our debt to Black Studies, Ethnic Studies and Queer Studies that have long been at the forefront of producing scholarship for, and by, the people.