About Us

Housed within the Center for the Humanities, PS2 honors the past, present, and future of public scholarship at the CUNY Graduate Center.

PS2 (Public Scholarship Practice Space)

Center for the Humanities, Rm 5103

365 5th Ave, New York

New York, NY 10016

A Radical Intellectual Tradition

Since its founding in 1961, the CUNY Graduate Center has long championed and produced scholarship for, and in collaboration 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 Certificate Program
ERI/ PS2 Summer Public Research Fellowship
Sip n Chat, our semesterly peer-led space for current GC students

PS2 supports projects, scholars, and practitioners who work centers social justice, engages in interdisciplinary effective practices, and adopts non-extractive research models including accessibility, reciprocity, self-representation, self-determination, and equity in all community and/ or public-engaged work. In doing so, we acknowledge our debt to fields such as Black Studies, Ethnic Studies, and Queer Studies that have long been at the forefront of producing scholarship for, and by, the people.