
About the program
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. Made possible by the generous support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, this initiative brings together over 40 faculty, students, and–uniquely–civic, cultural, and community partners to produce and circulate research through public projects, engaged scholarship, and interdisciplinary activities at CUNY and throughout New York City.
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Working with a cohort of faculty, graduate and undergraduate students, and community partners, the Andrew W. Mellon Seminar on Public Engagement and Collaborative Research is an interdisciplinary platform for creative, activist, and scholarly collaboration that supports humanistic research, teaching, and activities with social justice aims. The project opens up and democratizes knowledge production, supports civic and community engagement, and connects classrooms, CUNY campuses, and the city of New York.


Archives in Common: Migrant Practices / Knowledges / Memory

Environment Community Humanities Oasis (ECHO)

On the Line: Land Use, Food Access, Climate Justice and Organizing in New York City

Resilient Participatory Budgeting

Here and Not There

The Schools We Need: Lessons Learned from Harlem

Afrofuturist Sound Ecologies
Working Groups
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.

Nuyorican Artists in the Cafe
This Nuyorican Artists in the Cafe working group is looking to document the influence of artists who have emerged from the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, from its inception in 1973 and onward.

Wellcome's Mindscapes NYC Working Group
The Center for the Humanities, CUNY is hosting a Working Group for local Mindscapes partners in New York to workshop projects and collaborate over the next year.

Institutional Apparatuses, or, the Museum as Form

The City Amplified Working Group
VHS Archives

Primary Source: On Special Collections, Archives, and Libraries
Projects
These projects — organized by students, faculty, community partners, and staff — are developed over time using interdisciplinary research methods and innovative forms of dissemination to reach publics in and beyond the academy.

The Center for the Humanities Annual Report, 2021-2022

Mindscapes

Countermapping the Humanities survey about public humanities at CUNY
James Gallery Decolonizing Curatorial Practice Annotated Bibliography Project

Transgender and Non Binary Contingent Faculty Experience at CUNY

Public Health Informatics Careers Dashboard

The Adjunctification of Higher Education: A Guided Syllabus
Im/migration, Belonging, and Disrupting Cycles of State Violence: A Southeast Asian Deportation Defense Case Study Curricular Toolkit

Be A Buddy Multimedia Project: Stories of Strength from the South Bronx

The Community Sensor Lab

Teaching and Learning Spanish at CUNY: Public Language Education Through Archival Resources

Seed Books

Virtual Reality and Environmental Social Justice presents "TrashTalk: A VR Exploratorium"

CUNY Adjunct Oral History Project

Teaching and Engaging the PR Syllabus

Human Politics

C.A.R.E. Program for Environmental Justice

Just Research: Study, Struggle, Solidarity

The Center for the Humanities Annual Report, 2019-2020

Wellcome's Mindscapes New York December Convening

The Center for the Humanities Annual Report, 2018-2019

Housing Literacy: Decoding NYC’s Rent Regulations

2020 CUNY Adjunct Incubator Projects

A New Risk Principle

Wellcome Trust Mental Health Curatorial Research Fellow

Know Your Work-Know Your Worth: Portfolio Design Thinking Cards

Enhancing CUNY-Wide Capacity to Promote Collaborative Gender Justice

Radiating Black ~ Puerto Rican ~ Women’s Teaching Archives from CUNY to the Americas and the Caribbean (and Back Again)

The Urban Research Prototype

Wolf Inventory: A Film Project

Revolution of Dignity: Art Music Culture and Political Change in Ukraine

Private Lives, Public Literacies

Public Affairs Media Study

Curriculum to Help Adolescents Cope with Stress

Increasing Inclusivity of Scholarship and Practice for Social Workers

A People's Climate Plan for New York?

Stage Left: A Web Series on Community Theatre
The City Amplified: Oral Histories and Radical Archives

The Impact of Listening and Being Heard: Oral History, Archives, & Advocacy (Spring 2019)

Viewing Childcare Environments through the Lens of Photo Essays: A Reflective Tool for Pre-Service Teachers

Environmental Ethics

Poetry and Public Life

Black Land Ownership

Linguistic Landscapes: Unpacking Language Hierarchies

Asian American History: “What a test never taught me…”

En un cuartito los dos: Niño de Elche at the James Gallery

Waste

The Object Library: Material starting points for knowledge

United Nations, Queens: A Local History of the 1947 Israel-Palestine Partition

Apps for Activists

VR/AR, New Media Arts, Health, and the Environment

Contagious Cities Cultural Initiative, 2018-2019

Climate Action Lab

Energy

The Impact of Listening and Being Heard: Oral History, Archives, & Advocacy Workshop

Food

Enhancing CUNY-Wide Capacity to Promote the Success of Student-Parents

Lost & Found: In the Classroom

Édouard Glissant at The Graduate Center, CUNY

2019 CUNY Adjunct Incubator Projects

Innovating Technology In Art: Developing Contemporary Music for 3D-Printed Instruments

Creating a Literary Commons: Engaging Students in Digital Archives

Securitizing Resistance in Gafsa: Stratified Vulnerability and Surplus Labor Accumulation

Ethnography of Food Provisioning in Newark, NJ: Food Practices, Health Status, Social Identities, and Place of Residency

Bridging Mathematics and Computer Science

Successful Lessons: Best Practices by Adjuncts in Literature & Composition/Rhetoric

g1 (host): lostatsea

The Right to the Image: Syrian Film Collective Abounaddara’s Emergency Cinema

The Musical Seeds Project: Intersections of Ecology, Music, and Dance
Research Fellowship: The Ramapough Lunaape Nation
An Ongoing Collaboration with Raven Press

"Recording and Performing": Apparatuses of Capture, Documentary, and Liveness in Artists' Cinema

Welfare Reform Syllabus

Rosa Parks' Biography: A Resource for Teaching Rosa Parks
