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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.
Read moreSeminar on Public Engagement and Collaborative Research
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.
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.
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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.
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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.
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Institutional Apparatuses, or, the Museum as Form
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The City Amplified Working Group
VHS Archives
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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.
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The Center for the Humanities Annual Report, 2021-2022
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Mindscapes
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Countermapping the Humanities survey about public humanities at CUNY
James Gallery Decolonizing Curatorial Practice Annotated Bibliography Project
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Expanding Options for Digital Repatriation
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Transgender and Non Binary Contingent Faculty Experience at CUNY
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Public Health Informatics Careers Dashboard
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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
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Be A Buddy Multimedia Project: Stories of Strength from the South Bronx
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The Community Sensor Lab
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Teaching and Learning Spanish at CUNY: Public Language Education Through Archival Resources
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Seed Books
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Virtual Reality and Environmental Social Justice presents "TrashTalk: A VR Exploratorium"
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CUNY Adjunct Oral History Project
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Teaching and Engaging the PR Syllabus
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Human Politics
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C.A.R.E. Program for Environmental Justice
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Just Research: Study, Struggle, Solidarity
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The Center for the Humanities Annual Report, 2019-2020
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Wellcome's Mindscapes New York December Convening
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The Center for the Humanities Annual Report, 2018-2019
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Housing Literacy: Decoding NYC’s Rent Regulations
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2020 CUNY Adjunct Incubator Projects
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A New Risk Principle
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Wellcome Trust Mental Health Curatorial Research Fellow
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Know Your Work-Know Your Worth: Portfolio Design Thinking Cards
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Enhancing CUNY-Wide Capacity to Promote Collaborative Gender Justice
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Radiating Black ~ Puerto Rican ~ Women’s Teaching Archives from CUNY to the Americas and the Caribbean (and Back Again)
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The Urban Research Prototype
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Wolf Inventory: A Film Project
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Revolution of Dignity: Art Music Culture and Political Change in Ukraine
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Private Lives, Public Literacies
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Public Affairs Media Study
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Curriculum to Help Adolescents Cope with Stress
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Increasing Inclusivity of Scholarship and Practice for Social Workers
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A People's Climate Plan for New York?
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Stage Left: A Web Series on Community Theatre
The City Amplified: Oral Histories and Radical Archives
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The Impact of Listening and Being Heard: Oral History, Archives, & Advocacy (Spring 2019)
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Viewing Childcare Environments through the Lens of Photo Essays: A Reflective Tool for Pre-Service Teachers
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Environmental Ethics
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Poetry and Public Life
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Black Land Ownership
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Linguistic Landscapes: Unpacking Language Hierarchies
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Asian American History: “What a test never taught me…”
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En un cuartito los dos: Niño de Elche at the James Gallery
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Waste
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The Object Library: Material starting points for knowledge
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United Nations, Queens: A Local History of the 1947 Israel-Palestine Partition
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Apps for Activists
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VR/AR, New Media Arts, Health, and the Environment
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Contagious Cities Cultural Initiative, 2018-2019
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Climate Action Lab
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Energy
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The Impact of Listening and Being Heard: Oral History, Archives, & Advocacy Workshop
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Food
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Enhancing CUNY-Wide Capacity to Promote the Success of Student-Parents
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Lost & Found: In the Classroom
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Édouard Glissant at The Graduate Center, CUNY
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2019 CUNY Adjunct Incubator Projects
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Innovating Technology In Art: Developing Contemporary Music for 3D-Printed Instruments
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Creating a Literary Commons: Engaging Students in Digital Archives
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Securitizing Resistance in Gafsa: Stratified Vulnerability and Surplus Labor Accumulation
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Ethnography of Food Provisioning in Newark, NJ: Food Practices, Health Status, Social Identities, and Place of Residency
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Bridging Mathematics and Computer Science
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Successful Lessons: Best Practices by Adjuncts in Literature & Composition/Rhetoric
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The Right to the Image: Syrian Film Collective Abounaddara’s Emergency Cinema
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The Musical Seeds Project: Intersections of Ecology, Music, and Dance
Research Fellowship: The Ramapough Lunaape Nation
An Ongoing Collaboration with Raven Press
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"Recording and Performing": Apparatuses of Capture, Documentary, and Liveness in Artists' Cinema
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Welfare Reform Syllabus
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Rosa Parks' Biography: A Resource for Teaching Rosa Parks
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