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All Is Not Lost ∞ Noguchi near Milton in Queens
Monday, December 22, 2025
We are honored to present CUNY Adjunct Incubator work. Please read about Seth Fein’s (LaGuardia Community College) public scholarship and its impact below. All Is Not Lost ∞ Noguchi near Milton in Queens is a distributary. This documentary essay’s themes overflowed its trunk tributary; my film, contemplating contemporaneous outlier artists, Joseph Cornell (1903-1972) and Isamu...
Participatory Research in Social Justice at Guttman Community College
Tuesday, December 16, 2025
We are honored to present CUNY Adjunct Incubator work. Please read about Jerald Isseks’ (Guttman Community College) public scholarship and its impact below. I teach first-year undergraduate students in American Studies at Guttman Community College. Over the past few years, my students have designed and conducted participatory action research (PAR) projects as the culminating experience...
Where Europe starts: Interviews with Seven Migrants from Africa and the Middle East who Crossed the Białowieża Forest to Seek Asylum in the E.U.
Tuesday, December 16, 2025
We are honored to present CUNY Adjunct Incubator work. Please read about Tusia Dabrowska’s (Design, Queens College; Film Studies, John Jay College) public scholarship and its impact below. Since 2022, I’ve filmed the migration crisis on the Polish-Belarusian border, where thousands of migrants cross one of the last primeval forests in Europe to seek asylum...
“Ghost Notes: A Journaling Practice for Taiwanese American Autoethnography”: by Joy Liu and Alex Ho
Friday, December 12, 2025
We are honored to present CUNY Adjunct Incubator work. Please read about the public scholarship of Joy Liu and Alex Ho (Borough of Manhattan Community College, or BMCC) and its impact below. Ghost Notes: A Journaling Practice for Taiwanese American Autoethnography by Joy Liu and Alex Ho As two CUNY adjuncts with shared interests built...
Syrian Culinary Superstitions
Friday, December 12, 2025
We are honored to present CUNY Adjunct Incubator work. Please read about Alice Kallman’s (Mina Rees Library, CUNY Graduate Center) public scholarship and its impact below. This summer, I was able to invest my time and resources into improving my Arabic and interviewing Syrians currently living outside of Syria due to the civil war that...
Well-being and Resilience: Mental Health and Stress Management Workshop Series
Tuesday, December 9, 2025
We are honored to present CUNY Adjunct Incubator work. Please read about Naziat Hassan’s (Queensborough Community College) public scholarship and its impact below. Mental Health and Stress Management Workshop Series By Naziat Hassan In today’s fast-paced world, stress and anxiety are common. Do we ever stop to reflect on how we can invest in our...
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Between Delivery: Letter Threads After the Theresa Hak Kyung Cha Archive (Part I)
May 13, 2025
This series of letters emerged from Ju Ly Ban’s work as a Fellow for Lost & Found: The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative from the Center for the Humanities at the CUNY Graduate Center, grounded in archival engagement with the work and life of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha. Attuned to the fragments of her presence in the archive, the letters imagine otherwise by rethinking how she has been approached, interpreted, and held in relation. The letters are part of an exchange among Ju Ly Ban, Isabelle Utzinger-Son, and Cici Wu. For the past two years, the three friends have written to one another about Theresa, her life, her art, and the traces of both they have found within and beyond the archive.
About
Ongoing print and online publication series of collaborative and creative work in the humanities at CUNY.
Distributaries is a print and online publication series documenting collaborative and creative public scholarship at CUNY. The diverse forms of knowledge emerging from publicly engaged projects derived from working directly with and for communities requires more dynamic publishing solutions. Distributaries is part of an engaged publishing neighborhood that strives to produce materials salient to frontline-led research projects in novel forms to more nimbly reach the diverse publics they address. Distributaries is an online blog, updated with irregular regularity, and a book publisher whose catalog prioritizes critical inquiry with public impact.
Books
El libro de los frijoles / The Book of Beans
La añoranza del maíz / Longing for the Corn
Comienza con la calabaza: It Begins with the Squash
The Children of the People: Writings by and about CUNY Students on Race and Social Justice
Disruptive Engagement: An Organizer’s Guide to Building Community Power for Justice in Land Use and Housing in New York City
