We are honored to present CUNY Adjunct Incubator work. Please read about Natalie Willens’ (LaGuardia Community College) public scholarship and its impact below. In Fall 2023, supported by the CUNY LGBTQIA+ Consortium and LaGuardia & Wagner Archives, I began forming a collective of LaGuardia students and faculty to build a map and archive of underrepresented/underfunded…

The following blog entry is a recollection of an archival research project by Lost & Found Fellow and CUNY Graduate Center student Rebecca Teich. There is one story I could tell of the discovery of letters between New Narrative writer Kevin Killian and polymath science fiction, non-fiction, and cross-genre writer Samuel Delany, sometime between 1987…

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…

Collage featuring Diana Higuera-Cortés by Madeleine Barnes.

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

We are honored to present the work of Ángeles Donoso Macaya, faculty lead of Archives in Common, and four of her students, Anahí Benítez Hidalgo, Richard Cuevas, Bertha Martinez, and Nancy Zapata, from her Literature and Civilization of Latin America course at Borough of Manhattan Community College (BMCC). Read more about the inspiration for the…

My project builds on the everyday understanding of property by examining how actors interpret it through the language of land rights as they sought to convert tax documents into formal land titles. These processes were driven by activists and residents living on untenured land who invest significant time and political energy engaging with a techno-savvy…

This past summer, with generous funding from the 2025 ERI/PS2 Summer Public Research Fellowship through housed at The Center for the Humanities, I embarked on three transformative research experiences that fundamentally reshaped not just my research trajectory, but my understanding of what scholarship can and should do in the world. Between exploring and leveraging the…

There are (at least) two words in Portuguese for the verb “to play,” jogar and brincar. Both have several different meanings, usages, and connotations, which, for beginners, might be boiled down to something like this: jogaris the more structured play of organized sports, while brincar is the informal play of children.  This summer, studying at…

The summer PS2 fellowship supported my preliminary fieldwork connecting with agricultural commoning projects across our local N.Y. food system. I’ve been interested in “commoning” – diverse and creative approaches to reclaiming and collectively stewarding the “commons” – since I myself was a farmer for years before embarking on my PhD journey. Struggling with the everyday…

Something had shifted between June and October.  That’s all I knew, as I paged through the folder of calm, administrative memos in the Columbia University Archives reading room. Harry’s job was safe in June, and by October, he was fired. But I couldn’t see what had changed. Time to go to Cambridge.  I’m a US…

My scholarship examines how emerging technologies’ shape social welfare systems. Focusing on the politics of data science, digital infrastructures, and ‘tech for good’, I incorporate perspectives informed by the digital humanities and critical data studies. I am particularly interested in understanding digital literacies as resistance to algorithmic technocracy, and I aim to support projects that…

This summer, I applied for the ERI/PS2 summer fellowship to initiate and build out the Riis Beach Bloc Association, in collaboration with other members of the People’s Riisearch Group, as part of an ongoing practice of organizing-as-research-method. Like a block association, we aimed to build bottom-up power, work toward common goals, and build inroads to…

The ERI/PS2 Summer Public Research Fellowship allowed me to continue working on a digital archive called Solidarity TK that aims to tell the story of the last decade of labor organizing within New York City-based news publications. This is a project that originated in the Interactive Technology and Pedagogy (ITP) program and continued through a…

My dissertation explores how recent efforts are reshaping justice in the United States by expanding community-held restorative justice diversion (RJD). I examine how nine counties across the country are testing new approaches that move oversight and power away from courts and prosecutors and toward local BIPOC-led, justice-oriented community groups. These efforts grow out of broader…

The ERI/PS2 fellowship enabled me to initiate the production of my web series Singing While Trans, an open education resource for transgender musicians and performing artists. Within the last decade, voice teachers and music educators have become increasingly interested in training trans singers, as evidenced by the numerous workshops at national conventions and circulation of…

This summer, I continued developing my dissertation research, a qualitative study exploring parents’ experiences breastfeeding in neonatal intensive care units (NICUs). As a social practice, breastfeeding is laden with meaning. It evokes essentialist ideas about gender and women’s bodies, discourses of intensive mothering and maternal sacrifice, and the history of the medicalization of pregnancy and…

From June to August 2025, the ERI/PS2 Summer Public Research Fellowship allowed me to wrap up ethnographic fieldwork, catch up with key informants, and give back to my research community in the form of a mapping project. In 2024, I worked with young West African migrants recently arrived in the Paris region who had been…

Stirring a big pot of lentil stew, Fernanda told us how many feminists like her left unions and progressive parties after realizing their ideas and experiences of gender violence went unheard by the compañeros (men-comrades). Others nodded in agreement as they drifted closer, drawn by the smell of the stew. Luisa added that something shifted when…