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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Organized into four integrated research groups, the Seminar on Public Engagement and Collaborative Research amplifies the intellectual and creative work at the intersection of the public humanities, the digital humanities, the humanities-related social sciences, and social justice. The Seminar is made possible by the generous support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Working Groups
Organized by faculty and graduate students at The 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.
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.

Planning for Climate Change Resilience in New York City

Developing Curriculum for Adolescents to Cope with Stress

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

Private Lives, Public Literacies

A People's Climate Plan for New York?

Enhancing CUNY-Wide Capacity to Promote Collaborative Gender Justice

Wolf Inventory: A Film Project

Stage Left: A Web Series on Community Theatre

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

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

CUNY Adjunct Incubator

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
