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PS2 (Public Scholarship Practice Space) @humanitiescuny honors the past, present & future of public scholarship @thegraduatecenter • bit.ly/cunygcps2
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Read more about the exciting research our 2025 ERI/PS2 Summer Public Research Fellows completed this past summer centerforthehumanities.org/publications...

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November 17, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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📣 Apply for the 2026 ERI/PS2 Summer Public Research Fellowships @humanitiescuny.bsky.social

📌 Open to current Ph.D. Students @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social only

More info:
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November 11, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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Congrats Dr. Ujju Aggarwal PS2 Advisory Committee member & alumna @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social

Ujju is Assistant Prof of Anthropology + Experiential Learning @thenewschool.bsky.social & holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology from the GC CUNY

www.upress.umn.edu/978151791567... @humanitiescuny.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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Nov 13, 3pm-4:30pm @gctlc.bsky.social x PS2 @humanitiescuny.bsky.social present Sip n Chat F25 edition. Celebrating our 2025 ERI/PS2 Summer Public Research Fellows & TLC Fellows

Open to all students @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social — chat with your peers, snack away, & create community with us
October 29, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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That’s a 24/25 wrap from both of us at PS2 @humanitiescuny.bsky.social — wishing you all a joyous summer of reading, writing, & research

See you back in the building this fall @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social ~ Prithi & Dasharah
May 29, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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Follow the exciting research our 2024 ERI/PS2 Summer Public Research Fellows completed last summer centerforthehumanities.org/publications...

Were excited to see our 2025 ERI/PS2 Scholars progress their doctoral research this summer @humanitiescuny.bsky.social @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social
May 29, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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Come see this exceptional crew — the next generation of scholars for a public good — showcase the best of @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social

Dissertation Showcase TONIGHT
May 13, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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From our friends at Weeksville: free virtual genealogy series by acclaimed genealogist Nicka Sewell Smith, in partnership w/cultural strategist Robyne Walker Murphy exploring African American family history, centering Black voices, ancestral stories & legacy www.weeksvillesociety.org/event/uneart...
May 6, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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GC community — join our friends @gctlc.bsky.social @futuresed.bsky.social @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social this Fri, May 9

Register:
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May 6, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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Catch it before it closes (Sun May 4) — Belle da Costa Greene: A Librarian's Legacy at the Morgan
May 1, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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Welcome Dr. Ángeles Donoso Macaya who teaches MALS 74800 Introduction to Public Scholarship in Fall 2025 @liberalstudiesgc.bsky.social @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social

Cross listed with HIST 75500 & WGS, registration begins Tues, Apr 29

Read more about Ángeles: www.gc.cuny.edu/people/angel...
Black and white photo of Ángeles Donoso Macaya who is smiling at the camera. A respected public scholar, Dr. Ángeles Donoso Macaya Professor at LAILAC at the CUNY Graduate Center and Professor of Spanish at BMCC CUNY is a feminist visual studies scholar and writer from Santiago, Chile, based in New York. Ángeles Donoso Macaya’s research and writing spans Latin American and Caribbean photography theory and history, counter-archival production, human rights activism, memory studies, documentary film, (trans)feminisms in the Southern Cone, and public humanities scholarship. She is the author of the award-winning book The Insubordination of Photography (U Florida Press 2020; 2nd ed. 2023)/ La insubordinación de la fotografía (Metales 2021); of the autobiographical essay Lanallwe (Tusquets 2023); and co-author, along with photographer Paz Errázuriz, of archivo imperfect/imperfect archive (Metales Pesados 2023). Between 2020-2023, she co-led Archives in Common: Migrant Practices/ Knowledges/Memory, part of the Mellon Seminar on Public Engagement and Collaborative Research at the Center for the Humanities at The CUNY Graduate Center. Ángeles is a member The Social Text Collective and part of Editorial Board of Women Studies Quarterly Several hands shown in a photo around a table with crayons and paper. Photo credit: m Cynthia Santos-Briones for Brewing Memories/ Archives in Common (Brewing Memories is the workshop series we devised with La Morada restaurant for Archives in Common in 2021-2022)
April 23, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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Thanks to artist Walis Johnson. An embodied sense of place asks the public to explore how historic redlining & gentrification affect the political & physical sense of self + landscape through walking

Special Topics in Public Scholarship @liberalstudiesgc.bsky.social @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social
April 3, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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Announcing our 2025 ERI/PS2 Summer Public Research Fellows @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social

With generous funding from the Provost’s Office, 20 Ph.D. students will advance their public-facing and/or community-engaged research this summer

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Profile photos of 20 awardees of the 2025 ERI/PS2 Public Summer Fellowship at the CUNY Graduate Center
April 3, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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Brooklyn has a distinct story to tell in the history of social justice. Join historians @prithik.bsky.social & @profmsinha.bsky.social as they share 19th c. New York stories of resistance

@thegraduatecenter.bsky.social students email [email protected] for FREE tix

www.nyhistory.org/programs/bro...
April 2, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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Congrats to our own Dasharah Green - Ph.D. Candidate @cunyenglish.bsky.social + Presidential Research Fellow PS2 @humanitiescuny.bsky.social

She is the recipient of an Institute for Research on the African Diaspora in the Americas & the Caribbean (IRADAC) Fellowship @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social
March 24, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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#springequinox called for a @liberalstudiesgc.bsky.social X #nyu #museumstudies collab

Thank you Prof Lauraberth Lima (NYU Museum Studies Graduate Program) & artist Jarrett Key for sharing your wisdom & work, and to FIERMAN gallery for hosting our class @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social
March 20, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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3/21 at 4pm• PODCASTING THE HUMANITIES workshop @cunyenglish.bsky.social

Destry Maria Sibley is a 2024 ERI/PS2 Summer Public Research Fellow ⤵️
March 18, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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Who doesn’t love a visit to NYPL Archives #loveyourlibrary

We read @hughryan.bsky.social then explored Women’s Prison Association Records as an exemplary case study of public scholarship

Special Topics in Public Scholarship Spring 25 @liberalstudiesgc.bsky.social @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social
Archival box. Label reads Women’s Prison Association Records with NYPL logo on it Graduate students in public scholarship seminar listen to archivist at NYPL archives. A screen in red reads working with archives at New York Public Library A cardboard cutout of Brooke Astor for whom a reading room is named at NYPL Front cover of Hugh Ryan’s book The Women’s House of Detention
March 13, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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On behalf of @gctlc.bsky.social & PS2 @humanitiescuny.bsky.social — thank you to everyone who swung by our Sip n Chat. We had such a great time, we forgot to take photos 😅 See you again in Fall 2025 ✨

Here’s to the next generation of public scholars and educators @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social
March 7, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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“Where would you take someone on a guided tour of your neighborhood?” asks @gabriellebv.bsky.social in Cities We Need @mitpress.bsky.social

Thank you for inviting @liberalstudiesgc.bsky.social students to share spaces in the @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social building that hold meaning for them 🏢
March 7, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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SAVE THE DATE • The Teaching & Learning Center x PS2 present Sip n Chat S25. How does your public-facing research inform your teaching (& vice versa)?

Open to all students @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social — chat with your peers, grab something to eat, create community with us
Flier with red soda can reads Sip n Chat. Thurs Mat 6 3pm-4:30pm Skylight Room at CUNY Graduate Center. How does your public facing research inform your pedagogy, and vice versa? Join us for Sip n Chat — our semesterly peer-led space for current GC students to create community and informally talk to one another about their public-facing/ community-engaged/ applied/ activist research. No presentations or talks, just an informal gathering of community. Like all good community gatherings, we will have food and drink. About The Teaching and Learning Center (TLC) creates and connects opportunities for GC students to grow as educators and scholars within the nation’s largest public urban university system. PS2 housed within the Center for the Humanities, honors the past, present, & future of public scholarship at The CUNY Graduate Center.
February 10, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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February 3, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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TODAY! On behalf of our colleagues at BRES (Black Race Ethnic Studies) join BRES faculty for their open house and learn more about the new MA and Ph.D. Program @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social

Register here: gc-cuny-edu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Flier than that reads Join Us for an Open House Hosted by Our Faculty (Herman Bennett, Kandice Chuh, and Martin Ruck) Monday February 3, 2025, 4pm-6pm via Zoom
February 3, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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a visually satisfying reading list 💜📚 Special Topics in Public Scholarship @liberalstudiesgc.bsky.social @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social @prithik.bsky.social

📚Kaitlyn Greenidge,Sady Sullivan, Maggie Schreiner,Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani, @hughryan.bsky.social •guest lect Lauraberth Lima, Walis Johnson
Book spines of several books including Libertie by Kaitlyn Greenidge, City Amplified Anthology with essays by Aady Sullivan and Maggie Schreiner, Women’s House of Detention by Hugh Ryan, Cities We Need by Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani, and Brooklynites by Prithi Kanakamedala stacked on a desk
January 24, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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That’s a wrap on Fall 2024 ❄️
Look forward to creating community with you again in Spring 2025 🌺 @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social
December 19, 2024 at 2:11 PM