In this audio interview, the PublicsLab’s leaders reflect on the work accomplished, and offer provocations towards radically reimagining what a healthier culture for graduate education could be.
Author: Nicolas Benacerraf
Serving a New Generation of Students: How the History Program Used Its Curriculum Grant
Professor Annie Valk and doctoral student Deena Ecker discuss the role of the public historian, how to free the field of history from antiquated notions of academia, and the importance of advocating for up-and-coming scholars.
Rethinking Knowledge Arrangements: How the English Program Used Its Curriculum Grant
Professor Matt Gold and PublicsLab Fellow Rob Yates discuss how the grant supported transformations to the English program’s coursework, examinations, mentorship, and professionalization efforts.
Future Manifestations of the PublicsLab at the Graduate Center
Several of the PublicsLab’s initiatives will be institutionalized at the CUNY Graduate Center under the banner of the Public Scholarship Practice Space (PS2), which launches in the fall of 2023.
Call for Curriculum Grant Proposals
The Doctoral Curriculum Enhancement Grants (DCEGs) were awarded to GC programs who focused on expanding curriculum and praxis to meet the needs and the values of public scholarship.
Creating Curriculum to Meet Community Needs: How the Earth and Environmental Sciences Program Used Its Curriculum Grant
Professor Monica Varsanyi, Professor Kieren Howard, and doctoral student Georgie Humphries share how they developed a new certificate program in Environmental Justice, open to students across the GC.
Radical Honesty: Truth-Telling as Pedagogy for Working Through Shame in Academic Spaces
In this essay, Professor Bianca C. Williams outlines her pedagogy of truth-telling in the classroom, which features a practice of reading “positionally statements” to students on the first day of class.
