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.
Nicolas Benacerraf
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
