Professor Michelle Fine talks about the relationship between participatory action research and public scholarship, and the critical role public scholars can play in the implementation of just social policies.
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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.
Professor Alexis Jemal gives insights into the impact that the field of Social Work has had on public scholarship, as well as embodied theories of critical consciousness and transformative potential.
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.
Mica Baum-Tuccillo and Nic Benacerraf talk about how, as both academics and practitioners, the PublicsLab gave them time and the resources to be accountable to the communities they serve.
PublicsLab Director Stacy Hartman created a course called “Scholarly Praxis at Work in the World”, which offered doctoral students opportunities to practice scholarship beyond the walls of academia.
In this jointly written article published by the Los Angeles Review of Books, Director Stacy Hartman and Faculty Lead Bianca Williams call for a culture of higher education that moves beyond business mentalities and disciplinary legacies, and instead centers principles of justice and the concrete needs of students.
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.
In this outgoing post, Director Stacy Hartman reflects on the transitional moment the PublicsLab is in. And it explains why we chose mushrooms as the visual theme for our Archive project.