PublicsLab director Stacy Hartman reflects on the transitional moment the PublicsLab is in.
Category: Project Blog
The challenges of the United Nations as a research object
Political science PhD student Giovanna Kuele reflects on the difficulties of researching the “black box” of the United Nations (UN) and its decision-making, and how and when UN anniversaries result in normative change.
Mapping to Preserve a Shared Heritage
Sarah Mady, Ph.D. Candidate in Archaeology, reflects on her surveying and mapping of over thirty fertility shrines in North Lebanon as part of the Early Research Initiative (ERI)/PublicsLab Summer Research Fellowship.
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Job hunting outside the [academic] box: Recommendations from recent experiences
Cultural Anthropology PhD student Joseph A. Torres-González reflects on his job search outside the [academic] box.
How to Create Your Own Research Fieldsite
Philosophy PhD candidate Pedro Monque shares reflections on his work with a team of six Latin American activists and academics with whom he created a “summer laboratory” for collaborative research.
From the Ground Up: Building an Arts Organization Interpandemic
PhD Candidate and former PublicsLab Senior Public Fellow Ash Marinaccio reflects on building her arts organization, Docbloc, during the pandemic. Docbloc is the public humanities component of Ash’s Ph.D. dissertation work in the Theatre and Performance program at The Graduate Center.
Grappling with the Contentions of Conducting Boundary-pushing Community Work
Sociology PhD student Cristine Khan reflects on the nuances, pitfalls, and necessity of doing boundary-pushing, community-focused work.
Introducing Iota School
Patrick Smyth, the new postdoc in Humanities Entrepreneurship, introduces Iota School, a business providing accessible technical training to humanists.
Tools of Imagination: History’s Essential Role in Public-Facing Activism, Education, and Archival Work
Public Fellow Madeleine Barnes provides a recap and reflection on the panel session for the workshop series “Activism, Archives, and Education” held in March 2021.
Interrogating the Archive from an Activist Approach: A Key Ingredient for Socially Responsive Pedagogies
Public Fellow Tania Avilés Vergara reflects on the practice of activist archiving as a challenge to hegemonic narratives, and an opportunity for socially responsive pedagogies, after the “Activism, Archives and Education” workshop series in March 2021.
