PhD candidate in Psychology and Law Alexa Hiley talks about her internship at the ACLU and the differences between research at a university and research at a nonprofit.
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In summer 2019, I made my fourth dissertation research trip to Mexico. Between the first trip in the summer of 2017 and this most recent trip, I have spent about ten months in the country, supported by small grants from The Graduate Center, like the PublicsLab/Early Research Institute award for […]
PublicsLab director Stacy Hartman discusses why graduate students are so often told to “turtle” and why we should stop giving that advice.
How do we––as researchers, as participants, as members of a community––balance the importance of speaking up against the potential consequences of doing so? Furthermore, how do we increase the agency and empowerment that participants have over their own stories?Â
Sociology PhD student Kristi Riley talks about her work in criminal justice reform, exploring the relationship between measures of social inequality and incarceration.
PhD student in criminal justice at The Graduate Center / John Jay College of Criminal Justice Yuchen Hou discusses the satisfactions and challenges of a collaborative dissertation project.
PublicsLab director Stacy Hartman offers three observations from the PublicsLab curriculum workshop in September and attempts to answer the question: “Why is curriculum reform so @%&$# hard in graduate education?”
PhD Candidate in Political Science Drake Logan discusses the fractal nature of authorship in community-centered activist-research.
PhD student and Mellon Humanities Public Fellow Daniel Valtueña discusses the importance of physical engagement and vulnerability in collaboration to artistic and academic processes.
PublicsLab director Stacy Hartman asks, “How do humanists engage in the most crucial conversations of our own time without giving up on the conversations that are timeless?”