Explore resources collected throughout the PublicsLab journey, organized by theme: Career Exploration, Public Scholarship, Graduate Reform, Safety & Risk, and Graduate Center Resources.
Category: Posts
On Trust and Power: A Final Interview with Bianca Williams and Stacy Hartman
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.
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.
Catalog of Past Events
PublicsLab produced a variety of events that ranged from lectures, to workshares, to symposiums, and book launches.
Offshoot Projects
Throughout the journey, fellows created new organizations and initiatives for the performance of public scholarship. Here is a sample of the projects that took shape with PublicsLab support.
Creating Spaces and Bridging Worlds: A Conversation with PublicsLab Fellow Daniel Valtueña
Daniel Valtueña shares about how the PublicsLab prepared him to plan his job search, and how his internship with the Queens Council on the Arts opened new career paths.
New Generations of Academics: A Conversation with PublicsLab Fellow Britney Moreira
Britney Moreira discusses her academic journey as well as her vision for future iterations of PublicsLab at the Graduate Center and beyond.
Academia for All: A Conversation with PublicsLab Fellow Queenie Sukhadia
Scholar and content creator Queenie Sukhadia shares insights into finding supportive mentorship, and encourages scholars to find (or create) the platforms that best serve their scholarship and audience.
Mentorship, Mutuality, and Ethics: A Conversation with PublicsLab Interim Faculty Lead, Professor Kandice Chuh
Interim Faculty Lead Kandice Chuh discusses the ethics of public scholarship, and how her understanding of public knowledge has developed through the lenses of ethnic studies and feminisms.
