CUNY Humanities Alliance

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Author: Kaysi Holman

Kaysi Holman

  • CUNY Peer Leaders is now accepting applications for the 2021-2022 cohort!

    Deadline: Monday, June 21, 2021 Thank you for your interest in becoming a CUNY Peer Leader for the Fall 2021 to Spring 2022 academic year! CUNY Peer Leaders is a community-based program that welcomes 30-40 undergraduate students each year from two- and four-year CUNY colleges and supports them with humanities and social justice scholarship and…

  • Information Session for Graduate Fellowships

    The CUNY Humanities Alliance is seeking applications for 12 new graduate fellowships (applications due Feb 15) in educational development roles at four partner institutions: Borough of Manhattan Community College, Guttman Community College, Hostos Community College, and LaGuardia Community College. These positions are open to Graduate Center doctoral students entering years 3-5 of doctoral study in…

  • Call for Applications: CUNY Humanities Alliance Graduate Fellowship

    Deadline extended: Monday, February 22, 2021Fellowships begin Fall 2021 The CUNY Humanities Alliance is seeking applications for 12 new graduate fellowships in educational development roles at four partner institutions: Borough of Manhattan Community College, Guttman Community College, Hostos Community College, and LaGuardia Community College. These positions are open to Graduate Center doctoral students entering years…

  • Seeking Applications: Covid-19 Impact Project

    Graduate Student Application Application due: Monday, November 30, 2020 The CUNY Humanities Alliance is pleased to announce an opportunity for doctoral students at The Graduate Center (enrolled in Fall 2020) to receive $1,000 stipends for contributions to a Covid-19 impact project documenting the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, including related and interlocking impacts of economic,…

  • Classrooms as a Sphere of Possibility: Workshopping Pedagogy and Social Justice

    by Sujung Kim On September 13, The Futures Initiative at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York hosted a public event entitled, Classroom and Social Justice: Why Start with Pedagogy. As an exit ticket, we asked the audience to briefly write about why they were interested in this topic. We received critical and impressive…

  • Announcing Postdoctoral Fellow, Sujung Kim, and the Third Cohort of Graduate Teaching Fellows!

    The Humanities Alliance is thrilled to announce the addition of a new Postdoctoral Fellow, Sujung Kim, as well as the start of the third cohort of nine Graduate Teaching Fellows at The Graduate Center, CUNY, who will have the opportunity to learn with master faculty and teach at LaGuardia Community College.   Postdoctoral Fellow, Sujung…

  • Congratulations to LaGuardia Scholars Ambar Castillo and Telijah Patterson on International Service Learning Scholarships!

    Through the Office for Global Learning Initiatives at LaGuardia Community College, two of the LaGuardia Mellon Humanities Scholars have recently received international service learning scholarships. Ambar Castillo was recently awarded a Fulbright grant to do research for a year in India.  Ambar received a Pulitzer fellowship to investigate how community based organizations create culturally adaptive health prevention…

  • CUNY Humanities Alliance Fellow, Hansol Oh, hosts 2018 Edwin Booth Award

    CUNY Humanities Alliance Graduate Fellows, Hansol Oh, is hosting an annual awards ceremony for the Theatre program this year. The 2018 Edwin Booth Award honoring playwright, director, and filmmaker Young Jean Lee. The award is given annually by the theatre doctoral students at the CUNY Graduate Center to “an individual or organization that has had a significant impact on…

  • CUNY Humanities Alliance Graduate Fellow, Jenn Polish, publishes debut novel and novela!

    Congratulations to CUNY Humanities Alliance Fellow and HASTAC Scholar, Jenn Polish, on the publication of their debut novels. Jenn’s debut novella, LOST BOY, FOUND BOY (NineStar Press), is a scifi re-telling of Peter Pan in which Neverland is a holomatrix, Hook is a bisexual cyborg, and Tink is an asexual lesbian computer interface. Their debut novel, LUNAV (NineStar…

  • Now Accepting Applications: Mellon Humanities Alliance Fellowship for Doctoral Students Interested in Community College Teaching

    Deadline: February 19, 2018 Contact: [email protected] The Humanities Alliance is soliciting applications for a unique fellowship opportunity enabling nine (9) doctoral students at the Graduate Center to explore community college pedagogy and possible teaching careers. In addition to actual teaching experience at a community college, Fellows will participate in dedicated teaching and learning workshops designed…

  • Information Session: Humanities Alliance Graduate Teaching Fellowship

    Information Session Friday, January 27 1:00 – 3:00 pm GC Room 3317 Mellon Humanities Alliance Fellowship for Doctoral Students Interested in Community College Teaching The Humanities Alliance is soliciting applications for a unique fellowship opportunity enabling nine doctoral students at the Graduate Center to explore community college pedagogy and possible teaching careers. In addition to actual…

  • Mellon Humanities Alliance Fellowship for Doctoral Students Interested in Community College Teaching


    Deadline: January 31, 2017
 Contact: [email protected] The Humanities Alliance is soliciting applications for a unique fellowship opportunity enabling nine (9) doctoral students at the Graduate Center to explore community college pedagogy and possible teaching careers. In addition to actual teaching experience at a community college, Fellows will participate in dedicated teaching and learning workshops designed…