Welcome! This handbook is meant to help orient newcomers to the CUNY Humanities Alliance (HA) program and their role within it. You’ll find four major sections in this handbook. “About the CUNY Humanities Alliance” is intended for all readers and offers information about the program’s structure, goals, history, and various components. “Guidance for Fellows” is…

The CUNY Humanities Alliance, generously supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, exposes graduate students to the best ways to support humanities education in the community college context, while simultaneously expanding access to the humanities for undergraduates from the BIPOC and immigration communities served by the City University of New York. By participating in a…

Directors Monica Varsanyi, Principal Investigator Monica Varsanyi is interim associate provost for academic affairs and dean for humanities and social sciences at the Graduate Center.  At the CUNY Graduate Center, she is also a professor of geography in the Earth and Environmental Sciences Ph.D. Program and on the faculty of the International Migration Studies M.A. Program.  She is…