Category: Blogs

  • 3 Ways You Can Use Your HA Fellowship Experience in Academic Job Applications

    By Francisco A. Medina Last semester I applied for a teaching position at a community college and was able to leverage my experience as a Humanities Alliance Fellow in application materials and interviews. In this blog post, I share 3 ways you can use your fellowship experience in academic job applications. CV Perhaps the most…

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  • To Serve With Love: Hip Hop At CUNY

    Authored by Janelle Poe What do we owe to the things we love? To the people who made us?  2023 gave me a lot to reflect on as it was not only the 50th anniversary of Hip Hop, but also of my parents’ wedding, exactly a week apart. Now in their mid-70s, my parents have…

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  • “Graduate School, Career and Professional Development” Feb 16, 2024 CPL Meetup with Rod Hurley

    Please find the recap of the CUNY Peer Leaders meetup with Rod Hurley through the link below: By Christina Katopodis (she/her/hers)

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  • Performance: Between Thinking and Doing

    Authored by Joned Suryatmoko I always like hanging out in public spaces, parks, or other places where I can see people’s activities. Later as I started studying theater and performance, I learned that the body, along with time and space, are pivotal in producing and transmitting knowledge. Dwight Conquergood notes that “The ongoing challenge of…

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  • “Average is Better than Luxury: A Financial Literacy and Personal Budgeting Presentation” with FI Budget Manager Celi Lebron

    Please find the recap of the CUNY Peer Leaders meetup with Celi Lebron through the link below: By Christina Katopodis (she/her/hers)

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  • Never Too Late: Mediation and the Humanities

    Written by Sharanya Dutta

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  • Mehrnaz Moghaddam smiling wearing a round glasses

    Celebrating Mehrnaz Moghaddam

    To honor the achievements and contributions of our Humanities Alliance Fellows, this year we are featuring each fellow on our website, introducing them to our CUNY community and the public, and showcasing their accomplishments as fellows.  Mehrnaz Moghaddam (she/her) was a 2021-2023 fellow based at the Hostos Community College while pursuing her Ph.D. in Cultural…

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  • Marianne Madoré

    Celebrating Marianne Madoré

    Marianne Madoré (she/her) was a 2021-2023 fellow based at the LaGuardia Community College while pursuing her Ph.D. in Sociology at the CUNY Graduate Center.  At LaGuardia Community College, Marianne first spent time reading what students had to say about their Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) experiences. From there, she designed new tools to assess students’…

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  • The Humanities in Times of Robot-Generated Everything: Reflections

    Authored by Inma Naima Zanoguera  What will remain of the essence of the human as the unfolding (the inevitably, exponentially, vertiginously unfolding) world of Artificial Intelligence (henceforth referred to as AI, in case you’d been living in a bubble, kind of like the bubble I wish still existed for me, and find yourself unfamiliar with…

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  • Oriana Mejias Martinez

    Celebrating Oriana Mejías Martínez

    To honor the achievements and contributions of our Humanities Alliance Fellows, this year we are featuring each fellow on our website, introducing them to our CUNY community and the public, and showcasing their accomplishments as fellows.  Oriana Mejías Martínez (she/her) was a 2021-2023 fellow based at the LaGuardia Community College while pursuing her Ph.D. in…

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  • December 2023 CUNY Peer Leaders Meetup with Dr. Jody Vaisman

    Originally posted on the CPL website. Gathering in the Graduate Center’s Skylight Room for the last CPL meetup of the year on December 15, 2023, the CUNY Peer Leaders welcomed a guest speaker: Dr. Jody Clark-Vaisman. Dr. Clark-Vaisman serves as Academic Director of the CUNY Baccalaureate for Unique and Interdisciplinary Studies Program (the “CUNY BA”),…

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  • Graduate Center Front Entrance Picture

    Redrawing CUNY’s Diversity Pyramid

    By Jayson Castillo When I work with undergraduate students, I am sure to let them know at some point or another that I did not enjoy school, that I was “not a good student,” which they almost always seem surprised to hear. The assumption goes that, because I am enrolled in a Ph.D. program or…

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