The PublicsLab at the Graduate Center
The PublicsLab seeks to transform doctoral education in the humanities for the public good. It cosponsors and organizes events focused on public scholarship at the Graduate Center, supports faculty and graduate students who do public work, and brings in practitioners from the broader community to share their methods and work. Join to keep up to date on our events and our work!

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Jess Applebaum edited the blog post Resources Gathered by the PublicsLab in the group
The PublicsLab at the Graduate Center: 3 months, 2 weeks ago
Resources Gathered by the PublicsLab
Resources were gathered throughout the PublicsLab along the following themes: Career Exploration, Public Scholarship, Graduate Education […]
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Nicolas Benacerraf edited the blog post On Trust and Power: A Final Interview with Bianca Williams and Stacy Hartman in the group
The PublicsLab at the Graduate Center: 3 months, 2 weeks ago
On Trust and Power: A Final Interview with Bianca Williams and Stacy Hartman
In this conversation, Faculty Lead Bianca Williams and Director Stacy Hartman share their visions of what they hoped PublicsLab could be, […]
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Nicolas Benacerraf edited the blog post Serving a New Generation of Students: How the History Program Used Its Curriculum Grant in the group
The PublicsLab at the Graduate Center: 3 months, 2 weeks ago
Serving a New Generation of Students: How the History Program Used Its Curriculum Grant
In this audio interview, we hear from two recipients of the Doctoral Curriculum Enhancement Grant awarded to the History program, which they used […]
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Nicolas Benacerraf edited the blog post Rethinking Knowledge Arrangements: How the English Program Used Its Curriculum Grant in the group
The PublicsLab at the Graduate Center: 3 months, 2 weeks ago
Rethinking Knowledge Arrangements: How the English Program Used Its Curriculum Grant
In this interview, Professor Matt Gold and PublicsLab Fellow Rob Yates discuss how the curriculum grant awarded to the English program […]
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Jess Applebaum edited the blog post Catalog of Past Events in the group
The PublicsLab at the Graduate Center: 3 months, 2 weeks ago
Catalog of Past Events
PublicsLab produced a variety of events that ranged from lectures, to workshares, to symposiums, and book launches. Each academic year subjects and […]
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Jess Applebaum edited the blog post Offshoot Projects in the group
The PublicsLab at the Graduate Center: 3 months, 3 weeks ago
Offshoot Projects
Throughout the PublicsLab’s existence, fellows created new organizations and initiatives for the performance of public scholarship. Here is a […]
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Jess Applebaum edited the blog post Creating Spaces and Bridging Worlds: A Conversation with PublicsLab Fellow Daniel Valtueña in the group
The PublicsLab at the Graduate Center: 3 months, 3 weeks ago
Creating Spaces and Bridging Worlds: A Conversation with PublicsLab Fellow Daniel Valtueña
In this interview, PublicsLab alum Daniel Valtueña speaks about his experiences of negotiating his identities as a scholar inside the academy […]
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Jess Applebaum edited the blog post New Generations of Academics: A Conversation with PublicsLab Fellow Britney Moreira in the group
The PublicsLab at the Graduate Center: 3 months, 3 weeks ago
New Generations of Academics: A Conversation with PublicsLab Fellow Britney Moreira
In this conversation, doctoral student Britney Moreira, from the Critical Social/Personality Psychology program at the CUNY Graduate Center, […]
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Jess Applebaum edited the blog post Academia for All: A Conversation with PublicsLab Fellow Queenie Sukhadia in the group
The PublicsLab at the Graduate Center: 3 months, 3 weeks ago
Academia for All: A Conversation with PublicsLab Fellow Queenie Sukhadia
In this conversation, scholar and content creator Queenie Sukhadia shares insights into finding supportive mentorship, and encourages scholars […]
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Jess Applebaum edited the blog post Mentorship, Mutuality, and Ethics: A Conversation with PublicsLab Interim Faculty Lead, Professor Kandice Chuh in the group
The PublicsLab at the Graduate Center: 3 months, 3 weeks ago
Mentorship, Mutuality, and Ethics: A Conversation with PublicsLab Interim Faculty Lead, Professor Kandice Chuh
In this audio interview, we hear from Professor Kandice Chuh, PublicsLab’s Interim Faculty Lead, about her experience as a faculty mentor to Q […]
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Jess Applebaum edited the blog post Public Is a Verb: A Conversation with PublicsLab Mentor, Professor Michelle Fine in the group
The PublicsLab at the Graduate Center: 3 months, 3 weeks ago
Public Is a Verb: A Conversation with PublicsLab Mentor, Professor Michelle Fine
In this conversation, Professor Michelle Fine, mentor to PublicsLab Fellow Britney Moreira, talks about the relationship between participatory […]
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Nicolas Benacerraf edited the blog post Future Manifestations of the PublicsLab at the Graduate Center in the group
The PublicsLab at the Graduate Center: 3 months, 3 weeks ago
Future Manifestations of the PublicsLab at the Graduate Center
Several of the PublicsLab’s initiatives will be institutionalized at the CUNY Graduate Center under the banner of the Public Scholarship Practice […]
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Jess Applebaum edited the blog post A Public Praxis: A Conversation with PublicsLab Mentor, Professor Alexis Jemal in the group
The PublicsLab at the Graduate Center: 3 months, 3 weeks ago
A Public Praxis: A Conversation with PublicsLab Mentor, Professor Alexis Jemal
In this conversation, Alexis Jemal, Associate Professor in the Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College, gives insights into the […]
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Nicolas Benacerraf edited the blog post Call for Curriculum Grant Proposals in the group
The PublicsLab at the Graduate Center: 3 months, 3 weeks ago
Call for Curriculum Grant Proposals
The PublicsLab received funding from the Mellon Foundation to transform doctoral education in the humanities for the public good. The Doctoral […]
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Jess Applebaum edited the blog post Learning through Play: A Conversation with PublicsLab Fellows Mica Baum-Tuccillo and Nic Benacerraf in the group
The PublicsLab at the Graduate Center: 3 months, 3 weeks ago
Learning through Play: A Conversation with PublicsLab Fellows Mica Baum-Tuccillo and Nic Benacerraf
In this conversation, PublicsLab Fellows Mica Baum-Tuccillo and Nic Benacerraf talk about how, as both academics and practitioners, the […]
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Jess Applebaum edited the blog post Syllabus: Scholarly Praxis at Work in the World in the group
The PublicsLab at the Graduate Center: 3 months, 3 weeks ago
Syllabus: Scholarly Praxis at Work in the World
In the Fall of 2022, PublicsLab Director Stacy Hartman designed and taught a course called Scholarly Praxis at Work in the World. It offered […]
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Jess Applebaum edited the blog post The Future of Doctoral Education: Four Provocations for a More Just and Sustainable Academy in the group
The PublicsLab at the Graduate Center: 3 months, 3 weeks ago
The Future of Doctoral Education: Four Provocations for a More Just and Sustainable Academy
In this jointly written article, published in May 2023 by the Los Angeles Review of Books, Director Stacy Hartman and Faculty Lead Bianca Williams […]
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Nicolas Benacerraf edited the blog post Creating Curriculum to Meet Community Needs: How the Earth and Environmental Sciences Program Used Its Curriculum Grant in the group
The PublicsLab at the Graduate Center: 3 months, 3 weeks ago
Creating Curriculum to Meet Community Needs: How the Earth and Environmental Sciences Program Used Its Curriculum Grant
In this interview, we hear about how the doctoral program in Earth and Environmental Sciences applied their curriculum grant to develop a […]
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Nicolas Benacerraf edited the blog post Radical Honesty: Truth-Telling as Pedagogy for Working Through Shame in Academic Spaces in the group
The PublicsLab at the Graduate Center: 4 months ago
Radical Honesty: Truth-Telling as Pedagogy for Working Through Shame in Academic Spaces
In this essay, Professor Bianca C. Williams outlines her pedagogy of truth-telling in the classroom, which features a practice of reading […]
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Jess Applebaum edited the blog post On Endings and Institutions in the group
The PublicsLab at the Graduate Center: 4 months ago
On Endings and Institutions
In this outgoing post, Director Stacy Hartman reflects on the transitional moment the PublicsLab is in. And it explains why we chose mushrooms as […]
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