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Thank you for taking us back to these questions. I’d be curious to discuss these questions around the humanities and humanism (and post-humanism) in relation to a conversation around the social sciences and the s […]

These questions of time are fascinating and you ask them in such a deep and thoughtful way. Time seems so central to the university—pack information into four months, finish your PhD while you have funding, g […]

You’ve given us a lot to think about here with the relationship between identity and consciousness and the tension that exists there. I hope we can discuss the field of Asian American studies at CUNY ( […]

Troy, thank you for walking us through your writing process. Your post made me think back to Tony Jack’s work as well as our many conversations about CUNY throughout the semester, and how campus demographics do a […]

Keshia, thank you for this thoughtful post. I am sympathetic to your argument around assessing institutions qualitatively, yet am curious how that would work with federal funding standards? Perhaps this shows a […]

I’m very appreciative of this question around reputation and material support. This is a dynamic that i have thought about in relation to faculty who are both disposable to and celebrated by the institutions t […]

Karen, I love how you are situating place in struggle and struggle in place in your response and teaching. I hope you’ll talk more tomorrow about teaching at Queens College and what stood out to you in the CDHA c […]

I love this juxtaposition, David! Excited to hear you elaborate on it in class tomorrow and to hear our classmates reflections on the quote and images you’ve shared with us.

Janan, this is all excellent, but your question about Bambara in particular blew me away! What a creative way to apply her text to the context of student mental health and conscientization. Perhaps it’s partly a […]

I love this post, Dennis! Hope we can unravel some of these threads around public spaces and knowledge and their relationship to policing.

Thank you for sharing about the different class implications of commuting to university in the United States and Korea. In light of the discussions of mothering, I am curious about the class-gender intersection of […]

These are such thought provoking questions that have me returning to the students that shape Matt’s book. The questions of university space, domestic space, and the space between them (the street, the subway, t […]

This is a phenomenal question and one I hope we will consider in depth in class! The first thing that came to mind is the way that the presence of Black and Brown employees in campus police forces has been used to […]