September 13, 2018
The Center for the Humanities' CUNY Adjunct Incubator, co-sponsored by the Gittell Urban Studies Collective, is a framework for supporting the significant scholarly, creative, and pedagogical work of adjuncts teaching in the humanities and humanistic social sciences across CUNY. Providing social, logistical, financial, and professional support for the creation and circulation of knowledge by CUNY adjuncts, this platform promotes the crucial work of part-time faculty across the CUNY community and senior college campuses. In 2018, the CUNY Adjunct Incubator awarded grants to 13 CUNY adjuncts from 6 CUNY colleges to develop a wide range of deeply impactful public and applied projects in the humanities and humanistic social sciences. Read more about their vital work below:
Aaron Botwick and Gabrielle Kappes (English, Lehman College, CUNY) Creating a Literary Commons: Engaging Students in Digital Archives
This project is designed to enable students to better grasp the relationships between literature, culture, and history by drawing connections between the digital archives of 18th- through 20th-century literature and aspects of the current digital communications revolution. Click here for more information about this project.
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Angelika Winner (Earth Science and Geography, Lehman College/Hunter College, CUNY) Ethnography of Food Provisioning in Newark, NJ: Food Practices, Health Status, Social Identities, and Place of Residency
This project is an ethnographic study of food provisioning practices in Newark, NJ, seeking to develop an intersectional and dynamic understanding of food environments, eating habits, access, and their entanglements with food inequities. Click here for more information about this project.
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Jason Fox (Film & Media, Hunter College, CUNY) The Right to the Image: Syrian Film Collective Abounaddara’s Emergency Cinema
This project is a collection of essays that offers a critical introduction to the groundbreaking videos and activism of Abounaddara, the anonymous Syrian film collective, framing the ethical, political, and aesthetic insights of their work within the transformative effects of new digital technologies in war reporting and social justice campaigns. Click here for more information about this project.
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Nia Love (Drama, Theatre & Dance, Queens College, CUNY) g1(host): lostatsea
This project is an unfolding of the term “ghost,” which grapples with what it means to live within conditions shaped by the “afterlife” of slavery. The project will take the form of a four-part performance installation, which is driven by this fundamental query: what remains of the Middle Passage as force, gesture, and affect? Click here for more information about this project.
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James Myer (Mathematics, Queens College, CUNY) Bridging Mathematics and Computer Science
This project is a series of events and workshops bringing together faculty from the Mathematics and Computer Science departments at Queens College, CUNY to discuss interdisciplinary approaches to computer science and mathematics by putting them in conversation around mutual relevance. Click here for more information about this project.
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The CUNY Adjunct Incubator Advisory Committee is comprised of: Ujju Aggarwal, Celina Su, Kendra Sullivan, and Mary N. Taylor.
The CUNY Adjunct Incubator is co-sponsored by the Center for the Humanities and the Gittell Urban Studies Collective at the Graduate Center, CUNY. The Center for the Humanities thanks the Sylvia Klatzkin Steinig Fund for their generous support.
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