Countermapping the Humanities
A public humanities research project taking stock of how scholar-activism, democratic and creative knowledge practices, and knowledge from lived experience work toward community-inclusion in public, higher education.
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Foundational Concepts
Scholar-Activism
Challenges systems of oppression and connects one’s academic work to the pursuit of social welfare
Public Higher Education
Produces knowledges that serves the public and acts as a site of organizing for social movements
Lived Experience
Disrupts the academy’s traditions of neutrality and objectivity in knowledge-production to center diverse publics
Read more about how the project got started in this blogpost from Humanities for All
Part of the Seminar on Public Engagement & Collaborative Research
The Mellon Seminar on Public Engagement and Collaborative Research at the CUNY Graduate Center is an interdisciplinary platform for creative, activist, and scholarly research.
Check Out Our Resources!
This project is committed to public scholarship and has a suite of resources to support CUNY’s public humanities communities.
Meet the Team
Learn about the unique experiences and perspectives everyone brought to the project.
