Graduate Student Application Application due: Monday, November 30, 2020 The CUNY Humanities Alliance is pleased to announce an opportunity for doctoral students at The Graduate Center (enrolled in Fall 2020) to receive $1,000 stipends for contributions to a Covid-19 impact project documenting the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, including related and interlocking impacts of economic, […]
Personal note: I’m posting this because a handful of graduate students separately insisted that I do so. This isn’t particularly well-researched or founded in anything other than my personal observations. The graduate students responsible for this were each frustrated that they couldn’t conform to their advisor’s expectations of their writing (to produce outlines, to have […]
At this point in my career, I’ve literally reviewed thousands of resumes or CVs for positions I was hiring for. A few years ago, I started putting on workshops for students on Resume and CV building, mostly because I was aghast at some of the simple pitfalls people seem to constantly step in. On Tuesday, […]
Each year in the LaGuardia Mellon Humanities Scholars program, we put on a workshop about career goals to help students identify the careers that best suit their interests and abilities, and to help them prepare materials that will help them in their applications for schools or jobs. For the last two years, I always start […]
main photo CC BY 2.0 of Marco Verch This past semester in particular, I’ve received a lot of questions from graduate teaching fellows about restructuring their courses’ assessment structures (mostly to be more in line with their student-centered pedagogical methods). After all, it creates a bit of a hypocrisy when a teacher tauts to their […]
The Humanities Alliance is thrilled to announce the addition of a new Postdoctoral Fellow, Sujung Kim, as well as the start of the third cohort of nine Graduate Teaching Fellows at The Graduate Center, CUNY, who will have the opportunity to learn with master faculty and teach at LaGuardia Community College. Postdoctoral Fellow, Sujung […]
Through the Office for Global Learning Initiatives at LaGuardia Community College, two of the LaGuardia Mellon Humanities Scholars have recently received international service learning scholarships. Ambar Castillo was recently awarded a Fulbright grant to do research for a year in India. Ambar received a Pulitzer fellowship to investigate how community based organizations create culturally adaptive health prevention […]
CUNY Humanities Alliance Graduate Fellows, Hansol Oh, is hosting an annual awards ceremony for the Theatre program this year. The 2018 Edwin Booth Award honoring playwright, director, and filmmaker Young Jean Lee. The award is given annually by the theatre doctoral students at the CUNY Graduate Center to “an individual or organization that has had a significant impact on […]
Congratulations to CUNY Humanities Alliance Fellow and HASTAC Scholar, Jenn Polish, on the publication of their debut novels. Jenn’s debut novella, LOST BOY, FOUND BOY (NineStar Press), is a scifi re-telling of Peter Pan in which Neverland is a holomatrix, Hook is a bisexual cyborg, and Tink is an asexual lesbian computer interface. Their debut novel, LUNAV (NineStar […]
Student Registrations All of the course sites and the main site are tied together in one network. So, there is one simple registration form for all the sites: http://archive.cunyhumanitiesalliance.org/register. It’s important to note, though, that when your students register for the network, they are not automatically registered to your course subsite. Here’s how you can get […]
