** This essay is originally posted on The Futures Initiative website: https://futuresinitiative.org/blog/2019/03/31/shifting/ The loss of one language, said Wade Davis, a University of British Columbia anthropology professor, is akin to clear-cutting an “old-growth forest of the mind.” The world’s complex web of myths, beliefs and ideas – which Mr. Davis calls the “ethnosphere” – is […]
This semester, as a Humanities Alliance Teaching Fellow, I was granted the wonderful opportunity to take a pause from teaching and to reflect on both my experiences as a student in LaGCC taking General Psychology and now having taught it several times in the same institution. Drawing from these experiences and observing Professor Vianna’s General […]
When you are asked to talk about yourself as a person, where do you start? I always felt I knew myself as a person pretty well, but if asked to write a personal statement for a specific position, I found myself stumped. Where should I begin? What interesting story do I have to tell? After […]
Please see below for an overview of the 2018 MLA session co-hosted by the CUNY Humanities Alliance. Feel free to contact Elizabeth Alsop (ealsop@gc.cuny.edu) with any questions, and hope to see some of you there! MLA Session 453: Advancing the Field: Connecting Humanities Graduate Education and Community College Teaching Saturday, January 6th, 8:30-11:30am (Hilton, Concourse […]
One of the most transformative experiences for me as a student was in a scene study class as part of my MFA at Sarah Lawrence College. The class was taught by Paul Austin and for the first semester we each worked on a single monologue, in the second semester, we kept the same character, but […]
Motivating Beyond the 20% By Alison Walls For me, college was an opportunity to delve deeper into subjects I loved (theatre, most of all), and explore others I knew little about (psychology, media studies, and German make an appearance on my transcript). The decision to attend was barely a decision at all. My older […]
Teaching (the Humanities) at Community Colleges: Thoughts from CUNY Faculty By Elizabeth Alsop Last Fall, I attended a talk by Kingsborough Community College professor Lourdes Follins, who presented her research on the experience of historically underrepresented faculty at CUNY’s community colleges. Her findings were illuminating, and often alarming. But one of the most memorable […]
