The CUNY Gittell Collective Public Scholar Book-Writing Workshop supports CUNY faculty in developing and publishing great first books by providing structured feedback infrastructure: negotiated deadlines, peer camaraderie and accountability, and feedback from field/subfield experts and esteemed interlocutors.

The 2023 Awardees are:

• John Frank (Sociology), Lehman College: The Self Illusion: A Simplified Equation for “You”

• Marta-Laura Haynes (Anthropology), John Jay College of Criminal Justice, Untrusting: The quest for democratic policing in urban Brazil

• Jinwon Kim (Sociology), College of Technology, The Koreatown in Manhattan: Branding Korea and Consuming Ethnicity in the Global Economy

• Nerve Macaspac (Geography), College of State Island, Spaces Of Peace: How Ordinary People Protect Their Lives During War