2025 Book-Writing Workshop Awardees

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 2025 Awardees for the Public Scholar Book-Writing Workshop are:

  • Simone Martin-Howard, Public Management, John Jay College of Criminal Justice
    • Conversations with Correctional Staff: Covid-19, Confinement, and Culture at Rikers Island Jail 
  • Stephanie Boyle, History, College of Technology
    • Body and Soul: The intersection of Health and Spiritual Health in the Egyptian Delta 1854-1907