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 2026 Awardees for the Public Scholar Book-Writing Workshop are:

• Xiaonan Wang, Political Science, Baruch College
  • The Politics of Appointing Insiders and Outsiders: Appointing Provincial Government Agency Heads in China

• Lindsay Zafir, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Anthropology and Interdisciplinary Programs, City College
  • State of Denial: The AIDS Crisis and the Rise of the Disinformation Age

• Andrew Amstutz, History, Queens College
  • Bound by Books: The Politics of Collecting & Lost Libraries in Muslim South Asia

• Alexandra Stern, History, City College
  • Native Reconstruction: Indian Territory and the Making of the Modern American Power, 1861 – 1907