Adjunct Incubator Project

2025 CUNY Adjunct incubators awardees

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We are honored to announce the 2025 CUNY Adjunct Incubator Awardees. The projects represented here reflect just some of the creative, critical, and community-engaged work that is happening right now at CUNY. And this year, we have an unprecedented number of faculty awardees from our community colleges, showcasing the immense work across our 2-year, 4-year, and graduate schools. Faculty will embark on their projects in the summer of 2025, and we look forward to hearing more about their progress later next year. 

Since 2019, the Gittell Collective and the Center for the Humanities at CUNY Graduate Center have honored the scholarly and creative work of our university’s adjunct faculty through the CUNY Adjunct Incubator. Now under the auspices of Public Scholarship Practice Space (PS2), the initiative continues to support and highlight the significant, critical and community-engaged scholarship and pedagogy work of adjuncts teaching across CUNY. Meet our 2025 Awardees and learn about their grant-funded projects and scholarship:

Tusia Dabrowska

Design, Queens College; Film, John Jay College

Tusia Dabrowska is a Polish American artist who works at the intersection of storytelling, performance and media. Tusia teaches courses in Design at Queens College and in Film and Videography at John Jay College. 

“As a 2025 CUNY Adjunct Incubator awardee, I will continue to investigate the symbolic and political meaning of the newly erected border in the Białowieża forest. My research will focus on the refugee experience. This work will build toward a three channel, immersive iteration of ‘I No Longer Believe We Are Good People.’” 

Seth Fein

Film, LaGuardia Community College

Seth Fein is a historian and filmmaker. He operates Seven Local Film, which he founded in Jackson Heights, Queens, where he lives. He teaches Film at LaGuardia Community College. 

“My video essay will connect the lives and careers of Isamu Noguchi (1904-1988) and Joseph Cornell (1903-1972) across the borough in which they both lived and worked. Working between archival research and original footage, expository and participatory narration, ‘Noguchi and Cornell through Queens’ engages the past and present of place to consider each of these seminal-yet-outlier artists differently by contemplating their ‘outerborough’ worlds together.”

Naziat Hassan

Queensborough Community College

Naziat Hassan is a licensed mental health counselor at Queensborough Community College, with expertise in treating individuals, adolescents, adults, and families facing mood disorders, trauma, and substance abuse.

“As a 2025 CUNY Adjunct Incubator awardee, I will uplift underrepresented communities by raising awareness around mental health and well-being through culturally sensitive education, advocacy, and community outreach. By highlighting the unique challenges these populations face, I aim to create spaces for open dialogue, reduce stigma, and promote access to resources that support mental and emotional health.”

Diana Higuera-Cortés

Languages and Literatures, Lehman College

Diana Higuera-Cortes is a PhD student in the Latin American, Iberian, and Latino Cultures (LAILaC) program at the Graduate Center-CUNY. A former CUNY Humanities Alliance fellow, Diana teaches Spanish at Lehman College. 

“As a 2025 CUNY Adjunct Incubator awardee, I will develop La Loteria Niuyorkina: A pedagogical game/toolkit to explore Spanish varieties though the Linguistic Landscape of New York City. The project will engage students from Lehman College and Queens College in the study of the public spaces they navigate everyday as well as an exploration of common Spanglish words and expressions that shape their identity.”

Alex Ho and Joy Liu

Department of Ethnic and Race Studies, Borough of Manhattan Community College (BMCC)

Joy Liu is a Therapist/ Clinical Social Worker. A former Museum educator, Joy now teaches in the Department of Ethnic and Race Studies at Borough of Manhattan Community College (BMCC). 

Alex Ho is an ethnic studies and media arts educator with ten years of education experience and a film and media Alex teaches in the Department of Ethnic and Race Studies at Borough of Manhattan Community College (BMCC). 

“As a 2025 CUNY Adjunct Incubator awardees, we will collaborate and explore family histories and cultural identities through a collaborative autoethnographic process of dialogue, artmaking, and oral history collection.”

Alice Kallman

Mina Rees Library, CUNY Graduate Center

Alice Kallman is an adjunct reference librarian in the Dissertation Office at the Mina Rees Library at CUNY Graduate Center. Over the course of studies, she worked at the New York Public Library, and then with an oral history project at the Queens Public Library. Alice also works part time at the Queens Public Library in the Correctional Outreach department doing reentry programming for individuals returning home from incarceration.

“As a 2025 CUNY Adjunct Incubator awardee, I will continue developing my ongoing project to document Syrian culinary superstitions. This will take the form of further interviews with Syrians in the diaspora – increasing my scope of research from just Syrian Jews to Syrians of all religions. I will also work on my website/digital archive that aims to hold the linkages within collected stories. Finally, I will use this funding to create a physical experience to display my findings, something between an exhibition, family meal, and immersive audio experience as guided by the research process.” 

Jerald Isseks

Guttman Community College

Jerald Isseks is a critical educational scholar, an organizer and a writer who teaches in the First-Year Experience program at Guttman Community College. 

“As a 2025 CUNY Adjunct Incubator awardee, I will continue developing a participatory research program for first-year students at Guttman Community College. Specifically, this will involve organizing a regular end-of-semester event where student researchers can present their work to the academic community, eliciting interest and support for action campaigns they’ve conceived to confront local and institutional issues of injustice.”

Hannah Weiss

Urban Planning and Policy, Hunter College

Hannah Weiss is an adjunct lecturer in Urban Planning and Policy at Hunter College. 

“As a 2025 CUNY Adjunct Incubator awardee, I will collaborate with people who have navigated eviction and nonprofit attorneys striving to fulfill the promise of Right to Counsel (RTC). Through case studies and narrative, I hope to highlight the human element that is lost when data dominates eviction discourse, and light a fire under leaders to fund RTC and re-imagine housing court.”

Natalie Willens

LaGuardia Community College

Natalie Willens is an educator, artist, organizer, and Ph.D. candidate in Urban Education at the CUNY Graduate Center. They have published poetry, essays, and photography on the intersections of art and activism, and are working on a multi-year project with LaGuardia Community College students to creatively archive underfunded LGBTQ+ spaces in New York City.

“As a 2025 CUNY Adjunct Incubator awardee, I will work with students and community organizers to produce a public exhibition of our photographs and oral histories that highlight the essential work of underfunded LGBTQ+ spaces in New York City. The exhibition will have three main goals: To highlight the powerful collaborative work of CUNY students/faculty and community organizers, to respond to the ever-increasing erasure of LGBTQ+ spaces that serve the most marginalized members of the LGBTQ+ community, and to secure sustainable funding for the organizations that cultivate these life-saving spaces.”

Desislava Zagorcheva

LaGuardia Community College

Dessie Zagorcheva is an author and educator with a Ph.D. in International Relations from Columbia University. She teaches courses in Global Politics and American Government and Politics at CUNY. Her research focuses on global challenges to democracy. She is passionate about using her expertise to educate and inspire students to engage more actively in politics.

“As a 2025 CUNY Adjunct Incubator awardee, I will develop my project on enhancing Media Literacy Skills. This is a multidisciplinary project which has three main objectives first, to highlight the importance of media literacy and the challenges faced by educators in this field; second, to compile and make widely available best practices in media literacy instruction from various public colleges; and third, to create a comprehensive repository of resources for students, teachers, and librarians. By fostering media literacy and critical thinking we aim to cultivate a generation of well-informed citizens who can make sound decisions for themselves and their communities.”

The CUNY Adjunct Incubator is co-sponsored by PS2 at the Center for the Humanities through generous grants from the Sylvia Klatzkin Steinig Fund and the Gittell Urban Studies Collective at the Graduate Center, CUNY.

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CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: 2025 CUNY Adjunct Incubator Grants

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The CUNY Adjunct Incubator supports and highlights the significant, critical and community-engaged scholarship and pedagogy work of adjuncts teaching across CUNY. Co-sponsored by the Public Scholarship Practice Space (PS2) housed at the Center for the Humanities and the Gittell Urban Studies Collective, the Adjunct Incubator aims to:

  • Call public attention to adjuncts’ valuable contributions at CUNY;
  • Support CUNY adjuncts and their teaching, scholarly, creative, and activist work;
  • Promote their arc toward professional success and economic well-being; and
  • Advocate for more paid, full-time, tenure-track positions for adjuncts to advance toward.

We will award $4,000 each to ten CUNY adjuncts developing independent scholarship and/or public projects in the humanities or humanities-related social sciences. Scholarship and/or public projects to be completed during the summer of 2025. 

DEADLINE:

Sunday, October 27, 2024 by 11:59 pm

WHAT:

For this cycle, we wish to prioritize community-facing and -building work, broadly construed. Project focus might include (but not limited to): public education (especially CUNY), public health, housing, labor, liberation movements.

Our rubric for evaluation is as follows:

  1. Public engagement: Does this project demonstrate a deep awareness of the reciprocal methods, ethics, and goals of community-oriented practice? Does it consider the compensation of communities in which it engages, and provide a robust grasp of existing research and genealogies of its subject of study?
  2. Urgency: Does this project address an emergent social (environmental, health, educational, etc.) need in meaningful ways?
  3. Creativity: Does the application think about an intellectual or practical problem through a previously unexamined perspective or with an innovative set of tools?
  4. Feasibility: Does the project seem manageable and are we the right organization to help the applicant fulfill their goals in a rich and nuanced way?

In addition to covering costs associated with scholarly research, this grant can support travel related to professional and/or curriculum development, and research and development of a public-facing project such as: archival research, oral histories, digital/interpretative platforms, online or print publications, performances, and panels, conferences, and exhibitions, etc. The scholarship work and/or public projects are to be completed during the summer of 2025. For examples of past grant-funded projects, visit 2021 projects here, 2020 projects here, and 2019 projects here):

ELIGIBILITY:

Current adjuncts at any CUNY College.

*Please note that if you are a current doctoral fellow at The Graduate Center, CUNY who also holds adjunct position/s, before applying, please contact the Office of Financial Aid at financialaid@gc.cuny.edu  to ensure that receiving this grant will not adversely impact your existing award package.

EXPECTATIONS:

  • You will be in charge of managing your research or project, from conception to completion. This includes managing the budget e.g. honoraria for community participants and others, and any taxes i.e. deduct 33%
  • We request a blog post about your project and a brief, one-page, narrative report on research progress and impact by September 12, 2025. 
  • We invite recipients to think about sharing their work with wider publics and welcome proposals for public panels or online events related to your work.

APPLICATION:

Fill out the application form, and upload as a single PDF file to the form (name your file as follows LASTNAME_FIRSTNAME_CAI2025):

  1. a one-page letter of interest (which can include a description of your research or public project, a timeline, and your methodological tool-kit),
  2. CV,
  3. a brief, budgetary outline.

Questions? Please reach out to us ps2@gc.cuny.edu

SELECTION PROCESS: 

Recipients will be decided by an interdisciplinary advisory committee. The 2025 CUNY Adjunct Incubator Advisory Committee is comprised of Celina Su, Dasharah Green, Kendra Sullivan, Mary N. Taylor, Prithi Kanakamedala, and Ujju Aggarwal.

For any queries, reach out to Prithi, PS2 faculty coordinator ps2@gc.cuny.edu

The CUNY Adjunct Incubator is co-sponsored by PS2 at the Center for the Humanities through generous grants from the Sylvia Klatzkin Steinig Fund and the Gittell Urban Studies Collective at the Graduate Center, CUNY.

About the Gittell Urban Studies Collective: The Gittell Urban Studies Collective engages communities, fellow scholars, and activists focused on issues related to cities, social justice, community participation and development, political engagement and social movements, and democratic governance, both domestically and abroad. Read more here

About the Center for the Humanities at The Graduate Center, CUNY: The Center for the Humanities at the CUNY Graduate Center encourages collaborative, creative, and engaged work in the humanities and social sciences. While providing students, faculty, and community partners with grants, fellowships, and professional support, we also produce innovative projects and programs, digital and print publications, and infrastructure for public scholarship from a justice-forward framework at CUNY and across NYC.  Read more here.

2020 CUNY Adjunct Incubator Projects

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The Center for the Humanities’ and the Gittell Urban Studies Collective’ CUNY Adjunct Incubator supports the critical and community-engaged scholarship of adjuncts teaching across CUNY.

In 2020-2021, the CUNY Adjunct Incubator awarded grants to 10 CUNY adjuncts from 8 CUNY colleges to develop a wide range of public and applied projects in the arts, humanities and humanistic social sciences. Read more about their vital work below:

  • Alicia Grullon (Art Department, Social Practice Queens, Queens College, CUNY and The School of Visual Arts)

Seed Books

“Ballot 2020”, 2020 courtesy of artist Alicia Grullon

“Seed Books” an interdisciplinary art project focused on creating a community seed bank, based on seeds grown in working class IBPOC communities and what that might look like in non-traditional formats. “Seed Books’ will culminate into an archive based on re-enacted oral-histories from interviews with gardeners, activists, and residents. Programming will support critical work on the connections between the body, land rights, migration, food sovereignty, gentrification and environmental justice. The incubator grant is funding initial research, interviews and filming focused on the response to COVID19 through mutual aid groups and community gardens. Click here for more information about this project.

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Teaching and Learning Spanish at CUNY: Public Language Education Through Archival Resources

Image courtesy of the Collection The Bodega: A Cornerstone of Puerto Rican Barrios at the Center for Puerto Rican Studies Library & Archives. Hunter College, City University of New York.

The “Teaching and Learning Spanish at CUNY: Public Language Education Through Archival Resources” project promotes the use of archives as open educational resources (OER) in the Spanish language class.

The project seeks to center the histories, experiences and voices of Latinx communities in the Spanish class through the use of archives.

The project partners with the Center for Puerto Rican Studies, the Dominican Studies Institute and the Mexican Studies Institute, and supports these institutions by making their research and collections accessible in the classroom. Click here for more information about this project.

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  • Chloe Smolarski (American Social History Project/New Media Lab, CUNY Digital History Archive, and The Center for Teaching and Learning at The Graduate Center, CUNY, and Adjunct Instructor, Entertainment Technology/Emerging Media, New York City College of Technology, CUNY)

CUNY Adjunct Oral History Project

As NYC continues to battle the COVID-19 pandemic, the CUNY community has pivoted to on-line teaching while experiencing massive budget cuts and adjunct layoffs, The CUNY Digital History Archive (cdha.cuny.edu) hosted a one-day oral history workshop Inviting Authorship: Oral History as Spontaneous Literature on April 16th, 2021 with oral historian, writer, and interdisciplinary artist Nyssa Chow and is continuing to offer free training, guidance, and a platform to those who wish to conduct and archive oral histories that address the experiences of adjuncts at CUNY during the COVID-19 pandemic with an emphasis on labor and education. Click here for more information about this project.

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  • Kendra Krueger (Advanced Science Research Center, The Graduate Center, CUNY)

The Community Sensor Lab

Kendra Krueger (left) and Ricardo Toledo-Crow (right), co-founders of The Community Sensor Lab, work with CUNY students Samaiyah Morgan (Laguardia Community College) and Peter Christakos (City College of New York) as part of the ASRC’s Community Sensor Lab

The Community Sensor Lab seeks to equip youth and community members with research tools and STEAM skills to better advocate for local policy change on public health and environmental justice. The project mobilizes CUNY undergraduate and NYC high school students as public educators on the versatility of D-I-Y (Do-It-Yourself) electronics and sensors. The lab also consists of a transdisciplinary working group, led by CUNY adjuncts across disciplines of art, science and the humanities, tasked with developing best practices for participatory, intersectional and decolonial research. As part of the Community Sensor Lab, Krueger made this short video explaining how to build a D.I.Y. carbon dioxide sensor.

Click here for more information about this project.

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  • Mariposa Fernandez (Faculty member in the Women and Gender Studies Program and Africana Studies Department at Lehman College and the Black Studies Program at City College of New York. )

Be A Buddy Multimedia Project: Stories of Strength from the South Bronx

The “Be a Buddy (BaB) Multimedia Project: Stories of Strength from the South Bronx” will gather stories of strength in the South Bronx to document community and neighborhood resilience, sustainability work, mutual aid projects and the community building efforts of neighbors taking care of each other in the Hunts Point/Longwood community in the South Bronx. An additional aim of the BaB Multimedia Project is to engage CUNY students and recent CUNY graduates who are involved in community work in Hunts Point and Longwood, in order to find the CUNY stories inside of the larger story of community work and members who are fighting back and fighting forward! Click here for more information about this project.

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  • Jasmina Sinanović (Anthropology, Gender Studies and International Studies Department, The City College of New York, CUNY; Director of Development and Finance at the Center for LGBTQ Studies, CLAGS, The Graduate Center, CUNY)

Transgender and Non Binary Contingent Faculty Experience at CUNY

The “Transgender and Non Binary Contingent Faculty Experience at CUNY” project will focus on the experience of Transgender and Non Binary contingent faculty at CUNY. The project consists of three elements:

  • a survey of CUNY adjuncts that identify as transgender and/or non binary
  • open forum discussions about experiences and needs of transgender and/or non binary adjunct faculty
  • small group art exploration of CUNY adjunct experiences

Click here for more information about this project.

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Van Anh Tran (Department of Curriculum & Teaching, the Hunter School of Education, CUNY; and a PhD Candidate in Social Studies Education at Teachers College, Columbia)

Im/migration, Belonging, and Disrupting Cycles of State Violence: A Southeast Asian DeportaTion Defense Case Study Curricular Toolkit

Art created by: Sam Lê Shave, Asian American Resource Workshop (Boston, MA).

This project seeks to create a curricular toolkit for individuals, families, advocates, community organizers, educators, and more within and beyond the Southeast Asian (SEA) community who want to serve, educate, advocate, and organize against detentions and deportations. Over the past two decades, SEA community groups and networks have been mobilizing to defend communities from mass deportations. This project aims to create a living record and resource to pool this collective knowledge and learning to share what SEA community organizations have learned with those who are engaging and/or wanting to engage in anti-deportation work.

In seeing the ways our government has and continues to dehumanize the lives of Black and Brown people, and immigrants and refugees, we call for the abolition of carceral systems that have enacted violence against our communities and present this project and toolkit as a resource to build the capacity of our communities as we continue to fight for justice. Click here for more information about this project.

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  • Michelle Gaspari (Sociology, Anthropology, and Women and Gender Studies, Baruch College, CUNY, and a Co-Organizer at The CUNY Adjunct Project)

The Adjunctification of Higher Education: A Guided Syllabus

“The Adjunctification of Higher Education: A Guided Syllabus” is a multimedia digital pedagogical toolkit for faculty to teach about adjunct welfare and precarity at CUNY. The guided syllabus will consist of content and lessons to teach students about the undervalued adjunct labor that keeps New York City’s public higher education afloat, the broader sociological backdrop of higher education’s “adjunctification” in this country, and the ways that students and educators can pressure CUNY and the state to intervene and advocate for their right to fairly compensated professors. Part of the toolkit is an original short documentary on CUNY’s relationship with its adjunct workers. It features several adjuncts presenting their experiences. This can be streamed in the classroom and mobilized in adjunct activism at CUNY. There will be a panel discussion featuring the documentary and the broader syllabus project hosted by The CUNY Adjunct Project in Fall 2021. Click here for more information about this project.

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  • Dominika Ksel (New Media Arts, New York City College of Technology, CUNY, and Baruch College, CUNY)

Virtual Reality and Environmental Social Justice presents “TrashTalk: A VR Exploratorium”

The “Virtual Reality and Environmental Social Justice” class at New York City College of Technology, CUNY, looks at the intersections of social justice, gameplay, immersive storytelling and world-building through VR video and gaming to highlight the interdependent nature, necessity and future of Jamaica Bay Wildlife Preserve, the Rockaways and NYC at large. Led by Dominika Ksel, the students in the class created a multi-media project that centers on Environmental Social Justice (Urban Climate Justice and Intersectionality) in NYC (with a particular focus on the Rockaways and Jamaica Bay), including an interactive website with a 360 VR Video and Urban Climate Justice VR game TrashTalk. Click here or below to see how the 360 video works:

Click here for more information about this class and project.

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Public Health Informatics Careers Dashboard


“The Public Health Informatics Careers Dashboard” project aims to support the creation of an innovative dashboard that offers career services and support for CUNY undergraduate and graduate students of public health disciplines. The pandemic has caused a major global recession as millions are being displaced and rendered unemployed. Amid all of this, the health education economy can be strengthened through a virtual platform for public health professionals to engage and have their urgent demands carefully assessed, voiced, conveyed, and eventually met. Click here for more information about this project.

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The CUNY Adjunct Incubator is co-sponsored by the Center for the Humanities and the Gittell Urban Studies Collective at The Graduate Center, CUNY.

2019 CUNY Adjunct Incubator Projects

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The Center for the Humanities’ CUNY Adjunct Incubator, co-sponsored by the Gittell Urban Studies Collective, is a framework for supporting the significant scholarly, creative, and pedagogical work of adjuncts teaching in the humanities and humanistic social sciences across CUNY. Providing social, logistical, financial, and professional support for the production and circulation of knowledge by CUNY adjuncts, this platform promotes the crucial work of part-time faculty across CUNY community and senior college campuses.

Learn more about the program here.

CUNY Adjunct Grant-Funded Projects & Scholarship

In 2018-19, the CUNY Adjunct Incubator awarded grants to 13 CUNY adjuncts from 6 CUNY colleges to develop a wide-range of deeply impactful public and applied projects in the humanities and humanistic social sciences. These projects range from addressing the needs and amplifying the successes of CUNY student-parents, to writing and performing new musical compositions for 3D-printed instruments, to photo-documentation of the erasure of Kurdish language from Kurdistan/Turkey, to food provision mapping that elucidates eating habits, access, and food inequities, and many more projects taking the form of concerts, dance, music, workshops, books, film, performance, classes, independent scholarship, and events. Read more about these grant-funded projects and the vital research and work by these outstanding CUNY adjuncts:

Enhancing CUNY-Wide Capacity to Promote the Success of Student-Parents

  • Emily Hotez (Psychology, Hunter College, CUNY)

This project seeks to develop institutional and pedagogical policies and practices aimed at better serving the needs of student-parents at CUNY. Click here for more information about this project.

Creating a Literary Commons: Engaging Students in Digital Archives

  • Aaron Botwick and Gabrielle Kappes (English, Lehman College, CUNY)

This project is designed to enable students to better grasp the relationships between literature, culture, and history by drawing connections between the digital archives of 8th- through 20th-century literature and aspects of the current digital communications revolution. Click here for more information about this project.

Innovating Technology In Art: Developing Contemporary Music for 3D-Printed Instruments

  • Harry Stafylakis (Music, City College of New York, CUNY)

This public research project is to create a new musical composition, Singularity, 2018, for 3D-printed string octet and orchestra. Click here for more information about this project. https://www.youtube.com/embed/xcLR6xwYpkA

Ethnography of Food Provisioning in Newark, NJ: Food Practices, Health Status, Social Identities, and Place of Residency

  • Angelika Winner (Earth Science and Geography, Lehman College/Hunter College, CUNY)

This project is an ethnographic study of food provisioning practices in Newark, NJ, seeking to develop an intersectional and dynamic understanding of food environments, eating habits, access, and their entanglements with food inequities. Click here for more information about this project.

The Right to the Image: Syrian Film Collective Abounaddara’s Emergency Cinema

  • Jason Fox (Film & Media, Hunter College, CUNY)

This project is a collection of essays that offers a critical introduction to the groundbreaking videos and activism of Abounaddara, the anonymous Syrian film collective, framing the ethical, political, and aesthetic insights of their work within the transformative effects of new digital technologies in war reporting and social justice campaigns. Click here for more information about this project.

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  • Nia Love (Drama, Theatre & Dance, Queens College, CUNY)

This project is an unfolding of the term “ghost,” which grapples with what it means to live within conditions shaped by the “afterlife” of slavery. This project will take the form of a four-part performance installation which is driven by this fundamental query: what remains of the Middle Passage as force, gesture, and affect? Click here for more information about this project.

Securitizing Resistance in Gafsa: Stratified Vulnerability and Surplus Labor Accumulation

  • Corinna Mullin (Political Science, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY)

This project builds upon the multi-method qualitative research she has conducted in Tunisia over the past six years on the colonial origins, architecture, and imperial imbrications of Tunisia’s security state. Click here for more information about this project.

Successful Lessons: Best Practices by Adjuncts in Literature & Composition/Rhetoric

  • Maria Grewe and Mark Alpert (English, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY)

This project is a three-part pedagogy workshop series led by composition/rhetoric and literature adjunct faculty in the English Department at John Jay College, CUNY to provide a forum for and foster collaboration between adjunct faculty. Click here for more information about this project.

The Musical Seeds Project: Intersections of Ecology, Music, and Dance

  • Pamela A. Proscia (Education, Hunter College, CUNY)

This project is a series of educational events that seek to expand the ways in which we think about growing and harvesting plant life through the perspectives of cross-cultural communities. Click here for more information about this project.

Bridging Mathematics and Computer Science

  • James Myer (Mathematics, Queens College, CUNY)

This project is a series of events and workshops bringing together faculty from the Mathematics and Computer Science departments at Queens College, CUNY to discuss interdisciplinary approaches to computer science and mathematics by putting them in conversation around mutual relevance. Click here for more information about this project.


The CUNY Adjunct Incubator Advisory Committee is comprised of: Ujju Aggarwal, Celina Su, Kendra Sullivan, and Mary N. Taylor.


The CUNY Adjunct Incubator is co-sponsored by the Center for the Humanities through generous grants from theSylvia Klatzkin Steinig Fund and the Gittell Urban Studies Collective at the Graduate Center, CUNY.

The CUNY Adjunct Incubator is co-sponsored by the Center for the Humanities and the Gittell Urban Studies Collective at the Graduate Center, CUNY. The Center for the Humanities thanks the Sylvia Klatzkin Steinig Fund for their generous support.

2018 CUNY Adjunct Incubator Project

| Kahina Meziant

The Center for the Humanities’ CUNY Adjunct Incubator, co-sponsored by the Gittell Urban Studies Collective, is a framework for supporting the significant scholarly, creative, and pedagogical work of adjuncts teaching in the humanities and humanistic social sciences across CUNY. Providing social, logistical, financial, and professional support for the production and circulation of knowledge by CUNY adjuncts, this platform promotes the crucial work of part-time faculty across CUNY community and senior college campuses.

Learn more about the program here.

CUNY Adjunct Grant-Funded Projects & Scholarship 

In 2018, the CUNY Adjunct Incubator awarded grants to 13 CUNY adjuncts from 6 CUNY colleges to develop a wide-range of deeply impactful public and applied projects in the humanities and humanistic social sciences. These projects range from addressing the needs and amplifying the successes of CUNY student-parents, to writing and performing new musical compositions for 3D-printed instruments, to photo-documentation of the erasure of Kurdish language from Kurdistan/Turkey, to food provision mapping that elucidates eating habits, access, and food inequities, and many more projects taking the form of concerts, dance, music, workshops, books, film, performance, classes, independent scholarship, and events. Read more about these grant-funded projects and the vital research and work by these outstanding CUNY adjuncts:

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