The Center for the Humanities

The CUNY Graduate Center

The Center for the Humanities at The Graduate Center, CUNY was founded in 1993 as a forum for people who take ideas seriously inside and outside the academy. Through its public programs, seminars, conferences, publications and exhibitions, the Center puts CUNY students and faculty from various disciplines into dialogue with each other as well as with prominent writers, artists, civic leaders to promote the humanities and to foster intellectual community across the city.

The Center for the Humanities provides five ongoing Presidential Research Fellowships for CUNY students in the Humanities and Social Sciences with experience and interest in facilitating interdisciplinary exchange and public events across the humanities. Through our Seminars in the Humanities, The James Gallery, and our archival publication, Lost & Found, these students help the Center for the Humanities to provide a space for CUNY students and faculty to engage with other scholars as well as with artists, community organizations, and the general public.

The Center for the Humanities does not currently offer fellowships to scholars outside the CUNY system at this time.