Summer Institute on Incarceration and the Humanities

FAIN: AC-263982-19

CUNY Research Foundation, LaGuardia Community College (Long Island City, NY 11101-3007)
Naomi J. Stubbs (Project Director: July 2018 to October 2022)
Shannon Proctor (Co Project Director: December 2018 to October 2022)

A two-year series of institutes and workshops for faculty on the topic of incarceration and the humanities.

Our Summer Institute on Incarceration and the Humanities consists of two intensive summer institutes organized around central themes in the humanities scholarship on incarceration. Through selected readings, guest speaker presentations, and site visits, our faculty fellows will deepen their understanding of the ways in which research in the humanities contributes to knowledge about the history of incarceration in the United States, the goals and justifications of carceral punishment, as well as the connections between rehabilitation, education, and successful reentry. This knowledge will be shared with the community via the scholarly and classroom projects the fellows will create and assess during the institute. These projects will allow us to improve humanities education at LaGuardia Community College and to incorporate a humanist perspective into ongoing projects about incarceration.

Associated Products

Incarceration and the Humanities: website (Web Resource)
Title: Incarceration and the Humanities: website
Author: Bethany Holmstrom
Author: Naomi J. Stubbs
Author: Shannon Proctor
Abstract: Serving as the hub of the project, this site contains the various participants' projects as well as student work
Year: 2019
Primary URL: https://incarcerationhumanities.commons.gc.cuny.edu/

Gifts from the dark: Learning from the incarceration experience. In the series: Critical perspectives on race, crime, and justice (Book)
Title: Gifts from the dark: Learning from the incarceration experience. In the series: Critical perspectives on race, crime, and justice
Author: Schwartz, J.
Author: Chaney, J. R.
Abstract: Drawing on classic prison texts by Nelson Mandela (Conversations with Myself), Victor Frankl (Man’s Search for Meaning), Martin Luther King (Letters from a Birmingham Jail) and Malcolm X (The Autobiography of Malcolm X – by Alex Haley); this book makes the case that the prison cell is a counterspace that despite (and tragically sometimes because of) its frequent cruelty and injustice can be a space of adult transformative learning – in the words of Nelson Mandela “…. the cell is an ideal place to learn to know yourself, to search realistically and regularly to the process of your own mind and feelings.”
Year: 2021
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Type: Multi-author monograph
Copy sent to NEH?: No

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