Building Partnerships with Cultural Institutions to Study and Preserve New York City’s Black and Latinx Cultural Heritage

FAIN: ZED-283806-22

CUNY Research Foundation, City College (New York, NY 10031-9101)
Renata Kobetts Miller (Project Director: May 2021 to present)

The hiring of two postdoctoral fellows and funding for 20 undergraduate internships with local community partners.

This project creates one post-doctoral fellow in Black Studies and another in Latin American and United States Latinx Studies. During their year-long appointments each fellow will teach a reduced load and conduct onsite research with a community partner. During Spring 2022 each will build an internship program with the community partner and in Summer and Fall 2022 will supervise cohorts of students in those internships. The fellows’ work in areas that transcend conventional department- and field-divisions will create new knowledge, which will be shared with our students, regarding the cultures and people at the core of our nation’s history to form “A More Perfect Union.” This program also prepares City College’s diverse body of students to enter the workforce as stewards of New York City’s cultural heritage. Finally, it serves the humanities more broadly by creating two positions for recent PhDs at a time when many are leaving the profession because of a dearth of full-time jobs.