Public Humanities Graduate Fellows
The Society of Fellows and Heyman Center for the Humanities offer graduate students funded opportunities to investigate the public dimensions of their work.
The SOF/Heyman Public Humanities Fellowship was one of my most rewarding experiences as a PhD student at Columbia. The community of fellows provided support and made it possible to consider the common themes and obstacles we faced in doing public humanities work. Intensive, engaged mentorship helped me to refine my project and challenge my own assumptions. The work I accomplished as a Public Humanities Fellow set the foundation for gaining several grants and fellowships and has also made me a much more competitive candidate for the non-academic jobs I applied to.
Current Opportunities
Public Humanities Graduate Fellowship
The SOF/Heyman and Humanities New York (HNY) provide graduate students with training and resources to develop and implement a project intended for public audiences, engaging members of the public as collaborators and partnering with community groups. During the funding period, students attend bi-weekly workshops and public events and organize a panel about their project in the end-of-year series Building Publics.
Past Opportunities
Radio Play Project in Partnership with the Center for Palestine Studies
The Society of Fellows and Heyman Center for the Humanities (SOF/Heyman) and the Center for Palestine Studies (CPS) offer funding for advanced graduate students at Columbia to be involved in the NO PLACE | LA MAKAN | لا مكان Radio Play Project. NO PLACE | LA MAKAN | لا مكان is a platform for Palestinian playwrights to explore contemporary themes through an historic medium of performance -- radio.
ZIP Code Memory Project
Together with Institute for Religion, Culture and Public Life (IRCPL), the Society of Fellows and Heyman Center for the Humanities (SOF/Heyman) offers funding for advanced graduate students throughout the university to participate in the ZIP Code Memory Project: Practices of Justice and Repair at The Center for the Study of Social Difference (CSSD). Led by Marianne Hirsch (Columbia) and Diana Taylor (NYU), The ZIP Code Memory Project seeks to find reparative ways to memorialize the devastating losses resulting from the COVID pandemic while also acknowledging its radically differential effects on different Upper New York City neighborhoods.