Humanities NY Graduate Public Humanities Fellows Presentations
300 Tolley Humanities Building
The Maxwell School is a graduate school of social science with a unique multidisciplinary character that cuts across traditional departmental lines. At Maxwell, theory and practice are regarded with equal seriousness: the barriers that divide academic disciplines from one another and from the larger world of public life are routinely breached by the wide-ranging scholarly and educational activities of an outstanding faculty and an exceptionally cosmopolitan student body
"Precious Earth: Stories of Mining and Political Change in the Adirondack Mountains”
Jesse Quinn (Ph.D. candidate in Geography)
Quinn’s research focuses on the politics of geography and local resources.
“The Project of Resettlement: Community Activism & Conceptions of Citizenship”
Kishauna Soljour (P.h.D. candidate in History)
Soljour’s project chronicles the migration of Somali-Bantu refugees to Syracuse.
Two Graduate Student Public Humanities Fellowships are jointly supported each year by the Humanities Center and the Central New York Humanities Corridor in partnership with Humanities New York.
Light breakfast, presentations, Q&A.