Public Humanities Fellows

Sara Stamatiades (English)
Sara will develop a writing workshop with her community partner for migrant and refugee families in Ithaca, NY. In addition to fostering community, this project aims to bring greater awareness and advocacy for those experiencing isolation and facing deportation at the Batavia Detention Center, which is located just two hours northwest of Cornell’s campus.

John Kennedy (Romance Studies)
As a NY Public Humanities Fellow, John is organizing a series of conversations, interviews, and surveys on migration with a focus on the current pandemic, migrant debt, and border securitization policies.

Elaigwu Ameh (Performing & Media Arts)
As a Public Humanities Fellow, he will employ the visceral medium of documentary theater to explore the polygonal predicament of farmworkers in Upstate New York with a view to raising awareness on farmworkers’ unique prerequisites, plights and perspectives, while also galvanizing support for the betterment of their lives.

Molly McVeagh (English)
For her project, she plans to partner with the Groton Public Library and the Tompkins County History Center to develop a community writing class focused on food and climate change.

Katherine Thorsteinson (English)
The Social Contract: A Journal of Collaborative Thought

Diane Wong (Government)
Chinatown Women's Oral History Collection

Marquis Bey (English)
As a Public Humanities Fellow, Marquis will develop "theorizing on the block," leading discussions that show how academic thinkers' theory is presented within pop culture and media, and how theory is deeply relevant to our everyday lives.

Caitlin Kane (Performing and Media Arts)
As a Public Humanities Fellow, Caitin's project involves expanding the reach and the longevity of The Loneliness Project, a documentary play and oral history project that examines intergenerational LGBTQIA+ experiences of isolation.

Martina Broner (Romance Studies/Spanish, Cornell) 
New Models of Coexistence with Nature, Recording and Reimaginong the Stories of the Changing Landscape of the Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn

Enongo Lumumba-Kasongo (Science & Technology Studies, Cornell) 
Partnering with a community studio program to conduct interviews as well as participant observation research with administrators, audio engineers, artists, and community members in order to critically examine the relations and politics that emerge in arts-based community work

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Emily Hong (Sociocultural Anthropology) 
The Making of Nobel, Nok, Dah: Refugee Subjectivity Through Sensory Ethnography & Feminist Oral History

Peregrine Gerard-Little (Archaeology) 
Archaeology and the Two-Row Wampum: Public Engagement with 17th Century Human-Landscape Relations in Iriquoia

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