Author: Matt Brim

On behalf of our Mentors, Kelly and I wish all Fellows past and present a happy and healthy 2021. This past difficult year has taught us, once again, that we could not ask for better colleagues, nor could we be more excited about the writing projects you will advance in the months ahead.

Here is to taking some much needed rest and to crafting a reasonable writing schedule over the break. For the 2021 Fellows, we look forward to our Writing Groups in the spring–they are the heart of the Program. And to everyone, many thanks for making FFPP such a special place to do our good work.

All our best wishes,

Matt Brim and Kelly Baker Josephs

Academic Directors — Faculty Fellowship Publication Program

The FFPP Academic Directors and Mentors offer our warmest congratulations to the spring 2021 Fellows! We look forward to another productive year of writing, peer review, and professional development at CUNY!

FACULTY MENTOR	FELLOWS	CAMPUS	DEPARTMENT
Michael B. Gillespie, City College	Jason Schafer	LaGuardia Community College	Humanities
	Carla Santamaría	Brooklyn College	Puerto Rican & Latino Studies
	Cliff Mak	Queens College	English
	Namhee Han	Queens College	Classical, Middle Eastern, and Asian Languages & Cultures
	Patricia A. Milanes	York College	English
Ted Ingram, Bronx Community College	Jennette Allen-McCombs	York College	Social Work
	Paul Archibald	College of Staten Island	Social Work
	Sarah Baquet	Brooklyn College	School Psychology, Counseling, & Leadership
	Nelson Santana	Bronx Community College	Library Learning Services
	Natasha Nurse-Clarke	Lehman College	Nursing
William Carr, Medgar Evers College	Zhu Zhou	York College	Chemistry
	Zheng Peng	City College	Computer Science
	Akm Rahman	City Tech	Mechanical Engineering Tech
	Harsha Rajapakse	Medgar Evers College	Chemistry & Environmental Science
	Maral Tajerian	Queens College	Biology
Nivedita Majumdar, John Jay College	Sebastian Alvarado	Queens College	Biology
	Cara Murray	Queensborough Community College	English
	Sophia Hsu	Lehman College	English
	Amin Erfani	Lehman College	Languages & Literatures
	Reynado Ortiz-Minaya	Brooklyn College	Puerto Rican & Latino Studies
Anahi Viladrich, Queens College	Pei Cheng	Brooklyn College	School Psychology, Counseling, & Leadership
	Yung-Chen Chiu	Hunter College	Educational Foundations & Counseling Programs
	Jan Oosting Kaminsky	School of Professional Studies	Nursing
	Linda Ann Paradiso	School of Professional Studies	Nursing
	Sasha Rudenstine	City College	Psychology
Katherine K. Chen, City College	Rhea Rahman	Brooklyn College	Anthropology
	Phillip Staniczenko	Brooklyn College	Biology
	Natalie Bump Vena	Queens College	Urban Studies
	Grace Pai	Guttman Community College	Interdisciplinary Studies
	John Lauermann	Medgar Evers College	Social & Behavioral Sciences
Moustafa Bayoumi, Brooklyn College	Melissa Castillo Planas	Lehman College	English
	Shinjoung Yeo	Queens College	Media Studies
	Kimberley McKinson	John Jay College	Anthropology
	Carolina Chaves-O’Flynn	Queensborough Community College	Foreign Languages
	Ryan Mann-Hamilton	LaGuardia Community College	Social Science
Bridgett Davis, Baruch College	Sarada Rauch	LaGuardia Community College	Humanities
	Larry Tung	York College	Performing & Fine Arts
	James Harris	Bronx Community College	English
	Noelia Diaz	Queensborough Community College	English
	Dora Silva Santana	John Jay College	Gender Studies
Lina Newton, Hunter College	Donna Lee Granville	Brooklyn College	Sociology
	Shruti Sharma	Borough of Manhattan Community College	Social Sciences, Human Services, & Criminal Justice
	Rong Zhao	Hunter College	Social Work
	Harini Mittal	Bronx Community College	Business & Information Systems
	Rubia Valente	Baruch College	Public & International Affairs

The Office of Award Pre-Proposal Support (APPS) at the Research Foundation CUNY has been working hard to keep us connected to opportunities for funding in the Arts and Humanities as well as STEM fields. The resources below will help you begin planning to apply for future grants and fellowships. Please take a look!

• Pathways to Funding for Arts and Humanities Projects (PowerPoint) with accompanying Speaking Notes

• A two-page Guide to Local Arts and Humanities Funders (look here for support beyond the usual suspects!)

• APPS has filmed several of its workshops for future faculty development needs. We encourage the FFPP cohort to check out some of these prior talks to familiarize themselves with research development themes of interest. See the RF YouTube channel here.

• COVID-19 funding advisories for both STEM/health faculty and arts and culture faculty. The STEM/health document is focused on urgent research projects, while the arts and culture document is focused on relief grants for those with loss of gig income and medical bills.

• STEM/Health Funding (PowerPoint)

 

Dear Fellows,

At times like this it helps to have good information at hand, so we want to share several CUNY-wide resources. The “CUNY Continuity” page is a place to start:

https://www.cuny.edu/cuny-continuity/cuny-continuity-for-students/

From here you can access University-wide resources as well as each CUNY college’s “coronavirus page” for information specific to the individual campuses.

Because this week is likely an especially difficult one for the CUNY community and for New York City, we also want to mention that CUNY has resources focused on health and wellness, including counseling and mental health services, as well as child care and food security on our campuses. Links to campus counseling centers can be found here:

https://www.cuny.edu/current-students/student-affairs/student-services/counseling/campus-centers/

More general information about health services at CUNY are here:

https://www.cuny.edu/current-students/student-affairs/student-services/health-services/

At some CUNY colleges, individual departments have compiled resource lists. An example of a departmental resource list is the following from Black and Latino Studies at Baruch College:

https://blogs.baruch.cuny.edu/blackandlatinostudies/?page_id=9

Many campus webpages also point CUNY community members to health and wellness resources outside the CUNY system, including NYC Well Counseling Services:

https://nycwell.cityofnewyork.us/en/

As ever, and on behalf of our Mentors, we want you to know how thankful we are to have you as colleagues and how deeply we value your participation in the Faculty Fellowship Publication Program.

All our best,

Shelly and Matt

 

Hello Fellows,

We are truly heartened to hear that you have been relying on the structure provided by your writing groups and your Mentors to stay focused and find professional support in the face of adversity. The underlying strengths of the FFPP are becoming more vivid than ever: the capacity to connect, draw on professional resources, build layered support systems, and persevere together.

We have several timely informational items to share with you.

1. The CUNY Research Foundation has just released the following for PIs and grant workers:  https://www.rfcuny.org/RFWebsite/about/announcements/coronavirus-guidance/ and specifically  https://www.rfcuny.org/RFWebsite/learning-resources/covid-19-guidance/faqs-for-rf-field-staff-and-principal-investigators/   This guidance will be updated periodically, so please check back at the RF site.
2. The current moment only highlights something the FFPP has long focused on: the question of how faculty of color can achieve a good work-life balance in academe. Dwayne A. Mack, professor of history and Carter G. Woodson Chair of African American History at Berea College, offers his perspective here.

Finally, our STEM Mentor, William Carr, recently gave a talk about coronavirus (COVID-19). Thank you to William for sharing your expertise with us!

We look forward to communicating with you regularly–even as we want to respect the fact that we’ve all been a bit overwhelmed with email lately! The FFPP Commons will be, we hope, a valued site of connection, resource-sharing, and collegiality as we move ahead.

Very best wishes to all,

Matt and Shelly

The FFPP Academic Directors and Mentors offer our warmest congratulations to the spring 2020 Fellows! This year FFPP expands to 10 writing groups across the most diverse range of disciplines and specialties in our history, including STEM fields and Rhetoric & Composition. We look forward to another productive year of writing, peer review, and professional development at CUNY!

Faculty Mentor	Faculty Name	Campus	Department
Kelly Baker Josephs, York	Stuart Davis	Baruch	Communication Studies
	Sean Gerrity	Hostos	English
	Donna Hill	Medgar	English
	Minna Logemann	Baruch	Communication Studies
	Cristina Migliaccio	Medgar	English
	Chun-Yi Peng	BMCC	Modern Languages
Moustafa Bayoumi, Brooklyn	Christine Farias	BMCC	Social Sciences, Human Services & Criminal Justice
	Victoria Muñoz	Hostos	English
	Raquel Otheguy	Bronx CC	History
	Erica Richardson	Baruch	English
	Marisa Solomon	Baruch	Sociology & Anthropology
	Marta-Laura Suska	John Jay	Anthropology
Nivedita Majumdar, John Jay	Andy Connolly	Hostos	English
	Adrian Izquierdo	Baruch	English
	Yasha Klots	Hunter	Classical & Oriental Studies
	Laurie Lomask	BMCC	Modern Languages
	Schneur Newfield	BMCC	Social Sciences, Human Services & Criminal Justice
	Rafael Walker	Baruch	English
Anahí Viladrich, Queens	Tanzina Ahmed	KBCC	Behavioral Sciences & Human Services
	Dwayne Baker	Queens	Urban Studies
	Brenda Hernandez Acevedo	Lehman	Nursing
	Fabienne Snowden	Medgar	Social Work
	Jessica Van Parys	Hunter	Economics
	Myriam Villalobos Solís	Baruch	Psychology
Mark McBeth, John Jay	Sara Alvarez	Queens	English
	Carrie Hall	NYCCTech	English
	Yana Kuchirko	Brooklyn	Psychology
	Marcela Oss Parra	Queens	Elementary & Early Childhood Education
	Meghmala Tarafdar	QBCC	English
	Missy Watson	CCNY	English
Ted Ingram, Bronx CC	Asrat Amnie	Hostos	Health Education
	Stacey Cooper	Hostos	Behavioral & Social Sciences
	Jacob Eubank	Lehman	Health Sciences
	Nicole Kras	Guttman	n/a
	Anya Spector	Guttman	n/a
	Anuradha Srivastava	QBCC	Biological Sciences & Geology
Ava Chin, CSI	Jonah Brucker-Cohen	Lehman	Journalism & Media Studies
	Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich	Queens	Media Studies
	Donika Kelly	Baruch	English
	George Larkins	NYCCTech	Communication Design
	Brenda Vollman	BMCC	Social Sciences, Human Services & Criminal Justice
	Natasha Yannacañedo	Hostos	Humanities
Katherine Chen, City College	Marcello Di Bello	Lehman	Philosophy
	Charles Gomez	Queens	Sociology
	Naja Berg Hougaard	QBCC	Social Sciences
	Andrew Lambert	CSI	Philosophy
	Elizabeth Minei	Baruch	Communication Studies
	Maite Sánchez	Hunter	Curriculum & Teaching
William Carr, Medgar Evers	Tatiana Emmanouil	Baruch	Psychology
	Karen Flórez	SPH	Environmental, Occupational & Geospatial Sciences
	Mabel Korie	Medgar	Nursing
	Sandra Maldonado	Lehman	Nursing
	Anna Manukyan	Hostos	Natural Science
	Mara Schvarzstein	Brooklyn	Biology
Lina Newton, Hunter	Marcus Johnson	Baruch	Political Science
	Jennifer Laird	Lehman	Sociology
	Ke Li	John Jay	Political Science
	Min Liu	Bronx CC	Social Sciences
	James Rodriguez	Guttman	n/a
	Liza Steele	John Jay	Sociology