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Fellowships
The CPCP offers fellowships to CUNY graduate students, faculty, and one postdoctoral scholar.
Each year, the CPCP brings together fellows and visting scholars from diverse disciplines to explore a specific theme through a weekly seminar, guided by the core principle of developing collaborative interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary bases for radical knowledge and practice.
Student Fellowships
The CPCP appoints six dissertation fellows per academic year. Level III CUNY Graduate Center PhD students are eligible to apply and receive a $10,000 stipend.
Student fellows are expected to participate in the center’s activities, share a piece of writing in process (typically a dissertation chapter draft), and provide commentary and feedback on other fellows’ research in the seminar.
Student fellows come from any discipline whose research articulates with topics that have contemporary urgency, regardless of period or methodological approach.
Faculty Fellowships
The CPCP appoints six faculty fellows per academic year. Full-time CUNY faculty from all campuses are eligible to apply and receive a two-course release for the year of their fellowship (to be distributed across the fall and spring semesters at the discretion of their department).
Faculty fellows are expected to participate in the center’s activities, share a piece of writing in process (typically a book chapter or article draft), and provide commentary and feedback on other fellows’ research in the seminar.
Faculty fellows come from any discipline whose research articulates with topics that have contemporary urgency, regardless of period or methodological approach.
Postdoctoral Fellowship
The CPCP accepts applications for a postdoctoral fellowship position every one to two years. The position is union represented, with salary and benefits outlined under the “research associate” job title of the PSC collective bargaining agreement.
Postdoctoral fellows pursue their own research, help to coordinate the center’s activities, and share their writing in the weekly seminar.
Postdoctoral fellows come from any discipline whose research articulates with topics that have contemporary urgency, regardless of period or methodological approach.
Open applications will be announced below.
Visiting Scholar Program
The CPCP is committed to fostering scholarly exchange and advancing social movements across borders. We invite visiting scholars from around the world to join our weekly seminar and to pursue their own research in New York City.
Mobility: Transit & Transformation
2025–2026 Seminar Theme
Crises of mobility have become a key integer of social struggle in the world system. Whether one considers the explosion of different forms of movement—and the unending state efforts to classify them as deserving or undeserving, as economic, environmental, or asylum-based—or the production of immobility, in carcerality, wagelessness, enclosure, or via the securitization of borders, mobility and its discontents are central to radical activism across local and transnational communities. How do shifts in forms of mobility inform or mediate the conditions of social change? What are the links between transit and transition? Do contemporary logics of mobility, at different scales, temporalities and intensities, represent counter-hegemonic realms of possibility, political imagination, and new ways to think and express transformation?
Radical Imagination: Temporalities and Geographies of Struggle
2026–2027 Seminar Theme
In a world of deepening crises, of socioeconomic inequities, of environmental collapse, of resurgent fascism and institutionalized authoritarianism, what is the place of radical imagination in creating more just worlds? While some think of the work of imagination as being outside of—at a distance to, or even in a different temporality than—everyday struggle, we want to shine a light on the work of radical practice as a form of imagination. We look to anticapitalist and antiracist organizing and thought, and the complex practices in time and place through which change is not only presented and represented but produced.
Current opportunities
The CUNY Graduate Center Dissertation Fellowship Application for the 2026–2027 Academic Year
Applications for the 2026–2027 academic are being accepted now through January 15, 2026.
Students must be able to attend the CPCP’s weekly seminar, which occurs every Wednesday from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. during the academic year. The application requires an additional statement of applicability of not more than one page, highlighting the connection between your research and the CPCP seminar theme for 2026–2027.
The CPCP Faculty Fellowship Application for the 2026–2027 Academic Year
Applications for the 2026–2027 academic year are being accepted now through February 6, 2026.
Faculty must be able to attend the CPCP’s weekly seminar, which occurs every Wednesday from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. during the academic year.
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