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Supported by the National Park Service in partnership with the CUNY Science and Resilience Institute at Jamaica Bay.
The spring 2022 graduate course offered through City College’s Sustainability & Urban Environment Program but open to all CUNY graduate students focuses on research methods and the history and function of urban parks. Enrollment in this course is a prerequisite for the paid summer research fellowship. Instructor: Urban planner Elaine Mahoney.
Open to up to seven CUNY graduate students to do individual and team socioecological research in New York’s Gateway National Recreation Area (GNRA) in partnership with the National Park Service, Science and Resilience Institute at Jamaica Bay, and Center for the Study of Brooklyn. The program provides:
Assistant Professor Kelly M. Britt conducted an applied anthropology project with her ANTH 4635 Seminar in Museum Techniques class during the fall 2022 semester. With the Flatbush African Burial Ground as a case study, students engaged with members of the city-appointed taskforce for the burial ground, local activist groups such as the Flatbush African Burial Ground Coalition, and multiple community members in a variety of anthropological and archaeological methods to collect data they used to create group StoryMaps. These StoryMaps highlighted the history of the site, its fight for preservation, and the community’s wishes for its future including thoughts on memorialization of the site.
See students’ StoryMaps see here:
Spring 2023 Internship Opportunity for Brooklyn College students With the Flatbush African Burial Ground Coalition (PDF)
Assistant Professor Kelly M. Britt conducted this applied research project with her ANTH 3420 Urban Archaeology class during the spring 2021 semester with the generous support of CUNY’s Research in the Classroom Grant. Working in partnership with Weeksville Heritage Center, students engaged in a variety of anthropological and archaeological methods to collect data they used to create group StoryMaps illustrating the changing landscape of Bed-Stuy/Crown Heights, Brooklyn, through time focusing on cemeteries and mutual aid societies past and present. See their StoryMaps here:
Brooklyn Public Library, Macon Street Branch and the African American Heritage Center celebrated Women’s History Month in March 2021 with the virtual event Who Owns 87 McDonough Street? An Introduction to the Tents. This event explored the legacy of Black women as organizers throughout history, with focus of the United Order of Tents, Eastern District # 3, a 154-year old benevolent society focused on abolition and caring for Black communities who calls the 158 year-old house at 87 McDonough Street home. The talk highlighted the history of the organization and the house through stories from the Tent sisters, community leaders, preservation advocates such as Assistant Professor Kelly Britt, and other Friends of the Tents, who are working to preserve the legacy of the organization and the home they are situated in. You can visit the Tents’ website, made possible by Brooklyn College student Julia Leedy, for more information and to watch a recording of the event.
