The Center for Public Scholarship seeks to promote free inquiry and public discussion, bringing the best scholarship in and outside the academy to bear on the critical and contested issues of our times.
The Center is dedicated to engendering and enhancing freedom of
inquiry — not merely as an intellectual exercise but as a lived
imperative — and to addressing, illuminating, and alleviating pressing
social issues. These goals are rooted in the earliest history and ideals
of The New School. In this spirit, all of our activities and
initiatives are intended to foster dialogue within and beyond the
academy and to enhance public understanding of important social and
political issues. The Center draws on the strengths of The New School
and its faculty to shape and inform its programs.
Under the direction of Dr. Arien Mack, Alfred and Monette Marrow Professor of Psychology and editor of Social Research: An International Quarterly
since 1970, the Center unites a number of existing initiatives and
draws on their demonstrated strengths to develop new programming. It is
designed to serve as a bridge between the many initiatives at The New
School consistent with its mission and as a catalyst for new programs
both within the university and between The New School and other
institutions.
The Center for Public Scholarship is generously
supported by Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts,
Parsons The New School for Design, Milano The New School for Urban
Policy, The New School for General Studies, and The New School for
Social Research as well as the university Provost's office.
The Center's multifaceted activities include producing Social Research: An International Quarterly,
an award-winning journal that has been mapping the landscape of
intellectual thought since it was first published by The New School in
1934; the annual Social Research conference series, launched in 1988
(which will expand to include new events to engage experts and the
public in critical and contested issues of our times with the intent of
influencing public policy); the Journal Donation Project, since 1990 a
major library assistance program with the mission of creating scholarly
journal archives in 35 countries that for political or economic reasons
have been unable or unwilling to establish their own; and Endangered
Scholars Worldwide, an activist initiative started in 2008 to respond to
the wrongful imprisonment of scholars around the world.
For more information, contact:
Arien Mack, Director
Alex Kisielewski, Manager
Center for Public Scholarship (CPS)
The New School
80 Fifth Avenue, room 714
New York, NY 10011
Telephone: 917.534.9330
Fax: 212.229.5746
Email: mackarie@newschool.edu, cps@newschool.edu
Website: centerforpublicscholarship.org