Public History Workshop
The Lehman Center Public History Workshop provides financial and professional assistance to graduate students interested in bringing history to a broader public. The Public History Workshop encourages public-facing history projects that address major topics through research, writing, and digital scholarship, and which target a broad and diverse audience.
This year, the Public History Fellows were Reed Canaan, Mary Alice Jouve, Minwoo Kong, Batel Levy, Ashley Morales, Mandile Mpofu, and Sohum Pal. They developed lesson plans related to New York state's upcoming bicentennial celebration of the abolition of slavery. The plans will be available on this website soon.
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The 2025 fellows were Gracie Anderson, Hannah Bruno, Grace Elicker, Marc Orriols Gimenez, Batel Levy, Sophia Scanlan, and Jordan Weinstock. The workshop focused on developing a high school lesson plan based on a recently digitized student essay contest from 1965 called "New York City's Future As I View It." Workshop participants conducted a trial run of the lesson plan at Bard College Early High School in Queens in May. The lesson plans are available here.
The 2024 fellows were Megan Buiocchi, Lorna Kimaiyo, Stephanie Reitzig, Victoria Dadet, and Autumn Galindo. They researched high school history education on a topic of New York City that will be made available to high school teachers in the New York area. The workshop explored aspects of curricular design.
The 2023 fellows were Xuexin Cai, Andrei Guadarrama, Roxanne Houman, Amanda Hardin, Lorna Kimaiyo, Kate Reeve, T. Wyatt Reynolds, and Juliana Torres. We held four meetings over the semester covering documentary production, children's book writing, and op-ed writing, with guest presentations by Megan Robertson of FRONTLINE PBS, Deborah Heiligman, and Adrienne Shih from the New York Times.
The 2022 fellows were Elya Assayag, Mariana Katz, Lucas Ramos, Marie Robin, and Juliana DeVaan. You can watch the Public History Fellows 2022 end-of-semester presentations below.