Category: Program Updates

Mike Rotkin, a co-founder of the Community Studies Program, died on June 18th of leukemia at the age of 79. For many years, he was a lecturer and field study leader for our program, placing students with organizations, reading field notes, and guiding their senior capstone work. Mike’s commitment to the innovative vision of community…

Renowned public scholar, author, activist, and professor of African American Studies Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor joined us for a conversation at the Hay Barn on the conditions of possibility for diversity and racial justice in this era of retrenchment. This talk was in conversation with Community Studies Program Director Michael McCarthy, author of The Master’s Tools: How Finance…

Thank you to everyone who came out to this year’s Community Studies Poster Session to support our cohort! The posters will be hung up on the second floor of the Rachel Carson Building for a couple more months. Thank you Alex Unger for these wonderful photos!

In January, Professor of Community Studies Alison Alkon was one of the featured speakers at the Homeless Garden Project’s Day of Service in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. The event brought together the organization’s staff, volunteers, and trainees, who got their hands dirty with meaningful hands-on activities, from planting and weeding to preparing the…