Center CIRCL Fellowships

The Center CIRCL Fellowship Program welcomes the 2025-2027 cohort. This selective group of Indigenous and non-Indigenous NYU students, faculty, and community will work collaboratively to advance research, pedagogy, and artistic practice around the biennial theme “This City is So Indigenous”. The first year of this and subsequent themes is dedicated to research and collective exploration. Through readings, conversation, and hands-on learning and creative practice together, our Fellows will generate original research practices to organize ideas around the theme. Each Fellow will deepen their research practices through weekly engagement with each other and individualized support from the center. The second year is devoted to the physical and spatial elaboration of works and communication towards a broad community pedagogy.

Projects include a series of interdisciplinary workshops for Native-identified artists, a documentary of significant places in Indigenous entertainment history particularly late 19th to mid-20th Centuries, after school youth participatory research programs aimed at teenagers interested in learning about Indigenous history and presence in the city and in connecting with lands and waters, an investigation into the relational ties that were forged through Indigenous advocacy at the United Nations (and in NYC at large) in the 1970s and 1980san, work supporting Lenapeyok pathways home to Lenapehoking, and a sound mapping project amplifying Indigenous presence and storytelling in NYC.

The biennial theme, “This City is So Indigenous”, invites not only the fellows but also Center CIRCL overall to focus on the Indigeneities that are so uniquely New York City. Workshops, events, and projects might attend to both the Lenape communities here and in diaspora and the global diversity of Indigenous Peoples and families living in New York.