Research, Scholarship, and Creative Practice (RSCP) Committees | Parsons
Purpose
RSCP committees recognize that knowledge is acquired through research, synthesis, practice, and teaching. Therefore the original works of the faculty—whether traditional research, creative/ professional activities, or the scholarship of teaching —are vital contributions to the mission of The New School. These endeavors enhance the teaching by the faculty, enrich the educational experience of the undergraduate students, provide the forum for the training of students pursuing graduate education, and contribute to the missions of advancing knowledge and serving the public.
The New School fosters a rich spectrum of research and creative/professional activity that mainly addresses and engages with the political, cultural, scientific, economic, artistic, and natural contemporary conditions facing local and global communities.
In addition to theoretical knowledge, The New School recognizes the substantive value of situated, applied knowledge. To this end, The New School has a pluralistic approach to evaluating the scholarly contribution of faculty members—acknowledging the diversity of forms by which a scholar can make an appropriate contribution to their field. This promotes within the university a rich inclusive research culture that extends research output from publications and case studies, to exhibitions, screenings, and performances of creative practice.
Current Committee Members
Adam Brent | Associate Director of Faculty Affairs | Chair
ADHT
- Heike Jenss | Chair
- David Brody
- Radhika Subramaniam
AMT
- Katherine Moriwaki | Chair
- Arthur Ou
- Amanda Boniauto
- Carrie Hawks
- Elaine Lopez
- Katherine Moriwaki
- Daniel Sauter
SCE
- Robert Kirkbride | Chair
- Derek Porter
- Johanne Woodcock
- Joel Stoehr
SDS
- Barbara Adams | Chair
- Sharon Counts
- Jose DeJesus
- Raz Godelnik
- Miodrag Mitrasinovic
- Otto von Busch
SOF
- Annette Millington | Chair
- Soojin Kang
- Naika Colas
- Carolina Obregon
- Sugandha Gupta
- Lucia Cuba
- Dyese Matthews
- Lourdes Mendoza
- Marie Geneveive Cy
RSCP Funds (School-Based & Cross-School Funds)
Please see RSCP Funds (School-Based & Cross-School) and Parsons Faculty Funding Calendar for more information on RSCP Funds. For information on other funding sources, please see funding cycles.
School-Based Fund Recipients
FY25
ADHT
Faculty | Project Title |
Hazel Clark | Fashion in American Life: Index |
Lorraine Karafel | Conference and Research Travel to England in July 2024 |
Margot Bouman | Sampling as a Site-Specific Practice in Contemporary Art |
Ulrich Lehmann | Revolution and Progress |
Francesca Granata | Greer Lankton: Doll-Making as Queer Worldmaking |
AMT
Faculty | Project Title |
Ben Katchor | New York Comics & Picture-story Symposium |
Caspar Lam and YuJune Park | Typographic Tools through the Lens of the Chinese Script |
Harpreet Sareen | ephemera |
Jane Pirone | Enchanting Rarities and Enduring Extremophiles |
Kate Wolkoff | The Life and Death of Migrating Birds |
Kelly Walters | AMT / Parsons Pop-Up Book Fair + Share |
Kyle Li | Design Good Living With Emerging Tech |
SCE
Faculty | Project Title |
Adegboyega Adefope | OAYE AI &Technology exhibition of work from the Boys and Girls Club in Mission, South Dakota |
Carly Cannell | WHEN PLACES SPEAK |
Glenn Shrum | Pioneers of Lighting Design |
Michele Gorman and Brian McGrath | Space as Matrix: A Radically Inclusive Open Call |
SDS
Faculty | Project Title |
Alaiyo Bradshaw and Matt Whitmann | ANALOG ANIMATION: EXPLORATIONS AND CHANCE ENCOUNTERS |
Barbara Adams | Bordering Practices: Rivers, Seas, and Water Policies (working title) |
Gabriela Rendon, Eric Brelsford (annualized PTF), and Robert Robison (PTF) | Housing Justice Oral History Project |
Jennifer Rittner | I Am A Design Student |
Killeen Hanson | Design & Strategy Lecture and Dinner Series |
Mark Randall | Stingless Bees: Education and Economic Development |
Miodrag Mitrasinovic | The Making of Corona Plaza, Queens |
Nadia Williams | Parsons x Pocoapoco Residency |
Otto von Busch | Not thinking like a designer - finishing/printing book |
Raz Godelnik | Business as a Designer: How Businesses Can Drive the Shift to 1.5°C Lifestyles |
Rhea Alexander | Closing the gender-gap for women + female-identifying-founders using design strategies |
SOF
Faculty | Project Title |
Carolina Obregon and Lucia Cuba | LATAM Fashion Lab |
Fiona Dieffenbacher | Fashion - Faith: Rituals and Dialogues Exhibition and Symposium |
James Hamilton Butler and Zoe Vanezis | Working title - branding identities |
Laura Lanteri and Khary Simon | The Awakward Pause |
Liliana Sanguino | Werapara at SQUIFF Fim Festival |
FY24
ADHT
Faculty | Project Title |
Denise Lim | Excavating Palimpsests in Ponte City |
Jilly Traganou | Participation at SAH conference |
Allan Doyle | Queer Photography in 1950s US Physique Photography |
Mev Luna | Project Title TBD (Cobertizo Residency) |
Ulrich Lehmann | Fashion and Volatility in Capitalist Modernity One-Day-Symposium at The New School, New York Friday, November 10, 2023 |
AMT
Faculty | Project Title |
Lynn Kiang | The 21st Century Museum |
Elaine Lopez | The Struggle Is Your Thesis/The Thesis Is Your Struggle Zine |
Isaiah Winters | This Land is Your Land |
Melanie Crean | LRRH |
Arthur Ou | Cross-Strait Relations |
Colleen Macklin | Game Developer's Conference 2023 |
Ben Katchor | New York Comics & Picture-story Symposium |
Freya Powell | Notes on Voice: Echo and Narcissus |
Shana Agid | Here's What Happened in the Library Today |
Gyun Hur | Our mothers, our water, our peace |
Nika Simovich Fisher | How Technology is Impacting Serbian Orthodoxy Research Trip |
Richard The | Interrogating AI |
Pascal Glissmann | Library of Speculative Language |
Harpreet Sareen | Algaphon |
SCE
Faculty | Project Title |
David Leven | City of Trees Exhibition |
Alison Mears | Elder Housing |
Nadia Elrokhsy | IDEC Regional East 2023 |
Cotter Christian | Exploring Contemplative Sacred Space: An Immersive Documentation of the Baha'i Temple in Santiago |
Michele Gorman, Jolanda Morkel, Hermie Delport (University of Cape Town) | Relearning Design Practices for Earth Day 2024 |
Jonsara Ruth | Healthy Materials for Affordable Housing in Memphis Tennessee |
Yvette Chaparro | Prototypes for Phd Research project |
Brian McGrath | The Territory as Living Subject (conference) |
Carly Cannell | WHEN PLACES SPEAK |
Daniel Michalik | “Glass Paddles”: Objects for Paraphernalia Exhibition during NYCXDesign 2024 |
SDS
Faculty | Project Title |
Hala A Malak | La Science: Challenging Dominant Knowledge Narratives for Social Transformation |
Barbara Adams | Displacement, Belonging, and Mutual Aid (working title) |
Rhea Alexander | AI : Friend or Foe for Female-Identifying Founders? |
Miodrag Mitrasinovic | Corona Plaza: Creating a Dignified Public Space for Immigrant Communities |
Raz Godelnik | Design for 1.5C lifestyles - integrating individual agency and systemic changes |
Otto von Busch | Making Civic Crafts - Mobile Workshop |
Ross Tibbles | Archiving Ephemeral Objects |
Jennifer Rittner | What Are Design Studies? |
Andrew Shea | Creative AI Magnifier |
Courtney Morgan | Nuovo Beach Project |
John Bruce | Collective Fabulation and Walking With |
Matthew Villarreal | Borderlines Exhibition and Student Residency Project |
SOF
Faculty | Project Title |
Sariah Park | Indigenous Fashion Symposium |
Soojin Kang | "Empowering Bodies with 3D Seamless Knit Garments: Dynamic Compression for Enhanced Wellness with Human-Centered Design and Technology" |
Liliana Sanguino | Fashion's New Weave |
Carolina Obregon and Lucia Cuba | Fashion Systems Latin America Lab - Phase I |
Leila Kelleher | UnderWhere |
Daniel Drak | Digital Fashion & "Extended Identities" |
Preeti Gopinath and Anette Millington | Radical Textiles: Pedagogical Innovation in the Parsons Textiles MFA Program |
Naika Colas | RefFashion Workforce Development |
Cross-School Fund Recipients
FY25
Faculty | Project Title |
Gyun Hur (AMT) and John Roach (SDS) | Strategic Planning for Sustainable EISJ Initiatives in the Parsons First Year Program |
Michele Gorman (SCE), Brian McGrath (SCE), Allyson McDavid (SCE), Christina Moon (ADHT), and Wendy Scheir | A Radically Inclusive Open Call: Space as Matrix |
Jane Pirone (AMT) and Barbara Adams (SDS) | Multispecies Symposium Theme: Invasives |
Jennifer Rittner (SDS) and Kelly Walters (AMT) | Black Experience in Design Little Library and Consortium |
James Butler (SOF), Adegboyega Adefope (SCE), Nika Simovich Fisher (AMT) | Cross school AAS event planning summit |
Fiona Dieffenbacher (SOF), Otto Von Busch (SDS), Romana Mirza (SOF), Kien Chu, and Shireen Soliman | Fashion - Faith: Rituals and Dialogues Exhibition and Symposium |
FY24
Faculty | Project Title |
Jilly Traganou (ADHT) and Brian McGrath (SCE) | Freetowns: Tensions between Prefigurative politics and Urban Normalization |
Jennifer Rittner (SDS) and Kelly Walters (AMT) | Black Experience in Design - Pre-college initiative |
Preethi Gopinath (SOF) and Ulrich Lehmann (ADHT) | Fashion and Volatility in Capitalist Modernity One-Day-Symposium at The New School, New York Friday, November 10, 2023 |
Hala A Malak (SDS), Barbara Adams (SDS), Jane Pirone (AMT), Anne Gaines (AMT) | Laboratory Lebanon: Decadence and Decay |
Yvette Chaparro (SCE), Michele Gorman (SCE), Preeti Gopinath (SOF) | Relearning Design Practices for Earth Day 2024 |
Leila Kelleher (SOF) and Cynthia Lawson Jaramillo (SDS) | Near is Far: Recontextualizing New York as “Remote” |