Centers & Labs - Incite at Columbia University

Centers & Labs

We realize our mission through several units.

Centers & Labs

Featured Projects

  • go to the The Elders Project project
    The Elders Project Capturing the stories of elders who have shaped America—from Civil Rights activists to tribal leaders to survivors of Stonewall—before they’re lost to history. Funded by Emerson Collective
  • go to the Movements Against Mass Incarceration project
    Movements Against Mass Incarceration

    Building the United States' first archive to center the political ideas and movement-building of incarcerated people.

    Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
  • go to the Obama Presidency Oral History project
    Obama Presidency Oral History

    Creating a comprehensive oral history of the Obama years with over 450 officials, activists, organizers, and extraordinary people from all walks of life.

    Funded by Columbia University's Office of the President
  • go to Columbia Oral History
    Columbia Oral History

    A world leader in the practice, teaching, and curation of oral history since 1948.

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  • go to Columbia Center for the Study of Social Difference
    Columbia Center for the Study of Social Difference

    A constellation of working groups that address gender, race, sexuality, and other intersecting forms of global inequality.

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  • go to Columbia Labor Lab
    Columbia Labor Lab

    A lab focused on working with labor organizations to restore the political and economic power of workers using social science and data.

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  • go to Data and Racial Inequality Project
    Data and Racial Inequality Project

    A center in pursuit of understanding inequality and opportunity by asking new questions—and answering them with new methods.

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  • go to The Trust Collaboratory
    The Trust Collaboratory

    A center exploring the social dynamics of trust through interdisciplinary, collaborative, and publicly-engaged formats.

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  • go to Social Study of Disappearance Lab
    Social Study of Disappearance Lab

    A lab fostering the study of forced disappearance through interdisciplinary research and engaged pedagogy.

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Upcoming events

  • go to the The Bronx Before & After: Photo Match Night news
    The Bronx Before & After: Photo Match Night Event #2 of the “History Keepers” programming at the Mott Haven Library (NYPL), focused on empowering our communities in the South Bronx to preserve, document, and share their stories.
  • go to the Remembering Gathers a World: Listening as an Occasion of Possibility news
    Remembering Gathers a World: Listening as an Occasion of Possibility A dialogue on listening as a decolonial, relational oral history practice rooted in Black, Caribbean, and Global South memory traditions, exploring the field's role amid institutional defunding and censorship.
  • go to the In My Granny’s Kitchen news
    Keeping Memory: Oral History Practices that Host Kin and Community In My Granny’s Kitchen Black Collective Memory and the Emotional Architecture of Space
  • go to the Kitchen Table Histories news
    Kitchen Table Histories Event #3 of the “History Keepers” programming at the Mott Haven Library (NYPL), focused on empowering our communities in the South Bronx to preserve, document, and share their stories.