Knowledge for public action.
Incite is an interdisciplinary institute at Columbia University.
We join with people and organizations within and outside the university to rethink our understanding of what knowledge is, how it’s created, and how it can be used.
Oct 2022: New Yorkers from all five boroughs convene at Hey Neighbor NYC—an art project created by Assembling Voices Fellows Kisha Bari and Jasmin Chang that invites organizers from distinct communities to interact across cultural, geographic, and interest-based silos. Photo by Emily Schiffer.
Featured Projects
Centers
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As one of the world's leading centers for the practice and teaching of oral history, the Columbia Center for Oral History Research seeks to record unique life histories, document the central historical events and memories of our times, provide public programming, and teach and do research across the disciplines.
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The Collective is a hub for networks of people with a diversity of lived and academic expertise learning from each other through doing and creating.
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Columbia Labor Lab leverages the tools of social science to understand and strengthen efforts to rebuild the economic and political power of workers. The Labor Lab works in partnership with unions and worker associations, affording us access to unique data and providing us opportunities to directly test the implications that follow from our work.
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The proliferation of large-scale, administrative datasets from private companies and governments has created the opportunity to answer entirely new questions about economic well-being and upward mobility. This opportunity requires understanding the limits of such data, bringing fieldwork to bear as needed, and addressing new conceptual, methodological, and ethical challenges. We stimulate collaborations among sociologists, economists, ethnographers, spatial analysts, urban planners, and others to better understand inequality and increase opportunity.
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Columbia University’s Oral History Master of Arts Program is the first program of its kind in the United States: a one-year interdisciplinary MA degree training students in oral history method and theory. Through the creation, archiving and analysis of individual, community and institutional histories, oral history amplifies the critical first-person narratives that constitute memory for generations to come.
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The Trust Collaboratory explores the social dynamics of trust through interdisciplinary, collaborative, and publicly-engaged formats. The Trust Collaboratory leverages its work to better understand how building and repairing trust can support a thriving democracy in the 21st century.
