Center for Human Environments

The Center for Human Environments (CHE), a research center located at the The Graduate Center of the City University of New York, brings together psychologists, sociologists, anthropologists, geographers, and public health experts whose research addresses the problems faced by people in their local neighborhoods, in their schools and institutions of higher education, in their cities, or in even broader national and international contexts. CHE research is oriented especially toward finding solutions to human-environment problems, and so its research typically engages with community-based groups and advocacy movements, nonprofit organizations, educational institutions, or government agencies.

As a collective of social scientists with wide-ranging interests, CHE has found itself over the years conducting research over a diverse set of fields. Some of our Center's projects have focused on particular neighborhoods of New York City, but other projects have involved national-scale surveys and research, and several have produced assessments and investigations with an international scope. 

Read more about our projects and sponsors.