SELECTED PEER REVIEWED ARTICLES

Tobar, C. (2024). Black Lives Matter In Higher Education: Empowering Student Scholar-voices. Theory, Research, and Action in Urban Education, 9(1). https://traue.commons.gc.cuny.edu/black-lives-matter-in-higher-education-empowering-student-scholar-voices/  

Tobar, C. (2024). Documenting Black Student Stories of Resistance: Using Inclusive Archiving Approaches. Journal of Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, 1(2). (Forthcoming)

Tobar, C. (2021). “‘Cities for People, Not for Profit’: Gentrification and Housing Activism in Bushwick.” US Latina & Latino Oral History Journal. 5: 94-109. https://doi.org/10.7560/OHJ505

Perez-Hazel, Y, Tobar, C., Loose, S., Gallagher, E., Kelly, A., Snider, S. (2016) “Storycircles: Case Studies on Motives, Methods, and Takeaways from Group Interviews.” In Context Journal. 1(1). http://www.incontextjournal.com/gallagher-hazel-kelly-loose-snider-tobar-storycircles-case-studies/

Tobar, C. (2009) “Between The Lines: Arte Cubano: A Reference Guide to Cuban Art Resources at the New York Public Library”. Art Documentation: Journal of the Art Libraries Society of North America. 28 (2): 67-71. http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdfplus/10.1086/adx.28.2.27949527

SELECTED BOOK CHAPTERS

Tobar, C. (2022) “This isn’t going to work”: Barriers to Higher Education for Welfare Recipients in NYC. In Kim, R., Cho, G. M. and McGinty, R. (Eds), The Children of the People: Writings by and about CUNY students on Race and Social Justice. New York: Dio Press.

Tobar, C. (2021) Create, Transform, and Connect: Fostering Arts-based Community Partnership at Bronx Community College's Archives. In Porterfield, J. (Ed). The Teaching with Primary Sources Cookbook. Chicago: ACRL Publications.

Tobar, C. (2020) Reclaiming the Hall-Amplifying Community Voices at the Hall of Fame. In Weida, C.L., Adeniji-Neill, & Cambronero Varela, C. (Eds), Illuminations of Social Imagination: Learning From Maxine Greene. New York: Dio Press.

Tobar, C. (2016) Cities for People, Not for Profit: Gentrification and Housing Activism in Bushwick. In Brydson N. Coveleski A. Fox P. Vieira C. Storefront TenEyck & Arts in Bushwick. Making History Bushwick. Arts in Bushwick. 

Tobar, C. (2014) Capturing Dissident Voices: Grass-roots Organizing and Working-Class Feminist Activism at Welfare Rights Initiative. In Morrone, M. (Ed), Informed Agitation: Library and Information Skills in Social Justice Movements and Beyond (An Edited Collection). Duluth: Library Juice Press. 

ZINES

Amy C., Amy L., Anisa, Ariana, Chalay, Ciera, Cynthia, DeBoRah, Lula, Manon, Sarina, and William (2021). Nos Cuidamos / We Take Care of Us : Stories of Mutual Aid in Response to COVID-19 in Bushwick, BK / Historias de Ayuda Mutua en Respuesta al COVID-19 en Bushwick, BK. AntiEviction Mapping Project/Cities for People, Not for Profit.

Lowry, J., Macaspac, N., Tobar, C. (2021) Autoethnographic Pedagogy. CUNY Transformative Learning in the Humanities.

MAGAZINE ARTICLES/BLOG POSTS/CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

Tobar, C. (2023) “Notes on Documenting Women at Work.” Notes On, Pratt Center for Community Development Blog. May 11, 2023. https://prattcenter.net/news/notes_on_documenting_women_at_work

Tewell, E., Tobar, C., Long, H., Castrillo, J., & Ettarh, F. (2021) “What Named Spaces Tell Us About Academic Libraries.” Association of College and Research Libraries Conference Proceedings (2021): 179-188.

Tobar, C. (2019) “Inclusive Archiving, Public Art, and Representation at the Hall of Fame for Great Americans.” The Gotham Center for New York City History Blog. July 18, 2019. https://www.gothamcenter.org/blog/inclusive-archiving-public-art-and-representation-at-the-hall-of-fame-for-great-americans

Tobar, C. (2019) “«Debemos abogar por sistemas de respuesta más rápidos»: Cynthia Tobar, de Archivistas en Espanglish, entrevista a Hilda Ayala, bibliotecaria en la Universidad de Puerto Rico.” Archivoz, Feb. 2019. https://www.archivoz.es/debemos-abogar-por-sistemas-de-respuesta-mas-rapidos-archivistas-en-espanglish-entrevistan-a-hilda-ayala-bibliotecaria-en-la-universidad-de-puerto-rico/#

Tobar, C. (2016) “Draw the Line.” The New Inquiry. 49, Feb. 2016. 20-23. http://thenewinquiry.com/features/interviews/

Tobar, C. (2011) Music to my ears: The New York Philharmonic Digital Archives. D-Lib Magazine. 17 (7-8). http://www.dlib.org/dlib/july11/tobar/07tobar.html