Humanities for All
Documenting Impact: Public Humanities Lab at Middlebury College
Posted OnAugust 2, 2022 byBy Younger Oliver In 2021, the Axinn Center for the Humanities at Middlebury College received a grant from the Davis Educational Foundation to launch their Public Humanities Lab (PHL) initiative. Led by Axinn Center co-directors Febe Armanios and Marion Wells, the initiative offers courses that integrate humanities skills, content, and expertise into public facing projects, often done…Read More…
Introducing Humanities for All’s Public Humanities Newsletter
Posted OnJanuary 21, 2022 byBy Michelle May-Curry With the new year we are pleased to announce the launch of Humanities for All’s Public Humanities Newsletter. Since 2018, Humanities for All has been working to connect scholars and practitioners interested in the publicly engaged humanities to create a national community of practice dedicated to advancing community partnership through the humanities. To continue connecting…Read More…
Documenting Impact: GWU-Spelman East Asia Partnership
Posted OnNovember 10, 2021 byBy Younger Oliver As part of our efforts to document the impact of public humanities initiatives across higher education, we partnered with the East Asia National Resource Center (EANRC) at The George Washington University (GW) to conduct a focus group with undergraduate students participating in its professional development program. Acting on its mandate as a Title VI Center to…Read More…
Call for Proposals: The Routledge Companion to Publicly Engaged Humanities Scholarship
Posted OnNovember 9, 2021 byBy Michelle May-Curry Humanities for All project director Michelle May-Curry is working alongside Daniel Fisher-Livne, assistant professor at Hebrew Union College and research affiliate with the National Humanities Alliance, to find contributors for a new edited volume on theories and practices of the publicly engaged humanities. The volume will be published in 2023 by Routledge. While…Read More…
Celebrating 2,000 Projects on Humanities for All
Posted OnAugust 2, 2021 byBy Michelle May-Curry This week over at Humanities for All we reached an exciting milestone – our database of publicly engaged humanities projects now holds over 2,000 entries! Since its inception in 2018, Humanities for All has grown alongside the rapidly expanding field of the public humanities. As humanities scholars and practitioners both inside and outside of higher ed grapple…Read More…
Part 2: Title VI National Resource Centers and the Publicly Engaged Humanities
Posted OnApril 27, 2021 byBy Michelle May-Curry In my last blog post, I shared some insights from conversations I had been having with directors and program coordinators at Title VI National Resource Centers (NRCs). I had been speaking to them as part of our broader effort to gather publicly engaged humanities projects for the Humanities for All database. In the post, I…Read More…
Title VI National Resource Centers and the Publicly Engaged Humanities
Posted OnMarch 4, 2021 byBy Michelle May-Curry Over the past several months, I have had conversations with directors and program coordinators at Title VI National Resource Centers (NRCs) to gather publicly engaged humanities projects to add to the Humanities for All database. These campus-based centers receive funding from the Department of Education to deepen understanding of world regions and cultivate language…Read More…
Report on the Publicly Engaged Humanities at the National Humanities Conference
Posted OnDecember 9, 2020 byBy Michelle May-Curry Last month during the Virtual National Humanities Conference, we had the opportunity to hear from Johnetta Cole, this year’s Capps Lecturer, in conversation with Smithsonian secretary Lonnie Bunch. Bunch noted how he is often asked whether he has a “political agenda.” The assumption behind this question, he suggested, was that as a…Read More…
Documenting Impact: Humanities Research for the Public Good Grants
Posted OnNovember 17, 2020 byBy Younger Oliver In April 2020, the Humanities for All team partnered with the Council of Independent Colleges (CIC) to conduct focus groups with students who had participated in publicly engaged projects funded by the CIC’s Humanities Research for the Public Good (HRPG) grants. We held five focus groups with 20 students from 15 institutions who generously shared their…Read More…