Humanities for All
Celebrating our Partners this National Arts and Humanities Month
Posted OnOctober 2, 2020 byBy Stephen Kidd Each October, we celebrate National Arts and Humanities Month by calling attention to the many ways humanities research, teaching, and programs serve students and communities across the country. This year, with the country in the midst of a reckoning with racial injustice and facing a pandemic that has caused widespread suffering and…Read More…
Storytelling with Data during COVID-19
Posted OnSeptember 28, 2020 byBy Emily McDonald and Younger Oliver Advocacy on behalf of our cultural institutions is as crucial now as ever. The COVID-19 crisis has cast a shadow of deep uncertainty on all areas of American life, and how far these social and economic impacts may reach is still very much unknown. Over the past six months,…Read More…
Documenting Impact: Wayne State Humanities Clinic
Posted OnSeptember 8, 2020 byBy Younger Oliver This summer, we launched the Humanities for All blog to showcase publicly engaged humanities initiatives in the words of the faculty, staff, students, and community partners directly involved in the projects. Our September 8 post by Lillian Wilson focuses on the Wayne State Humanities Clinic, an innovative graduate internship program at Wayne State University in…Read More…
Introducing the Publishing and the Publicly Engaged Humanities Working Group
Posted OnAugust 12, 2020 byBy Daniel Fisher-Livne In August of 2019, NHA and Routledge, Taylor & Francis launched Publishing and the Publicly Engaged Humanities, a free-access collection of humanities articles and book chapters that feature public engagement. The collection, drawn from across the Taylor & Francis books and journals programs, illustrates a range of ways that publicly engaged scholarship can…Read More…
Introducing the Humanities for All Blog
Posted OnJune 30, 2020 byBy Daniel Fisher-Livne In building and promoting Humanities for All, we’ve had a unique opportunity to reflect on public engagement. We have learned from all who are involved in publicly engaged humanities work, and shared their voices in profiles of their work and in essays that consider trends in the field. Expanding upon this work, we…Read More…
Culture Change: A Look Back at the 2019 NHC Pre-Conference
Posted OnJanuary 22, 2020 byBy Daniel Fisher-Livne How can we build support for publicly engaged humanities work at our universities and colleges? Before kicking off the 2019 National Humanities Conference in Honolulu, we hosted a pre-conference workshop to address this question with over 100 humanities scholars, administrators, and association leaders. In structuring the workshop, we posited that the challenges…Read More…