National Humanities Alliance
As public humanists expand their long-standing, higher ed based public humanities projects and increase their capacity to work beyond the university, they are learning how to better engage communities nationally and internationally. What tools, support structures, and methods of engagement are needed to scale up a public humanities project? What new challenges, skill sets, and opportunities does this growth produce?
This moderated conversation will showcase successful examples of how higher ed faculty have expanded their publicly engaged projects into nationally visible initiatives, non-profits, and revenue-generating programs. The conversation will be facilitated by Michelle May-Curry, project director of the Humanities for All initiative, and will include:
- Lisa New, director of the Center for Public Humanities and professor of English at Arizona State University, and project director of Poetry in America
- Dave Tell, professor of communication studies and co-director of the Institute for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Kansas, and project director of the Emmett Till Memory Project
- Benjamin Saulsberry, public engagement and museum education director at Emmett Till Interpretive Center
- Julie Weise, associate professor of history at the University of Oregon, and project director of the Nuestro South Podcast
- Erik Valera, chief operating officer, El Centro Hispano, Inc.
- Leslie Cornfeld, Founder and CEO of the National Education Equity Lab