As we train the next generation of scholar-teacher-leaders within and beyond the academy, we seek to make the humanities more fully integral to tackling the complex challenges facing an interconnected yet divided world.
Humanities Engage supports public-facing humanistic scholarship, public engagement, collaboration, and the communication of research to non-specialist audiences. We encourage experimentation and engagement with new media and modes of scholarly production.
As part of our grant, we will develop a new graduate certificate in the public and engaged arts and humanities. We understand “engaged scholarship” as academically rigorous, cross- and interdisciplinary scholarship that addresses social, civic, and ethical problems and involves partnerships with community-based organizations. [1]
Here are some further background readings:
- Banac, Ivo, Jean Beethke Elshtain, & Robert Weisbuch, “The Humanities and Its Publics,” American Council of Learned Societies Occasional Paper, 61 (2006).
- Cialdella, Joseph Stanhope “Connecting Public Scholarship and Professional Development,” Inside HigherEd, 2018: Four strategies for expanding how to think about public scholarship in ways that help build skills and knowledge that are relevant for diverse career paths.
- Ellison, Julie, “The New Public Humanists,” PMLA 128 (2013): 289-298
- Humanities for All showcases over 1,800 examples of publicly engaged humanities work at colleges and universities across the United States.
- Jay, Gregory, “The Engaged Humanities: Principles and Practices for Public Scholarship and Teaching,” Journal of Community Engagement and Scholarship, 3.1 (2010): 51-63.
- Kubis, Dan, "Teaching Public Humanities at Pitt," Humanities for All (2020)
- Wickman, Matthew, “What are the Public Humanities? No, Really, What Are They?,” University of Toronto Quarterly, 85 (2016): 6-11.
- A.W. Mellon Foundation, Humanities Without Walls: Scholars in the Midwest Partner to Solve Today’s Challenges (May 2019)
Funding opportunities exist for humanities PhD students, graduate faculty, and PhD programs to explore public humanities projects and curricular innovations.