Public Humanities Award for Leadership in Practice and Community 2025
Update: The deadline has been extended from January 15 to February 28, 2025
The Public Humanities Award for Leadership in Practice and Community is open for submissions, with a closing date of February 28, 2025. Awardee centers and institutes will be recognized at the upcoming Annual Meeting.
Public Humanities Award for Leadership in Practice and Community
The Public Humanities Network of the CHCI represents a global community of centers and institutes engaged in building research through partnership. The public humanities are a diverse and growing field of inquiry, distributed across many kinds of communities. The Public Humanities Network would like to recognize and celebrate examples of this work by an annual award for leadership in practice and community. The award will be made to the nominating center or institute on behalf of the project they submit.
Eligibility
Center and institute directors who are members of the CHCI may nominate a project they would like to be considered for this award by a subcommittee of active members of the network, the membership of which will be renewed each year.
Nominated projects must include one partner who is a current member of the CHCI. The nominated project need not have the relevant center or institute director as the individual who submits the proposal in the event that the nominated project is led by a different faculty or staff member.
Criteria
The subcommittee members will make their decisions in relation to the information supplied in the two-page proposal below. If you are interested in submitting a project and would like to learn more about the diverse ways the public humanities understand public engagement, partnership, and project building across institutional boundaries, you may find the following resources helpful. Proposals may come from other domains than the humanities so long as they have a key humanities component in their practice.
If you have a question about eligibility please contact Aaron Fai at info@chcinetwork.org.
Past Awardees
2024: Read more about these award winners here, and watch their presentations at the CHCI Annual Meeting 2024 here.
Pathways to Freedom, nominated by the Oklahoma Center for the Humanities, University of Tulsa
Watsonville is in the Heart, nominated by The Humanities Institute, UC Santa Cruz
- Honorable mentions:
Culture and Community at the Penn Center National Historic Landmark District, nominated by the Willson Center, University of Georgia
The Baltimore Field School and Building Ethical Community and University Partnerships, nominated by the Dresher Center for the Humanities, University of Maryland Baltimore County
How to apply
Please submit a two page proposal to info@chcinetwork.org listing:
The title, description, and details of the project you and your partners would like to be considered
The methodology and practice you and your partners evolved to build the project
Perspectives you and your partners would share with network members about the project
Lessons you and your partners learned from the project about building mutual relationships
Findings you and your partners have made on the impact your project might have on the future with regard to sustainability, policy or grant-making
Plans you and your partners have for the future for subsequent work
Optional: Links to existing websites and media related to the project
Timetable
Each center or institute should submit its proposal by February 28, 2025
All proposals will be considered by the appointed subcommittee of active members of the Public Humanities Network
Selection of up to three awards to be notified by mid-March, 2025
Public announcement to be made in advance of the annual meeting
Selected projects will be recognized in the annual meeting
As always,
Ron Broglio, Arizona State University
Nicholas Allen, University of Georgia
Ulka Anjaria, Brandeis University
Joshua Calhoun, University of Wisconsin - Madison
Kylie Message-Jones, Australian National University
Kylie Seltzer, Zietlow Postdoctoral Fellow, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, Carolina Public Humanities
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