Public Humanities Mentoring Workshop
A recording is now available for this workshop. Also available below are the links shared by participants. Thank you all for joining us!
- CHCI Public Humanities Network, Public Humanities Award Nominations (Deadline Jan 31)
- Obermann Center guides
- Obermann Center working groups
- UC Santa Cruz PhD Public Fellows
- UC Santa Cruz PhD Public Fellows news item
- Australian National University, Summer Scholar Program. “Recognising research development and training in history and the public humanities through university and museum-led partnerships in Australia”, History Australia.
- Engaged Humanities, Syracuse University
- Penn Center, UGA
- Teresa Mangum co-edits a series that helps publicly engaged scholars document their work, Humanities and Public Life
There’s also a new journal called Public Humanities coming out from Oxford UP
From Patricia Parker, UNC-Chapel Hill, "Decolonizing the Academy: Lessons From the Graduate Certificate in Participatory Research at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill"
Imagining America, Scholarship in Public white paper: The Imagining America Tenure Team Initiative (TTI) was inspired by faculty members who want to do public scholarship and live to tell the tale. Publicly engaged academic work is taking hold in American colleges and universities, part of a larger trend toward civic professionalism in many spheres. But tenure and promotion policies lag behind public scholarly and creative work and discourage faculty from doing it. Disturbingly, our interviews revealed a strong sense that pursuing academic public engagement is viewed as an unorthodox and risky early career option for faculty of color.
Americans for the Arts, Continuum of Impact guide: Animating Democracy’s Continuum of Impact guide defines six families of social and civic outcomes that arts practitioners and their partners commonly aspire to and achieve through creative work. These outcome families articulate ways the arts contribute to making change happen.
Language recently adopted at BYU to acknowledge public humanities work as part of scholarship (and not as service) for tenure and promotion: Humanities scholars at times use their disciplinary expertise to benefit groups outside academia (e.g. gallery exhibitions, outreach to public schools, translations for non-profits, oral history projects, etc.). Departments are responsible for defining the nature of acceptable Public Humanities contributions, assessing their quality (through internal and external review), and articulating their relative value. Some departments may see certain projects as part of candidates’ scholarship and others as part of their citizenship or teaching. Public humanities outputs that leverage a candidate’s scholarship may also demonstrate an established scholarly record and form a part of a file for full professor when articulated with the overall scholarly record. The creation of corpora or data sets, digital humanities projects, expert testimony, museum exhibitions and curatorial work, op-eds and trade magazine articles, public lectures and theater, or any public-facing project with measurable effects may enhance an established record.
Thursday, December 7, 4-5:30 pm EST
Join us for an informal online workshop for new and recent directors and staff of centers and institutes engaged in or thinking about beginning public humanities work. The workshop will be led by w. Come for conversation, discussion and questions about public humanities projects and how they work. The workshop is free and everyone interested is welcome. Please register here to attend.
If you have any questions, please contact CHCI Membership and Diversity Officer Aaron Fai at info@chcinetwork.org.
As always,
Nicholas Allen, University of Georgia
Ulka Anjaria, Brandeis University
John Arroyo, University of California - San Diego
Jessica Berman, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Joshua Calhoun, University of Wisconsin - Madison
James Ellis, University of Calgary
Teresa Mangum, University of Iowa
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