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Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research College of Arts & Sciences

Resources

On-Campus Resources & Programs

Broader Community Resources

Public Humanities Centers and Initiatives

Bringing Theory to Practice
Brown University’s John Nicholas Brown Center for the Public Humanities and Cultural Heritage
CHCI’s Public Humanities Network
Columbia University’s The Heyman Center Public Humanities Initiative
The Council of Independent Colleges Public Humanities Initiative
Gonzaga University’s Center for Public Humanities
Imagining America
National Endowment for the Humanities Division of Public Programs
The National Council of Public History
NYU’s Public Humanities Initiative
North Eastern Public Humanities
Northwestern Universities NU Chicago Humanities Initiative
Oakland University Center for Public Humanities
Rice University Humanities Research Center: Public Humanities Initiative
Tisch College Program for Public Humanities
UC Santa Barbara Interdisciplinary Humanities Center Public Humanities Initiative
University of Florida Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere
University of Illinois Chicago’s Institute for the Humanities Engaged Humanities Initiative
University of Maryland, Baltimore County Public Humanities in the CAHSS
University of Virginia’s Public Humanities Lab
University of Wisconsin – Madison’s Center for the Humanities Public Humanities Initiative
Whiting Public Engagement Programs
Williams University Center for Learning in Action: Public Humanities Initiative
Yale University’s Public Humanities

Resources on the Public Humanities in General

Articles

American Academy of Arts & Sciences (2019), The Humanities in American Life: A Survey of the Public’s Attitudes and Engagement
Bate, J. (2011), The Public Value of the Humanities
Bradley, E. H. (2018), The Practical Humanities
Chen, A. (2016), A Very Public Intellectual
Draxler, B. & Spratt, D. (1984), Engaging the Age of Jane Austen: Public Humanities in Practice
Griffin, F. J. (2014), Public Humanities: Crisis and Possibility
Looser, D. (2017), The Making of a Public Intellectual
Looser, D. (2019), The Hows and Whys of Public Humanities
McCumber, J. (2016), How the Humanities Can Help Fix the World
National Endowment for the Humanities, 56 Ways to do the Public Humanities
Rice, C. (2014), 9 Reasons Why Humanities Matter
Schroeder, R. (2017), What is Public Humanities?
Small, H. (2013), The Value of the Humanities
Spratt, D. & Draxler, B. (2019), Pride and Presentism: On the Necessity of the Public Humanities for Literary Historians
Strauss, V. (2017), Why we Still Need to Study the Humanities in a STEM World
Wickman, M. (2016), What are the Public Humanities? No, Really, What are They?
Woodward, K. (2009), The Future of the Humanities – In the Present & in the Public

Diversity

Brown University’s Native American and Indigenous Studies Public Humanity Fellowship
Diversity & Democracy’s special issue: Publicly Engaged Scholarship and Teaching
The Latinx Project’s Public Humanities Fellowship
LGBTQ History Digital Collaboratory
University of Delaware African American Public Humanities Initiative

Databases, Journals, and Other Resources

American Academy of Arts and Sciences’ Humanities Indicator
Beyond Academe
H-Net Humanities & Social Sciences OnLine: H-Public Network
Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement
National Humanities Alliance Foundation’s Engaged Humanities Story Map
National Humanities Alliance Foundation’s Humanities for All Initiative
Profession’s special issue: Public Humanities
The Public Historian Journal
Transformation of the Public Sphere’s Essay Archive: Universities & the Public Sphere