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This series is part of NHA’s Humanities for All initiative, which is generously funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. For more information on this series, click here.
Calls for publicly engaged humanities courses that center community partnership and project-based learning are increasing across college and university campuses. Undergraduate and graduate students are seeking training that puts the critical thinking and storytelling methodologies of the humanities toward public facing works. Faculty, too, are keen to answer the call for increased public engagement in the classroom and in many cases are leading the charge. Nonetheless, to develop these courses, faculty generally need time, funding, and the ability to develop mutually beneficial community partnerships.
This moderated conversation will showcase successful examples of supporting faculty in the creation of engaged humanities courses. Speakers will share their collective expertise in building infrastructure to support faculty, including the successful models they have developed and challenges they have encountered. The conversation will be facilitated by Michelle May-Curry, project director of the Humanities for All initiative, and will include:
- Jessica Berman, director of the Dresher Center for the Humanities and professor of English at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County
- Dean Allbritton, director of the Center for Arts and Humanities and associate professor of Spanish at Colby College
- Joe Ciadella, senior program lead for public scholarship and director of the Engaged Pedagogy Initiative at the University of Michigan
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