By Shana Melnysyn, PhD Candidate, Anthropology and History When I first considered applying for a Mellon Public Humanities Fellowship, I wasn’t very familiar with what the Michigan Humanities Council did, nor was I aware that every state in the U.S.A. has its own humanities council. But as soon as I started investigating their support for…
Category: Public Humanities
Rackham Grants in Public Scholarship
The Program in Public Scholarship supports mutually beneficial projects between Rackham students and community organizations. Projects are collaboratively designed to advance new knowledge, enrich civic life, or address pressing social issues. This is an excellent opportunity for students interested in publicly engaged scholarship both inside and outside of the academy.
Visualizations in the Humanities Syllabus
This course combines traditional humanities and public humanities to explore the ways in which scholars have used visual tools to shape and present their work to each other and the public. The final project requires students to propose a humanistic question that can be answered using visual data, using the skills they learn during Data…
Introduction to Public Humanities: Brown University Syllabus
This is the syllabus for the introductory course for Brown University’s MA in Public Humanities Program. Covering theory and practice, the course provides an excellent overview of the big questions that guide practices in public humanities work.
Methods in Public Humanities Syllabus
This course focuses on the work that public humanists do: techniques, concerns, and practical issues. It looks behind the scenes in museums and other cultural organizations in order to understand how public humanists make decisions about content, interpretation, and presentation. Its objective is to appreciate the challenges that public humanists face as well as to…
Columbia University: History in Action
Columbia University’s “History in Action” program is a pilot under the American Historical Association’s Career Diversity initiative. Among various projects, the Department of Anthropology hosts a series of workshops for graduate students who are interested in pursuing careers outside academia.
Syllabus: Public Histories of Slavery for the 21st Century
Lyra Monteiro, Assistant Professor of History at Rutgers University, developed this syllabus on public histories of slavery. It is innovative both in its use of sources such as films and monuments as well as its final project assignment—a grant proposal for a public history project.