Doing Public Humanities
Doing Public Humanities explores the cultural landscape from disruptive events to websites, from tours to exhibits, from after school arts programs to archives, giving readers a wide-ranging look at the interdisciplinary practice of public humanities.
Combining a practitioners focus on case studies with the scholars more abstract and theoretical approach, this collection of essays is useful for both teaching and appreciating public humanities. The contributors are committed to presenting a public humanities practice that encourages social justice and explores the intersectionalities of race, class, gender, and sexualities. Centering on the experiences of students with many of the case studies focused on course projects, the content will enable them to relate to and better understand this new field of study.
The text is essential reading for undergraduate and graduate classes in public history, historic preservation, history of art, engaged sociology, and public archaeology and anthropology, as well as public humanities.
Susan Smulyan is Professor of American Studies at Brown University, USA, and former Director of the John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities and Cultural Heritage.
First published 2021
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Names: Smulyan, Susan, editor.
Title: Doing public humanities / edited by Susan Smulyan.
Description: New York, NY : Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group, 2021. |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Identifiers: LCCN 2020011482 (print) | LCCN 2020011483 (ebook) |
ISBN 9780367500177 (pbk) | ISBN 9780367524517 (hbk) | ISBN 9781003058038 (ebk)
Subjects: LCSH: Humanities--Study and teaching--United States. |
Humanities--Methodology. | Humanities--Social aspects--United States. |
Digital humanities. | Public history--Study and teaching--United States. |
Public art--Study and teaching--United States. |
Libraries and community--United States. | Museums and community--United States. | Group identity. | Collective memory.
Classification: LCC AZ183.U5 D65 2020 (print) |
LCC AZ183.U5 (ebook) | DDC 001.3071--dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020011482
LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020011483
ISBN: 978-0-367-52451-7 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-0-367-50017-7 (pbk)
ISBN: 978-1-003-05803-8 (ebk)
Anthony Bogues is Asa Messer Professor of Humanities and Critical Theory, Professor of Africana Studies, and inaugural Director of the Center for the Study of Slavery & Justice at Brown University, USA. He is the author/editor of nine books in the fields of intellectual history, political thought and Caribbean art, and he has curated numerous exhibitions on Haitian Art. He is a curator and visiting professor at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa.
Marisa Angell Brown is the Assistant Director for Programs at the John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities and Cultural Heritage, and Adjunct Lecturer in American Studies at Brown University, USA, where she teaches a graduate seminar titled Critical Approaches to Preservation and Cultural Heritage. Brown curates exhibitions and develops public programs related to architecture, preservation, and place. She received a Ph.D. in the History of Art from Yale University and an M.A. in History from the University of Chicago, and is the author of essays, articles, and reviews in Building Identity: Chaim Gross and Artists Homes and Studios in New York City, 195374; Perspecta: The Yale Architectural Journal; Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians; Buildings and Landscapes: Journal of the Vernacular Architecture Forum; and Art New England.
Maiyah Gamble-Rivers is Manager of Programs, Community Engagement, and Curator at the Center for the Study of Slavery & Justice (CSSJ) at Brown University, USA. At CSSJ, Gamble-Rivers develops programs and curricula for high school students in the city of Providence. Her curriculum project on the Civil Rights Movement engages students in a series of workshops about the movement, culminating with a week-long immersive trip visiting Southern veterans, sites, memorials, and museums dedicated to the Civil Rights Movement. The latest curriculum project, Racial Slavery & the Making of the Modern World: Resistance, Freedom and Legacies will produce a textbook resource on the topic for high school students and teachers. She is a graduate of Brown Universitys M.A. in Public Humanities program.
Matthew Frye Jacobson is William Robertson Coe Professor of American Studies and History. He is the author of seven books on race, politics, and culture in the United States: Odettas One Grain of Sand (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019); The Historians Eye: Photography, History, and the American Present (University of North Carolina Press, 2019); What Have They Built You to Do?: The Manchurian Candidate and Cold War America, (with Gaspar Gonzalez, University of Minnesota Press, 2006); Roots Too: White Ethnic Revival in PostCivil Rights America (Harvard University Press, 2005); Barbarian Virtues: The United States Encounters Foreign Peoples at Home and Abroad, 18761917 (Hill and Wang, 2000); Whiteness of a Different Color: European Immigrants and the Alchemy of Race (Harvard University Press, 1998); and Special Sorrows: The Diasporic Imagination of Irish, Polish, and Jewish Immigrants in the United States (Harvard University Press, 1995). He also served as creator, writer, and lead researcher for A Long Way from Home: The Untold Story of Baseballs Desegregation (Hammer & Nail Productions, 2019). The film garnered a Golden Telly Award in the category of General Television Documentary (2019). His teaching and research focus on race in U.S. political culture 1790present, including U.S. imperialism, immigration and migration, popular culture, Civil Rights, and the juridical structures of U.S. citizenship, in addition to Documentary Studies and Public Humanities. He received his Ph.D. in American Civilization from Brown University in 1992 and served as President of the American Studies Association from 2012 to 2013.
Robert G. Lee is Associate Professor of American Studies at Brown University, USA. He studies Asian American and Transpacific History. He has published on Asian Americans, popular culture, and racial formations; Asian American displacements and diasporas; and the social and cultural connections between Asia and America. He is the author of
