Public humanities : engaging community, empowering civic discourse, and reshaping academia / edited by Molly Todd and Jason E. Cohen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Todd, Molly, editor.

Cohen, Jason E., 1975- editor.

Series:

Transformations in higher education

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Humanities--Study and teaching (Higher)--United States--Case studies.

Humanities.

Humanities--Social aspects--United States--Case studies.

Public history--United States--Case studies.

Public history.

Genre:

Case studies.

Physical Description:

xvii, 262 pages illustrations 26 cm

illustrations.

Other Title:

Engaging community, empowering civic discourse, and reshaping academia

Place of Publication:

East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, [2026]

Summary:

"Engaged public scholarship is transforming the humanities. Divided into four parts, this provocative volume examines historical and contemporary sites of education and pedagogy, challenges dominant narratives about certain symbolic sites in the United States, highlights the struggle of marginalized communities as they wrestle to rewrite individual and collective memories of violence and trauma, and features public humanities projects that address themes relating to place and environment. Each chapter is concerned with the importance of personal relationships in educational settings, power relations in public humanities projects, and the nurturing of "new" civic spaces and places. This volume makes an important contribution to timely debates about public-facing and publicly engaged scholarship, especially in the humanities"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The [name in Cherokee characters] : stories of the Snowbird Day School Project / a conversation with Trey Adcock [and two others]

Tribulations of a liberatory pedagogy : teaching an Appalachian archive in eastern Kentucky public high schools / Jason E. Cohen

Being a parent-scholar-activist : on language justice pedagogies / Margaret E. Boyle

Shakespeare in reentry / Jonathan Shelley

Introduction : expanded spaces of historical (re)interpretation / Eliza Canty-Jones, Cynthia C. Prescott, and Jodi Skipper

Freedom bound : lessons learned from an audiowalk / Katie Batza

Slavery, memory, and transitional justice : the Behind the Big House programs in Arkansas and Mississippi / Jodi Skipper and Jodi A. Barnes

Public history and the promised land : reflections on not being neutral / Eliza E. Canty-Jones

Pioneer monuments : informing public debate / Cynthia C. Prescott

Introduction : marginalized communities and memories / Molly Todd

Cowboys not queens : the sounds and silences of the Gay Rodeo Oral History Project / Rebecca Scofield

Defiant histories : obligations and ethics in Latinx (public) history / Tomás F. Summers Sandoval Jr.

Troubling solidarity : probing dissonance in storytelling with refugees and diasporic archives / Molly Todd

Introduction : place-based learning and lived environments / Molly Todd

Public history, belonging, and historical erasure: the lands we share project in Wisconsin / James A. Levy

Listening to instead of speaking for indigenous communities : a decolonial critique of lithium mining in the Andes / Luis Martín-Cabrera

Nurturing civic space through stories of place : the intersection of public humanities and action research in central Appalachia, Karen E. Rignall

Making parking ramps dance and department stores tremble : the Binghamton Historical Soundwalk Project re-sounded community via artistic research / Jennifer Lynn Stoever

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781611865523

1611865522

OCLC:

1513085550