The Routledge Companion to Public Humanities Scholarship

List of Contributors

List of Editorial Advisory Board

Acknowledgements

PART 1

Foundations and Frameworks for Public Humanities Scholarship

1. Introduction: Public Humanities Scholarship in Practice and Theory

Daniel Fisher-Livne and Michelle May-Curry

2. A Eutopia for Public Humanities: A Manifesto with Case Studies

Susan Moffat

3. Strategic Legibility: Making Collective Sense of Publicly Engaged Humanities Scholarship

Jacqueline Jean Barrios, Harris Kornstein, Ken S. McAllister, and Judd Ethan Ruggill

4. Reciprocity and Redistribution: Methodologies for Rethinking Public and Community-Based Humanities Research

Antoinette Burton, Jenny L Davis, Margaret L. Brennan

PART 2

Amplifying Community Voices and Histories

5. The Literary Legacies of Macon County and Tuskegee Institute: Zora Neale Hurston, Ralph Ellison and Albert Murray

Zanice Bond, Rhonda Collier, Caroline Gebhard, and Adaku Ankumah

6. Painting on Walls: Art History and Action in the Rustbelt

Erin Benay

7. A Public Humanities Experiment: DC/Adapters, 2013 – Present

Matthew Pavesich

8. Building Community Archives: Vietnamese Portland

Hannah Leah Crummé

9. Community Heritage and Archaeology at El-Kurru, Sudan: Amplifying Local Voices and Histories

Geoff Emberling and Suzanne Davis

PART 3

Preserving Culture in Times of Crisis and Change

10. Save Our Block: Public Humanities, Zines, and the Connecting the Classroom in Baltimore

P. Nicole King

11. Collaborative LGBTQ+ Public Humanities Scholarship: Expanding Educational Access Through Community Archives and Public History Exhibitions

Mary C. Foltz

12. San Antonio Storyscapes: Student Storytelling Partnerships

Jenny Hay and Lindsey Wieck

13. Addressing Slavery and Its Legacies: One Model for Moving Forward

Jody Allen, Jajuan S. Johnson, and Sarah E. Thomas

PART 4

Informing Contemporary Debates

14. Highland: A Publicly Engaged Historic House Museum

Mariaelena DiBenigno and Sara Bon-Harper

15. Vandalism and Storytelling in the Emmett Till Case

Dave Tell

16. Advocating for Intersectional Anti-Racism

Jennifer Ho

17. Climates of Inequality: Community Co-Curation and Action-Oriented Public Humanities at Minority Serving Institutions

Raquel Escobar and Wilmarie Medina-Cortés

PART 5

Helping Individuals and Communities Navigate Difficult Experiences

18. Benchmarks for Success: The Buildings-Landscapes-Cultures Field School in Milwaukee

Arijit Sen

19. A Veterans Oral History Project: Supporting Veterans Homecoming, Pedagogy, and the Community

Barbara A. Gannon and Jessica Oldham

20. Philosophy for Children as Trauma-Informed Pedagogy: Lessons from the Las Vegas Philosophy for Children Initiative

Amy Reed-Sandoval, Gloria Lara, Jenifer Lissett, and Skylar Jones-Speaber

PART 6

Expanding Educational Access

21. Transforming Moʻo and Moʻolelo: Stories from a Hawaiian, Community-Based, ʻāina Organization in Kailua, Oʻahu

Maya L. Kawailanaokeawaiki Saffery

22. Archaeology Outside the Academy: Public Practice at Frost Town

Alexander J. Smith

PART 7

Building and Supporting Publicly Engaged Scholarship

23. Uneven Ground: Making the Public University Work Anywhere People Gather, Learn, and Grow

Kendra Sullivan and Ángeles Donoso Macaya

24. History Labs: Building a More Effective Case for the Power and Efficacy of Humanistic Training

Jay Cook, Rita Chin

Glossary

Index

Biography

Daniel Fisher-Livne is Assistant Professor at Hebrew Union College- Jewish Institute of Religion, USA. He holds a concurrent appointment as Research Affiliate at the National Humanities Alliance, USA.

Michelle May-Curry is a Washington, D.C.-based curator, core faculty for Georgetown University’s Master of Arts in Engaged and Public Humanities, and Research Affiliate at the National Humanities Alliance, USA.

"Fisher-Livne (Hebrew Union College) and May-Curry (Georgetown Univ.) present essays by a variety of professors, museum curators, librarians, and others working in public humanities, which provide guidance to practitioners and demonstrate how vital such projects are to the further development of humanistic studies and to our communities. Intended for multiple audiences engaging with public humanities—whether in theory and research capacities or in designing, implementing, or evaluating actual projects . . . The case study format allows for easy adaptation of project ideas to other contexts, making it particularly useful for faculty looking for ways to involve students in community-based service learning projects. In a time when many question the relevance of the humanities in higher education and public life, this volume is critical. Summing Up: Essential. Undergraduates through faculty; professionals."

--M. Anderson, CHOICE