Baltimore Field School 2.0

As part of UMBC’s Public Humanities program, Baltimore Field School 2.0 creates a framework for UMBC graduate students, staff, and faculty to collaborate with community partners in building ethical and sustainable research and teaching projects focused on public humanities. The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) has awarded a public engagement grant of over $150,000 to support Baltimore Field School (BFS) 2.0: Undoing & Doing Anew in Public Humanities. The award will further develop a planning intensive that moves away from extractive research models and helps build ongoing Baltimore-based humanities projects. The grant will fund collaborative projects developed with community fellows and will focus on food and land justice, racial equity, and journalism/public information. The cohort of community fellows includes: Betty Bland-Thomas of South Baltimore Partnership, Yesenia Mejia of Creative Alliance, Curtis Eaddy II of Presidential Brands, Eddie Conway and Cameron Granadino of Real News Network, Tisha Guthrie of Poppleton Now and Baltimore’s Renters United, Lisa Snowden of Baltimore Beat, Aishah Alfadhalah of Mera Kitchen Collective, and Eric Jackson of the Black Yield Institute.

The award will broaden the reach of the Baltimore Field School (BFS), launched through a $125,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in 2020.

For more information contact Director of Public Humanities – Department of American Studies, UMBC – Sarah Fouts sfouts@umbc.edu.

BFS 2.0 is funded by an ACLS Sustaining Public Engagement Grant

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