Public Humanities Playlist…
Articles
Bate, Jonathan, editor. The Public Value of the Humanities. 1st ed., Bloomsbury Academic, 2011.
Brown, Wendy. “Neoliberalized Knowledge.” History of the Present, vol. 1, no. 1, 2011, pp. 113–29.
Ellison, Julie. “Guest Column—The New Public Humanists.” PMLA, vol. 128, no. 2, Mar. 2013, pp. 289–98.
Fenton, Will. “Literary Scholars Should Use Digital Humanities to Reach the Oft-Ignored ‘Public.’” Inside Higher Ed, 29 Jan. 2018.
Graziani, Terra; Shi, Mary. “Data for Justice: Tensions and Lessons from the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project’s Work between Academia and Activism.” ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies. 2020, Vol. 19 Issue 1, p397-412.
Jay, Gregory. “The Engaged Humanities: Principles and Practices for Public Scholarship and Teaching.” Journal of Community Engagement and Scholarship, vol. 3, no. 1, 2010, pp. 51–63.
Kathleen Woodward. “The Future of the Humanities in the Present & in Public.” Daedalus, vol. 138, no. 1, 2009, pp. 1MLA10–23.
Katran, Sergey. “Symbiosis, Anarchy, and Fermentation.” Leonardo, Pre-Print Articles, vol. 55, no. 6, Dec 2022, pp. 664-673.
Krebs, Paula M. “From the Executive Director We Are All Public Humanists.” MLA Commons: From the Executive Director. 15 Nov. 2017.
Loofbourow, Lili, and Phillip Maciak. “Introduction: The Time of the Semipublic Intellectual.” PMLA, vol. 130, no. 2, Mar. 2015, pp. 439–45.
Looser, Devoney. “The Hows and Whys of Public Humanities,” MLA Profession, Fall 2019.
Moten, Fred, and Stefano Harney, The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning & Black Study, AK Press, 2013.
Mullen, Mary L. “Public Humanities’ (Victorian) Culture Problem.” Cultural Studies, vol. 30, no. 2, Mar. 2016, pp. 183–204.
Schroeder, Robyn. “What Is Public Humanities?” Day of Public Humanities, 20 Mar. 2017.
Sommer, Doris. The Work of Art in the World: Civic Agency and Public Humanities. Duke UP, 2014.
Stamato et al. “Razz: A Transdisciplinary Exploration at the Intersection of Bioart, HCI and Community Engagement.” Frontiers in Computer Science, vol. 4, article no. 830959, March 2022.
Tuck, Eva and K. Wayne Yang, “Decolonization is not a metaphor,” Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society
Vol. 1, No. 1, 2012, pp. 1-40
Tuck, Eve. “Suspending Damage: A Letter to Communities,” Harvard Education Review, Fall 2009.
Wexler, Laura. “MLA Presidential Forum: The Public Humanities in Vulnerable Times.” Profession, 2014,
Wickman, Matthew. “What Are the Public Humanities? No, Really, What Are They?” University of Toronto Quarterly, vol. 85, no. 4, Nov. 2016, pp. 6–11.
Engaging the Community
Baltimore Under Ground Science Space (BUGGS) x Genspace high school team – East Coast BioCrew website
Lang, Angela “Serving, organizing and empowering communities of color: Best practices for aligning research, advocacy, and activism” on Economic Policy Institute website.
Jasir Qiydaar, A UMBC Community Group strives to do community partnerships right, Baltimore City Paper, Sept. 7, 2016.
Nia Hampton, I am from West Baltimore-I can live anywhere, Baltimore City Paper, April 25, 2017.
Cultivating meaningful connections
Brown, Brene. “Cultivating Meaningful Connection” in: Atlas of the Heart. New York, Penguin Random House, 2021: 249-274.
Thinking Traps on Tacoma Public Schools website
Books… mostly on methods
Denzin, N. K. (2016). Chapter 5: “A relational ethic for narrative inquiry, or in the forest but lost in the trees, or a one-act play with many endings.” in I. Goodson, A. Antikainen, P. Sikes, & M. Andrews (Eds.), The Routledge International Handbook on Narrative and Life History (pp. 605-617).
Kaufman, Ned. Place, Race, and Story: Essays on the Past and Future of Historic Preservation. New York: Routledge, 2009.
Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Barbara, “Objects of Ethnography.” Exhibiting Cultures: The Poetics and Politics of Museum Display . Ed. Ivan Karp and Steven D. Lavine. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1991: 386-443.
Pollock, Della. Remembering: Oral History Performance. New York: Palgrave/MacMillian, 2005.
Hurley, Andrew. Beyond Preservation: Using Public History to Revitalize Inner Cities. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2010.
Yamamura, Erika K. and Kent Koth, Place-Based Community Engagement: A Strategy to Transform Universities and Communities. Sterling, VA: Stylus, 2018.
Public Humanities Projects:
See the National Humanities Alliance – Humanities for All website
A Typology of the Publicly Engaged Humanities, Humanities for All
Building Capacity for Reparative Justice: Funding Post-Baccaluarate Positions in a Post-Custodial Community Archive
Alpert-Abrams, Hannah, David A. Bliss, and Itza Carbajal. “Post-custodial archiving for the collective good: examining neoliberalism in US-Latin American archival partnerships.” Journal of Critical Library and Information Studies 2.1 (2019).
Caswell, Michelle, Marika Cifor, and Mario H. Ramirez, “To Suddenly Discover Yourself Existing’: Uncovering the Affective Impact of Community Archives,” The American Archivist 79 (Spring/ Summer 2016): 56-81.
Ham, F. Gerald. “Archival strategies for the post-custodial era.” The American Archivist 44.3 (1981): 207-216.
Kelleher, Christian. “Archives without archives:(re) locating and (re) defining the archive through post-custodial praxis.” Journal of Critical Library and Information Studies 1.2 (2017).
Punzalan, Ricky. “Words matter: Reparative description as decolonial action”. SAA Committee on Ethics and Professional Conduct. (2022). https://rpunzalan.com/research/words-matter/
Promotion & Tenure
Publishing and the Publicly Engaged Humanities (articles selected by the National Humanities Alliance in partnership with Routledge, Taylor & Francis)
Ellison, Julie, and Timothy K. Eatman. Scholarship in Public: Knowledge Creation and Tenure Policy in the Engaged University. Imagining America, 2008.
General Resources
Collaborative Research Partnerships—Do’s & Don’ts (Humanities Without Walls)
Assessment/Evaluation Reports (Tahira Mahdi)
Mahdi, T. C. (2021a). Pre-evaluation report: Strengthening UMBC’s public humanities: The Baltimore Field School.
Mahdi, T. C. (2021b, August 27). Evaluation themes—reconvening [Presentation]. Baltimore Field School Reconvening, Baltimore, MD, United States.
Mahdi, T. C. (2021c). Evaluation report (final): Strengthening UMBC’s public humanities: The Baltimore Field School, pilot program.
Mahdi, T. C. (2023). Baltimore Field School 2.0: Undoing & Doing Anew in Public Humanities, evaluation report.