Hi Thoraya,

I really like your project. I think it does a great job in showing and giving credit to an often-forgotten group such as the LGBTQ community and the minorities who belong to these groups. I believe your project would be a great way of showing the positive impact that the LGBTQ community has had in fighting and overcoming many…[Read more]

Hi Sara,

I really like your project, since I believe the time for tackling these issues has never been better. And just thinking of how separated the residents of Staten Island live, makes me sad and wonder how such strong division stills exists in one of New York’s five boroughs. Because I could not agree with you more that change needs to…[Read more]

Hi April,

I really liked your project, I found it to be very important in tackling the increasing discontent felt by patients with the way their Doctors treat them. Many times, I have also felt unfamiliar and unheard by my physician and that he is just there to quickly check my health and never tries to engage with how I feel or what is going…[Read more]

Hi Raj,
Thank you so much for your comment. I honestly could not agree with you more. Before reading and learning more about this project I was surprised by how impactful and beneficial this movement was for Michigan and for many environmental reforms that we have today. “Give earth a chance: Environmental Activism in Michigan” served as the med…[Read more]

Hi Sara,

I really liked your post, and I could not agree with you more on how important this project is in battling the issues we have in our society today as well as a perfect way of giving people a voice and the ability to learn more from these issues. I think that the use of twitter as its platform to convey this information is one of the…[Read more]

Before reading this article, I knew very little about Emmett Till’s tragic death and the injustice him in his family had to go through. I can honestly say that this memorial serves to uphold his legacy and as a reminder for us to fight for equality and to never forget that if we do not uphold justice for all, things like this go unpunished and s…[Read more]

One thing I learned from reading Aleia M Brown and Joshua Critchfield’s Article Black Scholars Matter: #BlkTwiterstorians Building A Digital Community, is how effective public humanities can become when applied towards educating and informing the public on issues faced in our society. Digital public humanity projects are capable of garnishing so m…[Read more]

Hi Chang,

I really like your post. I think it does a great job in highlighting some of the most important points of Brennan and her goal to create a more inclusive digital public humanities with the public as its number one priority. I believe your right when you say that developing and working with a specific audience in mind can lead to a…[Read more]

Hi Leo,

I believe this project is very interesting and plays a huge role in shedding light to an event that is often silenced or disregarded. I believe the project does a great job in giving a voice to the people of Baltimore and anyone that wants to learn from the events that took place on such day. The project also does a great job in…[Read more]

Hi Leo,

I really like your reply and that you also find art to be a great way to engage with others. I believe your right when you say that art projects can spread information that is helpful to the public as well as a great way to motivate public engagement with others. Before reading this article I never knew how crucial some of these art and…[Read more]

I believe Brennan does a great job in showing us many of the important ways in which public humanities projects can be better accessed and understood. As the title of her article say Public, First. The goal of any public humanities project is to create and engaging community that is both accessible and welcoming and places the public as their…[Read more]

Hi Shannon,

I think you make a great point when you say that everyone should be entitled to a certain level of separation or protection. I believe it is crucial to give scholars and anyone who is working on research a certain degree of autonomy to work in their field. I believe that without this degree of independence, researchers would be…[Read more]

Hi Rhiannon,
I believe your right when you say that many scholars want and do share their work and knowledge, but I also think that sometimes this work is tied up to the university or is never able to leave the walls of academia despite the desire to share these finding. I believe that Shumway is right when he states that, “The knowledge the u…[Read more]

Hi Jen,
I really liked your blog post. I believe you did a great job in showing us how Shumway and Gregory both support the need to make the public humanities more accessible to the public and take it away from its long history of seclusion. I believe your right, when you say that for many year’s universities have prioritized the access of a…[Read more]

I believe academic publishing should count as public humanities only when such publishing information can reach the public with the same ease held by the universities and scholars who hold the most power in the distribution of their information. As Shumway states, “The knowledge the university produces must be available to the public, and, by a…[Read more]

Hi Nicole,
I really like how you relate Stommel’s idea that information should be eligible to everyone to your own experience with “doctor talk”. I believe your right when you say that information should not only be available to everyone but accessible to all and how many times this information is not available or restricted to very few. And I…[Read more]

Hi April,
I really like your interpretation on Stonmel’s quote. I think it does a great job in showing us how important it is for knowledge to not only be available to the public but understandable and comprehensible to anyone who wants to learn from it. I think you also make a great point when you say that public work must have a certain n…[Read more]