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    Cesar Sanchez posted a new activity comment on Humanities Commons 5 years ago

    Based on what I currently read, I believe “public humanities” is a way of giving a voice to often unheard groups and connecting the public with information that for many years has been exclusive to institutions and scholars who have focused their research and power on finding solutions and answers to their needs without taking in consideration the…[Read more]

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      Caitlin Duffy replied 5 years ago

      Cesar,

      Thanks for this response, and for bringing in this activist perspective. Yes! A major benefit of doing public humanities work is that it can help new voices to be heard. It can also help us, as humanities scholars, to reach new groups and engage with concepts that might otherwise have been beyond our reach had we not turned toward the public.

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    Cesar Sanchez's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 5 years ago

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