Courtesy of Prof. Daniel Fisher-Livne, ( @dfisher ), I wanted to pass along this paper, which Daniel and a team of folks created following their own Public Humanities working group (held in Feb. 2020 with the National Humanities Alliance). Here’s the HC link: https://hcommons-staging.org/deposits/item/hc:37487/ . It specifically concerns issues…[Read more]

This has been an idea I’ve been kicking around for a while, regarding the use of the humanities in cultural resource management for developers and other organizations that seek Federal and/or State funding. There are a few national firms that do some of this work–I’m thinking of Historical Research Associates, Inc. and Gray & Pape. But they are…[Read more]

This is a primer on the Pittsburgh Humanities Festival, a collaboration between Carnegie Mellon University and the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust.