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.

This is a brief description of a project to promote the Ernest J. Gaines Center manuscript collections through public programming and digital exhibits. The PDF includes links to the projects. I’m especially interested to think about generating public interest in what we normally think of as scholarly tools and methods: archival materials, research…[Read more]

Here is a quick summary of my virtual lecture series “Jane Austen & Co.” along with some successes and challenges that we have faced. I have also included a full list of all of our talks in the past.

This is the slide deck for the presentation I gave to the RAD Board and members of the public over Zoom in September 2021.

This document is a brief overview of a project I’m working on and includes some guiding questions for discussing the role of the humanities in public life.

I am particularly interested in suggestions for housing a digital oral history project in a scholarly yet accessible/public-facing manner.

Here are a couple of public humanities in practice projects that I’d like your help with: the Department of Public & Applied Humanities (PAH) and the Learning Games Initiative Research Archive (LGIRA).