During the academic year 2022-23, the Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere concluded its multi-year series, “Rethinking the Public Sphere,” offering three examples of public engagement in the humanities.
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The Center for Humanities and the Public Sphere’s Public Humanities Grants continue to demonstrate how humanities can collaborate with communities.
Every year, the National Humanities Alliance (NHA) organizes a nationwide coalition that advocates for federal funding of the humanities, known as Humanities Advocacy Day.
In the fall of 2021, undergraduate students in the Humanities Engagement Scholars (HES) program shared their desire for support when applying for internships, jobs, and scholarships in order to be prepared for work outside of academia.
In the week after the spring semester 2022 ended and before Summer A began, 33 faculty members, staff, and doctoral students from the University of Florida gathered for a productive week of writing at the beautiful Austin Cary Forest Campus northeast of Gainesville.
The Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere continued to support humanities book publications with its publication subvention. In collaboration with the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and the College of the Arts, seven publication subventions were awarded during the 2021-22 academic year.
During the 2021-22 academic year, the Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere continued its Library Enhancement Grant Program in the Humanities with the acquisition for three specific areas following competitive applications.
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In 2022, Lauren Burrell Cox and June Ke, former graduate students associated with the UF Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere and the University of California Humanities Research Institute respectively, released Under Review: Rethinking Humanities Graduate Education, a podcast that examines humanities graduate education to amplify graduate students’ perspectives. The podcast hosts met […]
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The Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere continued its grant support for Speaker Series and Workshops in the Humanities throughout the 2021-22 academic year. Despite the pandemic and subsequent postponements of events, UF faculty, graduate students, and staff successfully organized several energizing scholarly exchanges.
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The Storymap “Look at the Water Coming!” — Remembering the 1896 Hurricane in Florida and Imagining the Storms to Come” is an interdisciplinary public humanities collaborative by five UF faculty members, supported by two graduate students. Cynthia Barnett (Journalism), Jack Davis (History), Terry Harpold (English), Barbara Mennel (Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere), […]