Public Humanities

We invited faculty to submit proposals describing community-based projects they have led in the Public Humanities.

Proposals answered the following questions:

• What research projects/community engagement activities have you participated in?
• What were some of the challenges you encountered through this process?
• How did you engage FIU students?
• How does your work support the goals of public humanities?

 From the submitted proposals, 10 faculty fellows were chosen to present at the seminar. Each fellow delivered a 10-minute, three-slide presentation.

Winning Proposals

• Darrel Elmore: "Charity Basketball Tournaments"
• Matthew Marr: "Neighborhoods of Refuge: Faculty-Student-Community Resesarch on Homelessness"
• Iqbal Akhtar: "The Brownsville Community Garden"
• Hadassah St. Hubert: "Protecting Haitian Patrimony with Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC)"
• Kenneth Lipartito: "Working with Diverse Communities"
• Jessica Adler: "Humanities-Based Programming for Veterans: Report on a University-Community Partnership"
• Magda Novelli: "Pearson COIL Project: FIU & UnistraPG (Italy)"
• David Rifkind: "Walking Histories and Public Humanities"
• Christine Martorana: "The Muted Group Video Project: Amplifying the Voices of Latinx Immigrant Students"
• Jamie Rogers: "Building Lasting Fair and Equitable Community Partnerships"
• Fereshteh Toosi: "Learning in public: socially-engaged art and experimental education"
• Oren Stier, Stephanie Brenenson and Maryanna Ramirez: "Giving Voice to Memory: Using Holocaust Testimonies to Enhance Public History"