NHC Fellows have produced a wide assortment of fascinating and award-winning books this year. We asked six of them to share a little about their new publications and to reflect on the process of writing them.
The National Humanities Center is pleased to announce the selection of twenty exceptional educators as members of its 2020–21 Teacher Advisory Council. These teachers, from school districts in fifteen states and the District of Columbia, will work with the Center’s education program staff in piloting, evaluating, and promoting materials and professional development offerings for the Center’s nationally recognized education programs.
The National Humanities Center is pleased to announce the launch of the Humanities in Class Digital Library, an Open Education Resources (OER) platform. The platform is available to educators, scholars, and independent learners seeking high quality educational content on a wide range of humanities topics and subject areas. The library provides free and open access to all of the National Humanities Center’s educational resources as well as thousands of resources contributed by partner organizations across the humanities landscape.
The National Humanities Center mourns the wrongful death of George Floyd, the most recent, public example of the injustice, brutality, and systemic racism suffered daily by African Americans across our nation. We join our voice with those who protest the mistreatment of George Floyd and so many others. And we rededicate ourselves to helping enact the change necessary to create a just and equitable society for all Americans.
The National Humanities Center has announced the appointment of Matthew Booker as vice president for Scholarly Programs, effective July 1, 2020. Dr. Booker comes to the Center from North Carolina State University where he is currently associate professor of environmental history, serves as director of the Science, Technology & Society program and the Visual Narrative research cluster, and sits on the public history faculty. He was a Fellow at the Center in 2016–17.
The National Humanities Center is pleased to announce the appointment of 33 Fellows for the academic year 2020–21. These leading scholars will come to the Center from universities and colleges in 15 U.S. states and the District of Columbia, as well as from Canada, China, Germany, and Uganda. Each Fellow will work on an individual research project and will have the opportunity to share ideas in seminars, lectures, and conferences at the Center.
In response to the COVID-19 crisis, the National Humanities Center has taken several steps to protect the health of its Fellows, staff, and visitors, as well as to ensure that the work of the Center continues during this challenging time. Recognizing the burdens placed on its Fellows, the Center’s staff has implemented a number of new policies and modes of support to help our scholars continue their research, including remote library and technical assistance.
Daily headlines inform us of the sweeping movement of the coronavirus. What can recent epidemics of SARS, Ebola, and Zika tell us about how to respond to this crisis? Students of all ages have questions about what is happening, and lessons from past epidemics can help us contextualize this current event. Join Dr. Mari Webel, assistant professor of history at the University of Pittsburgh in this webinar to learn about her work on the spread of diseases and epidemics. She shares her expertise in public health and how she teaches her students about the coronavirus.
In this five-day summer institute, participants will work with A.D. Carson and other noted musicians, writers, and scholars in the intellectual lab space of the National Humanities Center as they learn how to analyze hip hop songs with a critical focus on social, historical, political, literary, and contemporary issues.
Fellows have produced a wide assortment of fascinating and award-winning books this year. We asked four of them to share a little about their new publications and to reflect on the process of writing them.