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Bountiful Deserts: Sustaining Indigenous Worlds in Northern New Spain

Bountiful Deserts foregrounds the knowledge of Indigenous peoples in the arid lands of northwestern Mexico, for whom the desert was anything but barren or empty. Instead, they nurtured and harvested the desert as a bountiful and sacred space. Drawing together historical texts and oral testimonies, archaeology, and natural history, author Cynthia Radding develops the relationships between people and plants and the ways that Indigenous people sustained their worlds before European contact.

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The Antechamber: Toward a History of Waiting

Helmut Puff invites readers to visit societies and spaces of the past through the lens of a particular temporal modality: waiting. From literature, memoirs, manuals, chronicles, visuals, and other documents, Puff presents a history of waiting anchored in antechambers—interior rooms designated and designed for people to linger.

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Featured Research: City, Town, Village

This month we highlight the research of 2023–24 Fellows whose projects explore the human experience through the lens of settled spaces, revealing new insights about the importance of place in understanding the human experience.

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Liz Estrada

Development Specialist Liz Estrada holds a bachelor of science in mathematics from Guilford College. Liz has an extensive background in fundraising and data management.

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Don Solomon

Director of Communications Don Solomon received his BA in Journalism from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and his MA in English from the University of Southern California. He is an expert in marketing communications with over 30 years experience sharing stories about products, people, and organizations of all kinds.

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Robin Haley-Ivory

Technical Services and Metadata Librarian Robin Haley earned her master of library science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a concentration in archives and records management. She supports digital collection initiatives through implementing metadata standards and assists Fellows by managing a range of reference requests with local and international libraries. Robin was also head of digital collections for the Center's COVID-19 Oral History Project.

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Joseph Milillo

Director of the Library Joseph Milillo joined the staff of the National Humanities Center in 2016, bringing a varied background in the humanities, social sciences, and health information research. In addition to the master of library science degree from East Carolina University, which he earned while working at the Center, Joseph holds a master of … Continued

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How Will Students Learn to Write Now That We Have ChatGPT?

As ChatGPT enters the classroom, so do many questions about what it is, how students and teachers can use it, and how it will change education. In this webinar, we’ll explore how teachers and students use ChatGPT in their middle and high school writing classrooms. First, we’ll look at ongoing classroom research on students' writing with and without ChatGPT to answer questions like: What kinds of help do student writers want from ChatGPT? When do students reject ChatGPT’s suggestions? How does their individual writing compare with their ChatGPT-assisted writing?

Then, Dr. Levine will share ways that teachers use ChatGPT to teach writing. Because ChatGPT can quickly produce a range of examples of different kinds of texts, it can act as a kind of example machine. We will look at how teachers use this example machine to help students understand underlying principles of composition and to learn more about their own writing style, structure, and rhetorical power. Finally, we will highlight your questions and ideas about AI, ChatGPT, and the future of writing instruction.