Since 2019, I’ve been working in partnership with the National Humanities Center and Digital Humanities @ SDSU to foster new ways for university-based humanities scholars to do our work.
Together with NHC and DH@SDSU, we’ve welcomed more than 400 faculty, postdocs, and graduate students from universities nationwide into a more collaborative, public-engaged, agile practice via our podcast institutes.
This work matters deeply to me not only because the academic humanities have given me so much–freedom, space, meaningful work, a community of scholars, livelihood–but also because I increasingly see humanities as the space where human beings gather and develop and share knowledge essential to the survival of our species.
Proud to share that in Spring 2024 I will be in residence as a Distinguished Visitor at the National Humanities Center to produce an “Emergent Humanities” Toolkit to support colleagues who want to move out of frames of fear and scarcity that have kept the humanities small and grow more confident, courageous ways of doing our work.
In calling this work “Emergent Humanities,” I credit adrienne maree brown, whose work Emergent Strategy has served as a core text in our NHC / DH@SDSU workshops for years.