Doing Public Humanities

ISBN 10: 0367524511 / ISBN 13: 9780367524517

Published by Routledge, 2020

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Doing Public Humanities
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication Date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0367524511
• ISBN 13: 9780367524517
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

About this title

Synopsis

Doing Public Humanities explores the cultural landscape from disruptive events to websites, from tours to exhibits, from after school arts programs to archives, giving readers a wide-ranging look at the interdisciplinary practice of public humanities.

Combining a practitioner’s focus on case studies with the scholar’s more abstract and theoretical approach, this collection of essays is useful for both teaching and appreciating public humanities. The contributors are committed to presenting a public humanities practice that encourages social justice and explores the intersectionalities of race, class, gender, and sexualities. Centering on the experiences of students with many of the case studies focused on course projects, the content will enable them to relate to and better understand this new field of study.

The text is essential reading for undergraduate and graduate classes in public history, historic preservation, history of art, engaged sociology, and public archaeology and anthropology, as well as public humanities.

About the Author

Susan Smulyan is Professor of American Studies at Brown University, USA, and former Director of the John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities and Cultural Heritage.