The American Anthropological Association’s publication yesterday of guidelines on public scholarship marks a significant advance in the recognition of public scholarship within academe. Anthropology may have good reasons to be in the forefront with this, but it is not the only field in which public scholarship and community engagement are valued and recognized. Numerous efforts have […]
Posts Tagged ‘engaged scholarship’
Valuing public scholarship
Posted in Academe, tagged AAA, academia, community engagement, engaged research, engaged scholarship, public outreach, public scholarship, tenure and promotion on May 2, 2017 | 9 Comments »
State of the Eco-Humanities, Take 1
Posted in Academe, Anthropocene, Eco-theory, tagged academic initiatives, conferences, eco-arts, eco-humanities, engaged scholarship, environmental humanities on June 8, 2016 | 4 Comments »
This post is the first of a series of reflections on the state of the Environmental Humanities, or Eco-Humanities, and of where this interdisciplinary field might be headed. A note on terminology: The term “Environmental Humanities” has caught on in ways that “Eco-Humanities” and other variations have not, but the debate between them has hardly occurred, […]