Imagining America @ UF

• Annual Programs in the Public Humanities Grant offered by the UF Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere
• List of faculty and graduate student funding opportunitiesin the public humanities (list maintained by the UF Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere)
• The Center has developed an annual grant opportunity titled  “Programs in the Public Humanities”.

To seek UF collaborators, faculty and students can create searchable records in the UF Research Expertise Database and UF VIVO Community. The established groups below also welcome new participants across disciplines:

• UF Digital Humanities Working Group
• UF-St. Augustine Partnerships, a working group of anyone with research and teaching interests in Historic St. Augustine convened by Linda Dixon. Join the listserv at UFHSA-ACADEMIC-l@LISTS.UFL.EDU.
• UF International Center runs regional working groups
• Florida Climate Institute, a collaborative institute to address climatic risk
• UF Water Institute, a university-wide institute to address complex water issues
• The Medical Humanities Program in the College of Medicine
• Collective for the Interdisciplinary Study of Medicine and Culture (CISMaC), which transcends disciplinary barriers and connect medical study with other fields, promoting work on the history of medicine, literature and medicine, medicine and the arts, health and ethics, intersections of health and gender, ethnicities and race, and, ideally, new inquiries.
• Coasts, Climates, the Humanities, and the Environment Consortium (CCHEC), a partnership of the University of Georgia, Louisiana State University, the University of Florida, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, as well as an alliance of regional stakeholders.
• Digital Humanities Working Group (DHWG), an interdisciplinary group of faculty, staff, and graduate students who meet monthly to discuss specific projects and opportunities for the humanities in a digital age.
• Impact of Materials on Society (IMOS), a partnership of UF faculty from engineering, liberal arts and sciences, and education with the national Materials Research Society (MRS) to develop an introductory level course that combine studies in materials engineering with material culture.
• Science Fiction Working Group (SFWG), an interdisciplinary scholarly alliance of University of Florida faculty, researchers, and graduate students working in the fields of science fiction, fantasy, and utopian studies

• UF Arts and Humanities Graduate Coordinators maintain a growing list of Public Humanities Student Internships for graduate (and select undergraduate) students.
• The UF Office of Research maintains a listing of “Broader Impacts Resources” across the university, which can provide support for everything from building museum exhibits, to working with minority or K-12 populations, to locating off-campus constituencies.
• The UF Center for Leadership and Service (CLS) has compiled a detailed resource guide to support faculty in integrating service learning into their courses by combining core teaching with service to the community.
• Scholarship of Engagement Awards (College of Education) – university-wide nominations solicited each spring
• Public Humanities Student Internships for graduate students (and undergraduates in some cases)
• Broader Impacts Resources across UF list maintained by the Office of Research
• The David and Wanda Brown Center for Leadership & Service has compiled a detailed resource guide to support the development of service learning courses
• Samuel Proctor Oral History Program
• Harn Museum of Art – Faculty Focus Exhibitions
• Bob Graham Center for Public Service civic internships for undergraduate students
• University Multicultural Mentor Program
• Office of Sustainability
• Digital Storytelling Workshop (PDF) (College of Journalism & Communications)
• Video and production coursework offered by the Department of Telecommunication
• Jellyfishsmack Productions (an independent production company founded by UF Documentary Institute Graduates)

•  National Humanities Alliance publishes the Humanities for All blog featuring profiles of publicly-engaged humanities projects. Please submit a 100-word pitch of your project here.
• In December 2015, the Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere collaborated with Dr. Sean Trainor to host “Writing for the Public,” an introduction to op ed-style writing in the humanities. See the information-packed website here for tips on writing and pitching proposals to public-facing outlets.
• The Academic Minute – The Association of American Colleges & Universities (AAC&U) features faculty and researchers from colleges and universities around the world discussing what’s new in the academy and the ways in which academic research contributes to serving the public good. In addition to being broadcast widely on radio stations around the country, each segment is posted daily on Inside Higher Ed and across The Academic Minute’s and AAC&U’s social media portals.
• UF Institutional Repository (IR) – In order to disseminate work to a wider audience, anyone can deposit approved copies of published and other work into the UF digital archive.
• If you have a digital element to your work, send it to the Florida Digital Humanities Consortium (FLDH) to promote on their website and social media, by filling in the FLDH Member Highlight Submission form.

• Scholarship in Public: Knowledge Creation and Tenure Policy in the Engaged University (PDF). A report by the Imagining America Tenure Team Initiative in 2008.
• Tenure, Promotion, and the Publicly Engaged Academic Historian (PDF). A report adopted by the Organization of American Historians executive board in 2010.
• Best Practices for Cultivating Diversity Scholarship and Public Engagement in Tenure and Promotion (PDF). A 2016 report by a team of UF faculty responding to Goals 1 and 5 of the President’s Strategic Plan.

The following book series publish manuscripts for scholars and community audiences:

• Humanities and Public Life Series at the University of Iowa Press seeks manuscripts that examine projects using the arts and humanities to promote community building and civic change.

The following refereed journal outlets feature publicly-engaged scholarship:

• eJournal of Public Affairs: Published by Missouri State University and affiliated with the American Democracy Project to advance the status of public scholarship
• Gateways International Journal of Community Research and Engagement: A publication jointly managed by the Centre for Social Justice and Inclusion at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia, and The Swearer Center for Public Service, Brown University.
• International Journal of Research on Service Learning and Community Engagement: A publication of the International Association for Research on Service-Learning and Community Engagement, hosted by the Tulane University Center for Public Service.
• Journal of Community Engagement and Higher Education: A publication of Indiana State University.
• Journal of Community Engagement and Scholarship: A publication of the Office of Community Affairs, The University of Alabama
•  Journal of Experiential Education: A publication of the Association for Experiential Education
•  Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement: A publication of the Office of the Vice President for Public Service & Outreach, The University of Georgia
• Journal of Public Scholarship in Higher Education: A publication from Missouri Campus Compact at Missouri State University
•  Michigan Journal of Community Service-Learning: A publication from the Ginsberg Center at the University of Michigan
• PRISM: A Journal of Regional Engagement: Hosted at Eastern Kentucky University.
• Public: A journal of Imagining America (UF is a member institution).
• Societies Without Borders:  A publication of Sociologists Without Borders sharing efforts to affect and study change.
•  The Public Historian: Published for the National Council on Public History
• Undergraduate Journal of Service Learning and Community-Based Research: A publication of the Pennyslvania State  University Berks campus that disseminates the intellectual and reflective work of undergraduate students

Digital, open-access, and other publishing opportunities enable wide dissemination of humanities scholarship:

• The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) allows authors to locate refereed journals in a discipline that make articles freely available to readers.
• UF Institutional Repository (IR) – In order to disseminate work to a wider audience, anyone can deposit approved copies of published and other work into the UF digital archive. Information on Open Access at UF is maintained by the UF Libraries.
• Humanities Research Network (HRN) – Created by the Social Science Research Network, this worldwide online community promotes the sharing of abstracts and working papers in Classics, English & American Literature, Music Research & Compositionk, Philosophy, and Rhetoric & Communication Research.
• Orange Grove Texts Plus – Faculty can work with the University Press of Florida and the Orange Grove, Florida’s institutional repository, to create freely-accessible textbooks in their discipline.
• The Academic Minute – The Association of American Colleges & Universities (AAC&U) features faculty and researchers from colleges and universities around the world discussing what’s new in the academy and the ways in which academic research contributes to serving the public good. In addition to being broadcast widely on radio stations around the country, each segment is posted daily on Inside Higher Ed and across The Academic Minute’s and AAC&U’s social media portals. Please send submissions to David Hopper at dhopper@wamc.org.

A growing number of organizations are developing guidelines to assess public humanities work in tenure and promotion:

• • Scholarship in Public: Knowledge Creation and Tenure Policy in the Engaged University (PDF). A report by the Imagining America Tenure Team Initiative in 2008.
  • Tenure, Promotion, and the Publicly Engaged Academic Historian (PDF). A report adopted by the Organization of American Historians executive board in 2010.
  • Best Practices for Cultivating Diversity Scholarship and Public Engagement in Tenure and Promotion. A report by  team of faculty and staff at UF.

UF also recognizes publicy-engaged scholarship with annual awards:

•  Scholarship of Engagement Awards (College of Education) – university-wide nominations solicited each spring

The following book series publish manuscripts for scholars and community audiences:

• Humanities and Public Life Series at the University of Iowa Press seeks manuscripts that examine projects using the arts and humanities to promote community building and civic change.
• UF PressBooks – UF authors can take advantage of this new open access publishing platform to work with Smathers Libraries faculty to create freely-accessible textbooks and other resources.

• eJournal of Public Affairs: Published by Missouri State University and affiliated with the American Democracy Project to advance the status of public scholarship
• Gateways International Journal of Community Research and Engagement: A publication jointly managed by the Centre for Social Justice and Inclusion at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia, and The Swearer Center for Public Service, Brown University.
• International Journal of Research on Service Learning and Community Engagement: A publication of the International Association for Research on Service-Learning and Community Engagement, hosted by the Tulane University Center for Public Service.
• Journal of Community Engagement and Higher Education: A publication of Indiana State University.
• Journal of Community Engagement and Scholarship: A publication of the Office of Community Affairs, The University of Alabama
•  Journal of Experiential Education: A publication of the Association for Experiential Education
•  Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement: A publication of the Office of the Vice President for Public Service & Outreach, The University of Georgia
• Journal of Public Scholarship in Higher Education: A publication from Missouri Campus Compact at Missouri State University
•  Michigan Journal of Community Service-Learning: A publication from the Ginsberg Center at the University of Michigan
• PRISM: A Journal of Regional Engagement: Hosted at Eastern Kentucky University.
• Public: A journal of Imagining America (UF is a member institution).
• Societies Without Borders:  A publication of Sociologists Without Borders sharing efforts to affect and study change.
•  The Public Historian: Published for the National Council on Public History
• Undergraduate Journal of Service Learning and Community-Based Research: A publication of the Pennsylvania State University Berks campus that disseminates the intellectual and reflective work of undergraduate students

• American Academy of Arts and Sciences: Initiative for the Humanities and Culture (“provides a framework for examining the significance of the humanities to our national culture and for developing resources and policies to ensure the health of the humanities in the 21st century”)
•  National Council on Public History (“a membership association dedicated to making the past useful in the present and to encouraging collaboration between historians and their public”)
•  National Endowment for the Humanities (“serves and strengthens our Republic by promoting excellence in the humanities and conveying the lessons of history to all Americans”)
•  National Humanities Alliance (“a non-profit organization to advance national humanities policy in the areas of research, education, preservation and public programs”)
  • The NHA publishes the Humanities for All blog featuring profiles of publicly-engaged humanities projects. Please submit a 100-word pitch of your project here.
•  National Humanities Center (“seeks to insure the continuing strength of the liberal arts and to affirm the importance of the humanities in American life”)
•  National Humanities Institute (“promotes research, publishing, and teaching in the humanities, with emphasis on the ethical preconditions and purposes of culture and society, the centrality of personal freedom and creativity, and the historical nature of human existence”)
• President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities (“using the power of the arts and humanities to contribute to the vibrancy of our society, the education of our children, the creativity of our citizens and the strength of our democracy”)
•  Resource Guide for Public Humanities (Brown University Library)

The Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere would be grateful for any information regarding additional links we should add to this section. Please email us with updates.