Resources

Interested in reading more about Public Humanities and the Arts, see these helpful collections.

Journals

Professional Development

  • Help with determining the values that support public/community engagement: from HumetricsHSS
  • by the National Humanities Alliance
  • 2022 (Modern Language Association)
  • 鈥溾�� is a new article by Marissa Bell and Neil Lewis Jr. in Public Understanding of Science exploring the barriers to doing publicly engaged research for scholars in science communication and science and technology studies. Barriers listed are similar to those experienced by many higher ed-based public humanists, including tenure and promotion requirements and lack of recognition and resources. 

Reports

  • "" (Oct 2023) - In 2022, nonprofit arts and culture organizations and their audiences generated $151.7 billion in economic activity鈥�$73.3 billion in spending by the organizations, which leveraged an additional $78.4 billion in event-related spending by their audiences. The impact of this economic activity is far reaching, supporting 2.6 million jobs, generating $29.1 billion in tax revenue, and providing $101 billion in personal income to residents. AEP6 sends a strong signal that when we support the arts, we are investing in both economic and community well-being.
  • "," National Endowment for the Humanities (Oct 2023) - Between July 2021 and July 2022, more than half of all adults created and/or performed art鈥攕imilar to findings in 2017, the last time the survey was conducted. During the same time period, just under half of all adults attended in-person arts events, a significant drop from 2017. A separate survey shows that 82 percent of respondents watched or listened to arts activities through digital media between 2021 and 2022. 
  • "" (Oct 2023) - The report provides information, root cause analyses, and recommendations to promote equity in a field in which the vast majority of financial resources go to a small percentage of organizations, and in which organizations centering Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) and rural organizations are significantly underrepresented in access to those resources. The field scan includes multiple statewide and national data sets to analyze arts organization funding in California and features an interactive geographic map of the distribution of arts organizations across the state.
  • "" National Humanities Alliance (Oct 2023) - This clearinghouse is designed to support advocates in identifying ways to increase funding for the humanities at the state and local level. 
  • "," National Humanities Alliance (May 2023)
  • "." The Kresge Foundation recently launched a new creative placemaking resource to use when meeting with decision-makers. It outlines how creative approaches work, examples from the field, and action steps to enhance creative local solutions. 
  • In the new American Association of Colleges and Universities report 鈥�,鈥� the authors focus on the effects of various forms of community-based and civic engagement in higher education, identifying positive outcomes across six broad areas: increased personal and social responsibility; development of positive mindsets and dispositions; improved graduation and retention rates; learning gains; improved intellectual and practical skills; and increased career-related skills.

Articles & Books

  • "" in Public Humanities (2025)
  • (2024)
  • "" by Nhatt Nichols (April 26, 2023) addresses that government spending on arts often takes a back seat to more pressing needs, but these rural places show how investing in the arts can have far-reaching economic and civic benefits.
  • "" is an article by Gerben Zaagsma in Digital Scholarship in the Humanities that proposes a framework through which to contextualize the politics of (digital) heritage preservation and a model to analyze its most important political dimensions, drawing upon literature from the digital humanities and history as well as archival, library, and information science.
  • "" is an article by Carolina Nve Diaz San Francisco that proposes opportunities for the discipline of public anthropology to aid in times of crisis, using a case study of her scholarship on care work during the Covid-19 pandemic.
  • Sukhadia, Queenie." Distributaries. Aug 26, 2022.
  • Diane M. Doberneck, Chris R. Glass, and John H. Schweitzer. "." Journal of Community Engagement and Scholarship. 4:2, 2011.
  • Fisher, Daniel. 鈥�.鈥� Humanities for All, National Humanities Alliance, 2021.
  • Fitzpatrick, Kathleen. Generous Thinking: A Radical Approach to Saving the University. Johns Hopkins UP, 2020.
  • Jay, Gregory. 鈥�.鈥� Imagining America, 2010.
  • Levenson, Michael. The Humanities in Everyday Life: The Literary Agenda. Oxford UP, 2018.

  • Windholz, Jordan. 鈥�,鈥� Profession, Modern Language Association (Spring 2019) .

Anthologies

  • Aagje Swinnen, Amanda Kluveld and Ren茅e van de Vall, eds. (2022) is a new volume edited by Aagje Swinnen, Amanda Kluveld, and Ren茅e van de Vall and published by Amsterdam University Press. This work presents accessible case studies that demonstrate what humanities scholars contribute to concrete and pressing social debates about topics including adoption, dementia, hacking, and conservation. These 鈥渆ngaged鈥� forms of humanities research reveal the continued importance of thinking and rethinking the nature of art, culture, and public life. 
  • Cameron Cartiere and Anthony Schrag, eds. (2022) is a new Routledge, Taylor and Francis volume edited by Cameron Cartiere and Anthony Schrag. The anthology brings together practicing artists, curators, activists, art writers, administrators, planners, and educators from around the world to offer differing perspectives on the many facets of failure in commissioning, planning, producing, evaluating, and engaging communities in the continually evolving field of art in the public realm. The volume includes case studies from the United Kingdom, the United States, China, Cuba, and Denmark, as well as discussions of digital public art collections.
  • Suzanne Lacy's edited collection, (1994) and "" an overview by the Tate Museum
  • Bartel, Anna Sims and Debra A. Castillo, eds. . Cornell UP, 2021.
  • Smulyan, Susan, ed. . Routledge, 2020.

Organizations

  • . National Humanities Alliance, 2021.

  • 鈥淢颈蝉蝉颈辞苍.鈥� : Advocating for the Humanities. 2021. 

Journals

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