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Whiting Public Engagement Fellowship

The Whiting Public Engagement Fellowship celebrates and supports faculty in the humanities who embrace public engagement as part of the scholarly vocation. Each Fellow receives $50,000 to pursue a public-facing project. More >

2022-2023

John Arroyo

Planning, Public Policy, and Management

University of Oregon

Project: Casa y Comunidad: Latinx Housing in Oregon

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Clinton Blackburn

Sarah Fouts

American Studies

University of Maryland Baltimore County

Project: Project Neutral Grounds: At the Intersection of People, Street Food, and the Hustle

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Marlayna Demond

Melissa Jacquart

Philosophy

University of Cincinnati

Project: Bringing Philosophy to Science Fairs

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Lucas Dunlap

Meredith L. McCoy

American Studies

Carleton College

Project: Indigenous Chicago

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Allie Mullin Photography

Oliver A. Rosales

History

Bakersfield College

Project: Mapping Common Ground: Agriculture, Labor, and Migration in Rural California

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Michele Bresso

Andrew J. Torget

History

University of North Texas

Project: The Texas History for Teachers Project

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Gary Payne

2021-2022

Michael Burroughs

Philosophy & Religious Studies

California State University - Bakersfield

Project: Humanities Beyond Bars

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Harcourt Fuller

History

Georgia State University

Project: Black Money Exhibit: World Currencies Featuring African and African Diasporic History and Cultures

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Steve Thackston

Harjant Gill

Anthropology

Towson University

Project: Tales from Macholand

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Nick Geboy

Romeo Guzmán

History

Claremont Graduate University

Project: East of East: Recovering Greater El Monte's Lost Histories

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James Levy

History

University of Wisconsin-Whitewater

Project: Whose Land? Race, Settlement, and Dispossession in Wisconsin and New York

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Mary Rizzo

History

Rutgers University-Newark

Project: Cultural Activism and the History of Black Baltimore: A Traveling Exhibit by and for Youth

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Jennifer Shannon

Cultural Anthropology

University of Colorado Boulder

Project: Kumeyaay Comics: Indigenous Histories of California

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2020-2021

Heather Howard

Anthropology

Michigan State University

Project: Waganakising Quillwork: A Portal to Share Indigenous Knowledge

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Amy Reed-Sandoval

Philosophy

University of Nevada - Las Vegas

Project: Philosophy for Children in the Borderlands: A Field School

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Andrea Roberts

Urban Planning

Texas A&M University

Project: The Texas Freedom Colonies Storytelling Project

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Billy Smith

Ma Vang

Ethnic Studies

University of California - Merced

Project: Refugee Teaching Institute

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Julie M. Weise

History

University of Oregon

Project: “Nuestro South” Video Series

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Khadijah Costley White

Media Studies

Rutgers University

Project: Security, Trauma, and Schools: A Film-Centered Community Dialogue

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2019-2020

Jason Cohen

English

Berea College

Project: Histories of Overburden: Teaching Appalachian Environmental History from the Archive

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Craig Doherty

Geffrey Davis

English

University of Arkansas

Project: On the Row: The Prison Story Project

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Andrew Kilgore

Andrew Gomez

History

University of Puget Sound

Project: Race in the City of Destiny: Tacoma, Displacement, and Reconciliation

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David J. Kim

English

University of Delaware

Project: Alice Dunbar-Nelson: A Vision for Wilmington

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Barry Lam

Philosophy

Vassar College

Project: Hi-Phi Nation Season 4: Philosophical Foundation of Crime and Punishment

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Melissa Surprise

Jason Ruiz

American Studies

University of Notre Dame

Project: Latinx Murals of Pilsen: A Digital Toolkit for Scholarship, Teaching, and Discovery

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Barbara Johnston

Rebecca Scofield

History

University of Idaho

Project: Gay Rodeo Oral History Project

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2018-2019

Trey Adcock

American Indian and Indigenous Studies

University of North Carolina Asheville

Project: Tuti Tsunadelogwasdi Uninohelv (Stories of the Snowbird Day School)

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Adam Taylor - UNC Asheville staff photographer

Ruth Nicole Brown

Gender and Women’s Studies

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Project: Black Girl Genius Week

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Getu Workenhe

Cristina Cammarano

Philosophy

Salisbury University

Project: P.i.E.: Philosophy in K-12 Education

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Denise Meringolo

History

University of Maryland Baltimore County

Project: Teaching Historical Understanding through Preserve the Baltimore Uprising

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Marlayna Demond UMBC OIA-Creative Services - 2018

Karen Rignall

Anthropology

University of Kentucky

Project: Stories of Place in a Changing Appalachia

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Lisa Maas

Rhondda Robinson Thomas

English

Clemson University

Project: Black Clemson: From Enslavement to Integration

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Molly Todd

History and Philosophy

Montana State University

Project: Refugees and Surviving Historic Memory in Post-Civil War El Salvador

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2017-2018

Vivek Bald

Comparative Media Studies and Writing

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Project: In Search of Bengali Harlem 

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Rachel Rosenbloom

Eleanor Harrison-Buck

Anthropology

University of New Hampshire

Project: A Kriol Public History Museum in Belize 

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Eliza Buck

Justin Leidwanger

Classics

Stanford University

Project: Five Boats: Snapshots of Mediterranean Connections

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Elias Muhanna

Comparative Literature

Brown University

Project: The Language of Paradise: Arabic’s Past, Present, and Future

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Jennifer Jackson

Michael Pasquier

Religious Studies and History

Louisiana State University

Project: Coastal Voices

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Zack Godshall

Micah Pawling

History and Native American Studies

University of Maine

Project: The Sabattis Tomah Project

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Jodi Skipper

Anthropology and Southern Studies

University of Mississippi

Project: Beyond the Big House: Interpreting Slavery in Local Communities

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Joel Peters Photography

Tomás F. Summers Sandoval, Jr.

History and Chicana/o Latina/o Studies

Pomona College

Project: Ring of Red: Latino Testimonies of the Vietnam War

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2016-2017

Renée Alexander Craft

Global Studies & Communication

UNC at Chapel Hill

Project: An ever-expanding digital home for a unique Afro-Latin community

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Lisa Brooks

English & American Studies

Amherst College

Project: A resource for teachers about the historical geography of King Philip's War

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Nicole R. Fleetwood

American Studies

Rutgers University - New Brunswick

Project: A series of exhibitions and a bold new book on art created by prisoners

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Tracy Collins

Zoë Kontes

Classics

Kenyon College

Project: A new podcast that tells the stories of illicitly traded antiquities

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Luis Martín-Cabrera

Literature

University of California, San Diego

Project: An Investigation into the South American Lithium Triangle

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Jessica Siegel

English, Journalism, and Education

Brooklyn College (CUNY)

Project: A trove of diverse oral histories of transformative changes in Brooklyn

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David Trowbridge

History & African-American Studies

Marshall University

Project: An app that brings history alive for thousands of sites across the country

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Bethany Wiggin

German & Environmental Humanities

University of Pennsylvania

Project: Making a river's past, present, and future visible from America's oldest botanical garden

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