Envisioning New Roles for land-grant university Extension: Lessons learned...
By Linda Prokopy and Rebecca Power The Extension Reconsidered blog features posts from guest contributors who care about Cooperative Extension, the land-grant mission, community arts and humanities,...
View ArticleImagining America to Receive Phi Beta Kappa Key of Excellence
Prize Recognizes Exemplary Efforts to Engage Communities with Arts and Sciences Scott Peters, Johnnetta Cole, Timothy Eatman, and Katherine Soule (left to right) at the reception on October 1, 2015....
View ArticleWebinar: Creating Spaces for Dialogue Across Disciplines & Cultures
Please join Imagining America’s webinar, hosted by Jonathan Damiani, Creating Spaces for Dialogue Across Disciplines & Cultures: Toward a Theory of Internationally Engaged Scholarship, on Thursday,...
View ArticleMeet the 2015 JGS Photo & Digital Media Fellows
“Untitled Study On History And Aesthetics.” Photo by: Elliott Brown Jr., New York University. 2015-16 JGS Fellow. Imagining America announces recipients of the 2015-16 fellowship award for publicly...
View ArticleThe Dialectics of Feminist Counternarratives and Direct Public Engagement:...
By Kush Patel, a Doctoral student in Architecture at the University of Michigan and a 2015–2016 Publicly Active Graduate Education (PAGE) Fellow. This PAGE Blog Salon explores themes of engaged...
View ArticleGraduate Students as Agents of Change in Public Life
By Kaia DeMatteo, a Doctoral student in Global Inclusion and Social Development at UMASS Boston and a 2015–2016 Publicly Active Graduate Education (PAGE) Fellow. This PAGE Blog Salon explores themes of...
View ArticleCulture, Community and ‘Making visible’
Supriya Manandhar is a Master’s student in Art Education at Virginia Commonwealth University, and a 2015–2016 Publicly Active Graduate Education (PAGE) Fellow. This PAGE Blog Salon features visual...
View ArticleWhen Place Matters
By Floridalma Boj Lopez is a Doctoral student in American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California and a 2015–2016 Publicly Active Graduate Education (PAGE) Fellow. This PAGE Blog...
View ArticleFrom the Charleston Syllabus to the Charleston Curriculum
By Brittany Farr is a Doctoral student in Communication at the University of Southern California and a 2015–2016 Publicly Active Graduate Education (PAGE) Fellow. This PAGE Blog Salon features a...
View ArticleAlchemizing a Body From Ash: The #CharlestonSyllabus & Why History Matters
By Paul Tran studies Archives & Public History and is the Graduate Scholar in the Archives at the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at New York University. Paul is a 2015–2016 Publicly Active...
View ArticleJGS Fellow Fundraises for Nepal
My name is Alexandra Morrow and I am a 2014-15 IA/JGS Fellow. I spent this past August through December studying abroad in Nepal and the experience largely impacted my life in ways that are impossible...
View ArticleTo be anti-racist and White. Or, A snapshot of an anxious mind
By Elyse Gordon, PAGE Co-director Good grief. I am overwhelmed by what is going on and my responsibility to act. But I am so stretched right now: deep in my research, so near the end; in the struggle...
View ArticleAnnouncing the New Issue of Public: A Journal of Imagining America:...
We are pleased to announce that “Organizing. Culture. Change.” is now live. The first section grows out of the 2014 IA Conference on the same theme: the keynote, “Words Changing the World: The Power of...
View ArticleWe Stand With Baltimore
We, at Imagining America, stand with those in Baltimore calling for restorative action and equity. A current Imagining America Publicly Active Graduate Education (PAGE) Fellow and resident of...
View ArticleBaltimore City is about all of us
By Enger Muteteke, PAGE 2014-2015 Fellow The cameras have gone. I don’t know what to write. I don’t know what to say. I don’t know what to do. I am aware, though, that I must do something. My heart is...
View ArticleLooking for a Way beyond Distraction
By La Tanya S. Autry, PAGE Co-director My mind and heart has been heavy these days- now Baltimore. Watching the events that lead to the uprising and the media representations of the protestors is...
View ArticleCall for 2015-15 JGS Photo Fellows
About the IA/JGS FELLOWS PROGRAM Are you a photography or digital media student engaging in your community? Are you looking for an opportunity to collaborate with peers and mentors as part of a...
View ArticleHow Every Museum Can Respond to Ferguson — Part II
By Alyssa Greenberg, PAGE 2014-15 Fellow As museum professionals, our silence about how social inequality manifests in internal museum practices (discussed in Part I to this post) is tantamount to...
View ArticleView the BETSY! Photo Contest Submissions on Our Diverse America Identity
OUR DIVERSE AMERICAN IDENTITY Considering the complicated DNA made visible by the mapping of the human genome, students were invited to submit photography about their family’s cultural roots and how...
View Article3rd Annual Imagining America Organizing Institute in Baltimore
Baltimore, MD June 12-14, 2015 Hosted by the MICA Office of Community Engagement and MICA PLACE in partnership with UMBC and Alternate ROOTS The 2015 Imagining America Organizing Institute offers...
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