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Exploring Creative Sustainability in Rural America Through Theater Arts

By Angie Noah, a Master’s student in Liberal Studies with a concentration in American Theater at University of Michigan-Flint and 2014–2015 Publicly Active Graduate Education (PAGE) Fellow. This PAGE...

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IA Launches the Commission on Publicly Engaged Design

Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life announces a new initiative, the Commission on Publicly Engaged Design (CoPED). The commission is co-chaired by James Fathers, Professor and Iris...

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On Access

By Lukas StormoGipson, a Master’s student in Performance Studies at New York University and 2014–2015 Publicly Active Graduate Education (PAGE) Fellow. This PAGE Blog Salon explores themes of public...

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Storytelling and Cultural Change: Resurrecting Voices through Archives and...

By Lydia Ferguson, a Doctoral student in English at Auburn University and 2014–2015 Publicly Active Graduate Education (PAGE) Fellow. This PAGE Blog Salon explores themes of public scholarship and...

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Visual Art and Transformative Scholarship: from Undergraduate Art Projects to...

By Stephanie Sparling Williams, a Doctoral student in American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California and 2014–2015 Publicly Active Graduate Education (PAGE) Fellow. This PAGE...

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Stories of Us

By Enger Muteteke, a Master’s student in Social Responsibility and Sustainable Communities at Western Kentucky University and 2014–2015 Publicly Active Graduate Education (PAGE) Fellow. This PAGE Blog...

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The Labor Organizer in the Museum

By Alyssa Greenberg, a Doctoral student in Art History at the University of Illinois in Chicago and 2014–2015 Publicly Active Graduate Education (PAGE) Fellow. This PAGE Blog Salon explores themes of...

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Organizing Disruption: Sonic Black Girlhood

By Jessica Robinson, a Doctoral student in Education Policy, Leadership, and Organizational Leadership at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and 2014–2015 Publicly Active Graduate Education...

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A Call to Action: Civic Science and the Grand Challenges of the 21st Century

Announced at the White House conference in January 2012, Civic Science is a signature initiative of the American Commonwealth Partnership. Civic science, developed over a number of years, is a mode of...

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Weaving Our WE: A Poem by Carol Bebelle

Weaving Our WE Since, that parting at the start, from our safest home and anchor WE yearn for belonging. Soon, human touch defines our new sense of intimacy becoming a good exchange for our first...

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Emory works to advance the public and civic purposes of the humanities...

Written by Corey Goettsch, PhD Candidate in History and a graduate assistant in the Laney Graduate School. [Note: This blog post originally appeared on graduateschool.emory.edu on November 4, 2014. It...

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2014 Imagining America Presidents’ Forum Report

In a time when higher education is facing significant challenges, how can colleges and universities address the critical social and economic challenges of our time? What responsibility do higher...

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Something to Behold in West Baltimore

By Jamie Haft, Assistant Director of Imagining America This is a story about how residents, artists, community organizers, university professors, and students responded to a massive urban renewal...

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New Book “Democracy’s Education: Public Work, Citizenship, and the Future of...

Today, Americans feel powerless to address mounting problems, from climate change to growing inequality and school reform. This sense of powerlessness is acute in higher education, where educators face...

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Introducing the PAGE2Ferguson Blog Salon

Welcome to the PAGE2Ferguson Blog Salon! “How do we respect and invite one another into our multiple modes of response?” As PAGE Fellows processed and discussed our role in the aftermath of the...

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“Silence is the voice of complicity” v “That’s not what we’re talking about...

By Jennifer Shook, PAGE Co-director I hesitated about writing this blog post. I continue because my hesitation itself marks greater discomforts. I have, probably just like you, dear readers, had many...

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Ferguson and the #blacklivesmatter Movement: Practical Questions and Musings

By Enger Muteteke, PAGE 2014-2015 Fellow I am a 36 year old African American woman who serves as Associate Pastor at a predominantly Caucasian congregation just outside of Baltimore City. While our...

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Talking #BlackLivesMatter Offline and Outside of the Classrooms and Lecture...

By La Tanya S. Autry, PAGE Co-director As a PhD candidate in art history at the University of Delaware, I’ve centered my studies on objects, images, and practices of memory, public space, race, and...

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The People’s State of the Union in Central New York

Last week, the President delivered the annual State of the Union Address. Each year, this speech is meant to highlight important national issues from the past year and suggest priorities for the coming...

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Sidelines

By Naphtali Leyland Fields, PAGE Fellow 2014-2015   I stand in the cold holding the sign with numb hands. A line of us stretched along the main road of a small town in the South. ‘#blacklivesmatter’,...

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