Overview

Platforms for Public Scholarship convenes a working forum for scholars experienced in a variety of engaged research and teaching practices, in order to:

• develop a rich cross-disciplinary understanding of engaged scholarship’s modalities, outcomes, and implications;
• disseminate projects and reflections through publication and public presentations;
• elaborate current projects and generate new collaborations that draw on intellectual and experiential resources of the group;
• create a network of scholarly activity, and a leadership cohort, that can advance discussions and programs of engaged scholarship at the University of Washington and beyond.

Platforms fellows meet monthly to share, workshop, and discuss current work in progress. Two public events, one in fall and one in spring, create occasions to enlarge their discussions and engage other stakeholders in public scholarship and graduate education.

Platforms for Public Scholarship is supported by the UW Graduate School in collaboration with the Simpson Center for the Humanities.

Public Events

Platforms for Public Scholarship: Conceiving Practice, Organizing Policy
Jan Cohen-Cruz (Syracuse University Professor and Director of Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life)
Kevin Bott (Director, Publicly Active Graduate Education)
Friday, November 13 3:30 pm-6:00 pm
Communications 226

Spring Symposium
TBD
Hold the dates!
Monday, May 3, 3:30-6:00 pm
Monday, June 7, 3:30-6:00 pm

Fellows 2009-2010

• Amelia Abreu (Doctoral Student, Information School)
• Tami Blumenfield (Doctoral Student, Anthropology)
• Calla Chancellor (Doctoral Student, Women Studies)
• Sarah Elwood (Associate Professor, Geography)
• Angelina Godoy (Associate Professor, International Studies)
• Deborah Kimmey (Doctoral Student, English)
• Michelle Kleisath (Doctoral Student, Anthropology)
• Kari Lerum (Assistant Professor, Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences, UW Bothell)
• Karen Rosenberg (Director, Writing Center, UW Bothell)
• Lisa Thornhill (Acting Instructor, English)
• Kai Kohlsdorf (Doctoral Student, Women Studies) Amy Pieldue (Doctoral Student, Geography)
• Julie Villegas (Associate Director, Honors Program, UW Seattle) l
  

Co-Directors

Bruce Burgett
Director and Professor, Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences, UW Bothell

Miriam Bartha
Assistant Director, Simpson Center for the Humanities, UW Seattle