As the end of 2021 comes into view, we wanted to pause to celebrate all that your work has made possible. This fall and the last two years, we have been laying the groundwork for a student-centered, experiential, applied humanities graduate degree that is rooted in social justice values and that prepares students for multiple careers.
Humanities for the Public Good RA Luke Borland sat down with fellow history Ph.D. students Ashley Dorn and Caleb Pennington to discuss their summer experiences working with community partners and how they connect their work to their scholarship. As HPG…
Read More History Graduate Students Reflect on HPG Internships
As I did my internship with the Englert and FilmScene this summer, I was also in the middle of preparing for my comprehensive exams, becoming an ‘expert’ in 20th/21st century literature. That means reading a hundred literary texts that cover…
When the Obermann Center announced this summer’s Humanities for the Public Good Internships, I eagerly read through them in hopes of finding a position related to my studies. One description and required qualification quickly captured my attention: “Ability to perform…
Read More Dirt, Plants, and Food: Bringing the Humanities into the Garden
A significant portion of my internship has been spent explaining the Historical Iowa Civil Rights Network. This has meant that my site supervisor and myself were forced to reflect on why HICRN is important, and how it will be effective…
Read More Scholarly Infrastructure Critical for Changing Historical Perspectives
In his book, Teacher Strike, historian Jon Shelton argues that teacher militancy and strike actions in the 1970s posed a problem for what he calls "Labor Liberalism," the dominant political ideology of the era, that American politicians were unable to…
As the digital storytelling intern for the Iowa Valley Resource Conservation & Development, my main focus was to facilitate and document untold stories from the food system. My goal was to use this opportunity to amplify the voices of those…
Read More Community Partner Spotlight: The Global Food Project
If there's something my opportunity with the HPG internship further reinforced and also more deeply entrenched in me, then it would be thinking more critically and being more actively engaged in producing work that highlights both gratitude and grace. Throughout…
The midpoint of an internship — in this case, week five of eight — is probably the best time to unwind and get to know your co-workers in a non-work setting. By then, you've had a few weeks to settle…
The object of confrontation politics is to polarize the slack by the impossible precept that you are either for children or against themRobert Leland, Keokuk School District Superintendent, 1970 When Iowa Republicans captured the state senate in the 2016 elections,…
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