“During the pandemic I have been very careful and cautious about not being in public places and especially indoor spaces. However, the opportunity to co-facilitate the creation of a mural to empower and heal the community took precedence over my…
Category: Interns
Below, participants in our HPG Summer Internship program reflect on what the humanities mean in their workplace, how concepts and methods from their disciplines translate to their workplace, and they are reimagining their own research and writing in their scholarly work in light of their internship experiences.
Translating Digital to Digital
“Digital" has become the “connective tissue,” as we say at Hancher, between the spaces I navigate.
Melville and the Mill Girls
“At rows of blank-looking counters sat rows of blank-looking girls, with blank, white folders in their blank hands, all blankly folding blank paper.”
Willa Cather and Kolaches along the Iowa Valley Scenic Byway
This summer, I am working alongside Iowa Valley Resource Conservation & Development to create a booklet that introduces readers to food traditions along the Iowa Valley Scene Byway, a 77-mile route where people of Belgian, German, Meskwaki and Czech decent (among others) live, work and eat...
Engaging Audiences; Connecting Communities
In 1871, regarding a string of public concerts held in Iowa City, composer and music educator Henry Southwick Perkins wrote that “it is a very natural sequence that these public educational efforts should find the proper elements in which to propagate in these [Midwestern] States,” a mission in which “Iowa is not [a] whit behind.”
Back to the Text
I love poetry. I love the way it looks on the page, I love the way it feels to read out loud. I love its rhythm, its images, and its power. And I love the moments when I read it with my students and it makes sense to them.
Stories of Work and Working Lives
The history of labor organizing is a history of turmoil, battles, loss of life and livelihood. It’s also a history of individual and collective perseverance. Solidarity and Survival by Shelton Stromquist tells an oral history of labor organizing starting in the early 20th century.
Staying in Motion, Staying Human during Confinement
Finally, a summer not spent in retail or on the farm. Finally, a chance to do something with my Humanities training.
Community Partner Spotlight: Hancher Auditorium
In Summer 2019, two graduate students (Mark Rheaume and Michael Davis) completed eight-week internships at Hancher Auditorium, as part of an opportunity to explore how their academic training might translate into a variety of professions and workplaces. Hancher Auditorium's Education Manager, Micah Ariel James, shares a few details about the organization and its efforts to support the local community.
Community Partner Spotlight: Iowa Valley Resource Conservation & Development
In Summer 2019, three graduate students (Paul Schmitt, Marie Culpepper, and Kathleen Shaughnessy) completed eight-week internships at Iowa Valley Resource Conservation & Development (IVRC&D), as part of an opportunity to explore how their academic training might translate into a variety of professions and workplaces. IVRC&D Executive Director Jessica Rilling shares a few details about the organization and its efforts to support and lift up the local community.
