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.
Working with the Multicultural Development Center of Iowa (MDCI) and Astig Planning as a Humanities for the Public Good Summer Intern has enabled me to see, first-hand, some of the challenges that grassroots and community-based organizations in Iowa City face.…
Nancy "Rusty" Barceló Hay que resistir Hay que organizar Hay que agitar Hay que demostrar[1] Salvador Ramirez When Nancy “Rusty” Barceló first arrived from California to Iowa City, she only met another mexicano at the University. She recalls in an…
Read More Latino Native American Cultural Center: “A home away from home”
Maps are political. They can represent an entire country or a single block, and they can inform us as readily as they can obscure information from us. We can learn quite a bit about our communities and their histories by…
At the end of each semester, I ask my students to reflect on what they’ve learned and how they’ve grown in my course. Teaching the rhetoric course required of all incoming University of Iowa students, I know that many…
Meet the 2022 HPG Interns and their work with our outstanding community partners!
Ashley Dorn by Ashley Dorn “You get stronger every single day”: Learning from Iowa Women in Trades Iowa Women in Trades (IWIT) exists to connect and support women seeking or practicing a skilled construction trade. Jobs in skilled construction are…
Read More Getting Stronger: A reflection on the Iowa Women in Trades Network
Dongilli - Public Archives Intern at PS1 - uses the history of Iowa City's public access channel to theorize a future for the Media Arts Co-Op and community media centers.
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
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…
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