Dr. Maria Carbonetti

Dr. Maria Carbonetti

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Lecturer, Department of French, Hispanic & Italian Studies and 2022 Public Humanities Hub Public Engagement Award Winner

“For me, community engagement is always public humanities. Teaching languages is about dialogue and conversation and sharing knowledge, particularly with our larger community…I think this is the connection between language learning and the public humanities: that we learn through constant conversation, through which we create more understanding and knowledge that is relevant for students and relevant for the world that we live in. If not, why take a language course? Why not just learn by ourselves? The students miss so much if they do not engage with the public.”

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David Ng

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PhD Candidate, Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality & Social Justice and 2022 Public Humanities Hub Public Engagement Award Winner

“Public scholarship to me sounds like a level of accountability that the institution should have to communities, right? If we’re not doing public scholarship, then what are we doing? That’s what comes to me as an activist…I would relate public scholarship to accountability and relationships: the relationships between me, as an academic and an artist, and to the communities that I hope I am responsible or accountable to.”

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Dr. Heidi Tworek

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Professor, Department of History

“The best public scholarship really tries to think about who that public is. It doesn’t necessarily mean the largest number of people. It can sometimes mean a very specific public. One of the great things about public scholarship is that it thinks about a group of people who are beyond the academy, beyond other scholars, and seeks to engage with them in a way that is meaningful to that public.”

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