Presenting Public Programming on Literature and Religion in the Humanities Divya Nair, current Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow in Humanities as a Social Practice, is a scholar, artist, and public humanist. She works on race, empire, religion, and classical reception in Anglophone literature between 1500 and 1800 within a global historiographic framework. She completed her Ph.D. and […]
Research Focused on Movement of Ideas Across Cultures Eva Kuras (Comparative and World Literature), the 2022–23 Mellon Pre-Doctoral Public Humanities Fellow, writes about her fellowship project, what drew her to this work, and what “public humanities” means to her. What motivated you to apply for the Mellon Pre-Doctoral Public Humanities Fellowship? I have always been […]
Yuridia Ramírez (History) is a 2022–2023 HRI Campus Faculty Fellow. Ramírez’s project, “Indigeneity on the Move: Transborder Politics from Michoacán to North Carolina,” traces the movement of P’urhépecha migrants from Cherán, Michoacán, México, to and from North Carolina during the late twentieth century. Learn more about HRI’s Campus Fellowship Program, which supports a cohort of faculty […]
Earlier this month, Odyssey Project students collaborated with Chicago artist Rafael Blanco to create an interior mural in Levis Faculty Center over the course of three days. The painting, which spans nearly 20 feet wide by 6-and-a-half feet tall, features a background of bright, multicolored stripes with a portrait of an African American woman and […]
Exploring What’s Possible in Public Humanities Azlan Smith (Creative Writing), current Mellon Pre-Doctoral Public Humanities Fellow and Odyssey Project instructor, writes about their fellowship project, what drew them to this work, and what “public humanities” means to them. Learn more about the Voices project. Art, research, study, storytelling—all of these are fundamentally public activities. I […]
Would you like to share a piece of your story with the broader Champaign-Urbana community? Voices: Memory as Connection will weave together true stories from people’s lives. By sharing these stories, Voices aims to create a meeting place where we can see each other and hear how our stories intersect and interact. The final tapestry […]