Public Humanities

The John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities and Cultural Heritage administers the Department of American Studies’s M.A. in public humanities. Students in this program (which can be completed either as a terminal master’s program or as part of the Ph.D. program) gain the knowledge and skills needed for jobs in museums, historical societies, state and federal humanities and cultural resource agencies, and historic preservation and community cultural development organizations. To learn more about the M.A. in public humanities, please visit the program's website.

The M.A. program in public humanities is headquartered at the John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities and Cultural Heritage, 357 Benefit Street.

Mailing address:

John Nicholas Brown Center
Box 1880
Brown University
Providence, RI 02912

JNBC Phone: 401-863-1177

JNBC Fax: 401-863-7777

Questions about the program should be addressed to the program's director, Steven Lubar, at Steven_Lubar@brown.edu.

To get to the JNBC from the College Green, cross George Street and walk down Brown Street toward Power Street and the President’s House. When you reach Power Street, cross the street just in front of the President’s House and proceed down the hill on Power Street on the left-hand side. Just next to the President’s House driveway is a black gate in a brick fence. Proceed through the gate and walk down the path through the garden and around the front of the house to the courtyard entrance off of Williams Street.