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What is “public humanities”? Who does “public humanities”? The field is still trying to figure itself out. Here are some answers to the question:

American Council of Learned Societies Occasional Paper No. 11: National Task Force on Scholarship and the Public Humanities

National Endowment for the Humanities

UCSB Public Humanities Initiative

Some organizations that address aspects of the public humanities:

At Brown:

Resource Guide for Public Humanities

Swearer Center for Public Service

Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology

Elsewhere:

University of Michigan Arts of Citizenship Program

Center for the Study of Public Scholarship

Imagining America

And some related fields:

Public Sociology, at the American Sociological Society, Berkeley, and the Public Sociology blog

Oral History, at the Oral History Association and an oral history blog

Museums: the American Association of Museums

Public History: the National Council on Public History