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Bringing together interdisciplinary leaders in methodology and arts-based research (ABR), this comprehensive handbook explores the synergies between artistic and research practices and addresses issues in designing, implementing,... more
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      Fiction WritingSociologyPublic SociologyVisual Sociology
When Ivory Towers Were Black: A Story about Race in America's Cities and Universities is a longitudinal historical account of what was undoubtedly the most audacious effort in the nation to ride the 1960s wave of black power and transform... more
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      Ethnic StudiesArchitectureHigher EducationRace and Racism
This article examines attacks on black academics as an analytical apparatus for connecting histories of U.S. racial violence to the current state of white backlash against black advancement. Through an anatomy of these attacks – of which... more
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      Social MediaWhiteness StudiesPublic ScholarshipBlack Faculty Experiences
"When I Wear My Alligator Boots examines how the lives of dispossessed men and women are affected by the rise of narcotrafficking along the U.S.-Mexico border. In particular, the book explores a crucial tension at the heart of the “war on... more
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      Cultural StudiesHuman GeographyCultural GeographyAnthropology
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      ReligionIslamic StudiesIslamReligious Studies
Part 1 of a 3-part radio series on Diversity in American Evangelicalism, co-produced and co-reported with PRI's The World. Produced for a public scholarship project, funded by Sacred Writes and the Henry Luce Foundation.
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      American ReligionEvangelicalismReligious StudiesPublic Scholarship
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      Academic LibrariesSocial MediaPublic ScholarshipSocial media, digital media, news, representation of conflict, journalism, popular television, and identity.
This essay explores the shared characteristics of ecopedagogy, radical pedagogy, and critical public scholarship in order to explicate directional guideposts for scholars and students wishing to engage in promoting environmental and... more
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      Transformative LearningCritical PedagogyEnvironmental StudiesEnvironmental Communication
I40 NEW PUBLIC SCHOlARS spaces where knowledge is created in meaningful, connected, innovative, and disruptive ways. It has been 25 years since Ernest Boyer (1990) penned Scholarship Reconsidered , yet very few institutions have made the... more
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      Higher EducationProfessional DevelopmentTeachers' professional developmentLearning And Teaching In Higher Education
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      ReligionIslamic StudiesIslamReligious Studies
A single chapter of a title in Oxford Handbooks Online for personal use. This chapter looks at visual art campaigns, especially in the context of arts-based re search with an interest in public engagement. Art campaigns happen at the... more
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      Contemporary ArtVisual ArtsArts-Based ResearchEcojustice
The traditional business model of journalism is disintegrating. Meanwhile, the academy faces criticism over teaching quality and research relevance. Drawing on economics, communication, and journalism, we construct a modest proposal: that... more
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      EconomicsPublic AdministrationCommunicationRhetoric
Co-authored introduction for the issue Participatory Research for Visual Methodologies that highlights hybrid scholarship that came out of the Visual Scholarship Initiative at Emory University.
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      Participatory ResearchParticipatory Action ResearchInterdisciplinarityArtistic Research
Public scholarship aspires to bring social science home to the individuals, communities, and institutions that are its focus of study. In particular, it seeks to narrow the yawning gap between public perceptions and the best available... more
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      Public SociologyPublic CriminologyPublic Scholarship
Universities are increasingly becoming self-referential, reflective of neoliberal values and are abandoning commitments to the public interest. In response, there have been efforts to assert a "public scholarship" that can contribute to... more
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      Public SociologyGeographyParticipatory ResearchParticipatory Action Research
Human Rights and Social Justice Committee Intro to article by Mark Schuller Chair Human Rights and Social Justice Committee The Human Rights and Social Justice Committee is exploring policy options and best practices for how our... more
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      Applied, engaged, and public anthropologyCivil Society and the Public SphereCivic EngagementCultural Anthropology
We argue that part of Rhetoric & Public Affairs' future should center public-facing scholarship in rhetorical studies. We begin by chronicling some of the work colleagues are doing to bridge expert and lay publics: podcasts, popular and... more
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      RhetoricPublic IntellectualsPublic Scholarship
Criticisms have been levelled at academics at a time when funding of universities is increasingly tied to private and corporate purposes and when academics are held accountable through a hierarchy of functions. Claims are also made that... more
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      Community engagementPublic ScholarshipQualitative Research/academic Work
While newsmaking is regularly debated within criminology, few studies have examined why criminologists make news media appearances and how often they do so. Drawing on a dataset of 1,211 survey responses and 27 interviews, our study... more
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      Academic CapitalismPublic CriminologyPublic Scholarship
This article is both a discussion of public history and an exploration into the lack of Latinos in museums and humanities positions where culture and identity are collected and presented. Public history and museum studies make up a list... more
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      Museum StudiesPublic HistoryMuseums and IdentityMuseums and diversity
From those involved in the emergence of the modern environmental movement in the United States to those engaged in contemporary environmental controversies, there is a wealth of people who participated in and experienced these historical... more
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      Environmental StudiesEnvironmental CommunicationOral historyPublic Scholarship
Boyer (1996) noted that, just as the responsibilities of American higher education were expanding after World War II, the definition of scholarship began to narrow to focusing on the production of certain kinds of research and... more
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      Community Engagement & ParticipationService LearningCivic EngagementExperiential Learning
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      CommunicationAcademic WritingPoliticsPublic Scholarship
Recently, the debate about the external perception and relevance of media and communication science has gained momentum. Many researchers criticise that the discipline does not engage sufficiently in public debates and is hardly visible... more
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      JournalismScience CommunicationCommunication ScienceNewspaper
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      ReligionMiddle East StudiesIslamic StudiesMiddle Eastern Studies
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      Academic WritingPublic ScholarshipPublicly Engaged Scholarship
Apesar de serem muitas as análises sobre tendências do Ensino Superior no Brasil, sobre o nível de qualidade das instituições ou sobre políticas de cotas sociais ou raciais, são raras as investigações destinadas a melhor compreender a... more
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      Higher EducationSuccessful High School To College Transition For Students At Risk Of Dropping OutCollege AccessInclusive Education
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      CensorshipOpen AccessScholarly CommunicationAcademic Integrity
A far-reaching interview that covers arts-based research, fiction and nonfiction, studying women's lives, publishing advice, book contracts, and more.
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      Creative NonfictionFiction WritingSociologyPublic Sociology
The Iron Lattice, 2nd Edition "The Tourism Economy"
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      Tourism StudiesTourism economicsNew OrleansNew Orleans History
This essay considers the challenges of responding to the Sandusky child sex-abuse scandal while in the midst of said crisis. It discusses how the authors chose to respond as scholars and teachers of rhetoric concerned with deliberation.
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      CommunicationEducationRhetoricComposition and Rhetoric
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      Public SociologyAcademic WritingSTS (Anthropology)Public Scholarship
There is a critical shortage of scholars of Islam in North America. While Muslims make up close to a quarter of the world's population and Islam often dominates news headlines, academic expertise of this global faith is severely lacking.... more
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      Digital HumanitiesPedagogyIslamic StudiesMultimedia Learning
in PUBLIC BENEFITS OF ARCHAEOLOGY, Barbara Little, ed., Gainesville: University Press of Florida, (2002) pp. 244-251.
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      Academic WritingScholarly PublishingPublic ScholarshipArchaeological Communication
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      Education PolicyPublic SphereJohn DeweyEducational Equity and Justice
A key way to engage the public in university research is by informing them of its results. This presentation will examine some of writing strategies university researchers can use to introduce their work to the public. It will contrast... more
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      Community Engagement & ParticipationAcademic WritingWritingPublic Engagement
As covered in the Black Press Media in Sept. 2020. Here from the Oak Bay News.
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      Canadian StudiesTeaching English as a Second LanguageLanguages and LinguisticsSociolinguistics
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      Public IntellectualsPublic Scholarship
A comprehensive, highly accessible introduction to arts-based research (ABR), this widely used text provides a practical guide for researchers who want to uncover information that traditional methods cannot capture. Patricia Leavy... more
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      Creative WritingFiction WritingNeurosciencePublic Sociology
Labour of Love: An Open Access Manifesto for Freedom, Integrity, and Creativity in the Humanities and Interpretive Social Sciences, is the result of an LSE Research Infrastructure and Investment–funded workshop entitled Academic Freedom,... more
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      CensorshipOpen AccessScholarly CommunicationAcademic Integrity
In 2008, while doing a PhD in anthropology in Milan, I edited a special issue of the journal Antropologia, an issue dedicated to the topic of justice. Among the different contributions were essays from Simon Roberts, Unni Wikan, Ugo... more
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      EthnographyApplied, engaged, and public anthropologyLegal AnthropologyEthnographic Methods
Many Humanities scholars seem to have become increasingly pessimistic due to a lack of success in their efforts to be recognized as a serious player next to their science, technology, engineering, and maths (STEM) colleagues. This appears... more
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      Open AccessMedieval StudiesMedievalismOld Norse Literature
A Clash of Critics is a public-facing scholarly podcast about HBO's Game of Thrones and A Song of Ice and Fire by George R. R. Martin. It is hosted by Mia Harrison and Scott Webster.
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      Popular CulturePodcastingFandomPublic Scholarship
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      JournalismSocial ActivismAdvocacy and ActivismPublic Scholarship
Un comentario en el New York Times sobre el rearme de un bando de las FARC liderado por Iván Márquez.
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      Latin American StudiesApplied, engaged, and public anthropologyColombiaPublic Scholarship
This article by Carl W. Ernst appears in a Special Section of the MESA Review of Middle East Studies edited by Shafique N. Virani entitled "Speaking Truth Beyond the Tower: Academics of Islam Engaging in the Public Sphere." An... more
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      PedagogyIslamic StudiesIslamophobiaPublic Scholarship
The fundamental problem -a problem of a political nature, and colored by ideological hues -is who chooses the content, and on behalf of which persons and things the 'chooser's' teaching will be performed -in favor of whom, against whom,... more
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      Critical TheoryIntellectual HistoryCultural HistoryCultural Studies
In the context of modern technologies, “public” and “digital” scholarship are inextricably linked. The possibilities for openness offered by digital tools increase the pressure to make research more accessible, posing questions about the... more
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      SociologyDigital HumanitiesCurriculum DesignDigital Pedagogy
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      Gender StudiesQueer StudiesQueer HistoryPublic Scholarship