Full Description
The Scholar as Human brings together faculty from a wide range of disciplines—history; art; Africana, American, and Latinx studies; literature, law, performance and media arts, development sociology, anthropology, and Science and Technology Studies—to focus on how scholarship is informed, enlivened, deepened, and made more meaningful by each scholar's sense of identity, purpose, and place in the world. Designed to help model new paths for publicly-engaged humanities, the contributions to this groundbreaking volume are guided by one overarching question: How can scholars practice a more human scholarship?
Recognizing that colleges and universities must be more responsive to the needs of both their students and surrounding communities, the essays in The Scholar as Human carve out new space for public scholars and practitioners whose rigor and passion are equally important forces in their work. Challenging the approach to research and teaching of earlier generations that valorized disinterestedness, each contributor here demonstrates how they have energized their own scholarship and its reception among their students and in the wider world through a deeper engagement with their own life stories and humanity.
Contributors: Anna Sims Bartel, Debra A. Castillo, Ella Diaz, Carolina Osorio Gil, Christine Henseler, Caitlin Kane, Shawn McDaniel, A. T. Miller, Scott J. Peters, Bobby J. Smith II, José Ragas, Riché Richardson, Gerald Torres, Matthew Velasco, Sara Warner
Thanks to generous funding from Cornell University, the ebook editions of this book are available as Open Access volumes from Cornell Open (cornellpress.cornell.edu/cornell-open) and other repositories.
Contents
Introduction, by Anna Sims Bartel and Debra A. Castillo
Part I: Humanizing Scholars
1. Humans as Scholars,Scholars as Humans, by Anna Sims Bartel
2. To Be, or To Become? On Reading and Recognition, by Shawn McDaniel
3. Present: Humanity in the Humanities, by A. T. Miller
Part II: Engaging Artifacts
4. Humans Remain: Engaging Communities and Embracing Tensions in the Study of Ancient Human Skeletons, by Matthew Velasco
5. Forgotten Faces, Missing Bodies: Understanding "Techno-Invisible" Populations and Political Violence in Peru, by José Ragas
6. A Ride to New Futures with Rosa Parks: Producing Public Scholarship and Community Art, by Riché Richardson
Part III: Considering Resistance
7. Finding Humanity: Social Change on Our Own Terms, by Christine Henseler
8. Performing Democracy: Bad and Nasty Patriot Acts, by Sara Warner
9. Making Law, by Gerald Torres
10. What's It All Meme?, by Ella Diaz
Part IV: Using Humanity/ies
11. Performing the Past, Rehearsing the Future: Transformative Encounters with American Theater Company's Youth Ensemble, by Caitlin Kane
12. "From the Projects to the Pasture": Navigating Food Justice, Race, and Food Localism, by Bobby J. Smith II
13. "I Heard You Help People": Grassroots Advocacy for Latina/os in Need, by Debra A. Castillo and Carolina Osorio Gil
Afterword: The Prophetic Aspiration of the Scholar as Human, by Scott J. Peters
