Public Humanities Fellowship
The Public Humanities Fellows program is intended to help faculty communicate their scholarship in the humanities to a broad audience and to engage publics in the co-creation of humanistic knowledge.
Each fellowship awarded* comes with:
- funding to pursue professional development opportunities that will enhance their abilities to make their research or creative endeavors accessible and communicable to audiences beyond the academy
- a $2000 budget for relevant professional development expenses
- a $3000 stipend for their time
* in case of joint applications, these funds will be shared.
The fellowship will run through the academic year 2023-24, during which time fellows are expected to share their progress with the other members of their cohort. Fellows are expected to complete their project within 18 months after the fellowship term ends.
The fellowship is open to all Trinity faculty (including part-time faculty) who are working on a project in the arts and humanities, broadly defined.
2023-2024 Fellows
2022-2023 Fellows
2021-2022 Fellows
2020-2021 Fellows
Jenny Browne, M.F.A., English | Belfast Ekphrastic
Jenny will publish and publicly present Belfast Ekphrastic, a sequence of experimental ekphrastic poems, and a companion personal essay. During the Spring 2021 semester, she will also develop a collaborative ekphrastic poetry exchange between poetry students at Trinity and Queens University in Belfast.
Todd Barnett, Ph.D., History | The Career of Adolphus Busch
Todd is creating a traveling exhibit on the career of Adolphus Busch, the cofounder of the Anheuser-Busch Brewing Association. The exhibit will be used in conjunction with public talks at universities, businesses, and public spaces in several cities across the United States.
Andrew Kania, Ph.D., Philosophy | Taking Philosophy of Music to the Community
Andrew will introduce philosophical questions about music to a range of audiences outside the academy, targeting high school music students, music teachers, and classical music audiences by offering a series of classes at Reagan High School and Saint Mary’s Hall.
2019-2020 Fellows
Patrick Keating, Communication
Patrick created a video essay to accompany the release of his book, a close analysis of Alfonso Cuarón’s 2004 film Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. The video was presented to three audiences in the UK and published in Movie: A Journal of Film Criticism.
Habiba Noor, Education
Sarah Beth Kaufman, Sociology
Sarah and Habiba, with collaborators William Christ and Stacey Connelly, turned research into the performance To Be Honest: Voices on Islam in an American City.
Early in the year, just before COVID-19 changed everyone's plans, To Be Honest was presented in Fort Worth and Irving, Texas. The productions took place February 26 at Texas Christian University and February 28 as part of the Southwest Commission on Religious Studies 2020 Meeting.
Kathryn Vomero Santos, English
Kathryn produced a virtual public presentation about the innovative ways in which Latinx writers and theatermakers are translating and transforming the works of William Shakespeare. This roundtable conversation brought together five scholars actively working at the intersections of Shakespeare and borderland studies.