Year in Review NHA Board of Directors

OFFICERS: NHA STAFF James Grossman President Daniel Fisher Executive Director, American Historical Association Project Director Teresa Mangum Vice President [email protected] Director, Obermann Center for Advanced Studies at the University of Iowa Beatrice Gurwitz Deputy Director Paula Krebs Treasurer [email protected] Executive Director, Modern Language Association Ben Vinson III Secretary Cecily Erin Hill Provost, Case Western Reserve University Director of Community Initiatives David Marshall Immediate Past President [email protected] Executive Vice Chancellor, University of California, Santa Barbara Stephen Kidd Executive Director DIRECTORS: [email protected] Mary Sue Coleman Alexandra Klein President, Association of American Universities Communications Manager Joy Connolly [email protected] President, American Council of Learned Societies Emily McDonald Amy Ferrer Manager of Community Research Executive Director, American Philosophical Association [email protected] Lena Hill Scott Muir Dean of the College, Washington and Lee University Project Director Tracey Hucks [email protected] Provost and Dean of Faculty, Colgate University Younger Oliver Frederick Lawrence Secretary, Phi Beta Kappa Society Research Associate [email protected] Ed Liebow Executive Director, American Anthropological Association Kassandra Wahlstrom Esther Mackintosh Membership and Events Coordinator President, Federation of State Humanities Councils [email protected] Deanna Marcum Senior Advisor, Ithaka S+R Tania Munz Chief Program Officer, American Academy of Arts and Sciences Timothy Murray Director, Cornell Council for the Arts, Cornell University Lynn Pasquerella President, American Association of Colleges & Universities Andrew Rusnak Executive Director, Community College Humanities Association Rick Spees Executive Director, Council of American Overseas Research Centers Michael Witmore Director, Folger Shakespeare Library

2 | 2019 NATIONAL HUMANITIES ALLIANCE YEAR IN REVIEW LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT

Dear NHA Members and Supporters, Representing the humanities is an audacious venture. Disagreements regarding the role, scope, and values of humanistic thinking in public life are fundamental to humanities disciplines themselves. If we didn’t disagree, we would be doing the humanities a disservice. All well and good from an academic perspective. Or even from the vantage point of The National public humanities spaces that have stimulated conversation and debate for Humanities Alliance centuries, from coffee houses to mechanics institutes, athenaeums, and libraries. speaks for this unruly The survival and flourishing of such spaces, however, requires institutions that landscape of publicly- promote and nourish humanistic activity. Multivocal public culture is one thing; effective institution building and sustainability can be quite another, requiring supported humanities organizations that can say to wielders of power and custodians of resources that in the United States. humanistic activity is worth the resources it requires—even if we can’t agree on a We promote everyone’s working definition of “humanistic activity.” work, across a broad The National Humanities Alliance speaks for this unruly landscape of publicly- political, interpretive, supported humanities in the United States. We promote everyone’s work, across a and aesthetic broad political, interpretive, and aesthetic spectrum, seeing our purpose less as spectrum, seeing our commentary than documentary. purpose less as We need your support to do this work. The accomplishments summarized in this commentary than Review require participants in Humanities Advocacy Day, institutional members, and documentary. individual donors. Write to your representatives or show up at their local offices. Participate in the cornucopia of activities supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, colleges and universities, and state humanities councils. These resources are mobilized by energetic staff led by executive director Stephen Kidd. The NHA’s board of directors congratulates them on a year worth reviewing, with gratitude for the hard work required to speak with one effective voice about so many important issues.

Sincerely,

Jim Grossman President

2019 NATIONAL HUMANITIES ALLIANCE YEAR IN REVIEW | 3 LETTER FROM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Dear NHA Members and Supporters,

NHA’s network of members has grown in recent years, bringing more advocates to our work to promote the humanities on campuses, in communities, and on Capitol Hill. Further, with the generous support of The Andrew W. Mellon We are proud to Foundation for our NEH for All, Humanities for All, and Study the Humanities learn about your initiatives we have connected with even more humanities organizations and work, tell the institutions across the country. story of its As the following pages demonstrate, many of you are finding creative ways to impact, and recruit more students to the humanities and engage communities in humanities share your research, programming, and preservation. We are proud to learn about your work, knowledge to the tell the story of its impact, and share your knowledge to the benefit of the entire humanities community. benefit of the entire The year ended with especially good news for federal funding for the humanities as humanities Congress provided the biggest funding increase to the National Endowment for the Humanities in a decade, as well as more modest increases for many other community. humanities funding streams. Humanities advocates paved the way for these increases by joining us for Humanities Advocacy Day, contacting their elected officials from afar, and sharing their stories through Capitol Hill testimony, briefings, and our in-district meetings with Members of Congress.

We look forward to working with you in the coming year!

Sincerely,

Stephen Kidd Executive Director

4 | 2019 NATIONAL HUMANITIES ALLIANCE YEAR IN REVIEW Nicole Hall introduced the Liberal Arts Advantage, a partnership between the career services office and the Humanities Network & Consortium at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

Photo: Morrison Photography Making the Case on Campuses Over the past year, we expanded our efforts to support administrators and faculty in making the case for the value of the humanities on campuses. We have worked to better understand the challenges of recruiting students to the humanities and offered a variety of tools to confront these challenges. We have also enhanced the capacity of publicly engaged scholars to carry out their work and make the case for it.

2019 NATIONAL HUMANITIES ALLIANCE YEAR IN REVIEW | 5 MAKING THE CASE ON CAMPUSES

Supporting Humanities Recruitment Efforts Over the past year, we expanded our efforts to support administrators and faculty in making the case for the value of the humanities on campuses.

At the NHA Annual Meeting, we showcased successful initiatives to attract students to the humanities. Barbara Will, pictured here, shared strategies aimed at prospective and admitted students at Dartmouth College.

Photo: Morrison Photography

Humanities Recruitment Survey In 2019, we launched the Humanities Recruitment Survey to better understand challenges faculty and administrators are facing in recruiting students to the humanities and how they are addressing these challenges.

Student concern “Through more engagement about job prospects 397 through clubs, speakers, was identified as the Responses and intentional recruiting, top challenge to the number of philosophy recruiting students to majors has gone from 20 to the humanities. 294 90 in five years.” Institutions —Appalachian State University

Our Study the Humanities initiative supports faculty and administrators in making the case for studying the humanities as an undergraduate. Learn more at studythehumanities.org.

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Documenting the Impact of Humanities Recruitment Efforts Through partnerships with faculty and administrators, we documented the impact of particular programs, courses, and assignments on perceptions of the humanities.

“[The “There are many career paths for humanities majors— historian, social worker, teacher, humanities judge, senator, and many more. are] more Being a humanities major interesting than will prepare you for I thought.” these types of jobs.” 91% —Undergraduate student —Post-survey response, Vanguard University’s Humanities Summer Bridge Program of respondents after creating a profile for Clio, a local history app in Vanguard University’s humanities summer bridge program were “aware of how skills in the humanities are useful in jobs” following the program. PARTNER TESTIMONIAL “NHA’s customized pre- and post-program survey has helped us have qualitative and quantitative data that demonstrate the effectiveness of our new program, which is helpful in conversations with both internal and external stakeholders.”

—Kristen McCabe Lashua, Vanguard University

“I would say that [this assignment] definitely has opened my eyes up to what current trends are in the humanities, as well as the ever-expanding range of things scholars and people of the humanities do in the real world.”

—Undergraduate student after creating a Photo: Courtesy of Clio profile for Clio, a local history app

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Building Support for the Publicly Engaged Humanities on Campuses Through convenings and the development of resources, we supported publicly engaged scholars in carrying out their work and building a university environment that recognizes its value.

Publishing and the Publicly Engaged Humanities Whiting Fellows This free-access collection of articles and book chapters produced in Workshop partnership with Routledge, Taylor & Francis shows how public engagement can lead to—and enhance—publication in a wide To support publicly range of journals and books. engaged scholars across the United States, we collaborated with the Whiting Foundation to design and facilitate >20,000 >290,000 a workshop in May. clicks impressions The workshop explored the on the via social media experiences of collection planning, executing, page and sustaining publicly engaged humanities work with the Whiting Foundation’s Public Humanities Fellows.

Supporting Productive Partnerships In August, we published a new essay that explores the central role that partnerships with community organizations and institutions play in publicly engaged humanities work.

Our Humanities for All initiative documents, promotes, and builds capacity for publicly engaged humanities work in U.S. higher education. Learn more at humanitiesforall.org.

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Catalyzing Culture Change Workshop The Pre-Conference Workshop at the 2019 National Humanities Conference in Honolulu brought administrators and scholars together to explore ways to better support publicly engaged work in higher education.

“As an administrator in the Office of Research at the “The 2019 University of Cincinnati (a Pre-Conference public, urban R1 university) Workshop in Honolulu the workshop exercises 97% was perhaps the single yielded valuable, actionable most constructive information and opened my of survey session I’ve participated mind to a number of new respondents in at any conference. ways that my office can would be interested in Thank you for so help break down barriers to participating in a similar masterfully planning it.” publicly engaged workshop again. —Rachel Arteaga, University of humanities at the University Washington, Simpson Center of Cincinnati.” —Jennifer Krivickas, University of Cincinnati

“The National Humanities Conference’s Catalyzing Culture Change workshop provided a much- needed critical space for a diverse cross-section of professionals in and outside of academia to coalesce around issues that concern and excite us about this work. My only criticism is that the session should have been longer.”

—Rolando Herts, Delta Center for Culture and Learning, Delta State University

2019 NATIONAL HUMANITIES ALLIANCE YEAR IN REVIEW | 9 Participants in the Providence Clemente Veterans’ Initiative visited the Rhode Island School of Design Museum.

Photo: Courtesy of the Providence Clemente Veterans’ Initiative Making the Case in Communities In 2019, we ramped up our research partnerships to capture the impact of the humanities on individuals and communities across the country. Leveraging this research, we have supported advocates in making the case for the public impact of the humanities and raised the visibility of that impact through local media.

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Documenting Impact 57 In partnership with higher education and cultural institutions across the surveys country, we developed surveys to document the impact of humanities developed in partnership programs on communities and individuals. with higher ed and cultural institutions Thank you to our research partners!

Arkansas State University – Georgia College Ohio University Johnny Cash Historic Hudson Valley Pocumtuck Valley Heritage Festival Hood College Memorial Association Berea College Indiana University – Rhode Island Latino Arts Bergen Community College Purdue University Indianapolis Theatre for a New Audience Bowdoin College Jefferson Community College Tuskegee University Bowling Green State University The Mastheads University of California, Berkeley Cal Poly Pomona Montana State University, Billings University of California, Davis Clio Museum of Chinese in America University of Massachusetts The Clemente Course (MOCA) Amherst David J. Drakulich Foundation National Humanities Center University of Texas at El Paso Delta State University National Veterans Art Museum – University of Texas at San Antonio – Emerging America University of Illinois at Chicago Our Lady of the Lake University New-York Historical Society Vanguard University

Supporting Veterans Working with The Clemente Course, Jefferson Community College, and Ohio University, we documented the impact of four Dialogues on the Experience of War programs. Funded by the NEH, these programs bring reading and discussion programs to veterans and 91% their communities. of participants felt the humanities materials “During one of the conversations, a used in their courses helped them better understand their Vietnam Vet was telling us about his experiences. experience when he stopped mid- sentence and said, ‘wow I haven't even told my kids this.’ That was a moment where I felt that this group/program had begun to meet its goal of giving veterans a space to talk but also a place that civilians can listen and understand what veterans go through both in theater and when they return home.”

—Survey respondent Photo: Courtesy of Jefferson Community College

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Inspiring Community Pride Surveys of The Mastheads’ summer public humanities programming in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, demonstrated that the organization is fostering community pride and connection.

“This is just what Pittsfield needs. Thank you so much!” —Survey Respondent

100% of respondents agreed that they “take pride in the fact that this program is being

Photos: Courtesy of The Mastheads held in Pittsfield.”

PARTNER TESTIMONIAL “Through multiple conversations where the NHA team listened deeply to our goals and asked pointed questions to unpack areas that we were uncertain about, we crafted a partnership that provided us with valuable tools to produce evidence for the impact of our work. When we were too busy with the work on the ground to reach out for support, the NHA team reached out to us, continually providing reliable and meaningful input, helping us to track and quantify our results, and ultimately producing a series of surveys and a culminating project report that we will continue to use to promote and grow our project for years to come.” —Tessa Kelly, The Mastheads

Our NEH for All initiative documents and communicates the impact of the NEH on communities, organizations, and individuals throughout the country. Learn more at nehforall.org.

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Communicating Impact

New Resources for Advocates Based on our research, we created new resources for advocates, telling the story of compelling NEH grants and mapping the geographic reach of NEH programs.

89 180 7 new profiles of NEH grantees new interactive maps NEH-funded received our showcasing the reach of programs on media outreach national public programs, NEHforAll.org toolkit local newspaper digitization efforts, and summer An interactive map showcasing the professional development newspapers that have been digitized for K-12 teachers through the NEH's Chronicling America program

Media Engagement By placing op-eds in local media markets and supporting NEH grantees with their press outreach, we raised the visibility of NEH grants on a local level.

“The High Desert Museum is PARTNER TESTIMONIAL committed to celebrating the region’s communities. With NEH “With guidance from the funding, the eventual National Humanities reinstallation of ‘By Hand Alliance, we have developed Through Memory’ will ensure new communications strategies to highlight NEH- that the museum continues to funded projects in the serve the region with exhibitions communities they serve. and programs that meet the We have built a more robust highest national standards.” advocacy network to —Stephen Kidd, The Bend Bulletin, April 2019 encourage conservation professionals to speak up on issues that affect them. “By sharing my first-person The vision provided by the experience, I provide a much National Humanities Alliance richer experience for my has been essential in students ... NEH programs allow bolstering our efforts, and teachers like me the opportunity to their influence is clear ‘go’ and to ‘know’ in order to lead and across the broader to teach.” humanities community.” —Elaine Temel, NEH Program Participant, —Eryl Wentworth, American Institute for The Westerly Sun, July 2019 Conservation and Foundation for Advancement in Conservation

2019 NATIONAL HUMANITIES ALLIANCE YEAR IN REVIEW | 13 Bonnie Lynn-Sherow of Kansas State University made the case for the value of federal humanities funding on Humanities Advocacy Day.

Photo: Morrison Photography Making the Case on Capitol Hill Through engagements on Capitol Hill and around the country, we ensured that Members of Congress and their staff heard directly from their constituents on the impact of the humanities. These efforts have built robust support on the Hill and led to the largest funding increase for the NEH in a decade.

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Humanities Advocacy Day With a record-breaking 287 meetings, 184 advocates from 41 states visited congressional offices to make the case for the humanities.

175 The record-breaking number of representatives who signed onto a letter supporting a robust increase for the NEH.

106 The record-breaking number of representatives who signed onto a letter supporting increased funding for the Department of Education’s international education programs (Title VI and Fulbright-Hays).

Photo: Morrison Photography

This year, we awarded the Sidney R. Yates Award for Distinguished Public Service to the Humanities to Rep. Betty McCollum (D-MN) and Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) for their continued leadership in support of the humanities.

Sen. Murkowski, chair of the Senate Interior Appropriations Rep. McCollum, chair of the House Interior Subcommittee, has been a committed supporter of both the NEH and Appropriations Subcommittee, has been a the Alaska Humanities Forum and the role they play in preserving Native steadfast and eloquent ally for the NEH. cultural heritage and supporting veterans. Photo: Morrison Photography Photo: Morrison Photography

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Congressional Testimony When the House Interior Appropriations Subcommittee requested public witness testimony on the NEH, we collaborated with the Foundation for Advancement in Conservation (FAIC) to highlight NEH support for disaster preparedness and recovery.

NEH funding supports local Alliances for Response, The NEH supports rapid response after national disasters. which bring together cultural workers and emergency In Puerto Rico, conservators rushed to save books and response personnel to prepare for disaster. other objects damaged during Hurricane Maria in 2017. Photo: Courtesy of FAIC Photo: Courtesy of FAIC

Engaging Members of Congress In District Through meetings in congressional districts, we convened representatives from colleges, universities, museums, libraries, and archives to educate Members of Congress and their staff on the local impact of the humanities.

In collaboration with the University of Iowa, we gathered representatives from the humanities community across Iowa to meet with congressional staffers and discuss the impact of the humanities in Iowa’s communities.

Photo: Joe Photo

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Capitol Hill Briefings Through four briefings on Capitol Hill, we introduced members of Congress and their staff to the impact of NEH investments in humanities research, cultural heritage preservation, and in programs that support veterans.

We partnered with Hagley Museum and Library to present an exhibition- style briefing that showcased Hagley’s collections and the NEH’s role in preserving cultural heritage. Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE) and Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) served as honorary co-hosts of the event.

349 congressional staff receive our National Humanities Newsletter each month, updating them on humanities news and NEH We partnered with and state council grants. Jefferson Community College to highlight how the NEH’s Dialogues on the Experience of War programs serve veterans. Reps. Chellie Pingree (D-ME), David Price (D-NC), Elise Stefanik (R-NY), and Steve Stivers (R-OH) served as honorary co-hosts of the event.

2019 NATIONAL HUMANITIES ALLIANCE YEAR IN REVIEW | 17 Rolando Herts discussed his efforts to document and communicate the impact of The Most Southern Place on Earth, an NEH-funded summer program for K-12 teachers.

Photo: Morrison Photography Convening the Humanities Community Through our two yearly events and engagements with our members throughout 2019, we explored new approaches to advocacy on campuses, in communities, and on Capitol Hill.

18 | 2019 NATIONAL HUMANITIES ALLIANCE YEAR IN REVIEW CONVENING THE HUMANITIES COMMUNITY

NHA Annual Meeting The 2019 Annual Meeting delved into year-round advocacy while preparing advocates for visits to Capitol Hill.

Through a variety of workshops, Annual Meeting attendees Mariët Westermann of The Andrew W. Mellon delved into strategies for recruiting students to the humanities, Foundation delivered a luncheon address entitled learned about new approaches to documenting the impact of “Bright Patches in Grey Clouds,” which highlighted humanities programs, and honed pitches for the value of the reasons for optimism amidst discussions of a crisis in humanities on campuses and in communities. the humanities. Photo: Morrison Photography Photo: Morrison Photography

To ensure that humanities advocates felt well-prepared to advocate on Capitol Hill, we offered a wide range of resources on the impact of federal funding for the humanities and the appropriations process.

“[I] felt very well prepared for the meetings with all the materials and trainings we were given leading up to them, and I believe overall we were able to have a positive impact.” —Survey Respondent

Photo: Morrison Photography

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National Humanities Conference The 2019 National Humanities Conference in Honolulu, hosted in collaboration with the Federation of State Humanities Councils, delved into the cultural heritage of Oceania and approaches to deepening the public’s engagement with the humanities.

Participants in the offsite session NEH Chairman “Returning to Our Jon Parrish Roots: Cultivating Peede addressed Place and the conference Community through emphasizing the the Power of Food” value of civics at the Ho'oulu 'Āina education and Nature Preserve the importance discussed of a national connections commitment to between food, the humanities health, culture, and the environment Photo: Kevin Chun

Photo: Kevin Chun

“This conference is fantastic. The thing about it “I love coming to this that I like the most is being able to connect with conference because of its the councils ... For me, it’s a really rejuvenating vibrant community and and empowering exercise in remembering who because it makes me feel the humanities are for, and that is not just for hopeful about the state of the our members but for everybody.” humanities in our nation.” —Paula Krebs, Modern Language Association —Irena Polic, UC Santa Cruz

“The Navigators’ Water: Traditional Seafaring in the Jonathan and Pacific” featured Jamaica Osorio of Bonnie Kahape'a- the University_ of Tanner, Cecilio Hawai'i at Manoa Raiukiulipiy, and delivered the Milton Coleman Jr., Capps Lecture, three traditional integrating music navigators who are and poetry into an working to exploration of revitalize the art of Native Hawaiian Pacific wayfinding culture and their within communities own stories. on O'ahu, Saipan, and Satawal. Photo: Kevin Chun

Photo: Kevin Chun

20 | 2019 NATIONAL HUMANITIES ALLIANCE YEAR IN REVIEW We are grateful to The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for its generous support of the National Humanities Alliance Foundation for NEH for All, Humanities for All, and Study the Humanities.

Thank you to all of our 2019 Annual Meeting and Humanities Advocacy Day Sponsors Lead Sponsor: Silver Sponsors: Council of Colleges of Arts & Sciences The Phi Beta Kappa Society American Alliance of Museums Council on Undergraduate Research American Schools of Oriental Research Federation of State Humanities Councils Capitol Hill Organization of American Historians German Studies Association Reception Sponsor: The Society for Classical Studies Kaplan Humanities Institute at HISTORY American Academy of Religion Northwestern University American Anthropological Association National Communication Association Gold Sponsors: American Historical Association National Humanities Center American Council of Learned American Institutes for Conservation Northeastern University – College of Social Societies American Philosophical Association Sciences and Humanities Association of American American Political Science Association Simpson Center for the Humanities – Colleges & Universities University of Washington American Sociological Association Association of University UConn Humanities Institute and Association of Art Museum Directors Presses College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Association of Public and Land-grant Universities University of Delaware, University of Arkansas Dept. of History College of Arts and Sciences Association of Research Libraries University of Iowa Obermann Vanderbilt University Boston University Center for Advanced Studies College of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Maryland, George Mason University College of Arts & Humanities Community College Humanities Association University of Oregon – Council of American Overseas Research Centers Oregon Humanities Center

Thank you to our 2019 National Humanities Conference Sponsors Lead Partner: Friend: Supporter: Pacific Historic Parks Humanities Guåhan Shangri La Museum of Islamic Art, Sidney Stern Memorial Trust Routledge, Taylor & Francis Culture & Design University of Guam Association of University Presses Matson College of Arts and Humanities,_ University of Hawai'i at Manoa Donors Ava Abramowitz and Anne Cressey Judith Goodman Thomas Kosinski Vivian Patraka Jonathan Soffer Neil Rackham Raffaella Cribiore Briann Greenfield Paula Krebs David Pettyjohn Tom Sparrow Susan Abramowitz and Jonathan Crist Daniel Greenspahn Frederick Lawrence Paul Ramirez John Stalvey Aaron Gurwitz Richard Davis James Grossman Louis Levine Michael Reifman Francine Stein Nicholas Allen Andrea De Tienne Beatrice Gurwitz Ethan Levisohn Angelita Reyes Jennifer Swann Elena Anderson Hasia Diner Sarah Gurwitz Leslie Lieberman Henry Richardson Julie Tallent Sara Anderson Lillian Doherty John Hammer Edward Liebow Malcolm Richardson Colin Turner Rebecca Anhang Price Theresa Donofrio Amanda Hayes Bernardita Llanos Sue Roberts Jessica Unger Emily Appelbaum Nathan Eckstrand Aaron Heinsman Jamie Lobstein Donald Rogers Matt Van Hoose Noah Arnow Ken Egan Anthony Helm James Loeffler Matthew Roller Andrew Vaughn Wynne Bacon Diane Favro Rachel Herbert Jennifer Lopatin L Ross Ben Vinson III Daphna Berman Amy Ferrer Cecily Hill William Lowe Mark Ryan Katherine Walter David Berry Bryan Feuer Kristin Hoganson Amy Lowenthal Beverly Sanford Joshua Wilkenfeld Geoffrey Block Daniel Fisher Jonathan Holloway Esther Mackintosh Mildred Schwartz Jennifer Willging Stephanie Bosch Randi Fisher Lauren Holtzblatt Lucy MacPhail Carolyn Scott Michael Witmore Robert Bowen John Gabriel Ann Huppert John Majewski Pamela Scully Rega Wood Kirk Boyle Kathleen Gallagher Maria Iacullo-Bird Teresa Mangum Jonathan Segal Kathleen Woodward John Paul Christy Eric Gardner Helena Kazhdan David Marshall Sarah Shapiro Elizabeth Wright Naomi Collins Andrea Glenn Misha Kazhdan Alexander Mathas Rona Sheramy Amy Yeager Joy Connolly Stephanie Glenn Stephen and Nancy Jeff and Doris Muir Crandall Shifflett Pauline Yu Jonathan Coopersmith Jeffrey Glover Kidd Christina Muller Rita Sloan Froma Zeitlin Raymond Cormier Jennifer Gonzalez Peter Knox Jacob Nyenhuis Robin Smith Jo-Ellen Zeitlin

2019 NATIONAL HUMANITIES ALLIANCE YEAR IN REVIEW | 21 Photo: Kevin Chun Members We are especially grateful to our members for promoting humanities advocacy throughout the year.

ACTIVE MEMBERS: Association of College & Dartmouth College Lehigh University Research Libraries Agnes Scott College Dixie State University Linguistic Society of America Association of Public Doreen B. Townsend Center for Loyola Marymount University Alice Kaplan Institute for the and Land-grant Universities Humanities at Northwestern the Humanities at UC Berkeley Marshall University* University Association of Research Drexel University, College Libraries Maryland Institute American Academy of Arts and of Arts and Sciences* College of Art* Sciences Association of University Duke University Presses Massachusetts American Academy of Religion Duquesne University Institute of Technology Barnard College American Anthropological Emory University Miami University Association Binghamton University Fairfield University – Michigan State University American Council Boston University Humanities Institute of Learned Societies Middle East Studies Association Brown University Federation of American Folklore Society Middlebury College Bryn Mawr College* State Humanities Councils American Historical Association Midwest Political Science Bucknell University Florida A&M University Association American Institute for California State University, Fordham University Conservation of Historic & Modern Language Association Dominguez Hills Artistic Works Franklin & Marshall College of America California State University, American Musicological Society George Mason University Montana State University San Bernardino* American Philosophical George Washington University Muhlenberg College* California State University, Association Northridge Georgetown University National Communication American Political Science Association Carthage College* Georgia College* Association National Council of Case Western Reserve Gilder Lehrman Institute of American Schools of Oriental Teachers of English University American History Research National Humanities Center Colgate University Grinnell College American Society for Aesthetics New York University Center for College Art Association Harvard University American Sociological the Humanities Association Colorado College Haverford College North Carolina State University American Studies Association Colorado State University – Hendrix College Northeast Document Pueblo* American University* History of Science Society Conservation Center Columbia University Amherst College Independent Research Ohio Conference American Community College Libraries Association Association of University Appalachian State University* Humanities Association Professors* Indiana University Arizona State University Connecticut College Ohio State University Institute for the Humanities at Association for Asian Studies Conservation Center for the University of Michigan Omohundro Institute of Early Association for Art and Historic Artifacts American History and Culture Ithaka S+R Documentary Editing Cornell University Organization of Johns Hopkins University Association for Jewish Studies American Historians Council of American Overseas Kansas State University Association of American Research Centers Phi Beta Kappa Society Colleges and Universities Council of Colleges of Latin American Studies Pima Community College Arts and Sciences Association Association of Pomona College American Law Schools Council of Independent Colleges Law and Society Association* Princeton Theological Seminary Association of American Creighton University* Le Moyne College* Universities Princeton University

New members denoted with *

22 | 2019 NATIONAL HUMANITIES ALLIANCE YEAR IN REVIEW Photos: Kevin Chun Purdue University University of California, Irvine Vanderbilt University International Center College of Liberal Arts of Medieval Art University of California, Vassar College Renaissance Society of America Los Angeles Medieval Academy of America Virginia Foundation Rice University University of California, Merced for the Humanities National Council on Public History Rockefeller Archive Center University of California, San Wabash College Diego Institute of Arts and North American Conference on Rutgers, The State University Washington and Lee University Humanities British Studies of New Jersey Washington University University of California, Northeastern University San Diego State University, in St. Louis Santa Barbara Humanities Center College of Arts and Letters and Wellesley College Love Library University of California, Oral History Association Santa Cruz Wesleyan University Scripps College Pearce Shakespeare University of Cincinnati West Virginia University Endowment/Shakespeare Sewanee – at Rhodes University of the South University of Delaware Westchester Community College* Society for Cinema Shakespeare Association University of Florida, College of and Media Studies of America Liberal Arts and Sciences Western Michigan University Society for Ethnomusicology Shepherd University University of Houston Willson Center for Humanities & Arts at the University of Georgia Society for Music Theory Simpson Center for the University of Illinois at Chicago Humanities at the University of Worcester Polytechnic Institute Society of Architectural University of Illinois at Washington Historians Urbana – Champaign Yale University Smith College Wake Forest University University of Iowa Humanities Institute Society for Classical Studies University of Maryland Society for Military History Baltimore County ASSOCIATE MEMBERS: Society of Biblical Literature University of Maryland, African Studies Association College Park Southern Utah University* American Association for State University of Minnesota and Local History Southwestern University University of Nebraska – Lincoln American Classical League Stanford Humanities Center University of Nevada, Reno American Comparative Stockton University Literature Association University of North Carolina Stonehill College at Chapel Hill American Society for Theatre Swarthmore College Research University of North Carolina Syracuse University at Greensboro Association of Art Museum Directors Temple University University of Notre Dame Center for the Humanities at the Texas A&M University University of Oklahoma University of Miami The College of New Jersey* University of Oregon Classical Association of the The Graduate Center CUNY University of Pennsylvania Middle West and South The National Civil Rights University of Pittsburgh The Clemente Course in the Museum Humanities University of Richmond The University of Tennessee Council on Library and University of Rochester Humanities Center Information Resources University of Southern California Trinity College Dictionary Society of North University of Texas Permian America Trinity University* Basin German Studies Association Tulane University* University of Texas at Dallas Hall Center for the Humanities Tuskegee University* University of Texas San Antonio* at the University of Kansas University of Alabama University of Utah Humanities Institute at Penn University of Arizona State University University of Wisconsin, University of Arkansas Madison Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis Arts & University of California, Davis University of Wyoming Humanities Institute

2019 NATIONAL HUMANITIES ALLIANCE YEAR IN REVIEW | 23 THE NATIONAL HUMANITIES ALLIANCE (NHA) is a nationwide coalition of organizations advocating for the humanities on campuses, in communities, and on Capitol Hill. Founded in 1981, NHA is supported by over 220 member organizations, including: colleges, universities, libraries, museums, cultural organizations, state humanities councils, and scholarly, professional, and higher education associations. It is the only organization that brings together the U.S. humanities community as a whole.

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