Opening the Humanities to New Fields & New Voices
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9685635 |
|---|---|
| Authors | George J Sanchez (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 151 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 82-93 |
| Publication date | 2022-08-22 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Daedalus (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0011-5266 • E-ISSN: 1548-6192 |
| Publisher | MIT Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1162/daed_a_01930 |
| OpenAlex | W4292978669 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
This essay explores efforts to enact effective “public humanities” among humanities practitioners as the “public” in the United States is changing profoundly. In particular, it explores the creation of the Boyle Heights Museum in East Los Angeles as an attempt to bridge the gap in historical practice and outreach between an immigrant and Latino community with a team of faculty, doctoral, and undergraduate students from the University of Southern California. Building four historical exhibitions in the Boyle Heights community, this team is a reflection of the growing awareness of the need to establish new institutional practices in archiving and historical presentations that reach new immigrant communities. New PhD students are in search of approaches to historical training, publishing, and output that engage with these new publics. Our own survival in the humanities fields is increasingly dependent on reaching these publics and creating this diversity of the humanities
Art · Art history · Digital humanities · Diversity (politics · Exhibition · Humanities · Immigration · Media studies · Outreach · Political science · Public history · Public relations · Publics · Publishing · Sociology · Anthropology · Digital and Traditional Archives Management · History · Latin American and Latino Studies · Law · Museums and Cultural Heritage
| Citations per year | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |