Students explore material culture and its impact upon the environment mostly in the United States from colonization through the Industrial Revolution and the 20th century. …
This course explores cultural institutions as an organizational system. Students will emerge with an understanding of the realities of the managerial, governance, funding and financial …
What happened to Providence's Chinatown? In this week's episode we talk to Angela Yuanyuan Feng and Julieanne Fontana, two Master's Students in Public Humanities at …
Learn all about museums in Shanghai from our latest episode, which features a conversation between Public Humanities graduate student Zhuohan (Bella) Jiang and Susan Smulyan, …
How are artists and performers finding creative uses for archival materials? On our latest episode we’re joined by Kate Duffy, a doctoral candidate in American …
What role does folklore play in modern life? What is folklore, anyway? In this episode, Amelia Golcheski interviews West Virginia state folklorist Emily Hilliard to …
What is moonhaus? Find out in our conversation with Rica Maestas and Julia Renaud, the hosts behind a recent installation and event series that invited …
Every museum has its own unique soundtrack. This week on Public Work, Ruby Thiagarajan, a first-year Master’s Student in Public Humanities at Brown University, talks …
This Public Humanities seminar (cross-listed with Urban Studies and History of Art and Architecture) presents tools for urban analysis. It introduces the students to knowledge …
Multimedia slideshow with stories about Mashapaug Pond, created by students in AMST1903G, Oral History and Community Memory, for the December 2011 exhibit, Reservoir of Memories.
This graduate seminar considers some of the big questions in the public humanities to understand the choices made in preserving, interpreting, creating, and presenting art, …
Course Overview: This seminar will examine historic house museums within the context of American culture from their beginnings as secular and civic shrines; to their …