ISI Seminar 2012-2013

In its inaugural year the newly established Interdisciplinary Studies Institute (ISI) takes up the legacy of W.E. B. Du Bois for its first seminar entitled ‘Engagement: The Challenge of Public Scholarship’. Following in Du Bois’s footsteps, we’d like to consider what public engagement means to us today, in whatever fields we explore, whether in the humanities, arts, social sciences, or natural sciences. What does it mean to be an engaged scholar or artist? What lines do we cross over—or open up—when we transfer our spheres of learning and dissemination from the academic to the public? What examples do great public intellectuals and artists give us, what problems have they had to confront? 

Fellows

Jane Anderson
Anthropology

Whitney Battle-Baptiste
Anthropology

Nicholas Bromell
English

Elizabeth Chilton
Anthropology

Jane Degenhardt
English

Ernest Garcia
Philosophy

Laura Lovett
History

Joya Misra
Sociology/CPPA

Rommel Salvador
Isenberg School of Management

Steven Tracy
Afro-American Studies

Angie Willey
Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies