Publishing and Publicly Engaged Scholarship: Model Practices for Publication in the Humanities

This session brings together publishers, librarians, and scholarly society executives to explore challenges and opportunities relating to publishing publicly engaged humanities scholarship. In 2020, the Public Humanities & Publishing Working Group, convened by Routledge, Taylor & Francis, and the National Humanities Alliance (USA), assembled to document ways in which publishing intersects with and enriches publicly engaged work. Across the humanities, researchers are engaging wide-ranging communities in their scholarship as audiences and as partners. In Durham, North Carolina, for example, the SNCC Digital Gateway (https://snccdigital.org/), an archive and documentary website, was co-created by academics at Duke University and their community partners, SNCC Legacy Project and Teaching for Change. The Jewish Kentucky Oral History Initiative (https://kentuckyoralhistory.org/ark:/16417/xt7w6m33529z) brought together faculty and students with the Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries to create digital stories, exhibits, and podcasts drawing on oral history interviews with members of the state's Jewish community. Learning Level: Foundational