Trinity’s Public Humanities Collaborative Announces Teams for Summer 2019
The Public Humanities Collaborative (PHC), a component of Trinity’s Summer Research Program funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, brings together students, faculty, and Hartford-area humanities partners to explore themes in the humanities and creatively engage both scholarly and public audiences. Through this program, students have the opportunity to engage with multiple methods and contexts for creating new knowledge in the humanities by participating in small teams that work on faculty scholarship, on partners’ public humanities projects, and meet regularly to learn about community collaboration and digital tools. From the large pool of applications, PHC selected sixteen students to work on eight faculty and eight public humanities projects with each student receiving a $3500 stipend as well as summer housing during this 10-week program. The Public Humanities Collaborative is coordinated by Megan Faver Hartline, Director of Community Learning at Trinity College
Hartford Organizations’ Public Humanities Projects:
Coltsville National Historical Park, “Coltsville Through the Years”
- Community Partner: Andrew Long, Management Assistant
- Trinity Students: Kaylen Jackson ‘21 and Yisbel Marrero ‘20
The Connecticut Fair Housing Center, “Urban Renewal in Willimantic, Connecticut ”
- Community Partner: Fionnuala Darby-Hudgens, Community Outreach and Education Coordinator
- Trinity Students: Kaytlin Ernse ‘20 and Sophia Lopez ‘22
Connecticut Historical Society, “Transcribing and Digitizing Archival Materials of Joseph Johnson”
- Community Partner: Andrea Rapacz, Director of Exhibitions and Collections
- Trinity Students: Carlson Given ‘20 and Emma Sternberg ‘21
Hartford History Center, “Voices of Migration / Voces de la Migracion”
- Community Partner: Jasmin Agosto, Education & Community Outreach Manager
- Trinity Students: Stephanie Cerda-Ocampo ‘21 and Brenda Piedras ‘21
Jewish Historical Society of Greater Hartford, “Female Trailblazers: Hartford Jewish Woman Who Made A Difference”
- Community Partner: Estelle Kafer, Executive Director
- Trinity Students: Tanuja Budraj and Fede Cedolini ‘22
TheaterWorks, “Community Engagement at TheaterWorks”
- Community Partners: Taneisha Duggan, Producing Associate
- Trinity Students: Manny Rodriguez ‘20 and Hendrick Xiong-Calmes ‘22
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art and The Amistad Center for Art & Culture, “Developing Context and Content for Afro-Cosmologies exhibition at the Wadsworth Atheneum and The Amistad Center for Art & Culture”
- Community Partner: Anne Butler Rice, Georgette Auerbach Koopman Director of Education at the Wadsworth, and Frank Mitchell, Executive Director of the Amistad Center
- Trinity Students: Remi Tupper ‘20 and Kyre William-Smith ‘21
West Indian Social Club/West Indian Foundation, “Migrant Zero, Chain Migration, and Black Flight”
- Community Partner: Fiona Vernal, West Indian Foundation Board of Directors, and Beverly Redd, West Indian Social Club Leadership Team
- Trinity Students: Esther Appiah ‘21 and Ali Kara ‘20
Trinity Faculty Research Projects:
Aidalí Aponte-Avilés and Christina Bleyer, “Voces de la Migración: Archiving and Sharing the U.S. Latinx Experience in Hartford”
- Trinity Students: Stephanie Cerda-Ocampo ‘21 and Brenda Piedras ‘21
Thomas Lefebvre, “Transatlantic Food Database”
- Trinity Students: Kaylen Jackson ‘21 and Yisbel Marrero ‘20
Alexander Manevitz, “The Rise and Fall of Seneca Village: Remaking Race and Space in Nineteenth-Century New York City”
- Trinity Students: Kaytlin Ernse ‘20 and Sophia Lopez ‘22
Nick Marino, “Podcasts as Oral History: LGBTQ Life in Hartford”
- Trinity Students: Manny Rodriguez ‘20 and Hendrick Xiong-Calmes ‘22
Jennifer Regan-Lefebvre, “Food, Wine and Empire ”
- Trinity Students: Tanuja Budraj and Fede Cedolini ‘22
Maurice Wade, “Building an Online Archive of Caribbean Anti-Colonial Thought ”
- Trinity Students: Esther Appiah ‘21 and Ali Kara ‘20
Chloe Wheatley, “Renaissance Literature in the Watkinson”
- Trinity Students: Remi Tupper ‘20 and Kyre William-Smith ‘21
Hilary Wyss and Christopher Hager, “Hidden Literacies Symposium and Website”
- Trinity Student: Carlson Given ‘20 and Emma Sternberg ‘21
For more information on the Public Humanities Collaborative, including how you can propose a project in the future, contact Director Megan Hartline.