NEH Sponsored Projects

2021-2022 Academic Year

Dr. Richie Davidson, Keynote: Well-Being is a Skill, and Master Class
Carter Sickels, author of The Prettiest Star
Dr. Ari Friedlander, From Babel to Biopolitics: Class, Sexuality, and Race in Early Modern English Rogue Literature
Dr. Cord Whitaker, The Harlem Middle Ages: W.E.B. Du Bois and Global Black Medievalism
Dr. Jennifer Gomez-Menjivar, Professional Development Series: Blackness and Indigeneity in Abiayala, Latin America and the Caribbean
Dr. Clint Carroll, Knowing the Land: Indigenous Strategies for Revitalization and Adaptation
Campus Week Event Series
Realities of Poverty Tour with First Year Students
Cherokee Trip with First Year Students

Humanities Program Readers Project
EBCI/Indigenous Studies Constellation and Oak Groups (Faculty & Staff Professional Development)
Faculty & Staff Field Trip to Cherokee
LA 378 Course Development
First Year Student Showcase
Humanities Program Summer Workshops
First Year Experience Pilot Program (LANG 120 – FYS – HUM 124 Collaborations)
Prison Education Program
HUM 124 Peer Mentoring and Course Ambassador Pilot

WORLDS ~ WORDS: Virtual Multilingual Indigenous Series Spring 2021
Pachaysana: Stories, Land, and Justice Webinar/workshops with LA 478 & AIIS courses
Dr. Toril Moi, Virtual Critical Perspectives Series
Dr. Ben Steere, virtual HUM 124 lecture on Cherokee mounds, towns and stories
Dr. Caley Smith, virtual HUM 124 lecture on Vedas in ancient India
Claudia Rankine, online Visiting Writer Series

Bill Plympton – Visiting Animator
400 Years of African-American Resilience Commemoration Activities:
- Key speaker, Dr. Molefi Kete Asante
- “Aesthetics of the Afro-Americas” Concert
Dr. Rangi Matamua – Māori Astronomy
Saki Mafundikwa – Founder of Zimbabwe Institute of Vigital Arts
Dr. Jay Garfield – Buddhist scholar and philosopher
Arthur Flowers – Poet and Martin Luther King Jr. Commemoration Speaker
Elodia Castillo Vasquez – Maya Ch’orti’ indigenous authority from Guatemala
Odyssey Community Dialogues: Three conversations using Homer’s Odyssey as the context for exploring current societal challenges