NEH Sponsored Projects

2023-2024 Academic Year

Workshop for Humanities 124 and 214 faculty on the Popo Wuj – Mayan Sacred text taught every semester on both courses
Speaker Natalie Baszile for the visiting writers series
Film Screening “We Will Speak”
Japanese Pottery Workshop
48 hour film festival

Dhaka Brakha, Ukrainian “Ethno-Chaos” Band, Concert
Hip Hop Nativo Festival
Student and Faculty Field Trips to the Museum of the Cherokee
Indigenous Ways of Being Panels in HUM 124 and HUM 214 Common Lectures
African Drumming and Music Demonstrations in HUM 124 and HUM 214 Common Lectures
Witness for Peace Talk: “Indigenous Peoples: Victims of the Armed Conflict in Colombia”

LA 378 Course Design and Faculty Cohort Development
EBCI and Indigenous Studies Constellation Groups (Faculty Professional Development)
Faculty & Staff Development Courses: Indigenous Peoples’ Day Teach-In, Race Power & Privilege, Beyond the Land Acknowledgment
Global Humanities Readers workshops and instructive materials
Humanities Program Student Focus Groups
Humanities 214 Workshops on Indigenous content and pedagogies

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