Endings offer the possibility for new beginnings. They open a space to move on, as they also provide a time to look back, acknowledge successes and failures, document, and learn.   ..read more

The Public Humanities Center is pleased to announce the publication of  , an artist’s book created by Jazzmen Lee-Johnson based on her  2022 installation at the Nightingale-Brown House ..read more

Since assuming this role in January of 2019, I have worked with the authors of about fifty posts, giving me a chance to present their projects, accomplishments, memories, and concerns ..read more

Kathrinne Duffy (MA ’15, Ph.D. ’21) is a historian of nineteenth-century American culture living in Burlington, Vermont ..read more

Whether they bring grief, relief, or a mixture of both, we feel the need to mark moments of transition with ritual, remembrances, and transformation. When news broke that the Public Humanities’ MA program at Brown University was ending, there was an outpouring of emotional responses from our community: students, alumni, faculty, staff, friends, and supporters ..read more

Steven Lubar is Interim Director of the John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities & Cultural Heritage and Professor of American Studies and History ..read more

The following is the transcript of the Commencement toast given by Matt Branch A.M. ‘21, for the Public Humanities Commencement Celebration on April 30, 2021. In addition to being a graduating member of the class of 2021, Matt is the Associate Director of Student Activities at Brown, where he supports students in extracurricular programming and events. He is an educator, an artists administrator, and a cultural strategist working at Brown University and with Black South West Network, a race-equity non-profit based in Bristol, United Kingdom ..read more

Rai Terry is a Black queer visual scholar, audiovisual archivist, and multimedia artist. They are a 2 year graduate student in the Public Humanities program and Fellow at the Center for Slavery and Justice. They are engaging the spaces, both physical and digital, that Black queer people occupy and adorn as reclamations of life and freedom ..read more

Sophie Don has been the Administrative and Operations Manager for the Philadelphia Holocaust Remembrance Foundation since completing her MA in Public Humanities at Brown in 2020. She has a personal passion for the mission of PHRF, as her grandparents and other family members are survivors and were involved in the 1964 memorial effort. You can reach Sophie Don at  ..read more

Steven Lubar is the Director of Brown University Center for Digital Scholarship, and Professor of American Studies and History ..read more