All Things CHC Blog
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How are we developing a Vision to train Scholars in Humanities Communication?
As the Directors of CHC’s Scholars Program, Kath and Anke have been busy conceptualizing and planning next steps for humanities scholars across the career cycle, including humanities scholars who identify as such but are located outside of a formal institutional setting. This deep conceptualizing has been ongoing since we paused to consider the multiple insights…
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News Release: Center for Humanities Communication Receives $150,000 Mellon Foundation Grant to Start Work
How can scholars, creatives, and others working in the humanities better communicate their work to the public? How can humanities communicators–like their science communicator colleagues–benefit from professional training for needed roles in education, the media, cultural and entertainment industries, non-profits, and elsewhere? And what new materials and tools can they invent for telling the humanities’…
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CHC Leads “Humanities Communication Convening” on Sept. 6, 2024
On September 6, 2024, the Center for Humanities Communication (CHC) led at the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in Cambridge, Mass., a first of its kind event (by invitation only): a Humanities Communication Convening of humanities organization leaders with leaders in science communication, journalism and media, communication, public relations, advocacy, social media, and other…
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Empowering Humanities Communicators: Introducing the CHC’s Talking Points Toolbox Proposal
Imagine a platform where you could find all the necessary, relevant, and relatable information about the humanities, ready for you to use and apply to your own communication goals. This is exactly what the Center for Humanities Communication (CHC) aims to provide with its innovative advocacy Talking Points Toolbox. Currently in draft form, the CHC…
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Call for Posts for the CHC’s HumComm Talk Blog
We welcome everyone to submit blog posts of one of the two following types (submit here). The CHC will review posts for excellence in both content (valuable and unique argument, credible sources, clear organization) and form (clarity, tone, style, format, audience awareness). Posts should be examples of good humanities communication that attracts and retains readers…
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The CHC designs prototype of a Social Media Humanities Communication Internship called “The NextGen Co-Creator Internship”
With input from 14 Humanities Councils nationwide and from the leaders of the Applied and Public Humanities internship at the University of Arizona, Stephanie Springer and Brittney Crawford, Christine Henseler and Isabell Sluka of the CHC have drafted a “NextGen Co-Creator Internship” program that focuses on training the next generation to communicate the humanities through…
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CHC Receives NEH Chair’s Grant and American Academy of Arts & Sciences Co-sponsorship for “Humanities Communication” Strategizing Event
In March 2024, the Center for Humanities Communication (CHC) in partnership with its fiscal sponsor, the American Association of Colleges & Universities (AAC&U) was awarded a NEH Chair’s Grant by Shelly C. Lowe, Chair of the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), to organize a “Humanities Communication Convening.” The American Academy of Arts & Sciences…
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Talking with Experts in Humanities Communication and Marketing at State Humanities Councils
Center for Humanities Communication co-leaders Christine Henseler and Alan Liu (who also co-lead the 4Humanities.org initiative) visited with the Federation of State Humanities Councils during their virtual “happy hour” on October 4, 2023. In the audience were professional humanities communicators and marketers working with various U.S. State Humanities Councils. Christine and Alan helped lead a…
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“How to Communicate Your Humanities Scholarship to the Public” — CHC Session at National Humanities Conference 2023
Organizers of the Center for Humanities Communication including Anke Finger, Christine Henseler, Ala Liu, and Isabell Sluka will conduct a session at the National Humanities Conference 2023 in Indianpolis titled “How to Communicate Your Humanities Scholarship to the Public” (October 26, 12:45-2:15 PM Eastern Time, Marriott 8). The goal of this hands-on workshop is to teach…
