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The Scholar as Human brings together faculty from a wide range of disciplines-history; art; Africana, American, and Latinx studies; literature, law, performance and media arts, development sociology, anthropology, and Science and Technology Studies-to focus on how scholarship is informed, enlivened, deepened, and made more meaningful by each scholar's sense of identity, purpose, and place in the world. Designed to help model new paths for publicly-engaged humanities, the contributions to this groundbreaking volume are guided by one overarching question: How can scholars practice a more human scholarship? Recognizing that colleges and universities must be more responsive to the needs of both their students and surrounding communities, the essays in The Scholar as Human carve out new space for public scholars and practitioners whose rigor and passion are equally important forces in their work. Challenging the approach to research and teaching of earlier generations that valorized disinterestedness, each contributor here demonstrates how they have energized their own scholarship and its reception among their students and in the wider world through a deeper engagement with their own life stories and humanity. Contributors: Anna Sims Bartel, Debra A. Castillo, Ella Diaz, Carolina Osorio Gil, Christine Henseler, Caitlin Kane, Shawn McDaniel, A. T. Miller, Scott J. Peters, Bobby J. Smith II, Jose Ragas, Riche Richardson, Gerald Torres, Matthew Velasco, Sara Warner Thanks to generous funding from Cornell University, the ebook editions of this book are available as Open Access volumes from Cornell Open (cornellpress.cornell.edu/cornell-open) and other repositories.

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Author:   Anna Sims Bartel ,  Debra A. Castillo
Publisher:   Cornell University Press
Imprint:   Cornell University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9781501750618

ISBN 10:   1501750615
Pages:   277
Publication Date:   15 January 2021
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction, by Anna Sims Bartel and Debra A. Castillo Part I: Humanizing Scholars 1. Humans as Scholars,Scholars as Humans, by Anna Sims Bartel 2. To Be, or To Become? On Reading and Recognition, by Shawn McDaniel 3. Present: Humanity in the Humanities, by A. T. Miller Part II: Engaging Artifacts 4. Humans Remain: Engaging Communities and Embracing Tensions in the Study of Ancient Human Skeletons, by Matthew Velasco 5. Forgotten Faces, Missing Bodies: Understanding ""Techno-Invisible"" Populations and Political Violence in Peru, by José Ragas 6. A Ride to New Futures with Rosa Parks: Producing Public Scholarship and Community Art, by Riché Richardson Part III: Considering Resistance 7. Finding Humanity: Social Change on Our Own Terms, by Christine Henseler 8. Performing Democracy: Bad and Nasty Patriot Acts, by Sara Warner 9. Making Law, by Gerald Torres 10. What's It All Meme?, by Ella Diaz Part IV: Using Humanity/ies 11. Performing the Past, Rehearsing the Future: Transformative Encounters with American Theater Company's Youth Ensemble, by Caitlin Kane 12. ""From the Projects to the Pasture"": Navigating Food Justice, Race, and Food Localism, by Bobby J. Smith II 13. ""I Heard You Help People"": Grassroots Advocacy for Latina/os in Need, by Debra A. Castillo and Carolina Osorio Gil Afterword: The Prophetic Aspiration of the Scholar as Human, by Scott J. Peters

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Anna S. Bartel is Associate Director for Community-Engaged Curricula and Practice at Cornell University. Debra A. Castillo is Emerson Hinchliff Professor of Hispanic Studies and Comparative Literature at Cornell University.

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