Public Scholarship and Engagement Closing June 30

Due to the financial challenges facing the University, the Office of Public Scholarship and Engagement will be phased out by June 30.

Mellon Public Scholars

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Welcome to the 2022 Mellon Public Scholars

by Stephanie Maroney
February 22, 2022

The UC Davis Humanities Institute is proud to announce the 2022 cohort of Mellon Public Scholars (MPS). The MPS Faculty Advisory Board selected ten graduate student proposals for mutually beneficial research projects with community partners.

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Opening Doors: The Unexpected Places Public Scholarship Can Lead

June 18, 2021

Access, Equity & Justice

Graduate student Eli Alston-Stepnitz reflects on the winding path that led him to public scholarship, and how he leverages his skills and experience in a variety of experiences outside his field of study.

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Despite Challenges, 2020 Mellon Public Scholars Show Resilience and Compassion in their Work

December 14, 2020

Society, Arts & Culture

The projects this year's Mellon Public Scholars completed over the summer of 2020 generated structures of community care, built platforms for art and stories from marginalized communities, provided necessary perspectives on systemic injustice, and served as examples of public scholarship’s crucial role in today’s world.

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Call for Proposals: Community-Engaged First-Year Seminars from Mellon Public Scholars (Spring 2021)

Presented by: Davis Humanities Institute

The First-Year Seminar program invites proposals for courses co-taught by (current and former) Mellon Public Scholars and their faculty mentors in Spring 2021.

PhD Unlimited: Publicly Engaged Research and Mellon Public Scholars

This event focuses on publicly engaged research in the arts, humanities, and humanistic social sciences, with special attention to the Mellon Public Scholars Program at the UC Davis Humanities Institute.

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Practicing Community-engaged Scholarship during COVID-19

June 02, 2020

Society, Arts & Culture

The Davis Humanities Institute honors the UC Davis scholars who are committed to public scholarship in these unprecedented times and share some of the challenges and responses of our community-engaged researchers.

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Building Musical Alliances with Mellon Public Scholar Hannah Adamy

February 10, 2020

Society, Arts & Culture

Hannah Adamy, a 2019 Mellon Public Scholar, spent her summer creating spaces for women and gender-expansive musicians in Sacramento to come together and jam. In the search to bring people together as jam participants, Adamy learned about the different needs of different musicians and the practical challenges of musical spaces.

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