Yosef Medina, our director of strategic initiatives, and HBCU Scholars Fellow Dr. Monika Rhue were recently featured on the Humanities = podcast. Give it a listen!
Having an opportunity where this kind of research, and these kinds of projects can be supported is critically important. Not just to academia but to public life in general.
Yosef Medina
From Humanities =
Virginia Humanities has been working to connect the academic and public sides of the humanities for decades through their fellowship programs. Their newest fellowship supports faculty and alumni of HBCUs—historically Black colleges and universities.
The focus at these schools is often on teaching, which means opportunities for humanities research can be limited. The HBCU Scholars Fellowship gives these humanities scholars time to focus on research projects, projects that in turn enrich the public.
In this episode, we speak with current HBCU Scholars Fellow Dr. Monika Rhue and Virginia Humanities’ Yosef Medina, who runs the program.
About Humanities =
Humanities = is a podcast about real individuals, organizations, and communities making a real difference through the humanities.
Tune in for hopeful and inspiring interviews with professionals and volunteers who are using the humanities to empower veterans to heal, support childhood literacy and family bonding, improve the lives of people experiencing incarceration, turn teens into civic leaders, bring communities together through conversation, celebrate local history, and so much more.
Humanities = is a production of the Federation of State Humanities Councils. There are 56 state and jurisdictional humanities councils in the US, one for every state, territory, and DC. These nonpartisan nonprofits were established in 1971 by Congress to make outstanding public humanities programming accessible to everyday Americans.
