The English department would like to congratulate Amy Shuman and Mary Hufford for winning 2022-2023 Discovery Field School Grant Awards! Discovery Field School Grant Awards are given to instructors to develop one-credit hour courses which “take students to domestic destinations to learn about the transformational value of the humanities and the arts.” 

Professor Amy Shuman’s project is titled “Human Rights on the Ground in New York City.” In the course, students will explore human rights cultural practices, monuments and archives, including the Ground Zero Museum, the African Burial Ground, the Tenement Museum, the Columbia University Human Rights Archives, and the Human Rights Watch Film Festival. 

Visiting Professor Mary Hufford is collaborating with Associate Professor Katherine Borland for their project titled “Stewarding Woodlands, Streams, and Community Life in Central Appalachia: A Regional Field School.” Their project is part of the Ohio Field School, which aims to “examine responses to economic, environmental and cultural change through everyday practices and expressive cultures.” The goal for their project is to encourage collaboration between land grant institutions and students across the Appalachian region in an interdisciplinary manner. In their proposal, they outlined the divide between environmental studies and the humanities. They hope that this project will help bridge this gap by engaging students who are “interested in the nexus of community life and environment in the Appalachian region.” 

Congratulations again to Amy Shuman and Mary Hufford on this achievement!