Developing Black Studies through the Humanities

FAIN: AKA-298393-24

University of Scranton (Scranton, PA 18510-2429)
U. Melissa Anyiwo (Project Director: September 2023 to present)
Katorah Williams (Co Project Director: September 2023 to present)

A one-year project to develop courses and other materials for a new Black Studies concentration.

The University of Scranton, a private, Jesuit university located in Scranton, Pennsylvania, requests support from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Humanities Connections program for a planning project entitled “Developing Black Studies through the Humanities.” The project will reinvigorate interest in the humanities by developing four new interdisciplinary courses for the newly launched Black Studies concentration; launch a Black Studies Learning Lab that integrates methods and tools from the humanities into courses from other fields; offer faculty workshops to increase skills in interdisciplinary teaching; create 10 new course modules that support more robust humanistic approaches to teaching and learning in Black Studies; and develop a collection of faculty and student projects that feature stories from residents in the Scranton area. The project will elevate the role of the humanities within both the curriculum and the intellectual life on the Scranton campus.