2012 Arts of Citizenship grantees, Jesse Carr and Hannah Rosen, report on their research trip to Helena, Arkansas

Earlier this month, Dr. Hannah Rosen (Director of the Program in Race, Gender, and History at IRWG), and Jesse Carr (PhD student in American Culture) travelled to Arkansas to conduct research on Magnolia Cemetery, an historic African American burial ground located in the town of Helena in rural Phillips County. Magnolia was originally part of ...

2013 Internships

Arts of Citizenship is pleased to announce the 2013 Graduate Student Summer Internships. These full-time opportunities in southeast Michigan enable Rackham graduate students to explore careers outside the academy while forging valuable relationships and discovering how to translate their knowledge and skills to a range of non-academic contexts. Master’s and Doctoral students in the arts, ...

Helping students find their place in the world [linked article]

Danielle Allen, leading political theorist and board member at the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, argues that we must help students find their way by marrying the cultivation of self-knowledge to a capacity to see practical opportunities through curricula that unite the liberal arts and vocational elements at all levels of education. Full Washington Post article ...

Engaging for Success: Strategies for Effective Arts Community Engagement

Date: Friday, September 14, 2012 Time: 2:00 – 4:30 p.m. Location: Johnson Center for Philanthropy, Grand Valley State University, Grand Rapids REGISTER HERE Engaging for Success: Strategies for Effective Arts Community Engagement Engagement is in the air; engagement is everywhere. Some hold that the survival of arts organizations hinges on their ability to engage effectively with their communities. But ...

Interning at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, Part 1

By Steve Arionus, U-M doctoral student in History The mission of the Charles H. Wright Museum is to provide great aesthetic, interpretive and intellectual experiences, and learning opportunities that can inspire and serve diverse audiences for a lifetime. To that end, they produce culturally rich, socially relevant, exhibitions, which explore multiple facets of the African ...

Interning at the U-M Museum of Natural History

By Abigail Celis, Romance Languages and Literatures French Ph.D. student For my summer internship with Arts of Citizenship, I am developing a community-based exhibit for the University of Michigan Museum of Natural History (UMMNH). The springboard for this project was that the UMMNH wanted to create a local exhibit to complement the visiting exhibit, Race: ...

The Long Arm of Germantown

Germantown, an historic neighborhood in northwest Philadelphia, is not as well known as some of the city’s more prominent historic attractions, such as Independence Hall and the Liberty Bell. Yet, as David Young, executive director of Cliveden, our community partner, and enthusiastic tour guide would say, “the long arm of Germantown” is intertwined with just ...

Staff & Advisory Board

Staff Name Title Matthew Countryman Associate Professor of History & American Culture, Faculty Director of Arts of Citizenship Elizabeth Werbe Associate Director of Arts of Citizenship Advisory Board Name Title Crisca Bierwert Associate Director & Multicultural Coordinator, Center for the Research on Learning & Teaching Sara Blair Associate Dean for Academic Programs and Initiatives and ...