Engaged and Public Scholarship
The Allbritton Center for the Study of Public life supports engaged scholarship on and off the Wesleyan campus. We define “Engaged Scholarship” as partnerships of university knowledge and resources with those of the public and private sectors to enrich scholarship, research, creative activity, and public knowledge; enhance curriculum, teaching and learning; prepare educated, engaged citizens; strengthen democratic values and civic responsibility; address and help solve critical social problems; and contribute to the public.
Writings for General Audiences
- In The Sciences
Erika Taylor, Ruth Johnson, and Chris Othon: Girls In Science Camp
Meredith Hughes: Astronomy in Action
Barbara Juhasz: Eye Movement and Reading Lab
- In The Social Sciences
Steve Angle, on ChinaFile: “Why is Xi Jinping Promoting Self-Criticism?”
Lori Gruen, in Al Jazeera: “Ban Greyhound Racing Now”
Margot Weiss, in New Labor Forum: Queer Preecarity and the Myth of Gay Affluence
John Finn, at Wesleyan Thinks Big: "Poor Joshua: Private Space and the Constitution""
Ron Jenkins: Collaborative Prison Theater Education Project
Erika Franklin Fowler: Political Advertising in the United States
- In The Arts and Humanities
- James L. McConaughy Writing Prize Winners
2015 Winner
Jennifer Tucker: How Facial Recognition Technology Came to Be
2016 Co-Winners
Suzanne O'Connell: Warming Won't Kill Us
Brian Stewart: New Trail of Tears