{"id":18079,"date":"2017-01-09T14:44:37","date_gmt":"2017-01-09T19:44:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/college.unc.edu\/?p=18079"},"modified":"2024-07-02T16:35:26","modified_gmt":"2024-07-02T16:35:26","slug":"maynard-adams-fellows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/?p=18079","title":{"rendered":"Maynard Adams Fellows focus on humanities for the public good"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Maynard Adams Fellows group. Left to right in back row: Rachel Schaevitz of the Program in the Humanities, Macy Salzberger, Brook Wilensky-Lanford, Kiran Bhardwaj, Meredith McCoy, Miranda Elston, Lindsay Brainard, Gale Greenlee, Joshua Blanchard and Joanna Lawson. Left to right in front row: Keshav Singh (Parr Center for Ethics and facilitator of the Adams seminar), Lloyd Kramer of the Program in the Humanities, Paolo Bocci and Max Owre of the Program in the Humanities.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A new fellowship funded by the Taylor Charitable Trust is supporting graduate students with interests in how humanities scholarship can be tied to a public outreach focus.<\/p>\n

The Maynard Adams Fellowships for the Public Humanities<\/a> have been established by the Program in the Humanities and Human Values<\/a> in UNC\u2019s College of Arts and Sciences. The fellowships honor the late UNC-Chapel Hill philosophy professor and their namesake, who founded the Program in the Humanities in 1979. Adams emphasized the public value of the humanities throughout his distinguished academic career.<\/p>\n

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Meredith McCoy (photo by Qua Lynch)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cThe College\u2019s new vision statement is \u2018Reimagining the arts and sciences for the public good,\u2019 and the Adams Fellows program is a way of creatively thinking about graduate education and disciplinary work in the humanities, arts and social sciences for the public good,\u201d said Lloyd Kramer, professor of history and faculty director of the Program in the Humanities.<\/p>\n

Ten Ph.D. students from the departments of philosophy, anthropology, art, English and comparative literature, American studies and religious studies were selected by an interdisciplinary faculty committee from a pool of 37 applicants for the first fellows class.<\/p>\n

Fellows receive a stipend for participating in workshop\/dinner conversations on the connections between the humanities and key issues in contemporary public life. They will participate in an \u201cAdams Symposium,\u201d which the Program in the Humanities is organizing each spring to encourage public discussion of issues that were important to Adams.<\/p>\n

Meredith McCoy is a graduate student in American studies and a Maynard Adams Fellow. She previously worked for Teach for America and KIPP public charter schools. She also served as a policy assistant for the White House Initiative on American Indian and Alaska Native Education. Her father is a citizen of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians, and she is interested in examining federal education policy within the context of tribal education departments.<\/p>\n

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Macy Salzberger<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cThe work I\u2019m doing here as a graduate student has given me a more ample context to understand the work I was doing as a teacher,\u201d McCoy said. \u201cIt has been great to see how each fellow is thinking differently about responsibilities to the public. We all feel our work should not be in silos, but we think about things in different ways. We are able to have these provocative conversations together in a super-engaging learning environment.\u201d<\/p>\n

Macy Salzberger, a graduate student in philosophy, is interested in how considerations of race, class and gender ought to affect the content of civic education. She said the Maynard Adams Fellowship has provided her with skills and practice in becoming a public philosopher and given her a space to talk with other scholars.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt breaks us out of our own disciplinary boxes,\u201d she said. \u201cI can speak to fellow philosophers in a certain language, but I need to be able to code-switch and engage with people from other disciplines.\u201d<\/p>\n

Salzberger has enjoyed hosting \u201cPhilosophy @ the Movies\u201d nights (a recent event offered a screening and discussion of Beyonc\u00e9\u2019s visual album Lemonade<\/em>.) She also volunteers at Durham Academy by reading books to children and teasing out philosophical issues in the texts.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor instance, one book was about Emily, whose artwork was being judged in a competition for her classroom, so we talked to the students about the considerations of aesthetics,\u201d she said. \u201cWho is qualified to judge the artwork? What makes the artwork good? It\u2019s a really great opportunity to go out into the community and provide critical reasoning skills to a younger audience.\u201d<\/p>\n

Paolo Bocci is a cultural and environmental anthropologist whose research seeks to give a voice to farmers in the Galapagos Islands who lack official residency permits. \u201cI show how their presence is the result of conservation policies focused on exclusionary ideas of nature and reflect on the ways in which farmers respond to uncertain legal, economic and ecological conditions.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Paolo
Paolo Bocci<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

He said the Maynard Adams Fellowship has strengthened his belief that reflecting on the contributions of the humanities and social sciences is critical for their survival.<\/p>\n

\u201cOnly collectively can we change the broader perception on the relevance of our disciplines to society,\u201d he said. \u201cThe understanding of current events and<\/em> the possibility to meaningfully participate in the work toward a different future necessarily demands the humanities\u2019 strong presence.\u201d<\/p>\n

The fellows will participate in the <\/em>Maynard Adams Symposium: \u201cThe Power of Emotions in Personal and Public Life<\/em><\/a>\u201d April 21-22. The public event will feature a free opening lecture by University of Chicago philosopher Martha Nussbaum, \u201cTransforming Anger into Justice: Gandhi, King and Mandela.\u201d Nussbaum is a prominent advocate for the essential role of the humanities in democratic societies. The symposium is a signature event of the <\/em>Carolina\u2019s Human Heart: Living the Arts and Humanities initiative.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

By Kim Spurr<\/em><\/p>\n

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