Each year, the Center for the Humanities invites applications for its Public Humanities Fellowship, designed to provide PhD students in the humanities with experience outside of academia. By placing fellows in partner organizations around Madison …
Blog Spotlight: HEX Scholar Mia Hicks on Reimagining Social Emotional Learning Through Latinx Cultural Values of Care
The Public Humanities Exchange program (HEX and HEX-U) at the UW-Madison Center for the Humanities funds innovative public humanities projects that forge partnerships between community organizations and UW-Madison students. The following guest blog post, written …
Blog Spotlight: Exploring Madison’s Mifflin Street
Three students, Anna Depping-Herzog, Ruth Dikkers, and Luke Ehrenberg from Profesoor Anna Andrzejewski’s fall 2025 class, “History of American Vernacular Architecture and Landscape,” applied knowledge from classroom lectures to interpret the history of the 400 …
Blog Spotlight: HEX Scholar Diego Alegría on a 21st Century “Tertulia Literaria”
The Public Humanities Exchange program (HEX and HEX-U) at the UW-Madison Center for the Humanities funds innovative public humanities projects that forge partnerships between community organizations and UW-Madison students. The following guest blog post, written …
Blog Spotlight: HEX-U Scholar Cece Babat on Storytelling to Elevate Youth Voices
The Public Humanities Exchange program (HEX and HEX-U) at the UW-Madison Center for the Humanities funds innovative public humanities projects that forge partnerships between community organizations and UW-Madison students. The following blog post, written by HEX-U Scholar …
Blog Spotlight: HEX Scholar Areyana Proctor on Finding Representation and Building Community with the Black Like Me Podcast
The Public Humanities Exchange program (HEX and HEX-U) at the UW-Madison Center for the Humanities funds innovative public humanities projects that forge partnerships between community organizations and UW-Madison students. The following blog post, written by past HEX …
Blog Spotlight: HEX Scholar Kate Westaby on How HEX Funds Created Legitimacy for a New Community Organization
The Public Humanities Exchange program (HEX and HEX-U) at the UW-Madison Center for the Humanities funds innovative public humanities projects that forge partnerships between community organizations and UW-Madison students. The following blog post, written by past HEX …
Exploring Hanji with Students from Milwaukee High School of the Arts
The following blog post is by Alexander Branderhorst, an educator with the Milwaukee School of the Arts and a participant in this year’s Great World Texts in Wisconsin program. “She was the nicest lady!” glowed …
20 Years of World Literature Across Wisconsin (and Recommended Reads to Cover the Next Two Decades)
As we celebrate 20 incredible years of Great World Texts, we reflect on the tens of thousands of high school students who have participated in the program. Every spring, students and teachers from all corners …
Blog Spotlight: HEX Scholar Tracey Bullington and Youth Climate Stories through Comics
The Public Humanities Exchange program (HEX and HEX-U) at the UW-Madison Center for the Humanities funds innovative public humanities projects that forge partnerships between community organizations and UW-Madison students. The following blog post is written …