Best Practices for Proposing, Implementing, and Evaluating a HEX Project
The Public Humanities Exchange Program—HEX for graduate students, and HEX-U for undergraduate students—funds original projects that cultivate partnerships between community organizations and UW-Madison students. These projects address a need in the Madison community and draw upon students’ research, interests, and expertise.
At this two-part small-group workshop for undergraduate and graduate students, former alumni and current students will discuss their experience proposing, implementing, and evaluating their HEX projects, as well as sharing their present public humanities trajectories. The panel will feature HEX scholars past and present and be moderated by Diego Alegría, HEX alumnus and Ph.D. Candidate in English at UW-Madison.
The panel will be followed by a second workshop on Thursday, October 30 from 12:00 to 1:00 PM where interested students can return to brainstorm and draft their own HEX project proposals with support from Danielle Weindling, Assistant Director of Public Humanities, and Diego Alegría.
Space is limited and registration is required. To join, please send an email to weindling@wisc.edu with your name and affiliation. Light refreshments will be provided.
Panelists include:
Diego Alegria Corona (PhD candidate, English)
Past HEX Scholar at WORT 89.9 FM Community Radio
Project: Tertulia Literaria (see this blog post for more)
Zaira Magaña Carbajal (PhD candidate, Educational Policy Studies)
Current HEX Scholar at Madison Metropolitan School District
Project: “The culture I bring with me:” Art and Identity for a Multicultural Future
Cece Babat (Bachelor of Social Work, 2025)
Past HEX-U Scholar at UW-Extension’s Literacy Link program, The Wisconsin Department of Correction’s Grow Academy, and The Crossing Campus Ministry
Project: Stories of Change: A Book Club for Youth Empowerment (see this blog post for more)