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<\/span><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n The Public Humanities Fellows program funds and supports early-career humanists with innovative projects. Each year, a new cohort of Fellows plan and deliver their projects to underserved communities in Washington.<\/p>\n Due to DOGE’s gutting of the NEH, we are unable to accept Fellows applications for 2025-2026.<\/strong> Join our mailing list<\/a> to receive updates.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_2″ _builder_version=”4.25.1″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/www.humanities.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Speakers-Bureau-collage-pages6.png” alt=”Collage featuring a crowd of people applauding and a young woman smiling. ” title_text=”Speakers Bureau collage pages(6)” _builder_version=”4.25.1″ _module_preset=”default” width=”100%” custom_margin=”|0px||0px|false|false” animation_style=”fade” animation_duration=”650ms” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.25.1″ _module_preset=”default” background_color=”#e0ebec” custom_margin=”||0px||false|false” custom_padding=”60px||0px||false|false” locked=”off” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.25.1″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.25.1″ _module_preset=”default” text_font=”|800|||||||” header_2_font=”|800|||||||” header_2_text_align=”center” header_2_text_color=”#533b52″ header_2_font_size=”36px” custom_margin=”||40px||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_2,1_2″ use_custom_gutter=”on” _builder_version=”4.25.1″ _module_preset=”default” background_color=”#e0ebec” custom_padding=”0px|60px||60px|false|true” locked=”off” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”1_2″ _builder_version=”4.25.1″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_blurb title=”Sarah Choi ” image=”https:\/\/www.humanities.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/1.jpg” image_icon_width=”80%” icon_alignment=”left” _builder_version=”4.25.1″ _module_preset=”default” header_font=”|700|||||||” header_text_color=”#4a3048″ header_font_size=”21px” custom_margin=”||22px|||” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Reactivating and Reclaiming Asian American Memories through Home Movies<\/span><\/i><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Sarah Choi is a doctoral candidate in Cinema and Media studies at the University of Washington. Her research interests include orphan film archives and found footage filmmaking. Sarah is the recipient of the 2024-2025 AAUW American Dissertation Fellowship, 2021 Barclay Simpson Scholars in Public Fellowship, and the 2022 Simpson Center Digital Humanities Summer Fellowship. As a filmmaker, she creates screendance and documentaries and curates films for the Lights Dance Festival, which she founded in 2016. She served as the managing editor of <\/span>Feminist Media Histories: An International Journal<\/span><\/i> from 2022-2023.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Recognizing the significance of home movies in remembering and reimagining Asian American histories, this project will implement a grassroots storytelling program that is dedicated to home movie screenings and preservation.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n [\/et_pb_blurb][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_2″ _builder_version=”4.25.1″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_blurb title=”Polly Hana Yorioka ” image=”https:\/\/www.humanities.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Untitled-design21.png” image_icon_width=”80%” icon_alignment=”left” _builder_version=”4.25.1″ _module_preset=”default” header_font=”|700|||||||” header_text_color=”#4a3048″ header_font_size=”21px” custom_margin=”||22px|||” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Immigrant History of Edmonds Virtual Exhibit<\/i>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Polly is a recent graduate of the University of Washington\u2019s Museology MA program, with an MAIS in Comparative Religion and a BA in Classics from the University of Puget Sound. Polly\u2019s professional background is in nonprofit community development, particularly working with international students. In her current role as exhibit curator for the Edmonds Historical Museum, Polly is dedicated to telling the stories of underrepresented communities and building intercultural relationships.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The Immigrant History of Edmonds Virtual Exhibit is designed to showcase the impact of immigrants from the earliest settling of the city all the way to highlighting today\u2019s vibrant \u201cinternational district\u201d of Edmonds.<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_blurb][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_2,1_2″ use_custom_gutter=”on” _builder_version=”4.25.1″ _module_preset=”default” background_color=”#e0ebec” custom_padding=”0px|60px||60px|false|true” locked=”off” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”1_2″ _builder_version=”4.25.1″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_blurb title=”Camilo Lund-Monta\u00f1o” image=”https:\/\/www.humanities.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/3.jpg” image_icon_width=”80%” icon_alignment=”left” _builder_version=”4.25.1″ _module_preset=”default” header_font=”|700|||||||” header_text_color=”#4a3048″ header_font_size=”21px” custom_margin=”||22px|||” custom_padding=”||0px|||” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Visualizing the Past and Present of Latinx\/e Communities in Walla Walla County<\/span><\/i><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Camilo E. Lund-Monta\u00f1o is an assistant professor of history at Whitman College. He received his bachelor\u2019s from the National Autonomous University of Mexico, his M.A. in Historical Studies from the New School for Social Research, and his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. His research interests are social movements in the 20th century and transnational networks of solidarity between the U.S., Latin America, and the Caribbean. His article \u201cUndesirable Travelers: U.S. Radicals, Mexican Security, and the Cold War Summer of 1968\u201d appeared in <\/span>The Global Sixties Journal.<\/span><\/i>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_blurb][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_2″ _builder_version=”4.25.1″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_blurb title=”Mariana Ruiz-Gonzalez” image=”https:\/\/www.humanities.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/4.jpg” image_icon_width=”80%” icon_alignment=”left” _builder_version=”4.25.1″ _module_preset=”default” header_font=”|700|||||||” header_text_color=”#4a3048″ header_font_size=”21px” custom_margin=”||22px|||” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Visualizing the Past and Present of Latinx\/e Communities in Walla Walla County<\/span><\/i><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Mariana Ruiz-Gonz\u00e1lez is an assistant professor in the Hispanic Studies Department at Whitman College. She has a PhD in Spanish and Latin American Cultural Studies from Arizona State University. Her research interests are Latinx\/Latin America Cultural and Visual Studies, Popular Culture, and Animal Studies. Her work has been published in the critical volumes of <\/span>Transgresiones en las letras latinoamericanas: visiones del lenguaje po\u00e9tico<\/span><\/i> (2021), <\/span>Transnational American Spaces<\/span><\/i> (Vernon Press, 2021), <\/span>The Selena Reader: \u201cEntre a mi Mundo,\u201d<\/span><\/i> among others.<\/span><\/p>\n Mariana and Camilo will work together to<\/span> collect, preserve and publicize oral histories and photographs from the Latinx\/e communities to diversify the region\u2019s visual culture and acknowledge Latinx\/e representation and voices within Walla Walla and Southeastern Washington.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_blurb][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.25.1″ _module_preset=”default” custom_margin=”||||false|false” custom_padding=”0px||60px||false|false” locked=”off” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.25.1″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.25.1″ _module_preset=”c23c98ce-4df4-48c0-93eb-ef1e9de44d4a” background_image=”https:\/\/www.humanities.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/PublicHumanities_60x90.png” background_size=”initial” background_position=”center_left” min_height=”105px” custom_margin=”40px||||false|false” custom_padding=”10px|||100px|false|false” locked=”off” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.25.1″ _module_preset=”c23c98ce-4df4-48c0-93eb-ef1e9de44d4a” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n The public humanities is a vibrant field that shares the humanities outside of academic circles, but there are few opportunities for training and professional development. The Public Humanities Fellows program is changing that by offering a stipend and support to early-career humanists based in Washington. This is the first paid public humanities fellowship of its kind in Washington State, either inside or outside of academia.<\/p>\n To help them gain program management and public humanities skills, Fellows receive a stipend to fund a public humanities project like an event, exhibit, podcast, or digital project. They also get professional development opportunities, technical assistance and mentorship, and regular meetings with a cohort of other Fellows. Humanists from communities who are underrepresented in the humanities are especially encouraged to apply.<\/p>\nMeet Our Current Fellows<\/h2>\n
<\/span><\/span><\/p>\nAbout the Public Humanities Fellows program<\/h2>\n