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<h2>Collaborative Projects</h2>
<h3>Robert Coles Archive</h3>
<h4>Working drafts and manuscripts of books, articles and essays and other materials</h4>
<p>Robert Coles, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for his five-volume “Children of Crisis” series, has donated his literary archive to the MSU Library. An eminent child psychiatrist and professor of psychiatry and medical humanities at Harvard University, Coles authored more than 80 books and was awarded a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship in 1981 and the Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor, in 1998. This important acquisition consists of working drafts and manuscripts of Coles’ books, articles and essays; more than 90,000 pages of correspondence spanning five decades; and the literary and business files of DoubleTake, an award-winning magazine of documentary photography, nonfiction, fiction and poetry. Professor David Cooper, director of the Public Humanities Collaborative, has known and worked on projects with Robert Coles for many years and was the driving force behind the acquisition of the Coles’ archive for the MSU Library. The Robert Coles Archive is currently being processed and will be available to scholars and students in the fall of 2008. View more information about <a target="_blank" href="http://newsbulletin.msu.edu/2007-09-13/author.html">Robert Coles and the archive</a>. </p>
<h3>Kettering/MSUE National Issues Forum</h3>
<h4>Agriculture, environmental resources, and ethics</h4>
<p>The PHC’s contribution to the Kettering Foundation/MSUE National Issues Forum Pilot Initiative will help promote deliberative public decision-making around the complicated issues involved in agriculture and environmental resources. MSU has a strong cohort of humanities faculty with expertise in both deliberative rhetoric and agriculture/environmental issues and ethics, including nationally prominent scholars in rural arts and culture, ethics and food systems, environmental journalism, community literacy, and public culture studies. Most of these faculty are active members of the PHC. The Kettering/MSUE initiative is a useful and productive platform for the PHC to engage and involve humanities faculty and students in an important and sustained exercise in public creation and democratic decision-making.</p>
<h3>PhotoVoice/Residential College in the Arts and Humanities </h3>
<h4>Photography for citizen and community empowerment and development</h4>
<p>PhotoVoice is an international initiative that utilizes photography for citizen empowerment and self-exploration, neighborhood development, and as a creative technology for social change. In PhotoVoice, community groups, usually children and young adults, learn to use cameras to express themselves and document social life in their neighborhoods. By creating images of their communities and publicly exhibiting their work, community photographers gain self-insight and greater voice in the political process.</p>
<p>During the 2007-2008 academic year, the Public Humanities Collaborative and partners launch a number of initiatives dealing with photography as a vehicle of creative expression and a tool for social change. These include a pilot project involving East Lansing neighborhood organizations, an exhibit of photoessays selected from past PhotoVoice projects, an in-service workshop for interested faculty and students, camera training, and learning modules on the history of social documentary photography. Also included is a spring semester 2008 undergraduate creative workshop—“Shutter To Think”—led by PHC director and photoessayist, David Cooper.</p>
<h3>Book Arts Project</h3>
<h4>To build strong connections between students, faculty, community arts organizations, public audiences, and active book artists</h4>
<p>The Public Humanities Collaborative supports the 2007-2008 Book Arts initiative in the new Residential College in Arts and Humanities. Drawing on local printers, editors, and community writers, MSU students are introduced to the history of moveable type, the craft of letterpress printing, and the traditions and art of book design. The PHC sees the book arts project as a promising way to build strong connections between students, faculty, community arts organizations, public audiences, and active book artists who use the book arts as a way to strengthen neighborhoods and nurture social capital.</p>
Collaborative Projects
Robert Coles Archive
Working drafts and manuscripts of books, articles and essays and other materials
Robert Coles, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for his five-volume “Children of Crisis” series, has donated his literary archive to the MSU Library. An eminent child psychiatrist and professor of psychiatry and medical humanities at Harvard University, Coles authored more than 80 books and was awarded a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship in 1981 and the Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor, in 1998. This important acquisition consists of working drafts and manuscripts of Coles’ books, articles and essays; more than 90,000 pages of correspondence spanning five decades; and the literary and business files of DoubleTake, an award-winning magazine of documentary photography, nonfiction, fiction and poetry. Professor David Cooper, director of the Public Humanities Collaborative, has known and worked on projects with Robert Coles for many years and was the driving force behind the acquisition of the Coles’ archive for the MSU Library. The Robert Coles Archive is currently being processed and will be available to scholars and students in the fall of 2008. View more information about Robert Coles and the archive.
Kettering/MSUE National Issues Forum
Agriculture, environmental resources, and ethics
The PHC’s contribution to the Kettering Foundation/MSUE National Issues Forum Pilot Initiative will help promote deliberative public decision-making around the complicated issues involved in agriculture and environmental resources. MSU has a strong cohort of humanities faculty with expertise in both deliberative rhetoric and agriculture/environmental issues and ethics, including nationally prominent scholars in rural arts and culture, ethics and food systems, environmental journalism, community literacy, and public culture studies. Most of these faculty are active members of the PHC. The Kettering/MSUE initiative is a useful and productive platform for the PHC to engage and involve humanities faculty and students in an important and sustained exercise in public creation and democratic decision-making.
PhotoVoice/Residential College in the Arts and Humanities
Photography for citizen and community empowerment and development
PhotoVoice is an international initiative that utilizes photography for citizen empowerment and self-exploration, neighborhood development, and as a creative technology for social change. In PhotoVoice, community groups, usually children and young adults, learn to use cameras to express themselves and document social life in their neighborhoods. By creating images of their communities and publicly exhibiting their work, community photographers gain self-insight and greater voice in the political process.
During the 2007-2008 academic year, the Public Humanities Collaborative and partners launch a number of initiatives dealing with photography as a vehicle of creative expression and a tool for social change. These include a pilot project involving East Lansing neighborhood organizations, an exhibit of photoessays selected from past PhotoVoice projects, an in-service workshop for interested faculty and students, camera training, and learning modules on the history of social documentary photography. Also included is a spring semester 2008 undergraduate creative workshop—“Shutter To Think”—led by PHC director and photoessayist, David Cooper.
Book Arts Project
To build strong connections between students, faculty, community arts organizations, public audiences, and active book artists
The Public Humanities Collaborative supports the 2007-2008 Book Arts initiative in the new Residential College in Arts and Humanities. Drawing on local printers, editors, and community writers, MSU students are introduced to the history of moveable type, the craft of letterpress printing, and the traditions and art of book design. The PHC sees the book arts project as a promising way to build strong connections between students, faculty, community arts organizations, public audiences, and active book artists who use the book arts as a way to strengthen neighborhoods and nurture social capital.
