Humanities Centered

A conversation with professor of Music Andrea Mazzariello about his work connecting the music worlds of the Northfield Union of Youth at the youth-run youth center The Key with what happens "up the hill" at Carleton College.

We kick off our second series focusing on the large Mellon grant that funded the projects we'll be talking about. I talk to professor of History Susannah Ottaway, and professor of Studio Art Kelly Connole, about their leadership of the initiative called Public Works: Arts and Humanities Connecting Communities.

A conversation with Alex Knodell, Classics and Archaeology, and his Student Research Partners MJ Fielder-Jellsey and Sam Wege about their work on the Small Cycladic Islands Project. 

A conversation with Cecilia Cornejo and her Student Research Partner Ceile Kronick '22 about their work on The Wandering House, where they've been collecting and editing audio from residents of Northfield and Lanesboro, MN as people talk about their ideas of "home."

For our first episode, I talk to Theater professor Andrew Carlson and his student research partner Hannah Sheridan about their work on a production of Duncan Macmillan and Jonny Donahoe's Every Brilliant Thing for the Great River Shakespeare Festival in Winona, MN.

A conversation with Meredith McCoy (History and American Studies) about her work with and for native communities. Some notes: in describing work she and her students did with the Newberry Library, Meredith said that nobody had previously had access to a certain priest's archival material; we should say that very few had. Carleton's Elder in Residence program has advanced since we recorded the conversation Ida Downwind joined us last term. We've also welcomed to campus our Indigenous Communities Liaison. More about projects supported by our Public Works grant here. 

I talk with Art History professor Ross Elfline about his work with artist and organizer Sam Gould on social practice art in Minneapolis's Powderhorn community.

A conversation with Stacy Beckwith, professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies, and her Student Research Partner Arya Misra '22 about their work on the Spanish TV serialization of popular historical novel Cathedral of the Sea.

A conversation with Seth Peabody (German) and his Student Research Partner Esme Krohn '24 about their work on Seth's book project in environmental film studies.

Get ready for the launch of Humanities Centered — the first ever podcast from Carleton College's Humanities Center! What does humanities research look like at a small liberal arts college? How do students and faculty collaborate on original research and creative work? Director Clara Hardy introduces who we are, what the podcast is going to be, and why we are doing it.