State Humanities Councils and the Public Humanities: A Forum

Two factors motivated the conversation: first, a conviction that scholars committed to the public humanities who are housed in academic departments at universities need to be in conversation with practitioners of the public humanities who have a direct mandate to work with the broader community through humanities councils and, second, the concern that those housed in the university too often lack awareness of the work done in the public humanities by those who work outside it.Although the conversation focused more on methodology