This page details the many translocal collaboration opportunities, grants, and arts engagements that Imagining America sponsors.
Research Groups
There are currently five ongoing research groups. Much more information about each of them can be found through the links below:
- The Tenure Team Initiative on Public Scholarship
- Integrated Assessment
- Publicly Engaged Scholars Study
- Linking Full Participation
- Civic Professionalism
Collaboratories
Collaboratories leverage IA’s intellectual and creative capital to explore topics of shared interest by drawing on the expertise of investigators from several member institutions. The primary goal of collaboratories is to incubate and nurture work that might turn in to full-blown research projects. There are currently two collaboratories for 2011:
Working Groups
Working groups represent an ongoing exchange around a shared focus. Current ongoing working group is the Public Humanities Institutes and Centers working group. Similar to working groups, we have both graduate and undergraduate student networks:
Arts Engagements
Imagining America recognizes art’s capacity to be aesthetically pleasing, intellectually challenging, and socially engaging, all at the same time. We look for opportunities to integrate arts activities that evidence such capacity in national and local contexts. Current arts engagements include:
- The Joy of Giving Something Scholarship for Young Photographers, which supports emerging young photographers at IA member institutions; and
- Town Hall Nation, a collaboratively created performance event being developed by Portland-based Sojourn Theater and NYC’s The TEAM that responds to the dearth of opportunities for ideologically diverse people to make democracy function together.
There is one past arts engagement, The America Project, which took on issues of critical citizenship, imagination, creativity, and civic dialogue at several IA campuses.
