The Imagining America consortium (IA) brings together scholars, artists, designers, humanists, and organizers to imagine, study, and enact a more just and liberatory ‘America’ and world. Working across institutional, disciplinary, and community divides, IA strengthens and promotes public scholarship, cultural organizing, and campus change that inspires collective imagination, knowledge-making, and civic action on pressing public issues.
By dreaming and building together in public, IA creates the conditions to shift culture and transform inequitable institutional and societal structures.
The Call for Participation to the 2025 IA National Gathering Providing Passage: Practicing the Worlds We Want is now open! Read the full call to learn more about proposal formats and submission instructions. Submissions are due June 30, 2025.
WEDS JUNE 4; CAROLEE SHIELDS WHITE FLOWER GARDEN AND GAZEBO, UCD ARBORETUM. We invite UC Davis students, staff, faculty, and Davis community members to join us in an event practicing gratitude for the Earth, organized by Isabelle Woodruff-Madeira, American Studies Major and Imagining America Intern.
Imagining America is pleased to announce that our 2025-2026 fellowship programs for graduate and undergraduate students is now open! The PAGE Fellowship applications close on June 30 2025 (extended deadline), and IA/JGS Fellowship applications close on July 15, 2025.
WEDS, JUNE 4; ONLINE, VIA ZOOM. We invite all Imagining America members and friends to come together in an open forum facilitated by IA Faculty Director, Erica Kohl-Arenas and and invited guests from the IA network to gather information, provide peer support, and facilitate connection in these times.
Annual convening of public scholars, artists, designers, students, and cultural organizers addressing today’s pressing issues.
IA has begun the search for a new campus home. Hosting IA is an exciting opportunity to become a national hub for public scholarship, and for activating the mission, vision, and values of IA.
IA fosters vibrant networks of graduate and undergraduate students from our member institutions.
IA’s research initiatives and learning opportunities leverage the intellectual and creative capital that is the consortium’s greatest strength.
We envision a world of expansive social imagination, constructed by multiple ways of knowing, where people work together to nurture healthy, vibrant, and joyful communities.
The Imagining America consortium (IA) brings together scholars, artists, designers, humanists, and organizers to imagine, study, and enact a more just and liberatory ‘America’ and world. Working across institutional, disciplinary, and community divides, IA strengthens and promotes public scholarship, cultural organizing, and campus change that inspires collective imagination, knowledge-making, and civic action on pressing public issues.
By dreaming and building together in public, IA creates the conditions to shift culture and transform inequitable institutional and societal structures.
Phone Number:
530-297-4640
Email Address:
connect@imaginingamerica.org
Physical Address:
207 3rd Street, Suite 120
Davis, CA 95616
Funding has been provided by California Humanities and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) as part of the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021.
