Host Campus

Since July 2017, IA has been based at the University of California, Davis, its host partner institution for a renewable, five-year term. IA partners with UC Davis faculty, staff, and students to support local and regional publicly engaged scholarship and creative practice.

Opened in 1908 to provide students with research and science-based instruction, UC Davis is now a world-class land grant institution with multiple colleges and professional schools. UC Davis offices, centers, and groups advancing publicly engaged scholarship and creative practice include the following:

Office of Public Scholarship and Engagement

Center for Regional Change

Davis Humanities Institute

Feminist Research Institute

Arboretum and Public Garden

To learn more about engaged scholarship at UC Davis, see “Public Scholarship, Place, and Proximity: Imagining America at the University of California at Davis,” in Public: A Journal of Imagining America (2018).

Previous IA host institutions
Syracuse University, 2007-2017
University of Michigan, 2000-2007

Inspired by IA action research findings, the Public Scholar Conversation Cards and Organizing Culture Change Imagination Guide are pedagogic tools to inspire reflection and action.

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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.