Description

Building on the efforts of its Working Group on Public Knowledge, supported through an earlier Luce grant, the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) will develop a collaborative project to map the landscape of publicly engaged scholarship on religion in the United States. Working closely with the National Humanities Alliance, the American Academy of Religion, and other partners, ACLS will conduct and share research on a wide range of public scholarship initiatives, reviewing existing sources and producing a new survey of the field, issuing an open call for contributions, and compiling materials into a searchable database. The database will be complemented by a series of in-depth interviews with representative public scholarship teams, illustrating the challenges and opportunities associated with developing robust forms of public scholarship on religion, reflecting on varied approaches to measuring public impact, and aiming to deepen networks of relationship among diverse public knowledge makers.