Civic Humanities

Connection Through Scholarship

person presents at a table with computer edge in foreground and dolores huerta poster looking over shoulderSJSU faculty bridge academic research with community engagement, creating meaningful dialogue between academic scholarship and public discourse. Through innovative digital humanities projects, oral history initiatives, and community-based research partnerships, our scholars work directly with diverse populations to preserve, interpret, and share the rich cultural narratives of Silicon Valley and beyond. Below is a rotating selection of our standout investigators in this area.

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Featured Faculty

andersonMary Elizabeth Anderson
Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Success, College of Humanities and the Arts
Teaching Artists, Theatre Arts, Teaching and Praxis
ORCID: 0000-0001-8903-0238

millerShannon Miller
Dean, College of Humanities and the Arts
Community Engagement, Social Mobility, Renaissance Literature, 17th Century Women Writers, John Milton
ORCID: 0000-0002-8035-206X

norrisKeenan Norris
Associate Professor of Creative Writing
Creative Writing, Fiction, Place, Dystopia, Structural Disadvantage
ORCID: 0000-0001-8522-2750

...more coming soon!

Potential collaborators and members of the media may contact us at officeofresearch@sjsu.edu.