The ground beneath our feet: centering place-based experiential humanities in the curriculum [pace university requests $150,000 for the ground beneath our feet project to center place-based,…

The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded Pace University a $150,000 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Teaching and Learning Resources and Curriculum Development program (CFDA 45.162). The grant supports Pace University's "The Ground Beneath Our Feet" project, which centers place-based, experiential humanities in the university's undergraduate core curriculum and humanities degree programs. The project will engage students and the local community in investigating the previously obscured people, places, and events of Pace University's Lower Manhattan campus, which is located on unceded Lenape land. Pace University is collaborating with a Lower Manhattan Humanities Consortium to uplift stories of marginalized people through the co-creation of digital humanities and public humanities projects.

The ground beneath our feet: centering place-based experiential humanities in the curriculum [pace university requests $150,000 for the ground beneath our feet project to center place-based, experiential humanities in our undergraduate core curriculum and humanities degree programs. Recognizing the location of our lower manhattan campus on unceded lenape land near the african burial ground?at the convergence of chinatown, civic center, financial district, and the seaport?we will engage student participation and community collaboration in investigating the area?s previously obscured people, places, and events. A lower manhattan humanities consortium (lmhc)--including NYC municipal archives, american indian community house, bowery residents? Committee, billion oyster project, south street seaport museum, and trinity church archives?and pace courses in ethnic and gender studies, language, literature, history, and peace and justice studies will uplift stories of marginalized people in the historical record through CO-creation of digital humanities and public humanities projects.]