Monday, November 01, 2021 - 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Sqamscott Rm, Holloway Commons
VIHs* in New Hampshire
Please join us as partners from distinguished
local community organizations discuss connecting UNH to New Hampshire communities
and initiatives. Our four *Very Important Humanists will also address funding
publicly engaged work, as well as the opportunities and challenges for the
humanities in the region.
JerriAnne
Boggis is the executive director of the Black Heritage Trail of New
Hampshire; the founder and director of The Harriet Wilson Project; and the
previous Director of Diversity Programs & Community Outreach at the
University of New Hampshire. JerriAnne was named one of 25 Extraordinary Women
of Southern New Hampshire by the Nashua Telegraph in 2015 and named the 2017
Freedom Fighter by Seacoast NAACP. In 2015, she was named by New Hampshire
Humanities as one of the 40 most influential New Hampshirites who have vastly
enriched human understanding, and in 2021 she received their Lifetime
Achievement in the Humanities Award. Read more
about the Black Heritage Trail of New Hampshire.
Elizabeth Dubrulle is Director of Education
and Public Programs at the New Hampshire Historical Society and editor of the
Society’s magazine, Historical New Hampshire. She is also the project
director for the Democracy Project, the Society’s initiative to renew social
studies education in New Hampshire schools. Previously, she taught for nearly a
decade in the Humanities Program at St. Anselm College. She has edited books on
the Transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau and Massachusetts colonial governor
Thomas Hutchinson and authored Goffstown Reborn: Transformations of a New
England Town (2009) and No Longer Denied: New Hampshire Women Win the
Vote (2020). She serves on the boards of the NH Council for the Social
Studies and NH Humanities. Read more
about the New Hampshire Historical Society.
Michael Haley Goldman recently joined New
Hampshire Humanities as its new executive director from the United States
Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC, where he led a digital innovation
team that explored the impact of emerging technologies on history education,
informal learning, and digital humanities as Director of Future Projects.
Future Projects conducts research, develops prototypes, and uses new technology
such as virtual or augmented reality and 360° video to transform Holocaust
memorialization and education. Read more about Michael.
Katie Merrow oversees the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation’s Community Impact department, which distributes more than $50 million in grants and scholarships each year. She also spearheads strategic initiatives, including key components of the Foundation’s “New Hampshire Tomorrow” strategy for increasing youth opportunity. Before she joined the Foundation in 2008, Katie served as the first executive director of the New Hampshire Women’s Policy Institute and as a senior research associate with the New Hampshire Center for Public Policy Studies. Read more about Katie.
Katie Merrow oversees the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation’s Community Impact department, which distributes more than $50 million in grants and scholarships each year. She also spearheads strategic initiatives, including key components of the Foundation’s “New Hampshire Tomorrow” strategy for increasing youth opportunity. Before she joined the Foundation in 2008, Katie served as the first executive director of the New Hampshire Women’s Policy Institute and as a senior research associate with the New Hampshire Center for Public Policy Studies. Read more about Katie.
Light refreshments will be served, and there will be
a cash bar. Per UNH guidelines, masks and distancing will be required when not
eating and drinking. Kindly RSVP at humanities.center@unh.edu or 603-862-4356.
The Center for
the Humanities hosts First Monday events, which center around short, informal
talks by faculty members, designed to give colleagues a window into their
work. We reserve time at the end for questions and
conversation.
