A vision for Humanities Communication training

We aim to create programs that support the definition and practice of Humanities Communication.

Whether you are just starting out on your career in the humanities or are a seasoned HumComm professional, we invite you to engage with the Center for Humanities Communication during 2025 and 2026 as we begin to craft joyful, experiential and developmental trainings for all.

By bringing together nodes of expertise across a wide range of HumComm communities and learning from SciComm as we go, we will offer a range of opportunities to get involved in this crucial building work for the CHC. As the Scholars Program starts to take shape, we take steps toward implementation that encompass a simultaneous set of activities. We are already at work developing workshops and seminars to help define community-led HumComm and we are also creating support mechanisms and structures for effective experimentation with forms and formats.

These structures can only make a difference if we can collaborate more broadly across, within and beyond the academy! If you would like to discuss any aspects of HumComm training for scholars, here are the three key areas of activity that we’re working on in this initiating phase of the CHC:

• Identifying, applying and experimenting with new forms and formats of communicating the diverse array of knowledges in and about the humanities

• Defining Humanities Communication beyond typical measures, metrics and motivations to support the growth of HumComm as a field within and beyond the academy

• Expanding training in the humanities to include non-typical forms of scholarship akin to the ways in which SciComm as a field has developed

These key activities are grounding our work now and are features of the vision for shared training practices in the nodally rich and interconnected network that is emerging. It’s our ambition during the course of the generous funding from the Mellon Foundation that we collaborate with a wide range of different HumComm practitioners and groups. We would love to welcome you in!

Together we’ll move the nodes of our emerging interconnected network around topics, practices, modes of communication and gathering based on the needs of a variety of audiences to effectively build the field of Humanities Communication.