Public Scholarship
Public scholarship encompasses a range of efforts to communicate and coordinate between the academic research enterprise and those who work and live outside of the university community. As a dean I am committed to furthering the public scholarship enterprise in a variety of methods and formats–as long as it is of interest to and benefits both faculty and the ‘public’ broadly defined. In my own work I have made various forays into this field, including launching a public research project entitled ‘Rethinking Childhood’ when I was the Simpson Professor of the Public Humanities at the University of Washington, and editing a volume entitled Practicing Public Scholarship: Experiences and Possibilities Beyond the Academy with Wiley-Blackwell in 2008. As dean I have promoted community engaged scholarship by the faculty, given multiple public-facing talks, and written Op-Eds about the state of the campus and the university.
In the News
- “Racial (in)justice and the UC budget crisis” (February 8, 2021), Op-Ed in CalMatters (with Charles Hale and Bill Maurer)
- “We must invest in the University of California, not cut core instruction” (July 31, 2020), Op-Ed in CalMatters (with Charles Hale and Bill Maurer).
- “Building radical geographies to see beyond the neoliberal world” (March 31, 2018), radio interview with This is Hell!
- “When houses of prayer become places of shelter” (October 17, 2018), citation in the Economist
- “Social Sciences Dean Katharyne Mitchell steps in to leadership, asks others to step up, too” (October 25, 2017)
- “European migrant crisis influenced by faith groups pursuing ‘alternative justice‘” (October 19, 2017)
- “UC Santa Cruz names Katharyne Mitchell new dean of Social Sciences Division” (June 28, 2017)
- “Katharyne Mitchell receives Guggenheim Fellowship” (April 12, 2016)
- “Three Prominent Geographers Honored with Guggenheim Awards” (April 11, 2016)
- “Mitchell and Sparke and Receive Fellowships to Study Biological Citizenship in Switzerland” (January 5, 2016)