About
The Public Scholar is a digital space for TCNJ undergraduates, mainly those studying Classics, Fine Art, Art History, Photography, Graphic Design, and Interactive Multimedia to share their peer and professor reviewed research papers. While there are an abundance of academic journals for professionals in the aforementioned fields and beyond to publish their research in, the gatekeepers of these journals, whether consciously or otherwise, often exclude, marginally include, or tokenize Black, Indigenous, Latinx, Asian and other scholars of color, particularly so in Classical Studies. Furthermore, academic journals operate far too slowly to keep up with current events in the art and intersected world. Many scholars including, Dr. Sarah Bond, Sumaya Kassim, Dr. Curtis Dozier, and Dr. Tim Whitmarsh have taken to blogs like Hyperallergic, Pharos, Aeon, and Medium , in addition to creating their own personal blogs to address issues and topics that can't wait months to be published.
Our Mission:
The Public Scholar is dedicated to making art historical discourse accessible, amplifying historically marginalized voices, lending undergraduates a platform to speak, and providing reference materials and resources to instructors and students of all kinds in order to encourage the construction and employment of decolonized syllabi.
The Inspiration:
In light of the summer’s, and ongoing events, there is a growing need for public scholarship, to both address and help students and general audiences navigate complex topics like (institutional) racism, critical whiteness studies, colonialism, etc. History, however, does not disclose itself decades later, it unfolds in front of us regardless of how, or even if we have comprehended what’s occurred. Therefore, similar to how our brains process and create images from signals sent by our eyes, so too must we process the daily happenings of our world in a way that contextualizes current events into intelligible stories.
Special thanks to Dr. Deborah Hutton for believing in this project and a more accessible Art History.
Our Mission:
The Public Scholar is dedicated to making art historical discourse accessible, amplifying historically marginalized voices, lending undergraduates a platform to speak, and providing reference materials and resources to instructors and students of all kinds in order to encourage the construction and employment of decolonized syllabi.
The Inspiration:
In light of the summer’s, and ongoing events, there is a growing need for public scholarship, to both address and help students and general audiences navigate complex topics like (institutional) racism, critical whiteness studies, colonialism, etc. History, however, does not disclose itself decades later, it unfolds in front of us regardless of how, or even if we have comprehended what’s occurred. Therefore, similar to how our brains process and create images from signals sent by our eyes, so too must we process the daily happenings of our world in a way that contextualizes current events into intelligible stories.
Special thanks to Dr. Deborah Hutton for believing in this project and a more accessible Art History.