Project HERE: Humanities and Environmental Studies

FAIN: AKA-290946-23

Reinhardt University (Waleska, GA 30183-2981)
Donna C. Little (Project Director: August 2022 to present)
Zachary Felix (Co Project Director: August 2023 to present)

A one-year initiative for interdisciplinary faculty collaboration, community partnerships, and curricular development for a place-based environmental studies minor  

Reinhardt University (Reinhardt), a private university located in Waleska, Georgia, requests support from the National Endowment of the Humanities for Project HERE: Humanities and Environmental studies at REinhardt. The project activities will lead to an environmental studies minor degree grounded in place-based education that builds on Reinhardt’s location, history, and faculty expertise. All partnering faculty are collaborating to create this minor due to their interest in place-based studies. Whereas many such programs at other institutions are anchored in environmental science, the humanities will provide the foundation for this new minor at Reinhardt. The new minor will reinvigorate the humanities at Reinhardt by integrating the study of literature and history with an awareness of the ways in which the environment has shaped the evolution of culture in the southern Appalachian Mountains, Reinhardt’s home.