Program

Education Programs: Institutes for Higher Education Faculty

Period of Performance

10/1/2021 - 9/30/2023

Funding Totals

$177,227.78 (approved)
$175,967.00 (awarded)


Transcendentalism and Social Reform: Activism and Community Engagement in the Age of Thoreau

FAIN: EH-281187-21

Thoreau Society (Concord, MA 01742-2727)
Sandra H. Petrulionis (Project Director: March 2021 to November 2024)

A two-week, residential institute for 25 college and university faculty on transcendentalism and social reform.

This program will provide a two-week residential Level II Summer Institute for twenty-five college and university teachers to be held in Concord, Massachusetts from June 26 to July 9, 2022.





Associated Products

Transcendentalism and Social Reform: Activism and Community Engagement in the Age of Thoreau (Film/TV/Video Broadcast or Recording)
Title: Transcendentalism and Social Reform: Activism and Community Engagement in the Age of Thoreau
Writer: all interviewees and Bermudez
Director: Magdalena Bermudez
Producer: Magdalena Bermudez
Abstract: This film provides interviews with participants, faculty, and directors of this two-week Summer Institute that took place from June 26 through July 9 in Concord, Massachusetts.
Year: 2022
Primary URL: http://www.thoreausociety.org
Primary URL Description: The Thoreau Society
Secondary URL: https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DCzZqbEa_FnI&data=05%7C01%7Cshp2%40psu.edu%7C1e9ce8152b534a32d07e08daeb58179d%7C7cf48d453ddb4389a9c1c115526eb52e%7C0%7C0%7C638081062018823727%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbG
Secondary URL Description: Thoreau Society's Youtube channel
Access Model: yes, open access at www.thoreausociety.org
Format: Digital File
Format: Web

Five Podcasts Relating to NEH Summer Institutes on "Transcendentalism and Social Reform" (Radio/Audio Broadcast or Recording)
Title: Five Podcasts Relating to NEH Summer Institutes on "Transcendentalism and Social Reform"
Director: Sandra H. Petrulionis
Abstract: "Teaching Transcendentally": produced by Tamra Johnston and Lydia Willsky-Ciollo "Transcendentalism and Social Reform: Teaching and Research Opportunities": produced by Scott Ellis and Sarah Klotz "Transcendentalism in Appalachia and the Low Country": produced by Mollie Barnes and Theresa Burriss "Transcendental Transformations: What We Learned about Learning and the Public Humanities": produced by Marlowe Daly-Galeano and Randi Tanglen "Radical Transcendentalism, Then and Now": produced by Alex Moskowitz and Ted Stolze
Date: 6/26/22
Primary URL: https://thoreausocietyneh2022.org/podcasts/
Primary URL Description: "Transcendentalism and Social Reform: Five Podcasts on Teaching and Research"
Format: Digital File
Format: Web