Global Cultures, Political Communication, and Women’s Suffrage: Five Humanities Teaching, and Learning Initiatives at Middle Tennessee State University

FAIN: ZDH-284042-22

Middle Tennessee State University (Murfreesboro, TN 37132-0001)
Leah Tolbert Lyons (Project Director: May 2021 to January 2026)

The employment of four humanities professionals, three graduate students, and additional undergraduate students to support five humanities projects at Middle Tennessee State University. 

Middle Tennessee State University’s College of Liberal Arts seeks funding for five new humanities research, education, and archival projects that will employ four full-time humanities Postdocs/professionals, three graduate students and additional part-time undergraduate students to conduct five humanities projects: conducting oral histories documenting Black institutions in the era of the Civil Rights Movement; creating an online digital database of an extensive collection of political posters, button, fliers, and other political ephemera; digitizing American Popular Songsters, 1799-1935 from the Kenneth S. Goldstein Collection of American Songsters; researching the Tennessee Rural Women’s Suffrage Newspaper Project, and programming “Interpreting Global Literatures,” an all-campus, year-long engagement with literatures spearheaded through the University Writing Center.