Jason Kelly

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Transdisciplinarity, Public Scholarship, and the Anthropocene

Jason Kelly is a Professor and the Chair of the History Department at IUPUI. He is also an Adjunct Professor in Africana Studies and in American Studies. And, Professor Kelly is the Director of the IUPUI Arts and Humanities Institute (IAHI). Professor Kelly is a historian of 18th century British art, science, and society.

But like many scholars, his research focus has grown from these interests especially in his role as Director of IAHI, in which he directs three community-engaged research programs. The first of these programs is the Anthropocene Household Project which looks at the lived experience of global environmental change at the household level. In collaboration with the IUPUI School of Science, a key component of this project has been providing soil, dust, and water lead testing kits to reduce lead poisoning in central Indiana. The second of these programs is the Cultural Ecologies Project which looks at how cultural interventions transform cities. IAHI works with organizations and municipal entities to create more equitable and inclusive cultural landscapes. Finally, the COVID-19 Oral History Project is currently documenting the contemporary history of COVID-19.

These projects are connected by a concern with transdisciplinary and interdisciplinary collaborations especially those that foreground the contributions of the arts and humanities. They are also connected by a concern with community-engaged scholarship. These projects not only seek to address their research topics but to create new models for university-based arts and humanities scholarship for the 21st century. Professor Kelly's translation of research is another excellent example of how IUPUI's faculty members are TRANSLATING their RESEARCH INTO PRACTICE.

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    Public Scholarship at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
    (2016-06) Wood, Elizabeth; Hong, Youngbok; Price, Mary F.; Stanton-Nichols, Kathleen; Hatcher, Julie A.; Craig, David M.; Kelly, Jason M.; Silverman, Ross D.; Palmer, Kristi L.
    Community engagement is a defining attribute of the campus, and the current Strategic Plan identifies a number of strategic actions to “Deepen our Commitment to Community Engagement.” In May 2015, A Faculty Learning Community (FLC) on Public Scholarship was established in May, 2015 to address the campus strategic goals to “recognize and reward contributions to community engagement” and “define community engagement work…in Faculty Annual Reports and promotion and tenure guidelines.” At IUPUI, scholarly work occurs in research and creative activity, teaching, and/or service. In terms of promotion and tenure, faculty members must declare an area of excellence in one of these three domains. The FLC on Public Scholarship is a 3-year initiative co-sponsored by Academic Affairs and the Center for Service and Learning (CSL). Seven faculty members from across campus were selected to be part of the 2015-2016 FLC, and two co-chairs worked closely with CSL staff to plan and facilitate the ongoing work. The FLC is charged with defining public scholarship, identifying criteria to evaluate this type of scholarship, assist faculty in documenting their community-engaged work, and working with department Chairs and Deans in adapting criteria into promotion and tenure materials. The intended audiences for this work includes faculty, community-engaged scholars, public scholars, promotion and tenure committees, external reviewers, and department Chairs and Deans. The following provides background to the campus context and a brief summary of work to date, including definition and proposed criteria to evaluate public scholarship.