A fully customized delivery vehicle, the Humanities Truck serves as a mobile platform for collaborative, community-based research, scholarship, and exhibition. Photo: Dan Kerr courtesy of American University

A large truck painted red with a blue and white map design painted on its side sits parked in front of a grassy area

The Humanities Truck travels to neighborhoods across the DMV, including Petworth, shown here, where there is an annual festival to celebrate the creativity, diversity, and culture of the town. Photo: Dan Kerr courtesy of American University

A woman wearing sunglasses sitting in a chair in front of a microphone positioned in front of a parked truck with a red white and blue map design painted on its side

Daniel Kerr headshot

If we want to change things ever, then we have to be able to stop and think and reflect about what those things are and how they’re impacting us and what we want to do about them.

The Humanities Truck unites students and faculty across disciplines for a novel approach to publicly engaged research, bringing their scholarship into real communities across the nation’s capital.

Phase II - Humanities Truck Project

The Humanities Truck invites the engagement of local communities through mapping and other interactive research activities. Photo: Inaya Rivera courtesy of American University

A male wearing glasses and a blue baseball cap ties string to hooks that are on the side of a large truck

The Humanities Truck Takes Academia on the Road

Artists as Catalysts

Artists as Catalysts Navigation Image

Beyond Incarceration

A side profile of a Black poet who is wearing glasses and a hat with a feather hat pin.

Borderlands Cultures

In portrait orientation, an aerial view of a major highway running parallel to a large border wall set on a hilly landscape

Civic Engagement

A man in a brown jacket stands in front of blue bulletin board that is covered with papers and advertisements  

Evolving Higher Education

A vertical image of an Indigenous person who is sitting on a chair in front of a backdrop.

Expanding Public Knowledge

An interior room filled with audio and video equipment 

Monuments and Memory

A multicolored painted totem pole set in front of a foggy forest landscape

Multivocality

Five people stand together in a group photo. They are laughing and smiling.

Power of the Word

Five colorful neon signs hang on the wall with messages that include, "Freedom cannot wait," "Brown owned," and "America is for Dreamers."

Public Places‚ Public Stories

A group of Indigenous Maskoke people stand and sit in the wooden frame of a structure in a woods

Puerto Rico and Its Diaspora

In a vertical image, a black leather vest is adorned with colorful pins across the front of it. Embroidery on the vest reads: "Felícitas "La Prieta" Méndez" 

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