Elena Cruz-López and Jacob Kopcienski, PhD candidates in musicology at Ohio State, present "Approaches to Community Engaged Research in the Humanities." This lecture is co-sponsored by The Ohio State University Libraries.
In the past 30 years, community-engaged scholarship has emerged as a substantial interdisciplinary field. Community-engaged scholarship has developed theories, methods and standards for structuring research projects and relationships between universities and community partners. These have been most frequently applied by university offices of outreach and engagement, public-facing research projects, and non-profit organizations. Recently, community-engaged scholars have called for a shift from traditional service and outreach models to approaches that engage communities as collaborators in research and creative activities. Building bridges between community-engaged scholarship and the humanities offers resources for structuring collaborative and interdisciplinary projects.
In this talk, Elena Cruz-López and Jacob Kopcienski will share resources and strategies from the Michigan State University’s 2022 Summer Intensive on Community-Engaged Scholarship. They will outline the history and principles of community-engaged scholarship and highlight how humanistic inquiry adds these conversations, methods and practices. Using case studies from the workshop, they introduce useful resources and strategies for various stages of community-engaged projects, including defining research questions, identifying partners, developing methods, collecting and analyzing data, designing and evaluating programs, and assessing and reflecting on relationships built during partnerships. They will share resources from the workshop and across Ohio State’s campus that can support faculty, staff, administrators and students in conducting community-engaged work. The talk will be followed by a conversation and reflection about how to further cultivate community-engaged work in the humanities at Ohio State.
Elena Cruz-López is a PhD candidate in musicology with a graduate minor in Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies. Elena’s current research focuses on the music of The Supremes, genre, fandom, and how the Supremes’ music shaped fans’ lives. Her work has been presented at the Midwest Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association conference. Some of her other research interests include popular music in the 20th and 21st centuries, women in popular music, and girlhood in popular culture. Elena volunteers for TEMPO Music and Arts Camp (formerly known as Grrrls Rock Columbus), a summer camp for girls, trans, and non-binary youth ages 12 to 18. With TEMPO she works as a keyboard instructor and band coach.
Jacob Kopcienski is a PhD candidate in Musicology with a GIS in folklore whose multifaceted work explores music, listening, and community through writing, teaching, collaboration and community-engaged projects. Jacob’s dissertation project “Sounding Queer Appalachia” uses ethnography, archival research and media analysis to examine how socio-musical activities generate and maintain LGBTQ communities, placemaking and intersectional activism in Appalachia. Jacob has also worked with the Ohio State Center for Folklore Studies and the Rendville Historic Preservation Society on a public humanities project documenting the history of the cemetery in Rendville, Ohio. Also an accomplished saxophonist and performing artist, Jacob is a staff writer for the website I Care if You Listen and was a part of the Ohio State Sonic Arts Ensemble’s collaborative composition/improvisation project album Live from the Multiverse.
Lectures in Musicology is co-sponsored by The Ohio State University Libraries.
Lectures are held Mondays at 4 p.m. in the 18th Avenue Library, 175 W. 18th Ave. (Music/Dance Library, second floor, room 205). These events are free and open to the public. Campus visitors, please use either the Tuttle Park Place Garage or the Ohio Union South Garage. All other garages in the vicinity of the 18th Ave. Library are closed to visitors before 4 p.m.
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