Congratulations to Mary Rizzo on the publication of her recent article, “More than Fun and Games?: Play, Public Humanities, and Engaged Democracy,” found in the open-access journal Public. In the piece, she examines the “history of the public humanities as an intellectual endeavor and suggests that, using examples from state humanities councils and others, play may be a more appropriate model for the future.”
Read it here: http://public.
Mary Rizzo is Public Historian in Residence at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Center for the Humanities (MARCH) and Co-Editor of the Public Historian. She most recently served as the associate director and acting executive director of the New Jersey Council for the Humanities. Read more of her writings here at MARCH; at History@Work, the National Council on Public History’s Public History Commons, and at maryrizzo.net.