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reflective tools,
confident communicators
content development
workshops
community of scholars
close reading skills
HumComm Scholars Program
storytelling
reach your audience
podcasting
partnerships
empathy-driven communications
You are already a humanities communicator. The HumComm Scholars Program exists to help you see that — and build from it.
Intro to Humanities Communication
This 90-minute workshop demonstrates the relevance of Humanities Communication for strengthening communication practices and showcasing what humanists do within and beyond the academy. You will learn the foundational principles of the emerging field of Humanities Communication and recognize how your existing communication practices align with Humanities Communication approaches. You will also identify opportunities to strengthen your capabilities for communicating your scholarship and develop strategies for supporting Humanities Communication initiatives in your own institution. Email scholars@chc.com for more information.
Everyday Humanities Communication
In this 60-minute interactive workshop, we'll explore how to transform the richness of your long-form humanities scholarship into potential multiple new forms and formats that resonate within and across disciplines and departments and beyond the academy. Using an experimental tool—the Everyday Humanities Communication Map—we'll work through a light-touch methodology that helps you identify what message you want to share, how you want to communicate it and to whom, and why it matters. Email scholars@chc.com for more information.
Podcasting Turn
FREE Workshop Your Story, Your Voice, Your Listeners: Humanities Communication and the Podcasting Turn The Humanities Podcast Network and the CHC will be hosting a 90-minute online workshop exploring podcasting as a powerful, accessible medium for humanities scholarship. Whether you're curious about starting a podcast, appearing as a guest, or simply communicating your research with more clarity and confidence, this session gives you both the conceptual tools and the practical grounding to get started. Register now to join the conversation! https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/Q0rQ0y0PSdKzKQJlIXSmgQ#/registration Email scholars@chc.com for more information.
Intro to Humanities Communication
This 90-minute workshop demonstrates the relevance of Humanities Communication for strengthening communication practices and showcasing what humanists do within and beyond the academy. You will learn the foundational principles of the emerging field of Humanities Communication and recognize how your existing communication practices align with Humanities Communication approaches. You will also identify opportunities to strengthen your capabilities for communicating your scholarship and develop strategies for supporting Humanities Communication initiatives in your own institution. Email scholars@chc.com for more information.
Everyday Humanities Communication
In this 60-minute interactive workshop, we'll explore how to transform the richness of your long-form humanities scholarship into potential multiple new forms and formats that resonate within and across disciplines and departments and beyond the academy. Using an experimental tool—the Everyday Humanities Communication Map—we'll work through a light-touch methodology that helps you identify what message you want to share, how you want to communicate it and to whom, and why it matters. Email scholars@chc.com for more information.
The Podcasting Turn
FREE Workshop Your Story, Your Voice, Your Listeners: Humanities Communication and the Podcasting Turn The Humanities Podcast Network and the CHC will be hosting a 90-minute online workshop exploring podcasting as a powerful, accessible medium for humanities scholarship. Whether you're curious about starting a podcast, appearing as a guest, or simply communicating your research with more clarity and confidence, this session gives you both the conceptual tools and the practical grounding to get started. Register now to join the conversation! https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/Q0rQ0y0PSdKzKQJlIXSmgQ#/registration Email scholars@chc.com for more information.
Custom HumComm Workshops
We design Scholar HumComm workshops for a few people, small organizations, and major institutions. Email scholars@chc.com for more information about developing a workshop specific to your organization.
We are not building a program for a particular demographic group within the humanities; we are building the infrastructure that was never built for any humanities scholar — regardless of discipline, career stage, institutional affiliation, or background. When all scholars have access to communication development, the range of voices contributing to public knowledge expands. CHC does not sort scholars; it removes a barrier that has, by default, restricted who gets to be heard beyond the academy.
Kath Burton and Anke Finger
Co-Director's of CHC's HumComm Scholars Program
Meet the inovators:
Kath Burton is the founder of Radically Hopeful, a publishing strategy practice committed to building a more equitable and creative scholarly communication landscape. She spent over two decades inside academic publishing, including senior roles at Routledge, Taylor & Francis, where she shaped global humanities and social sciences programs, and it was precisely that insider knowledge that led her towards Humanities Communication.
She watched brilliant scholars disappear into formats that flattened their ideas, and communities of researchers who had everything they needed to share their work, except a clear path forward. That gap is where Radically Hopeful began and where Kath's practice and approach now operates at the intersection of creativity and community.
Anke Finger is Professor of German Studies, Media Studies, and Comparative & Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of Connecticut. As the inaugural director of the graduate certificate in Digital Humanities and Media Studies and the director and co-director of two dual degree programs between German Studies and Business (EUROBIZ) as well as Engineering (EUROTECH), she practices and employs Humanities Communication daily, inside and beyond academia.
She joined the CHC following a startling encounter at a humanities conference: why would colleagues limit their immense communication abilities to only writing for other academics? She realized that benchmarks, metrics, and data points in the humanities needed more creativity, joy, avowal, and agency – in addition to better stories and narratives.
