Community Engagement as Academic Service

• In Event: Resistance in/and Institutions: Drawing Comparisons among the University, Archive, and Marketplace for Literary Translation

Abstract

The professor’s triadic duties began to include service—to the discipline, for instance—in the early 1900s; particularly within Black and Native American Studies, service to communities of Color have long been understood as unwritten components of scholars’ service as well. This paper returns to the early 20th century to explore the generative potential and limitations of community service as necessary intellectual labor as perhaps best remembered in projects like John Dewey’s laboratory schools and Jane Addams’s settlement project. It asks: What do the eugenicist overtones of much reform work of this period tell us about educational institutions’ foundational structures?

Presenter

• Abigail Fagan, Leibniz University Hannover