The Heresies Project
Heresies at Bucknell is a long-running research project dedicated to the recovery, recuperation, and preservation of the Heresies journal —…
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Presenting academic research to non-specialist audiences, and engaging local and global partners as members of a larger community of research and learning.
Bertrand Library’s Public Scholarship Hub
Bucknell researchers from all departments and centers meet in Bertrand Library, creating a shared space for interdisciplinary collaboration and exchange. Our Public Scholarship Hub, rooted in this rich environment, reaches out into the wider community, involving members of the public not only as a valued audience for scholarship, but active partners collaborating as partners in research and archival preservation.
While all departments of Bertrand Library engage with public scholarship activity to supporting projects from concept to catalog entry, two in particular participate extensively in research and publication.
Special Collections/University Archives
SCUA is are committed to partnering with community organizations beyond the Bucknell campus to make their primary source materials more accessible for researchers and the public. We work with the partners to plan for potential preservation, arrangement, digitization, and online hosting, as well as assisting with seeking funding sources.
Digital Pedagogy & Scholarship
DP&S provides the public scholarship community the tools and training to make the most of digital technology. Our teams make GIS and mapping platforms, multimedia creation, data analysis and visualization, web design, and digital publishing accessible for researchers from Bucknell and beyond.
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For more on public scholarship projects and participation, we encourage all Bucknell scholars and community members to contact us at publicscholarship@bucknell.edu, and explore some of our featured projects below.
Public Scholarship Projects
Current projects at Bucknell:
Japanese Paper Films Restoration and Preservation Project
Preserving 1930’s Japanese produced films made on paper (“kami firumu”) instead of celluloid. The Japanese Paper Film Project preserves surviving…
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Merrill W. Linn Conservancy Digital Dashboard
Prof. Beth Capaldi worked with Janine Glathar, Lucas Hower ’26, and Sophia Martinez ’26 to develop a suite of digital/spatial…
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Mithila Story Archive
This archive of Maithil women’s tales preserves this art for generations to come for the Maithil and broader South Asian…
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AACSB Assessment Limited Podcast Series
Vanessa Hill explores her colleagues understanding of Freeman College’s mission & vision through a pop-culture lens of interviews, research, &…
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LEAF: changing ways to produce digital scholarly editions
In 2018 Diane Jakacki and Bucknell received an NHPRC-Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Digital Edition Publishing Cooperatives Planning Grant to develop REED London…
BU Film Club | Spring Weekend Film Challenge
The BU Film Club + Library & IT sponsored a weekend film challenge in April of 2024 where participants recieved a prop…
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When the Only Cure for Motion Sickness is to Keep Moving
a six-episode podcast in which Zoe Wilson ’23 catalogs and analyzes the key textual changes made to Tony Kushner’s Tony…
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The Socioeconomic and Environmental Restoration of Shamokin
Professor Johnathan Favini and students in ENST 210: Environmental Ethnography worked with the Shamokin Creek Restoration Alliance (SCRA) to conduct…
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Stories of the Susquehanna Valley: Churches of Coal Country
Churches of Coal Country, the third installment in the Series of the Susquehanna Valley sequence, tells the story of how…
Latinx Twitter
In the summer and fall of 2017, DP&S worked with Professor Elena Machado and Tucker Leighty-Phillips (English ’18) on a…