The Grounded Knowledge Project is a Henry Luce Foundation funded initiative to create gathering spaces for scholars committed to community-based research and public humanities in religious studies and develop a series of digital resources for the ongoing development of this work.  We’re creating spaces to highlight best practices and strategies, grow a network of practitioners, and creatively reimagining knowledge production

We also want to advocate for a more capacious understanding of scholarship and the many contexts in which scholarship takes place, especially outside the academy.

Over the next year, we’ll be hosting a webinar series and launching a resource website, a short documentary on community-based research, and a new online certificate program. Stay tuned for more information!

Events

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Locating Community-Based Research and Public Knowledge

DATE: Friday, December 8th
TIME: 1-2:30pm CST
REGISTER: through this link

Join the Grounded Knowledge Project for our latest public session! In this webinar, we’ll talk with experts from different disciplines and contexts about how their community-engaged research contributes to and broadens the study of religion and public knowledge, both in and out of the academy.

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What Is Grounded Knowledge? An Introductory Webinar

DATE: Friday, October 6th
TIME: 9-10am CST (add to calendar)
REGISTER: through this link

Join the Grounded Knowledge Project for our very first public session! In this webinar, we’ll introduce GKP and talk about public knowledge and community-based research in religious studies.

Scholar-practitioners Laura McTighe (Florida State University), Harold Morales (Morgan State University, Center for Religion and Cities), and Tiffany Puett (Institute for Diversity and Civic Life) will discuss this work, the challenges and needs of this space, and how we can help each other become more effective scholar-activists working in service to the public good.