Celebrating a Milestone: Joshua Calhoun and Sarah Marty's First Academic Article on Holding History’s Public Humanities Work

We’re excited to share that Joshua Calhoun and Sarah Marty have published a new article, How to Design Public Events, in Public Humanities, a new open-access journal from Cambridge University Press.

The piece reflects on over ten years of collaborative work between a humanities scholar and an arts administrator, offering a thoughtful and practical framework for intentional public event design. Calhoun and Marty explain how this cross-disciplinary collaboration has helped to develop both a methodology and a pedagogy for event planning that reflect Holding History’s values.

The article includes a tool they developed—the “Life Cycle of an Event” worksheet—and offers actionable advice for scholars and administrators committed to inclusive, community-centered, and student-supportive work. A downloadable version of the worksheet is included below.

We at Holding History are so thrilled for Josh and Sarah’s accomplishments and this article is one example of many that presents a strong case for recognizing publicly engaged work as a vital form of scholarship. Many congrats to the two of them on this huge milestone!

Life Cycle of an Event Worksheet.pdf

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