Dr. Katherine Bowers has been awarded a 2022 University of British Columbia Public Engagement Award from the UBC Public Humanities Hub for her on-going public scholarship in the field of Dostoevsky studies, including a virtual public program for the Dostoevsky bicentenary in 2021 and her editorship of Bloggers Karamazov, as well as her organization of the Flash Teach-In on Ukraine and other events in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022. She is one of 5 winners this year.
The award committee wrote the following about Dr. Bowers’s work:
“[Dr. Bowers’s] nomination package provided a compelling summary of the ways in which [she has] exhibited outstanding public humanities engagement in the past two years. [Her] use of both conventional and creative channels to foster multi-directional exchanges about current events and to mobilize humanistic knowledge is exemplary: exactly the kind of public humanities work that the Hub wishes to encourage, so we are delighted to award [her] this prize.
“The Hub’s adjudication committee were unanimous in their appreciation of [her] file. [Her] publicly engaged work has had a measurable impact on UBC, on the field, and on both national and international communities. The committee particularly appreciated the care [Dr. Bowers has] taken to mentor students in public humanities and public engagement in addition to producing [her] own work. Members of the committee remarked on [her] innovative approaches to advancing scholarship in [her] field and the extensive reach of [her] open education resources.”
Congratulations to Dr. Bowers! More information about her publicly engaged scholarship can be found on her website.
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