{"id":795,"date":"2015-10-06T17:52:04","date_gmt":"2015-10-06T17:52:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/facultyhighlights\/?p=795"},"modified":"2015-10-06T17:52:04","modified_gmt":"2015-10-06T17:52:04","slug":"davarian-baldwins-vast-scholarship-on-display-in-hartford-around-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/facultyhighlights\/2015\/10\/06\/davarian-baldwins-vast-scholarship-on-display-in-hartford-around-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Davarian Baldwin\u2019s Vast Scholarship on Display in Hartford, Around the World"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Davarian Baldwin during a February panel discussion at the Wadsworth Atheneum.<\/p><\/div>\n

When Davarian Baldwin<\/a>, Paul E. Raether Distinguished Professor of American Studies, joined Trinity\u2019s faculty in 2009, he saw the tremendous value of the College\u2019s Hartford location as a source of scholarship and as an ideal setting for a liberal arts education.<\/p>\n

\u200b\u201cIt\u2019s about getting students out beyond the campus walls,\u201d he said. \u201cDoing work, talking to people, asking questions, and listening\u2026and hopefully even acting.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the years since, Baldwin has made good on that goal, leaving his mark both on Hartford and on urban landscapes throughout the country. His scholarship is vast, including such subjects as the civil rights movement, the role of African Americans in shaping American culture, and urban institutions of higher education.<\/p>\n

At Trinity, Baldwin is not only teaching at one such institution, but well positioned among the other cultural institutions that make urban America so distinctive. Recently, he participated in a panel at Hartford\u2019s Wadsworth Atheneum<\/a>, \u201cRace and Identity at Coney Island.\u201d The interdisciplinary symposium was part of the Wadsworth Atheneum\u2019s current exhibit, “Coney Island: Visions of an American Dreamland, 1861\u20132008.”<\/p>\n

Baldwin\u2019s scholarship is on display not just in Hartford, but around the country. Baldwin\u2019s expertise was featured by USA Today<\/a> in a recent story about the Harlem Renaissance. The Hartford Courant <\/a>turned to Baldwin to address the role of social media following protests in Ferguson, Missouri. A recent podcast<\/a> from the New York Public Library\u2019s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture featured Baldwin and his theory of \u201cUniverCities.\u201d Also at the Schomburg Center, he was part of a discussion <\/a>about the role of slavery in the development of institutions of higher education and how those institutions are transforming urban America today.<\/p>\n

Among the institutions Baldwin has examined are the University of Chicago, New York University, Arizona State University, and \u2013 of course \u2013 Trinity. And his scholarship has not been restricted to American audiences; on April 9-10, Baldwin will be in Shanghai, China, to present on \u201cUniversity-Community Relations in the Urban U.S.\u201d at the City and Society International Forum at Tongii University.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s no question that being here and having the support of Trinity\u2019s leadership has helped make this possible,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When Davarian Baldwin, Paul E. Raether Distinguished Professor of American Studies, joined Trinity\u2019s faculty in 2009, he saw the tremendous value of the College\u2019s Hartford location as a source of scholarship and as an ideal setting for a liberal arts education. \u200b\u201cIt\u2019s about getting students out beyond the campus walls,\u201d he said. \u201cDoing work, talking […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1424,"featured_media":797,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,39],"tags":[220,231,65],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/facultyhighlights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/facultyhighlights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/facultyhighlights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/facultyhighlights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1424"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/facultyhighlights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=795"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/facultyhighlights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":798,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/facultyhighlights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795\/revisions\/798"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/facultyhighlights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/facultyhighlights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/facultyhighlights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/facultyhighlights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}