Featured Scholar: Jason Kelly, PhD, FSA, FRHistS
Director, IU Indianapolis Arts & Humanities Institute
Chair, Department of History in the IU School of Liberal Arts at IU Indianapolis
Research Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjpsWsoOrp8
Transdisciplinarity, Public Scholarship, and the Anthropocene
Jason Kelly is a Professor and the Chair of the History Department at IU Indianapolis. He is also an Adjunct Professor in Africana Studies and in American Studies. And, Professor Kelly is the Director of the IU Indianapolis Arts and Humanities Institute (IAHI). Professor Kelly is a historian of 18th century British art, science, and society.
But like many scholars, his research focus has grown from these interests especially in his role as Director of IAHI, in which he directs three community-engaged research programs. The first of these programs is the Anthropocene Household Project which looks at the lived experience of global environmental change at the household level. In collaboration with the IU Indianapolis School of Science, a key component of this project has been providing soil, dust, and water lead testing kits to reduce lead poisoning in central Indiana. The second of these programs is the Cultural Ecologies Project which looks at how cultural interventions transform cities. IAHI works with organizations and municipal entities to create more equitable and inclusive cultural landscapes. Finally, the COVID-19 Oral History Project is currently documenting the contemporary history of COVID-19.
These projects are connected by a concern with transdisciplinary and interdisciplinary collaborations especially those that foreground the contributions of the arts and humanities. They are also connected by a concern with community-engaged scholarship. These projects not only seek to address their research topics but to create new models for university-based arts and humanities scholarship for the 21st century. Professor Kelly's translation of research is another excellent example of how IU Indianapolis's faculty members are TRANSLATING their RESEARCH INTO PRACTICE.
Selected Publications in IU Indianapolis ScholarWorks
With several research works contributed to IU Indianapolis's free, open access repository, Professor Jason Kelly has made translational research knowledge available to professionals, researchers, students, and communities around the world.
Filippelli, G., Hicks, I., Druschel, G., Kelly, J., Shukle, J., Strout, S., Nichols, N., Stroud, D., Ottenweller, M., Ohrberg, M., Longbrake, M., Wood, L., Clark, B., & Fryling, K. (2021). Addressing Risks of Lead in Water and Soil: Using Citizen Science and a Unique Partnership with Faith Organizations. ENGAGE! Co-Created Knowledge Serving the City, 3(1), Article 1. https://hdl.handle.net/1805/27250
Kelly, J. M. (2020). The COVID-19 Oral History Project: Some Preliminary Notes from the Field. The Oral History Review, 47(2), 240-252. https://hdl.handle.net/1805/26091
Kelly, J. M., & Horan, J. (2020). Archive as Pedagogy: Oral History and a Journal of the Plague Year. Collections. https://hdl.handle.net/1805/25051
Kelly, J. M. (2020). Gregg Mitman, Marco Armiero, and Robert S. Emmett, editors. Future Remains: A Cabinet of Curiosities for the Anthropocene.Raj Patel and Jason W. Moore. A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things: A Guide to Capitalism, Nature, and the Future of the Planet. The American Historical Review, 125(3), 951–955. https://hdl.handle.net/1805/24029
Kelly, J. M. (2019). The End of Abundance: Water Infrastructure and the Culture of Cornucopianism. Dilettante Army. http://www.dilettantearmy.com/articles/the-end-of-abundance. https://hdl.handle.net/1805/24584
Kelly, J. M. (2017). Reading the Grand Tour at a Distance: Archives and Datasets in Digital History. The American Historical Review, 122(2), 451–463. https://hdl.handle.net/1805/15687
Kelly, J. M., Scarpino, P., Berry, H., Syvitski, J., & Meybeck, M., editors. (2017). Rivers of the Anthropocene. University of California Press. https://hdl.handle.net/1805/14855
Kelly, Jason M. "A Classical Education: Naples and the Heart of European Culture." Seduction and Celebrity: The Spectacular Life of Emma Hamilton, ed. Quintin Colville and Kate Williams. London: National Maritime Museum and Thames and Hudson, 2016. 109-37. https://hdl.handle.net/1805/27077
Kelly, Jason M. "Transdisciplinarity, Human-Nature Entanglements, and Transboundary Water Systems in the Anthropocence." The Global Water System in the Anthropocene: Challenges for Science and Governance, ed. Anik Bhaduri, Janos Bogardi, Jan Leentvaar, and Sina Marx. Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 2014. 173-82. https://hdl.handle.net/1805/8026
Kelly, Jason M. "Chartists." The International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest. Ness, Immanuel (ed). Blackwell Publishing, 2009. Blackwell Reference Online. https://hdl.handle.net/1805/7894
Kelly, Jason M. "Wilkes, John (1725–1797) and the “Wilkes and Liberty” movement." The International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest. Ness, Immanuel (ed). Blackwell Publishing, 2009. Blackwell Reference Online. https://hdl.handle.net/1805/8021
Kelly, Jason M. "Howard Zinn and the Struggle for the Microphone: History, Objectivity, and Citizenship." International Journal of Social Education, special Issue on "The Life and Work of Howard Zinn." 24.1 (2009 [2012]): 19-26. https://hdl.handle.net/1805/8024
Kelly, Jason M. 2007. “James 'athenian' Stuart's Portrait of James Dawkins”. The British Art Journal 8 (2). The British Art Journal: 24–25. https://hdl.handle.net/1805/8023
Kelly, Jason M. 2007. “The Portraits of Sir James Gray (c1708-73)”. The British Art Journal 8 (1). The British Art Journal: 15–19. https://hdl.handle.net/1805/8022