WebinAAR | Implementing the AAR Guidelines for Supporting and Evaluating Public Scholarship at Your Institution

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The AAR Board of Directors approved the “Guidelines for Supporting and Evaluating Public Scholarship in Religion” in January 2025. Now we need your help to make these commitments real.

What are the challenges and opportunities for adapting/adopting these guidelines in your institution? How might they impact promotion and tenure policies, graduate education, mentorship, and institutional priorities? How do you make change happen? What are the diverse ways that schools, philanthropy, and non-profits are supporting public scholarship?

Join this webinAAR for a discussion around all these topics and more. AAR Executive Director Claudia Schippert will moderate.

Speaker Bios

Laurie Patton | Patton is president of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a former president of AAR. Her work was instrumental in getting “enhance the public understanding of religion” embedded as a central part of AAR’s mission.

Angela Sims | Sims is president of Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School and currently serves as AAR’s vice president. Sims has engaged in and supported public scholarship at every step of her career.

Jason Bruner | Bruner is a professor of religious studies and director of the Desert Humanities Initiative at Arizona State University. Bruner spearheads the process at ASU that incorporated public scholarship as scholarship in P&T policies.

Erica Kohl-Arenas | Kohl-Arenas is an associate professor of American Studies at UC-Davis and faculty director at Imagining America (IA). IA is doing amazing work in developing best practices for support and evaluation of public scholarship.