On March 26, the Mississippi Humanities Council will host its 2021 Public Humanities Awards Ceremony to recognize outstanding work by Mississippians in bringing the insights of the humanities to public audiences.
Award winners include Natasha Trethewey, former Mississippi and U.S. Poet Laureate; Dr. James Giesen, associate professor of history at Mississippi State University and state scholar for the Mississippi tour of the Smithsonian traveling exhibit “Water/Ways;” the Mississippi Book Festival, the state’s preeminent literary event; Marta Smally, discussion leader for the M. R. Dye Public Library (Horn Lake Public Library)’s family reading program; and the “Hawkins vs. Town of Shaw” project, a theatrical production and corresponding historical markers about a local freedom movement in the Mississippi Delta. In addition to these awardees, the MHC will also celebrate recipients of the 2020 and 2021 Humanities Teacher Awards from each of our state’s institutions of higher learning.
The Council invites everyone to tune into the 2021 Public Humanities Awards ceremony, which will be streaming on Facebook and Youtube, starting March 26, 2021, at 7:00 p.m. Thanks to the support from major sponsors BancorpSouth, Sanderson Farms, Trustmark, and the Eudora Welty Foundation, the event is free to stream, though views are encouraged to make a donation to support the work of the Mississippi Humanities Council.
