The Mississippi Humanities Council invites nominations for its 2020 Public Humanities Achievement Awards, which honor outstanding contributions in the arena of public humanities.
Nominations will be accepted for Humanities Scholar Award, Preserver of Mississippi Culture Award, Humanities Partner Award, Educator Award, and Cora Norman Award.
The Council began issuing Achievement Awards in 1993 to recognize persons who have supported the Council’s work through public programs across the state based in the branches of learning concerned with human thought and relations, such as history, literature, culture, values and ideas. All Mississippians are invited to make nominations for these awards. Nominations are reviewed by a panel, which selects the year’s awardees.
“The Public Humanities Achievement Awards bring statewide attention to individuals or institutions in Mississippi that have made significant contributions to the humanities or who have led exceptional public humanities programming in Mississippi,” said Dr. Stuart Rockoff, executive director of the Mississippi Humanities Council.
All awards will be presented at the Mississippi Humanities Council’s 2020 Public Humanities Awards Gala and Friday, March 27, 2020, at the Old Capitol Museum in Jackson. Recipients of the 2020 Humanities Teacher Awards, which pay tribute to outstanding faculty in traditional humanities fields, will also be honored at the banquet.
Nomination forms for Public Humanities Awards may be found online at www.mshumanities.org. For information call 601-432-6752.
The Mississippi Humanities Council is funded by Congress through the National Endowment for the Humanities to provide public programs in traditional liberal arts disciplines to serve nonprofit groups in Mississippi.