What Does Radical Scholarship Look Like?

Hosted by Jessica Barness and Amy Papaelias, this virtual event built the PGDA’s collections related to design and radical scholarship.

Radical Scholarship Design refers to the design of academic artifacts that establish or explore new disciplines emerging from social and political movements over the past sixty years. As a means to shift disciplinary focus, launch new branches of thought, or make scholarship more accessible beyond the academy, the radical academic artifact — as a political and social agent, often produced with limited resources — typically must balance its counterculture presence alongside its institutional standing. Often produced with limited resources and minimal professional design expertise, these artifacts reflect the complex relationships between design, radical disciplines, and the visual conventions of academic publishing. Learn more about Amy and Jessica's research at whatscholarshiplookslike.net

Participants added artifacts such as peer reviewed or scholarly journals, conference proceedings, syllabi, departmental ephemera, and more. View the full collection of additions here.

Lesbo — Political, Social and Cultural Magazine, a Slovenian publication from the 1990s and 2000s, uploaded by Irma Pusakarevic

Journal of Radical Philosophy, c. 1972

Radical Criminology: A Manifesto from 2012, uploaded by Jeremiah Norholdt

The Black Scholar from November 1977, with cover illustration by Aaron Douglas

Doing Feminism: Teaching and Research in the Academy from 1997

Science for the People, Vol. 2, No. 2 from 1970