PI: Dr. Renee Jordan (Morehouse College)

CoPIs: Dr. Celeste N. Lee (Spelman College), and Dr. Natasha K. McClendon (Spelman College)

This project will develop and pilot a humanities-centered AI faculty workshop that reframes artificial intelligence as a tool for interpretation, scaffolding, and student agency—not a shortcut for cognition. Building on our 2025 Associated Colleges of the South (ACS) interdisciplinary AI workshop, this project offers a structured model for interpretation-first prompt engineering that centers the needs of faculty in humanistic disciplines. Data from the ACS workshop exit surveys revealed that humanities faculty desire additional exposure to AI tools for writing support, historical context-building, multimodal analysis, and scaffolding for students who need more time to process complex materials. Likewise, humanities faculty reported a need for enhanced conversations around responsible AI use. Drawing on this feedback this AIAI workshop will guide humanities faculty in using AI to support qualitative reasoning, textual analysis, multimodal critique, historical imagination, writing development, and additional pathways for learning. Through hands-on exploration participants will learn how to design prompts that deepen student understanding, develop self-editing practices, strengthen research processes, and reduce cognitive load—especially for learners with attention or processing challenges. By centering humanistic inquiry, this workshop aims to equip faculty with practical, ethical, and creative strategies for supporting rich, rigorous, and inclusive learning through AI.