Historic New Harmony exists because the University of Southern Indiana saw potential in nurturing what's always made this place special: a living laboratory where ideas get tested, questions get asked and different kinds of people come together to learn.
We work with USI faculty, staff and students in ways that benefit everyone. Faculty can develop research projects using our collections and sites. Students can intern with us or do experiential learning that connects classroom work to real preservation and public history practice. Scholars from other places can come here to do research, use our space and engage with what we're doing. This work is central to Historic New Harmony's mission.
We're part of USI's Outreach and Engagement division, which means we have resources to support collaboration. The New Harmony Outreach & Engagement Grant and the Endowment for New Harmony Studies provide funding for research projects, courses and programs. We have temporary office space and overnight accommodations for visiting scholars who need to spend extended time with our collections or sites.
If you're faculty, staff or a student at any university and you're interested in working with us, get in touch. We're open to conversations about what might be possible.
New Harmony works for teaching and research in ways most places can't. We're a living laboratory with primary sources, historic sites and two centuries of experiments to study. We also have funding specifically designed to support faculty who want to work here.
The Endowment for New Harmony Studies and the New Harmony Outreach and Engagement Grant exist to help you bring academic ideas to reality. Developing a new course that needs an authentic setting? Pursuing research that requires access to our collections? Planning student projects that benefit from hands-on learning in a historic environment? We can help make it happen.
Our staff works directly with faculty to create partnerships connect classroom concepts to real places, objects and questions. Students don't just read about utopian communities or social experiments. They come here, see the buildings, work with primary sources and engage with history in ways that stick with them.
New Harmony has been inspiring innovative thinking for over 200 years. If you're faculty looking for a place that can enrich your teaching and advance your research, contact us. Let's figure out what's possible.
If you're a student, New Harmony offers ways to connect what you're learning in class to actual work that matters. Service-learning projects that address real community needs. Capstone work that explores New Harmony's ongoing relevance. Internships where you do museum and historic site work alongside our staff. Beyond resume builders, these are opportunities to figure out how the skills you're developing apply to preserving cultural heritage, engaging different audiences and collaborating on something bigger than yourself.
New Harmony has always been about people working together toward shared visions. That tradition continues when students come here to experience, explore and create.
Whether you're studying history, education, business, communications or something else that intersects with community development and cultural preservation, New Harmony can be a laboratory for applying what you're learning. If you're interested in how ordinary people accomplish extraordinary things when they work together, this place has something to teach you.
Are you interested in working with us? We'd be happy to have a conversation with you. Contact us at harmony@usi.edu or 812-682-4488.
Office Hours: Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Central Time
