News and Events from the National Humanities Center

The National Humanities Center is pleased to announce the appointment of 31 Fellows for the 2024–25 academic year. Chosen from 492 applicants, they represent humanistic scholarship in an array ...

https://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/the-national-humanities-center-announces-2024-25-fellows/

This month we highlight the research of 2023–24 Fellows whose projects reexamine historical actors, events, and eras by shifting the perspectives through which they’ve previously been viewed....

https://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/featured-research-changing-perspectives/

This month we highlight the research of 2023–24 Fellows whose projects explore how computing has reshaped thinking around everything from political power to literary study and how the promises ...

https://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/featured-research-life-in-a-data-driven-technology-mediated-world/

How do scholars’ backgrounds and communities inform the research questions they pursue in the humanities? Historian DEVIN FERGUS (NHC Fellow, 2023–24), feminist cultural critic LYNN MIE ITAGA...

https://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/scholar-to-scholar-talk-positionality-and-inequality-in-the-humanities/

This month we highlight the research of 2023–24 Fellows whose projects explore the human experience through the lens of settled spaces, revealing new insights about the importance of place in u...

https://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/featured-research-city-town-village/

The inaugural USA edition of the “Being Human” Festival involves events in eight locations across the country. Organized and presented by local artists, scholars, and educators, these events ...

https://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/2024-being-human-festival-usa/

This month we highlight the research of 2023–24 Fellows whose projects consider the ways that lived experience is colored, configured, and interpreted. These scholars are exploring the ways tha...

https://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/featured-research-affect-perception-and-reality/

This month we highlight the research of 2023–24 Fellows whose projects look at the immediate and extended social effects of incarceration, resistance in the midst of captivity, and efforts to c...

https://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/featured-research-addressing-legacies-of-injustice-effects-of-bondage/

The National Humanities Center has selected thirty-two undergraduates for its National Humanities Leadership Council. Nominated by faculty from colleges and universities across the country, these...

https://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/national-humanities-center-names-students-for-2023-24-leadership-council/

Inspired by and undertaken in partnership with the United Kingdom’s “Being Human” Festival, this inaugural US version will include community-focused events in nine locations across the coun...

https://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/national-humanities-center-announces-sites-for-inaugural-being-human-festival/