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Featured Research

Fellows at the National Humanities Center explore an astonishingly diverse array of topics, touching on people, events, and ideas across time and geography.

Below you'll find Fellows sharing a little about how they were inspired to pursue the subjects they study, insights they've gained through their research, and how their work contributes to their disciplines and to our understanding of the human experience.

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Featured Research: Public Rightdoing and Wrongdoing

This month we highlight the research of 2024–25 Fellows whose projects explore accountability as an ongoing process of revision, and how the pursuit of serving and tending to ourselves reveal new insights concerning discrimination, surveillance, and peacekeeping.

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Featured Research: Writers, Writing, and the Self

This month we highlight the research of 2024–25 Fellows whose projects explore writing as an embodied process in the lives and practices of writers, and as means through which we shape and come to understand lived experience—both our own and that of others.

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Featured Research: Balancing the Scales

This month we highlight the research of 2023–24 Fellows whose projects consider the pursuit of justice, both criminal and social, in a variety of contexts and through diverse means—governmental investigations, courts, artistic protest, and the development of communities united by shared experiences of discrimination.

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Featured Research: Changing Perspectives

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. They encourage us to assume a different point of view and to consider previously unnoticed aspects revealed about the lives of their subjects.

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Featured Research: City, Town, Village

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 understanding the human experience.

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Featured Research: Affect, Perception, and Reality

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 that thought, feeling, and custom produce subjective lenses through which we encounter the world and extract meaning.

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Featured Research: Responding to a Changing World

This month we highlight the research of 2023–24 Fellows whose projects consider the ways that humans and environments act upon one another, challenging people physically, culturally, and ethically to commune, negotiate, innovate, and adapt.