Featured Research: November 2021
This month, we highlight the research of Fellows from the class of 2021–22 who are exploring the ways that we interact with music and sound to create a sense of ourselves and connect with the world around us.
News From the Center
National Humanities Center Receives Funding for New Education Initiative on Imperial Chinese History
The National Humanities Center has received funding from the James P. Geiss and Margaret Y. Hsu Foundation to create a set of professional development resources for educators focused on Ming Dynasty China (1368–1644).
Featured Research: October 2021
This month, we highlight the research of three Fellows from the class of 2021–22, all of whom are part of the Center’s ongoing initiative to support research by scholars from Historically Black Colleges and Universities.
National Humanities Center Hires Five New Staff Members
The National Humanities Center is pleased to announce the addition of five new staff members: Audra Pringle, Jacqueline Kellish, Jera Lego, Meredith Graham, and Stevie Howland.
National Humanities Center Names 2021–22 Teacher Advisory Council
The National Humanities Center is pleased to announce the selection of twenty exceptional educators as members of its 2021–22 Teacher Advisory Council. These teachers, drawn from an array of teaching environments across the United States, will work with the Center’s education program staff in piloting, evaluating, and promoting materials and professional development offerings.
National Humanities Center Announces 2021–22 Fellows
The National Humanities Center is pleased to announce the appointment of 36 Fellows for the academic year 2021–22. These leading scholars will come to the Center from universities and colleges in 16 U.S. states as well as from Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Nigeria, and Taiwan. Chosen from 638 applicants, each Fellow will work on an individual research project and will have the opportunity to share ideas in seminars, lectures, and conferences at the Center.
NHC Receives Award to Support Scholarly Work on Chinese History
The National Humanities Center has been awarded a grant from the James P. Geiss and Margaret Y. Hsu Foundation to support the work of a scholar working in the field of Chinese history during the 2021–22 fellowship year. The award will allow the selected scholar to intensively pursue a book-length project at the Center in the company of a stimulating intellectual community while receiving the exemplary research support for which the NHC is known.
Center Receives NEH Grant in Support of Fellowship Program
The National Humanities Center has been awarded a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities in support of the Center’s residential fellowship program. The $390,000 NEH grant will be used to support the work of scholars conducting advanced humanities research at the Center over the course of the next three years.
The National Humanities Center’s Statement Condemning Anti-Asian Violence
The community of the National Humanities Center grieves the recent wave of anti-Asian violence in communities across the United States, including the mass murder of eight people in Atlanta, Georgia, on March 16, 2021. We condemn these acts of violence as well as the racism and xenophobia that motivate them, recognizing how such attitudes insinuate themselves into the fabric of our society, poison it, and produce suffering for untold victims of aggression and discrimination.
Between the Covers, Fall 2020: Fellows Discuss Their Recent Publications
NHC Fellows have produced a wide assortment of fascinating and award-winning books this year. We asked six of them to share a little about their new publications and to reflect on the process of writing them.