This month we highlight the research of 2022–23 Fellows whose projects examine two very different kinds of institutions—prisons and museums—and consider how they viscerally enact the ways we think about pleasure, punishment, and social status, both inside and beyond their walls.
This month we highlight the research of 2022–23 Fellows whose projects shed light on the historical, cultural, and political context surrounding ongoing issues in Africa and the greater world.
The National Humanities Center is pleased to announce the appointment of 35 Fellows for the academic year 2023–24. These leading scholars will come to the Center from universities and colleges in 16 US states as well as Canada, Hong Kong, Nigeria, Singapore, South Africa, Taiwan, and the United Kingdom. Chosen from 541 applicants, they represent humanistic scholarship in a wide range of academic disciplines.
This month we highlight the research of 2022–23 Fellows whose projects examine the ways that gender and sexuality have been understood across time and in different settings around the world.
The National Humanities Center is working to help teachers with questions about the civil rights struggle and other topics in African American studies through its Teaching African American Studies Institutes. The newest of these, More Than a Slogan: Understanding the Historical Context of Black Lives Matter (February 6–10), will provide an immersive, hands-on learning experience to help educators better understand the approaches and historical perspectives required to teach African American studies to K–12 students.
This month we highlight the research of Fellows from the class of 2022–23 whose projects examine the ways that people have dealt with the oppressive actions of state actors in a variety of cultural and political contexts since the early twentieth century.
This month we highlight the research of Fellows from the class of 2022–23 whose projects examine the powerful influence artists can have, affecting the lives of others and the culture at large well beyond the page, the stage, or the recording studio.
The NHC is pleased to welcome twenty-two undergraduates who have been selected for the Center’s National Humanities Leadership Council. Nominated by faculty from colleges and universities across the country, these students will receive professional development and mentoring from leading scholars and other humanities professionals as well as research support, opportunities for networking, and access to NHC programming and expertise.
This month we highlight the research of Fellows from the class of 2022–23 whose projects consider the sometimes tenuous relationship between what we perceive and what we believe—about ourselves and the world around us.
The Board of Trustees of the National Humanities Center has elected three new members: entrepreneur Margo Drakos, broadcast journalist David Folkenflik, and author Héctor Tobar.