National Humanities Center Board Welcomes New Members
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.
News From the Center
National Humanities Center Commits Support to HBCU Faculty Research
In an effort to address historical inequities in research support for faculty at Historically Black Colleges and Universities, the National Humanities Center has partnered with the UNCF/Mellon Programs as well as dedicated a portion of its endowment to make residential fellowship opportunities available to HBCU scholars.
National Humanities Center Partners with Geiss Hsu Foundation to Support Scholarly Work on Early Modern China
The NHC has received an award from the James P. Geiss and Margaret Y. Hsu Foundation to support a scholar working on a topic involving Early Modern China in each of the next three academic years, beginning in 2023–24. The award will help fund a residential fellowship at the Center for selected scholars to pursue book-length projects. They will join a cohort of 30–40 other humanities scholars from across disciplines working on a wide range of topics as part of the Center’s robust intellectual community.
NHC Welcomes Educators for New Institute Series on Teaching African American Studies
On July 5th, the National Humanities Center will welcome 24 educators for the first of a series of institutes on teaching African American studies. This weeklong, immersive experience, organized in partnership with Prairie View A&M University, is part of a pilot project designed to promote more effective teaching about the African American experience and elevate the scholarly work of Prairie View faculty and alumni.
NHC Partnering with Prairie View A&M to Address Racial Injustice Through Scholarship and Education
In partnership with Prairie View A&M University, the National Humanities Center has launched a pilot project to support more effective teaching about the African American experience and help elevate the scholarly work of Prairie View faculty and alumni.
National Humanities Center Names 2022–23 Teacher Advisory Council
The National Humanities Center announces the selection of twenty gifted educators as members of its 2022–23 Teacher Advisory Council. These teachers, from schools in fourteen states, will work with the Center’s Education Programs staff in piloting, evaluating, and promoting the Center’s nationally-recognized resources and programs that support humanities teaching and professional development at the collegiate and pre-collegiate levels.
National Humanities Center Announces 2022–23 Fellows
The National Humanities Center is pleased to announce the appointment of 33 Fellows for the academic year 2022–23. These leading scholars will come to the Center from universities and colleges in 16 U.S. states as well as Australia, Canada, Costa Rica, Hong Kong, Singapore, and South Africa. Chosen from 592 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.
New NHC Program Will Help Universities Develop Responsible AI Courses
The National Humanities Center announces a new initiative to bolster college-level curricula for developing responsible artificial intelligence technologies. Supported by a gift from Google, the NHC will partner with faculty from fifteen colleges and universities in the U.S. to create and implement courses to help students comprehend the myriad ways AI technologies are integrated into modern life and to think through the ethical issues involved in developing and deploying them.
Between the Covers, Spring 2022: Fellows Discuss Their Recent Publications
NHC Fellows have produced a wide assortment of fascinating and award-winning books in the past year. We asked four of them—Candace Bailey, Colin Jones, James Mulholland, and Lena Cowen Orlin—to share a little about their new publications and to reflect on the process of writing them.
National Humanities Center Names Inaugural Leadership Council
The Center welcomes seventeen undergraduates from colleges and universities in eight states for its inaugural National Humanities Leadership Council. These students will receive professional development and mentoring from leading scholars and other humanities professionals in discussion sessions that explore the essential importance of humanistic perspectives in addressing the concerns of contemporary society.