Meet humanities center postdoctoral fellow Rachael DeWitt
Rachael DeWitt, scholar of American literature and environmental humanities, joined the Center for the Humanities for a two-year postdoctoral fellowship.
Why Treblinka, part of ‘the largest single murder campaign within the Holocaust,’ remains unknown to Americans
Ahead of the 2024 Holocaust Memorial Lecture on Nov. 12, Erin McGlothlin elucidates the neglected Holocaust site of Treblinka, whose history has been veiled by language barriers and a shockingly low survival rate.
The secret lives of women spies
With her latest book project, Faculty Fellow Tabea Linhard examines the stories of real-life women suspected of spycraft in the 20th century.
The Engaged City initiative to launch
Funded by a $500,000 grant from the Mellon Foundation, with additional support from the Office of the Provost, the Engaged City aims to highlight St. Louis’ cultural resources — and to reframe how the city sees, understands and talks about itself.
About the Center
The human fingerprint maps our identity, the ties that bind us, the lingering traces we leave on this earth. As humanists, we explore the durability as well as the fragility of the human condition — opening windows onto worlds near to home and oceans away, worlds we interpret through stories and images, poems and performance, history and narratives, sounds and silence. At Washington University in St. Louis, the Center for the Humanities facilitates the labor of humanists by nurturing innovative research, transformative pedagogy, and vibrant community engagement locally and globally.
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Funding new research in the humanities
Pursuing new scholarly ideas about the world takes funding — whether it's for a two-month tour of research sites in Japan or a two-week trip to an archive to view materials available only there — that can be hard to find via regular channels. The Center for the Humanities fills this gap with a number of funding opportunities for Washington University faculty in the humanities and humanistic social sciences. Learn more about their stories!
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The Unbearable Burden of Black Studies and the Enduring Fight for American Democracy
Hillman Hall, Clark-Fox Forum + Zoom
Khalil Gibran Muhammad, the Ford Foundation Professor of History, Race, and Public Policy, Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government – McLeod Lecture on Higher Education
View EventInterpolations 2: Spatial Computing and Performance
Umrath Lounge
View EventAmericanist Dinner Forum - Interrogating the Carceral State: Intersections in Native, Black, Latinx, Arab American, Asian American, Muslim American, Pacific Islander, and Gender Studies
Umrath Lounge
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The caliph’s counselor
Peace of mind: The science and philosophy of mental health
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