Faculty in the humanities and humanistic social sciences don’t have go it alone: Trisha Sutton is on your side. In this Q&A, she explains how she can help you prepare and submit grant and fellowship applications big and small — as well as the many offices and acronyms involved in the process.
After compiling more than 100,000 records from the earliest days of the American Republic, Faculty Fellow Peter Kastor seeks to reconstruct and understand the federal government at the moment of its creation. With his book and database project currently underway, he is chronicling how the Founding Fathers faced the daily challenges of running a new and complex government.
Who was the Puritan poet Anne Bradstreet, and what did her work mean in her own time? What can we learn from her today? The answers to those questions are evolving, says scholar of early America Abram Van Engen. Since the 1650 publication of her collection “The Tenth Muse” — the first by any author of British North America — Bradstreet’s poems have been read, studied and anthologized. But new advances necessitate a fresh look at this early American writer.
In the seven years since the Zika virus arrived in Brazil, medical anthropologist Eliza Williamson has studied how the disabling effect of caring for the young afflicted has compounded the already oppressing effects of racism, misogyny and imperialism. Using this critical disability lens, Williamson considers what the aftermath of COVID-19 will produce.
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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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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