Human Ties Features, Announcements

Pitching the humanities on the Hill

Every March, humanities scholars and practitioners have the opportunity to talk directly to the congressional offices that that decide how much of the federal budget supports programs such as the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Department of Education’s international education programs. Laura Perry, assistant director for research and public engagement in the Center for the Humanities, shares her experience from March 2022 and invites the WashU community to join her this year. Meeting with legislative aides from the offices of Missouri’s senators and representatives, Perry writes, “it’s up to us to make persuasive cases for why the humanities matter, in 30 minutes or less.”

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Human Ties Features

The World Cup of paradoxes

Sunita Parikh reflects on the 2022 FIFA World Cup, which intertwined thrilling sport and controversial politics.

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WashU’s first BECHS-Africa Fellow, André Fischer

André Fischer shares his experience with the residential fellowship program that sends WashU scholars to one of three African universities.

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Q&A with associate director Ignacio Infante

After five years with the Center for the Humanities in a variety of leadership roles, Ignacio Infante (Comparative Literature and Romance Languages and Literatures) is stepping down as associate director after the spring 2023 semester. While a search is underway, we asked Infante to reflect on his time with the center and tell us what’s next.

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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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Americanist Dinner Forum: Introducing  "Left in the Midwest:  St. Louis Progressive Activism in the 1960s and 1970s"

ZOOM Webinar

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Funding Information Lunches for Humanities Faculty

Danforth University Center, Room 234

Have lunch with us (our treat) as we learn about the available resources for pursuing external funding in the Office of Foundation Relations, Office of Research Development and Arts & Sciences!

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Global Indian, Nubile Indian: Caste and Marriage in the Making of the Indian Diaspora

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Shefali Chandra, Associate Professor of History, Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies, and Asian American Studies, Washington University

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Faculty Fellowships at Center for the Humanities

Time devoted exclusively to research and writing is integral to academic productivity. Faculty fellowships provide the opportunity to make significant strides.

Apply for funding for humanities research, fellowships, reading groups and more

The humanities center facilitates the labor of humanists by nurturing innovative research, transformative pedagogy, and vibrant community engagement locally and globally.

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