With her new book project, Faculty Fellow Lori Watson is developing a new general theory of domination that centers the experiences of people who have been historically subordinated, drawing on the work of gender theorists, critical race theorists and colonial studies.
Sixty years after its fight for independence from France, Algeria maintains a low profile in the Western world. Graduate Student Fellow Lacy Murphy (Art History and Archaeology) takes a close look at French designer Henry Dormoy’s 1930 poster that celebrated the centennial anniversary of the conquest of Algeria to offer an explanation of the country’s skepticism of the West.
A midcentury surge of schoolteachers, trained as agents of rural progress, brought modern education to even the most remote areas of the Andean provinces of Peru. Faculty Fellow Javier García Liendo offers a preview of his book in progress, “The Children of Indigenismo: Schoolteachers and the Making of Popular Modernity in Peru.”
Graduate student Sylvia Sukop previews the 2022 Holocaust Memorial Lecture (Thurs., Nov. 3), on the wave of genocidal antisemitic violence in Ukraine and Poland in the years immediately following World War I and which created the conditions for the Holocaust.
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!
Matthias Goeritz, Professor of Practice of Comparative Literature, and Mary Jo Bang, Professor of English, Washington University
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