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.
Anxiety over new technology replacing jobs is nothing new, writes Graduate Student Fellow Ki Cora Chow. But, she reminds us, even cutting-edge machines have always needed human minders.
Postdoctoral fellow John Mundell recounts his experience in the field of Black studies — a discipline forged in struggle but buoyed by community.
The celebrated playwright and two-time Pulitzer Prize–winner will receive the award during a public ceremony April 16, 2025. The award of $50,000 is one of the largest prizes in the humanities in the U.S.
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!
Presentations of the public-facing work of the 2024 Divided City Graduate Summer Research Fellows
View EventKhalil 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
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Keep up with all the news and events organized by the Center for the Humanities — and dive into some great feature stories from our blog, Human Ties. The newsletter is published monthly during the academic year, and events are promoted throughout the year. We welcome all readers!
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