Graduate and undergraduate students in the humanities and humanistic social sciences at WashU gained a new champion this semester, as Meredith Kelling joined the Center for the Humanities as assistant director for student research and engagement. Barely a month into her new position, Kelling talks about her new role, her background and how she sees the relationship between the public and the practice of humanities.
In advance of Lorgia García Peña’s upcoming lecture, “Community as Rebellion” on October 4, Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs and Diversity Kia Lilly Caldwell shares her experience (and reading list) in surviving academia as a woman of color.
George Washington’s seat of power was Mount Vernon, and the dining room, where he received his guests, was the grandest and most public expression of that power. Hundreds of enslaved people toiled in the estate’s fields, dairies, distilleries and kitchens to produce the bounty needed to portray wealth and authority. Meredith Kelling takes a look at the human cost of Washington’s splendid table.
Assistant Director for Research and Public Engagement Laura Perry brings the Sumner StudioLab’s story on the road, sharing its new model with colleagues around the country.
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!
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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