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Nurturing our “whole selves” and creating lasting change through Writing as Advocacy

Nurturing our “whole selves” and creating lasting change through Writing as Advocacy

Workshop taught students to calm climate anxiety with community action

Workshop taught students to calm climate anxiety with community action

Center for the Humanities tapped for inaugural ‘Being Human’ national festival

Center for the Humanities tapped for inaugural ‘Being Human’ national festival

Place, peers and progress: The three Ps of the Humanities Graduate Student Writing Commons

Place, peers and progress: The three Ps of the Humanities Graduate Student Writing Commons

Back from Ghana, Kurtz shares her BECHS-Africa Fellowship experience

Back from Ghana, Kurtz shares her BECHS-Africa Fellowship experience

Reading, writing and camaraderie

Reading, writing and camaraderie

Center for the Humanities awarded NEH grant for humanities graduate student internship program

Center for the Humanities awarded NEH grant for humanities graduate student internship program

2024-25 Faculty Fellows selected

2024-25 Faculty Fellows selected

New RDE Cluster Grants boost graduate studies innovations

New RDE Cluster Grants boost graduate studies innovations

Two Kling Fellows receive WashU endorsement for prestigious UK scholarships

Two Kling Fellows receive WashU endorsement for prestigious UK scholarships

Kelling joins humanities center as assistant director

Kelling joins humanities center as assistant director

Sumner StudioLab: Pass it on!

Sumner StudioLab: Pass it on!

Meet 2023 BECHS-Africa Fellow Robyn Berghoff

Meet 2023 BECHS-Africa Fellow Robyn Berghoff

Three faculty join humanities center executive committee

Three faculty join humanities center executive committee

2023-24 Graduate Student Fellows selected

2023-24 Graduate Student Fellows selected

2023-25 Kling Undergraduate Honors Fellowship cohort announced

2023-25 Kling Undergraduate Honors Fellowship cohort announced

Dan-Cohen appointed associate director

Dan-Cohen appointed associate director

Grant-writing participants Frierson, Kang win ACLS Fellowships

Grant-writing participants Frierson, Kang win ACLS Fellowships

Kurtz awarded BECHS-Africa Fellowship

Kurtz awarded BECHS-Africa Fellowship

WashU’s first BECHS-Africa Fellow, André Fischer

WashU’s first BECHS-Africa Fellow, André Fischer

Center launches associate director search

Center launches associate director search

Center for the Humanities names 2023-24 Faculty Fellows

Center for the Humanities names 2023-24 Faculty Fellows

WashU hosts the Fourth Annual Missouri Egyptological Symposium

WashU hosts the Fourth Annual Missouri Egyptological Symposium

New Kling Undergraduate Honors Fellows announced

New Kling Undergraduate Honors Fellows announced

Kirk named next director of the Center for the Humanities

Kirk named next director of the Center for the Humanities

2022-23 Graduate Student Fellows selected

2022-23 Graduate Student Fellows selected

Bechdel to receive Washington University International Humanities Prize

Bechdel to receive Washington University International Humanities Prize

Center for the Humanities Executive Committee adds three new members

Center for the Humanities Executive Committee adds three new members

Perry joins center as assistant director

Perry joins center as assistant director

BECHS-Africa Fellowship brings African scholars to WashU

BECHS-Africa Fellowship brings African scholars to WashU

Center for the Humanities names 2022-23 Faculty Fellows

Center for the Humanities names 2022-23 Faculty Fellows

Applying for an external grant or fellowship? Read this first.

Applying for an external grant or fellowship? Read this first.

Selimović wins ACLS Emerging Voices Fellowship

Selimović wins ACLS Emerging Voices Fellowship

Announcing the Class of 2023 Kling Fellows

Announcing the Class of 2023 Kling Fellows

Seed money for the grassroots: The Divided City initiative’s community-led projects

Seed money for the grassroots: The Divided City initiative’s community-led projects

Center for the Humanities names 2021-22 Faculty Fellows

Center for the Humanities names 2021-22 Faculty Fellows

Nominations sought for WashU International Humanities Prize

Nominations sought for WashU International Humanities Prize

2020 International Humanities Prize event canceled

2020 International Humanities Prize event canceled

Life/Lines in Challenging Times

Life/Lines in Challenging Times

Daphne A. Brooks and the History of Black Women’s ‘Radical Musicianship’

Daphne A. Brooks and the History of Black Women’s ‘Radical Musicianship’

Meet Visiting Fellow Dorothy Pokua Agyepong

Meet Visiting Fellow Dorothy Pokua Agyepong

Announcing 2020-21 Faculty Fellow Cohort

Announcing 2020-21 Faculty Fellow Cohort

On Borders and Unnatural ‘Natural’ Deaths

On Borders and Unnatural ‘Natural’ Deaths

On Translating Beckett’s Minimalism

On Translating Beckett’s Minimalism

Fall 2019 RDE Fall Retreat registration deadline is Fri., Aug. 30

Fall 2019 RDE Fall Retreat registration deadline is Fri., Aug. 30

Sign up for the Scholarly Writing Retreat, May 21-31

Sign up for the Scholarly Writing Retreat, May 21-31

Congratulations to ACLS Fellowship winner Joanna Dee Das!

Congratulations to ACLS Fellowship winner Joanna Dee Das!

Interdisciplinary Approaches to Film Study: Film Exhibition

Interdisciplinary Approaches to Film Study: Film Exhibition

Afro-Surrealism: What Black Is and Can Be

Afro-Surrealism: What Black Is and Can Be

Routine Maintenance: Caroline Levine on the Forms That Sustain

Routine Maintenance: Caroline Levine on the Forms That Sustain

Check it out: Kling Fellowship information session, Feb. 5

Check it out: Kling Fellowship information session, Feb. 5

Living With Others

Living With Others

Congratulations to Thomas Keeline (Classics) and Leigh Schmidt (Religion & Politics) on their new NEH Fellowship awards

Congratulations to Thomas Keeline (Classics) and Leigh Schmidt (Religion & Politics) on their new NEH Fellowship awards

The Divided City 2022 wins $1 million grant

The Divided City 2022 wins $1 million grant

Tribute to International Writers Center Founder William Gass

Tribute to International Writers Center Founder William Gass

Commemorating the East St. Louis Race Riots

Commemorating the East St. Louis Race Riots

‘Divided City’ project to examine segregation from variety of perspectives

‘Divided City’ project to examine segregation from variety of perspectives