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Fenderson awarded Mellon Foundation’s New Directions Fellowship
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2024-26 Kling Undergraduate Honors Fellowship cohort announced
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Nurturing our “whole selves” and creating lasting change through Writing as Advocacy
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Workshop taught students to calm climate anxiety with community action
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Center for the Humanities tapped for inaugural ‘Being Human’ national festival
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Place, peers and progress: The three Ps of the Humanities Graduate Student Writing Commons
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Back from Ghana, Kurtz shares her BECHS-Africa Fellowship experience
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Reading, writing and camaraderie
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Center for the Humanities awarded NEH grant for humanities graduate student internship program
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2024-25 Faculty Fellows selected
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New RDE Cluster Grants boost graduate studies innovations
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Two Kling Fellows receive WashU endorsement for prestigious UK scholarships
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Kelling joins humanities center as assistant director
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Sumner StudioLab: Pass it on!
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Meet 2023 BECHS-Africa Fellow Robyn Berghoff
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Three faculty join humanities center executive committee
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2023-24 Graduate Student Fellows selected
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2023-25 Kling Undergraduate Honors Fellowship cohort announced
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Dan-Cohen appointed associate director
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Grant-writing participants Frierson, Kang win ACLS Fellowships
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Kurtz awarded BECHS-Africa Fellowship
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WashU’s first BECHS-Africa Fellow, André Fischer
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Center launches associate director search
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Center for the Humanities names 2023-24 Faculty Fellows
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WashU hosts the Fourth Annual Missouri Egyptological Symposium
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New Kling Undergraduate Honors Fellows announced
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Kirk named next director of the Center for the Humanities
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2022-23 Graduate Student Fellows selected
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Bechdel to receive Washington University International Humanities Prize
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Center for the Humanities Executive Committee adds three new members
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Perry joins center as assistant director
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BECHS-Africa Fellowship brings African scholars to WashU
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Center for the Humanities names 2022-23 Faculty Fellows
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Applying for an external grant or fellowship? Read this first.
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Selimović wins ACLS Emerging Voices Fellowship
![Announcing the Class of 2023 Kling Fellows](https://humanities.wustl.edu/files/humanities/styles/blog_thumbnail/public/Sophomore%20Kling%20Group%20Photo%202020.png?itok=9sKe4qaw)
Announcing the Class of 2023 Kling Fellows
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Seed money for the grassroots: The Divided City initiative’s community-led projects
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Center for the Humanities names 2021-22 Faculty Fellows
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Nominations sought for WashU International Humanities Prize
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2020 International Humanities Prize event canceled
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Life/Lines in Challenging Times
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Daphne A. Brooks and the History of Black Women’s ‘Radical Musicianship’
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Meet Visiting Fellow Dorothy Pokua Agyepong
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Announcing 2020-21 Faculty Fellow Cohort
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On Borders and Unnatural ‘Natural’ Deaths
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On Translating Beckett’s Minimalism
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Fall 2019 RDE Fall Retreat registration deadline is Fri., Aug. 30
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Sign up for the Scholarly Writing Retreat, May 21-31
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Congratulations to ACLS Fellowship winner Joanna Dee Das!
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Interdisciplinary Approaches to Film Study: Film Exhibition
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Afro-Surrealism: What Black Is and Can Be
![Routine Maintenance: Caroline Levine on the Forms That Sustain](https://humanities.wustl.edu/files/humanities/styles/blog_thumbnail/public/Articles/Faculty%20Book%20Poster%202019%20image.jpg?itok=wOyz3TWo)
Routine Maintenance: Caroline Levine on the Forms That Sustain
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Check it out: Kling Fellowship information session, Feb. 5
![Living With Others](https://humanities.wustl.edu/files/humanities/styles/blog_thumbnail/public/Articles/Flickr%20CC%202.0%20Queueing%20by%20oatsy40.jpg?itok=myQ6wDEM)
Living With Others
![Congratulations to Thomas Keeline (Classics) and Leigh Schmidt (Religion & Politics) on their new NEH Fellowship awards](https://humanities.wustl.edu/files/humanities/styles/blog_thumbnail/public/Articles/NEH_stacked_logo-01_full-color.jpg?itok=-fm-ddHH)
Congratulations to Thomas Keeline (Classics) and Leigh Schmidt (Religion & Politics) on their new NEH Fellowship awards
![The Divided City 2022 wins $1 million grant](https://humanities.wustl.edu/files/humanities/styles/blog_thumbnail/public/Articles/161207_jwb_catalina_freixas_014-e1536858665381.jpg?itok=5CV2UFRH)
The Divided City 2022 wins $1 million grant
![Tribute to International Writers Center Founder William Gass](https://humanities.wustl.edu/files/humanities/styles/blog_thumbnail/public/Articles/702857c3dcf4b7b0844b4c9dc7a2d6e7-350x442.jpg?itok=DeO4g8L3)
Tribute to International Writers Center Founder William Gass
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Commemorating the East St. Louis Race Riots
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