Kling Undergraduate Honors Fellowship
The Kling Program empowers WashU juniors and seniors in the humanities and humanistic social sciences to pursue a funded humanities research project of their own design over the course of their third and fourth years, to engage in interdisciplinary work and conversations about the role of the humanities in college and in public life, and to polish their findings in the form of a published article. Prospective students apply as sophomores.
Banned Books Fellowship
Undergraduate students at all levels in Arts & Sciences engage in a research project on a topic of their choosing related to book banning, including the current, historical, local and international contexts. Students taking part in this paid research opportunity produce writing around their research topic and a presentation of their findings.
Undergraduate Research Symposium
Beginning in spring 2024, the Center for the Humanities is partnering with the Office of Undergraduate Research to convene a special session of the semester’s Undergraduate Research Symposium. The session assembles students to give 8-minute “deeper dive” talks on their humanistic writing and research, as relevent to the symposium’s theme. Selected students meet with humanities center staff prior to the symposium to workshop their presentations.
Studiolab Courses
The humanities studiolab draws inspiration from both the studio and laboratory as pedagogical spaces, organized around a theme or problem for a sustained period. In addition to work on the central topic, members of the studiolab community incorporate and develop capacities, beyond specific disciplinary skills, essential to success within and beyond academia: competency with digital and other media, collaboration, project management, communication with multiple audiences and oral presentation. Studiolab courses are open to graduate students and advanced undergraduate students.
