The National Humanities Center is pleased to announce the appointment of 31 Fellows for the 2024–25 academic year. Chosen from 492 applicants, they represent humanistic scholarship in an array of disciplines. These newly appointed Fellows will constitute the forty-seventh class of resident scholars to be admitted since the Center opened in 1978.
This month we highlight the research of 2023–24 Fellows whose projects reexamine historical actors, events, and eras by shifting the perspectives through which they’ve previously been viewed. They encourage us to assume a different point of view and to consider previously unnoticed aspects revealed about the lives of their subjects.
This month we highlight the research of 2023–24 Fellows whose projects explore how computing has reshaped thinking around everything from political power to literary study and how the promises and perils of technological advances are best measured through a humanistic lens.
This month we highlight the research of 2023–24 Fellows whose projects explore the human experience through the lens of settled spaces, revealing new insights about the importance of place in understanding the human experience.
This month we highlight the research of 2023–24 Fellows whose projects consider the ways that lived experience is colored, configured, and interpreted. These scholars are exploring the ways that thought, feeling, and custom produce subjective lenses through which we encounter the world and extract meaning.
This month we highlight the research of 2023–24 Fellows whose projects look at the immediate and extended social effects of incarceration, resistance in the midst of captivity, and efforts to confront persistent legacies of injustice that resonate to the present day.
The National Humanities Center has selected thirty-two undergraduates for its National Humanities Leadership Council. Nominated by faculty from colleges and universities across the country, these students will receive professional development and mentoring from leading scholars and other humanities professionals as well as research support, opportunities for networking, and access to NHC programming and expertise.
Inspired by and undertaken in partnership with the United Kingdom’s “Being Human” Festival, this inaugural US version will include community-focused events in nine locations across the country. Each will highlight the ways that the humanities add depth and meaning to our lives, help us understand ourselves and one another, and provide context for the complex world around us.
The NHC is developing an emerging humanities toolkit with Joanna Brooks, associate vice president of faculty advancement and professor of English and comparative literature at San Diego State University, that features stories of faculty members and conversations around what counts in faculty career advancement.
At its recent meeting, the Board of Trustees of the National Humanities Center elected Daniela Bleichmar, professor of art history and history at the University of Southern California (USC), as the Center’s newest trustee. Bleichmar is also the founding director of the Levan Institute for the Humanities and director of the USC Society of Fellows in the Humanities.