Academic Enrichment Programs

The School of the Humanities promotes innovative forms of humanities-based collaboration in academic settings on campus through a variety of programs that bring faculty and students together for common learning and research experiences.

Society of Humanities Research Fellows
A cluster of faculty and advanced students who pursue individual research projects but also meet in a year-long humanities-based seminar to discuss their progress and common scholarly and intellectual interests. Research projects can either be individualized and disciplinary in nature or the entire group can work around a common research topic. Topics may include research in humanities teaching and learning as well as in humanities-centered scholarship. Participants must share their works-in-progress (drafts, research results, etc.) in the seminar, and students must be intentionally mentored. Participants are expected to present their research in the Fellows Lecture Series or the Spring Humanities Symposium. (Annual appointments of three faculty members and three advanced students)

Humanities Roundtable Reading Groups
A faculty member is sponsored by this fund to design and host an interdisciplinary reading group for humanities faculty and students. Subject matter must be interdisciplinary and humanities-based in interest and enable faculty and students from a variety of disciplines to learn about current research in various fields of humanities study. (Annual appointment of one faculty coordinator to administer the reading groups

Humanities House
The School of the Humanities sponsors a “Living and Learning Community” for humanities majors in conjunction with the Office of Student Life. Student dorm leaders will coordinate events (films, attendance at campus events, common readings, faculty talks, etc.) and faculty will join in on conversations throughout the year. This enables humanities majors to better integrate their studies with living, and to have a clear common learning experience.

Humanities Travel Grants
Faculty and students will have funds available on a competitive basis to enable travel to library and archival sites, an essential requirement for humanities-based research and learning.

Learn more about Opportunities to Support the Humanities.