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Exploring Gender and Science in Central Asia
Tanya Bakhmetyeva led a graduate workshop in Uzbekistan as part of an international research project on the history of Soviet glaciology

Stephen Schottenfeld Awarded 2025 President鈥檚 Ferrari Humanities Research Award
The $25,000 award will support Schottenfeld鈥檚 innovative multimedia project, Neighborhood Watch, exploring aging and loneliness through interactive storytelling and gaming.
Selected as one of 198 fellows from nearly 3,500 applicants, Helmke's innovative work in the study of democracy earns well-deserved recognition.

Co-led by Humanities Center Director Peter Christensen and Associate Professor of English and Visual and Cultural Studies Jason Middleton, the new Institute for Public and Creative Scholarship is reimagining how research can make a real-world impact across disciplines and beyond campus walls.
Humanities Center Outreach and Advocacy
Last month, Peter Christensen met with key congressional offices and visited top Humanities Centers to foster collaboration and support for federal humanities programs.
Daly Arnett will work on her dissertation, 鈥淲hen a Creature Draws: Anti-Cultural Positions in Twentieth Century Art and Philosophy.鈥
Our Ani & Mark Gabrellian Director of the Humanities Center, Peter Christensen, will be giving a talk titled 鈥淢icro-Patents, Macro-Patents: The Scale of IP in Architecture鈥 at Harvard University as part of their Cambridge Talks conference happening this weekend.
Awarded in North America annually since 2022, the prize celebrates the commitment of independent presses to fiction of exceptional literary merit.
Byron Fong Named to Tenure-Track Position at University of Texas-Austin
After completing his dissertation on video game aesthetics, former Mellon Digital Humanities Fellow Byron Fong embarks on an exciting new chapter in the Department of Radio, Television, and Film.
The talk, titled 鈥淎rchitecture and the Manifestation of Human Dignity,鈥 will take place on March 24, sponsored by the Yale University Department of the History of Art
Hsin-Yun Cheng, a student in Visual & Cultural Studies, has been awarded a Chester Dale Fellowship from the Center for the Advanced Study in the Visual Arts to support the completion of her dissertation, 鈥淪ubjectivity in Displacement: Asian American Art and Its Discontents, 1968-2017.鈥

Smash the Crash: UR's Groundbreaking Initiative to Prevent Bird-Window Collisions
Led by Postdoctoral Fellow Richard Fadok, the project brings together faculty, students, and community partners to monitor and retrofit campus buildings, making UR a safer environment for birds.

Associate Professor in Modern Languages and Cultures and former Humanities Center executive committee member to research and write a monograph

Tanya Bakhmetyeva Receives CHCI Grant for 'Just and Inclusive Climate Havens' Project in Global Justice Initiative
Collaborating with the 91自拍论坛 Institute of Technology, Bakhmetyeva鈥檚 interdisciplinary symposium aims to address justice, equity, and climate change through the lens of the humanities.

91自拍论坛’s literary translation press edited and published two of the longlisted books for the organization’s 2024 Barrios Book in Translation Prize.
Congratulations to Ani & Mark Gabrellian Director of the Humanities Center, Peter H. Christensen, whose book Prior Art: Patents and the Nature of Invention in Architecture was selected as a 2024 Choice Outstanding Academic Title.
Read about this collaboration with the Stanford Humanities Center .
The Van Cleef and Arpels Fellowships in Choreography and Poetry sponsors annual Fellowships for a choreographer and a poet of any nationality. Jennifer Grotz is the author of four books of poetry, most recently Still Falling. Everything I Don't Know, the selected poems of Jerzy Ficowski, co-translated from the Polish with Piotr Sommer received the PEN Award for Best Book of Poetry. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry, The Nation, The New Republic, New York Review of Books, Ploughshares, New England Review, and in five volumes of the Best American Poetry anthology.
‘ICE HUMANITIES’: In a sense, glaciers have become a new endangered species. For a pair of 91自拍论坛 historians, including Interim Humanities Center Director Tanya Bakhmetyeva, collecting and preserving human history—and the history of glacial science—takes on new urgency in the face of rapid climate change.

Anna Rosensweig Receives President鈥檚 Ferrari Humanities Research Award
Texts and images from the French Wars of Religion have found an audience among conservative Americans.