Welcome to the Humanities Initiative

Created in 2007, the Humanities Initiative at NYU draws on the talents and energies of our faculty and students across the university to provide a forum for cross-disciplinary discussion and collaboration in the humanities and arts. To foster and enhance the humanities community at NYU, the Initiative sponsors a number of endeavors aimed at promoting interdisciplinary dialogue, teaching, and research.

2010-2011 AWARD COMPETITIONS

We are pleased to announce the next round of our award competitions and their deadlines. If you are interested in applying to any of our programs, please follow the links below to the corresponding program descriptions and guidelines. Please contact Asya Berger at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it with any questions.

GRANT PROGRAMS AND DEADLINES:

Faculty Research Fellowships
Monday, November 8, 2010

Graduate Student Research Fellowships
Monday, November 8, 2010

Grants-in-Aid
October 15, 2010
March 1, 2011

Team-Teaching Stipends
Monday, January 24, 2011

Working Research Group Grants
Monday, January 24, 2011

HUMANITIES NEWS

Beatrice Sica, a graduate student in the Department of Italian Studies, FAS, and a 2008-2009 Humanities Initiative Graduate Student Fellow, has been awarded one of only two postdoctoral fellowships for 2010-2011 offered by the Collège de France in Paris.

Hasia Diner, NYU Professor, and 2008-2009 Humanities Initiative Faculty Fellow, has been awarded a 2010 Guggenheim Fellowship.

Congratulations to NYU University Professor David Levering Lewis, to whom President Obama awarded a National Humanities Medal!

NEH NEWS
NEH Enduring Questions Grant Program
Deadline: September 15, 2010

NEH Teaching Development Fellowships
Deadline: September 30, 2010

EXTERNAL FUNDING

American Academy of Arts and Sciences Visiting Scholars Program

American Council of Learned Societies Collaborative Research Award

Bellagio Center Residency Competition for Scholars and Creative Artists

Fulbright Programs for US Scholars

Harry Ransom Center Fellowships

Newhouse Center for the Humanities

Princeton University Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts Postdoctoral Fellowships

Social Science Research Council

Traditional Fulbright Scholar Program

UC President's Postdoctoral Fellowship

EVENTS

June 20 Through August 31: River to River Festival: FREE EVENTS ALL SUMMER LONG Read more...

EXHIBITS

July 15 Through August 27: Gallatin Galleries present Hands and Natural Manhattan. Read more...
Location: 1 Washington Place

OUR NEWEST AWARD RECIPIENTS

Faculty Research Fellowships
Toral Gajarawala (English)
Michael Kunichika (Russian and Slavic Studies)
Eugene Ostashevsky (Liberal Studies)
Dana Polan (Cinema Studies)
Martha Rust (English)
Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu (Social and Cultural Analysis)
Jerome Wakefield (Social Work; Provostial Fellow)
Adina Yoffie (History; ACLS Faculty Fellow)

Graduate Student Research Fellowships
Michael Gallope (Music)
Jessica Goethals (Italian Studies)
Scott Selberg (Media, Culture, & Communication)
Aaron Tugendhaft (Hebrew & Judaic Studies)

Honorary Graduate Student Research Fellowships
Jonathan Cottrell (Philosophy)
Matthew Watkins (French Studies; History)

Team-Teaching Stipends
Zhen Zhang (Cinema Studies)
Angela Zito (Anthropology; Religious Studies)

Working Research Group Grants
Emily Apter (French)
Lewis Aron (Psychotherapy & Psychoanalysis)
Johanna Devereaux (Ph.D. Candidate, English)
Hala Halim (Comparative Literature; Middle Eastern & Islamic Studies)
Deborah Kapchan (Performance Studies)
Sarah Ostendorf (Ph.D. Candidate, English)
Shireen R.K. Patell (Trauma & Violence Transdisciplinary Studies)
Jason Stanyek (Music)
Michael Stoller (Collections & Research Services)
Diana Taylor (Performance Studies)
Jane Tylus (Italian Studies)

RECOMMENDED READING

Our Faculty and Graduate Student Research Fellows have weighed in on their favorite academic reads. Discover (or rediscover!) these great works.

"Poetry, Violence, and War" - An interdisciplinary discussion organized by Humanities Initiative fellows Elena Bellina and John Melillo.

Coming Soon!

The Humanities Initiative's offices are located at:

20 Cooper Square
(at East 5th Street)
Fifth Floor
New York, NY 10003-7112

We are excited to have a bright, spacious environment with large and small seminar rooms, a library for our Graduate Student Fellows, shared office space for our Faculty Fellows, and comfortable lounge areas. We are also pleased to have as our neighbors on the fifth floor the NY Institute for the Humanities , the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, the Institute for Public Knowledge, and the Institute on the Arts and Civic Dialogue.

Please come and visit us. We look forward to welcoming you here for future talks and activities.

The Humanities Initiative is thrilled to be the new home of "Anghiari Verde," a painting donated to the Initiative by Italian artist Vittoria Chierici.