Welcome to the Humanities Initiative

2009-2010 Award Competitions 

We are pleased to announce the next round of our award competitions. 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 with any questions.

Faculty Research Fellowships
Monday, November 9, 2009

Graduate Student Research Fellowships 
Monday, November 9, 2009

Grants-in-Aid
Monday, November 2, 2009
Thursday, April 1, 2010

Team-Teaching Stipends
Monday, January 25, 2010

Working Research Group Grants
Monday, January 25, 2010

News

To Help the People of Haiti, please visit MSNBC and the NY Times for lists of charitable organizations.

Recommended Reading

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

External Funding

American Academy of Arts and Sciences Visiting Scholars Program
 
American Council of Learned Societies
Collaborative Research Awards

Bellagio Center Residency Competition for Scholars and Creative Artists

Fulbright Programs for US Scholars

Harry Ransom Center Fellowships

The Institute for Human Sciences

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

Save the Date

February 9, 6PM: A roundtable discussion, "Thinking Through Violence: An Interdisciplinary Conversation," with NYU Professors Avital Ronell, Allen Feldman, Mary Louise Pratt, and Drucilla Cornell (Rutgers). Organized by Humanities Initiative Fellows.
Reception to follow
Location: 20 Cooper Square, 5th Floor

Great New Books in the Humanities Series
February 16, 6PM: Privacy in Context: Technology, Policy, and the Integrity of Social Life, a book launch for Helen Nissenbaum (NYU)
Reception to follow
Location: 20 Cooper Square, 5th Floor

Februry 17, 5:30PM: Sacred Violence: The European Crusades to the Middle East, 1095-1396, a book launch for Jill Claster (NYU)
Co-sponsored with CAS, Office of the Dean
Reception to follow
Location: Silverstein Lounge, Silver Center

February 25, 5PM: The Unfinished Revolution: How a New Generation is Reshaping Family, Work, and Gender in America, a book launch for Kathleen Gerson (NYU)
Co-sponsored with CAS, Office of the Dean, and the Department of Sociology
Reception to follow
Location: Silverstein Lounge, Silver Center

Our Newest Award Recipients

Faculty Research Fellowships
Emily Apter (French; Comparative Literature)
Martin Daughtry (Music)
Michah Gottlieb (Hebrew & Judaic Studies)
Crystal Parikh (Social & Cultural Analysis; English)
Arvind Rajagopal (Media, Culture, & Communication)
Zhen Zhang (Cinema Studies)

Graduate Student Research Fellowships
John Diehl (History)
Paul Sager (French Studies; History)
Peter Valenti (History; Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies)

Honorary Graduate Student Research Fellowships
Elena Bellina (Italian Studies)
Melis Erdur (Philosophy)
John Melillo (English)

Team-Teaching Stipends
Joyce Apsel (Liberal Studies)
Nina Cornyetz (Gallatin)
Stephen R. Duncombe (Gallatin)
Fiona J. Griffiths (History)
Jonathan R. Kahana (Cinema Studies)
Catherine King (Liberal Studies)
Peter W. Meineck (Classics, Ancient Studies)
Martin R. Scherzinger (Media, Culture, & Communication)
Laura M. Slatkin (Gallatin)
Kathryn A. Smith (Art History)

Working Research Group Grants
Jim Anderson (Recorded Music)
Gabriella Coleman (Media, Culture, & Communication)
Sybille Fischer (Spanish & Portuguese)
Ben Kafka (Media, Culture, & Communication)
Bradley Lewis (Gallatin)
Jacques Lezra (Comparative Literature; Spanish & Portuguese)
Jerome Lowenstein (Medicine)
Jennifer Morgan (Social & Cultural Analysis; History)
Robert Rowe (Music & Performing Arts Professions)
Lidia Santarelli (European & Mediterranean Studies)
Clifford Siskin (English)
Robert Young (English; Comparative Literature)