Welcome to the Humanities Initiative

Congrats to Larry Wolff, Professor of History, for winning the 2012 Karl von Vogelsang State Prize. Awarded every two years, this prize is for excellent achievements in history and the social sciences. Release date TBA. Read more HERE.

Congrats to the Bellevue Literary Press for being touted as one of New York Magazine's "Reasons to Love NY 2011". Read more HERE.

Congrats to Tim Maudlin, Professor of Philosophy (FAS), for being part of a new 3-year Templeton grant that will explore basic questions concerning the nature, age, and fate of the universe. Read more HERE.

Congrats to Assistant Professor of English and 2010-11 Humanities Initiative Faculty Fellow, Toral Gajarawala, for winning the 48th annual William Riley Parker Prize for an outstanding article published in PMLA, the Modern Language Association's journal of literary scholarship.  Read the abstract of the May 2011 article, "Some Time between Revisionist and Revolutionary: Unreading History in Dalit Literature", HERE.  Read the full press release HERE.

Steinhardt professor Nicholas Mirzoeff documents new approaches to visuality in his blog, For the Right to Look.

Interested in joining an intellectual community? Join a 2010-12 or 2011-13 Working Research Group. Topics include Sylvester Manor, Freud, translation, digital humanism, political theory, and more.

Congratulations to University Professor Stephen Cohen (Russian & Slavic Studies), 2011 Liberty Prize recipient for his work to further cultural ties between the United States and Russia.

Congratulations to 2011-12 HI Faculty Research fellow Jini K. Watson on the publication of her new book, The New Asian City: Three-dimensional Fictions of Space and Urban Form (U of Minnesota P, 2011).

Congratulations to the 2011 MLA Award Winner, Jane Tylus, New York University, Howard R. Marraro Prize (for an outstanding scholarly book on Italian studies), for Reclaiming Catherine of Siena: Literacy, Literature, and the Signs of Others (Univ. of Chicago Press, 2009)

Congratulations to Crystal Parikh, New York University, 2011 MLA Award Winner of the MLA Prize in United States Latina and Latino and Chicana and Chicano Literary and Cultural Studies, for An Ethics of Betrayal: The Politics of Otherness in Emergent U.S. Literatures and Cultures (Fordham Univ. Press, 2009), and the NYU Martin Luther King Jr. Faculty Award

Congratulations to 2010-11 HI Fellow Michael Gallope (Music) for being awarded a Harper & Schmidt Fellowship in the Society of Fellows at the University of Chicago, where he will be 2011-12 Collegiate Assistant Professor in the Humanities Collegiate Division.

Congratulations to 2009-10 HI Fellow John Melillo (English) for being awarded a 2011 ACLS two-year Faculty Fellowship (2011-12 & 2012-13).

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