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2023-2024 Fellows Named
The Humanities Center is proud to announce our incoming fellows for the 2023-2024 academic year. For the first time ever, we will host two postdoctoral fellows who will join us for two years: Jonathon Catlin (“Thinking against Catastrophe: A Concept in Twentieth-Century European Thought") and Richard Fadok ("Animal House: Space, Species, and Subjectivity in the United States"). Congratulations also to internal fellows Thomas Gibson (Anthropology), Cona Marshall (Religion & Classics), Mizin Shin (Art & Art History), and Stewart Weaver (History).
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As scholars in the humanities and humanistic social sciences at the University of Rochester, we examine human culture in its myriad forms: literature, language, media, philosophy, religion, history, anthropology, visual and performing arts, and much more. We are committed to critical thinking, reasoned discourse, inclusiveness, civility, empathy, and compassion—values that lie at the center of humanistic inquiry and that are essential for a thriving democratic citizenry. The Humanities Center, located in Rush Rhees Library, is our home base for interdisciplinary exchange and collaboration. We offer programs for faculty, students, and the public. To become an affiliate of the Center and receive emails about our events, contact humanities@rochester.edu.
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Peter Christensen to speak at MIT
Director Peter Christensen to deliver Aga Khan lecture at MIT on November 13 on the subject of architecture and its conferral of human dignity.

Meliora Global Scholars
New award sends humanities graduate students abroad
Four University of Rochester graduate students—Jeffrey Baron, Bridget Fleming, Elif Karakaya, and Christian de Mouilpied Sancto—are inaugural recipients of Meliora Global Scholars grants. Offered by the Humanities Center, the grants provide doctoral candidates an opportunity to conduct thesis research in archives and communities abroad.
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In the Humanities Center, faculty, fellows, students, affiliates, and the public gather to collaborate and create community. Seminars, workshops, lectures, digital projects and other forms of humanistic inquiry animate our beautiful new space in Rush Rhees Library.
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