Former Senior Fellow Rachel Feldhay Brenner is receiving the 2015 University of Southern California Book Prize in Literary and Cultural Studies for her book, The Ethics of Witnessing: The Holocaust in Polish Writers’ Diaries from …
News and Announcements
Short news items relevant to the Institute and current or past fellows including award announcements, calls for papers, new fellowship offerings, new publications, and changes at the IRH.
Henry Drewal’s Lecture Postponed
Former Senior Fellow Henry Drewal’s Focus on the Humanities Distinguished Faculty Lecture has been postponed. New lecture date TBA. For more information about this lecture, click here.
Catherine Bates Wins the Rose Mary Crawshay Prize
Former Solmsen Fellow Catherine Bates has received the Rose Mary Crawshay Prize from the British Academy for the Humanities and Social Sciences for her book Masculinity and the Hunt: Wyatt to Spenser (Oxford University Press). For more …
Todd W. Reeser Weighs in on Academic Debates about Trigger Warnings
Former Solmsen Fellow Todd W. Reeser (French, and Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies, University of Pittsburgh) directs a program in which faculty recommend that students avoid using terms indicative of sexist language. For a discussion …
Claudia Card
With regret, the Institute announces the passing of former Senior Fellow Claudia Card. For more information, click here.
Susan Friedman Publishes a New Book
IRH Director Susan Friedman has published a new book, titled Planetary Modernisms: Provocations on Modernity Across Time, with Columbia University Press. For more information, click here.
Emily Callaci Receives ACLS Fellowship
Resident Fellow Emily Callaci has received a 2015 ACLS Fellowship for her book project, titled Ujamaa Urbanists: Street Archives and City Life in Socialist Tanzania. For more information, click here.
Mary Louise Roberts at the Chicago Humanities Festival
Former Senior Fellow Mary Louise Roberts will speak about her book, What Soldiers Do: Sex and the American GI in World War II France, in October at the Chicago Humanities Festival: Citizens. For more information, click …
Sara Trevisan Writes about “History and tradition”
Solmsen Fellow Sara Trevisan publishes “History and tradition: Genealogical practice before 1700” on the Public History Commons. For more information, click here.
Incoming Fellows for 2015-2016
The Institute for Research in the Humanities is pleased to accounce its Fellows for the 2015-2016 academic year. For the names of incoming fellows, click here.