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Associate Director Named
On January 1, we welcomed Tanya Bakhmetyeva as Associate Director of the Humanities Center. Bakhmetyeva will work closely with the Director to set Center priorities, develop funding requests, and co-edit the “Humanities in the World” series we launched earlier this year with the University of Rochester Press.
Bakhmetyeva is Professor of Instruction in the Department of History and is also currently the Associate Academic Director of the Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies, a position she will dually hold through the Spring semester of 2024. Bakhmetyeva is the author of Mother of the Church: Sophia Svechina and the Politics of Catholicism in 19th Century Russia and France (Northern Illinois University Press, 2016), which won her the Harry C. Koenig Book Award from the American Catholic Association. Her next book, The Politburo goes Hunting: Masculinity, Nature and Power among the Soviet Political Elite is under contract from Northern Illinois University Press, now an imprint of Cornell University Press.
What is the Humanities Center?
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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