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Exploring Gender and Science in Central Asia
Tanya Bakhmetyeva led a graduate workshop in Uzbekistan as part of an international research project on the history of Soviet glaciology
Stephen Schottenfeld Awarded 2025 President’s Ferrari Humanities Research Award
The $25,000 award will support Schottenfeld’s innovative multimedia project, Neighborhood Watch, exploring aging and loneliness through interactive storytelling and gaming.
Gretchen Helmke of UR Democracy Center Named 2025 Guggenheim Fellow
Selected as one of 198 fellows from nearly 3,500 applicants, Helmke's innovative work in the study of democracy earns well-deserved recognition.
Transdisciplinary RFP: Institute for Public and Creative Scholarship
Co-led by Humanities Center Director Peter Christensen and Associate Professor of English and Visual and Cultural Studies Jason Middleton, the new Institute for Public and Creative Scholarship is reimagining how research can make a real-world impact across disciplines and beyond campus walls.
Humanities Center Outreach and Advocacy
Last month, Peter Christensen met with key congressional offices and visited top Humanities Centers to foster collaboration and support for federal humanities programs.
Former Meliora Global Scholar awarded Dean’s Dissertation Fellowship
Daly Arnett will work on her dissertation, “When a Creature Draws: Anti-Cultural Positions in Twentieth Century Art and Philosophy.”
Christensen to Give Talk at Harvard University
Our Ani & Mark Gabrellian Director of the Humanities Center, Peter Christensen, will be giving a talk titled “Micro-Patents, Macro-Patents: The Scale of IP in Architecture” at Harvard University as part of their Cambridge Talks conference happening this weekend.
Open Letter wins Republic of Consciousness Prize for English translation of Melvill
Awarded in North America annually since 2022, the prize celebrates the commitment of independent presses to fiction of exceptional literary merit.
Byron Fong Named to Tenure-Track Position at University of Texas-Austin
After completing his dissertation on video game aesthetics, former Mellon Digital Humanities Fellow Byron Fong embarks on an exciting new chapter in the Department of Radio, Television, and Film.
Christensen to Give Talk at Yale University
The talk, titled “Architecture and the Manifestation of Human Dignity,” will take place on March 24, sponsored by the Yale University Department of the History of Art
Hsin-Yun Cheng awarded a Chester Dale Fellowship
Hsin-Yun Cheng, a student in Visual & Cultural Studies, has been awarded a Chester Dale Fellowship from the Center for the Advanced Study in the Visual Arts to support the completion of her dissertation, “Subjectivity in Displacement: Asian American Art and Its Discontents, 1968-2017.”
Smash the Crash: UR's Groundbreaking Initiative to Prevent Bird-Window Collisions
Led by Postdoctoral Fellow Richard Fadok, the project brings together faculty, students, and community partners to monitor and retrofit campus buildings, making UR a safer environment for birds.
William Bridges awarded NEH fellowship
Associate Professor in Modern Languages and Cultures and former Humanities Center executive committee member to research and write a monograph
Tanya Bakhmetyeva Receives CHCI Grant for 'Just and Inclusive Climate Havens' Project in Global Justice Initiative
Collaborating with the Rochester Institute of Technology, Bakhmetyeva’s interdisciplinary symposium aims to address justice, equity, and climate change through the lens of the humanities.
Two Open Letter books nominated by National Book Critics Circle
Rochester’s literary translation press edited and published two of the longlisted books for the organization’s 2024 Barrios Book in Translation Prize.
2024 Choice Outstanding Academic Title
Congratulations to Ani & Mark Gabrellian Director of the Humanities Center, Peter H. Christensen, whose book Prior Art: Patents and the Nature of Invention in Architecture was selected as a 2024 Choice Outstanding Academic Title.
Dignity Matters: Architecture’s Role in Honoring the Lives That Inhabit It
Read about this collaboration with the Stanford Humanities Center here.
Bogliasco Foundation recognizes UR faculty Jennifer Grotz
The Van Cleef and Arpels Fellowships in Choreography and Poetry sponsors annual Fellowships for a choreographer and a poet of any nationality. Jennifer Grotz is the author of four books of poetry, most recently Still Falling. Everything I Don't Know, the selected poems of Jerzy Ficowski, co-translated from the Polish with Piotr Sommer received the PEN Award for Best Book of Poetry. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry, The Nation, The New Republic, New York Review of Books, Ploughshares, New England Review, and in five volumes of the Best American Poetry anthology.
On Thinning Ice
‘ICE HUMANITIES’: In a sense, glaciers have become a new endangered species. For a pair of University of Rochester historians, including Interim Humanities Center Director Tanya Bakhmetyeva, collecting and preserving human history—and the history of glacial science—takes on new urgency in the face of rapid climate change.
Anna Rosensweig Receives President’s Ferrari Humanities Research Award
Texts and images from the French Wars of Religion have found an audience among conservative Americans.