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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.