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- From the Director’s Desk
At the end of my term as Rothman Chair and Director of the Center for Humanities and the Public Sphere (CHPS), I reflect on the past six years. Responding to the needs of diverse scholarship, we expanded the range of our internal grants.
- Rothman and Tedder Doctoral Fellows Spotlight
The Rothman and Tedder Doctoral Fellowships provide funding for doctoral students to conduct research related to their dissertation. Many of the Fellows traveled to study their research objects on location.
- Speaker Series 2023-24: Scales of Belonging
The Center’s 2023-24 Speaker Series invites scholars to take diverse approaches to answer the question: How and where do we belong?
- Speaker Series: Rethinking The Public Sphere, 2022-23: Public Humanities
During the academic year 2022-23, the Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere concluded its multi-year series, “Rethinking the Public Sphere,” offering three examples of public engagement in the humanities.
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- Coasts, Climates, the Humanities, and the Environment Consortium
Coasts, Climates, the Humanities, and the Environment is a consortium created by a $150,000 Mellon grant in 2019, comprising of researchers from the Universities of Georgia, North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Louisiana State, and Florida.
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- Programs in Public Humanities Grants
The Center’s Public Humanities grants continued to support collaborative, community-oriented engagements on historical memory, activism, and representation.
- Humanities Engagement Scholars
The Humanities Engagement Scholars (HES) program enables undergraduate students from all majors to enroll in humanities courses, cultivating a deeper understanding of the human experience.
- Humanities Writing Retreat
From May 8 to 12, a group of 35 scholars, consisting of faculty and doctoral students, convened at UF’s tranquil Austin Cary Forest Campus for a week-long intense writing retreat.
- Graduate Humanities Summer Institute
The Center launched its first in-person Graduate Humanities Summer Institute for Ph.D. and Master’s students in the humanities and humanistic social sciences at the University of Florida.
- Public Humanities Internship Program
In the summer of 2023, CHPS organized the third cycle of its Public Humanities Internship Program for Ph.D. Students in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
- What Can the Humanities Teach Us about Good Mentorship?
Maria LaMonaca Wisdom, director of faculty mentoring and coaching programs at Duke University, writes on issues of coaching, mentorship, graduate education, and faculty development for venues like The Chronicle of Higher Education.
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- Institute for Learning in Retirement at Oak Hammock
Since 2021, the Center has offered an annual summer course for the Institute for Learning in Retirement at Oak Hammock.
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- A Conversation with The Conversation
The Conversation is a unique non-profit news service that helps scholars shape their expert knowledge for broad publics.
- Everything You Wanted to Know About Grants but Were Afraid to Ask
This comprehensive workshop led by Bill Hart-Davidson (Michigan State University) offered a unique, humanistic perspective on grants development and administration.
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- Publication Subventions
The Center continued to support humanities book publications with its publication subvention award, in collaboration with the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and the College of the Arts.
- Library Enhancement Grant Program in the Humanities
In the 2022-23 academic year, the Center’s grants supported the enhancement of library collections in four areas critical to contemporary humanities research in general, and at UF in particular: Asian Studies, environmental humanities, children’s literature, and artificial intelligence.
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- 2023-24 Humanities Center Calendar
Keep your eye on the Humanities Center calendar for these sponsored events to be held during the 2023-24 academic year.
- Thank You For Supporting Our Work
The Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere thanks its friends and donors for their generous gifts that support our work on a daily basis.