Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere

Advancing Humanities Inquiry across Disciplines: Learn about the National Humanities Center’s Residential Fellowships, Educational Resources, and Public Programs

with Dr. Tania Munz (Vice President for Scholarly Programs, National Humanities Center [NHC])

Two identical workshops will be offered:

Thursday, April 11, 2-4pm and Friday, April 12, 10am-12pm

Smathers Library 100

Founded in 1978, the National Humanities Center in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, is a private, nonprofit organization, and the only independent institute dedicated exclusively to advanced study in all areas of the humanities. Through its residential fellowship program, the Center provides scholars with the resources necessary to generate new knowledge and to further understanding of all forms of cultural expression, social interaction, and human thought. The Center’s education programsstrengthen teaching on the collegiate and pre-collegiate levels. Model programs developed at the Center provide teachers and faculty with new materials and instructional strategies to make them more effective in the classroom and rekindle their enthusiasm for the subjects they teach. And the Center’s public programs, including national humanities advocacy resources, community lectures, panel discussions, symposia, and a rich multi-media library, promote understanding of the humanities and their foundational role in a democratic society.

 At this workshop, Dr. Tania Munz will offer an overview of the National Humanities Center residential fellowships for humanities faculty, and the Center’s new summer residency program for which UF faculty and graduate students in the humanities are eligible. UF faculty who have held residencies at the National Humanities Center will be on hand to speak about their experiences as recipients of these prestigious awards as well as of the reviewing process, and offer guidance to potential applicants. Dr. Munz will also speak more broadly about the diverse resources that the Center offers for humanities teaching, public programming, and outreach. There will be ample time for Q&A about the funding programs and the application process.

Who should attend? UF faculty, graduate students, undergraduate students interested in humanities research and outreach, research communicators, research support staff, independent scholars in the humanities and humanistic social sciences (e.g., social and cultural anthropology, sociology, political theory, international relations, and other subjects concerned with questions of value).

 **No RSVP or preparation is required. Refreshments will be provided.

For more information on the National Humanities Center, visit their webpage.

Tania Munz is the VP for Scholarly Programs at the National Humanities Center. She holds a Ph.D. in History of Science from Princeton University and has published on the history of biology, the history of animal behavior studies, and scientific film. Her book, The Dancing Bees: Karl von Frisch and the Discovery of the Honeybee Language was published in 2016 by the University of Chicago Press and in 2018 (in German translation) with Czernin-Verlag. She has taught at Sarah Lawrence College, the University of Chicago, and Northwestern University and was a research scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. Before joining the Center, she was the Vice President for Research and Scholarship at the Linda Hall Library in Kansas City, MO.