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.
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.
Programs in Public Humanities Grants
The Center’s Public Humanities grants continued to support collaborative, community-oriented engagements on historical memory, activism, and representation.
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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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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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?
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.
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.