Since 2012, the Tedder and Rothman Doctoral Summer Fellowships—generously funded by the Tedder Family Endowment and the Robert and Margaret Rothman Endowment for the Humanities—have provided crucial support to doctoral students conducting original research across a wide range of humanities disciplines. These fellowships help defray the costs of research-related travel, archival work, and other expenses, […]
Since 2010, the Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere, with support from the Robert and Margaret Rothman Endowment for the Humanities, has awarded summer fellowships to faculty in the humanities disciplines. This year, the Center proudly announces the newest recipients of this prestigious fellowship.
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The UF Astraeus Space Institute is reimagining space exploration by integrating the humanities into its mission, emphasizing the cultural, philosophical, and imaginative dimensions of life beyond Earth.
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CHPS is excited to host its annual writing retreat and graduate summer institute from May 5–9 at the Austin Cary Forest Center. UF faculty and graduate students are invited for a week of focused writing and community-building. Learn more and apply before the deadline to participate!
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An afternoon of engaging presentations showcasing digital humanities research and resources at UF. Explore innovative projects on historical storytelling, digital mapping, open-access initiatives, and archival preservation.
Explore how digital technologies intersect with the humanities to shape our understanding of knowledge, identity, and ethics in the modern world in through this dynamic speaker series, hosted by the Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere.
On November 4th, the Alexander Grass Scholars’ Program celebrated the end of its inaugural year with an undergraduate research symposium, giving the first cohort an opportunity to share their work with the university community.
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The Center proudly introduces our very first cohort for the Alexander Grass Scholars Research Program! This summer, students will delve into humanities research methods and collaborate closely with local community partners. We eagerly anticipate their continued progress into the fall as they develop and present their own projects. Explore the program and meet our students
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On March 28th the Center welcomed Dr. Emma Shaw Crane (Fellow, Society of Fellows, Columbia University) who gave a lecture on “Race, Detention, and Indigeneity in South Florida.” In her talk, Dr. Emma Shaw Crane gave a timely lecture on how migrant children detained at Homestead Temporary Shelter, South Miami-Dade, faced harmful conditions due to an adjacent military base. By thinking across space and scale, her ethnographic approach challenged ideas of detention camps as spaces of exception and instead understood them as porous, permeable, and embedded within suburban landscape.
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