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2025 Tedder & Rothman Doctoral Fellows

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, […]

Join us in welcoming our first cohort of the Alexander Grass Scholars Program!

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

Race, Detention, and Indigeneity in South Florida

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.