Between Law and Belief: Governing Nature in Jamaica’s Blue Mountains

“Regulatory Law and Local Stakeholder influences on Green Crime in the Blue Mountains, Jamaica.” Rothman Doctoral Fellow Tameka Samuels-Jones addressed questions about conflicting state regulations and indigenous cultural beliefs in the Blue and John Crow Mountains of Jamaica in her talk. Designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2015 the site is still threatened […]

Center Announces New Director, Dr. Barbara Mennel

The Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere is excited to announce that Dr. Barbara Mennel has agreed to an appointment as our new Rothman Chair and Director of the Center. Dr. Mennel is an accomplished scholar and teacher whose work bridges multiple disciplines in the humanities, from film studies to women’s studies, from […]

Animating Conversations: University of Florida receives $400,000 Mellon Grant to address “grand challenge questions”

Date: October 14, 2017 GAINESVILLE, Fla. —UF has received a three-year $400,000 grant award from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support the integration of humanities perspectives and methodologies into general education and advanced courses that address “grand challenge” questions. “We want all our students to have an exceptional college education, and that means engaging […]