Center Staff Joins National Humanities Advocacy Day
The Center is dedicated to humanities advocacy. Center Managing Director Kurt Cavender, PhD and student staff member Leilani Muchai joined other representatives from across Massachusetts at National Humanities Advocacy Day on Capitol Hill. this team met with Massachusetts congressional representatives and staffers to speak to the importance of continued support for the National Endowment for […]
Meet the Fellows: Jonathan Klawans
Professor of Religion and Jeffrey Henderson Senior Research Fellow Jonathan Klawans digs into Biblical forgeries in his latest project. Learn more about past forgeries and the excuses scholars make for them in this short video.
Center Hosts Annual Humanities Book Publication Celebration
Faculty and their guests gathered to celebrate another year of humanistic publications at the Center’s annual book celebration on February 27, 2025. Center Director Juliet Floyd highlighted 21 works by faculty and staff, including the Center Managing Director Kurt Cavender. The publications ranged from book projects—some built off over ten years of research and writing—to […]
Meet the Fellows: Ying Gong, PhD Candidate in Linguistics
PhD candidate in Linguistics and Dissertation Fellow Ying Gong shares her work on Ursu and highlights the importance of building reciprocal relationships with communities that speak understudied languages.
BU Humanists at Work: Yoon Sun Yang, Associate Professor of Korean & Comparative Literature
“How do I convince English-speaking readers of the value of the literary works that were once celebrated as innovative but no longer easily satisfy contemporary aesthetic tastes?” This was the question at the forefront of Yoon Sun Yang’s mind as she took to writing From Domestic Women to Sensitive Young Men: Translating the Individual in […]
Anthony Petro Featured on Center Podcast
Center staff member Roni Lakin (CAS ’25) sat down with Associate Professor of Religion Anthony Petro to discuss Petro’s forthcoming book, Provoking Religion: Sex, Art, and the Culture Wars, which he completed during his time as a Jeffrey Henderson Senior Research Fellow. Tune in as they discuss protest art, ACT UP, and the strong reactions late […]
Meet the Fellows: Constanza Robles, PhD Candidate in History of Art & Architecture
History of Art & Architecture PhD candidate and Graduate Dissertation Fellow Constanza Robles shares how the posters and buildings on display at world fairs reveal political goals and teach us more about Pan-Americanism in this short video.
Meet the Fellows: Paul Katsafanas, Professor of Philosophy
Professor of Philosophy and Jeffrey Henderson Senior Research Fellow Paul Katsafanas discusses his public-facing work on Nietzsche and how the idea of devotion might offer an alternative way of living in a fractured society in this short video.
BU Humanists at Work: Alyssa Hunziker, Assistant Professor of English
When most people in the United States hear the term “Indigenous literature,” they probably assume a Native American context. For Assistant Professor of English Alyssa Hunziker, Indigenous literary studies reach beyond the United States to the Pacific Islands and Asia, where Hunziker encounters literature and communities similarly impacted by U.S. imperialism. “I’m interested in how […]
Building the Future at the National Humanities Conference
“It isn’t the time to close ourselves off to the world. This is the time to be brave…to build the future we want.” These words, spoken by Chair of the National Endowment for the Humanities Shelly C. Lowe, kicked off the day at the 2024 National Humanities Conference in Providence, Rhode Island, November 16, 2024, […]