External Research Resources

The links on this page represent discipline-specific or concept-focused resources related to the arts and humanities. They are drawn from institutes, groups and online databases organized and working around the globe. 

• The Adolescent Studies Arena - This site, designed for researchers, instructors, and professionals, provides information about and resources pertaining to the study of adolescence and the adolescent experience.
  
• Edge Hill University Childhood Studies Resources - This site provides a wide range of resources for scholars interested in the study of children's experiences and childhood.
• The Rutgers-Camden Center for Children and Childhood Studies - A center organized to promote the understanding and enrichment of childhood experiences through research, service, and education.
  
• University of Edinburgh Resources for Childhood Studies - This site focuses on children's rights and welfare and provides links to a number of organizations working on these issues in the U.K.

Cultural and Interdisciplinary Studies

• Aging Studies - Provides resources related to the study of health and aging.
• Animal-Human Studies - Designed to assist those interested in the interaction between humans and non-human animals.
• Art History - Provides resources related to the study of art in historic and stylistic context.
• Communication Studies - Resources for those interested in the study of shared symbols and processes of communication.
• Comparative Literature - Resources for those interested in the cross-cultural, cross-linguistic or cross-national study of literature.
• Digital Arts and Humanities - For those studying the intersection of digital creation and analyses with the arts and humanities.
• Folklore Studies - For scholars engaged in the academic and ethnographic study of folklore.
• Latina/o Studies - Provides resources related to the academic study of the experiences of peoples of Hispanic origin in the Americas.
• Life-writing - Resources for those engaged in the study and documentation of personal memories and experiences.
• Material Culture - For scholars analyzing the humanly-made remains of past societies, cultures and peoples.
• Media Studies - For those studying media, broadly defined.
• Memory Studies - Resources to aid the study of individual, institutional and cultural remembering and forgetting.
• Queer Studies - Resources for those engaged in the interdisciplinary study of sexual and gender identities and experiences.
• Theatre and Performance Studies - Resources related to the study of theater, performance and performativity.
• Victorian Studies - For scholars studying English culture of the Victorian period.
• Visual Culture - Resources related to the interdisciplinary study of cultural artifacts that rely on visual images.
• Women's Studies - For scholars engaged in the interdisciplinary study of topics related to or concerning women, feminism, gender and politics.

 Medical Humanities

• NYU Medical Humanities Site - A resource for scholars, educators, students, patients and others who are interested in the work of medical humanities. Includes the searchable Literature, Arts and Medicine Database of annotations of works of literature, art and film; a directory of scholars working in this interdisciplinary field; a listserv; and sample syllabi.
• UCL Medical Humanities Resource Database - A database created to provide a universally accessible, comprehensive educational resource for all those interested in the use of the arts and humanities in medical education and research. Includes two searchable databases, a resource database and a syllabus database.