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[Now Closed] Call for Proposals: Faculty Fellowship Program, 2024-2025

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The Institute for the Arts and Humanities is now accepting applications for the Faculty Fellowship Program for the 2024-2025 academic year.



Méndez (FFP ’22) and Martin (FFP ’24) selected for National Humanities Center residencies

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Fellows Hugo Méndez and Nina Martin were selected for summer residencies at the National Humanities Center.



3D imaging project brings Nepali sacred site to life

Lauren Leve sits in her office surrounded by books.

Religious studies scholar Lauren Leve partnered with a computer science class last semester to further her ongoing work to create an annotated 3D model of Swayambhunath, an ancient holy site in Nepal’s Kathmandu Valley.



Meet the 2023 Chapman Summer Fellows

The 2023 Chapman Summer Fellows: Patrick Harrison, Anastacia Kohl, Søren Palmer, and Milada Vachudova

Four faculty members were honored as Chapman Summer Fellows as part of the 2023 University Teaching Awards. Patrick Harrison, Anastacia Kohl, Søren Palmer, and Milada Vachudova were recognized for their distinguished teaching of undergraduate students.



Call for Applications: Faculty Director, Strategic Initiatives

The front courtyard outside Hyde Hall, featuring The Conversation sculpture of three stacked stones, and a tree and small shrub garden.

The Institute for the Arts and Humanities invites applications for the Faculty Director for Strategic Initiatives, a new position that will develop and advance new and existing IAH programmatic initiatives.



Araujo explores ‘Slavery as History and Memory’ in 2023 Reckford Lecture

Ana Lucia Araujo at the lectern in the University Room to a full room. A projection slide shows movie posters including Lincoln, 12 Years a Slave, and more.

In her talk, Araujo described the perceived differences of history and memory, the way they intersect, and the implications for historians. “History and memory are, at the end of the day, two different modes of discourse that engage the past in different ways,” said Araujo.



IAH launches new Summer International Collaborative Research Grant

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A new IAH grant gives associate professors an opportunity to conduct research abroad and develop international partnerships.



A ‘Conversation’ with Alan Shapiro (FFP ’99, ’09)

Alan Shapiro smiling in a library

All morning as we talk inside the room  around the table, our bodies are aswarm  with light and shade, our voices like a web  hung in the air between us, stitching  and unstitching in the telling and the hearing,  the taking issue with, concord and discord,  every one of us around the table     To writer Alan Shapiro, the Faculty Fellowship experience is an opportunity that brings people together from different disci … Read more



Announcing the 2023 Schwab Academic Excellence Award winners

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The Institute for the Arts and Humanities is pleased to announce the 21 recipients of the 2023 Schwab Academic Excellence Awards. The award recognizes one faculty member from each College of Arts and Sciences department in the arts, humanities, and qualitative social sciences.



Inger Brodey (FFP ’11) receives NEH grant for ‘Jane Austen’s Desk’

An illustration of Jane Austen’s writing room for the project “Jane Austen’s Desk,” which is supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Former Faculty Fellow Inger Brodey and an interdisciplinary team work to create an immersive web environment designed to bring Jane Austen’s writing room — and her world — to life.



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