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Humanities Center

Humanities Center. 656 Reuther Mall #2226 Detroit, MI 48202 Founded in 1993 Director: Walter F. Edwards, D. Phil Professor, Linguistics, English Department. What is a Humanities Center?.

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Humanities Center

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  1. Humanities Center 656 Reuther Mall #2226 Detroit, MI 48202 Founded in 1993 Director: Walter F. Edwards, D. PhilProfessor, Linguistics, English Department

  2. What is a Humanities Center? A center that facilitates cross-disciplinary research through discussion among faculty, students, visiting scholars and departments within the humanities and related disciplines. • Promotes interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research and art • interdisciplinary: interaction among scholars who work jointly but still from discipline-specific perspectives • transdisciplinary: interaction among scholars who work jointly to address common problems by using a shared conceptual framework drawing from discipline-specific theories, concepts and approaches • Sponsors programs to bring faculty, students and community members together for academic interaction • Defines the humanities broadly and inclusively • Encourages the exchange of ideas on humanistic issues

  3. Why Study the Humanities? The humanities: • Require and foster critical thinking • Promote a greater understanding of the self and others • Promote excellent research skills • Show the “connectedness” of the world • Enrich all aspects of scholarship through cross-disciplinary work In addition: • Those holding degrees in the Humanities place highly on Graduate, Law, Medical and Business school entrance examinations • Employers value the oral and written communication and problem-solving skills that humanities graduates possess

  4. The mission of the Humanities Center is to nurture interdisciplinary, transdisciplinary, and disciplinary work in the humanities and arts through competitions, seminars, discussion groups, and other programs for Wayne State's humanities and arts faculty and students and for visiting scholars and artists. The Center also seeks to promote excellence in research and creative endeavors through rigorous peer review of proposals submitted to it for funding; and to complement the work of humanities and arts departments, programs, and other centers within the university by providing additional resources to faculty and students. By promoting and funding programs that involve community participants, the Center supports the university's urban mission. Through its various programs the Center is a site to collect, promote, and celebrate the diverse humanistic talents of WSU's academic citizens and to encourage innovation and excellence in the humanities and arts. Mission Statement

  5. Our Beginning • Founded and chartered in 1993 • Established with a $2.5 million endowment. The endowment now stands at $4.6 million. • In addition, we received a gift from former Provost Marilyn Williamson worth ~$585,000 to fund the Marilyn Williamson Endowed Distinguished Faculty Fellowship. • The majority of our operating budget comes from a percentage of the interest on our endowment.

  6. We measure our success by quantitative and qualitative means, such as: The number of publications and presentations that result from the projects we have funded The number of professors we have funded who have earned tenure and promotion The collegiality and interdisciplinarity we encourage through our working groups The size and diversity of the audiences that attend our public events Our ability to bring highly respected scholars to speak at our conferences and share ideas with our faculty The ever increasing number of faculty and students who participate in our programs Measures of Success

  7. By the Numbers • Over 982 awards have been given as of 2012-2013 academic year • 2 Marilyn Williamson Endowed Distinguished Faculty Fellowship • 12 Visiting Scholar awards • 22 Munusculumgrants (past program) • 57 Innovative Project grants (past program) • 41 Edward Wise Dissertation Fellowship awards • 10 Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship awards • 15 Open Competition Awards • 99 Working Group grants • 74 Miscellaneous grants to co-sponsor projects with other WSU units • 122 Resident Scholar awards • 113 Travel Awards for Graduate Students • 197 Faculty Fellowships • 218 Graduate Travel Awards

  8. Funded Programs to Date • To date we have we have provided $3,083,600 for our most prominent programs.

  9. Scholarly Works • This books captures a few of the publications, websites, and art that faculty and students have completed with funding provided by the Center. • There are 79 books and 88 article 87 authors

  10. Our Programs:Faculty Funding • The Resident Scholars Program – • We have funded 122 residents from 17 departments and 5 different colleges • Faculty Fellowships – • We have funded 197 faculty members from 21 departments and 7 different colleges • Marilyn Williamson Endowed Distinguished Faculty Fellowship • We have funded 2 distinguished fellows from 2 departments and 2 colleges • Working groups in the Humanities and Arts – designed to promote collaborative and innovative research among WSU humanities and arts faculty and students. • We have funded 99 groups from 32 different departments and 8 different colleges • Visiting Scholars Program – sponsors humanities scholars or artists who are affiliated with other universities to visit WSU for one month to a semester.

  11. Our Programs:Student Funding • Humanities Center and Edward M. Wise Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships • We have funded 51 fellows from 4 different departments 3 different colleges • Travel Award Program for Graduate Students • We have funded 218 students from 18 departments in four colleges

  12. Travel Award Programfor Graduate Students • The Center provides up to $300 each to graduate students within the humanities and arts to support travel to present their work at conferences and exhibitions within the United States and Canada. • This program has a budget of $3,000 per academic year. • To date we have funded 218 awardees from 18 different departments in 4 colleges

  13. Other Programs • Brown Bag Colloquium Series • Fall Symposium • Faculty Fellowship Conference

  14. Brown Bag Colloquium Series • The Brown Bag Colloquium Series is one of the Humanities Center’s most successful programs and each year it grows in scope. • Over 735 presenters have participated in 675 Brown Bags. Presenters were from 22 different departments and 10 different colleges. • The Center has scheduled a record 62 talks by Wayne State University faculty and visiting professors from various disciplines for the 2013-2014 series. • These talks are attended by faculty, students and staff from various disciplines who participate in an open discussion with the speaker at the end of each talk.

  15. Fall Symposia • Each year the Fall Symposium is based on a theme, including: • Bildung in the 21st Century(2010) • The Post-Industrial city (2011) • Apocalyptic Imagination (2012) • Truth (2013) • In addition to speakers from Wayne State University Faculty, the Center invites distinguished keynoters from other universities. These have included: • John Vasquez, Professor, Political Science at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2008) • LilianeWeissberg, Christopher H. Browne Distinguished ProfessorArts and Sciences, University of Pennsylvania (2010) • Marion Jackson, Distinguished Professor Emerita, Art and Art History, Wayne State University (2011)

  16. Current & Past Fall Symposia

  17. Past Keynote Speakers of our Symposia • Arnold Rampersad, Professor of English and African Studies at Stanford University: "African American Biography in the New Millennium – 1998 • Roger Wilkins, Clarence J. Robinson Professor of History and American Culture, George Mason University; Network Radio Commentator, National Public Radio – 1999 • Michael Sandel, Professor of Government, Harvard University – 2000 • Dave Hickey, Professor of Art Theory & Criticism, University of Nevada at Las Vegas - 2001 • Patricia J. Williams, James L. Dohr Professor of Law at Columbia University – 2002 • Henry Louis Gates Jr, Chair of Harvard’s Afro-American Studies – 2003 • Elaine Scarry is the author of the books: The Body in Pain; On Beauty and Being Just; Dreaming by the Book; Resisting Representation and Who defended the Country? - 2003 • Anne Wagner, University of California at Berkeley – 2004 • Michael Berube, Pennsylvania State – 2004 • Sue Wells, Temple University – 2004 • Mark Danner, University of California at Berkeley and Bard College – 2005 • Reza Aslan, University of California at Santa Barbara – 2005 • Kevin Boyle, Ohio State University, 2005 • Carol Jacobson, University of Michigan, 2005

  18. Past Keynote Symposium speakers continued • Ali Behdad, Professor of English and Chair of Comparative Writing, University of California, Los Angeles – 2006 • T. Alex Aleinikoff, Professor of Law, Executive Vice President of Law Center Affairs, Dean of the Law Center Georgetown University – 2006 • Kevin Hart, Professor of Christian Studies at the University of Virginia – 2007 • John Vasquez, Professor, Political Science at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign – 2008 • Rey Chow, Professor, Humanities at Brown University – 2008 • Kristine M. Gebbie, Joan Hansen Grabe Dean, School of Nursing, Hunter College, CUNY – 2009 • Kristin Ross, Professor of English, NYU – 2009 • LilianeWeissberg, Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor, Arts and Sciences, University of Pennsylvania - 2010 • Paul A. Bove, Distinguished Professor, English, University of Pittsburgh – 2010

  19. Faculty Fellowship Conferences • Recipients of the Center’s Faculty Fellowship present the results of their funded work in the spring following the year of their award. • In addition, the Center invites distinguished keynote speakers, including: • Michael Kimmel, Professor of Sociology SUNY Stony Brook (2011) • Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Professor, Sociology (2012)Duke University • Federico Subervi, Professor and Director of the Center for the Study of Latino Media & Markets Texas State University(2013)

  20. Current & PastFaculty Fellowships

  21. Past Keynote Speakers of our Conferences • Eric Foner, DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University, and elected President Elect of the American Historical Association: The Story of American Freedom: The Debate Over the Meaning of Freedom in American History - 1999 • Sharon Zukin, Broeklundian Professor of Sociology, Brooklyn College, CUNY: American Cities in the 20th Century: Cultural Sites of Growth and Decline – 2000 • Constance Budorow, Executive Director of the Automotive National Heritage Association"The Automobile National Heritage Area – Reading our Heritage in the Cultural Landscape" 2000 • Brian Dunnigan, Curator at The Clements Library, The University of Michigan"Images of Early Detroit: Reading a Cultural History" - 2000 • Kevin Boyle, Detroit Historian and Author, Associate Professor at University of Massachusetts, Amherst"The Rages of Whiteness: A Murder, Modernity, and the Making of Civil Rights Liberalism" - 2000 • Nancy Lieberman-Cline, Basketball Hall-of-Famer, Television Broadcaster for ESPN, and Former Head Coach of the Detroit Shock (WNBA): Gender/Sex/Play: What Have Women Got to Do With It? - 2001 • Donna Haraway, Professor of the History of Consciousness at the University of California at Santa Cruz:. From Cyborgs to Companion Species: Kinship in Technoscience – 2002 • Michael Eric Dyson, Avalon Professor in the Humanities -  2004 • John D. Caputo, David R. Cook Professor of Philosophy, Villanova University - 2004 • Sander L. Gilman will become a distinguished professor of the Liberal Arts and Sciences at Emory University - 2005 • KarmenMacKendrickMacKendrick is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Le Moyne College, a Jesuit institution in upstate New York - 2005

  22. Past Keynote Speakers continued • MarylinYalom, Senior scholar at Stanford University’s Institute for Research on Women and Gender - 2005 • Brent Hayes Edwards, Associate professor in the Department of English at Rutgers University - 2006 • ObiomaNnaemeka, French, Women's Studies, and African-American and African Diaspora Studies, Indiana University - 2006 • Christopher Southgate, Theology, University of Exeter (U.K.) - 2006 • Lawrence Venuti, Professor of English, Temple University - 2007 • Mary Louise Pratt, Silver Professor, Departments of Social and Cultural Analysis and Spanish, New York University - 2007 • Jeremy Waldron, Law, New York University - 2008 • Dorceta E. Taylor, Associate Professor, Natural Resources and Environmental Department, University of Michigan - 2009 • Susan Haack, Professor, Law School, University of Miami • Michael Kimmel, Professor of Sociology, SUNY Stony Brook - 2011 • Judith Roof, William Shakespeare Chair of English, Rice University - 2011 • Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Professor, Sociology, Duke University - 2012 • Elvis Mitchell, Independent Film Critic, Host of the Public Radio Show, The Treatment &Visiting Lecturer, Harvard University - 2012 • Federico Subervi, Professor and Director of the Center for the Study of Latino Media & MarketsTexas State University - 2013

  23. Advisory Board and Steering Committee Membersfor 2013-2014 Advisory Board Members Robert Aguirre, Associate Professor, English Judith Arnold, Librarian IV, University Libraries Erica Beecher-Monas, Professor, Law Alina Cherry, Assistant Professor, CMLLC RaffaelleDeBenedictis, Associate Professor, CMLLC Katheryn C. Maguire, Associate Professor, Communication David Merolla,Assistant Professor, Sociology Andrew Port, Associate Professor, History LjiljanaProgovac, Director of Linguistics, Professor, English Anne Rothe, Associate Professor, CMLLC Emery Stephens, Assistant Professor, Music KidadaWilliams, Associate Professor, History Steering Committee Members Margaret Bruni, Assistant Director, Detroit Public Library Main Branch DedriaBryfonski, Former President, Gale Publishing Karin McClow-Orr, Former Council Member, Michigan Humanities Council Kathleen McCrone, Professor Emeritus History, University of Windsor MysoonRizk, Associate Professor, Art, University of Toledo Guy Stern, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, CMLLC, Wayne State University

  24. Past Advisory Board and Steering Committee Members • Over the past twenty years our board has held 108 different members from 29 departments of 8 different colleges.

  25. Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes We are currently a member of the Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes, the CHCI. This is the largest association of humanities centers in the United States. The CHCI currently has over 170 members, 40 internationally. Each year the CHCI hosts an Annual Meeting in a new location. These meetings provide directors with the opportunity to network and to discuss and evaluate new trends in the humanities and arts. Picture and logo from CHCI website. 2004 Annual Meeting.

  26. Similar Humanities Centers There are several hundred Humanities Centers and Humanities Institutes currently operating in universities and colleges in the U.S. and across the globe. No major university is without one or more such organization. • University of Windsor – Humanities Research Group • Harvard University – The Humanities Center At Harvard • Temple University – Society of Fellows in the Humanities • University of Washington – Simpson Center for the Humanities • Stanford University – Stanford Humanities Center

  27. John Hope FranklinHumanities Institute at Duke University The Humanities Institute at Duke funds many programs similar to our own. • Colloquium Series • Interdisciplinary working groups • Annual Distinguished Lecture • Annual Seminars

  28. Impact on the University • We have funded projects that have resulted in over 280 published books, articles, websites and exhibitions, and literally hundreds of conference presentations. • Many faculty members have been promoted and graduate students hired on the basis of these publications and presentations. • The reputation of the University as a whole has been enhanced by the thriving careers of these faculty members and students. • Our programs increase the university’s reputation for scholarship and intellectual and artistic exploration. • Our programs provide a collegial atmosphere and enrich the intellectual culture of the university. • Our public events draw citizens of the community to Wayne State University’s campus and thus help to link the university with the Detroit metropolitan area.

  29. Humanities Center Bringing Humanities Together for Collaborative Research Director: Walter F. Edwards, D. PhilProfessor, Linguistics, English Department Visit us on the webhttp://www.research2.wayne.edu/hum

  30. Thank you for your support over the last 20 years, we look forward to your continued support in the future!

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