Humanities Center Supports Four Spring 2024 Fellows
Research ranges from recovering ancestral foodways, making Black space in the digital age, natural reasoning through virtue to stereotypical Caribbean images.
The Humanities Center resides in the Tolley Humanities Building (in upper left view)
Humanities practitioners put current issues and events into perspective by encouraging critical thinking and analysis, challenging beliefs and values, sparking creativity and encouraging global citizenship and immersing in history. In an effort to further a world that is healthier, hopeful and more humane, the Syracuse University Humanities Center, in the College of Arts and Sciences, advances humanities research each year by awarding up to four competitive fellowships — three to faculty in the College of Arts and Sciences, including one with a direct link to the annual Syracuse Symposium theme (this year, Symposium’s programming theme is “Landscapes”); and one to a faculty member in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs.
“We are delighted to support the cutting-edge research being done by this year’s cohort of Faculty Fellows,” says Vivian May, director of the Humanities Center. “In different ways, their projects trace valences and vectors of power across time, place and circumstance and unpack important questions of human agency in making meaning and effecting change in the world. Several projects are community-based and engage in reciprocal meaning-making to de-center, if not shift, status quo power relations, and examine longstanding historical, philosophical and visual frameworks.” (Read the full A&S News article.)