The Humanities Centers Initiative (HCI) is an innovative statewide partnership between Humanities New York and a network of humanities centers based at nine New York State universities. Launched in 2012 and supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Whiting Foundation, the HCI supports humanities institutes, faculty, and graduate students in their commitment to public engagement.
This year-long, $8,000 Fellowship offers advanced humanities graduate students a chance to explore the public application of their scholarly interests, including training in the methods of the public humanities, networking, and professional development. Each Fellow in the cohort of 18 designs and implements a public humanities project in collaboration with a community-based partner.
Interested candidates from the nine partnership schools in the Humanities Centers Initiative should contact their university’s humanities center director or Humanities NY Program Officer Adam Capitanio for more information. Deadlines vary by university, between late Fall and early Winter. Guidelines available here.
The Fellows Application is currently open, read the call for 2020-2021 applicants.
Humanities Centers pair with local community groups to undertake a joint project. Up to $3,000 in grant support is available for programs such as panels, performances, or collaborative planning sessions between the grantee and the center.
2019-2020 Public Humanities Fellows
University Partners
Binghamton University
Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities
Bat-Ami Bar On, Director
Wendy Wall, Associate Director
The City University of New York
The Center for the Humanities
Keith Wilson, Director
Kendra Sullivan, Associate Director
Columbia University
Heyman Center for the Humanities
Eileen Gillooly, Acting Director
Associate Faculty of English and Comparative Literature
Cornell University
Society for the Humanities
Paul Fleming, Director
Professor of German Studies and Comparative Literature
State University of New York at Buffalo
Humanities Institute
David R. Castillo, Director
Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures
New York University
The Center for the Humanities
Gwynneth Malin, Director
Ulrich Baer, Faculty Director
Professor of German and Comparative Literature
Jane Tylus, Founding Director
Professor of Italian Studies and Comparative Literature
State University of New York at Stony Brook
Humanities Institute
Adrián Pérez-Melgosa, Director
Associate Professor in the Department of Hispanic Languages and Literature
Syracuse University
Humanities Center
Vivian May, Director
Professor of Women's and Gender Studies
Aimee Germain, Program Coordinator
The University of Rochester
The Public Humanities Fellowship was developed to bring humanities scholarship into the public realm and strengthen the public humanities community by supporting emerging scholars. To support that effort, we feature Fellow's projects highlighting their work.
