Our Mission

From cinema studies to legal and business ethics to Middle Eastern and Islamic studies, NYU boasts a wide range of outstanding departments and program in the humanities as broadly defined. The Center for the Humanities was founded in 2007 by Jane Tylus, Professor of Italian and Comparative Literature at the Faculty of Arts & Science, to bring NYU’s humanists together as well as to explore the role of the humanities in the larger university and global community.

2023-2024 Annual Report

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What is an H-Lab?

The goal of the H-Lab program is to create shared spaces where faculty, students and arts and humanities practitioners from different fields come together to tackle big questions or explore timely ideas of import.

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Opportunities

The Center for the Humanities supports NYU faculty and graduate students through a range of programs designed to promote interdisciplinary dialogue, teaching, and research in the humanities and the arts.

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Featured Fellow

Amy Bentley
2024-2025
Faculty Fellow
Professor of Nutrition and Food Studies