NYU Center for the Humanities

(by Sughnen Yongo-Okochi) A Vision Julia Butterfield is pursuing a master’s degree in Archives and Public History. Her keen interest in history led her to accept an internship at the Morris–Jumel Mansion, a mid-eighteenth-century federal-style museum located in northern Manhattan. The…

(by Sughnen Yongo-Okochi) In a career that spans three decades, Dr. Susan Koff has become a voice of authority in the world of dance education. Koff is Clinical Professor of Dance Education in the Department of Music and Performing Arts…

(by Sughnen Yongo-Okochi) When Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu went to Vietnam to conduct research for her second book, she had an idea of what the final product would be. She expected to focus on the beauty industry in Vietnam, but…

Are you faculty member at NYU? Did you publish a book in the humanities in 2020? Then we want to hear from you! Each week in our newsletter we feature titles published by faculty in the previous calendar year. To…

The Research Technology Faculty Advisory Board (FAB), in partnership with the Center for the Humanities and NYU Libraries, invites applications for a second series of Digital Humanities Seed Grants and also Digital Humanities Graduate Student Summer Fellowships.  The Digital Humanities…

The NYU Center for the Humanities is pleased to announce the launch of a new Humanities Lab for the 2021-22 academic year. The Cross/Currents H-Lab will bring into dialogue the environmental humanities and migration studies, with an emphasis on race, diaspora, and indigeneity. The Lab Team has outlined three main trajectories for its investigations around the notion of Cross/Currents: mobility, transmission, and flow. The Lab's ultimate purpose is to decenter an anthropocentric and imperialistic understanding of global interconnection and exchange.