Scene from Bacchae Before performance co-directed by Maxe Crandall (playwright) and Hope Mohr (choreographer) inspired by the tragedies of gender reveal parties and Anne Carson’s Bakkhai. The theater project was co-sponsored by AGHI and the Department of History of Art.
The Alexander Grass Humanities Institute (AGHI) is a focal point for the 13 world-renowned humanities departments at Johns Hopkins, other dynamic departments in the humanistic social sciences, and related centers and programs.
The institute sponsors scholarly meetings, public events, visiting scholars, and student fellowships and research projects.
Students can also pursue a PhD in Interdisciplinary Humanistic Studies.
Congratulations are in order for Tabb Center director and AGHI board member Joseph Plaster, who won the Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction for 2024 this week. The award, among the honors bestowed by The Publishing Triangle, went to Plaster's recent book, "Kids on the Street: Queer Kinship and Religion in San Francisco's Tenderloin" (Duke...
April 7 saw the screening of "Devoti Tutti," the final event in AGHI's Humanities on the Mall series in DC for this academic year. Updates about the fall to come. And make sure you join us at Bird in Hand on April 29 for our last Humanities in the Village! More info in our calendar.
AGHI joins the rest of the Johns Hopkins and Baltimore communities mourning the recent loss of Professor Shani Mott, a beloved and revered leader in Africana Studies, History, and housing equality.
