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Deadline Approaching for Mellon/ACLS Public Fellows Program

The deadline to apply for the Mellon/ACLS Public Fellows Program is March 13 at 9 p.m. Applicants must have a PhD in the humanities or humanistic social sciences conferred between Sept. 1, 2015 and June 21, 2019 and must have defended and deposited their dissertations no later than April 5, 2019.

Humanities in the Village with Anand Pandian Tonight at Bird in Hand

Anand Pandian, a professor in the anthropology department at Johns Hopkins University, will discuss a new manuscript project about walls and social boundaries in the United States, called Impervious: The Walls We Live With, and How to See Beyond Them. Why does the idea of walling and sealing off the United States from the rest of the world seem to appeal to so many Americans these days? 

Great Talk Series: Maryland Conversation with a Purpose

The first talk is Sunday, March 17 at 3 p.m. with Chris Matthews, The Honorable Robert L. Ehrlich, Jr., Lisa Desjardins, and Dan Morhaim at Loyola University.

Register Now for the Three Minute Thesis Competition

An 80,000-word dissertation would take 9 hours to present. Your time limit… 3 minutes! Open to all JHU doctoral students. Register by March 26.

Submissions Open for RIC Conference

Submissions are due Friday, Feb. 14 for the JHU Program in Racism, Immigration, and Citizenship’s eighth annual interdisciplinary graduate student conference: Eyes on Surveillance: (In)security in Everyday Life. Submissions that interrogate the normalization of surveillance in everyday life are encouraged.

Apply Now for the Mellon/ACLS Public Fellows Program

The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) is pleased to announce the ninth annual competition of theMellon/ACLS Public Fellows Program. This initiative places humanities PhDs in substantive roles in diverse […]

Undergraduates Fellowship Opportunity

Speak Up For The Public Interest When decisions are being made that affect our health, our safety, or our rights as consumers and citizens, U.S. PIRG speaks up on behalf […]

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: AGHI Graduate Research Fellowship

AGHI is now accepting applications from PhD students in the 10 humanities departments in KSAS, as well as the Anthropology, Political Theory, and History of Medicine programs, to become AGHI […]

Media + Monsters: Two Centuries of Frankenstein Photos

Below are photos from The Alexander Grass Humanities recent event, Media + Monsters: Two Centuries of Frankenstein, held on October 31, 2018 at the Parkway Theatre. This event was held […]

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Galvanized by Dr. Frankenstein…and His Monster

The Alexander Grass Humanities Institute and The Writing Seminars invite undergraduates in the Krieger School, but also those fantasists in the Whiting School, to write a story  based on, or […]