{"id":46,"date":"2016-04-11T08:23:59","date_gmt":"2016-04-11T12:23:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/template-academic-small\/?p=46"},"modified":"2018-03-19T11:24:46","modified_gmt":"2018-03-19T15:24:46","slug":"institute-established","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/humanities-institute\/2016\/04\/11\/institute-established\/","title":{"rendered":"Johns Hopkins establishes Humanities Institute"},"content":{"rendered":"
Philanthropist Elizabeth Grass Weese and her brother, Roger Grass, have committed $10 million to advance humanities scholarship and teaching at the Johns Hopkins University and to promote literature, art, philosophy, history, and other cultural studies in Baltimore and the wider community.<\/p>\n
Their gift, through the Alexander Grass Foundation, is the largest ever to Johns Hopkins exclusively for the support of the humanities.<\/p>\n
It establishes the Alexander Grass Humanities Institute as a focal point and important sponsor of programming for 10 humanities departments in the university’s Krieger School of Arts and Sciences<\/a>, other departments in humanistic social sciences, and related centers and programs.<\/p>\n