In a wide-ranging conversation, comparative literature PhD candidate Amira-Géhanne Khalfallah explores with scholar Sanja Bahun how “home” extends beyond physical space, encompassing memory, history, ritual and the layered experiences that shape how we inhabit the world.
A forgotten figure from the 20th-century movements for labor rights, racial justice and women’s liberation gets a second look thanks to a grant from University Libraries
A new digital archive will offer a space to preserve and protect materials that might otherwise be lost to history.
The humanities center welcomes six rising juniors to its signature two-year undergraduate research fellowship.
Here’s a look at the Graduate Student Fellows joining the humanities center for the 2026-27 academic year. The competitively selected students actively participate in the center’s intensive, interdisciplinary intellectual environment.
At Washington University in St. Louis, the Center for the Humanities facilitates the labor of humanists by fostering innovative research, transformative collaborations, and vibrant community engagement locally and globally.
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A free public event in the Sawyer Seminar Series
A Forum to Discuss the WashU/Vanderbilt Special Commission Report on the State of Scholarship in the Humanities and Humanistic Social Sciences
A free public event in the Sawyer Seminar Series
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