Cogut Institute for the Humanities

Fostering collaboration and community around humanities research at Brown

The Cogut Institute for the Humanities is an interdisciplinary hub for innovative humanities research and teaching at Brown University, supporting both individual scholars and collaboration.

Our annual fellowship program brings together faculty, postdoctoral, graduate, and undergraduate fellows to pursue research and discuss their work-in-progress in a dynamic workshop setting. We offer cutting-edge courses at the graduate and undergraduage level, as well as two doctoral certificiates, one in Collaborative Humanities, featuring team-taught seminars on transdisciplinary topics, and one on Digital Humanities, exploring digital methods and practices in humanities research.

A rich array of programming including lecture series, conferences, and colloquia enhances our core research and curricular mission, creating a lively space of inquiry and dialogue that draws in faculty, students, and members of the larger Providence community.

The Cogut Institute is a member of the New England Humanities Consortium (NEHC) and the Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes (CHCI).

News

Shelley Lee and Tara Nummedal Appointed as New Humanities Initiative Scholars

These new five-year appointments at the Cogut Institute recognize the outstanding achievements of Brown University faculty. Both appointees will receive support to develop programming and teaching around a specific research project.

Program Spotlight

Cogut Institute Fellows Seminar

Every year, the Cogut Institute hosts a cohort of research fellows at all levels — undergraduate, graduate, postdoctoral, and factuly. Fellows meet together weekly to share and discuss work-in-progress, creating a lively space of interdisciplinary learning and community.

Models-Scale-Context: AI and the Humanities

This three-year collaborative humanities lab led by historian Holly Case and computer scientist Suresh Venkatasubramanian explores the modes of thinking, being, and doing that have shaped AI and could shape its possible futures.

Center for Environmental Humanities at Brown (CEHAB)

The center, emerging from a grassroots initiative started by Brown University facutly and graduate students, advances research and pedagogy on the more-than-human world and unfolding environmental crises. It is led by inaugural director Macarena Gómez-Barris (Modern Culture and Media).

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