Launched in 2010 as a collaboration between the Cogut Institute and the Office of the President, the initiative is a major, long-term investment in the humanities at Brown that advances disciplinary and cross-disciplinary work both within the humanities and between the humanities and the social and natural sciences.
Cogut Institute for the Humanities
Brown University Humanities Initiative
Advancing disciplinary and cross-disciplinary research through high-profile faculty appointments and programming awards.
Brown University Humanities Initiative
Advancing disciplinary and cross-disciplinary research through high-profile faculty appointments and programming awards.
Humanities Initiative Scholars
The Humanities Initiative defines six faculty positions at the distinguished chair level whose role and significance will combine scholarly and teaching distinction with collaborative projects within and beyond the humanities.
New nominations are not being accepted at this time. Revised nomination guidelines will be communicated.
Humanities Initiative Scholars
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Leela Gandhi
John Hawkes Professor of Humanities and English, Shauna M. Stark '76 P'10 Director of the Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on WomenAt the Cogut Institute: Humanities Initiative Scholar; Director, Humanities in the World -
Andrew Laird
John Rowe Workman Distinguished Professor of Classics and Humanities and Professor of Hispanic StudiesAt the Cogut Institute: Humanities Initiative Scholar; Director, Center for the Study of the Early Modern World -
Peter Szendy
David Herlihy University Professor of Comparative Literature and the HumanitiesAt the Cogut Institute: Humanities Initiative Scholar; Director, Economies of Aesthetics
Emeritus Humanities Initiative Scholar
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Paul Guyer
Jonathan Nelson Professor Emeritus of Humanities and Philosophy
Faculty Programming
$319,950
awarded since 2013
75
collaborative faculty projects awarded funding
Humanities Initiative Programming Fund
The fund, overseen by the Cogut Institute for the Humanities as part of Brown University's Humanities Initiative, supports collaborative scholarly projects proposed by Brown University faculty.