The Collaborative Humanities Initiative promotes collaborative practices that transform modes of research, teaching, and learning in the humanities and beyond. Through events and courses, it fosters an expanded sense of intellectual community for scholars and students dedicated to thinking together across disciplines, frameworks, and locations.

As part of the initiative, the Cogut Institute supports the development of new courses across disciplines, divisions, and schools that explore both long-standing problems or questions and more timely and urgent issues. In the spirit of Brown’s open curriculum, the Doctoral Certificate in Collaborative Humanities promotes forms of inquiry that adapt the resources of different disciplines to defined areas of research or specific research problems. These programs offer students the opportunity to practice and further develop their collaborative skills.

In both its content and structure, the initiative resonates with Brown University’s emphasis on collaborative, cross-disciplinary, and interdisciplinary approaches to research and teaching. It advances the important ways in which the humanities contribute to understanding and meeting the core challenges facing society and the world.

Directed by Amanda Anderson, Director of the Cogut Institute for the Humanities and Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Humanities and English.