Welcome to the Humanities Center

Northeastern University’s Humanities Center, spanning our global campus network, promotes collaborative, innovative, and publicly-engaged humanities research and programming. The Humanities Center pairs deep reflective inquiry with experience to attend to the past, foster meaningful conversations in the present, and pursue more just futures.

The Humanities Center is the home of a suite of established, high-impact, grant-funded projects that exemplify collaborative, innovative, and publicly-engaged humanities research. The Center provides physical and digital infrastructure to support the work of signature research projects including: Digital Archive of Indigenous Language Persistence; Digital Transgender Archive; Early Black Boston Digital Almanac; Early Caribbean Digital Archive; Homosaurus; Mapping Black London; and Reckonings.

The Humanities Center’s Activities include a Global Faculty Fellows Program that brings faculty and graduate students together from the Boston, London, and Oakland campuses for a year-long series of activities, a Summer Residency Program that sponsors faculty travel between campuses to encourage project growth and new partnerships, Collaborative Research Pop-Up Grants that facilitate faculty collaborations within and across each of the Center’s locations, a Faculty Works-in-Progress series to share developing research to receive feedback and build intellectual community, and Sponsorship of events that showcase leading humanities research, stimulate dialogue, and build community.