Welcome

We are excited to launch this new vision for the Humanities Center at Northeastern University. Founded in 2008 in the College of Social Sciences and Humanities on the Boston campus, the Humanities Center has become a dynamic catalyst for collaborative humanities research and programming across Northeastern’s global network. We look forward to being a leading voice for the humanities within and beyond the university. 

Mission

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.

Vision

The Humanities Center is home to innovative, socially-impactful humanities research. The Center supports and inspires research throughout our global network that:

  • advances social justice, has meaningful social impacts, and moves humanity toward greater equity
  • engages at the global level while also closely attending to the local
  • co-creates initiatives with communities beyond the university in partnership with multigenerational teams of undergraduate, graduate, and faculty collaborators
  • utilizes transdisciplinary approaches in areas including, but not limited to, digital, environmental, health, and public humanities

Projects

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.

Activities

  • A Global 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
  •  Sponsorship of events that showcase leading humanities research, stimulate dialogue, and build community