The Humanities Center Global Fellowship program brings together Northeastern faculty and graduate student Humanities scholars from our Boston, London, and Oakland campuses. The Fellowship program provides a focused period for Northeastern Humanities Fellows to pursue dedicated research, collaborate around a common theme, and share their work with the global Northeastern community.
We are living at a moment of erasure and the threat of erasure. Examples include book censorship; revisionist histories and denialism; “alternative” truths; refusal to acknowledge impending crises such as climate change; undermining of democratic and academic institutions; limitations on freedom of expression; dismantling of diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives; and obliterative forms of violence directed against people, populations, communities, and cultures. Erasure can invite forms of recovery and redress such as corrective histories; commemoration; archival research; art restoration; palimpsestic writing; and restorative justice. Digital humanities and AI join these traditional disciplinary approaches in providing opportunities for redress. Applicants should feel free to interpret the theme of erasure broadly.
The Fellowship program provides a focused period for Northeastern Humanities Fellows to pursue dedicated research, collaborate around a common theme, and share their work with the global Northeastern community.
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2023 – 2024 Theme: World-Making/World-Building
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2022 – 2023 Theme: Re-Imagining/Re-Forming
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2021 – 2022 Theme: Reckonings
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2020 – 2021 Theme: Disruption & Displacement
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2019 – 2020 Theme: Authority & Subversion
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2018 – 2019 Theme: Cultures of Ability
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2017 – 2018 Theme: Whose Story?
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2016 – 2017 Theme: Inclusions & Exclusions
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2015 – 2016 Theme: By Design
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2014 – 2015 Theme: Space and Place
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2013 – 2014 Theme: Viral Culture