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April 17, 2025A Humanities Degree Will Get You a Job
September 9, 2024“One of the Best Degrees You Can Get”: Miami Restructures in Preparation for New Humanities Building
February 19, 2024Artist and Advocate LaToya Ruby Frazier presents on Flint is Family
December 1, 2023Professor Madelyn Detloff Leads Discussion about Humanities Programs on Cincinnati Public Radio
November 14, 2023Jordan Fenton Receives NEH Exhibition Implementation Grant as Co-Author
October 30, 2023Humanities Center Fellow Mollie Duffy Recognized for Civic Engagement
September 28, 2023$500,000 NEH Challenge Grant Will Support New Humanities Center Hub in Bachelor Hall
September 15, 2023Humanities Scholar, Mack Hagood, Receives NEH Grant
May 12, 2023Global Book Lab Creates Opportunities for Hands-On Learning
April 28, 2023Leading Universities See Increasing Humanities Enrollments
March 29, 2023Humanities Center Programs Lead to Major Fellowships
February 18, 2022Humanities Center Funding Helped Launch Successful Podcast
November 18, 2021Humanities Students Publish New Research on Eugene O’Neill
November 10, 2021Miami’s Humanities Center Receives an NEH SHARP Grant
November 8, 2021The Humanities Lab Marked the 50th Anniversary of the Rowan Hall Protests
November 4, 2021"Sleeper Agent" author to visit Miami Nov. 12
October 19, 2021John Pepper, former CEO of Procter & Gamble, discusses leadership and the value of the humanities
October 11, 2021Humanities Center Fellowship Leads to New Digital Publication
September 14, 2021National Humanities Medal Winner Opens Altman Program on Race and Racism
September 7, 2021Geoffrion Family Fellows Program Transforms Students into Researchers
August 27, 2021FOCUS Invites the Miami Community to Explore Big Questions
August 26, 2021Fellowship Recipient Lands NEH Collaborative Research Grant
June 25, 2021Daryl Baldwin Nominated by President Biden to the National Council on the Humanities
June 21, 2021Steven Conn Connects with "Picturing Black History Project"
June 21, 2021Research Apprenticeship Project on Art for the Visually Impaired to be Exhibited in Ohio
May 28, 2021HumanitiesWorks Class Engages the Residents of a Small Iowa Town
May 27, 2021Rescuing the music of Florence Price, a pioneer Black American female composer
May 1, 2021Professor Mack Hagood Featured on Freakonomics Radio
March 24, 2021Humanities Center's Altman Program sheds light on the topic of mass migrations
October 27, 2020“Writing for the Public Workshop” Shines National Spotlight on Humanities Faculty
October 1, 2020Miami's Humanities Center stimulates conversation by addressing race and racism with the Laptop Lecture Series
March 6, 2020Data Shows Humanities Majors Achieve Career SuccessTim Melley and recent Miami history graduate, Jacob Bruggeman, appeared on WVXU's Cincinnati Edition to discuss HumanitiesWorks, a program to ensure that humanities majors receive evidence-based career guidance.
February 1, 2020Former Geoffrion Fellow Discusses the Value of the Humanities
May 22, 2019Geoffrion Family Fellows Unveil Public Project on Truth and Lies2018-2019 Geoffrion Family Fellows produce series of short 'viral videos' to encapsulate their year of examining Truth and Lies..
May 1, 20192018-2019 Geoffrion Fellows Address Faculty and Students
February 21, 2019Altman Graduate Fellows Describe Program's BenefitsAltman Graduate Fellows, Casey Kuhajda and Ricky Desantis, discuss their roll as part of the 2018-2019 Altman Program, Truth and Lies.
February 1, 2019A Passion for Journalism Geoffrion Fellow, Megan Zahneis, Talks to Us About Journalism, Internships and Awards.
December 1, 2018Former Miami Professor Gives Talk on the Cultural Relevance of Emmett Till
October 12, 2018Miami U. Senior Wins Chronicle’s Award for Young JournalistsMegan Zahneis, 2018-19 Geoffrion Fellow Wins Chronicle’s Award for Young Journalists
October 2, 2018Jason Stanley, Philosopher and Author, Speaks Jason Stanley, Philosopher and Author, Speaks to Humanites Community about his most recent book How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them
September 25, 2018Post Opinions, Kimberly Hamlin2016-17 Altman Fellow Kimberly Hamlin in Post Opinions.
March 5, 2018Cross-Border Citizens with Teddy Cruz and Fonna FormanVilcek Award Winner Teddy Cruz to visit Campus
March 1, 2018Truth and Lies?, Meet the 2018 Altman Faculty FellowsFaculty Fellows Emily Zakin and Theresa Kulbaga discuss their hopes and goals for the upcoming 2018-2019, John W. Altman program in the Humanities, Truth and Lies.
February 28, 2018Faith and Fortune: Classics Scholar Lisa Maurizio Speaks at Upham HallThe Oracle of Delphia didn't use the methods we've long thought, according to new research.
October 23, 2017Altman Scholar Nishani Frazier is Civil Rights Historian & Activist A conversation with Dr. Frazier about how her community's and her family's past have shaped her scholarship.
October 20, 2017Author, Photographer Teju Cole Greets Fans after Reading for Altman ProgramThe literary genius behind 2017's “Blind Spot” took part in the Urban Futures program in October.
October 2, 2017Neil Brenner Talk Urges Scholars to Look at Urban Issues from Various PerspectivesHarvard theorist tells audience to look at cities from inside out.
October 1, 2017Saskia Sassen Opens Altman Series with Talk on CitiesThe growth of global finance has wrought “dead” land and buildings as well as extreme poverty, the sociologist says.
September 13, 2017Altman Scholar Annie Dell'Aria Gives Lecture Series in Cincinnati"Urban Projections" will unpack the moving image in public spaces for an urban audience.
August 14, 2017Michael Hatch and Michelle Navakas Begin Prestigious Yearlong FellowshipsFaculty from art history and English will conduct funded off-campus research during the coming school year.
July 21, 2017Humanities Majors Well Represented in Young Alumni AwardAlmost half of the newest batch of outstanding graduates took a major or minor in a humanities field.
July 19, 2017Miami "Poet's Shack" Resident Argued Democracy Depended on the HumanitiesIn the 1920s, Miami's poet-in-residence occupied the first-ever university fellowship in creative art.
April 30, 2016HumanitiesWorks: A Humanities Career Initiative
November 9, 2015Miami University Humanities Center Wins NEH Challenge GrantNEH Challenge Grant
April 15, 2014NEH Digital Humanities Start Up GrantDigital Humanities Grant
January 20, 2011The Great Recession and the Humanities: Journalistic Responses to Economic Crisis

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