News: CHAT Highlights

CHAT is delighted to announce our Faculty Fellows team for 2024-2025.

Congratulations to the SCL team for the upcoming City of Boston grant to study history of slavery in Boston.

CHAT is now accepting applications for PhD Candidates who are completing their dissertations to join us as fellows for the

Congratulations to CHAT Fellow, Dr. Diego Luis, on his new book out this month, The First Asians in the Americas: A Transpacific History. Available now from Harvard University Press!

Congratulations to Dr. Kendra Field, winner of the 2023 Whiting Foundation grant for non-fiction.

The Center for the Humanities at Tufts University, in partnership with the Center for the Study of Race and Democracy (CSRD) and the Office of Provost, invites applications for a residential postdoctoral fellowship beginning July 1, 2024.

On November 8th, the Center for the Study of Race and Democracy, along with the History Department, the Center for the Humanities at Tufts, the Tufts Archival Research Center and the Office of the Provost hosted a symposium at Tufts Dental School in Boston, to introduce the Slavery, Colonialism and Their Legacies at Tufts (SCL) Project.

The Center for the Humanities at Tufts offers three research fellowships each academic year to faculty in the School of Arts and Sciences at Tufts who are engaged in humanistic scholarship or artistic creation or criticism. Tenured faculty, tenure track faculty, and professors of the practice are eligible to apply.

The Environmental Humanities Symposium drew a crowd of students and professors from many disciplines on September 21 and 22 in Curtis Hall.

CHAT, TDPS, RCD and the English Department hosted Canadian Poet Laureate and Native Canadian, Louise Halfe, to campus.

On September 20, UEP, CHAT, and others hosted a special event in the Crane Room of Paige Hall at noon for a conversation with author Audrey Petty.

Kerri Greenidge, Co-Director of the CSRD, has just been named a finalist for the MAAH Stone Book award for her work The Grimkes: The Legacy of Slavery in an American Family.