The Center for the Humanities brings together researchers, faculty, and students to form an engaging community of scholars at Tufts University. The Center is overseen by a board of faculty, and supported by a director and program administrator.
Our Director
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Warren S. Woodbridge Professor of Religion
Heather D. Curtis is the Warren S. Woodbridge Professor of Religion, Department of Religion, and was previously Interim Chair of the Department of Studies in Race, Colonialism, and Diaspora.
Our Fellows
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Center for the Humanities
Department of English
Department of Studies in Race, Colonialism, and Diaspora
Center for the Humanities
Department of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies
Center for the Humanities
Slavery, Colonialism, and their Legacies at Tufts Initiative
Center for the Humanities
Slavery, Colonialism, and their Legacies at Tufts Initiative
Department of the History of Art & Architecture
Our Board
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Associate Professor, Studies in Race, Colonialism, and Diaspora
Director, History
Kendra Field is associate professor of history and director of the Center for the Study of Race and Democracy at Tufts University. Field is the author of Growing Up with the Country: Family, Race, and Nation after the Civil War (Yale University Press, January 2018). The book traces her ancestors' migratory lives between the Civil War and the Great Migration. Field also served as Assistant Editor to David Levering Lewis' W.E.B. Du Bois: A Biography (Henry Holt, 2009). Field's research and teaching areas include race, slavery, freedom, migration, and social movements in the long nineteenth century; African-American family history, memory, and public history.
Project Manager
Degree Program Faculty
Graduate Program Advisor
SMFA
Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies
Professor, Political Science
Professor, Philosophy
Lincoln Filene Professorship in Citizenship and Public Affairs, Tisch College
Peter Levine is the Associate Dean of Academic Affairs and Lincoln Filene Professor of Citizenship & Public Affairs in Tufts University’s Jonathan Tisch College of Civic Life. He also appointments in Tufts' Political Science Department (tenure home), Philosophy Department, Science & Technology Studies, International Relations, and the Tufts Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute. He was the founding deputy director (2001-2006) and then the second director (2006-2015) of Tisch College's CIRCLE, The Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement. In addition, Levine co-leads the Civic Studies major, teaches the Summer Institute of Civic Studies, and organizes the annual Frontiers of Democracy conference.
Program Administrator
The Center for Humanities at Tufts and the Center for the Study of Race and Democracy would like to welcome Amanda Pepper as the new Program Administrator.
