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Welcome to 2025-2026 at the Humanities Institute!
A Note from our Director, John Christman:
This will be another exciting year for the Institute. We look forward to continuing our support of humanities faculty and students, both in their research and teaching. Our Faculty and Graduate Student Resident Fellows will be sharing their work throughout the year (see our listserv for dates), and we will be supporting a number of other events throughout the fall and spring. We are also pleased to announce that the Center for Humanities and Information, ably led by Eric Hayot since 2015, will be joining our fold. We plan to spearhead this transition in ways that will make the CHI even more relevant and cutting edge in its programing and support opportunities. Stay informed by joining our listserv, following us on social media, or checking back here.
Acknowledgement of Land
The Pennsylvania State University campuses are located on the original homelands of the Erie, Haudenosaunee (Seneca, Cayuga, Onondaga, Oneida, Mohawk, and Tuscarora), Lenape (Delaware Nation, Delaware Tribe, Stockbridge-Munsee), Shawnee (Absentee, Eastern, and Oklahoma), Susquehannock, and Wahzhazhe (Osage) Nations. As a land grant institution, we acknowledge and honor the traditional caretakers of these lands and strive to understand and model their responsible stewardship. We also acknowledge the longer history of these lands and our place in that history.