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2 unusual facts about Humanities


Kathleen Coburn

Coburn made a bequest to Victoria College to set up 'Coburn Fellowships' where up to three Fellowships a year valued at $20,000 are awarded to Canadian and Israeli students who are studying in the fields of Fine Art or Humanities.

Latin American Bibliography

Nowadays, the Latin-American Bibliography is composed by the following databases: CLASE (Latin-American Citations in Social Sciences and Humanities); PERIODICA (Index of Latin-American Journals in Science); Latindex (Regional Co-operative Information System for Scholarly Journals from Latin America, the Caribbean, Spain and Portugal).


Alice Dreger

Alice Domurat Dreger, Ph.D, is an American bioethicist and professor of Clinical Medical Humanities and Bioethics at the Feinberg School of Medicine Northwestern University in Chicago, Illinois.

Bernard Arps

He also served as Fellow-in-Residence at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences in 2001-02, a Visiting Fellow in the Faculty of Asian Studies and the Humanities Research Centre at the Australian National University during the first half of 2005, and the Netherlands Visiting Professor of Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Michigan in 2006-07.

Cathy Davidson

In 2002, Davidson co-founded (with David Theo Goldberg) the virtual organization HASTAC (Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Advanced Collaboratory), an international organization dedicated to rethinking the future of learning for the information age.

Cornell University Press

In 2010, the Mellon Foundation, whose President Don Michael Randel is a former Cornell Provost, awarded to the press a $50,000 grant to explore new business models for publishing scholarly works in low-demand humanities subject areas.

Danny Matthys

In his youth, Matthys was a gifted cyclist in the category of ’promises’, together with André Dierickx, which later won famous classics such as the La Flèche Wallonne, but a very serious accident during the last years of his humanities studies in Ghent and a long rehabilitation, gave his life a strong new direction.

Deepa Panta

And then she has moved to Kathmandu for higher studies and completed her 10+2 (Humanities) from HSBC Nepal and Completed Bachelors and Master's degree (Mathematics) form Tribhuwan University Kathmandu, Nepal.

Education in the Republic of Ireland

Dublin City University's de facto omnibus entry arts degree is offered by St. Patrick's College of Education (a college of DCU) and is titled "BA in Humanities", All Hallows College (a college of DCU) offer BA in Humanities, Theology Pastoral Care, and English.

Elaine Thornburgh

As President of Humanities West, she has presented programs on 18th-century Venice, Rembrandt's Amsterdam, Thomas Jefferson, Mozart, Handel's London, and Versailles.

Emory Elliott

He was appointed to many academic societies including the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, Guggenheim, the National Humanities Center, and the Institute for the Humanities at the University of California, Irvine.

Francis Sylvius

After completing his course of humanities at Mons, he studied philosophy at the Catholic University of Leuven and theology at University of Douai, in a seminary founded by the bishop of Cambrai in connection with the faculty of theology.

George Handley

George B. Handley, professor of humanities at Brigham Young University

Gerard Caris

He studied at the Monterey Peninsula College, California, the Monterey Institute of Foreign Studies and San José College (arts and humanities) subsequently at the University of California, Berkeley, a.o. with David Hockney, R.B. Kitaj, Elmer Bischoff and Richard Diebenkorn In 1967 B. A. in Philosophy, in 1969 M.A. in arts .

Hasmonean High School

Prof David Newman, Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at Ben-Gurion University in Israel.

Hermione Lee

In the USA, she has been a visiting teaching fellow at the Beinecke Library at Yale University, a Whitney J. Oates Fellow at the Council for the Humanities at Princeton, an Everett Helm visiting fellow at the Lilly Library at the Indiana University at Bloomington, and the Mel and Lois Tukman Fellow of the New York Public Library's Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers in 2004-5.

Hprints

October 2007, the Advisory Board of the Nordbib "hprints project" chose the system to be used for the Nordic arts and humanities e-print archive.

International School of Beaverton

The school offers various standard courses in the areas of English (aka. Writing, or Literature), Math (such as Algebra I, Geometry, Algebra II, Calculus, Trigonometry, et cetera), Science, (such as Biology or Chemistry), Social or Global Studies (with areas such as World History, US History, and Humanities), Physical Education and Health, as well as electives such as "Band", "Art", or "Choir".

Jakob Middendorp

He studied the humanities at the Fragerherren gymnasium of Zwolle, philosophy and jurisprudence at Cologne University, where he became doctor of philosophy and both branches of law, and also licentiate of theology; he also taught peripatetic philosophy at the Montanum gymnasium there.

Janet Beer

She took over from Graham Upton in September 2007, having previously been Pro-Vice Chancellor and Dean of Humanities, Law and Social Sciences at Manchester Metropolitan University.

John Kent Harrison

Other projects include The Lois Wilson Story (2010) which received a SAG nomination for Winona Ryder, William Faulkner's Old Man (1997), one of the most critically acclaimed Hallmark presentations, which won two Emmy Awards, the Humanities Prize, the Christopher Medal and a Golden Reel.

John Unsworth

In 1990, at North Carolina State University, he co-founded the first peer-reviewed electronic journal in the humanities, Postmodern Culture (now published by Johns Hopkins University Press, as part of Project Muse).

Kathleen Butler-Hopkins

Butler-Hopkins has studied chamber music with Gilbert Kalish, Gunther Schuller, and members of the Juilliard, Guarneri, Tokyo, and Budapest String Quartets, and received a summer stipend from the National Endowment for the Humanities to study the string quartets of Ludwig van Beethoven with Lewis Lockwood at Harvard University.

Kimiko Hahn

#Luce Irigaray's Choreography with Sex and Race By: Mori, Kaori; Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences, 2002 July; 63 (1): 189.

Mariupol State University

The State Accreditation Committee headed by Professor Ivan Vakarchuk, Minister of Science and Education of Ukraine, decided to confer on Mariupol State University of Humanities its highest award – the fourth level of accreditation.

Moses Amyraut

Born at Bourgueil, in the valley of the Changeon in the province of Anjou, his father was a lawyer, and, preparing Moses for his own profession, sent him, on the completion of his study of the humanities at Orléans to the university of Poitiers.

Neil L. Rudenstine

He studied the humanities at Princeton University (A.B. 1956) and participated in Army R.O.T.C. After serving in the U.S. Army as an artillery officer he attended New College, Oxford, as a Rhodes Scholar, where he received another B.A. and an M.A. In 1964, he received a Ph.D. in English literature from Harvard for thesis titled Sir Philip Sidney: The Styles of Love.

Nichols School

The Humanities Scholar program gives seniors the opportunity to conduct humanities research at SUNY Buffalo.

Norman Academy

The Norman Academy or L'Accademia Normanna is a non-profit association established for the promotion of the Arts and Letters, Humanities and Human rights defence throughout the world.

Órfhlaith Foyle

She has a Bachelor in Humanities, and has been published in a number of literary journals.

Paul Halpern

Paul Halpern is an American Professor of Physics, and Fellow in the Humanities at the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia.

Phi Beta Delta

Harriet Mayor Fulbright, former Executive Director of the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities and President of the J. William and Harriet Fulbright Center.

Philip Sugden

In 1990, Philip and his wife were awarded grants from the Ohio Joint Projects in the Arts and Humanities and the National Endowment for the Humanities, to create a Public Television presentation and companion book based on their 1988 Cultural Arts Expedition to the Himalaya and Tibet.

Ringel

Faye Ringel, former American professor of Humanities at the United States Coast Guard Academy and an author

Samuel Hoi

He has juried numerous exhibitions and served on panels for the National Endowment for the Arts, Ford Foundation, Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, Surdna Foundation, Wallace Foundation, the DC Commission on Art and Humanities, and the California Community Foundation.

Sharman Apt Russell

Russell is a professor in the Humanities Department at Western New Mexico University in Silver City, where she teaches writing for graduate students.

Shmuel Zakai

Zakai is a graduate of the IDF Staff College and has a degree in humanities from Tel Aviv University.

Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary

In the fall of 2005, the Seminary converted its undergraduate program (baccalaureate school) into The College at Southwestern which awards a Bachelor of Arts degree in Humanities.

St Matthias, Bristol

The plan is to consolidate the various departments of the faculty of Creative Arts, Humanities and Education from St Matthias and Bower Ashton to move to new facilities at Frenchay campus.

Stiftelsen

Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation, in Swedish Stiftelsen Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, Swedish foundation which awards grants to individuals and research groups for research projects in science, the humanities, social sciences, medical research, technology, and law.

Text Analysis Portal for Research

The Text Analysis Portal for Research' (commonly referred as TAPoR) project is based at McMaster University, and consists of a network of six of the leading Humanities computing centres in Canada: McMaster, University of Victoria (in collaboration with Malaspina UC), University of Alberta, University of Toronto, Université de Montréal (law) and University of New Brunswick.

Thomas W. Krise

He served on the faculty of the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, as a Senior Military Fellow of the Institute for National Strategic Studies in Washington, as Vice Director of the National Defense University Press, as founder and first Director of the Air Force Humanities Institute, and as a flight commander in the Strategic Air Command.

Todd Hedrick

Hedrick was awarded several grants and fellowships including a Graduate Research Grant from the Mellon Foundation and a DAAD Summer Fellowship from the Kaplan Center for the Humanities.

Universidade Federal de São Paulo

Now, the university has six campuses, the oldest in Vila Clementino, in São Paulo (Health) and four more in Guarulhos (Humanities area), Diadema (Science, Engineering and related), Santos (Health), São José dos Campos (computational area) and Osasco (Business and related).

University College Utrecht

Voltaire houses the Humanities department which covers History, Philosophy, Religious Studies, Literature, Art History, Museum Studies, and Linguistics.

University of Chicago Press

It currently publishes 58 titles in a wide range of academic disciplines including the social sciences, the humanities, education, the biological and medical sciences, and the physical sciences.

Van Leeuwen

Theo Van Leeuwen, dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Technology, Sydney

Wakako Yamauchi

Luce Irigaray's Choreography with Sex and Race By: Mori, Kaori; Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences, 2002 July; 63 (1): 189.

Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities

The Center hosts the Solomon Katz Distinguished Lectures in the Humanities, which feature leading thinkers such as Dipesh Chakrabarty, Robin D. G. Kelley, Wendy Brown, and Cathy Davidson in events that are free and open to the public.

Zhang Haihua

He graduated from Nanjing University of Science and Technology, receiving a B.A. of Advertising from the School of Humanities and Social Sciences.


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