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New England Humanities Consortium
The New England Humanities Consortium is a network of fourteen colleges and universities across New England that was established in 2018.
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In February 2020, the Colby Center for the Arts and Humanities launched “Race and Identity Matters” with a one-day symposium.
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In November 2019, the University of Rhode Island hosted Telling New England Stories: Building a Collaborative Humanities Network conference.
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In October 2019, the University of New Hampshire co-sponsored the 13th Annual Black New England Conference in Manchester, New Hampshire. The theme was: BLACK INK: African American News from Slave Songs to Social Media.
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In September 2019, Dartmouth hosted an NEH Regional Grant Writing Workshop available to all NEHC member-institute affiliates. The workshop was led by NEH Senior Program Officer, Stefanie Walker
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In August 2019, NEHC sponsored the Digital Humanities Island Retreat at the Shoals Marine Laboratory on Appledore Island, New Hampshire.
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In June 2019, the University of New Hampshire Center for Humanities hosted their Summer Institutes in Public Humanities in Portsmouth, NH.
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In May 2019, NEHC hosted a Mellon-funded Faculty of Color Working Group Symposium at Wheaton College, Massachusetts.
The NEHC hub is moving!
As of July 1st, 2021, the Colby College Center for the Arts and Humanities will be taking over as the administrative hub of NEHC, and Kerill O’Neill will assume the role of Executive Director. Building on the work of the past three years, NEHC will continue to foster collaboration across institutions, further expand access to resources and programming, and tirelessly promote and amplify the humanities across the region.
The New England Humanities Consortium (NEHC) promotes intellectual collaboration, interdisciplinary exchange, and innovative educational programming for faculty, students, and the regional, national, and global communities they serve.
The founding institutions include: Amherst College, Colby College, Dartmouth College, Northeastern University, Tufts University, University of Connecticut, University of New Hampshire, University of Rhode Island, University of Vermont, Wellesley College, and Wheaton College. In 2020, NEHC welcomed three new member institutions, Smith College, Brown University, and Middlebury College.
Grants & Awards
Northeastern University Library Receives Mellon Foundation Grant to Collect a Digital History of Boston
The Boston Research Center of the Northeastern University Library is the recipient of a $650,000 grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to fund its collaborative project to collect its Boston's historical artifacts and share the city's digital history with its residents. Collaborators of this project include the Boston Public Library, and the Massachusetts Historical Society. According to News@Northeastern, the Boston Research Center, itself launched laster year with the support of the Mellon Foundation, “leverages Northeastern’s expertise at the cross-section of data-driven disciplines, including journalism, network science, and the digital humanities, and will draw on unique archival resources and data sets.”
UCHI Awarded Luce Foundation Grant for “Seeing Truth’ Exhibits
The University of Connecticut Humanities Institute (UCHI) is proud to be the recipient of a $275,000 grant from the Henry Luce Foundation to support the programming of an exhibition entitled “Seeing Truth: Art, Science, and Making Knowledge (1750-2023).” This exhibition will be presented at the William Benton Museum of Art during the 2023 academic year in collaboration with the American Museum of Natural History. UConn President Thomas C. Katsouleas made the announcement at the reception marking the 19th season of UCHI’s fellowships. The grant, whose principle investigator is UCHI Director of Academic Affairs, Alexis Boylan, will bring together various scientific, cultural, and educational artifacts to challenge our notions and ideas of what counts as a “scientific” object or a work of “art.” Seeing Truth is one part of UCHI’s larger upcoming initiative entitled The Future of Truth. To learn more about Seeing Truth, visit a UConn Today article on the grant.
Liza Weinstein at Northeastern Recipient of an NEH Grant
Dr. Liza Weinstein at Northeastern University is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Humanities grant for a project entitled “Engaging Geography in the Humanities.” The funds will support a three-week institute for 25 college and university faculty on geography and the humanities. Weinstein is currently the Chair of the Sociology and Anthropology at Northeastern.
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News
Updates from NEHC and our member institutions
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Faculty of Color Working Group
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded a three-year grant of $750,000 to the University of Connecticut for the Humanities Institute to expand the New England Humanities Consortium (NEHC) Faculty of Color Working Group (FOCWG). The thirteen member institutions of the Consortium support programming in humanities fields such as history, politics, language, art, literature, and philosophy.