2023

This NEHC project aims to create a set of curricular resources that draws upon the strengths of our regional scholarly community in the Botanical Humanities, a growing and vibrant field that focuses on understanding plants in anthropogenic environments through interdisciplinary methods and lenses. To accomplish this, we propose a two-part program of work: (1) three virtual reading/discussion groups, each hosted by a co-PI at an NEHC member institution, to establish key themes in the field and lay the groundwork for (2) an in-person workshop that will be convened by the three co-PIs and regional collaborators to develop curriculum-building exercises and teaching materials for future courses.

Feminist Health Futures is an exciting new initiative for collaborative pedagogies in the health humanities. Dedicated to supporting feminist antiracist approaches to science, medicine, and technology studies, it aims to build an enduring and expanding community of practice in feminist health humanities scholarship, resource sharing, and public collaboration within and across humanities programs in the NEHC network. 

This project is a collaborative one involving four NEHC member institutions: Colby College, Smith College, Wellesley College, and Wesleyan University. Our goal for this project is to develop a resource website that will trace and document the alumni from our respective institutions on their connections to China, indicate the Special Collections and other archival sites for these alumni, and offer teaching and research tools for utilizing these Special Collections and archival materials to study Modern China and US-China relations.