URI Center for the Humanities
| Motto | To foster intellectual exchange and independent inquiry, analysis, and interpretation of the humanities in research, teaching, and learning. |
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| Formation | 1994–present |
| Founder | URI Faculty Senate |
| Headquarters | 175G Swan Hall |
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| Services | Offers URI Faculty Research and Subvention Grants, URI Faculty Sabbatical Grants, Grants for Visiting Scholars, and URI Graduate Student Research Grants. Sponsors select speak series. All CFH sponsored events are free and open to the public. |
| Annu Palakunnathu Matthew,Peter Covino, Leslie Kealhofer-Kemp, Erik Loomis, Karen Markin,Catherine Sama, Evelyn Sterne, Ryan Trimm, Alan Verskin | |
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Key people
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Conveners 1994-1996: James Findlay and Galen Johnson Co-Chairs 1997-1998: Ronald J. Onorato and Linda Welters Chair 1998-2000: Doris Kirchner Director 2000-2007: Marie Schwarts Director 2007-2013: Galen Johnson Director 2013-present: Annu Palakunnathu Matthew Dean, URI College of Arts and Sciences: Winifred Brownell |
| Affiliations | University of Rhode Island, University of Rhode Island College of Arts and Sciences |
Conveners 1994-1996: James Findlay and Galen Johnson
Co-Chairs 1997-1998: Ronald J. Onorato and Linda Welters
Chair 1998-2000: Doris Kirchner
Director 2000-2007: Marie Schwarts
Director 2007-2013: Galen Johnson
Director 2013-present: Annu Palakunnathu Matthew
The University of Rhode Island's Center for the Humanities was established by Faculty Senate legislation in 1994 and is designed to foster intellectual exchange and independent inquiry, analysis, and interpretation of the Humanities in research, teaching, and learning. It is affiliated with the University of Rhode Island's College of Arts and Sciences, the Dean of which is Winifred Brownell. The Center's activities include a speaker series, research grants for faculty and graduate students, and an annual Humanities Festival. The Center also showcases the work of faculty who are teaching and doing advanced research in the Humanities across the University.
Peter Covino is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing, Avant-garde and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics; Italian American, Translation, and Ethnic Studies at the University of Rhode Island English Department. His work has been published in many journals, including Quarterly West, The American Poetry Review, The Cimarron Review, The Yale Review, and The Paris Review, among others.
Leslie Kealhofer-Kemp is an Assistant Professor of French in the University of Rhode Island's English Department. Her research focuses on representations of minorities, in particular North African women, in France in documentaries, short films, téléfilms, and feature-length films, as well as the treatment of female friendship and childhood in Francophone cinemas and literatures and Immigration and Postcolonial Cultures in France. Her most recent book is titled Muslim Women in French Cinema: Voices of Maghrebi Migrants in France.
Erik Loomis is an Assistant Professor of History and Acting Director of Graduate Studies at the University of Rhode Island. His research interests include labor and environmental history of the United States, and global capitalism. His most recent book, Empire of Timber: Labor Unions and the Pacific Northwest Forests was published by Cambridge University Press in March 2016.
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