In its September 22 issue, the Michigan Dailyran an interview with incoming LSA Dean Anne Curzan. Speaking of the “great research happening in labs…across LSA,” Curzan singled out the productive collaboration at the Humanities Collaboratory.
Curzan explained that “the Humanities Collaboratory…is designed to bring humanists together in multigenerational teams so you have faculty and graduate students and many of the projects have undergraduates and librarians and all kinds of people working on a project.”
Curzan further noted that “Humanists don’t always work collaboratively — often our books are single author books and we do research by ourselves.” She continued, saying, “I love that we’re putting more emphasis on collaborative research because it immediately opens the door for students to get to be a part of it and to see how they can contribute in a team way to research in the humanities and social sciences in addition to the natural sciences.”