Humanities Assessment Hub

For the past year, the Collaboratory has been building the Humanities Assessment Hub, a website with documents and resources to support collaborative, engaged researchers as they navigate the promotion and tenure process. To that end, the Collaboratory hosted a one-day workshop on 4/18/25 with esteemed colleagues who will serve as the steering committee for the…

Being Human in the Academy: Celebrating 10 Years of Experiments in Collaborative Humanities

04/17/2025. LSA HC 10 Year Dinner

April 17, 2025 bore witness to ‘Humanities Prom’ — how the Collaboratory staff have referred to the Collaboratory’s final celebratory event: Being Human in the Academy: Celebrating 10 Years of Experiments in Collaborative Humanities. As high school seniors prepare for prom by putting on their finest clothes for a night meant to celebrate how far they…

Thinking Through Election Overload: Patriotism and Country Music

Thinking Through Election Overload: Patriotism and Country Music: Who Owns What? Remember the Olympics? Just a few months ago, Americans from across the political spectrum came together in a three-week ritual of raucous flag waving, chanting, and cheering. But those good feelings barely survived the Closing Ceremonies. Also immediately after the Olympics, a wave of…

Thinking Through Election Overload: Olympic Patriotism V. Election Patriotism

Thinking Through Election Overload: Olympic Patriotism V. Election Patriotism? Remember the Olympics? Just a few months ago, Americans from across the political spectrum came together in a three-week ritual of raucous flag waving, chanting, and cheering. But those good feelings barely survived the Closing Ceremonies. Also immediately after the Olympics, a wave of memes  announced…

High Stakes Culture: The Power of the Pronoun

September 24, 5:30-7:00 pm
in the Atrium, 202 S. Thayer

The current debate over gender-neutral pronouns plays out on college campuses, on social media, and in offices across the country. Why are we thinking about pronouns in new ways? What are the politics and the history of the pronoun? And what do the conversations we are having about them reveal about American culture in this moment?