The Humanities and the Humanities Project

Housed in eight departments and embracing dozens of disciplines, the humanities in Arts, Sciences, and Engineering at Rochester are dedicated to the critical examination of the cultural artifacts that reflect the meaningful past and present of humankind. The humanities at Rochester furthermore involve production in the arts, literature, and thought that contribute to the ethical and aesthetic experience of the world. Humanities faculty at Rochester teach, research, publish, and produce in the visual arts, literature, history, media, music, theater, dance, languages, religion, anthropology, and philosophy.

The purpose of the Humanities Project is to advance research and artistic production in all of these areas and to make them available to the university, the greater Rochester community, and beyond. Individual projects of whatever scope that can significantly elevate the profile of the humanities at Rochester are especially encouraged. A basic tenet is that the Humanities Project seeks to underwrite the very best work—of whatever kind—representing the entire array of humanistic and artistic production. Fostering innovative work in both traditional and newer areas of scholarship, the Humanities Project is designed to make possible new avenues for the pursuit of research and artistic production.