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Joseph F. Cunningham \u201967 (MA) and his wife, Andrea, have committed $2 million to support research, lectures, and public forums within the humanities.<\/p>\n

The Cunninghams created the Joseph F. and Andrea H. Cunningham Endowed Fund for the Humanities to create opportunities for all University students, regardless of their backgrounds, to obtain a fuller appreciation for the world, and their place in it, through the humanities.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Cunninghams\u2019 gift will have a profound impact on what we can do in the humanities in the future,\u201d said Gloria Culver, dean of the School of Arts & Sciences. Culver, who established the University\u2019s Humanities Center<\/a> shortly after being appointed dean in April 2015, says recently there has been renewed interest among faculty members, students, and alumni who want to ensure the humanities remain vibrant at the University.<\/p>\n

\u201cHaving unrestricted resources to explore creative endeavors, especially those involving student and faculty research is invaluable,\u201d said Culver. \u201cThere has been extensive devaluing of humanities education, which has put it on a dangerous precipice. I don\u2019t think there\u2019s a wide realization of what the world would look like if people weren\u2019t learning to be broad-thinking citizens of the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

Literature and the arts were important influences on Joe Cunningham\u2019s education. Prior to receiving an MA in history from Rochester in 1967, Cunningham received a BS from John Carroll University and a JD from Columbia Law School.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn higher education, there\u2019s typically an emphasis on pre-law courses for young people who are working to become lawyers, and I think that\u2019s a little misdirected,\u201d said Cunningham, who has practiced law for more than four decades. \u201cI think if you\u2019re strong in literature and history, you\u2019re ideally prepared for law school and a wider range of matters beyond your specialty.\u201d<\/p>\n

Residents of Arlington, Virginia, Joe and Andrea Cunningham previously established the Joseph F. Cunningham Professorship<\/a> at the University of Rochester to support a scholar in the area of history, particularly modern European and American\u00a0history. They are also members of the George Eastman Circle, the University\u2019s leadership annual giving society.<\/p>\n

\u201cJoe and Andrea Cunningham have long been champions of the humanities and the University,\u201d said Joan Shelley Rubin, interim director of the Humanities Center and the Dexter Perkins Professor in History. \u201cAnd now they\u2019re helping to shine a light on humanities excellence at Rochester with a gift that will immeasurably enhance our ability to enrich the intellectual life of our students and faculty, as well the general public.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Humanities Center supports multidisciplinary engagement around literature, history, the arts, and philosophies of cultures past and present with the aim of fostering educated, contributing global citizens. The center is scheduled to open a new physical space within Rush Rhees Library in fall 2016.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne of the great virtues of the Humanities Center is that it creates more opportunity for anyone with the feeblest proclivity to expand their knowledge in areas outside their chosen discipline,\u201d said Cunningham.<\/p>\n

Cunningham is the founder of the Washington, D.C.-based firm Cunningham & Associates, which specializes in insurance defense and civil litigation. Widely published in several prestigious law journals, he has served as a professor at Georgetown Law School and the University of Maryland, a lecturer at University of Virginia\u2019s Darden School of Business, and has taught a number of law courses at other institutions of higher education.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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