The Public Humanities Exchange program (HEX and HEX-U) at the UW-Madison Center for the Humanities funds innovative public humanities projects that forge partnerships between community organizations and UW-Madison students. The following blog post is written by HEX-U …
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Blog Spotlight: Public Humanities Fellow Tarah Connolly on Engaging in Slow Museum Education at the Chazen
Each year, the Center for the Humanities invites applications for its Public Humanities Fellowship, designed to provide PhD students in the humanities with experience outside of academia. By placing fellows in partner organizations around Madison …
Blog Spotlight: HEX Scholar Mia Hicks on Reimagining Social Emotional Learning Through Latinx Cultural Values of Care
The Public Humanities Exchange program (HEX and HEX-U) at the UW-Madison Center for the Humanities funds innovative public humanities projects that forge partnerships between community organizations and UW-Madison students. The following guest blog post, written …
Blog Spotlight: Exploring Madison’s Mifflin Street
Three students, Anna Depping-Herzog, Ruth Dikkers, and Luke Ehrenberg from Profesoor Anna Andrzejewski’s fall 2025 class, “History of American Vernacular Architecture and Landscape,” applied knowledge from classroom lectures to interpret the history of the 400 …
20 Years of World Literature Across Wisconsin (and Recommended Reads to Cover the Next Two Decades)
As we celebrate 20 incredible years of Great World Texts, we reflect on the tens of thousands of high school students who have participated in the program. Every spring, students and teachers from all corners …
A Humanities Year in Review: 2023-2024
For 25 years, the Center for the Humanities at UW-Madison has been a nexus for interdisciplinary programs and events within and across the humanities and social sciences. As we look back on the year and …
Remembering Susan Stanford Friedman (1943-2023)
The Center for the Humanities shares in mourning Susan Stanford Friedman, Virginia Woolf Professor Emerita of English and Gender and Women’s Studies and Hilldale Professor Emerita of Humanities at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a …