Past Themes

2024-2025: Emerging Technologies in Human Context: Past, Present, and Future

2018-2019: The World of Print(s): Multiples and Meanings in Early Modern Europe and North America. See faculty fellows.

2017-2018: Telling Stories: Modes, Media, and Meanings. See faculty fellows.

2016-2017: Working for Equality and Justice: Theorizing from and with Lived Resistance to Economic Inequality and Injustice. See faculty fellows.

2015-2016: When the Fringe Dwarfs the Center: Vernacular Islam beyond the Arab World. See faculty fellows.

2014-2015: Public Scholarship in the Humanities. See faculty fellows.

2013-2014: Diagnosis in Context: Culture, Politics, and the Construction of Meaning. See faculty fellows.

2012-2013: Age of Emancipation: Black Freedom in the Atlantic World. See faculty fellows.

2011-2012: Sacred Ecology: Landscape Transformations for Ritual Practice. See faculty fellows.

2010-2011: Representation and Social Change. See faculty fellows.

2009-2010: Immigration and the American Experience. See faculty fellows.

2008-2009: New Directions in Trauma Studies. See faculty fellows.

2007-2008: Black Europe, or Diasporic Research in-on Europe. See faculty fellows.

2006-2007: Between Word and Image. See faculty fellows.

2005-2006: Pre-Modern Others: Race and Sexuality. See faculty fellows.

2004-2005: Strategic Actions: Women, Power, and Gender Norms. See faculty fellows.

2003-2004: Medicine, Health and Society. See faculty fellows.

2002-2003: Gender, Sexuality, and Cultural Politics. See faculty fellows.

2001-2002: Memory, Identity, and Political Action. See faculty fellows.

2000-2001: Rediscovering the New World:  Exploring Lines of Contactamong the Americas and within the United States. See faculty fellows.

1999-2000: Constructions, Destructions, and Deconstructions of Nature. See faculty fellows.

1998-1999: Inventing Work. See faculty fellows.

1997-1998: Person-Centered Approach to Culture. See faculty fellows.

1996-1997: Question of Culture. See faculty fellows.

1995-1996: Fin de Siécle, Millennium and Other Transitions. See faculty fellows.

1994-1995: Science and Society. See faculty fellows.

1993-1994: American Studies, Its Past, Present & Future. See faculty fellows.

1992-1993: The South as an American Problem. See faculty fellows.

1991-1992: Transatlantic Encounters: The ‘Discovery’ of the New World and the Old. See faculty fellows.

1990-1991: Eastern European Literature and Political Change. See faculty fellows.

1989-1990: The Return of Rhetoric. See faculty fellows.

1988-1989: Disciplines and the Canon. See faculty fellows.