2020–21 Medical Humanities HALC Student Fellows & Fellowship Recipients
January 19th, 2021
HALC Student Fellows Meet the inaugural Medical Humanities HALC (Humanities: Arts, Literature, and Cultures) Student Fellows! Peter DiGiov…
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Recent Georgetown Humanities News
Interdisciplinary Humanities Pedagogy: HALC Faculty Fellows Create New Courses to Meet Demand
December 18th, 2020
“The most helpful aspect of the HALC Faculty Fellows program was, for me, the ways in which it pushed me to rethink assessment in the classroom, and the possibilities for a more public-facing pedagogy.”
Georgetown Humanities Initiative Welcomes First Postdoctoral Fellow
December 16th, 2020
Ayten Tartici (Ph.D. Comparative Literature, Yale University) joined the Georgetown Humanities Initiative for the 2020–21 academic year as an American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Emerging Voices postdoctoral fellow.
Interdisciplinary Scholar Joel Michael Reynolds joins Disability Studies Program and Department of Philosophy
December 15th, 2020
Joel Michael Reynolds—a specialist in the philosophy of disability, bioethics, modern European philosophy, and social epistemology—joined Georgetown University as an Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Disability Studies for Fall 2020. In his words, here is an account of his scholarly background and his pioneering vision on the significance of disability.
Humanities News from Around the University
Medical Humanities Minor Launched by University
March 22nd, 2021
New College Faculty for 2020-2021
September 2nd, 2020
Library Acquires Rare Logbook That Illustrates Life Aboard a Slave Ship
August 20th, 2020
University Holds Racial Justice Dialogue in Wake of Recent, Past Police Brutality
June 15th, 2020
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