Arizona State University College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Institute for Humanities Research

The Institute for Humanities Research (IHR) in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences is dedicated to promoting excellence and innovation in humanities scholarship, contributing to scholarly innovation, and engaging the greater community in exploring the human dimensions of significant social, cultural, technological and scientific issues.

The IHR strives to create a dynamic environment for interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary scholarship and to facilitate collaboration among scholars in the humanities, social sciences and sciences for the purpose of examining issues that challenge and shape individual and collective human experience across time.

Major programs include:

  1. IHR Fellows Program
  2. IHR Competitive Seed Grant Program
  3. Events including lectures, seminars, and research workshops
  4. Research Clusters
  5. IHR Annual Distinguished Lecturer

What’s new at the IHR?

In some ways, 2007-08 was the “year of sustainability” at the IHR. Our ASU and Visiting Fellows worked on projects related to the theme, “The Humanities and Sustainability.” A faculty working group on sustainability explored the roles of the humanities in addressing problems related to sustainability. A research cluster focused on "The Narrative Prisms of Women and Sustainability."  Sustainability will remain a focus in 2008-2009 with continuation of the faculty working group and several symposia and roundtable events planned.

We are again extending the very popular Faculty Seminar Series.  The 2008-2009 theme is "Race, Ethnicity, and the Humanities."  Watch our event page for dates and titles.

We're pleased to welcome Marita Sturken to campus on October 7.  Dr. Sturken is the recipient of the IHR's first Transdisciplinary Book Award for "Tourists of History: Memory, Kitsch and Consumerism from Oklahoma to Ground Zero" (Duke University Press, 2007).

The IHR is a member of the Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes.