Humanities Institute (HI)
About
The Humanities Institute (HI) offers a space for faculty-driven interdisciplinary arts and humanities practice and research to grow and flower. Home of five traditional interdisciplinary centers and a rotating selection of working groups, the Humanities Institute offers financial and logistics support intended to help faculty and graduate students from all the Arts and Humanities departments to design and develop collaborative projects. Our goal is to nurture your innovative ideas and help you to engage with the broadest possible public. The Arts and Humanities create and interrogate new ways of sensing, feeling, and thinking the world. There is no more critical time for our work than now.
The Humanities Institute tracks its roots to 1998, when Chris Zacher founded the Institute for Collaborative Research and Public Humanities, later renamed the Humanities Institute. This unit has been an active part of the Humanities at Ohio State since its founding. Built on the principles of collaborative research, interdisciplinarity, and innovation, the Institute naturally formed relationships many other active centers within the humanities.
We host several working groups within the Humanities Collaboratory. More information about each working group can be found below:
- Unite to Read Project
- Ethnic Studies Graduate Student Working Group
- Metaphors of Reception, Reception as Metaphor
- South Asian Studies Initiative
If you are interested in starting a working group, applications and additional information can be found here
Leadership, Faculty, and Affiliates
- Ryan Skinner (Director)
- Jonathan Combs-Schilling (Associate Director, Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies)
- Christopher Highley (Director, Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies)
- Merrill Kaplan (Director, Center for Folklore Studies)
- Hannah Kosstrin (Director, Melton Center for Jewish Studies)
- Namiko Kunimoto (Director, Center for Ethnic Studies)
- Isaac Weiner (Director, Center for the Study of Religion)
- César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández (Program Director, Latinx Studies)
- Martin Joseph (Joe) Ponce (Program Director, Asian American Studies)
- Elissa Washuta (Program Director, American Indian Studies)
Faculty
- David Adams
- Adeleke Adeeko
- Yiğit Akin
- Erin Allen
- Georgios Anagnostou
- Greg Anderson
- Sam Aranke
- Dima Arzyutov
- Janice Aski
- Anna Babel
- Franco Barchiesi
- Harmony Bench (On Leave)
- Mikel Bermello Isusi
- Michela Bertossa
- Matthew Birkhold
- Mollie Blackburn
- Jackie Blount
- Leigh Bonds
- Katherine Borland
- Jolie Braun
- David Brewer
- John Brooks
- Jason Buchea
- Cynthia Burack
- Jonathan Burgoyne
- Sara M. Butler
- Katra Byram
- Casidy Campbell
- Kathryn Campbell-Kibler
- Rebeka Campos-Astorkiza
- Ricardo Cardoso
- Lilia Caserta
- Peter Chan
- Jian Chen
- Alice Yu-Chin Cheng
- Caroline Clark
- Lexi Clark-Stilianos
- Chris Coleman
- Jonathan Combs-Schilling
- Andrea Contigiani
- EUGENIA COSTA-GIOMI
- Sheila Craft-Morgan
- Robert Dahlberg-Sears
- Justin D'Arms
- Eva Debessay
- Spencer Dew
- Francis Donoghue
- Ana Carolina
- Simone Drake
- Madhumita Dutta
- Víctor M. Espinosa
- Harley Etienne
- Nancy Ettlinger
- Kathy Fagan
- Alan B. Farmer
- Molly Farrell (On Leave)
- Zulal Fazlioglu Akin
- Angus Fletcher
- Danielle Fosler-Lussier
- Naomi Fukumori
- Jill Galvan
- Jared Gardner
- Meow Hui Goh
- Fritz Graf (Retired - Active)
- Abigail Greff
- Umut Mert Gurses
- Rebecca Haidt
- Lynn Hall
- Hannibal Hamlin
- María Esther Hammack
- Jim Harris
- Yana Hashamova
- John Heimaster (Retired - Active)
- Sarah-Grace Heller
- Leta Hendricks
- Wendy Hesford
- Sara Hess
- Elizabeth Hewitt
- Christopher Highley
- Michiko Hikida
- Ayaz Hyder (On Leave)
- Catalina Iannone
- Richard Jagacinski
- Pranav Jani
- Sophia Jeong
- Eric J. Johnson
- Mary-Allen Johnson
- Sarah Iles Johnston
- John Jones
- Kay Bea Jones
- Annamarie Klose
- Ethan Knapp
- Elizabeth Zeman Kolkovich
- Hannah Kosstrin
- Namiko Kunimoto
- Dionne Lee
- Roselyn Lee-Won
- Erica Levin
- Matt Lewis (On Leave)
- Alisa Lin
- Laura Lisbon
- Qian Liu
- Rick Livingston
- Leslie Lockett
- Meris Longmeier
- Cesar Lopes Gemelli
- Joanne Lynn
- Eric MacGilvray
- Sandra Macpherson (On Leave)
- Zari Mahmoudi
- Allen Mallory
- Becky Mansfield
- Bryan Mark
- Christina Wei-Szu Burke Mathison
- Benjamin McKean
- Laleh Mehran
- Susan Melsop
- May Mergenthaler
- Galey Modan
- Sumia Mohamed
- Erin Moore
- Tiyi Morris
- Illya Mousavijad
- Fabienne Munch
- Noor Murteza
- Prerna Nadathur
- Mineharu Nakayama
- Rexhina Ndoci
- Travis Neel
- Sarah Neville
- Christopher Nichols
- Xia Ning
- Dorothy Noyes
- Sue Oakes
- Gina Osterloh
- Kris Paulsen
- Pedro Pereira
- Jim Phelan
- Martin Joseph (Joe) Ponce
- Jessica Prinz
- Ana Puga
- Mike Rayo
- Dani ReStack
- Kevin Richards
- Elaine Richardson
- Daniel Rivers
- Octavian Robinson
- fabian romero
- Monique Ross
- Abe Roth
- Tamar Rudavsky
- Cathy Ryan
- Richard Samuels
- Dinorah Sanchez Loza
- Kate Schlosser
- Jennifer Schnabel
- Danielle Schoon
- Johanna Sellman
- Lisa Shabel
- Barry Shank
- Kate Shannon
- Patricia Sieber
- Suzanne Silver
- Ryan Skinner
- Jeremy W. Smith
- Stephanie Smith
- Michael Smith
- Birgitte Soland
- Mytheli Sreenivas
- David Staley
- Lois Stepney
- Jennifer Suchland
- Corinne Sugino
- Tracy Szatan
- Carmen Taleghani-Nikazm
- Lucille Toth
- Rebecca Turk
- Piers Turner (On Leave)
- Hugh Urban
- Budimka Uskokovic
- Anne Van
- Laura Wagner
- Leah Wahlin
- Maureen Walsh
- Robyn Warhol
- Keith Warren
- Elissa Washuta
- Isaac Weiner
- Gail Whitelaw
- Michelle Wibbelsman
- Andrea Williams
- Charlie Wilson (Retired - Active)
- gloria j. wilson
- Shannon Winnubst
- Natasha Woods
- Cynthia Young
- Amy Youngs
- Ting Zhu
Staff
- Julie Aldridge
- Alicia Baca
- Amber Bales
- Xiaoxiao Bao
- Tamar Becker
- FuWaye Bender
- Steven Blalock
- Chris Bournea
- Emily Carpenter
- Katie Culler
- Christina Dierkes
- Austin Dunn
- Louise Edwards
- Lori Fireman
- Lisa Florman
- Alison Furlong
- Ryan Heitkamp
- Jessica Henderson
- Lisa Iacobellis
- Tia Jones
- Jason Kohlhepp
- John LaRocco
- Susan Lee
- Donyelle Littles
- Cheryl Lyons
- Ena Miller
- Aaron Minnick
- Courtney Moore
- Megan Moriarty
- Suder Natesan
- Nicole Nieto
- Travis Nixon
- Grace Nussle
- Jarod Ogier
- Jenifer Owens-Morrison
- Bhumi Patel
- Hoang Pham
- Lauren Pond
- Sofia Racevskis
- Ben Reder
- Jess Romer
- Daniel Seward
- Haley Simpson
- Rebekah Sims
- Kylee Smith
- Nick Spitulski
- Savannah Stearmer
- Gabrielle Stephens
- Derrick Tillman-Kelly
- Desiree Weber
- Madeline Winans
- Lily Xing
- Adam Ziadeh
Students
- Zahra Abedi
- Faye Aboshahba
- Catherine Adams
- Adewale Adenle
- Suhail Ahmed
- Asmaa Aljuhani
- Alyssa Allen
- Sheila Ameri
- Kaasvi Anshu
- Joshua Antolovic
- Madison Archer-Morrison
- Zarmeen Azmat
- Emily Baldwin
- Rondale Balo
- Steven Bao
- Irina Baskova (Private)
- Asia Bender
- Namita Bhattarai
- Kat Blackford
- Schuyler Black-Seitz
- James Blakely
- Nicholas Booker
- Xarles Bryan
- Elisabeth Burns
- Jaemes Bush
- Adrian Butler
- Adrian Joris Calmettes
- Andrew Campbell
- Chengwei Chen
- Dario Chimenti
- Chloe Chung
- Skylar Clawson
- Sara Court
- Charlotte Cox
- Dylan Crosson
- Manisha Datar
- Mauricio Antonio Dos Santos
- Joelle Edwards
- David Eichert
- Anya Ellis
- Eric Enouen
- Lori Esposito
- Zach Factora
- Eliza Farrall
- Kat Finneran
- Dominique Gedanke Flaksberg
- Soha Gewaly
- Srishti Ginjala
- Ishaan Gireesh
- Bethany Gray
- Molly Greene
- Misha Grifka
- Haley Grubb
- Suchit Gupte
- Gabriel Guzman Camacho
- Cassidy Hall
- Dana Hamed
- Meretta Hanson
- Sal Hargis
- Emoni Harmon
- Matt Hartsfield
- Samir Haurani
- Isabella Hawkins
- Caleb Hays
- Liz Heise-Glass
- Katie Hollington
- Deanna Holroyd
- Hsiao Jou Hsu
- Benchen Hu
- Haadia Hyder
- Maxwell Jacobs
- Regan Jacoby
- Qurrat Jamal
- Jay Jani
- Sarah Jenkins
- Yan Ji
- Jessie Jia
- Arnav Joshi
- Borami Kang
- Emily Kaniuka
- Nikoo Karimi
- Natasha Kejriwal
- Mariam Khan
- Aelim Kim
- Jasmine Kim
- Julie Kim
- Nikolas King
- Mikaela Knappstein
- Lee-Lee Knupp
- Aditya Kothawade
- Ashley Lane
- Athen Lau
- Ellie Leininger
- Qin Li
- Xuezhao Li
- Fan Lin
- Tyler Littlejohn
- Gerry Lopez
- Xinyue Lu
- Sofia Malik
- Addy Mandel
- Sera Mathew
- Rhazariah McFall
- Shanbrae McFarland
- Aidan McLaughlin
- Allie Mickle
- Brenna Miller
- Isaiah Mills
- Nora Ming
- Luis Moreno
- Hanane Moussa
- Khushboo Mundada
- Catalina Munoz Arias
- Njoki Mwangi
- Zachary Naylor
- Emma Neer
- Zoey November
- Araceli Obando
- Dawson Owens
- Lanoke Paradita
- Soyoo Park
- Jillian Philippo
- Abigail Pierson-Workman
- Emily Potter
- Longyue Qin
- April Riddle
- Derrik Rivet
- Liz Rockwell
- Kat Rogers
- Adriana Rojas Castro
- Shan Ruan
- Koray Sackan
- Jaquelyn Saldana
- Zainab Saleh
- Justin Salgado
- Adrian Salgado
- Farah Salleh
- Michael Sarkis
- Nidhi Satiani (Private)
- Katya Schmidt
- Amy Schofield
- Siobhan Seigne
- Monica Shah
- Zafar Shaik
- Christy Sher
- Summer Shigley
- Avijit Singh
- Trina So
- Umang Somani
- Anastasia Sotnikova
- Arthur Stadlin
- Charis Stanek
- Nicole Stevens
- Emily Stratman
- Gary Sung
- Mutia Syifa
- Seneba Thiam
- Pavan Thota
- Leyla Tiglay (Private)
- Andrea Tinajero Perez
- Jessica Tjiu
- Amanda Tobin Ripley
- Pim Trommelen
- İlayda Üstel
- Jess Vazquez Hernandez
- Michelle Verbitskaya
- Lejla Veskovic
- Stephanie Vigil
- Vishal Vivekanandan
- Destiny Walter
- Di Wang
- Beverly Warner
- Sacha Wible
- Tawanna Williams
- Nina Wolf
- Jah Woodberry
- Savanna Wooten
- Henrique Yagui Takahashi
- Keyu Yan
- Conrad Yang
- Hui Yao
- Yue Yin
- Emily Yu
- Irma Zamora
- Grace Zhang
- Yushan Zhao
- Marvel Zhou
- Elvin Zhu
Fellows
- Marissa Ajamian Grossman
- Maya Anderson
- Andrea Armijos Echeverria
- Yuri Belloube
- Madeline Carrola (Private)
- Tatiana Chaiban
- Mousumi Das
- Keely Fisher
- Robin Gordon
- Mansi Goyal
- Shurouq Ibrahim
- Bowie Kim
- James Landers
- Mehr Mumtaz
- Tashfa Nadeem
- Elise Robbins
- Zakee Sabree [C]
- Nupur Sachdeva
- Jiara Sha
- Anu Singh
- VAN TRUONG
- Alberto Vega Rivera
- Menghang Wu
- Ying-Shan (Jenny) Wu
- Lingran Zhang