Announcements

This spring, dive into bell hooks’ Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope in a three-part book club hosted by the Humanities Center, the Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning (CITL), and the Pride Center.

Click here to register by Sun, Feb 8, 2026

Meetings:

1. Tue, Feb 10, 2026 12pm-1pm | HST L185, The Community Room
2. Tue, Mar 17, 2026 12pm-1pm | HST L185, The Community Room
3. Tue, Apr 7, 2026 12pm-1pm | HST L185, The Community Room

Mary Anne Madeira, on a CITL Faculty Fellowship, is organizing a related working group dedicated to deploying practical wisdom and teaching methods from hooks into syllabi, assignment instructions, rubrics, activities, for faculty of all levels at Lehigh. If interested, please contact mamd18@lehigh.edu.

Join Shellen Wu in conversation with Scottie Burden, Christina Chi Zhang, and Danielle Rojas about bell hooks' Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom. A three-part book club was hosted by the Humanities Center, the Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning (CITL), and the Pride Center last semester. Listen now on SoundCloud or visit the podcast page to stream it.

Undergraduate students are invited to apply for a place on the National Humanities Leadership Council 2025-26, which offers professional development and mentorship opportunities for students interested in the humanities, broadly defined.  Jordan Ho '27 was selected for the council in 2024-25. 

Council members take part in discussion sessions with thought leaders exploring the importance of humanistic perspectives in contemporary society. Selected students will also have the opportunity to pursue individual or collective humanities projects and network with professionals from academia, nonprofit work, the arts, science communication, museum curation, activism, and advocacy.

The Council is open to any undergraduate students with an interest in the humanities. Applicants are NOT required to have declared concentrations or majors in humanities fields. Applications will be accepted through October 18, 2025. Student applicants may access the application portal on the National Humanities Center website. 

First up: a conversation with Ziad Munson about his research and upcoming edited volume on right-wing movements in Europe and North America. You can follow us on Soundcloud or find a link on the HC website. Are you interested in coming on the podcast? Please get in touch with HC director Shellen Wu (shw722@lehigh.edu). 

Application deadline: Midnight May 15, 2025

Apply here to the Lehigh Humanities Center for up to $3,000 to fund external reviewers’ honoraria and expenses for a manuscript workshop. During this workshop, external and internal reviewers discuss the manuscript’s readiness for publication and offer concrete suggestions for its improvement. This grant may supplement department or other funding sources.

Starting in Fall 2025, the HC will also offer book subvention funding and small research grants for graduate students. 

Please join the WGSS program to discuss the work of Suzanne Edwards in their faculty spotlight series. In this series, attendees will attend a seminar in which we discuss two recent essays by Dr. Edwards and engage with two visiting scholars who will reflect upon the power and impact of her scholarship. 

Event Details

When: Friday March 21, 2025

Time: 1:00-4:00 pm 

Location: BIB 110

In order to circulate materials for the seminar and to order food for the event, please RSVP using this link, or contact the CAS Office of Interdisciplinary Programs, incasip@lehigh.edu.

We are excited to share that Jordan Ho ’27 (English) was selected for the National Humanities Leadership Council for 2024-2025! Students accepted to the Council participate in a unique series of interactive experiences with leading humanities scholars and leaders from across the country.

Learn more and about the National Humanities Center Leadership Council and help us in congratulating Jordan for this honor!

Assistant Professor of Art History Florencia San Martín will be in conversation with Professor of Modern Languages and Literatures and Latin American and Latino Studies Matthew Bush about two recent publications edited by Prof. San Martín about contemporary art in Chile. Learn more about the event here. 

Congratulations to Emily Pope-Obeda from the History Department, who has been awarded a Manuscript Review Workshop grant for her project, "National Expulsions in a Transnational World: The Global Dimensions of American Deportation Practice in the Interwar Era." Look for the next round of funding in Spring 2025.