University of Richmond History Professor Michelle Kahn Named a National Humanities Center Fellow
History professor Michelle Kahn has been named a National Humanities Center Fellow for 2025–26.
How (And Why) Do We Represent Nature?
This question invites us to consider “representation” in both its political meaning and its aesthetic meaning. “Nature” is represented in paintings, poems, scripture, music, dancing, novels, laws, regulations, equations, activisms, and advertising campaigns.
This question asks how environments—and often their relations to human concerns—are represented across media, geographic and cultural contexts, and different historical moments.
2024-2025 Tucker Boatwright Festival of Literature & the Arts
The Nature of Representation
The Nature of Representation asks how our understandings of “nature” have been shaped by representational practices in both the aesthetic and political senses, exploring how the current climate catastrophe is inextricable from colonialism and anthropocentric worldviews. The festival features contemporary writers, artists, and thinkers who don’t take for granted that language is merely human, that there are other “natural” languages, and that attuning to those other languages allows us to tell stories that disrupt the violence of Man.
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UR's Harnett Museum supports classroom curriculum with a new gallery exhibit
Faculty members from various departments are helping students learn lessons through the work of artists.
Campus Life
An upcycled UR theater set takes an eco-friendly turn at Shakespeare
All the world’s a stage, and all the props merely recycled materials in this version of the bard’s romantic comedy.
University of Richmond Launches New Humanities Center
The University of Richmond recently launched the Humanities Center, a campus-wide initiative that will foster student and faculty research in the many areas of scholarship that make up the humanities.
Humanities Faculty News
Kahn awarded American Jewish Archives fellowship
Michelle Kahn, associate professor of history, has been awarded a $5,000 fellowship from the American Jewish Archives for 2025-26 to support research for her book tentatively titled Neo-Nazis in Germany and the United States: An Entangled History of Hate, 1945-2000.
Kahn named a National Humanities Center Fellow
Michelle Kahn, associate professor of history, has been awarded a $26,000 National Humanities Center Fellowship for 2025-26 to support writing her book tentatively titled Neo-Nazis in Germany and the United States: An Entangled History of Hate, 1945-2000. Learn more.
Singh’s ‘The Nest’ to Premiere at Hot Docs Film Festival in Toronto
Julietta Singh, professor of English and women, gender, & sexuality studies, directed The Nest, a feature-length documentary, which will make its world premiere at the upcoming Hot Docs Festival in Toronto, Canada.
Delers and Hanaoka named ACS Mellon Academic Leadership Fellows
Olivier Delers, professor of French, and Mimi Hanaoka, associate professor of religious studies, have been named Associated Colleges of the South Mellon Academic Leadership Fellows for 2025–27.
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