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The Wesleyan Center for the Humanities is one of the oldest  humanities institute in the United States. It developed from the Center for Advanced Study, which was established at Wesleyan University in 1959 as a place where visiting scholars, especially in the humanities, could pursue research and writing projects. The Center assumed its present name in 1969, when it was reorganized by a group of Wesleyan faculty and opened up to the Wesleyan community. With the expansion of the community of fellows to include Wesleyan faculty members and students, the Center added the promotion of innovative, interdisciplinary teaching to its initial task of supporting research. These remain its primary activities. Wesleyan faculty fellows and the Mellon fellows combine teaching with research, while other visitors devote themselves fulltime to research. 

Besides supporting individual research and teaching projects, the Center is a place for sustained communication between the humanities and the social sciences. Its program each semester is organized around a focal theme, which shapes a weekly series of public lectures and smaller seminars. At these events, and in other, more informal settings, Wesleyan faculty, students, and visiting scholars from diverse disciplinary backgrounds carry on a wide-ranging inquiry into the social dimensions of the imagination and the imaginative dimensions of social life. As a meeting ground between the humanities and social sciences, between Wesleyan faculty and visitors, and between faculty and students, the Center for the Humanities is one of the key sites of intellectual life at Wesleyan. 

Jill Morawski
Director, Center for the Humanities
Professor of  Psychology

Brenda Keating
Administrative Assistant
Vox: 860 685-3044
Fax: 860-685-2171
Email: bkeating@wesleyan.edu

Susan Ferris
Secretary
Vox: 860 685-3046
Fax: 860-685-2171
Email: sferris@wesleyan.edu