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Humanities Futures

About

New in 2020, this cluster brings together scholars taking up a variety of questions that include, but are not limited to: field-building in the humanities; graduate and undergraduate curricular innovation; humanities pedagogies and methods; public engagement/public humanities; diversifying the humanities; pipelines and pathways to leadership (in the humanities and more broadly in higher education); issues of precarity and institutional labor; and humanities advocacy. This cluster also includes activities focused on various timely/topical humanities themes that have regional, national, and/or transnational relevance (e.g., health/medical humanities, rural humanities, environmental humanities, and more).

Topics

Activities

How Successful Academics Write, with Helen Sword

Oct. 30, 2026, 10 a.m.

Picturing Equality Symposium on LGBTQ Workplace Equality

Sept. 18, 2026, 5 p.m.

Understanding Your Value: Translating Your Ph.D. Beyond the Faculty Job Market

Sept. 10, 2026, 5 p.m.

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Groups

HF1: Humanities Research Administrators
Open to New People Active since: 2020
  • Syracuse University
  • Cornell University
  • University of Rochester
  • Hamilton College
  • St. Lawrence University
  • Union College
HF2: Language Program Vitality
Open to New People Active since: 2020
  • Syracuse University
  • Cornell University
  • University of Rochester
  • Colgate University
  • Hamilton College
  • Le Moyne College
  • Skidmore College
  • Union College
HF3: Community-Engaged Public Humanities
Open to New People Active since: 2019
  • Syracuse University
  • University of Rochester
  • Colgate University
  • Rochester Institute of Technology
HF5: Faculty Writing Community
Open to New People
  • Syracuse University
  • University of Rochester
HF4: Corridor Futures & Initiatives
Active since: 2020 Closed Group of Collaborators
  • Syracuse University
  • Cornell University
  • University of Rochester
HF6: Global Disability Studies
Open to New People Inactive since: 2023
  • Syracuse University
  • Cornell University
HF7: Humanities Beyond the Academy
Open to New People Active since: 2020
  • Syracuse University
  • Cornell University
  • University of Rochester
HF8: Curating the Middle Ages
Open to New People Active since: 2022
  • Syracuse University
  • University of Rochester
  • Rochester Institute of Technology
HF9: Humanities Engagement with Public Policy
Open to New People Active since: 2022
  • Syracuse University
  • University of Rochester
  • Hobart & William Smith Colleges
  • Rochester Institute of Technology
HF10: CNY Graduate Student Writing Group
Active since: 2023 Closed Group of Collaborators
  • Syracuse University
  • Cornell University
HF11: Language Study as a Gateway to the Humanities
Open to New People Active since: 2024
  • Syracuse University
  • Hamilton College
  • Le Moyne College
HF12: Climate Havens and the Humanities
Open to New People Active since: 2025
  • Cornell University
  • University of Rochester
  • Rochester Institute of Technology
HF13: Community-Engaged Pedagogy in the Humanities
Open to New People Active since: 2025
  • Syracuse University
  • University of Rochester
  • Hobart & William Smith Colleges
  • Rochester Institute of Technology
HF14: Through the Human Lens: Centering Collective Work in Libraries, Archives, Special Collections, and Museums
Open to New People Active since: 2025
  • Syracuse University
  • Cornell University
HF15: World-Building: Environmental Imaginaries in the Arts, Letters, and Design Fields
Open to New People Active since: 2026
  • Cornell University
  • Hobart & William Smith Colleges