Center for Humanities at Virginia Tech

Center for Humanities at Virginia Tech The Center for Humanities champions the humanities at Virginia Tech and beyond.

We support innovative scholarship and foster collaboration across disciplinary boundaries. The Center for Humanities advances research based on humanistic methods of scholarship among faculty and students in arts, human-centered social sciences, and humanities fields working in their disciplines and collaborating with faculty across Virginia Tech. Supporting scholarship this way is essential

to realizing the center’s objective of foregrounding the overarching relevance of the humanities that will be broadly impactful both within and beyond the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences. Beyond this, the center will collaborate with Virginia Tech’s legislative liaisons, the Department of Political Science, and the Policy Strategic Growth Area to focus on engaging legislators on matters of public policy related to the center’s major initiatives. The center will partner with the University’s Link office to engage corporate entities on matters of ethics and the impact of technology on humans. The center will also engage civic institutions pertaining to issues that bear directly on such areas as local residential life, health, security, and employment.

As the fall semester begins, the Center welcomes two new graduate student fellows. Please meet Annie Shaba, a Ph.D. cand...
08/24/2026

As the fall semester begins, the Center welcomes two new graduate student fellows. Please meet Annie Shaba, a Ph.D. candidate in Foundations of Education, and Shuvro Das, a Ph.D. candidate in the Rhetoric and Writing Program. Welcome, and Go Hokies!

Join us in welcoming our new Graduate Research Assistant, Mikaela David-John! Mikaela is a Ph.D. student in Higher Educa...
08/21/2026

Join us in welcoming our new Graduate Research Assistant, Mikaela David-John! Mikaela is a Ph.D. student in Higher Education at Virginia Tech and will be assisting us this year with our Value of the Humanities Project. Say "hi" if you see her at our events throughout the year! Welcome, Mikaela!

Calling all CLAHS Faculty! Where are you with AI? We want to hear your thoughts and offer educational support! We will b...
08/20/2026

Calling all CLAHS Faculty! Where are you with AI? We want to hear your thoughts and offer educational support! We will be hosting multiple discussions throughout the year, in an attempt to navigate this technological landscape. We invite you to attend our initial discussion on Sept. 4th, and/or to submit your thoughts and questions here: https://forms.cloud.microsoft/r/sVB5Q6RwAL?origin=lprLink

Join next Wednesday, August 26th, 7:00 pm at the Lyric Theatre in Blacksburg for a free screening and discussion of Mate...
08/20/2026

Join next Wednesday, August 26th, 7:00 pm at the Lyric Theatre in Blacksburg for a free screening and discussion of Matewan (1987), written and directed by John Sayles.

Matewan follows a labor organizer who arrives in a 1920 West Virginia coal town to help striking miners unite across racial and ethnic divides, resisting a powerful company's violent tactics.

Dr. John Hennen will speak before the screening about the events depicted in the film, its historical accuracy, and its legacy.

Following the screening, Dr. Marian Mollin of the Virginia Tech Department of History will moderate a Q&A panel featuring Dr. John Hennen, Penny Franklin, and Mark Barbour.

Join Dr. Shannon Vallor this coming Monday, August 24th for the 15th Annual Aims of Education Address. Dr. Vallor is a p...
08/19/2026

Join Dr. Shannon Vallor this coming Monday, August 24th for the 15th Annual Aims of Education Address. Dr. Vallor is a philosopher with a longstanding engagement with questions of artificial intelligence, helping us theorize our interactions with technology.

The Aims of Education event will feature catered refreshments beginning at 3:30, with Dr. Vallor’s talk at 4pm. The event is free and open to the public and VT community.

The Center for Humanities is a proud sponsor of Virginia Tech's Cubefest, happening this weekend! Register for this free...
08/18/2026

The Center for Humanities is a proud sponsor of Virginia Tech's Cubefest, happening this weekend! Register for this free spatial music festival and immerse yourself in the adventure of sound!

https://icat.vt.edu/events/2026/08/cube-fest-2026---spoken-words.html?utm_id=97757_v0_s00_e0_tv2_a1demonhy4f00u&fbclid=IwY2xjawTxhbtwZG9mAWV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkEDIyMjAzOTE3ODgyMDA4OTIAAR757UVqoC1Ug05yK4Du-ZpUInakcrpfBWCMYj3gAGcMfvjNYxxdI0WfeEQEFg_aem_NC-l5iUir9JhAv93YLSHtw

August 21-23, 2026

Join us in welcoming the new 2026-2027 Center for Humanities Advisory Committee, as we welcome back faculty members Swet...
08/18/2026

Join us in welcoming the new 2026-2027 Center for Humanities Advisory Committee, as we welcome back faculty members Sweta Baniya, Benjamin Jantzen, Christine Labuski, and Andrew Scerri; and welcome new committee members Joseph Bedford, Amy Allen, Mark Barrow, Shannon Bell, and Gonzalo Montero. We are very thankful for the guidance and perspectives that they will offer the Center this year!
https://liberalarts.vt.edu/research-centers/center-for-humanities/advisory-committee.html

What could be better than pairing cycling with history? Route 76 brings Virginia’s local histories into view, with a bic...
08/17/2026

What could be better than pairing cycling with history? Route 76 brings Virginia’s local histories into view, with a bicycle route that spans 550 miles across the state and intersects over 30 historic locations. Read more about this collaboration between Virginia Tech and other community partners here: https://news.vt.edu/articles/2026/08/outreach-cece-us-bike-route-76.html

The Center for Humanities was proud to sponsor two of Virginia Tech's educators, Amy Allen and David Hicks, in their rec...
08/14/2026

The Center for Humanities was proud to sponsor two of Virginia Tech's educators, Amy Allen and David Hicks, in their recent workshop entitled, “Teaching History with Chatty Geeps”. Read more about their efforts to help history teachers navigate AI’s role in the classroom in Virginia Tech News!


https://news.vt.edu/articles/2026/08/clahs-AI-in-history-classrooms.html

Did you know that thousands of Americans kept alligators as pets in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries?? Join t...
08/11/2026

Did you know that thousands of Americans kept alligators as pets in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries?? Join this Substack by VT Professor of History Mark Barrow to learn more about America's Wild History!
https://markvbarrowjr.substack.com/

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