Energy Humanities
Energy has driven cultural practices and shaped civilization throughout time.
The UT Humanities Center is interested in investigating historical contexts for energy paradigms and to generate public conversation about what might come next, imagining how energy concerns might guide humanity’s progress.
The center is currently considering topics within this initiative and plans to incorporate programming within the Energy Humanities in the months ahead.
UT ranks tenth in the country among all universities, public and private, in the number of NEH fellowships received between 2004 and 2022.
Graduate students chosen to spend a year in the UTHC working on their dissertations graduate, on average, 1.5 years sooner, publish their first book sooner, and receive better job offers than other students in the humanities.
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