About Research Seminars
Research seminars are year-long interdisciplinary discussion groups organized around compelling areas of intellectual inquiry. Convened by at least two tenure-stream faculty members (at least one of whom is from a DCHA-affiliated department*), research seminars should identify and explore a central question leading to a projected research outcome, such as a conference, book publication, research cluster at the university level, or grant application. Working toward these outcomes, seminar participants present their work to one another, invite visiting speakers, assign readings, and may work collaboratively on a research project.
*Departments of English, History, Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures, Philosophy, Classics, Religious Studies, School of Art, Theatre, and the Natalie L. Haslam College of Music
The deadline for submission of both new and renewing research seminar applications is May 15 of the current calendar year.
Current Seminar Outcomes Report & Renewal Application
Current Research Seminars
Just Environments
Nineteenth-Century British Studies
Digital Games
Late Antiquity
Native American & Indigenous Studies
The Labor of Science: Rethinking Histories of Knowledge, 1500-1850
The Transatlantic Eighteenth Century
Past Research Seminars
Black Women and Research from USA and the Caribbean: Our Paradigms of Preference // A Humanities Center Research Seminar // Spring 2022 // The University of Tennessee
Gender and Sexuality in Historical Perspective // A Humanities Center Research Seminar // Fall 2021 // The University of Tennessee
After Wars // A Humanities Center Research Seminar // Fall 2021 // The University of Tennessee
Rethinking Space and the Uses of GI Science in Digital Humanities // A Humanities Center Research Seminar // Spring 2021 // The University of Tennessee
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.
Faculty who spend a year at the University of Tennessee win NEH and other awards and publish award-winning books and research projects more quickly.