The Fellows program at the Institute for Humanities Research provides faculty funding for research related to the annual theme.
Fellows may apply as individuals or as a team to engage in a year of research, to share their research with the academic community and to produce a strong application for an external grant.
Established in 2008, the IHR Book Award is presented for a nonfiction work of humanities-based scholarship. The award recognizes and celebrates humanities faculty authors from ASU and around the U.S. and the substantial body of humanistic research reflected in their publications.
The IHR invites nominations, from across the United States, of books written in English which reflect the finest contemporary humanities-based scholarship on any topic.
The seed grant program is designed to provide support for projects that advance the IHR’s mission of fostering research that addresses or explores significant social challenges in the past, present and future, employing humanities or transdisciplinary methodologies.
Prasad Boradkar, Associate Professor and Program Director of Industrial Design at Arizona State University, was awarded the 2011 IHR Transdisciplinary Humanities Book Award for "Designing Things: A Critical Introduction to the Culture of Objects."
Sadowski-Smith, Assistant Professor of English at Arizona State University and the editor of "Globalization on the Line: Culture, Capital, and Citizenship at U.S. Borders," is the recipient of the 2009 IHR Transdisciplinary Humanities Book Award for "Border Fictions: Globalization, Empire, and Writing at the Boundaries of the United States" (The University of Virginia Press, 2008).
Marita Sturken, Professor of Media, Culture and Communication, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development, New York University, is the recipient of the IHR's first Transdisciplinary Book Award for "Tourists of History: Memory, Kitsch and Consumerism from Oklahoma to Ground Zero" (Duke University Press, 2007).
Silvia Spitta, Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature at Dartmouth College, is the recipient of the 2010 IHR Book Award for "Misplaced Objects: Migrating Collections and Recollections in Europe and the Americas" (The University of Texas Press, 2009).
The violence wrought by climate change, toxic drift, deforestation, oil spills, and the environmental aftermath of war takes place gradually and often invisibly. Using the innovative concept of “slow violence” to describe these threats, Rob Nixon focuses on the inattention we have paid to the attritional lethality of many environmental crises, in contrast with the sensational, spectacle-driven messaging that impels public activism today.
Broglio posited, “We live on the same earth as animals but inhabit different worlds. How can we meet across the divide of worlds?” In his book he answers this question using phenomenology and contemporary art as tools to better understand the encounters that exist between our world and the world of animals. This exploration enhances our ability as humans to recognize animals as beings.