Research in Humanities
Solving Problems Through Research
What We Offer: Humanities
The Humanities foster greater understanding and cooperation among different cultures through advancing the understanding of different languages, literatures, values, and institutions. Research in the humanities is diverse, even within departments. Humanistic inquiry spans all time periods and may be global in scope. Scholars in the humanities study a breadth of times and topics in order to discover connections and intersections. They study the past and the present to improve the future.
In addition to the individual research of faculty members in the Departments of Communication, English, Foreign Languages and Literatures, History, Interdisciplinary Studies, and Philosophy, humanities research takes place in the following Centers and Working Groups:
Center for Applied Technologies in the Humanities (contact David Radcliffe, Department of English, drad@vt.edu).
Center for Democratic Planning and Participatory Research (CDPPR) within the Context of ASPECT (Alliance for Social, Culture, and Political Thought) (contact Wolfgang Natter, Department of Political Science, wnatter@vt.edu).
Center for the Study of Rhetoric and Society (contact Kelly Belanger, Department of English, rhetoric@vt.edu)
Center for Ulster Migrations (contact Anita Puckett, Interdisciplinary Studies, apuckett@vt.edu)
Interdisciplinary Research Group (contact Brian Britt, Dept. of Interdisciplinary Studies, bbritt@vt.edu)
Middle Eastern Studies Working Group (contact William Ochsenwald, Dept. of History, ochsen@vt.edu)
South Atlantic Humanities Center (contact Anita Puckett, apuckett@vt.edu)