Upcoming Events

October 24, 2024

The Rappahannock Peoples: An Analysis of Modern Tribal History and Social Issues

4:00 pm

Join us for an afternoon of Native Virginia history, art and poetry with Sequoyah Fortune, Rappahannock artist and writer, and Karenne Wood, Native Artist-in-Residence at the HRC.

On Native Ground

October 28, 2024

Tales of Koehler Hollow: An African American Family in Rural Appalachia

12:00 p.m. (Online)

Christopher Brooks is Professor of Anthropology in the School of World Studies at Virginia Commonwealth University, and author of Dual Pandemics: HIV and the Coronavirus in Several Communities.

Meet VCU Authors

November 7, 2024

Humanities and AI: Large Language Models and the Returns of Critical Theory

4:00 p.m. (In person)

Wendy Hui Kyong Chun is Canada 150 Research Chair in New Media, Professor in the School of Communication, and Director of the Digital Democracies Institute at Simon Fraser University. At the Institute, she leads the Mellon-funded Data Fluencies Project, which combines the interpretative traditions of the arts and humanities with critical work in the data sciences to express, imagine, and create innovative engagements with (and resistances to) our data-filled world.

HRC Speaker Series

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How the Humanities and STEM Can Find Common Ground in the History of Computing

Mar Hicks, PhD
Associate Professor of Data Science at the University of Virginia

Meet VCU Authors | Race in the Multiethnic Literature Classroom

This roundtable discussion features contributors Luis A. Cortes, Jennifer Ho, Shermaine M. Jones and Kevin Pyon, moderated by Cristina Stanciu and Gary Totten.

Faculty Spotlight: Brian Daugherity

Written by Maggie Unverzagt Goddard, Postdoctoral Fellow, History Dept.; Associate Director, Health Humanities Lab; Co-Director, Public Humanities Lab

As the Co-Director of the Public Humanities Lab at the HRC, Brian Daugherity draws on his extensive experience using collaboration as a methodology. Combining history and education, his work is not just limited to learning about the past; rather, Daugherity focuses on the past to learn important lessons and to find how it connects with the present.

Brian Daugherity's research focuses on the implementation of the Supreme Court’s 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision in Virginia. He teaches courses on the History of the Civil Rights Movement, the History of Virginia, and the History of the United States since 1865. Daugherity also has taught a number of traveling courses, including an interdisciplinary class on the civil rights movement in the South, and another on the history of Virginia via a month-long boating trip down the James River.

In 2014, Daugherity co-taught “Footprints on the James: The Human and Natural History of Virginia” with James Vonesh and Dan Carr, two VCU biology professors, to explore the history and biology of the James River watershed, and how the two disciplines overlap and intersect. Along with their students, the faculty traveled a roughly 150-mile section of the James via sea kayak, canoe, raft, and bateau while backpacking and camping along the way... [Read the full spotlight]

Humanities Research Center

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