Upcoming Events

August 25, 2025

Meet VCU Authors: Andrew Crislip

Join the VCU Humanities Research Center for a Meet VCU Authors talk with Andrew Crislip, Chair of the Department of History at VCU, and author of Ascetic Passions: Emotions in Early Christian Egypt.

Meet VCU Authors

October 1, 2025

Federico Cuatlactuatl: Transborder Nahua Futurisms

4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. (In person)

Join us for an event with Federico Cuatlactuatl, Associate Professor in the Art Department at the University of Virginia.

Speaker Series

October 23, 2025

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

3:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. (In-person)
Cabell Library, rm. 303

Join us for a Technology Humanities Speaker Series Event with Wendy Chun, Canada 150 Research Chair in New Media, Professor in the School of Communication, and Director of the Digital Democracies Institute at Simon Fraser University.

Speaker Series

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Unburying Voices: Community-Based Reparative Justice

HRC Health Humanities Symposium Spring 2025
The Humanities Research Center's Health Humanities Lab hosted their Spring 2025 History and Health Symposium, "Unburying Voices: Community-Engaged Reparative Justice.

Kayla E. in Conversation with Francesca Lyn: Precious Rubbish

HRC Graphic Narratives Lab
Featuring Kayla E., creative director at Fantagraphics and author of Precious Rubbish, in conversation with Francesca Lyn, co-director of the HRC Graphic Narratives Lab.

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]