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The Memory Studies Lab is hosting a symposium on April 2, featuring a keynote lecture from Edward Ayers, professor and president emeritus at the University of Richmond. (Getty Images)

First public event from VCU’s Memory Studies Lab features prominent history scholar Edward Ayers

March 28, 2024

The April 2 symposium highlights the wide-ranging aspects and ramifications of how we interpret the past.

Cristina Stanciu, Ph.D., director of the Humanities Research Center at VCU, will serve a four-year term on the advisory board of the Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes. (File photo)

Cristina Stanciu, director of VCU’s Humanities Research Center, elected to advisory board of global consortium

Feb. 23, 2024

She will provide intellectual leadership and nurture collaboration tied to prominent issues of public concern.

VCU alum Christina Davis, a program advisor and instructor in University College, said she chose to work at VCU because “it allowed me to be a forever student – in and out of the classroom.” (Tom Kojcsich, Enterprise Marketing and Communications)

Meet-a-Ram: Christina Davis embraces past, present and future tenses of her Native American identity

Nov. 29, 2023

Interdisciplinary studies advisor and instructor charted a unique path at VCU and is helping new students do the same.

The Loose Parts project’s first event, “The Fountain,” transformed a portion of Reedy Creek in Forest Hill Park into a temporary adventure playground. (Courtesy photo)

Loose Parts connects art and play to the serious work of child development

Sept. 20, 2023

Building on an overseas tradition, a VCUarts and humanities team is creating engaging local play spaces where children won’t hear the common refrains “Don’t touch” or “Get down.”

The new cohort of scholars at VCU's Humanities Research Center includes faculty from the College of Humanities and Sciences and schools of the Arts and Education. (File photo)

Meet the 5 interdisciplinary scholars who will be residential fellows this year at VCU’s Humanities Research Center

Jan. 19, 2022

The fellowship program provides faculty the opportunity to work on projects around a similar theme.

A new Native writer/artist residency program at VCU will honor the late Karenne Wood.

Humanities Research Center launches Native writer/artist residency program

Nov. 29, 2021

The program honors the legacy of Karenne Wood, a member of the Monacan Indian tribe and a poet, activist, tribal historian and educator who lectured at VCU on many occasions.

The Robert E. Lee monument in June 2020. VCU's Humanities Research Center brings together faculty and graduate students from different departments across VCU with common research interests. Among them: a new research group called Memory and Monuments, which seeks to investigate issues of race, power and memory, mainly focused around local Confederate monuments and African American landmarks. (Max Schlickenmeyer, University Marketing)

Supporting humanities research and collaboration among scholars

Oct. 13, 2021

VCU’s Humanities Research Center brings together faculty and graduate students with common research interests.

Humanities Research Center to host slate of speaker events this fall

Aug. 31, 2021

The center, part of the College of Humanities and Sciences, will feature events headlined by experts on a variety of topics, ranging from gerrymandering to Richmond’s historic cemeteries.

Cathleen D. Cahill will speak at a VCU virtual event March 12. (Michael T. Davis)

Historian to discuss how women of color transformed the suffrage movement

March 9, 2021

An event with author Cathleen Cahill will examine how Native American, Chinese American, African American and Hispana suffragists challenged women’s inequality and fought against racial prejudices.