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Laura March Penn State's Institute for the Arts and Humanities |
| Web Page: | https://http://iah.psu.edu/ |
| List Affiliations: | None |
| Interests: | African American History / Studies African History / Studies American History / Studies Ancient History Anthropology Archaeology Architecture and Architectural History Archival Science Area Studies Asian American History / Studies Asian History / Studies Atlantic History / Studies Australian and New Zealand History / Studies Black History / Studies British History / Studies Business History / Economic History / Studies Canadian History / Studies Chicana/o History / Studies Childhood and Education Classical Studies Colonial and Post-Colonial History / Studies Communication Composition Contemporary History Cultural History / Studies Dance and History of Dance Demographic History / Studies Digital Humanities Diplomacy and International Relations Early Modern History and Period Studies East Asian History / Studies Educational Technology Ethnic History / Studies European History / Studies Film and Film History Fine Arts French History / Studies Geography German History / Studies Government and Public Service Health and Health Care Historic Preservation History Education History of Science, Medicine, and Technology Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies Human Rights Humanities Immigration History / Studies Intellectual History Islamic History / Studies Italian History / Studies Japanese History / Studies Jewish History / Studies Journalism / Media Studies Labor History / Studies Languages Latin American and Caribbean History / Studies Law and Legal History Library and Information Science Linguistics Literature Local History Maritime History / Studies Medieval and Byzantine History / Studies Mexican History / Studies Middle East History / Studies Military History Music and Music History Nationalism History / Studies Native American History / Studies Oral History Philosophy Political History / Studies Political Science Psychology Public Health Public History Public Policy Religious Studies and Theology Research and Methodology Rhetoric Rural History / Studies Social History / Studies Social Sciences Social Work Sociology South Asian History / Studies Spanish and Portuguese History / Studies Theatre and Performance History / Studies Urban Design and Planning Urban History / Studies Visual Studies Women, Gender, and Sexuality World History / Studies |
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Bio: Founded in 1966, Penn State’s Institute for the Arts and Humanities is one of the oldest and most distinctive interdisciplinary centers in the nation. Over the past fifty years, major American universities have created dozens of advanced research institutes in the humanities and/or centers for the fine and performing arts, but because the arts and humanities are almost always housed in different colleges with different administrative structures, most universities have kept their arts and humanities centers separate. Penn State, by contrast, is one of a handful of universities whose interdisciplinary institute was designed from the outset to bring together innovative work in the arts and humanities–under one roof, across two colleges. As a result, the Institute for the Arts and Humanities spans disciplines that range from philosophy to music, from history to dance, from comparative literature to landscape architecture. The structural division between the arts and humanities at most American universities is significant–and would baffle and vex almost any artist or scholar from eras that predate the rise of the research university. Plato and Aristotle would not understand why philosophy is so distant from music on the university’s organizational chart, nor would William Shakespeare and Ben Jonson understand why the English department and the School of Theatre have so little cross-programming and intellectual exchange. The IAH is committed to challenging this curious and counterproductive division of labor by involving artists and humanists in every kind of discussion and debate about what it means– and what it has meant–to be human. |
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