Welcome to the Humanities Center

Founded in 2003, the Humanities Center at Carnegie Mellon promotes and supports scholarship and research that actively engages with culture and human production across the disciplines.

Our Mission

The Humanities Center at Carnegie Mellon brings together faculty and graduate students in humanities departments (English, History, Languages, Cultures and Applied Linguistics, and Philosophy) and from the arts, social sciences, and sciences who engage in studying the human experience, human condition, and human-centered responses to real-world challenges.

An essential component of the humanities ecosystem at CMU, the Humanities Center is an incubator for original, innovative, cutting-edge, and interdisciplinary humanistic research, publicizing our humanities research and its value in our global and increasingly technologically driven society to the university and the world.

Events/News

Environmental Humanities Slam. April 1, 2025

Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize. April 8, 2025

CAUSE 30th Anniversary Celebration and Conference. April 11 & 12, 2025

Make Research Come Alive in the Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences. April 17, 2025.

CPNP Presents Dr. Nicole Aljoe. April 23, 2025

Nicole Aljoe Poster

The Humanities Center is a member of the following organizations.

The Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes is a global forum that strengthens the work of humanities centers and institutes through advocacy, grant-making, and inclusive collaboration. CHCI advances cross-institutional partnerships, recognizes regional humanities cultures, and mobilizes the collective capacity of the humanities to engage the most pressing issues in society today.

The National Humanities Alliance (NHA) is a nationwide coalition advocating for the humanities on campuses, in communities, and on Capitol Hill. NHA works with members and humanities advocates around the country to bolster undergraduate humanities enrollments, promote public engagement with the humanities, and increase funding for the humanities.

Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences