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| Schwartzman Center for the Humanities | |
|---|---|
| Name | Schwartzman Center for the Humanities |
| Established | 2018 |
| Location | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| Type | Research center |
| Director | Michael P. Smith |
| Affiliation | University of Pennsylvania |
Schwartzman Center for the Humanities is an interdisciplinary research institute associated with the University of Pennsylvania that supports scholarship in the humanities and related fields. The Center funds fellowships, hosts symposia, and curates public programming that engages audiences from the local Philadelphia community to international networks including scholars from Harvard University, Columbia University, Yale University, and the University of Oxford. Its initiatives intersect with archival collections, museum collaborations, and digital humanities projects involving partners such as the Library of Congress, British Library, Smithsonian Institution, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
The Center was founded in the wake of initiatives at the University of Pennsylvania to expand support for humanities scholarship, following precedents set by institutions like the Institute for Advanced Study, the American Academy in Rome, and the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection. Early leadership drew on networks connected to scholars associated with the Social Science Research Council, the American Council of Learned Societies, and funding models from the MacArthur Foundation and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Its inaugural programs featured fellows with ties to the British Academy, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the European Research Council, and it has since established exchanges with centers such as the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences and the Humboldt Foundation.
The Center's mission emphasizes research excellence and public engagement, aligning with the missions of the American Philosophical Society, the New York Public Library, and the Getty Research Institute. Programs include residential fellowships modeled after the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, seminar series inspired by the Kluge Center, and curricular collaborations with departments such as the Department of History at the University of Pennsylvania, the Department of English at Columbia University, and the School of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University. It also administers grants patterned on those from the Guggenheim Foundation and the Fulbright Program to support international scholars affiliated with institutions like Princeton University, Stanford University, and the University of Cambridge.
Housed in a renovated historic building on the University of Pennsylvania campus, the Center's facilities echo adaptive reuse projects like the Tate Modern conversion and the refurbishment of the Smithsonian American Art Museum. The site includes seminar rooms equipped for collaborations with partners such as the Morgan Library & Museum, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Barnard College Institute. Archive-ready spaces support cooperative ventures with the Franklin Institute, the Annenberg School for Communication, and special collections from the Kislak Center and the Haverford College Library.
Governance comprises a director, an advisory board with members from institutions including Princeton University, Brown University, Johns Hopkins University, and representatives from funding bodies such as the Ford Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation. Faculty affiliates are drawn from units like the Penn Museum, the School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania, and centers such as the Center for Africana Studies and the Leonard Davis Institute. Administrative structures mirror those of the Berkman Klein Center and the Stanford Humanities Center with program officers managing partnerships with the Metropolitan Opera, the Philadelphia Orchestra, and the Kramer Center.
Fellowship cohorts have included scholars who previously held posts at the Institute of Historical Research, the Max Planck Society, and the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales. Research themes have intersected with projects connected to the Digital Public Library of America, the Open Society Foundations, and initiatives like the Humanities New York grant programs. The Center supports digital humanities work analogous to projects at the Center for Digital Humanities at Princeton and collaborates with technical partners such as the Perseus Digital Library, the Stanford Digital Repository, and the HathiTrust.
Public programming ranges from lecture series featuring speakers affiliated with Columbia University, Oxford University Press, and the New School to community workshops with the Philadelphia Housing Authority and local cultural organizations like the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts. Signature events have drawn participants linked to the American Historical Association, the Modern Language Association, and the Association of American Universities, and have hosted panels in collaboration with the Penn Libraries, the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, and the Mütter Museum.
Notable collaborations include digitization partnerships with the Library Company of Philadelphia, joint exhibitions with the Winterthur Museum, and research initiatives co-sponsored by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities. The Center has partnered on civic history projects with the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, oral history ventures with the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of American History, and interdisciplinary labs modeled on those at the Humanities Center at Johns Hopkins University and the Newberry Library.
Category:University of Pennsylvania Category:Research institutes in Pennsylvania