Posted on January - 31 - 2011
Brown receives grant to increase students’, professors’ global exposure
PROVIDENCE – Brown University has received a $497,990 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to expand the international exposure of Humanities scholars and professors.
The program, “Brown in the World/The World at Brown,” is a three-year, two-part program to be launched by the Cogut Center for the Humanities.
The Brown in the World portion will allow graduate and postdoctoral fellows to spend one semester at an international institution, “with the goal of enriching their perspectives, teaching abilities, scholarship, and networks of international colleagues,” the university said in a news release on Jan. 27.
Through the World at Brown portion, the Cogut Center will host nine international scholars – three one-semester appointments and six one-month fellowships – to teach seminars and workshops for both graduate and undergraduate students.
“The idea here is to globalize humanities education by allowing people to experience their education in different places,” said Michael Steinberg, director of the Cogut Center. “That means our students and faculty will be able to spend time in other places and we will bring prominent international scholars to campus, producing a constant flow and exchange of ideas and fostering a vibrant environment for the humanities, at Brown and beyond.”
Earlier in the academic year, Brown President Ruth J. Simmons announced the Brown Humanities Initiative, which would recruit six senior scholars within three years and create the Brown Humanities Initiative Fund, which is expected to launch a series of multiyear research seminars.
Brown already has established ties to Nanjing University in China, the University of Cape Town in South Africa, Spain’s IE-University Madrid, and the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra and Institute in Seville and Berlin.
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