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Institute for the Humanities
Recent News
Jason R. Young promoted to full professor
Jason Young, director of the Institute for the Humanities, teaches and researches in the fields of Nineteenth-Century United States History, African American History, and the African Diaspora.
Announcing the 2025-26 Institute for the Humanities Fellows
The two cohorts will take up residence at the institute during their fellowship periods, forming an intellectual community while pursuing original research and participating in regular, cross-disciplinary fellows’ seminars.
Land Acknowledgement
The University of Michigan is located on the territory of the Anishinaabe people. In 1817, the Ojibwe, Odawa, and Bodewadami Nations made the largest single land transfer to the University of Michigan, ceded in the Treaty of Fort Meigs, so that their children could be educated. We acknowledge the history of native displacement that allowed the University of Michigan to be founded. Today we reaffirm contemporary and ancestral Anishinaabek ties to the land and their profound contributions to this institution.