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Institute for the Humanities
Recent News
Announcing the 2025-26 Public Humanities Interns
The Public Humanities Internship is a paid internship program that provides 8 selected undergraduate students at the University of Michigan with the unique opportunity to participate in the life of the Institute for the Humanities.
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.
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.
