Institute for the Humanities

Shifting Roots: Hair is the Garden We Wear Shifting Roots: Hair is the Garden We Wear Join us Oct. 20 & 21 as Detroit barber and artist Tzu Poré talks with writer Kahn Santori Davison about Poré's project Shifting Roots. The project fuses symbolic hair design, ritual healing, and fine art into one unified ecosystem of transformation.

Conifer Trees, Bark Beetles, and Fire Built on artist Catherine Chalmer's many years of fieldwork and research, her exhibition "Conifer Trees, Bark Beetles, and Fire" delves into the intricate relationship between conifer trees, bark beetles, and wildfires in the American West. On view through Oct. 24.

The Year in Review From poetry, banned books, and small-town America to medieval Europe, digital memories and sculptural boots, 2024-25 was a year of questioning, exploring, and understanding. Read all about it in our Annual Report.

E-News for Humanities Students Through this montly newsletter, we aim to inform students of all things humanities happening on campus – from event announcements and fun facts to academic resources and professional opportunities. Click to read the latest issue!

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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.

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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.

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