Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry

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📣 MEET THE 2025–26 LIFE/STORY FELLOWS 📣⁠ The Fox Center is delighted to announce our 2025-26 Fellows, who will be joining us during our Life/Story theme year! 🌟 Learn more about our incoming fellows & their projects: bit.ly/3IhaoSM

Happy Juneteenth from the Fox! 🌟 Today, we’re highlighting “won’t you celebrate with me” by American poet #LucilleClifton: poets.org/poem/wont-you-…

Happy Pride Month! The Fox Center is proud to support research that advances the study of LGBTQ+ history and culture. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🌟⁠ Read our monthly book selection “Safe Space” (@DukePress) by former fellow Prof. Christina B. Hanhardt - dukeupress.edu/safe-space

Our summer Keyword Seminar starts this week! Register at bit.ly/fchi-candler (and use code FCHI-2025 to waive all fees) ✨

Thank you to everyone who joined us and @EmoryClassics in celebrating the launch of Prof. Celia Campbell’s new book “Rival Praises"(@UWiscPress) with respondent Prof. Jinyu Liu (@EmoryHistory) 🎉 Stay tuned for our book launches this fall!

Open Books episode #3 is out now! 🎙️🌟 Listen to our convo w/ @mariarmontalvo about her book “Enslaved Archives” (@JHUPress) and the narrative reconstruction of enslaved people's lives through 19th century civil court cases in New Orleans. Start now 👉 bit.ly/44LS9OI

Thank you to our Atlanta community for attending this year's Keyword Seminars, led by our @emorycollege former faculty fellows! Join us next month for "Re-gendering" with Susan Hylen (@CandlerTheology)! 🎟️ via bit.ly/fchi-candler - Use code FCHI-2025 to waive fees ✨

Congratulations to Undergrad Honors Fellow and @emorycollege @emoryhistory major Alex Minovici for winning the inaugural FCHI Undergraduate Honors Award! 🏆🎉 ⁠ ⁠ Learn more about Alex's thesis "Sînge și Spaimă" and what the FCHI Award means to her: bit.ly/4j0fvU1

Thank you to everyone who attended our book launch for @emorycollege Prof. Rune Nyord's "Yearning for Immortality” (@uchicagopress) last month! 🎉 Thanks to @EmoryDPH, you can start reading the book for free #OpenAcess 👉 bibliopen.org/9780226838243

If you'll be an @emorycollege senior in the fall, there's just a few more days left to apply for our undergraduate honors fellowship! 🌟 Learn more & apply before 5/18: bit.ly/432VHLGIf

Congratulations to our graduating @emorycollege Undergraduate Honors Fellows! 🎉🎓️ The Fox Center is so proud of everything they’ve accomplished and we can't wait to see what they achieve next!

Congratulations to our 2024-25 Undergraduate Honors Fellows for a job well done presenting their theses at their Spring Colloquium! 🥳 🎊

Join us this summer for a Keyword Seminar from Susan Hylen (@CandlerTheology), presented in partnership with @candlerfoundry! 🎟️ via bit.ly/fchi-candler (Use code FCHI-2025 to waive the registration fee)

Calling all @emorycollege undergrads! 📣 The application deadline for our 2025-26 Undergraduate Fellowship has been extended to Sunday, May 18th! Learn more here: bit.ly/432VHLG

This spring, the Fox supported a new interdisciplinary research hub: Asian American Studies in an Age of Authoritarianism, led by @emoryhistory Prof. Chris Suh 💫 Learn more about the hub and how @emorycollege faculty can start a proposal: bit.ly/3ENvwi2

Happy Earth Day from the Fox! 🌎️ Today we’re highlighting “Dear darkening ground” by Austrian poet and novelist Rainer Maria Rilke: onbeing.org/poetry/dear-da…

Thank you to those who attended the final event of our Democracy year! 🌟 If you missed this riveting lecture on "How (Authoritarian) Populism Works" from @WojSadurski and his conversation with @emorycollege Prof. Hubert Tworzecki, you can watch it now: youtube.com/watch?v=e1MQam…

Check out our new #OpenAccess book releases by @emorycollege authors! 🌷 "Yearning for Immortality" by Rune Nyord @UChicagoPress "Unsettling Acts" by Jieun Lee @ohiostatepress "Living and Dying in São Paolo" by @JeffreyLesser @DukePress Start reading 👉bit.ly/4ijKCd8

Applications for the Fulbright Program are now open for academic year 2026-2027!🌐 Apply to Fulbright to advance your research, build networks, and be part of a lifechanging international exchange experience. Begin your #Fulbright journey today by applying to the U.S. Scholar Program at fulbrightscholars.org or the U.S. Student Program at us.fulbrightonline.org