Humanities Research Center

Anything but a paper

A Ph.D. dissertation doesn’t always have to be a paper, as demonstrated by ethnomusicologist Julian Saporiti

Arts incubator brings leading Gulf Coast environmental artists and activists to campus

Four-day workshop will coincide with Rice-hosted Society of Environmental Journalists conference

Leading French intellectual to speak at Rice

Fassin’s March 21 talk will tackle authoritarian neoliberalism’s attacks on academic freedom

Rice to host international conference on scholarship of the paranormal March 3-6

“Opening the Archives of the Impossible” will also showcase collections housed in university library

imagineRio allows users to visualize five centuries of change in a modern megacity

Major rebuild to the Rice site adds 3,000 photos, new tools for teaching, learning

Inaugural cohort of Humanities Dean’s Fellows hails culture of collaboration

New program funds undergraduates passionate about humanities research

Dashboard displays troubling trend of unexplained deaths

‘Slow-burning background crisis’ revealed in new work by Rice humanities researcher John Mulligan.

A heartbeat away

How a medical humanities workshop and coding crash course created a pulse-inspired art exhibition at Rice’s Solar Studios.

Kassim wins prestigious dissertation completion fellowship

A series of setbacks didn’t deter this Rice grad student, who is soon to publish his second book.

Translational Humanities for Public Health project captures worldwide scholarly responses to pandemic

Ostherr’s online database offers a ‘different framing of what an intervention can look like.’

Clements and Faubion convene conference of international Foucault ‘superstars’

Scholars’ twice-weekly talks this summer will consider newly published work by the French philosopher Micheal Foucault

Rice backs studies of race, anti-racism

The Race and Anti-Racism Research Fund at Rice University has awarded grants to eight professors to develop better understanding of how race, racism and racial injustice affect society.

Rice researchers create interactive map of COVID-19 cases in Texas

Rice researchers create interactive map of COVID cases in Texas

HOUSTON – (March 31, 2020) – A team of researchers in the Center for Research Computing’s Spatial Studies Lab at Rice University has created an interactive map showing all cases of COVID-19 across Texas utilizing public health data. The map is now online at coronavirusintexas.org.