Humanities Hub

Fostering innovation, visibility, and community

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Humanities Hub Goals

  • Help navigate curricular silos
  • Provide a space (intellectual and, hopefully, physical) to innovate
  • Raise visibility and public understanding of the humanities
  • Provide a venue for sharing and producing research
  • Build and support community among our scholars and scholars doing similar work
  • Provide coordination for existing interdisciplinary programs/efforts
  • Give a place to celebrate existing work 
  • Establish prestige
  • Provide time/funding/support for scholars to pivot or develop new schools as they transition in their careers

Nancy Maria Balach Schuesselin

Nancy Maria Balach Schuesselin

  • Chair and Professor of Music and Director of the University of Mississippi Institute for the Arts
Michael Barnett

Michael Barnett

  • Chair and Professor of Theatre and Film and Interim Chair of Art and Art History
Jeffrey Jackson

Jeffrey Jackson

  • Chair and Professor of Sociology
Kathryn McKee

Kathryn McKee

  • Director of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture, McMullan Professor of Southern Studies, and Professor of English
Daniel O'Sullivan

Daniel O'Sullivan

  • Chair and Professor of Modern Languages
Molly Pasco-Pranger

Molly Pasco-Pranger

  • Chair and Professor of Classics
Glisto Rice

Glisto Rice

  • Research Administrator I
Steven Skultety

Steven Skultety

  • Chair and Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Declaration of Independence Center for the Study of American Freedom
Noell Wilson

Noell Wilson

  • Chair of History and Croft Associate Professor of History & International Studies