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Help us raise $60,000 in honor of the Oregon Humanities Center's 40th anniversary!
The Oregon Humanities Center (OHC) supports and amplifies faculty, graduate, and undergraduate humanities research to advance new knowledge and scholarship; fosters the development of innovative courses to enhance students’ educational and career opportunities; and offers public programming to enrich the knowledge and lives of Oregon’s citizens.
The OHC needs philanthropic support to thrive. When you give to the OHC, you help secure crucial research, teaching, and public programs that faculty, students, and the larger community have benefited from and relied upon for forty years, as well as help shape the OHC’s future for the next forty years.
Thanks to our generous donors, we surpassed our initial goal of $40,000! We've stretched the goal to $60,000 to support the important work of the center.
“We read and hear nearly daily from journalists, pundits, and politicians announcing the “crisis,” “decline,” or even “death” of the humanities. But based on my experience as OHC director and the evidence of the ground-breaking research projects, innovative courses, illuminating events, and stimulating lecturers that the OHC has supported over the past 40 years, I believe that the state of the humanities is strong, that the knowledge and skills humanists teach, and the values that we defend—cultural literacy, critical thinking, clear and persuasive communication, tolerance and open-mindedness—are today more relevant than ever. That is why I am so optimistic about the future of the OHC as it enters its next chapter. This incomparable 40-year-old institution is ideally positioned to help chart a timely, impactful, and enlightening course for humanities research, teaching, and programming at the UO over the next 40 years.”
- Paul Peppis, Director of the Oregon Humanities Center, and professor of English
Your gift can support:
UO Today episode: $300
Graduate student publication support: $500
Graduate Research fellow: $1000
Faculty publication support: $1500
Research Interest Group: $2000
Undergraduate Archival Studies fellow: $3000
Accessible captioning of lecture videos: $5000
Dissertation fellow: $7000
Teaching fellow: $8000
Give one dollar for every year the center has enriched the community
Fund one episode of Oregon Humanities Center director Paul Peppis' series that engages UO faculty, administrators, and visiting scholars in deep-diving conversations about their compelling work
The Oregon Humanities Center (OHC) offers faculty and graduate student author subvention grants to help defray costs incurred when publishing print or digital books, monographs, journal articles, and co-edited volumes in the humanities and related fields. The term humanities as used here includes literature; philosophy; history; the study of languages; religious studies; ethics; the history, theory and criticism of the arts; and historical or interpretive aspects of the social and natural sciences and the professions.
The purpose of the Graduate Research Support Fellowship program is to stimulate humanities research and support graduate education by providing doctoral students with resources to assist with their doctoral research and the completion of their dissertations.
Oregon Humanities Center (OHC) RIGs support UO-based scholars who share a humanities-related research focus by providing up to $1,000 per academic year for up to two years. RIGs are interdisciplinary in nature and meet regularly (a minimum of once per term) to share readings and/or other recent research activities and findings.
UO undergraduates interested in the humanities and humanities-affiliated social sciences and professions can earn eight credits and a $3,000 fellowship stipend during a twenty-week program. The program will provide students with important humanities library sciences research and career readiness skills, while expanding their post-college job prospects.
Help us keep UO Today accessible by supporting closed captioning.
The Oregon Humanities Center (OHC) offers the Dissertation Fellowship in partnership with the Graduate School and the Office of the Vice President for Research and Innovation. The purpose of this fellowship program is to provide the fellow with a one-term research appointment in order to allow full-time work on the dissertation.
Oregon Humanities Center (OHC) Teaching Fellowships support the development of new humanistic undergraduate courses or the substantial redesign of existing courses. Teaching fellows are offered summer pay and have the option to request course enrichment funds to support course development and to enhance students’ classroom experience.