Upcoming Events

April 17-19, 2025

Recovery in Practice Symposium

Join the VCU Humanities Research Center, VCUarts, Rams in Recovery, and Richmond’s Inclusive Recovery City Initiative for Recovery in Practice, a series of conversations, workshops, and community-engaged programs.

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April 23, 2025

Public Interest Technology in the Age of AI

4:00 p.m. (In person)

Join us for a Technology Humanities Speaker Series event with Margaret Hu, the Taylor Reveley Research Professor and Professor of Law, and Director of the Digital Democracy Lab, at William & Mary (W&M) Law School.

Technology Humanities Speaker Series

April 25, 2025

Simone de Beauvoir’s Ethics of Ambiguity and W. D. Ross’s Ethical Pluralism: An Attempt at Integration

12:00 p.m. Hybrid (In-person and Zoom)

Join us for a Work-in-Progress seminar with Jo-Jo Koo, Assistant Professor in the Department of Focused Inquiry at Virginia Commonwealth University.

Work-in-Progess Seminar

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Fellowship and Grant Writing for Graduate Students in the Humanities and Social Sciences

Jose Alcaine, Meredith Sisson and Mary Strawderman
Director of Research Services in the Office of Research and Faculty Development, Associate Director in the Honors College National Scholarship Office, and Doctoral Student in the L. Douglas Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs

Between Here and There: Creating the Political Economy of Mexican Migration

Daniel Morales
Assistant Professor of History at Virginia Commonwealth University,
author of Between Here and There

Faculty Spotlight: Brian Daugherity

Written by Maggie Unverzagt Goddard, Postdoctoral Fellow, History Dept.; Associate Director, Health Humanities Lab; Co-Director, Public Humanities Lab

As the Co-Director of the Public Humanities Lab at the HRC, Brian Daugherity draws on his extensive experience using collaboration as a methodology. Combining history and education, his work is not just limited to learning about the past; rather, Daugherity focuses on the past to learn important lessons and to find how it connects with the present.

Brian Daugherity's research focuses on the implementation of the Supreme Court’s 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision in Virginia. He teaches courses on the History of the Civil Rights Movement, the History of Virginia, and the History of the United States since 1865. Daugherity also has taught a number of traveling courses, including an interdisciplinary class on the civil rights movement in the South, and another on the history of Virginia via a month-long boating trip down the James River.

In 2014, Daugherity co-taught “Footprints on the James: The Human and Natural History of Virginia” with James Vonesh and Dan Carr, two VCU biology professors, to explore the history and biology of the James River watershed, and how the two disciplines overlap and intersect. Along with their students, the faculty traveled a roughly 150-mile section of the James via sea kayak, canoe, raft, and bateau while backpacking and camping along the way... [Read the full spotlight]