NEWS
SOLIDARITY STATEMENT
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The Franke Institute for the Humanities has worked with the Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes to draft a statement of solidarity with Black Lives Matter and related movements around the world. We post it here on behalf of CHCI and as a declaration of the Institute’s own values and commitments: Solidarity Statement.
For more on the Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes and this statement, please see CHCI's website.
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Franke Residential Fellowship Recipients, 2025-26
On behalf of the Governing Board of the Franke Institute, we are delighted to announce the 2025-26 Franke Faculty Residential Fellows:
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Ania Aizman
Assistant Professor, Slavic Languages & Literatures
Radical Interventions: Anarchism and Sabotage in Russian Culture
Whitney Cox
Professor, South Asian Languages & Civilizations
When the Rains Came: A Medieval Moment in South Asia
Paula Harper
Assistant Professor, Music
Digital Divas
Catherine Kearns
Assistant Professor, Classics
Keeping House: Archaeologies of Livability
Srikanth Reddy
Professor, English Language & Literature
A Mahabharata: Book One
François G. Richard
Associate Professor, Anthropology
Unsettling Histories of 'Frenchness' in the Municipio of San Rafael, Veracruz, Mexico
Mehrnoush Soroush
Assistant Professor, Middle Eastern Studies
The Long Life of Water: A History of the Shushtar Historic Hydraulic System
AE Stevenson
Assistant Professor, Cinema & Media Studies
Sites of Chaos: Scenes of a Black Social Life
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On behalf of the Governing Board of the Franke Institute, we are delighted to announce the 2025-26 Franke Dissertation Completion Residential Fellows:
Nathan T. Katkin
Doctoral Fellow, Classics
The Roman Republic between Philosophy and History: Virtue, Citizenship, and Constitutional Theory
Julia Marsan Kopesky
Doctoral Fellow, Comparative Literature
Transtextual Relationality in Ochéthi Šakówin Literature
Adriana Obiols Roca
Doctoral Fellow, Art History
“A new image”: The Figurative Turn in Central American Art, 1969-1990
Andrea Reed-Leal
Doctoral Fellow, Romance Languages & Literatures
Women Tlamatinimeh and Embodied Knowledge among the Sixteenth-Century Nahua
The 2023-24 Franke Bulletin
The Franke Bulletin newsletter for 2023-24 is available to view or download at the top of the Newsletters page.
In Memoriam​
The Franke Institute for the Humanities mourns the loss of
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RICHARD J. FRANKE
23 June 1931 - 15 April 2022
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Rich was a visionary, a supporter of humanistic research, teaching and engagement at every level—and, with his wife Barbara, the warmest of friends. We are honored to bear his name and inspired to carry forward his ideals, now more than ever:
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“We need to make the humanities available not merely for survival in an increasingly commercial world, but for the sake of democracy.”
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DEADLINES
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Franke Event Funding
The deadline to apply for Franke Event Funding is Friday, October 31, 2025. More info.
Franke Faculty Grants
The deadline to apply for Franke Faculty Grants is Friday, October 31, 2025. More info.
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Franke Book Manuscript Workshop Grants
The deadline to apply for Franke Faculty Grants is Friday, October 31, 2025. More info.
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