Being Human in the Academy: Celebrating 10 Years of Experiments in Collaborative Humanities

This exhibit is a testament to the Humanities Collaboratory's ten years of experiments in collaborative humanities research. We invite you to celebrate with us this remarkable work and our intrepid teams.

For the last ten years the Humanities Collaboratory has supported bold, public-facing, collaborative research across the university and beyond. Our teams have crawled under ancient temples in Mexico with cutting edge digital technologies; performed long-neglected African American music in classrooms across the US and in illustrious concerts hall in Europe; testified before the Michigan Legislature on ambivalence and reproductive rights; reconnected Filipino communities in the U.S. and in the Philippines with objects taken from their ancestors; elevated the voices of the incarcerated; worked with local historians of the Black community to remove racially restrictive covenants still on the book in Ann Arbor; produced an exhibit on the art studied by an eighth century Korean monk at the Smithsonian Institution; and created an award winning animated film about a Nubian girl in exile. And that’s just skimming the surface.