Program Overview
Through generous funding from Terri and Terrence Gee, the Civic Humanist Program seeks to build relationships between Rice University and high schools serving underrepresented and economically disadvantaged students. Funding supports faculty visits to high schools to both share faculty research expertise in humanistic inquiry and to provide perspectives on topics that teachers and students are pursuing in their own classrooms. The Civic Humanist Program also offers support for high school students to visit the campus of Rice University to explore programs in the School of Humanities. Teachers and administrators can request coverage of the costs for transportation and meals related to student group visits.
For faculty visits to high schools, teachers and school administrators may choose from a curated list of humanities faculty presenters who offer lively presentations that also address some TEKS standards. Faculty presenters will invite the students to experience the kind of instruction that takes place in a college-level humanities course.
Student visits to Rice University include campus tours led by undergraduate students and meetings with faculty and current Rice students based on the interests of the student group. For instance, one previous school visit focused on the topic of environmental studies. You may see a full range of possible topics here.
Please contact Associate Dean Fay Yarbrough for more information about student visits to campus or faculty visits to Houston area schools: fyarbrough@rice.edu.
Civic Humanist Speakers
- ARTS AND THE CREATIVE EXPERIENCE
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Luis Duno-Gottberg
Un-Learning to See: The Blind Spots of Visual CultureSophie Crawford-Brown
Famous Buildings of Ancient RomeMargarita Castromán Soto
Before Wakanda: Graphic Novels in the African American Literary TraditionCharles Dove
Movies and Global CultureOlivia K. Young
Speculative Themes in Black Contemporary Art - SOCIAL GOOD AND SOCIAL JUSTICE
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Aysha Pollnitz
What are "Rights" and Where do They Come From?
Was Machiavelli a Republican or Democrat?Luziris Pineda Turi
Harnessing a First-Gen/Low-Income Identity: A Higher Ed. JourneyMaya Irish
The Medieval Origins of AntisemitismMargarita Castromán Soto
Before Wakanda: Graphic Novels in the African American Literary TraditionAlden Marte-Wood
Caring for the Social in Social Media: Digital Labor and the Global SouthJames Sidbury
Race and Citizenship after the American Revolution - ETHICS, VALUES AND MORALITY
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Aysha Pollnitz
What are "Rights" and Where do They Come From?
Was Machiavelli a Republican or Democrat?Jeff Kripal
Archives of the Impossible: Or How to Think About Extraordinary ExperiencesLuziris Pineda Turi
Harnessing a First-Gen/Low-Income Identity: A Higher Ed. JourneyMaya Irish
The Medieval Origins of AntisemitismAlden Marte-Wood
Caring for the Social in Social Media: Digital Labor and the Global SouthCameron Hammon
6 Seconds: What Near Death Experiences Can Teach Us About the Nature of ConsciousnessSayuri Shimizu
Why Did the United States Drop the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki? - GLOBAL CITIZENSHIPS AND CULTURES
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Aysha Pollnitz
What are "Rights" and Where do They Come From?
Was Machiavelli a Republican or Democrat?Charla Bennaji
Whose Spanish Accent is Better? / Who has the Best Spanish Accent?Maya Irish
The Medieval Origins of AntisemitismNaoko Ozaki
Broadening the World View through Language EducationSidney Lu
The Japanese Emperorship: Past and PresentSophie Crawford-Brown
Famous Buildings of Ancient RomeAlden Marte-Wood
Caring for the Social in Social Media: Digital Labor and the Global SouthCharles Dove
Movies and Global CultureSayuri Shimizu
What Baseball Can Tell us About America's Place in the World
The United States and Asia - SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY
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Alden Marte-Wood
Caring for the Social in Social Media: Digital Labor and the Global SouthCameron Hammon
6 Seconds: What Near Death Experiences Can Teach Us About the Nature of Consciousness