The Rice University School of Humanities embraces a vision of connective and interdisciplinary humanities as they are practiced by our gifted faculty. We have fostered a significant renaissance of the visual and dramatic arts, as evidenced in the approval for a new building for Visual and Dramatic Arts, which will welcome hundreds of students who come to study and practice these arts with us each year.

Our programs in Medical Humanities, Environmental Humanities, and Politics, Law and Social Thought connect us with our colleagues across the university and, indeed, across the street at the Texas Medical Center. The founding of the new Center for African and African American Studies and the new departments of Transnational Asian Studies and Modern and Classical Literatures and Cultures make clear this interdisciplinary ambition and our embrace of a humanities that is capable of new exploration and change.

As part of Owl Together 2020, Kathleen Canning, Dean of the School of Humanities and the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of History, led a conversation titled "State of the School: New Goals for the Arts and the Humanities in a Rice Liberal Arts Education."

Faculty participants included:

Natasha Bowdoin
Associate Professor, Painting and Drawing, Department of Visual and Dramatic Arts

Fay Yarbrough, ’97
Associate Dean for Undergraduate Programs and Special Projects, School of Humanities
Associate Professor, Department of History

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