Faculty Research
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Colloquia Each year the Center hosts an interdisciplinary faculty colloquium based around a theme chosen by the colloquium director. Both the participants and director are chosen by competition. In addition, the Center periodically co-sponsors thematic colloquia with various University partners. |
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Seminars The Hall Center sponsors twelve ongoing seminars which bring together faculty and graduate students from different departments for interdisciplinary dialogue and discussion and to present research. Many of the seminars also invite visiting speakers from other US universities and from overseas. |
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Workshops The Center sponsors workshops for faculty and graduate students, according to demand and funding. The main workshops assist the development of research grant proposals and faculty publications. |
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Research Projects The Center sponsors sponsors a number of collaborative research projects, most of which involve organizations and investigators from outside the University. |
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Resident Fellows The Center is home to two Hall Distinguished Professors and awards residential fellowships to five KU faculty members each year. Beginning in 2006-2007, we will also host the Simons Public Humanities Fellow and the Richard and Jeannette Sias Graduate Fellow. |
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Faculty Authors The Hall Center assists faculty to develop and complete their research, and secure its publication. Learn more about KU Faculty Authors and the publications that owe their conception, development and publication, at least in part, to the support of the Hall Center. |
Featured Resident Fellow

Garth Myers
Humanities Research Fellow
During his residency in the Fall of 2009, Garth Myers will focus on writing three chapters of his book, African Postmetropolis: Urban Theory and Contemporary Zanzibar.
Featured Publication

A Passion for Nature: The Life of John Muir
by Donald Worster

Moving Encounters: Sympathy and the Indian Question in Antebellum Literature
by Laura Mielke

















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