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Applied Humanities

Human Culture in Action

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What is Applied Humanities?

Applied Humanities at Gonzaga bring skills and knowledge from the humanities to bear on contemporary issues. Questions about meaning and significance, history and culture, beauty and religion—these are the scope of the humanities. Such questions blossom locally and globally. Their answers are vital to our understanding of ourselves as humans.
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The Myrtle Woldson Collection

Visit the Myrtle Woldson Collection to learn more about Miss Woldson's life, entrepreneurship, and philanthropy.

Miss Myrtle Woldson
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The Woodley Institute

The Woodley Institute for Civil Engagement and Humanistic Dialogue advances applied humanities, preparing students to lead with wisdom and integrity in an increasingly polarized world.

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Applied Humanities at Gonzaga

A Christmas Classic

“A Christmas Classic” results from the collaboration of Ray Rast, associate professor of history at Gonzaga, Cole Fairbairn, 2017 Morris Fellow and class of 2019, and Mary Cate Babcock, class of 2022.

A Christmas Classic
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Applied Humanities at Gonzaga

Why Here?

A Digital Exhibit of the Ku Klux Klan at Their Historical Height in the Spokane Region

Why Here?
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Applied Humanities at Gonzaga

Weaving Our Sisters' Voices

An interdisciplinary tapestry of performance, audience, and community employing stories from Scripture.

Weaving Our Sisters' Voices
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Applied Humanities at Gonzaga

Telling War

Telling War's purpose is to engage and support the veteran voice through a variety of story forms.

Telling War

Humanities Resources

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Study the Humanities

Study the Humanities, an initiative of the National Humanities Alliance Foundation, serves to strengthen humanities recruitment efforts across the country.

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Humanities Washington

Humanities Washington and its partners create spaces for people to come together to explore and consider what it means to be human, and to reflect on our shared past, present, and future.

Public Humanities Projects Program

The Public Humanities Projects program supports projects that bring the ideas of the humanities to life for general audiences through public programming.

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Digital Humanities Quarterly

Digital Humanities Quarterly is an open-access, peer-reviewed digital journal cover all aspects of digital media in the humanities.

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