The Columbia Global Humanities Project

The past fifty years have seen a profound endangerment of the world's humanities capacity. While the crisis is far from unknown in the United States it is acute across the global south. Columbia University's Global Humanities Project assembled a group of scholars and administrators to prov...

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Published in:Comparative studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East Africa, and the Middle East, 2017-01, Vol.37 (1), p.113-116
Main Author: Pollock, Sheldon
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
African Studies
Asian Studies
Middle East Studies
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Summary:The past fifty years have seen a profound endangerment of the world's humanities capacity. While the crisis is far from unknown in the United States it is acute across the global south. Columbia University's Global Humanities Project assembled a group of scholars and administrators to provide preliminary reports on the condition of the humanities in Africa, the Arab World, South Asia, and China and Taiwan. The picture is, by and large, grim.
ISSN:1089-201X
1548-226X
DOI:10.1215/1089201x-3821345