Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities
Encyclopedia
The Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH) is an interdisciplinary research centre within the University of Cambridge
for collaboration between researchers from the arts
, social sciences
and humanities
. The Centre is independent of any university department but works with both the Schools of Arts and Humanities and Humanities and Social Sciences.
Founded in 2001, CRASSH celebrated its 10th anniversary by welcoming professor Simon Goldhill
as its new director and moving from Mill Lane, to the Alison Richard Building at 7 West Road, as well as inaugurating a new series of public lectures, which in 2011 are on The Idea of the University.
Research groups include Endangered Languages, East European Memory Studies, GreenBRIDGE (sustainable architecture), City Seminar, and Climate Histories.
building at the West Road gateway to the University’s Sidgwick Site
, the main base for humanities and social science teaching and research at Cambridge. The move into 7 West Road will not only provide in-house space for larger conferences, but will create greater interaction with old and new constituencies. The Centre’s relocation puts CRASSH alongside the major regional studies centres and POLIS, the Department of Politics and International Studies.
University of Cambridge
The University of Cambridge is a public research university located in Cambridge, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest university in both the United Kingdom and the English-speaking world , and the seventh-oldest globally...
for collaboration between researchers from the arts
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, social sciences
Social sciences
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and humanities
Humanities
The humanities are academic disciplines that study the human condition, using methods that are primarily analytical, critical, or speculative, as distinguished from the mainly empirical approaches of the natural sciences....
. The Centre is independent of any university department but works with both the Schools of Arts and Humanities and Humanities and Social Sciences.
Founded in 2001, CRASSH celebrated its 10th anniversary by welcoming professor Simon Goldhill
Simon Goldhill
Simon Goldhill is a professor of Greek literature and culture at the University of Cambridge and a fellow of King's College, Cambridge. He is also Director of CRASSH, the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities at the University of Cambridge...
as its new director and moving from Mill Lane, to the Alison Richard Building at 7 West Road, as well as inaugurating a new series of public lectures, which in 2011 are on The Idea of the University.
Directors
- Ian Donaldson 2001-3
- Deputy Director John MorrillJohn Morrill (historian)John Morrill FBA is a British historian. He specialises in the political, religious, social and cultural histories of early-modern Britain....
2001-4 - Ludmilla JordanovaLudmilla JordanovaLudmilla Jordanova, Fellow RHS is a Professor of Modern History at the King's College London.Educated at Murray Edwards College , Cambridge, Prof. Jordanova has taught at the universities of Oxford, Essex, York, East Anglia and Cambridge...
2003-5 - Mary Jacobus 2005-11
- Andrew Webber Sabbatical Director 2009-10
- Simon GoldhillSimon GoldhillSimon Goldhill is a professor of Greek literature and culture at the University of Cambridge and a fellow of King's College, Cambridge. He is also Director of CRASSH, the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities at the University of Cambridge...
2011-
Management Committee
- William Arthur BrownWilliam Arthur BrownWilliam Arthur Brown, CBE is an academic specialising in the field of industrial relations and the current Master of Darwin College, Cambridge.-Education and Academic Career:...
(Montague Burton Professor of Industrial Relations, Faculty of Economics; Chair, School of Humanities and Social Sciences; Master, Darwin College) - Graeme BarkerGraeme BarkerGraeme W. W. Barker is a British archaeologist, notable for his work on the Italian Bronze Age, the Roman occupation of Libya, and landscape archaeology.Barker was educated at St John's College, Cambridge...
(Disney Professor of Archaeology; Head, Department of Archaeology; Director, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research) - Simon FranklinSimon FranklinSimon Franklin is Professor of Slavonic Studies at the University of Cambridge, UK. He is a Fellow of Clare College.In 2007 he was awarded the Lomonosov Gold Medal by the Russian Academy of Sciences for outstanding achievements in research in Russian history and culture.-Selected bibliography:*...
(Professor, Department of Slavonic Studies; Chair, School of Arts and Humanities) - Mary JacobusMary JacobusMary Jacobus was an executive with The New York Times Company, serving as president and general manager of The Boston Globe from January through September 2006, and then, until her death in February 2009, heading the company's Regional Media Group, overseeing 15 daily newspapers and several other...
(Grace 2 Professor of English, Director, CRASSH) - Caroline HumphreyCaroline HumphreyProfessor Dame Caroline Humphrey, Lady Rees of Ludlow DBE, FBA is a British anthropologist. Together with Urgunge Onon she founded the Mongolia and Inner Asia Studies Unit in 1986...
(Sigrid Rausing Professor of Collaborative Anthropology, Department of Social Anthropology; Fellow of the British Academy) - Susan OwensSusan OwensSusan Owens is an Associate Justice of the Washington Supreme Court. On November 7, 2000, she was elected the seventh woman to serve on the court. She joined the court after serving nineteen years as District Court Judge in Western Clallam County, where she was the county's senior elected official...
OBE (Professor of Environment and Policy, Department of Geography) - Wendy Pullan (Senior Lecturer, Department of Architecture)
- Hans van de VenHans van de VenJohan 'Hans' van de Ven is an authority on the history of 19th and 20th century China. He holds several positions at the University of Cambridge, where he is Professor of Modern Chinese History, Chairman of the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Management Committee member of the East...
(Professor of Modern Chinese History, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies) - Megan Vaughan (Smuts Professor of Commonwealth History, Faculty of History; Director, Centre of African Studies; Fellow of the British Academy)
- Andrew Webber (Professor of Modern German and Comparative Culture, Department of German)
Advisory Board
- Danielle AllenDanielle AllenDanielle S. Allen is an American classicist and political scientist, and UPS Foundation Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study....
(UPS Foundation Professor, Institute of Advanced Study, Princeton) - Homi Bhabha (Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of English and American Literature and Language; Director, The Humanities Center, Harvard University)
- Geoffrey Crossick (Vice-Chancellor, University of London)
- Lorraine DastonLorraine DastonLorraine Daston is an American historian of science, presently the executive director of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin...
(Director, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin) - David EdgertonDavid EdgertonDavid R. Edgerton is an American entrepreneur and the founder of the Burger King Corporation.On March 1, 1954, he opened the restaurant Insta Burger King in Miami, Florida, U.S. On June 1 of the same year, he met James McLamore and the two founded the Burger King Corporation.Edgerton graduated...
(Professor of the History of Science and Technology, Imperial College, London) - Conor GeartyConor GeartyConor A. Gearty is the Rausling Professor of Human Rights Law and Director, Centre for the Study of Human Rights at the London School of Economics.-Background:...
(Professor of Law, London School of Economics) - Maarten HajerMaarten HajerMaarten A. Hajer is a Dutch political scientist and urban and regional planner. Since 1998, he has been a professor of Public Policy at the University of Amsterdam. Since 1 October 2008, he has been Director of the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency .Hajer is the author of many scientific...
(Professor of Public Policy, University of Amsterdam) - Baroness Onora O’Neill of Bengrave (House of Lords)
- Deborah Posel (Director, Wits Institute for Economic & Social Research)
- Richard SennettRichard SennettRichard Sennett is the Centennial Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics and University Professor of the Humanities at New York University...
(Professor of Sociology, London School of Economics and NYU) - Sally ShuttleworthSally ShuttleworthSally Shuttleworth is Head of the Humanities Division at Oxford. She was educated at York, Cambridge and Harvard, before teaching English at Princeton, Leeds and Sheffield. She has appeared on Woman's Hour. -References:...
(Professorial Fellow in English, Head of Humanities, Oxford) - Quentin SkinnerQuentin SkinnerQuentin Robert Duthie Skinner is the Barber Beaumont Professor of the Humanities at Queen Mary, University of London.-Biography:...
(Barber Beaumont Professor of the Humanities, Queen Mary, University of London) - Dame Marilyn StrathernMarilyn StrathernDame Ann Marilyn Strathern, DBE, FBA is a British anthropologist who was Mistress of Girton College, Cambridge from 1998 until her retirement in 2009...
(Professor of Anthropology) - Deborah Swallow (Marit Rausing Director, Courtauld Institute, London)
- Lord Wilson of Dinton (Master of Emmanuel College, Cambridge)
Graduate/ Faculty Research Groups
The graduate/ faculty programme supports students and faculty working together around shared interdisciplinary research interests. The groups act as a barometer for disciplinary development and curriculum change. This programme is funded by the Isaac Newton Trust and the Andrew W Mellon.Research groups include Endangered Languages, East European Memory Studies, GreenBRIDGE (sustainable architecture), City Seminar, and Climate Histories.
Conferences
The conference support programme functions as a showcase for arts, social sciences and humanities research in action. It provides the opportunity for Cambridge scholars to broker local and international collaborations. Recent and upcoming conferences include The Future University, Migration in Legal and Political Theory, Art, Memory and Dictatorship in Latin America, Languages of Citizenship in Translation, Still Architecture and Medieval Church Screens.Fellowships and Postdoctoral Researchers
The Centre offers a number of programmes to bring scholars from all over the world to CRASSH: the fellowship schemes allow a community of scholars – from postdoctoral and early career researchers to more established visiting fellows – to interact in an interdisciplinary research environment.Media and Outreach
The Centre reaches out globally through its Facebook site and through making available recordings of an increasing number of events online, in our Media Gallery and via the Cambridge YouTube and iTunesU channels:Press Clippings
New Building: 7 West Road
At end of 2011, CRASSH will move into the new Alison RichardAlison Richard
Dame Alison Fettes Richard, DBE, DL was the 344th Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge. She was the first female Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge since the post became full-time...
building at the West Road gateway to the University’s Sidgwick Site
Sidgwick Site
The Sidgwick Site is one of the largest sites within the University of Cambridge, England.- Overview and history :The Sidgwick Site is located on the western edge of Cambridge city centre, north of Sidgwick Avenue and south of West Road, and is home to several of the university's arts and...
, the main base for humanities and social science teaching and research at Cambridge. The move into 7 West Road will not only provide in-house space for larger conferences, but will create greater interaction with old and new constituencies. The Centre’s relocation puts CRASSH alongside the major regional studies centres and POLIS, the Department of Politics and International Studies.