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29-702: The center was planned under the auspices of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , which saw a need for substantial support for academic research in the humanities, and began operations in 1978. The National Humanities Center is one of the ten members of the Some Institutes for Advanced Study consortium–which are modeled after the Princeton, New Jersey, Institute for Advanced Study The National Humanities Center offers dedicated programs in support of humanities scholarship and teaching as well as

58-534: A Fulbright Scholarship. The same year he was awarded Fulbright Scholarship, Frankel served as Donnellan lecturer at Trinity College Dublin , and following it, served as a lecturer at Bennington and Bowdoin Colleges , as well as at Ohio University and the New York University School of Social Work . In 1960, Frankel became chief consulting editor of Current and the same year became

87-1006: A member of board of directors of the Civil Liberties Union of New York State (where he would remain until 1965). He became a member of the National Assembly for the Teaching of Principles of the Bill of Rights in 1962, and following it became a fellow of the Conference of Science, Philosophy and Religion. On August 22, 1965, Frankel replaced Harry McPherson as Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs . He wrote on value theory , social philosophy and philosophy of history . The New York Times reported that as Assistant Secretary of State, he advocated for "major changes in our international educational and cultural programs." Frankel wanted to create

116-592: A number of the leading figures in American scholarship over the past thirty years. Among these are its founders Meyer Abrams , Morton W. Bloomfield , Frederick Burkhardt , Robert F. Goheen , Steven Marcus , Henry Nash Smith , Gregory Vlastos , John Voss, and founding director Charles Frankel, historian John Hope Franklin , educator William C. Friday , and philanthropists Archie K. Davis and Stephen H. Weiss . American Academy of Arts and Sciences The American Academy of Arts and Sciences ( The Academy )

145-746: A regular schedule of public events, conferences and interactive initiatives to engage the public in special topics and emerging issues. Each year, the NHC admits approximately forty fellows chosen from among hundreds of applicants from institutions in the United States and abroad representing a broad range of disciplines. In addition, a few senior scholars are invited by the center's trustees to assume fellowships. The National Humanities Center has no permanent fellows or faculty. NHC fellows are given substantial support to pursue their individual research and writing projects. Interdisciplinary seminars provide fellows

174-657: A service of 'education officers' who would be sent abroad. In 1966, he led the American delegation to the UNESCO General Conference . Frankel resigned from his position in December 1967 in protest of the Vietnam War and intended to return to teaching at Columbia University. Immediately after retirement, he traveled to the Aspen Institute to write a book. From 1973 to his death he chaired

203-511: A wide variety of topics including the relationship between rock and roll and literature, humanities and the public good, and the role of the humanities in addressing climate change and environmental degradation . The center has also launched initiatives designed to demonstrate the value of the humanities in the lives of individuals from all walks of life and to promote a deeper understanding of, and more productive discourse around, public issues. The center's interactive Humanities Moments project

232-616: Is one of the oldest learned societies in the United States . It was founded in 1780 during the American Revolution by John Adams , John Hancock , James Bowdoin , Andrew Oliver , and other Founding Fathers of the United States . It is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts . Membership in the academy is achieved through a petition, review, and election process. The academy's quarterly journal, Dædalus ,

261-636: Is published by the MIT Press on behalf of the academy, and has been open-access since January 2021. The academy also conducts multidisciplinary public policy research. Laurie L. Patton will become President of the Academy in January 2025. The Academy was established by the Massachusetts legislature on May 4, 1780, charted in order "to cultivate every art and science which may tend to advance

290-890: The International Council on the Future of the University . In 1978 Frankel became the first president and founding director of the National Humanities Center in Research Triangle Park , North Carolina . At the time of his death, he was on leave as Columbia University's Old Dominion Professor of Philosophy and Public Affairs. Frankel and his wife were fatally shot during a robbery of their home in Bedford Hills, New York , U.S. on May 10, 1979. In recognition of his efforts,

319-469: The National Humanities Center in North Carolina . In the late 1990s, the Academy developed a new strategic plan, focusing on four major areas: science, technology, and global security; social policy and education; humanities and culture; and education. In 2002, the Academy established a visiting scholars program in association with Harvard University . More than 75 academic institutions from across

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348-484: The Proceedings followed in 1846. In the 1950s, the Academy launched its journal Daedalus , reflecting its commitment to a broader intellectual and socially-oriented program. Since the second half of the twentieth century, independent research has become a central focus of the Academy. In the late 1950s, arms control emerged as one of its signature concerns. The Academy also served as the catalyst in establishing

377-522: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill , as well as the NHC's own reference facility. Since 1978, the NHC has hosted over 1,500 scholars who have published over 1,700 books. The National Humanities Center is distinctive among centers for advanced study in its commitment to linking scholarship to improved teaching. Programs developed at the NHC provide teachers with new materials and instructional strategies designed to make them more effective in

406-411: The Academy that equips researchers, policymakers, universities, foundations, museums, libraries, humanities councils, and other public institutions with statistical tools for answering basic questions about primary and secondary humanities education, undergraduate and graduate education in the humanities , the humanities workforce, levels and sources of program funding, public understanding and impact of

435-679: The Institut International de Philosophie Politique, the Authors Guild , the Century Association , and the Phi Beta Kappa society. Frankel joined the faculty of Columbia University in 1939 where in 1956, he attained position of full professor of philosophy. Prior to the position, he was awarded Guggenheim Fellowship in 1953 and in 1954 became visiting professor at the University of Paris on

464-563: The NHC's online interactive curriculum enrichment service, supplements its training and primary source collections with essays by leading scholars, instructional activities, and links to online resources to enrich teachers' understanding of topics and suggest approaches for more effective classroom teaching. Recent initiatives from the Center include projects to improve teachers' subject knowledge on Vietnam , to help teachers use digital mapping technologies in classroom instruction, and to explore

493-747: The University of California, Berkeley, and 404 with Stanford University. The following table includes those institutions affiliated with 300 or more members. † Excludes members affiliated exclusively with associated national laboratories. As of 2023, membership is divided into five classes and thirty specialties. Class I – Mathematical and physical sciences Class II – Biological sciences Class III – Social and behavioral sciences Class IV – Arts and humanities Class V – Public affairs, business, and administration 42°22′51″N 71°06′37″W  /  42.380755°N 71.110256°W  / 42.380755; -71.110256 Charles Frankel Charles Frankel (December 13, 1917 – May 10, 1979)

522-1148: The beginning, the membership, nominated and elected by peers, has included not only scientists and scholars, but also writers and artists as well as representatives from the full range of professions and public life. Throughout the Academy's history, 10,000 fellows have been elected, including such notables as John Adams , John James Audubon , Sissela Bok , Willa Cather , T. S. Eliot , Duke Ellington , Josiah Willard Gibbs , Joseph Henry , Washington Irving , Thomas Jefferson , Edward R. Murrow , Martha Nussbaum , J. Robert Oppenheimer , Augustus Saint-Gaudens , Jonas Salk and Eudora Welty . International honorary members have included Jose Antonio Pantoja Hernandez, Albert Einstein , Leonhard Euler , Marquis de Lafayette , Alexander von Humboldt , Leopold von Ranke , Charles Darwin , Carl Friedrich Gauss , Otto Hahn , Jawaharlal Nehru , Pablo Picasso , Liu Guosong , Lucian Michael Freud , Luis Buñuel , Galina Ulanova , Werner Heisenberg , Alec Guinness , Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala , Menahem Yaari , Yitzhak Apeloig , Zvi Galil , Haim Harari , and Sebastião Salgado . Astronomer Maria Mitchell

551-409: The classroom on a wide range of topics. Through its AmericaInClass.org site, the NHC allows participants to learn directly from leading scholars and access an extensive archive of primary source materials – arranged in online collections and accompanied with discussion questions and instructional planning guides for classroom use. The NHC makes these materials available without charge. TeacherServe,

580-554: The country have become Affiliates of the Academy to support this program and other Academy initiatives. The Academy has sponsored a number of awards and prizes, throughout its history and has offered opportunities for fellowships and visiting scholars at the Academy. In July 2013, the Boston Globe exposed then president Leslie Berlowitz for falsifying her credentials, faking a doctorate, and consistently mistreating her staff. Berlowitz subsequently resigned. A project of

609-433: The experience of military veterans through literature. The National Humanities Center hosts a variety of public events, both to stimulate public awareness of humanities scholarship and to address special topics. Events have included appearances by A. S. Byatt , Seymour Hersh , Michael Ignatieff , Oliver Sacks , Michael Pollan , Elaine Scarry , Wole Soyinka , Raymond Tallis , Wang Hui , and E. O. Wilson and addressed

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638-486: The humanities can contribute to public debate on questions of broad concern. Since 1978 the National Humanities Center has been led by six directors: Charles Frankel , William Bennett , Charles Blitzer, W. Robert Connor, Geoffrey G. Harpham , and current director Robert D. Newman . The NHC is governed by a distinguished board of trustees from academic, business, and public life and has included

667-1507: The humanities, and other areas of concern in the humanities community. It is modeled on the Science and Engineering Indicators, published biennially by the National Science Board as required by Congress . Charter members of the Academy were John Adams , Samuel Adams , John Bacon , James Bowdoin, Charles Chauncy , John Clarke , David Cobb , Samuel Cooper , Nathan Cushing , Thomas Cushing , William Cushing , Tristram Dalton , Francis Dana , Samuel Deane , Perez Fobes, Caleb Gannett, Henry Gardner, Benjamin Guild , John Hancock , Joseph Hawley , Edward Augustus Holyoke , Ebenezer Hunt, Jonathan Jackson , Charles Jarvis, Samuel Langdon , Levi Lincoln , Daniel Little, Elijah Lothrup, John Lowell , Samuel Mather, Samuel Moody, Andrew Oliver , Joseph Orne, Theodore Parsons, George Partridge , Robert Treat Paine , Phillips Payson, Samuel Phillips , John Pickering, Oliver Prescott , Zedekiah Sanger, Nathaniel Peaslee Sargeant , Micajah Sawyer, Theodore Sedgwick , William Sever, David Sewall , Stephen Sewall , John Sprague, Ebenezer Storer, Caleb Strong , James Sullivan , John Bernard Sweat, Nathaniel Tracy, Cotton Tufts , James Warren , Samuel West, Edward Wigglesworth , Joseph Willard , Abraham Williams, Nehemiah Williams, Samuel Williams, and James Winthrop . From

696-528: The interest, honor, dignity, and happiness of a free, independent, and virtuous people." The sixty-two incorporating fellows represented varying interests and high standing in the political, professional, and commercial sectors of the state. The first class of new members, chosen by the Academy in 1781, included Benjamin Franklin and George Washington as well as several international honorary members. The initial volume of Academy Memoirs appeared in 1785, and

725-816: The opportunity to share insights and criticism. For the 2022–2023 academic year, NHC fellows' research topics include [speculative fiction] by and about Black women, the [Armenian genocide], the history of the [infodemic] phenomenon, and social revolt in early twentieth-century Latin America, as well as other subjects in the fields of African American studies; East Asian studies; education studies; environmental studies; gender and sexuality studies; history; history of art and architecture; Indigenous studies; languages and literature; Latinx studies; Middle East studies; music history and musicology; philosophy; religious studies; and Slavic studies. NHC fellows have library access at nearby Duke University , North Carolina State University , and

754-700: The same university, earning a Doctor of Philosophy in 1946. During World War II , Frankel served as lieutenant in the United States Navy and in 1968 graduated from Mercer with a degree in law. Frankel married Helen Beatrice Lehman on August 17, 1941. Together they raised two children, Susan and Carl. He was a member of the American Philosophical Association , the American Association of University Professors (chair of committee on professional ethics),

783-561: Was an American philosopher , Assistant U.S. Secretary of State, professor and founding director of the National Humanities Center . Born into a Jewish family in New York City , U.S., he was the son of Abraham Philip and Estelle Edith (Cohen) Frankel. After attending Cornell University , Frankel received Bachelor of Arts with honors in English and philosophy from Columbia University in 1937. He then continued his education at

812-798: Was created in partnership with the Federation of State Humanities Councils in an effort to gather, store, and share personal accounts of how the humanities illuminate and transform the lives of individuals and thereby help "reimagine the way we think and talk about the humanities." Featuring news about the humanities and highlighting perspectives from leading humanists on compelling issues, the center also launched Humanities in Action in 2018 to help scholars, teachers, students, and other citizens "connect, learn more, and get involved" encouraging visitors to become better informed about issues affecting humanities research and education as well as to better appreciate how

841-530: Was the first woman elected to the Academy, in 1848. The current membership encompasses over 5,700 members based across the United States and around the world. Academy members include more than 250 Nobel laureates and more than 60 Pulitzer Prize winners. Of the Academy's 14,343 members since 1780, 1,406 are or have been affiliated with Harvard University, 611 with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 433 with Yale University, 425 with

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