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?? Panel at the 2025 National Humanities Conference in Arlington, VA! ?? HASS-RLN co-chairs and members Shelome Gooden, Christine Mallinson, Mimia Cynthia Logsdon, Aimee Kendall Roundtree, and Deborah Thomas just wrapped up our panel, “Advocating for Humanities Research on College and University Campuses.” From innovative funding models to creative ways of elevating and celebrating humanities on our campuses, the conversation was rich with ideas and strategies — and demonstrated the important role of University research offices as partners in helping support and shape the future of humanities research. ??????? #HumanitiesMatter #ResearchAdvocacy #NationalHumanitiesConference #HASSRLN #HigherEd #HumanitiesResearch https://lnkd.in/ebivEM3k

Shelome Gooden and Christine Mallinson have been awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities Chair’s Grant to support the convening, “New Frontiers in Strengthening and Supporting Humanities and Humanities-Adjacent Research” in September 2025, in Washington?DC. This convening will bring together senior research leaders from our Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences Research Leaders Network #HASSRLN and representatives from national funding agencies dedicated to supporting and strategically advancing University-based humanities and humanities related research at enterprise scale. Together we will continue our mission of promoting, supporting, strategizing, and advancing research and creative activities on university campuses.?Stay tuned as we?will be widely sharing strategies and recommendations for how to do this important work. We are very grateful for the support of the NEH, and we look forward to seeing you all in September for discussion, dialogue, and action! #HASSRLN #leadership #Research #innovation #Humanities

HASS-RLN leaders got to experience how research and creative activities are very much centered in the wider Pittsburgh community. We visited the Mattress Factory, stopped at Randyland to take in the vibrancy of color and art, paused at one of the original Carnegie Libraries on our way to the historic Deutschtown neighborhood on Pittsburgh's Northside. Want to learn more about HASS-RLN? Follow us #HASSRLN

HASS-RLN leaders engaged with researchers, places and spaces across Pitt campus. We listened, talked, learned and yes rolled up our sleeves.?Colleagues at the University Library and Center for Creativity shared rare collections and taught us how to use a Columbian printing press. Want to learn more about HASS-RLN? Follow us #HASSRLN

HASS-RLN’s September visit to University of Pittsburgh was featured in the October Pitt Research newsletter. https://lnkd.in/ecijg6fz Reflecting in this season of Thanksgiving, Christine Mallinson and I are thankful for our leadership colleagues across the country. It’s exactly the kind of collaborative spirit that drives our mission and that we will draw on as we advance support for HASS faculty research and creative activities. ? Stay tuned for some ‘behind the scenes’ snapshots of the Pitt visit. #HASSRLN #AcademicResearch

Last year, Shelome Gooden University of Pittsburgh and I launched the Humanities, Arts, & Social Sciences Research Leaders Network (HASS-RLN)– a group of about 25 senior research leaders from universities across the U.S. with expertise in the humanities, arts, and social sciences. After a year of meeting virtually, we are here in person on the beautiful campus of the University of Pittsburgh! For two and a half days we’ll be conferencing and reconnecting with each other to share best practices, ideas, and strategies for advancing research and creative activity in HASS. We will bring these insights back to our home institutions, where we each are working to strengthen and expand research and creative activity, and amplifying the humanities, arts, and social sciences as central components of the University research ecosystem. #HASSRLN

The Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences Research Leaders Network (HASS-RLN) is an inter-institutional network of University-based senior research leaders who are building, growing, sustaining, and amplifying research and scholarship in the arts, humanities, and social sciences, on our campuses and within the overall research enterprise. Our network currently consists of over 30 University senior research leaders from across North America, whose scholarly backgrounds and administrative responsibilities are aligned with this mission. #HASSRLN