About the Fox Center

Who We Are

The Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry (FCHI) is Emory University's hub for the Humanities, advancing research, writing, and creative works among faculty research fellows, postdoctoral fellows, PhD completion fellows and undergraduate honors research fellows. The Center convenes scholars across a wide range of disciplines, methods, and modes of creative practice, fostering individual and collaborative research as well as public engagement. We are dedicated to rigorous humanistic inquiry and an engaged intellectual community which reaches beyond the walls of the Center.

Our Mellon-funded publishing initiative amplifies humanistic research through support for the open access publication of new monographs and events that bring authors into meaningful conversations with their audiences.

Each year the Center anchors its programming and recruitment of Fellows around a central theme. For academic year 2024-25, our theme will be Democracy: Past, Present, Future.

Mission

The FCHI is a focal point for humanities endeavors at Emory University and serves to advance research and teaching, overall, in the humanities. The FCHI serves both those trained in the humanities and also others in the University who are interested in humanistic issues. The FCHI is dedicated to providing occasions and spaces for encouraging intellectual community and scholarship across disciplines.

Research and Scholarship

In addition to offering broad general support to those engaged in humanistic research across the University, the FCHI runs an annual Fellows Program. A President's Fellow, Senior Fellows, and Dissertation Completion Fellows from Emory, as well as Post-Doctoral Fellows selected from other institutions, are supported for an academic year of research and scholarship. FCHI Fellows spend the academic year in residence at the Center and take active roles in the life of the FCHI and in the intellectual life of the larger University. The Center also supports semester-long Undergraduate Fellows as well as Graduate Digital Scholars.