Affiliations

The National Humanities Center is a private, nonprofit organization, and the only independent institute dedicated exclusively to advanced study in all areas of the humanities. The Center is supported by the generosity of individual donors, grants from private and public foundations, corporate philanthropy, and institutional sponsors—universities and academic organizations whose partnership specifically supports the Center’s fellowship program and public outreach efforts.

Through its Residential Fellowship Program, the Center provides scholars with the resources necessary to generate new knowledge and to further understanding of all forms of cultural expression, social interaction, and human thought.

The Center’s Education Programs strengthen teaching on the collegiate and pre-collegiate levels. Model programs developed at the Center provide teachers and faculty with new materials and instructional strategies to make them more effective in the classroom and rekindle their enthusiasm for the subjects they teach.

Through Public Engagement in the form of community lectures, panel discussions, symposia, and a rich multi-media library, the Center promotes understanding of the humanities and advocates for their foundational role in a democratic society.

Founded in 1883, the Modern Language Association of America provides opportunities for its members to share their scholarly findings and teaching experiences with colleagues and to discuss trends in the academy. MLA members host an annual convention and other meetings, work with related organizations, and sustain one of the finest publishing programs in the humanities. For more than a century, members have worked to strengthen the study and teaching of language and literature.

Queer Studies in Media & Popular Culture is a double-blind peer-reviewed  academic journal devoted to the study of representations and expressions  of queerness in its various forms. It aims to publish cutting-edge  scholarship on noteworthy topics at the intersection of media/popular  culture and queerness in gender/sexuality. Its contents are  international in scope and represent a wide variety of disciplines, with  a particular emphasis on perspectives and approaches from the  humanities, social sciences, and the arts.

The broad nature of  queerness in relation to media and popular culture allows for a wide  variety of article subject matter; the only absolute requirements are  that submissions focus on both (1) cultural practices and texts that are  not the exclusive province of elites and (2) queerness as a significant  feature of their production, reception position, or period-specific use  by self-identified queers. Beyond  those absolutes, the criteria for publication as a research article  include the soundness of the work’s theoretical grounding and  methodological execution; novelty of topic, treatment, or application;  and significance of the contribution to knowledge concerning queerness  in media and/or popular culture.
Each issue of Queer Studies in  Media & Popular Culture includes articles pertaining to queerness in  media offerings of various kinds and/or in other forms of popular  culture, as well as reviews pertaining to recently released queer media  artifacts.

The  Cuba Project is a collaborative effort to study changes in Cuban  politics, economics, culture, and society. It focuses on developments in  Cuba in an international context. The Cuba Project works with other  academic and policy-oriented programs and institutions to promote  dialogue between academics, policymakers, business and media figures, as  well as students from various countries and disciplines.

The  Cuba Project does not assume a single view about developments relating  to Cuba. Rather, the events and publications of the Cuba Project bring  together diverse sectors to explore complex realities. It aims to  contribute to greater international understanding by promoting informed  exchange in a pragmatic and constructive spirit and to advance  cooperation in the identification and assessment of models, options, and  policies.

MESEA - The Society for Multi-Ethnic Studies: Europe and the Americas was founded in 1998 in response to the challenge of ethnic studies in a time of increasing globalization to provide an international forum for interdisciplinary discussion on multiethnic studies. The Society promotes the study of the ethnic cultures of Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Americas in their circumatlantic relations from a transdisciplinary literary, historical and cultural studies perspective.

The society acts as a forum for cooperation between universities, political institutions, and ethnic communities and supports the scholarly and cultural exchange among them in order to further intercultural understanding. MESEA currently has over 140 members from 35 countries.

The  oldest ethnic studies association in the United States, the Association for Ethnic Studies (AES) was founded in 1972. A non-profit  organization, NAES provides an interdisciplinary forum for scholars and  activists concerned with the national and international dimensions of  ethnicity.

The Association welcomes scholars and teachers at all  educational levels, students, libraries, civic and governmental  organizations, and all persons interested in ethnicity, ethnic groups,  intergroup relations, and the cultural life of ethnic minorities.