Whitney Humanities Center
Just over a quarter of a century after A. Bartlett Giamatti founded the Whitney Humanities Center as a “gathering place for overlapping excellences,” this unique institution on the Yale campus thrives as a crossroads. While many other institutions struggle to define the place the humanities occupy inside their own walls, and in American culture at large, Yale not only has sustained the preeminence of the liberal arts, but has created and nourished a center where the humanities are in constant movement. At the Whitney virtually every facet of Yale’s wide-ranging educational mission is pursued “in a style finally unconcerned with boundaries defined by methodology or traditions or the capacities of individuals or departments,” to quote Giamatti once again.
As we embark on the Yale Tomorrow campaign, we have the opportunity to extend the breadth and reach of the Whitney Humanities Center even further. I invite you to join in this important effort. With your support, the Whitney will continue its unique role on the Yale campus, as a place where so many of Yale's individual treasures intermingle, and all are enriched. Read more.
Sincerely,
María Rosa Menocal
Director, Whitney Humanities Center
Sterling Professor of the Humanities
