Welcome to the Humanities Center
Founded in 2003, the Humanities Center at Carnegie Mellon promotes and supports scholarship and research that actively engages with culture and human production across the disciplines.
Constitution Day Symposium
September 17, 2026
Humanities, Law, and an Inflection Point for Our Constitution
The Humanities Center and the Law & Humanities Institute bring together scholars, students, legal professionals, and members of the broader community to explore the Constitution through the lenses of law, history, literature, philosophy, and political thought, examining its origins, interpretation, and enduring significance in American public life.
Explore CMU's America250 Programming — Discover more events and activities commemorating America's 250th anniversary across the Carnegie Mellon community.
Our Mission
The Humanities Center at Carnegie Mellon brings together faculty and graduate students in humanities departments (English, History, Languages, Cultures and Applied Linguistics, and Philosophy) and from the arts, social sciences, and sciences who engage in studying the human experience, human condition, and human-centered responses to real-world challenges.
An essential component of the humanities ecosystem at CMU, the Humanities Center is an incubator for original, innovative, cutting-edge, and interdisciplinary humanistic research, publicizing our humanities research and its value in our global and increasingly technologically driven society to the university and the world.
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