Connections: Humanizing the Humanities

Timothy Morton, the Rita Shea Guffey Professor of English in the School of Humanities at Rice University, is one of the world’s leading environmental philosophers and a popular lecturer with a rising international profile.

"Connections: Humanizing the Humanities" is a podcast series produced by the Rice University School of Humanities and hosted by Jeffrey J. Kripal, the J. Newton Rayzor Professor in Philosophy and Religious Thought and Associate Dean of Faculty and Graduate Studies.

Lisa Balabanlilar is chair of the Department of Transnational Asian Studies, director of the Chao Center for Asian Studies and associate professor of history at Rice University.

"Connections: Humanizing the Humanities" is a podcast produced by the Rice University School of Humanities and hosted by Jeffrey J. Kripal, the J. Newton Rayzor Chair in Philosophy and Religious Thought, Associate Dean of Faculty and Graduate Studies, and author of The Flip: Epiphanies of Mind and the Future of Knowledge.

Niki Kasumi Clements is the Watt J. and Lilly G. Jackson Assistant Professor of Religion and the Allison Sarofim Assistant Professor of Distinguished Teaching in the Humanities at Rice University.

"Connections: Humanizing the Humanities" is a podcast produced by the Rice University School of Humanities and hosted by Jeffrey J. Kripal, the J. Newton Rayzor Chair in Philosophy and Religious Thought, Associate Dean of Faculty and Graduate Studies, and author of The Flip: Epiphanies of Mind and the Future of Knowledge.

Anthony B. Pinn is the Agnes Cullen Arnold Professor of Humanities and Professor of Religion at Rice University, founding director of the university's Center for Engaged Research and Collaborative Learning and the inaugural director of the Center for African and African American Studies, a collaboration of the School of Humanities and the School of Social Sciences.

"Connections: Humanizing the Humanities" is a podcast produced by the Rice University School of Humanities and hosted by Jeffrey J. Kripal, the J. Newton Rayzor Chair in Philosophy and Religious Thought, Associate Dean of Faculty and Graduate Studies, and author of The Flip: Epiphanies of Mind and the Future of Knowledge.

W. Caleb McDaniel is a Rice University professor and the incoming chair of the Department of History, who won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for History for Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America. The book recounts the previously little-known story of Henrietta Wood, who survived enslavement twice and, 30 years after she was first free, won the largest known financial settlement awarded by a U.S. court in restitution for slavery.

"Connections: Humanizing the Humanities" is a podcast produced by the Rice University School of Humanities and hosted by Jeffrey J. Kripal, the J. Newton Rayzor Chair in Philosophy and Religious Thought, Associate Dean of Faculty and Graduate Studies, and author of The Flip: Epiphanies of Mind and the Future of Knowledge.