博彩网址大全研究 Profiles: 人文科学研究

At Saint Louis University, researchers and scholars in the humanities are asking vital questions that help us better understand ourselves and our place in the world.

Hear five 博彩网址大全 faculty members talk about the importance of humanities research for 教学及社区影响. Theirs is just a small sample of the compassionate, innovative and ambitious humanities research being done 在博彩网址大全.

我们是谁?? 我们为什么在这里? 作为一个社会，我们看重什么?

These are just a few of the topics researchers and scholars in the humanities are 在博彩网址大全铲球. These faculty members use an analytical, interpretative and historical approach to make sense of our world and our place in it.

“Could it be that, in the Word of God, there is a tolerance and maybe even an encouragement of diverse views,” said 鲁本罗萨里奥罗德里格斯博士.D., associate professor of theological 在博彩网址大全学习. “My research is an intentional engagement with that reality of a global 文化.”

研究中的人文学科

研究 in the humanities is a cornerstone of 博彩网址大全’s research enterprise.

“Science is so important, technology is very important, but we also critically need to understand why we have them," said 南希·贝尔，M.F.A., associate professor of theatre 在博彩网址大全. "What is a good thing to do with those things? 这就是人文学科是为.”

研究 in the humanities is also 在 heart of the Jesuit education th在博彩网址大全 provides its students.

托丽·赫斯特博士.D., an associate professor of history 在博彩网址大全, studies the history of immigration policy in the United States to find ethical solutions to the problems 今天的.

“Looking at this early history helps us understand what deportation policy is doing today and how we can change it to make it operate better,” she said. “天主教 Church, the Jesuits, the University… have come out strongly supportive of my research.”

The Humanities and 博彩网址大全's Jesuit Mission

The Jesuit mission, a concern for others and a desire to build a better world grounds 所有在博彩网址大全做的研究.

“One of the reasons I like being 在博彩网址大全 is because I feel like the mission [of 博彩网址大全] is essentially what my mission is, too,” said Dan Haybron, Ph.D.哲学教授. “There’s just much more openness to talk about 在这里，生活中最重要的是什么.”

菲利斯·韦利弗，医学博士.菲尔。., professor of English, is currently working with the Center for the Digital Humanities 在博彩网址大全 to digitize the manuscripts of Alfred, Lord Tennyson.

“Part of what makes an inspiring classroom is having cutting-edge research, I’m extremely lucky of my colleagues because people are doing such exciting work.”